Munck Havne & Anlæg has won the Port of Aalborg's tender for the construction of a 500-meter-long quay with 60,000 square meters of adjacent land area at the East Port.
The new infrastructure will chiefly serve Fidelis New Energy's Norne Carbon Storage Hub, a reception facility with a pipeline network and storage to receive up to 5.0 million tonnes of CO2 per year (potentially 15mt in the future).
Construction is set to begin this autumn, with completion scheduled for the end of 2027. The design-and-build construction project will follow the Integrated Construction model developed by Molt Wengel.
"We chose to use the Integrated Construction model to bring both consultancy and contractor expertise into play, from design through to delivery. It gives us a unique opportunity to challenge one another and enhance quality throughout the entire project," explained Mikkel Guldhammer, Project Manager at the Port of Aalborg.
The total budget for the quay expansion runs into several hundred million Danish crowns. The project has received nearly DKK80m (about €10.7m) in EU support through the Connecting Europe Facility.
"The new quay is essential for realizing the CO2 reception facility with Norne, which will position Aalborg as one of Europe's leading areas for CO2 management. We're pleased that, with this agreement with Munck Havne & Anlæg, we're now ready to accelerate development," commented Kristian Thulesen Dahl, CEO of the Port of Aalborg.
He also underlined, "Equally important, the quay expansion enables a significant enlargement of our business park, allowing us to offer many more quay-adjacent square meters to industries, especially the wind industry, that are in high demand for such space."
Patrick Justesen, Head of Department at Munck Havne & Anlæg, also said, "We are very much looking forward to working with the Port of Aalborg on a project of great strategic and technical importance. The selected collaboration model allows us to bring our knowledge and experience into play during the design phase, creating the best possible foundation for a durable and future-proof quay facility."
Photo: Fidelis New Energy