Garden Island Naval Dockyard, Sydney NSW
Sydney鈥檚 Garden Island Dockyard is a critical national security asset delivering sustainment to the Royal Australian Navy ensuring they are able to Shape, Deter and Respond for the protection of our nation.
The Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island (GI), is the largest ship repair and maintenance graving dock in the Southern Hemisphere, and a strategic asset of the Australian Defence Force.
Since 1999 the Commonwealth of Australia has entrusted Thales with the ongoing operations and services of the dock and other services at Garden Island Naval base.
Recognising our role as strategic partner of the Australian Government鈥檚 National Naval Shipbuilding Enterprise, we have consistently invested in improvements and upgrades to the Garden Island Naval Dockyard including, the introduction of the 65-ton capacity fixed dock side crane, electricity sub-stations and dry dock civil infrastructure. The health and safety of our people, customers and stakeholders is a key priority and we continually conduct systematic safety and environmental modernisation programs at Garden Island as part of our reticulated services (power, water, sewer and compressed air) delivery.
Project Managers, Ship Repairs, Electronics/Combat Technicians, Mechanical/Weapons Technicians, Shipwrights, Fabrication and Specialist Welders and Safety/Environmental Managers
Our ecosystem of specialist workshops include electrical, mechanical, sheet metal, structural and plumbing are supported by on site logistics, warehousing, scheduling, training and safety specialists
We partner with various Defence Primes, OEM, SMEs and other local businesses as a part of our Industry Engagement program to manage the execution of maintenance and repair related activities. We are a proud link in the chain that delivers Seaworthy compliance and materially ready ships for RAN operational taskings.
Thales also repairs and maintains a wide array of commercial vessels in the dock and in Garden Island such as; tug boats, cruise ship, workboats, ferries, dredges and super yachts.
Thales is a significant investor in building Australia鈥檚 defence industry capability. Australian SMEs are a critical part of Thales Australia鈥檚 supply chain. This has been openly recognised by the regional supply chain and we continue to investment in these critical capabilities, knowledge, and ecosystem is critical to ensuring Navy can deliver its mission.
Garden Island in 2020
377
Australian suppliers
$125m
Spent with Australian suppliers
59%
($74m) Spent with SMEs
433
Thales employees
413
幺力视频 jobs directly supported by the Garden Island site
Thales and Bluecats digital awareness transforms asset tracking at Garden Island
Thales Australia's Above Water Systems business is trialing a Bluetooth/GPS based asset location tracking technology, developed by Australian SME, BlueCats.
The Real Time Location System (RTLS) technology enables Thales' work teams at Garden Island Defence Precinct (GIDP) to 'tag' a piece of equipment and remotely track its location at all times.
Since 1999
Thales has managed the Garden Island site
~ 37K
tests conducted in 2021
Supported Navy through COVID-19
2006 - 2009
Successful FFG upgrade program
2017
Essington Lewis Award for the FFG Enterprise
2009
1st ever triple docking by Thales Australia
2011
Supported the RAN with an emergency docking
The Dock at Garden Island, Sydney is critical to providing the sustainment activities needed by the RAN to successfully achieve their mission. Valve 10 failed unexpectedly resulting to a 30% reduction in dock flooding capacity.
The Thales team recently removed and replaced one of the Captain Cook Graving Dock鈥檚 20-tonne main flooding valves. The large-scale operation, years in the making, has significantly enhanced the flooding and draining capabilities of the dock.
