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Feature

Shipbuilding

WindServe Marine to Washington shipbuilders, though other yards outside the state could potentially compete for the project if local bids come in at too high a price. The state estimates the program to be worth about $1 billion.

Along the East Coast, Casco Bay Line (serving islands in coastal Maine, out of Portland) selected Senesco Marine to build a double ended hybrid electric ferry to replace an exist- ing diesel vessel. The North Kingston, R.I. shipyard has also been selected to build a hybrid-electric passenger/vehicle fer- ry for the Maine State Ferry Service (MSFS). And slated to come online in NYC is a new zero-emissions electric high- speed ferry operated by New York Cruise Lines subsidiary

New York Water Taxi on the Hudson River between Brook- lyn and Manhattan. The carbon-? ber vessel is scheduled for launch in 2024, though a builder has yet to be announced.

The Texas Department of Transportation (DOT) will be taking delivery in 2023 of Esperanza “Hope” Andrade, a double ended vessel built at the Gulf Island Fabricators facility in Louisiana, with batteries to supplement its diesel electric powerplant.

THE RISE OF OFFSHORE WIND

Unprecedented opportunities also exist in the United

States’ fast-growing offshore wind industry, where a large

Senesco Marine is building crew transfer vessels number of new vessels will be needed to support the con- for fellow Reinauer company WindServe Marine, struction and operation of wind farms due to sprout up in an early entrant to the United States fast- several U.S. regions.

growing offshore wind industry. “The foundations are ? rmly in place to support the de-

Eastern Shipbuilding Group is building a new auto and passenger ferry for the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company.

EBDG 32 | MN April 2023