Port Millom has a long history as a working facility, being used as transport hub, a materials storage and handling centre, and a ship-breaking company. Its location and the size of its storage capacity, made Port Millom the ideal choice from which to export large volumes of high quality roadstone aggregate by sea from nearby Ghyll Scaur Quarry, using barges which varied between 800 and 1500 Tonnes - although the port is able to service barges of much greater tonnage.
The large level, open quayside is well suited to the loading and unloading of bulk cargoes including, construction materials such as aggregate, steel and timber. In particular, scour protection, used to both stabilise the sea bed beneath offshore turbines and to protect the sub-sea base of the structure, can be readily sourced from the quarries of West Cumbria, and shipped out to the construction site via Port Millom.
With the upsurge in wind power schemes along the west coast of Cumbria, both inland and offshore, Port Millom is looking to expand business, developing as a centre for transport and storage operations and maintenance facilities, serving a number of these projects.