Advocates for developing a U.S. offshore wind industry say they believe an impending environmental impact statement from the federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management will allow Vineyard Wind and 14 other proposed Atlantic projects to move forward.
“We are confident that BOEM is going to meet its deadline,” said Laura Smith Morton, senior director of policy and regulatory affairs for offshore wind at the American Wind Energy Association. “They also need to issue a schedule for future...
Anderson Trucking Service (ATS) has spent more than 20 years investing tens of millions of dollars in acquiring specialized equipment and hiring drivers to become the nation’s largest over-the-road transporter of gigantic wind turbine components.
Those investments have paid off, and even in the face of economic uncertainty from the coronavirus, the American wind energy industry has been at the back of this diversified Minnesota-based trucking company.
“COVID-19 has impacted some of our...
Project cargoes may not be the fastest movers on the high seas, but they have proved much less volatile than the U.S. container trades during the coronavirus pandemic.
Christophe Grammare, commercial director, AAL Shipping (Photo: Courtesy)Singapore-based AAL Shipping, one of the world’s largest marine project cargo carriers with 25 vessels, has witnessed a steady increase in ship sailings involving the transport of large capital equipment from Asia to U.S. ports during the first half of 2020....
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The coronavirus pandemic’s global spread earlier this year put the brakes on many U.S. industrial project cargoes, but truckloads of behemoth wind turbine components continue to roll across the nation’s highways.
“Our wind turbine component load count for this year is up 36%,” said Gene Lemke, vice president of projects for St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Anderson Trucking Service (ATS), in a telephone interview with American Shipper. “It’s been a huge bright spot during these difficult times.”
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With momentum building for East Coast wind power, the American Wind Energy Association announced Laura Smith Morton to lead policy and regulatory efforts on behalf of the U.S. industry’s offshore wind sector.
Morton moved in July 8 to her new role as AWEA’s senior director for policy and regulatory affairs for offshore wind, as Vineyard Wind, Ørsted and other developers push to obtain permits and begin developing their federal leases off New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
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