Sea Transport

Cargo Vessels / Workboats

Stern Landing Vessels

Sea Transport Solutions has developed, refined and proven a Stern Landing Vessel (SLV) design offering a superior alternative to conventional landing craft for coastal shipping operations.


Commercial applications for the SLV are similar to conventional landing craft; however the SLV design has overcome the primary problems associated with conventional landing craft, including:

• Poor head sea capability due to bluff bow ramp, dramatically reducing speed
  
  
• Poor visibility due to bow ramp
  
  
• Crew discomfort and fatigue due to location of accommodation directly above machinery spaces
  
  
• Inadequate power available when de-beaching due to propellers working inefficiently astern, and the need to overcome the forefoot suction effect
  
  
• Poor stability due to the low profile GZ curve, low freeboard and shallow deck edge immersion resulting in limited deadweight capacity
  
  
• Required ballast due to high block coefficient and poor stability
  
  

Incorporating a shallow ‘V’ hull with two side pods, off-centre shafts and a beaching protection aft skeg arrangement, the SLV is now a finely tuned design that has evolved into a commercially and operationally unbeatable landing craft design.

MV 'Deepwater'

35m x 10.8m x 2.3m Draft
450 DWT
2 x 250kW
9 Knots

'Matthew Flinders'

40m x 12m x 1.8m Draft
400 DWT
9 Knots