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38m Stern Landing Vessel

38m Stern Landing Vessel

June 2, 2022/in Australian News /by shm@rk
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ROPAX Catamaran ferry

ROPAX Catamaran ferries for South Moreton Bay Islands

August 13, 2021/in Australian News /by Sea Transport Solutions

Sea Transport Solutions is pleased to announce the design and manufacturing of two modern ROPAX Catamaran ferries that are scheduled to operate within the South Moreton Bay Islands for the SeaLink Travel Group.

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Military Vessel Designs by Sea Transport

Stern Landing Vessel Possible Choice for US Navy

March 5, 2020/in Australian News, United States News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

The US Navy is currently on the lookout for a new medium-sized amphibious support vessel to join their fleet—and it’s great to see Sea Transport’s very own Stern Landing Vessel (SLV) could be a front runner.

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Lucky Eyre Transhipper Vessel

The ‘Lucky Eyre’ Departs for Lucky Bay

January 16, 2020/in Australian News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

The Lucky Eyre Transhipper vessel has set out on another voyage. The 87m grain transhipment vessel departed this week and is currently en-route to Lucky Bay in South Australia.

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Ferry Vessel Designer

Introducing Our Newest Vessel: The Sara

October 16, 2019/in Australian News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

The team at Sea Transport Solutions is very excited to announce the addition of a new vessel—The Sara. This robust ferry design was was specifically engineered to haul heavy mining machinery and is already hard at work assisting a range of key mining contracts.

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ship design model testing by sea transport solutions

Sea Transport Ship Model Testing

May 13, 2019/in Australian News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

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ship design model testing by sea transport solutions

The model testing period of designing a marine vessel plays a critical role right from the very basic design stages.

Ship model testing by Sea Transport Solutions began in 1986 with bulbous bow developments on catamarans. Various bulb shapes and sizes were tested including pear, circular and elliptical. Hulls without bulbs were also tested.

The most effective bulb improved calm water speed by an impressive 1.5 knots and significantly reduced the motions and accelerations during a sea-state could better maintain head speed in comparison to conventional catamarans and mono-hull vessels.

In 1997, STS won an international tender for P&O in India for a 15-metre passenger ferry. The ferry design required low accelerations at the LCG (the main aspect of sea-sickness, yet frequency dependent) without the use of external appendages for ride control. An efficient hull was required and so tests were undertaken on a 1:3 scale model that proved beneficial.

Additional tests conducted were on varying LCB-LCF separations and locations with a 1:10 scale semi-SWATH model located at the Australian Maritime College’s towing tank. These tests quantified both the accelerations and motions as well as the frequency of the heave and pitch RAOs. The results found by STS correlated well with similar research papers.

 

Bulb modifications were made and the testing process was repeated, which resulted in a 23% pitch-motion reduction. Vertical accelerations at the LCG were reduced by 15% and considerably more at the vessel’s wheelhouse. Calm-water resistance was recorded post-modifications revealing that very low resistance was maintained.

 

STS CEO, Mr. Ross Ballantyne, concluded that development and research work should be constant for leading-edge innovations of the Australian marine industry to be sustained into the future.

For more information on Sea Transport Solutions’ bankable feasibility studies and vessel design services, contact us today.

lucky eyre transhipment vessel

Lucky Eyre Transhipper Vessel Arrives Safely in Shanghai

February 18, 2019/in Australian News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

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Transhipper Vessel Lucky Eyre leaving shipyard at Guangzhou, China

The team at Sea Transport Solutions is proud to announce that the new transhipment vessel dubbed ‘Lucky Eyre’, has successfully completed her one week journey from the shipyard in Guangzhou to Shanghai in China, covering her first 1,670 kilometres with ease.

The new vessel departed for Shanghai early last month, where she will be retrofitted with the STS designed Materials Handling System (MHS) for the export of grain.

transshipment ship by sea transportLucky Eyre, an 87M grain transhipper designed by the ship design experts at STS (partnering with T-Ports), is right on schedule to begin operation at the new grain port in South Australia’s Lucky Bay where she will responsible for delivering an estimated 10,800 to 13,250 tonnes of cargo daily from the port to larger, deepwater vessels.

Upon completion of the MHS retrofitting work in Shanghai, Lucky Eyre will be departing China for South Australia to start exporting this coming harvest season.

Once in operation, the new Lucky Bay port is estimated to provide grain farmers with savings up to $5 to $20 per tonne in transportation costs along with another $25 to $40 per tonne when importing fertiliser back to the port.

transhipment vessel lucky eyre leaving shipyard

Transhipment Operations and Ship Design Services

For more information on our transhipment operation and ship design services, please contact the friendly team at Sea Transport here or call us at +61 7 5529 5777.

DSRS vessel stability system

Supporting Innovations in Marine Safety

August 24, 2018/in Australian News, United States News, World News /by Sea Transport Solutions

Our team of naval architects are excited to be in cooperation with the United Kingdom’s University of Strathclyde in testing a new, potentially life-saving technology suitable for existing and new vessels referred to as DSRS or (Damage Stability Recovery System).

Read our full article to learn more about this exciting new innovation in marine safety.

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87 metre transhipment vessel

Brand New Transhipment Vessel for Farmers at Lucky Bay Grain Port

May 21, 2018/in Australian News /by Sea Transport Solutions

The new vessel dubbed “Lucky Eyre” was specially designed by Sea Transport Solutions (partnering with T-Ports), who are both proud and excited to see the final build complete and ready to be fitted in Shanghai with a material handling system, before setting sail for South Australia.

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artist rendering lucky bay port

Lucky Bay Port Development Breakthrough for EP Growers

March 26, 2018/in Australian News /by Sea Transport Solutions
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An artist’s impression of how the new port and storage facility will look at Lucky Bay. (Supplied: T-Ports)

South Australia is expected to have its very first farmer and private equity partnership port built and in operation for the 2018-2019 grain harvest. The port has been proposed to be built at Lucky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula and will provide an alternative grain storage and export option for local Australian growers.

These growers will acquire equity in the port over the next seven years and are expected to save from $5.00 – $20.00 per tonne in transporting grain from farm to port, depending on their proximity to Lucky Bay.

After last year’s expression of interest phase where 120 EP grain growers gave their support for the new port, the new $115 million infrastructure and supply chain project was officially finalised this past week and on-ground works are due to begin immediately.

The key features of the Lucky Bay development include:

  • The Lucky Bay Port Facility – This is a shallow harbour port located in the upper Eyre Peninsula grain catchment zone.
  • Transhipment Vessel – The port will have a cutting-edge shallow draft transhipment vessel, with an approximate capacity of 3,400 tonnes, that will allow Panamax vessels to be loaded within the five-day industry standard. This new vessel, designed by the naval architects at Sea Transport Solutions – specialists in transhipment vessel design and operation, is currently under construction in China.
  • Grain Storage Facilities – New storage facilities located at the port will have an approximate capacity of 430,000 tonnes.
  • Up-country storage at Lock – Storage capacity of 150,000 tonnes.

The development of the new port has been a joint venture between Duxton Asset Management, Inheritance Capital Asset Management (ICAM) and Sea Transport Solutions. This joint venture has resulted a new company dubbed ‘T-Ports’, an abbreviation of transhipment ports, that will act as the operating entity following settlement.

T-Ports’ Chairman Rob Champan stated that the company’s ports infrastructure strategy focuses on establishing a more financially feasible ports model. This includes providing both shallow water ports with a lower build cost and smaller environmental impact requiring modest throughput and providing sound financial returns to investors.

The ports will be multi-user and multi-commodity transhipment ports, with the first at Lucky Bay and a second under investigation for the Yorke Peninsula.

“South Australia is in need of new export infrastructure in order to improve agricultural economics and allow development of its mining assets in an increasingly competitive world environment,” Said Mr. Champman.

“While this port development is based on agricultural product, it can readily expand to allow exports of local minerals and T-Ports will be pursuing opportunities to further diversify and grow the commodity base”.

lucky bay transhipment port finalised

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Lucky Bay grain port to be open by harvest

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T-Ports’ CEO Keiran Carvill says that clear direction from growers has been to increase supply chain efficiency which we will achieve through Lucky Bay as a low capital expenditure and flexible port close to the product origin.

“This investment innovates upon the traditional port model and almost monopolistic grain supply chain in South Australia through proven transhipping technology that has been utilised in other industries for the past 20 years,” said Mr Carvill.

“The lower build cost and lower environmental footprint compared with traditional export port facilities in South Australia has made the financial feasibility of the investment easier to attain with a lower throughput requirement from growers.”

“This model means growers can access multiple small ports that can load vessels up to and including cape size, allowing product to be exported profitably, which will prove a great benefit to EP growers and South Australia.”

Andrew Polkinghorne, Lock grain grower and T-Ports Board Member, stated that the Lucky Bay development has been the breakthrough that man EP growers were waiting for in the supply competition.

“While there have been a number of projects flagged for EP, Lucky Bay is a reality, it is funded and work is starting. The benefits of this project will flow through to farming families, and their local communities, as they secure equity in T-Ports and, as a result, a share of the profits of storing and shipping their grain.”

“EP growers who did not respond during the EOI period can still be involved. A retail fund will be set-up before June 2018 that gives growers the opportunity to have some cash ownership in the development and either become involved or further increase their support.”

“It’s a great outcome for EP growers, the investors who supported it and the state as a whole.”

Mangalo farmer Isaac Gill, whose farm is approximately 60 kilometers from Lucky Bay, agreed stating that the Lucky Bay development will help save growers a lot of money in the long run.

“It’s fantastic because we are going to save off our bottom line extra freight which we have been doing down to Port Lincoln and we often can’t deliver straight to port at harvest time… now we will be able to deliver it straight off the header, straight out of the paddock and straight to port and it could be saving us around $15.00 a tonne” says Gill.

Sea Transport Solutions is excited to be a contributor to the Lucky Bay port development and will publish further information on its progress as it becomes available. For more information on Sea Transport’s transhipment vessel design, management and feasibility services please click here or call our head office on +61 7 5529 5777.

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