Soren Rask, the head of port security began his career as a blacksmith at the shipyard.
Since then, some 1,500 offshore wind turbines have been assembled at the site.
“We are world-leading at the moment, but the Chinese are knocking on our front door,” Aa said.
‘Political ambitions’
Most of the port’s surface area is devoted to wind power, and Vestas produces nacelles, masts and foundations, among other things.
The parts are too bulky to be built elsewhere and transported by land before being loaded onto ships and installed at sea.
“If we shall fulfill all the political ambitions, we need to see even more production in European seaports,” Aa insisted.
He hopes that Odense will lead the way in countering Chinese competition.
“We have changed from an outdated industry area to a top modern facility and production facility by using old shipyard workers… to produce windmills,” the port director explained.
The expanding shipyard in Odense employed 2,700 people when it closed in 2009, and more than 3,200 are now working on the site.
In France, Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port recently presented a project to develop a platform for the deployment of future offshore wind farms.
The port of Odense is also expanding. The shipyard employed 2,700 people when it closed in 2009, and more than 3,200 are now working on the site, which has grown by 18 percent in the last two years.
“What makes us unique is that the area is very large… we have the area around the old shipyard to be able to develop new products and new production halls,” Soren Rask, the head of port security who began his career as a blacksmith at the shipyard, told AFP.
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