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We speak to Lewis Gillie, Havenus CEO, about the ongoing works at Ardersier Port, where the company is building what is set to be one of Scotland's biggest offshore wind hubs.

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00:00Back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, they built the first generation of energy from Scotland out

00:11of here.

00:12It was basically oil platforms and jackets that were built from here and taken out to

00:17the North Sea to produce energy.

00:20And what we expect to see when we open from the end of next year is the next generation

00:25of energy being built out of here, namely wind turbines.

00:32We're in the process here behind us of rebuilding the quay to replace the quay that was originally

00:39used here back in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

00:45It's very exciting.

00:46When we came here in March of 2023, there was quite a bit of debris in the water.

00:54There was quite a bit of debris on the land, so we spent a long time tidying it up.

00:59We spent even longer working on consents and engineering that allowed us to begin the construction

01:06in April of this year.

01:08And I'm happy to say that actually two days ago, we completed the construction of the

01:12new quay wall, which is almost three kilometers long.

01:18We completed it ahead of time and on budget, which was really great news for the team.

01:25We'll now work over the next few months doing civils working and dredging work so that we

01:32can open the facility next year.

01:36We've had a lot of potential customers visit us.

01:40But since we actually began the construction, the number of visitors has increased exponentially.

01:47The ones who would be our likely customers come in from two different areas.

01:51One are the developers of the project out in the North Sea.

01:55There's 45 gigawatts of offshore wind has been licensed out here.

01:59And that activity is very land intensive.

02:02So they need large sites like this with a quay that they can access their offshore site from.

02:08So all of those customers have visited and continue to visit on a regular basis.

02:13The second group of visitors that we have who are potential customers are large international

02:19customers who are interested in manufacturing and assembling components for the offshore

02:24wind industry here, which aligns with the Scottish and UK government objectives of adding

02:29large local content, which in turn should create many, many jobs and many, many further

02:34investment opportunities here.

02:36So over the coming years, we would love to see a significant amount of investment in

02:42this site and also a significant number of jobs created here.

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