IN FOCUS / BOOM LOGISTICS AND GROVE ALL TERRAINS
GROVES BOOM IN HUGE SHED LIFT When Boom Logistics was contracted to help construct a huge industrial shed, they deployed six cranes for the job. Operations manager, Dave Barfield, has been with Boom Logistics for five years and is responsible for all operations in Western Australia’s south west region. BOOM LOGISTICS SERVICES A WIDE range of industries with its national presence in metro and remote locations, says Dave Barfield, operations manager, Boom Logistics. In WA, its 750t and 450t all terrain cranes are consistently utilised on many of the large road and infrastructure projects as well as various wind farm construction projects. It is also contracted to a number of mining companies where it is onsite to support them and their sub contractors 120 / CAL September 2021
with shutdown, maintenance and construction. “From our Port Hedland and Rockingham Depots, we are able to provide short term taxi crane works to the construction and manufacturing industries on short notice. “Our main depot is in East Rockingham. We run 67 cranes statewide ranging from 14t Frannas all the way up to our 750t all terrains. We have depots in the north west along with other mine site based depots where we have
four or five cranes per site depending on the work levels. We are currently running 45 of the cranes out of the depots with some of our fleet on long term dry hire,” said Barfield. “The resources sector is extremely buoyant now, and we are in the process of re-establishing ourselves in the north west. We recently opened our new Port Hedland depot in late 2020 and it is going well with James Thomas and his team” he said. www.cranesandlifting.com.au
