Great Lakes Dredge & & Dock & acquired Ulstein Design &Solutions BV to make the very first UNITED STATE flagged Jones Act certified, likely fallpipe vessel for subsea rock installment. The vessel is crucial in constructing the future of the UNITED STATE overseas wind market, consisting of developing a UNITED STATE based rock supply chain network.

“We are extremely proud that Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC (GLDD) has entrusted us to develop their new asset”, states Edwin van Leeuwen, taking care of supervisor at Ulstein’s Dutch style workplace.

“We much enjoyed the cooperation with the GLDD team in developing the concept over the last couple of months, even though we never met physically due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions. Our team is eager to continue the further development of the vessel with GLDD.”

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The vessel will mainly offer the expanding requirements in United States overseas wind, setting up safety layers of rock at overseas wind generator structures through a likely autumn pipeline system. Furthermore, its big and also solid aft deck location makes the vessel an extremely versatile possession to GLDD making it possible for specialist subsea procedures.

Blended style approach

“At the start of the design we applied our newly developed ‘Blended Design’ method, enabling GLDD to co-evolve their business case with the ship concept. This resulted in significant gains in economic performance, at the same time reducing fuel consumption and emissions, by optimising vessel main dimensions, speed and dynamic positioning capability” states Ko Stroo, Ulstein’s lead marine designer and also task supervisor. “Our design for this US Coast Guard compliant vessel strongly focused on Jones Act compliant shipbuilding in the USA and ease of construction.”

The Basic Design will certainly be created by Ulstein’s Dutch style workplace, with solid design payments from its sibling workplaces in Norway and also Poland.

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