RWE Innogy and Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven GmbH have entered into agreements on use of areas in the Bremerhaven container port. Starting next summer, RWE Innogy will use these areas as a base port for constructing its offshore Nordsee Ost wind farm. The lease agreements are to run for a term of two years and cover areas totalling a maximum of 17 hectares and a directly adjacent quay of up to 400 meters on Container Terminal 1 in Bremerhaven. From this base, a total of 48 wind turbines of the 6 megawatt class, and the corresponding foundations, will as of next year be pre-assembled, shipped and assembled at the wind farm site approx. 35 kilometres to the north of the island of Helgoland. The Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm 1) with a total installed capacity of 295 megawatts is due to be switched on in 2013.

Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, chairman of the Board of RWE Innogy: “Eurogate offers us in Bremerhaven excellent conditions for constructing our first German offshore wind farm. After all, we need very large areas and in particular the necessary infrastructure if we are to use our construction ship Seabreeze. Bremerhaven already made the necessary adjustments for this new sector of industry at an early stage. This far-sighted decision is today bringing benefits not only to the city itself but also to the offshore industry in general.”

Emanuel Schiffer, chairman of the Board of Eurogate: "We are very pleased that RWE Innogy decided in favour of our terminal in Bremerhaven. The location is ideally suited for the handling of large wind energy plants. The handling of large container vessels is in no way impaired by the temporary solution. Container logistics is and will remain our core business. The handling of wind energy plants, however, represents a major opportunity for the future of Bremerhaven, and we are making a central contribution to this end."

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