The featured artist at Expo ’74’s British Columbia Pavilion worked in an unusual medium: recycled tugboat ropes. “Heavy towing rope is pretty much my favorite material, because I like to ...

Tugboats require ship-assist ropes that are extraordinarily strong, yet light enough for a crew of only a few to handle. Tugboat operators around the world have found a solution: Plasma ropes ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The rhythms of work on the water seemed to have resumed today at the Moran Towing Corp. dock in Port Richmond, after a deckhand was crushed to death on board one of the ...