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Liverpool lands wind blades for Wales

For Immediate Release - 09 January, 2006

Wind turbine blades were landed at the Port of Liverpool from Italy for swift transfer by road to the site of a Welsh mountain windfarm.

The shipments by Vestas from Taranto in Italy were discharged from the vessels Oostvoorne and Westvoorne by mobile quay crane at Liverpool's Berth S8, Seaforth Dock.

Landed with the 39 blades, each 27.5 metres in length, were 10 nacelles, the large power boxes which sit atop the turbine tower and at the axis of the propeller blades.

Vestas arranged haulage transported the blades and nacelles from the quayside in Liverpool to Mynydd Clogau in Powys, Mid-Wales.

Said Stephen Deakin of ships' agents OBC Shipping: "The whole discharge, storage and despatch operation went perfectly. The Liebherr mobile quay crane was ideal for the task and the whole exercise met the client's stringent requirements."

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