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Austal Tasmania

Company name

Austal Tasmania

Company web site

http://www.austal.com/

Company annual report

http://www.austal.com/go/investors/annual-reports-and-investor-briefings

Physical location

Austal Tasmania is located at 83 Gemalla Road, Margate, Tasmania 7054.

Principle business activities

Austal is the world leader in the design and construction of customised, high speed aluminium vessels for commercial and defence applications. Since 1988, Austal has built or has on order over 190 vessels for customers all over the world and currently owns shipyards in both Australia and the USA.

Austal Tasmania (formerly North West Bay Ships) is located in Margate, 18km south of Hobart, and was purchased by Austal in February 2007. The shipyard comes with a history of high quality aluminium ship construction.

The Margate facility currently has a total workforce of over 70 people, with numbers expected to grow to 100 workers by the end of 2007.

The 50,000m2 land consists of a 70m x 50m building shed, a 30m x 30m fit out shed, a commissioning berth of 70m, as well as a 600 t slipway.

Performance

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Future production

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