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cant amount of construction of service Floating Wind Advances operations vessels (SOVs) and crew Many eyes are attracted to the potential transfer vessels (CTVs). Both are used of California’s offshore ? oating wind in the long-term operations and main- potential, with BOEM expected to auc- tenance phase of a wind farm and will tion two areas for development in 2022. need to be Jones Act compliant. Till But four ? oating wind projects are al- now one SOV has been announced as ready currently being progressed in the under construction – although the indi- Atlantic and Paci? c – three in state wa- cations are that others are in the pipe- ters and two in Federal waters.

line. In the CTV segment, three vessels, Floating wind requires a different sup- owned by Atlantic Wind Transfers and ply chain approach to the bottom-? xed

WindServe, are already operating on the of the current northeast and Mid-Atlan-

Block Island wind farm and the Coastal tic pipeline.

Virginia Demonstration project. Five First moves are being made on port

For more information about the U.S.

CTV awards have been announced re- infrastructure, but little movement has

Offshore Wind Market Forecast, cently awarded to two yards -- Blount been made on the Jones Act vessels re- please visit www.intelatus.com or

Boats and Gladding Hearn shipbuilding. quired to install ? oating wind projects contact Michael Kozlowski at +1

Despite the building activity, the domes- – supply of the asset classes required in 561-733-2477or Philip Lewis at tic supply and SOVs and CTVs is signif- limited presenting a construction oppor- +44 203-966-2492 icantly below our forecast for demand. tunity for domestic yards.

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