Advanced offshore transport technologies featured by Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), eVTOL, seagliders, solar barges and ships together with their ecosystem including infrastructure component such as floating terminals, vertiports, electric charging stations, AI powered warehouses, sorting centers and more could bring breakthrough solutions. However, at this moment their practical application is very limited due to many obstacles. Among them, top five challenges include awareness; vehicle capability; vehicle infrastructure; funding and regulation.

The OceanX sandbox series in Vietnam that is a first development of the OceanX sandbox series in the whole sea area of ASEAN countries, will focus on a combination of funding, R&D, small scale production of new hardware products and software development on above offshore transport technologies and their pilot projects in East Sea actual service environments including support on basic facilities and regulations from Vietnam authorities to overcome obstacles and realize the technologies faster and easier.