A new 30-meter crew transfer vessel design for the emerging East Coast offshore wind energy industry has won preliminary approval from the American Bureau of Shipping, in what the designers call “a further stepping-stone towards an advanced, class-certified, Jones Act-compliant fleet of offshore wind support vessels for the U.S. market.
Naval architects BAR Technologies and Chartwell Marine announced the award of an Approval in Principle (AiP) from ABS Aug. 18 for the design and construction of...
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