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Shipbuilding

St Johns Ship Building venture owned by SEA O.G Offshore and Northern Offshore

Services. Two of the CTVs are booked to support construc- tion at the Ørsted Northeast cluster and one will go on char- ter to Vineyard Wind on the Vineyard Wind 1 wind farm.

In 2022, AWT looked outside of the Northeast to con- tinue building up its ? eet, ordering a series of up to six

CTVs from St. Johns Ship Building in Palatka, Fla. The ? rst is scheduled to be delivered this year, followed by the second in 2024. St. Johns is also building two CTVs for

WINDEA CTV, a joint venture between MidOcean Wind and the Hornblower Group, which has a third CTV on order at Gulf Craft in Franklin, La. Initially, the WINDEA vessels will support GE on turbine commissioning works on Vineyard Wind.

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding is known to be building a

CTV for Patriot Offshore Maritime Services, which will be chartered for work at Vinyard Wind. The Somerset, Mass.

Shipbuilder is also building at CTV for the May? ower

Wind project. Louisiana-based Metal Shark is believed to have ? rm orders for three CTVs, with options for three additional vessels. Port Angeles, Wash. shipyard Platypus

Marine is building a CTV on spec.

St Johns Ship Building is among a number of

Going forward, CTV ordering is expected to accelerate

U.S. shipyards currently building CTVs for the

U.S. offshore wind industry. as more offshore wind projects advance to development and

From left to right:

Lasse Petterson,

CEO of Great Lakes

Dredge and Dock;

Rep. Mary Gay

Scanlon, D-Pa.;

President Joe

Biden; and Steinar

Nerbovik, CEO of Philadelphia

Shipyard.

Philly Shipyard

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