Classification society ABS announced that it will class the first-ever Jones Act compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) that will support the US offshore windfarm industry.

Ørsted and Edison Chouest have teamed up to build an offshore wind Service Operation Vessel (SOV) in move that is set to transform the nascent sector in the US.

New interpretations of how US cabotage law the Jones Act applies the offshore sector by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are causing concerns for domestic offshore vessel owners.

That peskiest of cabotage regimes, the almost 100-year-old ‘Jones Act’, US Federal legislation which reserves commerce along US coasts, and between the mainland, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Alaska for US built, owned and crewed vessels, has again come...

The toxic political climate in the States has impacted matters related to shipbuilding, the Jones Act and other maritime matters.

The downturn in the offshore services market has driven a combination of two US domiciled players, with Tidewater acquiring GulfMark Offshore in a shares for shares (all-stock) deal, as has been recently reported here.

At a cocktail party full of designers of coastal abodes and art types, I met a decorator from Jacksonville, Florida, when I explained that I was in the maritime business, she immediately asked me, “What do you think about that ship - the one that...

In the face of two major hurricanes, the US Department of Homeland Security has now extended its previous Jones Act waiver (due to expire 14 September) for another week.

As Hurricane Irma barrels into the Florida coast the logistics of fuel distribution in the aftermath of the storm are already in the spotlight with a Jones Act waiver. 

The influence of US oil output, thought by energy analysts to be loosening the influence of other oil producers, continues to be felt.