Innovating for Scotland’s Growth

Forth Ports Dundee is the most northerly port within Forth Ports; it is one of the largest economic generators in the City of Dundee and the Tayside region of eastern Scotland.

Dundee is undergoing a major investment programme in its waterfront area, including the newly opened V&A Museum of Design, which is having a significant economic impact on the city and contributing to Dundee’s development as a business and tourism centre.

Forth Ports Dundee is strategically located on the east coast of Scotland, between Aberdeen and the central belt. The port lies on the north side of the sheltered River Tay estuary and is adjacent to the ring road which circles the outskirts of Dundee, providing fast and efficient road links in and out of the city.

Port of Dundee at a glance:

150,000 tonnes of agripods flat storage
1,600m of quayside
6 working berths
100,000m³ liquid storage
Decommissioning facility
Off-shore wind capability
In port Grain drying facility
Jack-up capabilities

A significant economic driver for Dundee

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Dundee is ideally placed to serve the North Sea Oil and Gas industry. With its deep-water berths and extensive landside project areas the port regularly accommodates significant fabrication and refit projects destined for North Sea and Norwegian sector operations.

The port has extensive land reserves available for development. Short-term and long-term undercover and open storage facilities are available for a variety of different types of commodities and products. Ready to receive vessels twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, providing a flexible service to customers.

Forth Ports Dundee has undergone dramatic transformation in recent times, including the addition of a permanently based 1500t quayside crane (860t @ 24m). However, the most significant transformation has been through an investment of £10 million pounds to create a new quayside, positioning Dundee as a strong option for the decommissioning and offshore wind farm industry. This has provided 300m of new quayside with the capacity of 80tonne/m2 loading and a minimum water depth of 9m at LW (LAT).

Forth Ports is a founding partner of the recently launched Forth & Tay Decommissioning Alliance. Our Port of Dundee facility offers the ideal location, logistically and geographically, to establish the UK’s dedicated hub for end-to-end decommissioning. Forth Ports Dundee’s strategic location, ample dockside, and portcentric infrastructure make it the ideal domestic hub for decommissioning.

For more information visit our decommissioning services page

Forth Ports Dundee Services

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Automotive

Breakbulk & Project Cargo

As well as being specialists in forest products, oil-related services and agriculture commodities, the Forth Ports Dundee can handle a full range of general cargoes. Load-out and imports requiring heavy-lifts are handled regularly including transformers and other large manufactured items. The ro-ro facility at Eastern Wharf can be used to move a wide variety of commodities using roll-on/roll-off vessels.

Construction Hub

Cruise

Every year Forth Ports Dundee welcomes cruise vessels to the port. Dundee can organise a welcome package where passengers are greeted by pipers, whisky tasting and shuttle buses are provided to welcome guests to the city when they disembark at the port. Dundee is also increasingly used as a turnaround port for cruise vessels and has UK BA approved baggage handling facilities to meet the needs of embarkation and disembarkation. In addition, the port has the facilities to handle a large number of naval vessels calling simultaneously. Cruise passengers and Naval personnel enjoy being so close to the city centre from the ship, with the walking time being only fifteen minutes, or five minutes by taxi.

Decommissioning

Forest Products

Forth Ports Dundee has been a forest product specialist for over 35 years. The port consistently maintains low damage rates when customers benchmark the port with other UK and European ports. The port now hosts a significant timber terminal and operations within the area have been extended to include a full timber treatment and storage facility. Several major timber importers depend on the port’s excellent facilities.

Grain & Dry Bulk

Efficient discharge and loading to ships, coupled with extensive storage capacity makes the Forth Ports Dundee a key player in the handling of bulk commodities. Handling a wide and diverse range of products e.g. mineral salt, grains and cereals, fertilisers, iron ore and coal, the port has discharged and loaded vessels with cargoes up to 25,000 tonnes. The Port of Dundee is a major grain handling port on the east coast of Scotland and hosts the largest grain drying facility in the country. The port’s proximity to Scotland’s arable heartland combined with drying, storage and handling facilities adjacent to load out berths ensures that the port has a wide variety of grain exports and imports throughout the year. Over 150,000 tonnes of on-site storage is available in dedicated cereal sheds accredited to AIC and GAFTA regulations. With the focus on quality, the port provides extensive lab-testing facilities on site, a prerequisite for handling of all grain products, particularly malting barley exports. As well as malting barley, malted barley, feed barley, malt, oats, rapeseed and animal feeds are also handled at the port. The port has high capacity grain drying and handling equipment increasing the seasonal drying capacity by over 100%. This high volume and independent TASCC approved facility with access directly to deep water export quays is a key asset to Scotland’s grains and cereals sector.

Inland Waterborne Freight

Liquid Bulks

Marine & Anchorage

Forth Ports Dundee can berth a wide variety of vessels simultaneously due to its various deep-water berths. Several berths are available with depths up to LAT -9.50 metres. All berths are adjacent to high quality transit sheds and can be serviced via harbour mobile or technical mobile cranes capable of lifting heavy non-divisible project loads. There are no air draft restrictions and beam tolerance is between 30 – 50 metres dependent upon berth requirements.

Oil & Gas

Forth Ports Dundee facilities are ideal for the construction of subsea and topside structures including concrete mattresses, inspection, maintenance and repair and upgrading of seismic, platform supply, diving support, extended well test, pipe laying, drilling vessels and floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO’s). The port has extensive experience supporting all types of support Vessels who also utilise the port as a key mobilisation/demobilisation facility, taking advantage of its proximity to national and international airports and trunk routes. The port provides inspection, repair and maintenance of jackup rigs and support vessels for the North Sea oil and gas industry. Two jackup rigs can be accommodated at Prince Charles Wharf simultaneously, with additional alongside berths to the west of the port at Eastern Wharf. In addition to this there are anchorages in the river and estuary for a further three.

Forth Ports Dundee has been identified as one of Scotland’s top locations for renewable manufacturing by Scottish Enterprise under the National Renewables Infrastructure Plan and is within the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Renewables East Enterprise Area. The Port of Dundee has a range of facilities and proven expertise in the provision of operational services to the renewable energy markets. Extensive storage areas, warehousing and deep water berths alongside heavy lift quayside make Dundee a prime location for all types of renewable energy projects. Development land is also readily available and would be suitable for the construction of a manufacturing facility.

RoRo

Targe Towing

Towage is provided by Targe Towing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Forth Ports. Targe Towing operates a fleet of 10 harbour and terminal tugs ranging from 30 to 124-ton bollard pull, from 22m to 44m in length. In addition to this Targe Towing operates a crew transfer vessel, two small conventional multi-purpose line handling vessels and a workboat at the Hound Point Marine terminal. In addition to the fleets capability to towage and salvage, an extensive marine firefighting capability is maintained throughout the fleet.

Warehousing & Storage

Forth Ports Dundee has over 80,000m2 of warehousing in the port, supporting companies who use the port as their marine hub. The port can store a variety of commodities such as dry bulk, liquid bulk and specialised agri bulk storage, including Scotlands only grain drying facility. The larger storage sheds provide undercover storage for Oil and Gas support companies to provide a variety of services such as fabricating, decommissioning and transit sheds.

Key Contacts

David Webster
Commercial Director, Scottish Ports
Port Office
Stannergate Road
Dundee
DD1 3LU

+44 (0)1382 878130

marketing@forthports.co.uk

Mark Gaffney
Asset Manager – Dundee & Methil
Port Office
Stannergate Road
Dundee
DD1 3LU

+44 (0)1382 878149

marketing@forthports.co.uk

Robert Mason
Senior Business, Development and Strategy Manager
Port Office
Stannergate Road
Dundee
DD1 3LU

+44 (0)1324 668400

marketing@forthports.co.uk

Useful Links

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Download a copy of the Dundee Port Insert:

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Vist the Forth and Tay Decommissioning website

Port	Berth/s	CSP
Tilbury	Riverside RoRo Berth, Grain terminal and all berths	Destin8
Tilbury	London Container Terminal (LCT)	Destin8 & CNS Compass
Tilbury2	Riverside Upper & Lower	Destin8
Methil	Transit & General Cargo	Destin8
Burntisland	Eastern & Western Dock	Destin8
Kirkcaldy	General Berth	Destin8
Grangemouth	Container Terminal, Oil Jetty 1&2 and General Berths	Destin8
Leith	General Berth	Destin8
Rosyth	General Berth	Destin8
Dundee	General Berth	Destin8

	Tilbury	Tilbury2*	Grangemouth – Container Terminal	Grangemouth – General Cargo	Rosyth	Dundee	Methil	Leith	Kirkcaldy	Burntisland
POA – HC -NT & T
POA – NHC – T
POA – NHC – NT
PNAO – HC – NT & T			*
PNAO – NHC (Food) – NT & T			*
PNAO NHC (Food) – NT
PNAO NHC (Other) (Plastic Kitchenware)
P
PP
PP (WP)
OO

POA	Products of animal origin, composite products, germinal products, animal by-products, hay and straw
-HC	Products for human consumption
-NHC	Products not for human consumption
-NT	No temperature requirement
-T	Frozen/chilled products

P	Plants
PP	Plants products
PP(WP)	Wood and wood products
OO	Other Objects

PNAO	Products of non-animal origin
-HC (food)	Human Consumption (Food)
-NHC (feed)	Non-Human Consumption (feed)
-NHC (other)	Products of non-animal origin, which are neither food nor feed
-NT	No temperature requirement
-T	Frozen/chilled products

Innovating for Scotland’s Growth

Port of Dundee at a glance:

150,000 tonnes of agripods flat storage
1,600m of quayside
6 working berths
100,000m³ liquid storage
Decommissioning facility
Off-shore wind capability
In port Grain drying facility
Jack-up capabilities

A significant economic driver for Dundee

Key Contacts

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	Tilbury	Tilbury2	Grangemouth	Rosyth	Dundee	Methil	Leith	Kirkcaldy	Burntisland
POA – HC -NT & T
POA – NHC – T
POA – NHC – NT
PNAO – HC – NT & T
PNAO – NHC (Food) – NT & T
PNAO NHC (Food) – NT
PNAO NHC (Other) (Plastic Kitchenware)
P
PP
PP (WP)
OO

Innovating for Scotland’s Growth

Port of Dundee at a glance:

150,000 tonnes of agripods flat storage 1,600m of quayside 6 working berths 100,000m³ liquid storage Decommissioning facility Off-shore wind capability In port Grain drying facility Jack-up capabilities

A significant economic driver for Dundee

Key Contacts

Useful Links

Contact Us

150,000 tonnes of agripods flat storage
1,600m of quayside
6 working berths
100,000m³ liquid storage
Decommissioning facility
Off-shore wind capability
In port Grain drying facility
Jack-up capabilities