Port Esbjerg kicks off offshore wind facility construction

“We are driving on a bike path when what we need is a freeway,” Jesper Bank, Chief Commercial Officer at Port Esbjerg, said during the Project Cargo Summit, when speaking about the pace of offshore wind developments and the actual port capacity designated to catering to these projects. Port Esbjerg has a port expansion plan of 50 hectares in place already and has kicked off with the construction of a new facility, with the first tenant being Siemens Gamesa.