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Shipbuilding

Crowley

Eastern Shipbuilding Group is building the lead vessels in the USCG’s OPC program and is competing to win more vessels in stage 2.

Master Boat Builders recently began building Crowley’s eWolf, the ? rst all-electric ship assist tug in the U.S. expected to continue on the wings of the recent historic OFFSHORE WIND

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which in- Another promising area for U.S. shipbuilders is Ameri- cludes much needed funding for a long list of port, coastal ca’s newly forming offshore wind industry, which will re- and inland waterway dredging projects. quire a ? eet of new vessels to help build, service and even-

Meanwhile, Brownsville, Texas shipyard Keppel Am- tually decommission the wind farms due to sprout up in

FELS is building a new trailing suction hopper dredge U.S. waters, ? rst along the East Coast, but also in the U.S. (TSHD) for Manson Construction Co. Once complet- Gulf, Great Lakes and Paci? c Ocean.

ed, the 15,00-cubic-yard capacity Frederick Paup will be In November 2021, crew transfer vessel (CTV) owner/ the largest dredge in the U.S. Not to be outdone, Callan operator American Offshore Services ordered two CTVs

Marine last summer released a tender package to build a from Blount Boats in Warren, R.I., with plans for further 16,000 cubic yard hopper dredge, Admiral Nimitz. Other expansion. It was also announced that Senesco Marine in hopper dredges known to be under construction current- North Kingstown, R.I. will build three CTVs for sister com- ly include one each being built by Eastern Shipbuilding pany WindServe Marine, both part of the Reinauer Group. and Conrad Shipyard for Weeks Marine and Great Lakes In October, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset,

Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) respectively, both Mass. said it secured an order to build an Incat Crowther- scheduled for 2023 deliveries. designed CTV for U.S. offshore wind farm developer May-

A number of cutter suction dredges are also being built, ? ower Wind. In the years ahead, it’s expected that dozens including Callan Marine’s General Marshall at DSC of CTVs will be built as part of a new ? eet of Jones Act

Dredge in Reserve, La. for handover in late 2022; and compliant vessels required to support the construction and

Mike Hooks’ Lorraine at SPI/Mobile Pulley Works in Mo- long-term service of new offshore wind farms.

bile, Ala. and Southwest Shipyard in Galveston, Texas, for Jones Act-compliant service operations vessels (SOV) scheduled delivery in the ? rst quarter of 2022. will also be needed to support this emerging industry. www.marinelink.com MN 33|