Location
Australia / Asia Pacific
Project record
Geraldton Port Maximisation marine works
Mid West Ports Authority / SLR Consulting; project overview in the environmental impact assessment
Mid West Ports Authority awarded MGN Civil the surge-protection breakwater contract on 3 June 2026 and says construction will start later in 2026. The breakwater is one marine package inside the State-funded AUD 350 million Geraldton Port Maximisation Project. Ministerial Statement 1272 separately approves a wider envelope covering up to 258,000 m3 of dredging, reclamation, Berth 1 replacement, Berth 6 extension, future Berths 8 and 9 and a new tug harbour.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
MGN Civil holds the surge-protection breakwater award; wider dredging, berth and tug-harbour packages remain separately unconfirmed / Confirmed
Evidence reviewed
20 July 2026
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Project anatomy
Scope, counterparties, and execution logic
- Client / authority
- Mid West Ports Authority
- Delivery parties
- MGN Civil Pty Ltd - surge-protection breakwater
- Contract route
- Mid West Ports Authority announced a direct project-specific award to MGN Civil for the surge-protection breakwater on 3 June 2026. The owner did not publish the contract value, notice-to-proceed date, rock-supply chain or subcontractors. The Western Australian Government describes PMaxP as a State-funded AUD 350 million programme. No cited source identifies construction awards for the Berth 1 replacement, Berth 6 extension, future Berths 8 and 9, or the capital-dredging packages.
- Execution window
- The owner says breakwater construction will commence later in 2026. A May 2026 parliamentary statement placed major construction from mid-2026 and expected the breakwater to build effectiveness through the end of 2027, but the owner's award notice gives no completion date. The 2024-25 annual report's 2028 programme target predates Ministerial approval, and no current owner notice gives package-specific completion dates for the wider marine works.
- Works package
- The approved proposal allows up to 258,000 m3 of dredging: 240,000 m3 of capital dredging and a once-off 18,000 m3 maintenance campaign. The environmental assessment describes a roughly 450-metre northern breakwater and new tug harbour, Berth 1 replacement with a 293-by-22-metre deck, Berth 6 extension to about 287 metres, and a future roughly 500-metre Berths 8 and 9 wharf. It anticipates about 480 piles across the berth and tug-harbour works. Dredged material is intended for on-site reuse and reclamation rather than offshore disposal, subject to suitability.
- Marine interfaces
- The environmental assessment places the breakwater before the main dredging works so it can reduce long-period surge inside the port and partially contain the dredging plume. That sequence links armour placement and breakwater geometry to tug-harbour operability, dredging access, reclamation capacity and the later berth layouts. The approval also prohibits capital dredging from 1 December to 28 February unless the regulator agrees otherwise and requires marine-fauna observation during piling, dredging and rock breaking.
- Commercial read
- The breakwater is allocated to MGN Civil. The wider programme remains a set of separate potential packages, not one AUD 350 million contract. Market activity should be tied to owner-issued procurement, named contractors or mobilisation evidence for dredging, Berth 1, Berth 6, future Berths 8 and 9, tug-harbour jetties, survey, monitoring and material handling rather than inferred from the approval envelope.
- Next milestone
- A notice to proceed or visible mobilisation for the MGN breakwater package, including armour source and marine plant, followed by owner procurement or award notices for dredging, Berth 1, Berth 6 and tug-harbour works.
Material change register
What changed, when, and what it proves
Only source-bound events that alter phase, scope, counterparties, delivery, completion, commissioning, or acceptance are listed. A change can advance the record without proving the next gate.
Mid West Ports awarded the surge-protection breakwater
MGN Civil became the named contractor for the first disclosed marine construction package. The announcement did not publish contract value, notice to proceed, rock source or mobilisation evidence.
Read controlling sourceMinisterial Statement 1272 allowed the proposal to proceed
The approval set the 258,000 m3 dredging limit, seasonal restriction and environmental-management conditions for the wider project. It did not award the dredging or berth packages.
Read controlling sourceEPA Report 1792 recommended conditional approval
The report established the assessed marine footprint, benthic impacts, material-reuse route and environmental conditions that informed the later Ministerial Statement.
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Evidence needed next
A notice to proceed or visible mobilisation for the MGN breakwater package, including armour source and marine plant, followed by owner procurement or award notices for dredging, Berth 1, Berth 6 and tug-harbour works.
Decision watchpoints
- Breakwater contract value, notice to proceed and baseline surveys
- Armour-rock source, testing, transport and placement sequence
- MGN Civil plant, temporary works and marine-access mobilisation
- Berth 1 replacement and Berth 6 extension procurement
- Dredging contractor, method, quantities and seasonal work window
- Dredged-material suitability, placement and reclamation capacity
- Marine-fauna observations, plume monitoring and regulator reporting
- As-built hydrography, berth acceptance and measured surge performance
Project availability status
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Mid West Ports Authority controls the current breakwater award and start statement. Ministerial Statement 1272 controls the approved limits and environmental conditions. EPA Report 1792 and the project environmental assessment define the dredging quantities, berth geometry, piling, material-reuse route and proposed sequence. The annual report and parliamentary record provide programme context only. Lease 11 truck-unloader construction started in May 2025, but it is landside work and is not evidence that the approved marine packages or MGN breakwater have mobilised.
Phase: award. Evidence reviewed: 20 July 2026.
Project sources 7
- Major contract awarded for surge-protection breakwater at Geraldton Port Mid West Ports Authority, 3 June 2026
- Geraldton Port Maximisation Project assessment case Environmental Protection Authority Western Australia, Current case page reviewed 20 July 2026
- Ministerial Statement 1272 Government of Western Australia, 1 May 2026
- EPA Report 1792: Geraldton Port Maximisation Project Environmental Protection Authority Western Australia, 19 September 2025
- Geraldton Port Maximisation Project environmental impact assessment Mid West Ports Authority / SLR Consulting, 24 July 2025
- Mid West Ports Authority annual report 2024-25 Mid West Ports Authority, 2025
- Western Australia parliamentary estimates record for PMaxP Parliament of Western Australia, 20 May 2026