Heavy-lift carriers fear US volume gap

摘要

Wind farms were expected to bring lucrative heavy-lift business for specialised carriers serving the US. So far, economics and politics have kept this trade largely at bay.rnThe foundations, towers, rotors and generators that comprise each turbine represent big money for those who move them, but bank financing for projects has slowed to a trickle. Parts destined for proposed wind farms languish in storage for lack of project funding.rn"Why bring it over if you have to pay to ship it and then have tornstore it here? [Developers] want to cut out the transport cost until the product is needed," Bill Christ, COO for project carrier ECL Americas, told Fairplay.