WORKING AT HEIGHTS - Wind Energy Network

SPONSORS OF TYNE & TEES FEATUREAbleSeaton PortattractingstronginterestABLE UK may be best known in windcircles for their proposed large-scaledevelopment on the Humber – theAble Marine Energy Park but theirprincipal Tees facility, Able SeatonPort, near Hartlepool is also attractingstrong interest from a range of windfarm developers.InvestmentThe former Laing’s Offshore Yard wasacquired in 1996 and has seen somesignificant, and much needed investmentin the interim. Able has developed 300mof heavy duty quays (40t/m2) and this,they say, makes them some of thestrongest in Europe.Says Neil Etherington, Able’s GroupDevelopment Director, “Able SeatonPort is pretty typical of the way we dobusiness. It was all about taking a longterm view. Something that we can doas a privately owned business and ASPcertainly needed some tender loving carein the early days.”66www.windenergynetwork.co.uk