When fully operational, SeAH Wind’s facility will be able to produce between 100 and 200 monopiles per year which will be transported directly from the factory to the new South Bank Quay facility before heading to the North Sea for installation.
The new quay will also enable components and raw materials to be shipped to SeAH’s plant and the wider Teesworks site for use in the manufacturing process.
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Teesworks Operations Director Garry O’Malley said the South Bank Heavy Lift Quay was already attracting significant interest from other companies in the offshore wind sector as well.
“South Bank Heavy Lift Quay will be a major strategic facility for the North Sea offshore wind industry over the next few decades,” Garry O’Malley said. “There’s a real shortage of ports on the east coast which have deep water capabilities and large areas of land for storing and marshalling offshore wind farm components before they are shipped out for installation.”
Plans are now being examined for phase 2A of the South Bank Heavy Lift Quay, which could increase the length of the quay by up to 300 metres, depending on demand from potential occupiers and users, Teesworks says.
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A new quay in the UK’s Tees Valley that will support SeAH Wind’s new XXL monopile manufacturing facility is set to be operational in early summer 2024. Construction work on the first 450-metre phase of the South Bank Heavy Lift Quay, which started in 2021, is now complete, according to Teesworks Ltd
