Our workshop on Simpson street in Esperance is the hub of welding and fabrication operations. Equipped with all of the standard workshop equipment, including a 10 ton overhead crane and 8 metre wide doors, it is an ideal facility for fabrication and repair. Crossview also has extensive site based experience and equipment, working on projects from the central wheatbelt, Kambalda and Esperance.
Crossview has access to a variety of excellent subcontractors including boilermakers, machinists, scaffolders, mechanics and hydraulic fitters.
Project: Strengthening works on Berth 3, Esperance Port
Category: Welding and Steel Fabrication
Client: Southern Ports
Duration: Five shutdowns, each five days
Project Description: Following detailed engineering studies, Southern Ports identified that a range of structural modifications were required to Berth 3 at Esperance Port. The works were required to support the ongoing iron ore exports from Berth 3 into the future. Crossview Enterprises successfully tendered for the works in 2021, which was undertaken across a series of five shutdowns, each a period of five days, consisting of extensive welding works.
Project management and planning was integral to the success of this project, due to both physical site access constraints and time constraints. The use of Crossview’s custom made barge ensured there was no restrictions placed on equipment required for the job, allowing access to an area that would otherwise be very limited.
All Crossview welders were pre-qualified with certified weld procedures, including and involving significant preheating and post cooling. The installation of 80 plate steel gussets in challenging locations resulted in Crossview designing and engineering an innovative and custom modular scaffolding which could be easily and quickly re-located as required, ensuring work was completed within the strict time frame.
This combination of Crossview’s technical experience, innovation and specialist equipment supported the successful completion to all works in mid-2022.
Project requirements:
- Removal of the ship loader rail.
- Site fitting of custom-made stiffening to ship loader beam upper flanges, approximately 500-metres of welding, conducted with a pair of weld tractors
- Installation of approximately 80 plate steel gussets.
- Non-destructive weld testing.
- Steel cleaning and painting.
- No mechanised access to the work area, which required all equipment and materials to be delivered by Crossview’s custom made crane barge.
- Solution-focus and innovation, including the purchase and use of automated weld tractors for straight line welding.
- Time critical and limited access during short shutdown periods.
