A Greek success story: Three generations in the mooring rope business

In 2022 alone, 18 million people traveled by ship to and from Greece's 227 inhabited islands. Of these islands, 89 do not have an airport and are served exclusively by passenger ferries, which offer a crucial link with the mainland. These ships play an important role in island life - we still remember how empty our seas seemed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

But it is in the summer that ships dominate the seas. From the legendary old ferries of Captain Agoudimos that plowed the Aegean during the 1980s, to today's state-of-the-art vessels with all sorts of amenities and speeds of up to 40 knots, they are the stars and the corps of our lengthy tourist season. Travelers link their names and itineraries with their fleeting vacation utopias. Their expectations, loves, joys and sorrows travel with them on their decks.

And yet there is something without which they could not do...