The lease agreements are to run for a term of two years and cover areas totalling a maximum of 17 hectares, as well as a directly adjacent quay of up to 400 metres on Container Terminal 1 in Bremerhaven, Germany.

German renewables giant RWE will use this base to pre-assemble and ship 48 REpower six megawatt (MW) turbines.

These will then be assembled at the wind farm site, approximately 35 kilometres to the north of the island of Helgoland.

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