US fisheries advocacy body the Fisheries Survival Fund (FSF) claims proposed changes to the Jones Act – which currently requires that cargo, including wind turbines, shipped between domestic ports be transported on US-flagged ships – could cost "countless job opportunities" to local companies in the rapidly emerging US offshore wind sector, reports IntraFish sister publication Recharge.
Writing to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to voice its opposition to the “new interpretations” of the legislation -- which would flex the law to allow offshore wind developers to shuttle components to a project site on non-US-owned vessels -- FSF said such a move would “allow foreign developers to use foreign vessels for the rapid build-out of offshore wind farms [and would] jeopardize” the economic development potential to local...
