Ports and Harbours for Component Manufacture and Logistics

Arnish Yard

Arnish is located four miles from the town of Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis and is home to one of Scotland’s key renewable energy manufacturing sites.

Arnish port was developed in the late 70’s as part of the Stornoway Port expansion as a fabrication yard. It has now been bought by Harland and Wolff and is a 38 hectare development site, offering purpose-built fabrication and assembly halls including fully equipped client, project and administration office facilities, and has facility for the production of pipes, piles, transition pieces, monopiles and other devices for the energy industry.

Harland and Wolff's main rolling facility is at Arnish and is capable of rolling some of the largest diameter sections for the offshore wind industry.

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Campbeltown Harbour

The harbour currently serves as the transport hub for the UK's only wind turbine tower company, CS Wind, at Machrihanish. This has meant that the harbour's owners, Argyll and Bute Council, have had to invest alongside the tower manufacturer to keep pace with the demands on the harbour's infrastructure as the size of the wind turbines just got larger and larger. This has resulted in wider quaysides and stronger lift pads within the harbour to make it suitable for handling the largest industry tower sections.

It's position at the base of the Kintyre Peninsula on the West Coast means that it is well positioned to play a further role in the development of offshore wind as the ScotWind leasing process moves forward.

See the Campbeltown Harbour section on the Scottish Energy Ports website for a more detailed specification on the port's faculties.

Inverness Port

Lying at the head of the Inverness Firth, where it meets the River Ness, the Port of Inverness offers one of the most sheltered and natural ports in the North of Scotland.

With limits extending from Fort George right up to the River Ness, the Port has been at the heart of the Renewables Industry in the Highlands. It has been used as the port of choice for many onshore wind farms in recent years, with well over 250 machines having been delivered through the Port for developments at Dornell, Dunmaglass, Rothes II, and Berryburn to name but a few. Users are attracted by the first-class facilities available including extensive laydown areas that are on offer.

The Port Authority owns an extensive area of foreshore, known as Harbour Gait, that extends to and beyond the Kessock Bridge. There is the opportunity to create first class facilities and the Port Authority have plans to reclaim this land. Upon reclamation, this area can provide up to 39ha (96acres) that is suitable for a number of different uses including expansion of the port, with increased laydown facilities together with being able to offer offshore and onshore wind related companies their own bespoke facilities.

The aerial photograph shows the extent of the current facilities as well as the Harbour Gait Area extending out from the Marina out to and beyond the Kessock Bridge.

See the Port of Inverness section on the Scottish Energy Ports website for a more detailed specification on the port's facilities.

Montrose Port

Montrose Port services the North Sea energy industry and the general cargo markets. SSE Renewables have selected Montrose as their base for operations and maintenance related work for their Seagreen offshore wind farm. At 1500MW this will be the largest offshore wind farm in Scotland, when fully commissioned, and will remain so until superseded by SSE Renewables' huge Berwick Bank project which is currently going through the planning process. At 4150MW Berwick Bank will be the largest in the UK. Montrose will be the home of the SSE Operation and Maintenance Base for at least the next 25 years or more and is also aiming to be one of the main operations centres for mooring systems for the rapidly emerging floating wind industry.

See the Port of Montrose section on the Scottish Energy Ports website for a more detailed specification on the port's facilities.

Image Credit: Montrose Port Authority

Port of Peterhead

Peterhead Port, a trust port, is home to operations of two of the North Sea's main industries, fishing and oil and gas. It lays claim to the title of Europe's largest fishing port and for the last 50 years has been an important base for servicing the offshore oil and gas sector. In recent years the harbour has also become involved in the offshore wind industry and was one of the ports used by Equinor during the construction of the world first floating wind farm, the 30MW Hywind Scotland project and handling foundations and support craft for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm.

Recent expansion of the port to the west of the 120m Smith Quay has added a further 32,000m2 of laydown area which is adjacent to the Merchant Quay with its 16,000m2 of land.

See the Peterhead Harbour section on the Scottish Energy Ports web site for a more detailed specification on the port's facilities using this link https://energy.scottishports.org.uk/ports/port-of-peterhead

Image credit: Peterhead Harbour