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Offshore Wind farms, the state will earmark $200 million to fund two London, which handled lumber and general cargo, into ports facilities, a one-time container terminal in Brooklyn an offshore wind staging area supported by a long-term that would be a staging and maintenance area, and an- lease from Ørsted. The Danish developer, along with a other up the Hudson River in Albany, where towers would steel fabricator, has also committed to a major investment be manufactured. The private sector, including offshore for building monopiles (the foundation for the towers) at project developers, will kick in comparable amount. Plans an old oil terminal later repurposed for the imported steel are in the works for other port projects along the Hudson trades which waned due to tariffs, in Paulsboro, N.J. Fur-

River and in Long Island Sound, including Port Jefferson, ther down along the Delware River, an assembly area is

N.Y., once an active shipbuilding center. In Fall River, planned. In Virginia, an underused container yard, Ports-

Mass., the Vineyard Wind project was funding a study of mouth Marine Terminal, has been repurposed as a stag- redeveloping the city’s waterfront, while nearby New Bed- ing area for Dominion Energy’s massive Coastal Virginia ford had booked leases at an old terminal from Vineyard Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, with Ørsted working in

Wind and May? ower Wind (an 800 MW project south conjunction with the state leasing dock space in advance of Nantucket). In Connecticut, the State Port Authority of its 12 MW demonstration project deployed in Summer agreed in early 2020 on a deal that would see a $157 mil- 2020. Maryland and Rhode Island have seen similar ar- lion public/private redevelopment of the State Pier at New rangements, with old facilities being repurposed. www.marinelink.com MN 27|