This latest award is in addition to ABL’s ongoing project with BSH to provide a trilateral Formal Safety Assessment of development intentions within Danish, Dutch, and German North Sea waters.
Tilo Klappenbach, ABL’s Country Manager in Germany, said: “We are pleased to continue our collaboration with BSH to support early marine risk mitigation in the North Sea’s extensive future offshore wind plans. We have a great working relationship with BSH and look forward to applying the combination of our marine and renewable energy expertise to support future German offshore wind development.”
ABL’s scope of work is to provide a comprehensive navigational risk assessment, including recommendations for risk mitigation measures. The findings will form an important part of the pre-investigation of the N-10 offshore development sites.
The N-10 project is managed by ABL’s operation in Hamburg, Germany, and conducted by consultants from ABL’s specialist Ports and Harbours team.
“Given the ambitious offshore development plans for the German Bight Sea area, it is crucial that site interfaces with shipping risks are understood and addressed. This project will draw on our understanding of the practical and regulatory constraints in the North Sea as well as technical competence in navigational risk assessment. With Germany targeting 70 GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2045, early identification of these risks will play a significant role in mitigating project delays and site risks, ultimately reducing project costs,” added Tom Chitseko, Principal Consultant, Marine Risk, ABL London.
ABL provides a global consultancy offering to ports and harbors as well as support for offshore infrastructure developments. It provides a through-life service offering, supporting infrastructure assets in engineering and technical due diligence phases, safety regulatory and environmental compliance, operational asset integrity management through fixed object damage, marine casualty management, and expert witness support. The team includes maritime and multi-disciplinary engineering expertise and has a track record of working across assets in more than 20 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
