The Danish group will make a “multi-million pound” investment in Grimsby’s Royal Dock, creating a facility it claimed will “transform the way wind farms are supported”.

The new hub will initially service Race Bank, the 580MW wind farm Dong is currently building off the coast of eastern England for operation in 2018.

Hornsea 1 is due online by 2020, becoming the world's largest offshore wind farm, and Dong has already secured development consent for the 1.8GW