More offshore installation vessels than ever before are expected to call at the Danish port of Esbjerg this year. In the first quarter alone, the number of calls has almost doubled compared to the same period last year.
This is partly due to the high level of activity in the industry as well as the port’s geographical location. Esbjerg is located on the Danish west coast and has been an important transshipment port for offshore wind turbines for years. However, according to one of the regular customers, it is above all the many experienced service companies that attract customers, according to the port administration.
Almost twice as many calls in Esbjerg
In 2025, more installation ships will call at Esbjerg than ever before. While seven ships called at the port on the Danish west coast in the first quarter of 2024, there were already twelve installation giants in the first quarter of this year – almost twice as many as in the same period last year. Esbjerg expects this figure to double again for the year as a whole. The ships that have already been in Esbjerg this year include the “Wind Peak” from Cadeler, the jack-up ship “Thor” and the “Wind Discovery” from the Danish shipping company Ziton.
The port authority recently announced that the deepening of the 21.6 km long fairway off Esbjerg has been completed. It is now 12.8 m deep, meaning that even larger ships will be able to call at the port in future. With the expansion, the Danes are responding to the development towards ever larger offshore wind turbines and the associated larger ships, among other things.
