If the crowds are any indication of success, then there is no doubt – the Port of Thyborøn as a shipping port for offshore wind will be a huge success. It was no less than the first time that the installation ship DEME Innovation called at the Port of Thyborøn late Thursday afternoon. The ship will install the foundations for the Vesterhav Nord and Syd wind farm.
The ship can transport four monopiles and four TPs at a time. On Saturday afternoon, the yellow TPs had already been lifted aboard. Just then, the Port of Thyborøn also began an event, where bus trips were arranged to the site in front of the quay, where DEME Innovation is being prepared.
Everyone was welcome for the day – and a bus had been ordered that could transport 50 people at a time. But that wasn't enough, because the interest was nothing short of enormous.
More buses were quickly arranged in a hurry – but the queue barely got any shorter for that reason, because offshore wind unloading is a crowd magnet. Port Director Jesper Holt Jensen was also surprised by the very large influx of visitors.
- We've already had the first 100 people on the trip, which is quite a lot of people. I can see both locals and people from Holstebro, says Jesper Holt Jensen.
But the 53 km from Holstebro obviously doesn't mean that much to visitors when the unloading of wind turbine foundations begins from Thyborøn Harbour. It didn't work for another family, who had driven the almost 81 km from Ringkøbing either.
The foundations will be shipped from Thyborøn, while the rest: towers, nacelles and wings will be shipped from Esbjerg.
The port director could also tell us how it went with getting the large installation ship into the port of Thyborøn the day before storm Otto hit.
- DEME Innovation arrived well in time before Otto. They just had to feel their way around because it was their first time in the port. It's also the first time a ship jacks up, so the legs went down a full nine meters. Now the holes are there for the next time they come in, says Jesper Holt Jensen about the holes for jackup ships, which typically go about 10 meters down into the harbor bottom.
More projects on the way?
It's the first time, and the expectations that there will be more shipping projects are nothing less than enormous in Thyborøn. But what else will happen in terms of shipping projects, Jesper Holt Jensen is careful not to tell us about.
- There will be a lot happening out in the North Sea. Now we are showing that you can use the Port of Thyborøn for shipping projects. But you don't know anything definitive until the contracts are signed, says Jesper Holt Jensen, who is pleased that the people have understood to such an extent that today's unloading project can have an enormous impact on the port and the entire area.
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