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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]
Eneti has stopped discussions with a U.S. shipyard regarding the construction of a Jones Act-compliant wind turbine installation vessel.
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).
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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Vessels satisfying these requirements comprised the Jones Act Fleet; only compliant vessels may practice cabotage, transporting passengers or cargo between two U.S. ports. [103] It is more costly to document a vessel in the United States than it is in some countries with lower labor standards and wages.
However, since there are no Jones Act–compliant liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers, Puerto Rico can't just have LNG shipped in from continental U.S. Compliant coal vessels are few and far ...