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Adelaide’s MG Engineering has launched Wharfside One, a self-propelled work vessel to service harbour infrastructure in Adelaide.
MG Engineering collaborated with customer Flinders Port Holdings from concept stage, through to building and commissioning of the Wharfside One, a modular vessel that can be disassembled and transported by road.
MG Engineering managing director Anthony Brdar said the vessel highlighted the importance of “building sovereign maritime capability from the ground up”.
“Our early modular barge builds were initially developed to keep our workforce engaged and continue training during fluctuations in workload, particularly as we prepared to support naval vessel programs,” he said.
“That investment in skills and capability has now matured into a highly sophisticated self-propelled modular barge solution delivering real operational value for Flinders Port Holdings, via having its own capability in maintaining the its maritime infrastructure locally in Port Adelaide, as well as its other locations within Australia.”
MG Engineering has built civil ferries and trawler vessels and is well known in the Naval shipbuilding Industry, working with major defence force contractors such as BAE, ASC, Luerssen and others.
MG Engineering's Port Adelaide waterfront location, hardstand area and slipway facility mean the company can construct modular blocks which are too large to be transported by road.
