Montrose Port Authority welcomed Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP, for a visit last week on Wednesday 10th April. Ms Hylsop received an overview of port operations, recent business growth in renewable energy and substantial investment in port infrastructure — including the soon to be launched £1 million Plug Shore Power project, which will see Montrose become the Read more...
April 18, 2024
Transport Secretary visits Montrose Port for update on port’s strategic importance to renewables sector
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
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
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
Montrose Port Authority and Seagreen Wind Energy Limited has marked St Andrew’s Day with the burial of a time capsule celebrating a major milestone in a development serving what will be Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm, 27 kilometres off the coast of Angus. Pupils from Ferryden Primary School were tasked with selecting items to be buried in the capsule and Read more...
December 1, 2021
Time capsule marks St Andrew’s Day milestone for Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm