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His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh visited Montrose Port Authority (MPA) on Monday 27th April 2026. The visit was made in recognition of the port’s significant decarbonisation achievements and position as an integral operations and maintenance hub for offshore wind on the east coast of Scotland. The Duke was received by Angus Lord Lieutenant Patricia Sawers, together with Lord Read more...
April 29, 2026

The Duke of Edinburgh Visits Montrose Port Authority in Recognition of Port Decarbonisation

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17 October 2023: SSE Renewables, part of SSE plc, and its partner TotalEnergies have announced all 114 Vestas V164-10.0 MW turbines at the 1.1GW Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Scotland are now fully operational and are generating clean, renewable energy to Britain’s power grid. Situated 27km off the Angus coast in the North Sea’s Firth of Forth, Seagreen Read more...
October 17, 2023

Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm now fully operational

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Montrose Port Authority (MPA) welcomed Neil Gray, Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, on a visit to its site this week to receive an update on how the Port is continuing to build on its reputation as the major support, logistics and service hub for the North Sea energy sector. Described as a “case study of a business in Read more...
August 9, 2023

MPA sets out growing ambition as critical to Scotland’s offshore wind sector to energy secretary

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Montrose Port Authority welcomed local MSP for Angus North and Mearns, Mairi Gougeon, on a visit to its site last week where she received an update on how the Port is continuing to build on its reputation as the major support, logistics and service hub for the North Sea energy sector and general cargo markets, as well as a leading Read more...
July 19, 2023

Montrose Port Authority talks “going for growth” with local MSP Mairi Gougeon

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Norwegian offshore wind service company, Edda Wind, has named its latest service operation vessel (SOV) the Edda Brint at a naming ceremony at Astilleros Balenciaga shipyard in Spain.  Launched in 2021 and to be delivered in August, Edda Brint is a 82.85 metre-long vessel being purpose built for Vestas, the wind turbine maintenance contractor, for the Seagreen offshore wind farm Read more...
June 20, 2022

Vestas SOV for Seagreen Named

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