European Commission Approves Grant for Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven

The European Commission has granted investment aid for the construction of the Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB) which will be used for shipping wind turbines to offshore wind farms.

The new offshore terminal will be built south of Bremerhaven, in a bend of the River Weser, as a heavy-cargo, assembly and transhipment facility for the wind power industry.

The 25 hectare site will have the capacity for about 160 wind turbines per year to be pre-assembled, stored and transhipped.

The overall costs of the construction project will amount to approximately EUR 180 million.

OTB was originally scheduled to be completed by 2018. However, the construction works at the site were halted indefinitely due to legal action taken against the project by the environmental organization BUND.

In November 2015, bremenports GmbH & Co. KG, a company responsible for the planning of the project, received the approval from the Authority for the Environment, Construction and Transport to build the OTB.

In April of this year, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. and Germany’s Züblin AG won a contract to prepare the site for the construction the terminal.