Port of Sunderland is celebrating after signing a significant storage and offshore cable base contract with one of the world’s most profitable energy companies, E.ON.

The port is due to take delivery of two 600 tonne substations in November as part a Humber Gateway Windfarm project, after a raft of developments designed to make the most of the port’s natural assets freed up swathes of land ready to be utilised. The project will also see an offshore cable lay vessel and offshore barge based at the port.