Floating port capacity for the ULCV era
The world's first licensed floating port terminal, developed by Sea Technology and validated through extensive engineering, industry, and research collaboration with organizations including MEYER Floating Solutions and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.
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Validated through extensive engineering, industry, and research collaboration with MEYER Floating Solutions and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.
THE ULCV CHALLENGE
Traditional ports cannot scale to meet the new fleet
Ultra Large Container Vessels carry up to 30,000 TEU. The ports that were designed for the last fleet generation cannot accept them without continuous dredging, multi-decade build programmes, and rising political resistance.
Dredging is no longer viable
Continuous dredging burns capex and political capital. Rotterdam-class ports rely on it just to keep depth. Coastal ecosystems take the hit.
15 to 20 year build windows
Conventional port expansion outlives the operator who tried to solve the problem. ULCVs in service today need answers in years, not decades.
EU ETS and IMO targets are tightening
Port carbon intensity per TEU has to come down. Vessel queueing and idle time at congested terminals work against every emissions deadline.
THE SEA TECH FLOATING TERMINAL
ULCV-grade capacity, delivered in years not decades
The Sea Tech Floating Terminal is a modular, fully automated offshore container transshipment hub. DNV-classed, MEYER-built, designed for a 60-year asset life and relocatable when port economics shift.
5 to 6 million TEU per year, on a 600 by 400 m platform
ULCVs up to 30,000 TEU come alongside. Trelleborg AutoMoor line-free mooring and Megamax STS cranes with 80 m outreach handle the load. Throughput at full Rotterdam-class scale, on a modular footprint that can be relocated.
Operational in under 5 years, with no dredging
MEYER Floating Solutions builds the modules at shipyard scale. Deployment is anchored in up to 1,000 m of water. No coastal disruption, no continuous maintenance dredging programme, no seabed impact.
Clean-fuel power, 100 MW generators
Hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol-capable generator sets power crane and platform operations. Integrated freshwater production and waste-to-energy systems close the loop. RISE-validated carbon-intensity reduction per TEU handled.
Configurable for RoRo and FNPP variants
Same modular base supports a RoRo configuration (~80,000 car garage plus ~100,000 car deck) and the Floating Nuclear Power Plant developed with Blykalla AB. One platform, multiple revenue streams.
DNV Approval in Principle (AiP)
Class notation OI Floating Infrastructure Installation, granted August 2025. The STFT is the first modular floating port at this scale to clear DNV's approval gate, with full MEYER shipyard delivery capability behind it.
Contact usBY THE NUMBERS
Engineered for scale, built for sixty years
A WORD FROM OUR CEO
“Sea Technology has spent more than fifty years engineering the future of how the world moves cargo. The Sea Tech Floating Terminal is the most consequential design we have brought forward. It is the only credible answer to ULCV-era port capacity that does not depend on dredging, and it is ready to build.”
About the STFT, in brief
The most common questions from port operators, shipping lines, and infrastructure planners. Reach out for the long answer.
Yes. The Sea Tech Floating Terminal received DNV Approval in Principle under the OI Floating Infrastructure Installation notation in August 2025. It is the first modular floating port at this scale to clear a major class society's review. Full class certification follows project-by-project as deployment sites are selected.
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TALK TO US
Add ULCV capacity. Cut the build window. Skip the dredging.
Whether you operate a major port, run a shipping line, or set national infrastructure strategy, we are ready to size a Sea Tech Floating Terminal to your harbour and your timeline.
DNV-approved, MEYER-built, ready to discuss your port