7 November 2022
NORSTA Maritime Pty Ltd.
NORSTA has secured the contract to serve as the Regional Maintenance Provider for the Regional Maintenance Centre Northeast (RMC NE) located in Cairns, Far North Queensland. It will deliver maritime sustainment services for North-Eastern Australia and is already well-integrated with Defence in the region.
NORSTA Maritime is a Cairns, Queensland based and Australian owned Maritime business consisting of Norship Marine and Tropical Reef Shipyard. The broader Team Norsta incorporates Nova and Secora, making this a genuine Australian controlled team delivering sustainment services at scale.
NORSTA is focused on managing and coordinating industry prime contractors, local small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and suppliers to deliver a multi-year program of Maritime Sustainment to support multiple classes of the Australian Navy’s surface fleet.
NORSTA will work closely with local suppliers to schedule major and minor maintenance works for many vessels through each year of the program.
Through its enterprise approach, NORSTA will work collaboratively with the local community and stakeholders including local SMEs in the supply chain, industry groups, vocational training providers, universities and government agencies to develop the local ecosystem and to build local capability to support this initiative.
A strong and growing local industry is required to support the maintenance of current and future visiting Naval vessels. NORSTA will work closely with local suppliers to schedule major and minor maintenance works for many vessels through each year of the program.
A local, capable workforce will be needed, equipped with traditional and emerging skillsets, to deliver maritime maintenance and sustainment services and support the latest military technology and innovation.
Under Plan Galileo, Defence is focusing naval sustainment on a network of Regional Maintenance Centres (RMCs) strategically located around the country in port cities. They have the capability to sustain multiple classes of the Australian Navy’s surface fleet and enabls Defence to respond to the uncertain and shifting strategic environment that Australia faces. The first one is RMC NE and is located in Cairns FNQ.
‘’We are establishing national supply chains, industry partnerships and skilled workforces — all concentrated in the RMCs — which will allow us to maintain vessels closer to where they are operating or exercising, reducing transit times, and returning them to service more quickly.”Rear Admiral Malcolm
NORSTA Maritime will build a regional sovereign sustainment capability by developing and maintaining supply chains and nurturing existing regional capabilities, further promoting Australian industry involvement
