{"id":11324,"date":"2017-12-04T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2017\/12\/04\/blyth-port-granted-decommissioning-licence\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:44","slug":"blyth-port-granted-decommissioning-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/blyth-port-granted-decommissioning-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Blyth Port granted decommissioning licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The port, located on the east coast of the UK, is now preparing a 2.3-hectare site for decommissioning at its Battleship Wharf terminal during 2018, with the designated land able to handle up to 50,000 tonnes of offshore energy materials a year.<\/p>\n<p>Work will begin to prepare a heavy-duty concrete base and quarantine zones for hazardous waste including naturally occurring radioactive material.<\/p>\n<p>The port worked closely with the Environment Agency for 12 months before the environmental permit was granted, and it views the development of decommissioning activity in the North Sea as a major area for growth in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring this decommissioning licence is excellent news for the Port of Blyth,\u201d said the port\u2019s chief executive Martin Lawlor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt enables us to diversify our offering to the offshore energy market and makes good use of our experience of the sector, particularly in relation to our heavy-lift and project cargo handling expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Environment Agency has granted the Port of Blyth a decommissioning licence in a decision which allows the facility to move into the decommissioning market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}