The Steel Group is a comprehensive service including multi-specialty transportation, logistics, and heavy haulage.
Based out of Perth, Western Australia, we are a leading logistics vendor with a single-minded focus on customer satisfaction, meeting stringent and complex requirements of corporate clients, and freight management best practices.
We specialise in bulk machinery shipments, project logistics, site de-mobilisation, site mobilisation, mine site work, heavy haulage, remote camp relocations, and route surveys. We’re the most trusted service provider for moving hydraulic and crawler cranes in the state – we’ve moved the largest cranes in Australia.
From a remote camp relocation, moving turbines, delivering windfarms to chartering and loading the Antonov Russian cargo plane to urgently freight mill shells to Chile, we offer end-to-end co-ordination always focused on delivering value to the client – you.
Steel Group is owned, run, and managed by John Steel.
A veteran supply chain professional with over a decade of Management experience in heavy haulage and executing large project moves.
John has years of industry experience under his belt. He has overseen operations in senior roles in logistics management, commercial contracts, and project management before starting Steel Group in 2010.
Armed with an innate ability for negotiating and implementing contracts, and a keen eye for results, John brings his excellent leadership skills, exceptional people management skills, persuasive communication abilities, and the ability to thrive under pressure to delivering on a range of services while maintaining a budget, supervising the operations, and employing best practice for risk management.
Steel Group focuses on being on time, on budget, and safe.
Completion of another safe crane move
During the course of the Ichthys Onshore LNG Project in Bladin Point, Darwin, Monadelphous Heavy Lift engaged the services of Steel Group to mobilise and demobilise our LR1600/2, 600t Superlift Crawler crane to and from the Project.
This transportation activity involved mobilising the crane from Port Hedland to Darwin and then subsequently demobilising the crane from Darwin to Perth. Steel 
Group arranged all transport and permits/approvals for the project and worked closely with Monadelphous to deliver the most economic and efficient delivery of the crane. This involved additional stripping of the base crane to achieve required transport configuration to comply with Main Roads (WA) weight limits on the transport route.
Steel Group coordinated both loading and offloading of crane components both in Monadelphous’s crane yard and on the project site in Darwin to ensure a smooth delivery process. The 600t Crawler Crane was despatched with 84m of Main Boom, 36m of Derrick Mast and 350t of Superlift Ballast. This required the use of a 100t float, 2 x 50t floats and 39 conventional trailers. The total transported weight of all crane components totalled approximately 905 tonnes.
All transport operations were completed in a timely manner resulting in an ahead of schedule mobilisation for this crane. Our thanks to Steel Group for their effort in completing another safe crane move for Monadelphous Heavy Lift.
Carl Rigby - Operations Manager - Heavy Lift - Monadelphous Group Limited
We needed a miracle and Steel Logistics delivered
We had a absolutely brilliant experience with Steel Logistics.
From the beginning we were not given a lot of notice of needing logistical help and John made it “happen”.
We had a tight deadline and needed 6.5 tonnes of equipment brought from Germany to Australind(Near Bunbury, South West of Western Australia).
We needed a miracle and Steel Logistics (John) delivered and made it possible.
John was there for us from when it left the factory, until it arrived on site by truck.
John explained the whole process. He provided valuable information and knowledge about the technical aspects of how our freight would get from A to B.
It was delivered in time with no hassles. His whole team were an absolute credit to the company with their professional and friendly approach.
We are delighted with our new business, our systems that we imported make all the difference.
We have no hesitation in recommending Steel Logistics to anyone needing Logistical help, I can’t speak highly enough of what John and his Team helped us to achieve.
Troy and Jaclyn Magill - OWNERS - TREENDALE CARWASH PTY LTD & LIGAM PTY LTD
Professional and Timely
I would like to say thank you for the service you provided in relocating the LR11350 from Darwin (NT) to our project at Olympic Dam (SA)and then after our project to our laydown area in Adelaide (SA). The LR11350 is our largest crane and comes with quite a lot of oversize components.
All was handled smoothly and safely, especially the access to site, which was handled in a very professional and timely manner.
Thanks again for your support and look forward to future transportations together.
Steven Coulson - Regional Operations Manager – APAC & Africa
Services
Australia is currently enjoying a 25th consecutive year of continuous growth, and a large part of that growth is possible due to the country’s logistics Industry which is estimated to account for about 8.6% GDP and contributed 95.37 billion AUD in 2015-16. We offer:
Transportation & Logistics
Road, rail, marine, and air are the key channels that help keep Australia’s economy alive.
We take pride in adding to the country’s growth and to help our individual clients with the expertise, equipment, and resources they need to keep goods moving.
Get access to years of expertise in heavy haulage logistics, including earth moving, fleet maintenance, planning routes and project timing, and utilising the skills of our heavy duty mechanics.
We work with the largest mining, freight forwarders, heavy lift specialists, and crane companies.
Project Management
Transportation, Logistics, and movement of heavy machinery, in general, are complex projects that need a combined expertise on supply chain management, fleet management, technology, logistics, and more.
We ensure projects are executed on time, on budget, and always safe by managing equipment specifications, load restraints, correct weights, load requirements, trip times, route surveys, applicable permits, in-depth knowledge of state and federal by-laws, fatigue management, load out plans, job sheets, compliance to wharf, and site entrance according to client’s procedures.
Our combined years of specialist consulting in managing high-value projects that vary in scope and size. If you are looking for help with transportation projects or if you need solutions to your logistics problems, get in touch with us.
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A big thank you and appreciation to you for the ongoing wharf work you do for us. We always know the movement in and out of Fremantle & Brisbane wharf for our oversize earthmoving machines is in experienced & capable hands and we really appreciate your attention to detail in ensuring our machines are safely handled at all times.
Thanks again, and appreciate your ongoing support to our business.
Cosi Cristodero – General Manager – Global Logistics
Mission
Our mission is to provide value to our relationship with you as a preferred partner for logistics, transportation, consulting, and management.
Vision
Our vision is to be recognised and valued as Australia’s most sought-after transportation and logistics partner.
Values
At Steel Group, we take our customers, employees, and stakeholders seriously. So much that it’s these values that our commitment to business is founded on:
Customer Service
If everything else were to be exactly the same between two companies in the same industry (including services and the combined experience of personnel), it’s the customer service that makes a difference. If we can’t delight our customers and surpass expectations, we haven’t done it right.
Ethics
Honesty is the foundation on which we run our business along with dependability, integrity, and reliability.
Quality
We strive to execute logistic solutions that provide deliveries safely, on-time, reliably, on budget.