Marine airbags are unique Chinese marine products and often called ship launching airbags that indicate the most popular application of these heavy duty airbags is for ship launching. It is estimated that more than 80 percent new built ship whose DWT below 60,000 are launched by marine airbags in China.But marine airbags are found to be powerful and versatile tools for many other marine projects such as disembarking ships,heavy transportation, refloating salvage etc.

Marine airbags are found to be powerful and versatile tools for many marine projects such as disembarking ships, heavy transportation, re-floating salvage etc. But how to select suitable marine airbags for a specific project? Let us see suggestions from a professional marine airbags manufacturer and engineering company.

SINOPEC is one of the largest integrated petroleum and petrochemical companies in China.Recent years this magnate set foot in ocean oil business which was once monopolized by another oil company CNOOC.

Pulling ships out of water (ship landing) using marine airbags is a very successful application of marine airbags. The basic principle of airbags ship launching or landing is changing the force of sliding friction into rolling friction, just like ancient Egyptian using logs to transport heavies.

One Korean Shipyard located in China Weihai got two ship launching accidents in two years. The first accident happened in 2009 that a new built 6700 units PCTC sunk at launch. And that PCTC have not been salvaged from the sea until the latest launch accident happened.On January 21, 2011 in the same launch area one new built cargo ship grounded when it was launched from a floating dock.