The port in the Scottish Highlands serves the offshore energy industries.

The EIDQ will deliver a new heavy-duty quay spanning approximately 16,000m², providing the port with additional roll-on/roll-off capability.

It will serve as a dedicated load-out and export facility for high voltage cables manufactured at the adjacent Sumitomo Electric HVDC cable facility, providing a direct, port-side link between production and deployment.

McLaughlin & Harvey has previously reconstructed the South Quay between 2014 and 2015 – a project that included the installation of 370m new combi-pile quay wall and a 130m x 40m West Finger Quay.

Seamus Devlin, Managing Director at McLaughlin & Harvey said: “We’re pleased to be returning to the Port of Nigg, enhancing port capacity and operational capability by creating a new quay for the energy sector.  This project draws on our experience of delivering complex marine projects in port infrastructure across the UK and Ireland.”

Rory Gunn, Facilities Director at Maraen Port of Nigg said: “The new quay will provide our current and future customers with critical load in and load out options and greatly increases our deep-water quay availability.

“This project is exactly the kind of targeted infrastructure that the energy industry needs from us and we are looking forward to delivering another successful capital investment project at our site.

“We’re pleased to be working again with McLaughlin & Harvey, who know this site well and understand what it takes to successfully deliver projects here to the high quality and safety standards we demand.

“Their work on the South Quay transformed the capabilities at the Port of Nigg and enabled us to attract large Energy sector project which could previously not be accommodated at our site.”