Forgacs Marine and Defence, previously Forgacs Group and also simply known as Forgacs, is a major Australian engineering and shipbuilding company. It has facilities in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane and Gladstone. The company employs approximately 1000 people.
Forgacs Group acquired Ullman Engineering in 1962. Following this, in 1987, it acquired the Newcastle Floating Dock.
Shipbuilder
Carrington Slipways was acquired in 1997, followed by the
Cairncross Dockyard
The Cairncross Dockyard was a shipyard beside the Brisbane River at 405 Thynne Road, Morningside, Queensland, Morningside, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It included one of Australia's largest graving docks with an 8.5 metre deep wa ...
facilities in
Brisbane
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in 1999.
Cairncross is used for commercial ship repair and includes one of the largest
graving dock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...
s in Australasia.
The dockyard can accommodate ships up to the
Panamax
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sized class.
Forgacs conducts refit and maintenance work for the
Royal Australian Navy
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, including the repair and extensive conversion of the (LPA) ships, following their purchase from the
United States Navy
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. Forgacs constructed hull blocks for the and in 2009 they were contracted to build 30 hull blocks for the being constructed in Adelaide for the Royal Australian Navy.
The company's facilities at the Cairncross Dockyard closed in 2014. On 17 November 2015,
Civmec
Civmec Limited is a cross-listed Australian-Singaporean public company involved in the construction, engineering and shipbuilding industries. Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, it specialises in fabrication and construction for the oil a ...
announced that it would acquire Forgacs. Civmec completed the acquisition of Forgacs Group on 2 February 2016
and renamed it ''Forgacs Marine and Defence''.
See also
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BAE Systems Australia
BAE Systems Australia, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, is one of the largest defence contractors in Australia. It was formed by the merger of British Aerospace Australia and GEC-Marconi Systems and expanded by the acquisitions of Armor Holdings ...
References
External links
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Engineering companies of Australia
Shipbuilding companies of Australia
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