Hunterston Terminal, in North Ayrshire, Scotland, was an iron ore and coal-handling port located at Fairlie on the Firth of Clyde, operated by Clydeport which was taken over by The Peel Group in 2003.

At Hunterston Terminal, an overhead conveyor linked to two gantry cranes carried ore or coal to a railhead on the Ayrshire Coast Line railway.

[7][8] The former iron ore and coal yard, which occupied 320 acres (130 ha) of land alongside the terminal was cleared by Clydeport at a cost of £10m, to create the Hunterstone Port and Resource Centre (PARC).

The process requires huge quantities of aluminium, lead, steel and bitumen, and the resulting cable weighs 70 kilograms (150 lb) per metre.

It needs to be made in lengths of up to 140 kilometres (87 miles) so direct access to a vast purpose-built cable-laying ship is vital, making the adjacent terminal a key feature of the new plant.