Kishorn Port & Dry Dock Ltd

Kishorn Port & Dry Dock Ltd (KPL) operates a 45-hectare port and one of Europe's largest dry docks on Loch Kishorn, on the west coast of Scotland in Wester Ross. The site serves oil and gas, decommissioning, floating offshore wind and other renewables work, including FPSO preservation and lay-up, drilling rig inspection and maintenance, vessel decommissioning and recycling, and the casting of concrete caissons and docking blocks using an on-site quarry and concrete batching plant. Alongside the dry dock and quayside berths, KPL provides stevedoring and cranage, warehousing, laydown areas, shipping agency services and deep-water anchorage in the loch. The company is a 50/50 joint venture between Ferguson Transport (Spean Bridge) Ltd and Leiths (Scotland) Ltd.

Kishorn Port Ltd (KPL) operates a port and dry dock facility on Loch Kishorn in Wester Ross, on Scotland's north west coast. The original Kishorn Yard was built by Howard Doris Ltd as an oil platform fabrication yard, operating from 1975 to 1987, and the dry dock was constructed for the 600,000-tonne Ninian Central platform. Regeneration began in 2008 under a 50/50 joint venture between Ferguson Transport (Spean Bridge) Ltd and Leiths (Scotland) Ltd, whose combined parent companies employ over 700 staff. The site today supports oil and gas, decommissioning, floating offshore wind and wider renewables work.

Services

Decommissioning of offshore oil and gas assets under a SEPA Waste Management Licence; included on the EU list of approved yards for vessel recycling
FPSO preservation and lay-up; drilling rig inspection, maintenance, repair and life extension
Heavy steel processing, load-out and full vessel decommissioning
Concrete caisson and docking block manufacture using on-site quarry and batching plant
Stevedoring and cranage, including mobile cranes up to 250 tonnes, forklifts and up to 50 tonne Liebherr material handlers
Shipping agency: cargo handling and documentation, storage, supply vessels and barges, crew transfers, multi-modal transport; divers on request

Facilities

Dry dock 260 m long x 160 m wide, 166 m gate opening, 13.8 m depth at MHWS; extension consented for 250 m vessels
Quayside berths including East Quay (120 m), Piled Quay (93 m), Dry Dock Quay (166 m) and West Quay (85 m)
Deep-water mooring and anchorage: up to 80 m depth in the main channel of Loch Kishorn
Five warehouses of 52 m x 22.5 m (over 6,000 m2, 8,000 pallets), quayside transit sheds, mechanical engineering building
45 hectares of development land with a further 10 hectares of foreshore reclamation planned
On-site quarry with 6.5 million tonnes of consented reserves and concrete batching plant
Offices, welfare and accommodation facilities; TRANSEC/ISPS approved with 24 hour CCTV

Vessel Types

FPSOs, semi-submersible and jack-up drilling rigs, cargo vessels for recycling, barges and work boats

Location

Loch Kishorn, approx. 57°23.8'N 5°37.5'W, Wester Ross, west coast of Scotland
Sheltered site with low fog and swell incidence; road and sea access, with a rail siding at Strathcarron 13 miles away