Port of Wilmington selected for mid-Atlantic GE Wind energy projects

Project and heavy lift carrier Intermarine’s 8,000 deadweight-ton Industrial Dart delivered GE wind blades to the Port of Wilmington, Del., this week. Port officials said that GE has chosen Wilmington to be their mid-Atlantic discharge port for wind projects underway in Pennsylvania and Indiana. The port expects as many as five additional vessel calls related to these projects.

GE is a leading wind turbine manufacturer and has installed approximately 12,000 wind turbines total, 10,000 of those in the U.S.  Wilmington will work with Port Contractors, Inc., Delaware River Stevedores and American Transport Systems, Inc. to handle the cargo, according to a statement from the port. The blades delivered to Wilmington were 122 feet long and 10 feet high.

 Courtesy Port of Wilmington

“We are extremely pleased that the Port of Wilmington was selected by GE Energy as its logistics services partner for the ship discharge, short term storage and truck load out for delivery to GE’s wind energy project sites in Pennsylvania and Indiana,” said Eugene R. Bailey, Executive Director of the Diamond State Port Corporation, the entity that owns and operates the Port of Delaware.  

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