Techport Australia

Techport Australia – Australia’s premier naval industry hub – is being developed at Osborne, South Australia.
 
South Australia is investing over $300 million in state-owned infrastructure at the hub. This will support ASC to deliver the Royal Australian Navy’s next generation $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyers and attract other shipbuilding and repair opportunities.

Techport Australia will feature:

  • common user shipbuilding facilities comprising a massive ship lift (Australia’s largest), transfer system and wharf
  • a 35+ hectare supplier precinct for sub-contractors to establish operations on site and develop strong and efficient supply chains, and
  • a commercial precinct, including:
    • an on-site Maritime Skills Centre to provide trade and technical skills for the hub’s users
    • the high tech AWD Systems Centre, which brings together all of the engineering disciplines necessary to design, build and deliver the AWDs, and
    • supporting commercial and retail accommodation
  • access to national transport network including road, rail and deep sea port, and
  • a high speed optical fibre network link to major research, defence and education sites across South Australia

Techport Australia status:

Construction is well and truly underway at Techport Australia. It will continue to be a hive of development activity for the next two years.

Recent milestones include:

  • The world-class common user shipbuilding infrastructure - including wharf, runway, dry berth and Australia's largest shiplift - is 80% complete.
  • Almost half of Stage 1 of the fully integrated industrial Supplier Precinct is now sold.
  • Construction of the state of the art Air Warfare Destroyer Systems Centre is underway.
  • The Maritime Skills Centre is operational, training people with trade and technical skills for the AWD project.

The combination of location, facilities and the billion dollar contracts in place, make Techport Australia the prime destination for any business involved in naval, defence and related industries.

For more information please visit: www.techportaustralia.com