A deck barge weighted 1200 tons used airbags to launch at Xishui shipyard in Hubei Province

On October 6th, 1995, a 8000DWT wide deck barge built by Xishui shipyard in Hubei Province want to be used airbag launching, which was 91.5m in long, 24.4m in width, 5.5m in depth and weight of 1200 tons. As request of the shipyard, the factory director, Ms. Sun personally led a team to participate in the launching engineering, although the launching site presented many defects such as poor flatness, uneven slope, especially the river bank have a short steep slope that increase the risk of ship launching, however, airbag flexible can make up for shortcomings, incredibly make such a heavy barge launching, created the airbag launching weight record over one thousand tons.