The Fred Olsen Windcarrier vessel, which has an overall length of 151 metres, a breadth of 50 metres and an 800-tonne crane, dominated the scene as it sailed into the new Aberdeen South Harbour.<\/p>\n
Roddy James, chief commercial officer, Port of Aberdeen, said that offshore wind represents the most significant opportunity for growth over the next decade.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sector currently accounts for 10 per cent of our overall vessel traffic and with ScotWind, INTOG and other developments on the horizon, we expect that figure to increase significantly in the coming years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Last week Crown Estate Scotland announced the results of its INTOG (innovation and targeted oil and gas) offshore wind leasing process, with 13 projects offered deals to supply a total of 5.4GW of renewable energy, helping to decarbonise the offshore oil and gas sectors.<\/p>\n
The port has supported wind developments for many years, and its North Harbour is the operations and maintenance base for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm and Kincardine Offshore Floating Wind Farm.<\/p>\n
A wide range of vessels – including large cable layers, construction, installation, survey, and service operation vessels – working on wind farms such as Seagreen, Moray East and Moray West now regularly call at the port, making use of the new \u00a3400 million South Harbour development with its 1.5 km of deepwater berths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Port of Aberdeen has welcomed more than 100 vessels working on offshore wind projects so far this year, including the latest arrival of the Blue Tern jack-up installation vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187","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=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}