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There are no active Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessels and only one under construction, increasing costs and construction times for offshore wind projects that must use compliant barges to transfer parts to installation ships. [39] A shortage of such vessels was a cause of the cancellation of the Ocean Wind projects. [40] [41]
Horizon Lines, Inc. was an American domestic ocean shipping and logistics company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the largest Jones Act-compliant maritime shipping and logistics company, and accounted for approximately 37 per cent of all U.S. container shipments linking the continental United States to Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. [2]
The vessel, built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant ship built on the Great Lakes since 1983. [8] and the first built by Interlake since 1981. [9] The ship was christened MV Mark W. Barker in Cleveland, Ohio [8] on 1 September 2022. [10]
The Jones Act Enforcer is a one-of-a-kind ship that President and CEO Aaron Smith uses to check on the foreign vessels working on wind projects in American waters including the Vineyard Wind ...
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The move temporarily waives the Jones Act, which permits only U.S. flagged vessels to complete maritime cargo transport between U.S. ports. … Puerto Rico gets Jones Act waiver for liquefied ...
The vessel was built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. [1] Construction began in mid-2019. [7] Her self-unloader was SS American Victory's boom that was taken off before the ship was scrapped. [8] The ship is 639 feet (195 m) long and has a 78-foot (24 m) beam, with a carrying capacity of 26,000 tons deadweight (DWT).
Results from this study indicated a decrease in all common air pollutants as a result of the development of offshore wind energy, as well as a projected 25% decrease in CO2 emissions by 2050. [50] Furthermore, the South Fork Wind Farm has generates 132 MW of renewable energy and offset the carbon of 60,000 cars each year. [ 51 ]