06.08.2012

Sarens Australia expands fleet for new contracts

Sarens Australia has recently won several heavy crane and transport contracts worth around $65 million.

The work is in the fast booming LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) and mining construction sectors over the next three years. In the next six months Sarens Australia will enlarge its fleet with two 600 tonne and two 1250 tonne crawler cranes, 72 axle lines self propelled modular trailers (SPMT’s) and about sixty new telescopic cranes.

Gert Hendrickx Sarens Australia manager said: “With Australia currently being the fourth biggest LNG exporter in the world and the mining sector being a significant primary industry, it is not surprising these high value investment projects need state of the art construction equipment like cranes and heavy transport machinery. We are all very pleased to see our ongoing efforts have resulted in these multiple contract awards.”

Wim Sarens, Sarens Group chief executive said: “The expansion of Sarens Australia started in 2007 as a part of the global growth strategy of Sarens Group. In 2010 the Australian organisation was reinforced with the take-over of Perth Crane Hire on the west coast. The subsequent development of the company is foreseen in 2013, when this branch will further be positioned as a true Australian company, well-established with over 100 employees, rather than a small foreign start-up."

"The expansion of the QEHS department in Australia is now priority. At Sarens we like working in Australia because of the extremely high safety standards, which are in line with the high safety demands of the Sarens Group itself.”

Sarens Australia signed a contract for the Gorgon LNG Project in Western Australia for CBI-Kentz. This A$ 43 billion investment is the largest single resource natural gas project in Australian history. On the East Coast contracts have been signed with Bechtel for Gladstone LNG, three LNG projects on Curtis Island with an investment value of about A$ 15 billion each. Other contracts have been established for heavy crane works and major load-out work on the HPX3 project in McKay (East Coast), with McDow-GeoSea JV and BMA.