Europe-wide tender for OTB Bremerhaven operator

Germany’s Port of Bremen is conducting a Europe-wide tender procedure to find an operator for the Offshore Terminal Bremerhaven (OTB).

The Federal Land of Bremen has initiated the tender procedure to find an operator for the new terminal.

A Europe-wide competitive tender has to be conducted before the contract can be awarded to the operator. The contract will take the form of a service concession and, according to the current plans, will be awarded in Q4 2015. Each bidder and each member of a bidding consortium will be obliged to furnish proof of its economic and financial efficiency. This also includes its technical capabilities. They are obliged to present reference projects from the preceding three financial years which are similar to the operation of OTB (terminal operation, on-shore transhipment and/or logistics services for wind farm components or heavy-lift goods). Candidates also have to submit a rough concept for the operation of OTB and its integration in Bremerhaven’s wind energy cluster.