Ship Landing Boat Lift Air Bags Cylinder Body Multi - Layer SGS Certification

2m x 15m Indonesian Shipyards Lifting and Launching Ship Rubber Airbags

Launching ship marine airbags are widely used for ship launching and docking in shipyards, specially medium and small shipyards alongside rivers and seasides in Asian and American countries. Marine airbags are often called ship launching airbags that indicates the most popular application of these heavy duty airbags is for ship launching. It is estimated that more than 80 percent new built ships who’s DWT below 60,000 are launched by marine airbags.

Launching with marine airbags is very flexible. Any flat ground with a slightly declining angle can be taken as a slip way. Airbags can sucessfully launch a ship even on a bank 1 or 2 meters over water level.

The Size and Specifications of Ship Launching Airbags

Ship launching airbags can be made into various sizes and layers accoding to the ship size and weight and the launching or docking conditions.

Below is a chart for the bearing capacity of several sizes

How to Launch Vessels with Marine Airbags

Below is the general process of launching ship with marine rubber airbags.

1. Get enough suitable airbags ready

2. Level and Clean the launching slipway to make sure no nails or sharp stones

3. Tie the ship to the winch with steel wire

4. Lay airbags under ship bottom at suitable locations

5. Inflate the airbags to lift the ship away from the blocks and remove the blocks

6. Lower the lifting height properly by releaseing some air

7. Slowly release the wire and roll the ship slowly backward to the water

The layout of Marine Airbags for Ship Launching

According to the breadth of ships, there are usually 3 patterns of airbag layout:

Pictures of Our Ship Luanching Airbags on Site

Material and Construction of Luhang Ship Launching Airbags

Why Choose us and Our Ship Launching Airbags?

1. We are the leading and professional manufacturer of marine airbags with more than 20 years of developing and production experience

2. Credible company to make marine airbags with optimzied rubber material, enough sizes and enough layers

3. ISO certificated with a number of patents on products

4. Airbags have been inspected and approved by Third-Party like BV, SGS, V-Trust etc with excellent performance of high pressure and airtightness

This inspection report shows all airbags almost had no air leakage after 8 hours from initial pressure 0.15mPa-0.16mPa to 0.14-0.15mPa.

5. Satisfying and timely after-sale service: In case of any quality claims during the warranty period, we will carry out the Three Guarantees for repair, replacement and compensation of faulty airbags.

Contact Us

Initially established as Qingdao Luhang Marine Airbag Factory in 1988 and changed to Qingdao Luhang Marine Airbags and Fenders Co.,Ltd in 2011, Qingdao Luhang had been devoted itself to developing and manufacturing marine airbags and marine fenders for more than 2 decades.

The factory area is 56,000m² with building area of  21,000m². The company has registered capital of USD 3 million and fixed asset of USD1.2 billion. We have a full line of production equipment: rubber mixing machine, rubber roller machine, the China biggest vulcanization tanks, the biggest Press Inspection Machine, EVA foam processing machine, Foam shaping machines and SPUA spraying machine.

Through these years' development, we have full range of marine airbags and marine fenders:

Ship Launching Airbags for ship launching and docking in shipyards

Marine Salvage Airbags for salvaging sinked vessels or refloating objects from under water

Other Airbags for special usage

Pneumatic Rubber Marine Fenders for ships and docks berthing

Foam Filled Marine Fenders for ship and docks berthing

Fixed Dock Rubber Fenders for docks and wharfs

Marine Buoys

From the begginning we have been focusing on technological innovation. With a team of experienced technicans and engineers, we have developed some high tech marine products and got some petents. We have been approved as a supplier of Navy products. 

Quality is our life line. We provide service of “three guarantees” (returning, repairing and replacing) on all our products in case of any defects due to the problems of material,manufacturing, performance under conditions of normal operation and maintenance.