Client: Mid West Ports Authority
Location: Geraldton, WA / Yamaji Country
Mid West Ports Authority operates Geraldton Port — a vital export hub supporting Western Australia’s resources, grain and logistics sectors. With ageing infrastructure and increasing export demand, MWPA required significant upgrades across power, safety and equipment systems. Key challenges included modernising high voltage infrastructure, mitigating fire risk, upgrading ship loading capabilities, and ensuring all works aligned with current legislation, future asset growth, and port operational continuity.
Lucid has supported MWPA since 2014 across a series of interconnected engineering projects. Our approach has always prioritised practical risk management, future-proofed capacity and stakeholder alignment.
For Ship Loader 4, Lucid was engaged to deliver a new Motor Control Central (MCC) including all on-board control, instrumentation and electrical installation. For broader port resilience, we’ve led detailed electrical studies — including high voltage protection grading, arc flash modelling, load flow and fault analysis.
In parallel, we’ve supported MWPA’s by undertaking the detailed design and engineering for the site wide electrical infrastructure upgrade work, The Port is phase out all SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) electrical equipment, due to the environmental risk and replacing it with new SF6 free equipment.
Lucid undertook safety upgrades through a performance-based fire engineering strategy, coordinating risk workshops and aligning designs with Building Code and Crown Land exemptions.
Across multiple projects, Lucid has provided:
Ship Loader 4 MCC and Electrical Works
Upgrading the Ship loader reeling power supply from low voltage to high voltage providing technical, operational, and economic benefits to the Port
High Voltage and Electrical Engineering
Fire Engineering and Compliance
Asset & Risk Management
Ports connect Australia to the world — but their performance depends on what happens behind the scenes. At Geraldton, Lucid’s work has enabled safer, more resilient infrastructure while supporting regional trade and economic growth, whist reducing the environmental risk associated with SF₆ (sulphur hexafluoride) electrical equipment. This is engineering that balances compliance, continuity and capacity — helping one of WA’s most important ports thrive into the future.
