Crane Hire Perth › Naval Base
Crane hire in Naval Base, the working hinge between the Australian Marine Complex and the Kwinana strip: bulk terminals, jetty-side plant and traditional heavy industry on the Cockburn Sound foreshore.
Since 1974 · 60+ cranes · 2.93–800t · CICA member
Naval Base is one of Perth’s purest industrial suburbs: almost nobody lives here, and nearly everything lifts. Sitting between the Australian Marine Complex to the north and the Kwinana Industrial Area to the south, it carries bulk terminals on the foreshore, heavy industry along Cockburn Road, and the South Metropolitan TAFE campus that houses WA’s defence workforce and shipbuilding training effort.
The work is bulk-materials handling at its heaviest: shiploader and conveyor components, transfer towers, jetty-side plant and the yard lifting that keeps terminals moving. Joyce Krane mobilises from Kewdale with the tonnage and the engineering to match, and our crews carry the port and site inductions this foreshore expects.
Every Naval Base job gets the right crane for the lift, picked from the Perth fleet at our Kewdale yard: 2.93 tonne mini cranes through to 800 tonne heavy lift.
Reliable Franna cranes that pick a load and drive it across site, the workhorses of residential, commercial and yard work in tight spaces.
The top of our capacity range, including Liebherr models up to 800 tonnes. Road mobility plus serious lifting height and radius for major work.
Quick set-up and good reach, with the load and the crane arriving together on the one vehicle.
Tadano cranes purpose-built for unsealed, uneven and remote WA sites where standard mobile cranes can’t work.
Sustained heavy lifting on the one site, with tracked stability for long-duration work.
Compact cranes built for restricted-access work in built-up parts of Perth.
One of the first decisions on any project, and Joyce Krane offers both from Perth.
What we call taxi crane hire: the crane arrives with our own licensed operator and crew. The simplest, safest option for most one-off lifts.
You hire the crane and supply your own appropriately licensed operator. Best for established contractors needing a machine for an extended period.
A major strength of our Perth operation is the Joyce Krane Heavy Lift Division, based in Kewdale and operating Australia-wide. It runs high-capacity Liebherr all-terrain cranes including the LG 1800 and LTM 1750-9.1 at 800 tonnes, the LG 1750 at 750 tonnes and the LTM 1400-2.1 at 400 tonnes.
This is the fleet behind genuinely complex work: our teams have lifted over two hundred bridge beams and installed around three hundred wind turbine generators across construction, infrastructure, maritime and renewable projects. If your project sits beyond standard mobile crane capacity, talk to us early.
Heavy lifts reward planning.
Every Joyce Krane lift is backed by our in-house engineering team. Our engineers help you work through the craneage requirements of an upcoming special lift or future project.
They provide an unbiased, third-party review with clear recommendations, procedures and methodology designed to make the lift safer and more efficient. For Perth builders and project managers, that means you’re not just hiring a crane, you’re hiring the expertise to use it correctly.
Fifty years of lifting in some of Australia’s toughest environments. Trusted by major operators including Chevron, Rio Tinto and BHP.
Naval Base is about 37 km by road from our Kewdale yard, about 35 to 55 minutes down the Kwinana Freeway. Terminal work is planned around berth and site windows, and the crane arrives inducted and set-up-ready.
Kewdale yard · about 37 km by road to Naval Base
Crane hire in Naval Base is priced on the crane size, how long the lift takes, site access, and whether you need wet hire (crane with our licensed crew) or dry hire. Terminal and jetty work here prices around access windows and inductions more than crane hours, so give us the site rules with the enquiry and the quote will match the day. Most bookings run on a minimum hire period, and travel from our Kewdale yard is quoted honestly for Naval Base rather than padded. Call 1300 956 923 for a fixed price.
Lifting from private property in Naval Base usually needs no permit. If the crane must set up on a road, footpath or laneway, a road occupancy or standing plant approval from the City of Kwinana is generally required, along with traffic control, and Main Roads WA approval can apply on classified roads. Bulk terminal work at Naval Base falls under Fremantle Ports access requirements, including MSIC with Fremantle Ports Access cards and the ports safety induction, which our crews handle as part of mobilisation. We arrange the permits, traffic management and lift plan as part of the job.
Our Perth yard at Kewdale is about 37 km by road from Naval Base, about 35 to 55 minutes. Naval Base is a scheduled 45 minute mobilisation from the yard, planned around terminal windows rather than promised on the fly. For urgent and after-hours work, our 24/7 emergency crane service covers Naval Base as well.
Tell us the load, the Naval Base site and the timeline, and we’ll recommend the right crane and a safe, cost-effective plan to get it placed. Our Perth team is at 455 Belmont Avenue, Kewdale WA 6105.
