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Cuxport GmbH
The German port of Cuxhaven epitomises the combination of a production site and an installation, service and maintenance port for the offshore business. Various skills required to set up and expand or maintain wind farms out at sea and generate clean energy are available at the offshore base port in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Port logistics company with a wide range of services for the wind power sector
The wind power sector can make full use of the expertise and capacity at the Cuxport multi-purpose terminal when seeking logistical support for these projects. The port logistics company has increasingly geared itself to meet the differing demands of this young market sector since 2007. Many customers are already using the services at Cuxport – in particular the terminal’s ability to handle very heavy loads and the extremely strong RoRo ramps at the deep-water berths.
Able to handle heavy loads
As wind turbines are continually becoming larger, Cuxport moves enormous weights, if tower sections or foundation structures are to be lifted. The company not only has a private heavy-haulage-road, which runs from the manufacturers’ production sites (German Offshore-Industry-Center Cuxhaven) to Cuxport, but also a heavy-duty platform for transshipment purposes.
Flexible
Cuxport can point to many years of experience in the project business – not least based on its original design as a heavy goods terminal. The port logistics provider offers the necessary flexibility and the relevant transshipment equipment both for services in the installation field and when providing supplies for production processes. The trend towards larger wind turbines and the use of modern installation vessels from the edge of the quay goes along with high qualified and a flexible workforce.
Cuxport is repeatedly able to introduce its existing logistics expertise in projects, which accompany the offshore wind power industry in all its varied facets. For example, Cuxport organises the transportation and storage of grout in big bags or the full service for customers’ container offices on site.
Forward-looking
Proximity to the wind park projects, which have already been completed and are being planned in the German Bight and the surrounding area, make Cuxhaven generally suitable to play a role in the service and maintenance business – and Cuxport in particular, with its capacity to handle special tasks. In the course of the establishment and expansion of offshore wind farms, safeguarding the operations of the wind turbines, which have been installed out at sea and are subject to extreme weather conditions, will increasingly become the focus of attention during the next few years.
The advantage of being very close to the wind farms and access to the North Sea without any locks or reliance on tides were enough to persuade Cuxport as independent solutions provider for the German Offshore-Industry-Center Cuxhaven, comprising production and supply companies.
In 2018 the Cuxport multi-purpose terminal was extended by another 290 m quay length (berth no. 4). Installations vessels can jack-up in front of the quay side, without any required maintenance of the seabed in front of the quay. Another 85,000 square metres heavy duty terminal, fully tarmacked and illuminated, comprises the possibilities to store components of all kind and size.
The construction of additional capacity at the quay side as well as at the hinterland will be one of the most important tasks at Cuxhaven in the future, so that Cuxport can meet the growing challenges of the offshore business successfully in future too.
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