Ropes are used for a wide variety of applications in shipping – this hand-out provides information about the use of Atlas® ropes as mooring lines.
Our challenge as rope manufacturer was to design a rope, which not only allowed the vessels to be held still and securely but also had such good dynamic properties that movements of the vessel due to swell, strong gusts of wind or in ports with marked differences between high and low water could be eliminated without special springs.
