The brand new rock installation vessel Acadia came up the Hudson River Monday morning, I believe for the first time. The Jones Act compliant vessel was built in Hanwha’s Philadelphia shipyard and delivered to Great Lakes Dredging and Dock last month. Its first assignment, according to the company’s press release, will be supporting Equinor’s Empire I wind farm now under construction in the New York Bight.

I believe she is now heading for Port of Coeymans to load rocks that will be deposited offshore on the seabed to help protect the giant turbines being erected out there, a good example of how’s New York’s marine highway helps link the state’s mineral resources upstate to major projects in the south.