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The Herald Scotland
a day ago
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
Work to start on £42 million expansion of Scottish port
Construction work will start next week on a £42.2 million expansion project at Kishorn Port in Wester Ross. Once complete, the expanded facilities, on the north-west coast of the Scottish Highlands, are forecast to attract projects with the potential to support up to 1,500 jobs. Investment of up to £24m in the project by regional development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise was announced by Kate Forbes, Scotland's Deputy First Minister, last week. Alasdair Ferguson, Kishorn Port Limited director, said: 'With a quarry on-site, Kishorn Port is ideally suited for manufacturing of concrete floating offshore wind sub-structures. This Phase 1a expansion project will enable us to provide full integration, with laydown, marshalling and assembly in the long term. 'The development opens Kishorn to new market opportunities and we are receiving strong expressions of interest to utilise the enlarged dry dock area, along with the additional laydown space, for floating offshore and decommissioning projects. As well as Scotland, our key target markets are the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea.' Mr Ferguson continued: 'Importantly, this project will provide the catalyst for the support and creation of jobs within Wester Ross and the wider Highlands, benefiting communities across the area. 'This is another very significant milestone in the continuing development of Kishorn Port and we are grateful to Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Government for their support.' Construction work on this phase will create 84 jobs for up to 18 months. The principal contractor for the project is RJ McLeod, based in Scotland, with offices in Dingwall and a long-established track record in the Highlands. Supporting services are also being delivered by Scottish firms including marine consulting civil engineers, Wallace Stone, environmental consultants, Affric, and project management consultants, Leapmoor. £8.4 million upgrade of ageing substation completed after two years A substation in Kilmarnock has been given an £8.4 million upgrade in a bid to provide more locally generated power to the area.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Up to £24m to be invested in west Highland's Kishorn Port
Up to £24m of public money is to be invested in a port on the west Highland was used in the 1970s for the construction of the Ninian Central oil production platform - at the time the world's largest floating concrete and Islands Enterprise (HIE) said its investment would enhance the port's capacity for manufacturing floating offshore wind turbine dry dock, along with other facilities, are to be expanded. HIE said there was potential for the port to support up to 1,500 jobs once the expansion was investment forms part a Scottish government commitment of up to £500m over five years to develop ports and offshore wind energy supply chain. Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes described the funding for Kishorn as "significant".She added: "It is crucial to ensuring Kishorn Port and the communities it supports can reap the benefits of the global renewables market."HIE chief executive Stuart Black said the site had provided skilled jobs in a rural area for Port Limited (KPL) director Alasdair Ferguson added: "The port expansion will provide the catalyst for the support and creation of jobs within Wester Ross and the wider Highlands, benefiting communities across the area. "We're grateful to Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish government for their support." The port is in an area of Wester Ross that is home to roughly 1,000 1975 and 1987, the site was a fabrication yard owned by Howard Doris Ltd and in 1977 more than 3,000 people were employed was not enough accommodation for so many workers in this part of the north-west Highlands coast so two retired cruise ships, Rangatira and the Odysseus, were brought in to accommodate yard was used in the construction of the North Sea oil and gas industry's massive Ninian Central Platform in the late structure weighed 600,000 tonnes once completed, making it the largest manufactured moveable object at the time. Seven tugs were required to tow it from Loch Kishorn to its North Sea site. The dry dock was used in the 1990s for the making of two concrete caissons - foundations used for deep water or soft ground - to support the Skye yard was mothballed until 2013 when work started on redeveloping it as a port for supporting the offshore renewable energy 2019, Kishorn was used for servicing the world's biggest semi-submersible offshore drilling rig, Ocean 60,800-tonne rig was towed to the Highlands from Singapore via Las Palmas in the Canaries. Last year, a decommissioned oil rig was destroyed in a controlled explosion in the dry Northern Producer had been used in the Dons oil fields about 100 miles (161km) north-east of it was blown up, various parts of the rig were recycled.
