[3][4] These are small port facilities to launch survey vessels used in an early stage of an offshore wind farm development.
[6] Large offshore wind turbine components are difficult to transport over land.
They are preferably located where there is unrestricted air draft to the wind farm site.
Their respective countries signed the Ejsberg Declaration in 2022 in which they agreed to coordinate supply chain activities to optimize the manufacture and delivery of wind turbine components.
[7][8] As of 2021, offshore wind power in the United States was described as a "burgeoning" industry.