Setting up a pre-assembly and logistics facility at BOW Terminal Vlissingen allows us to be closer to Dutch offshore wind zones where we see a potential pipeline of projects, Bo J. Bjerregaard, Director of Pre-Assembly & Logistics at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, said.
The new base will enable MHI Vestas to reduce installation costs on the Dutch projects and the projects in the region by cutting down the transit times to and from the wind farms and thus speeding up the installation process.
Commenting on the company’s projects carried out recently from the Belfast Harbour in Northern Ireland, Bjerregaard said that MHI Vestas must consider location and transit times when the company sees a big pipeline of offshore wind projects.
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As reported earlier this week, MHI Vestas and BOW Terminal signed an agreement that will provide the offshore wind turbine manufacturer with 20 hectares of land at the Port of Vlissingen in the Netherlands for the new pre-assembly facility.
Scheduled to open in the second half of 2018, the new facility will employ up to 50 people. The first project to be carried out of the new base will be the Norther offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea, expected to start in late 2018.
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