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ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS


PORT OF BARROW


Associated British Ports (ABP) is the UK’s leading ports owner and operator, with a total of 21 ports around the UK. In the North West of England, ABP owns the ports of Barrow, Fleetwood, Garston and Silloth.


WINDS OF CHANGE


At the Port of Barrow, the winds of change have brought a boom which has seen its traffic more than double in the last two years during the construction of major new offshore windfarm projects off the coast of Barrow.


utilisation of the port of Barrow as a construction and operation base for offshore windfarms started to gather real momentum. The port was approached by DONG Energy who wanted to lease an area of the port


cable laying vessels. Siemens also established a site for their crews working on the installation and commissioning of the turbines and based a small cruise vessel in the port to accommodate a team of around 100 of their personnel.


ORMONDE


During 2010, construction work also commenced on Vattenfall’s Ormonde Offshore Windfarm and Barrow was once again well placed to be the load out port for the piles used for the jacket style foundations installed for this 30 turbine project. The substation for Ormonde was also constructed at Barrow and shipped out as a single 800 tone unit.


Just as with BOW, the Walney and Ormonde O & M bases have been established on the port estate at Barrow, all with 24 hour access for their respective crew transfer and maintenance vessels.


LONG TERM COMMITMENT The added bonus with the O & M bases is that they represent the long term commitment to the port and the local community by providing a not insignificant number of high quality jobs for the life of the windfarms.


FUTURE PROJECTS


2013 sees construction of the 108 turbine West of Duddon Sands windfarm gets underway. The WoDS project should also see a fourth O & M facility built at Barrow.


EARLY INVOLVEMENT – BARROW & ROBIN RIGG


Barrow’s first involvement in Offshore Wind came in 2006 with the construction of the 30 turbine Barrow Offshore Windfarm, located just a few miles off the coast of Walney Island.


The offshore substation for BOW was constructed at the port. In addition to that, the O & M base for BOW was built on an area of the port’s development land next to a berth alongside Walney Channel.


There then followed a period of involvement with the Robin Rigg Offshore Windfarm in 2008, a 60 turbine project located in the Solway Firth.


Once again, the port was chosen as the site for construction of, this time, two offshore substations, and it also played home to some of the offshore cable installation craft.


WALNEY AND ORMONDE It was early in 2009 when the potential


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estate for the handling of monopiles and transition pieces for the construction of phases 1 and 2 of the Walney Offshore Windfarm, a 102 turbine project.


This was duly agreed and DONG undertook substantial works on an 18 acre site to prepare for the arrival of 102 monopiles and 102 transition pieces.


DONG established offices and a Marine Co-ordination site at Barrow to deal with the logistics of the multitude of installation craft, jack-ups, barges and the like, which were involved in the project.


LOCATION


The proximity of Barrow to the windfarm site, along with the available port land, were obviously key factors in the port being selected for such a significant role in the project.


PROGRESS


As construction work progressed, other traffic made Barrow its base, notably a number of the offshore and inter-array


There is the proposed Walney Extension and Centrica’s extensive Round 3 site further out in the Irish Sea yet to be developed.


Barrow remains well placed to have a significant involvement in the development of these large scale projects whether it be from an installation or O & M perspective.


There is also scope at the port of Barrow for the creation of a new berth in Walney Channel which would not only be able to handle some of the larger installation vessels without the need to enter the enclosed dock system but would also add significantly to the port’s landside storage capacity.


Associated British Ports – Barrow www.abports.co.uk/barrow


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