Tug lines are one of the most demanding applications in the commercial marine industry due to the high loads and abrasion these ropes experience on each job. Cortland has supplied quality products to tugs all over the world for ship assist, towing, and escort jobs, for many years. Our technologically advanced products such as Plasma® 12×12 offer our customers the following benefits:

• Lighter and easier to handle
• Requires fewer crew members
• Faster tie ups and stand downs
• Safer – reduces strain and back injuries
• No fish hooks
• Reduced costs
• No maintenance
• Proven track record in the industry for over 20 years
• Works well on winches
• Easy to splice

Pendants

Cortland provides and recommends the use of pendants which are a very popular method for extending the life of tug assist and working lines. Pendants are a shorter length of rope attached to the mainline by either reeving or cow-hitching the lines together. The pendant is on the working end of the main tug hawser and gets most of the abrasion and damage. Thus, the shorter pendant (usually 50-ft to 100-ft in length) can then be replaced, if and when necessary, at a less expensive cost than replacing the 450-ft mainline.

Below is a comprehensive list of all our strength members suitable for Tug and Salvage Lines. These detail the construction types we use and their relative strengths and applications. To find out more about our engineered rope solutions for the tug market, download our Tug & Salvage brochure.