In the offshore wind energy business, one of the biggest questions is when U.S. shipyards will step up and build a new generation of support vessels.
ABS and Vard offered one prospect, when the classification society announced it had awarded an “approval in principle” for a Jones Act-compliant version of Vard’s 4 07 service operation vessel (SOV) – a major step up from the first generation of crew transfer vessels for U.S. wind operations.