What are the present alternatives?
All of the alternatives shown here are expensive to use, are few and far between and costly to build and maintain.
In almost all cases the vessels have to travel hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles to get to them, losing valuable working time and fuel.
FIXED DRY DOCK
FLOATING DRY DOCK
SYNCROLIFT
SLIPWAY
TRAVEL HOIST
TUGDOCK is a low cost, highly flexible drydocking solution which has none of the above problems.
What advantage does TUGDOCK have over existing sea water ballasted floating drydocks?
• is less than half the weight
• is half the cost
• is ISO shipping container transportable
• no electrical systems as it operates by air compressor alone
• is easily expandable to give a greater deck width or length or both
• increase lift capacity by simply adding more air bags
• no siltation, confined tank entry, pump maintenance or other water ballast issues
• has interchangeable decks to accept a variety of different point load requirements e.g. from foot traffic to a heavy cranage
• has a longer and far less costly design life due to dramatically less maintenance requirements
• air bags can be hired or purchased locally wherever needed through our partnership with the world’s largest buoyancy bag hire company, Unique Seaflex
• is far simpler to use than existing dry docks
TUGDOCK design codes
TUGDOCK has been designed to DNV/GL Rules for floating drydocks
Classification compliant with intact stability codes for drydocks and structures:
• DNV-OS-H101
• DNVGL-RU-FD
