Able reveals plans for Humber marine energy park

Able UK, which last year proposed to develop a major logistics centre and business park at its Humber Port facility north of Immingham, has now unveiled its £400m vision for the creation of what would be the UK’s leading marine energy park.

Covering an area of 1,987 acres and with river frontage of over two-and-a-half miles, Able’s Humber Port is the largest site available for such a development in the UK.

Peter Stephenson, Able UK founder and executive chairman, said that the Humber Port offers an opportunity, unique in Europe, to provide all the facilities required for the manufacture, commissioning and installation base for offshore wind turbines because of its proximity to the wind farms that will developed in the North Sea.

’Our plans envisage new quays 1,630m long, specifically tailored to the needs of the wind turbine offshore companies with whom we have been in detailed discussion in drawing up our proposals,’ he said.