29-07-2025
The First US Cable Boat for Offshore Wind Starts Work in Trump's Shadow
The first US-flagged boat that can bury the undersea cables to connect offshore wind turbines to the power grid on land has started work within view of the Statue of Liberty and the New York City skyline.
The Marmac 306, a 300-foot (91-meter) barge built in Louisiana by Norwegian cable company Nexans SA and operated by US maritime company Crowley Maritime Corp., started work this month. It's digging a trench for the cables that will transmit the electricity generated by Equinor ASA's $5 billion Empire Wind 1 project all the way to the Brooklyn power grid.
