The first deep-water quays at the 800-acre, £450m ($693m) purpose-designed facility, located on the Humber Estuary in northeast England, would be open in 2018 to support construction of the coming wave of UK North Sea Round 3 wind farms.

"AMEP is very close to what you would come up with if you had to do a painting of the optimal cluster for the renewables industry on a blank canvas: close to the sea with abundant quayside and adjoining land to manufacturer, assemble, and store goods," states Dong head of strategic supply chain Joachim Steenstrup.

"We