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Rømø Harbour sees a lucrative future in offshore wind

Wednesday, 25 August 2010 16:03

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Rømø Harbour on the North Sea coast of Jutland, is one of the quieter spots on the Danish map - or at least it has been up until now. With the North Sea offshore wind industry now billowing out into a major business, Rømø is preparing to seize its share of a very lucrative future market. Harbour master Mikkel Gleerup has a clear vision of Rømø's role as a well placed spot for shipping offshore wind turbines out to the North Sea destinations, and for ferrying the armies of installation crews , technicians, and maintenance personnel needed to keep the blades of this new green energy sector turning. He told financial daily newspaper Børsen: "We will soon begin building a 410 metre (1,345 ft) quay with 125,000 square metres of wharf space, which will be complete in the first half of next year," adding that from Rømø it will be a shorter distance out to the wind farms than the port of Esbjerg, which lies further south on the Jutland coast.

The following phase will see the building of a further 370 metres (1,200 ft) of quay and a further 300,000 square metres of wharf space. The total investment will be around DKK 300 million, quite a sum for a little harbour whose annual revenues are around DKK 5 million. But Mikkel Gleerup looks to the future and takes the present in his stride. "In five years we expect annual revenues of DKK 50 million plus indirect revenues from new businesses at the harbour," he says.

Source: Denmark.dk, Image: Freefoto.com