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Vessels

ECO Edison

Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects as the U.S. offshore wind industry continues to ramp up in the U.S.

Northeast. Built at ECO in-house shipyards in Louisi- ana, Mississippi and Florida, the 262-foot long liveaboard

SOV will serve as a ? oating, year-round homebase for 60 of the ? rst American offshore wind turbine technicians, who will work at-sea over the life of the wind farms, ser- vicing and maintaining the wind turbines. ECO Edison

Ørsted is powered by two U.S. EPA Tier 4 certi? ed Cat 3512E engines from Caterpillar Marine. The U.S.-? agged, Jones

The ? rst-ever American-built, -owned and -crewed off- shore wind service operations vessel (SOV) was christened Act quali? ed vessel features a walk to work motion-com- during a ceremony in the Port of New Orleans. Edison pensated gangway that allows technicians to easily and safely access the wind turbines. A smaller daughter craft

Chouest Offshore’s (ECO) recently completed ECO Edi- onboard can be deployed to ef? ciently maneuver crew son will play an integral part of the operation and main- tenance of Ørsted and Eversource’s South Fork Wind, across the wind farms.

SpaceShip

ULA

American aerospace manufacturer ULA has ordered a new ship to transport rockets from its factory in Decatur, Ala. to launch sites at Cape

Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force

Base in California. ULA said it awarded a contract to build the 356-foot- long roll-on/roll-off vessel to Bollinger Shipyards, who recently started constructing the new ship at its shipyard in Amelia, La. Bristol Harbor

Group, Inc. has been hired to oversee the project’s design and build phas- es. Scheduled for delivery in January 2026, the new Jones Act compliant vessel, SpaceShip, will be the second in the ULA ? eet and comes amid increased demand for ULA’s next generation Vulcan rocket, according to

Chris Ellerhorst, ULA’s vice president of the Kuiper Program.

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