Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Angus port embarks on latest berth upgrade

Montrose Port Authority chief executive Nik Scott-Gray
Montrose Port Authority chief executive Nik Scott-Gray

Montrose Port has embarked on the latest stage of its multi-million-pound berth redevelopment programme.

The Angus port has spent more than £22 million on upgrading its infrastructure since 2010.

The latest phase of work has focused on strengthening berth seven and eight at a cost of £7.2m.

Montrose Port Authority chief executive Nik Scott-Gray said: “Berth eight was completed last week and the work on berth seven has begun.

“It’s a lot of work on pilings, improving the dock’s strength and the depth alongside.

“We are currently on time and on budget with the work, which should be completed by the end of October.

“Five minutes after berth eight was finished, we had a vessel alongside.”

Montrose Port Authority has been supported by a £1.5m Scottish Government grant and took out a £5.4m loan from Royal Bank of Scotland last year.

“We have a 25 year masterplan and within that there are other berth developments as part of that,” Mr Scott-Gray added.


>> Keep up to date with the latest news with The Courier newsletter


“We have the confidence in the port’s future to make these investments.

“After this current round of work is complete we will catch our breath before we charge on and do another big capital project.”

Meanwhile, Montrose Port Authority will make an investment in expanding the port premises used by Wild Well.

Mr Scott-Gray said there was a large increase in gross tonnes of vessel activity through the port last year – passing three million tonnes for the first time.

He said much of the increase from 2.3 million tonnes the previous year was due to the upturn in the oil and gas sector.

“We’ve seen a really big uplift in offshore vessels,” he said.

“Up to the end of February (a month before year end), we’d handled 381 offshore vessels and we handled 305 in the previous year in total.

“In the downturn in that sector we did try to help a lot of vessel operators and a lot of customers who were clearly finding it tough and hopefully that flexibility we showed two or three years ago is now paying dividends.

“From talking to our oil and gas customers, we anticipate another good six months.

“It looks like we’ll be busy all the way through the summer, which will be great news.”

The port boss said he was also hopeful of picking up more renewables and was hopeful to take advantage of some decommissioning opportunities.