Shipping & Marine Work

We support local shipping operations 365 days a year.

The majority of this work is conducted in Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay Anchorages near Mackay, however we often provide our helicopter services to the Abbot Point Anchorage off the coast of Bowen, Queensland. Whitsunday Helicopters has conducted in excess of 20,000 ship board landings. The Chief Pilot alone has amassed 7,500 ship landings.

Shipping services include

Marine pilot transfers
Crew changes
Repatriation transfers
Emergency medical (Medivac) transfers
Replenishment of ship provisions
Slinging of ship spares and large items
Slinging of marine lubricants
Transfer of ship surveyors, engineers and technicians
Maintenance of offshore maritime installations/equipment