According to the authorities of the Szczecin and Świnoujście Seaports Authority (ZMPSiŚ) the project for the construction of an installation terminal for offshore wind farms to be built in Świnoujście will be ready in January. The investment is expected to be completed by 2025 and to handle around 80 vessels per year.

“This port will be in fact the first facility to respond to the needs of investors”, said deputy infrastructure minister Marek Gróbarczyk on Wednesday during a press conference at the headquarters of ZMPSiŚ.

The first project to be implemented using the installation terminal in Świnoujście will be Baltic Power, a joint venture between Orlen Group and the Canadian company Northland Power. The farm, with a capacity of up to 1.2 GW is planned to be built about 23 km from the coast at Choczewo and Leba. Once completed, it will be able to supply more than 1.5 million households with clean energy.

“The schedule is realized for today without a single day’s delay. At the moment, a design is being created, which will be ready in January 2023, and immediately after the completion of the design work we will launch a tender for the contractor for part of the infrastructure”, assured the president of ZMPSiŚ Krzysztof Urbaś.

ZMPSiŚ SA will build wharves with a length of about 485 m, a permissible depth of 14.5 m and a technical depth of 12.5 m. They will be 25 m out to the water, with a capacity of 50 kN/m2, with 10 positions for pre-assembly of towers with a capacity of 500 kN/m2. A new 12.5m deep and 140m wide fairway will lead to the quays. Onshore storage yards, allowing a total of up to 80 wind turbines per year with a capacity of 15MW each will be also constructed.

The installation terminal will be built on 20 hectares. It will have infrastructure capable of handling large vessels transporting the turbines, their towers and foundations. There will also be specialist vessels to carry out advanced construction work associated with offshore wind farms.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński