SPONSORS OF REGIONAL FOCUS
GREAT YARMOUTH A PORT WITH WIND IN IT’S SAILS!
Starting out as a Saxon Settlement and originally famed for herring fishing, Great Yarmouth, on the UK’s east coast, is now not only the number one support Port in England for the offshore oil & gas industry in the Southern North Sea, but with its new outer harbour and trading under the title of EastPort UK, it is also rapidly becoming the region’s pre-eminent Port for servicing companies involved in the offshore wind farm development programme.
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WITH ITS NEW £100M DEEP- WATER OUTER HARBOUR, OPENED IN 2010 TO COMPLEMENT THE WELL ESTABLISHED RIVER PORT, GREAT YARMOUTH’S EASTPORT UK IS NOW PERFECTLY PLACED FOR THE BIGGEST WIND POWER REVOLUTION IN HISTORY, AS WELL AS BEING ABLE TO INCREASE ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE MULTIPLE SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE RE-COMMISSIONING AND DE-COMMISSION OF GAS & OIL PLATFORMS IN THE NORTH SEA.
SERVICE CONFIDENCE
Two of the most recent organisations to sign up to EastPort UK are MT Hojgaard and A2Sea, both headquartered in Denmark. MT Hojgaard is one of the world’s most experienced companies in designing, fabricating and installing foundations for offshore wind turbines and established a base at the Port’s new outer harbour in the Spring of this year to facilitate the installation of foundations for the Lincs offshore wind farm being developed by energy giant Centrica in joint venture with Dong Energy and Siemens Project Ventures. The wind farm will consist of 75 Siemens turbines capable of generating sufficient power to meet the annual demand of some 200,000 households.
EastPort UK has been selected by A2Sea as the reloading base for the installation of 88 wind turbines on the Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm. The company, whose main shareholders are Dong Energy and Siemens, is the most experienced installation contractor in the offshore wind market. Since it installed turbines in 2002 on Horns Rev, the world’s first commercial scale wind farm, A2Sea’s vessels have installed more than 650 wind turbines working in Northern Europe from the Baltic to the Irish Sea, including the monopoles and turbines for Scroby Sands. A2Sea vessels made their first call into EastPort UK on 7th June.
Notwithstanding their growing success, it has been suggested in some quarters that the Port is too much out on a limb situated at the most easterly point of the Norfolk coast. But that notion can be quickly dispelled when realising that Great Yarmouth is as easily accessible to the UK’s heartland as any Port along that coastline. Moreover, its geography makes it ideally positioned to serve the ever growing number of offshore wind farms being developed in the North Sea. And, of course, an added attraction must be that EastPort UK can claim to be the region’s closest deep-water harbour to Continental Europe.
PORT CAPACITY
Great Yarmouth Port offers considerable capacity. The river port is capable of handling a range of vessels up to 5,000 tonnes dwt and has a quay length of 3,000m with quayside warehousing, whilst the outer harbour, with a maximum draught of 10m, can handle vessels of up to 30,000 tonnes, has a quay length of 1400m and offers adjacent land for flexible warehousing and open storage.
Uniquely positioned, and poised to take on the increasing opportunities offered by the renewables sector, EastPort UK certainly has ‘wind in its sails’.
EastPort UK
www.eastportuk.co.uk
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
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