While all eyes are on Ireland’s five live offshore wind developments as they go through planning, Doyle Shipping Group (DSG) was thinking ahead to the commercial opportunities once the wind farms are in operation. In December 2024, Louth County Council granted planning permission to a group company, Greenore Port Ltd, to build an operations and maintenance (O&M) base that offshore wind developers could lease to access wind farms in the Irish Sea for 10 years. The base would house up to three offshore renewable energy (ORE) developers in three buildings with communal marine infrastructure. This would not be a staging…

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