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With some U.S. offshore wind farms facing delays or worse, shipyards engaged in the construction of crew transfer vessels (CTV) have contrasting visions on how the emerging sector will shake out over the next few years. At one end of the spectrum, St. Johns Shipbuilding, with seven aluminum CTVs either under construction or in the hopper at its Palatka, Fla. shipyard, is understandably bullish. "The market is like a freight train and it's going to be very difficult to stop. It may slow down a little bit, but it's not going to stop," said Jim Cutts, who heads up the company's CTV program. At the other end, Peter Duclos, president of Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset, Mass., with a single CTV set for commissioning later this year, sees an inflationary cloud blocking near-term prospects. "I don't see the market as being very encouraging at this very time," he said. "There's hesitancy due to inflation and that's an understandable problem." |