Where as in the initial year, rubber dipped canvas was used to form strengthening layer for marine airbags , its use was also limited to small and flat bottom ships only and fabricated launching slope. However latest technical progress has upgraded its manifold use during emergencies. Marine airbag ship launching can saves time, investment and land space. Also marine airbag is hassle free to use, maintain, clean and operate for the next use. The level of protection also gets revitalized. With marine Airbag one can redirect the ship or caisson by regulating internal pressure and manage the working height also. Furthermore marine airbag work against fierce sea wave as well.
Additional use
Use and productivity of marine airbags can be as versatile as marine applications are in reality. Apart from facilitating shipping movements, like ship launching, landing, floating docks and caisson launching these are also being used for heavy transport, marine salvage, heavy lifting and refloatation etc.
Scope of improvement for Air Bags:
To mention the limitations, side-launch of big ships is not possible with marine airbags till now. It needs more research and development to be done on design and landing process. Since now any type of ship with a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) below 55,000 can be launched with the help of marine airbags. But to enable utilizing more spaces, airbags should be devised for DWT 100,000 ships.
Hence before selecting an Air bag supplier company there is some preconditions to follow:
• Presence of Highly innovative and latest technology used to over come the defects.
• Presence Single slide way resolution overcoming use of costly fixing slide way.
• Any fee for slide way construction
• Any need of infected oil
• Reuse facility of the air bags
Maritime consultancy is really important here to explore better application techniques and areas of improvement. Thus Marine airbags can be of great help for big transportation industries all over the world with technological modernization.
