TALLIN TO ESTABLISH SPECIALISED CAPACITY TO SERVICE OFFSHORE WIND FARMS
The Port of Tallinn, Estonia is to construct a new 310m quay, with a 10ha supporting yard to service the off shore wind industry.
The €53 million project is located in Paldisiki South Harbour and is intended to meet future demand for this activity in the Baltic Sea region.
The European Commission is co-funding the project by providing €20 million in financing.
The new quay and back-up yard space is scheduled to be available in the Summer of 2025 and will be configured to support special purpose shipping vessels that operate in the offshore wind industry, while ensuring that manufacturing and storage of wind generators and blades can be handled on site. Ro-ro vessels will also be able to be handled.
The project complements the objective of establishing regional wind farms intended to be operational from 2028, although this date is subject to the Tallinn terminal commencing activities on time.
This latest announcement follows confirmation in 2021 that Enefit Green, a subsidiary of the Eesti Energia Group, owned by the Estonian state, was planning to assess the potential for offshore wind development within the Estonian part of the Gulf of Riga, as part of creating the 1.1 GW Hiiu offshore wind farm which will comprise 74 wind generators of 15 MW capacity.
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