TUGDOCK’s ‘inventive step’ is the installation of airbags into road-transportable frames.
Inflation and deflation of the airbags alters the buoyancy of the frames to submerge the deck and enable lifting and launching of vessels or floating structures.
Outrigger pontoons, or spud jacking units, provide stability during the lift or launch.
TUGDOCK features
TRANSPORTABLE
Transportable as shipping containers for cost effect global delivery.
QUICK
Quickly and easily assembled and commissioned.
STABLE
Stability during the lift is provided with pontoons or spud jacking units. The pontoons can provide additional moorings for vessels.
EASY SERVICE
Lifts out of the water with optional jacking spud legs for service and maintenance.
MODULAR
Frames are connected together to provide a variety of deck sizes.
SIMPLE
Outrigger pontoons, or spud jacking units, provide stability during the lift or launch.