Eneti Strengthens Its New WTIV Business with Digital Solutions

Eneti, formerly known as Scorpio Bulkers, has signed a contract with Shoreline to use its digital platform for the company’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) business.

In August 2020, and as Scorpio Bulkers, the company signed a Letter of Intent to construct wind turbine installation vessels, with the first one to be built by South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Inc. and scheduled for delivery in 2023.

A few months later, the dry bulk shipping specialist announced it would sell its remaining dry bulk vessels and exit the sector during 2021 as it shifts its focus to owning and operating offshore wind installation vessels. To reflect its transition, Scorpio Bulkers’ Board of Directors decided to change the name of the company. The new name, Eneti, has been in effect from this February.

With Shoreline, the company entered an agreement on utilising its Shoreline Wind digital platform.

Shoreline Wind provides cloud-based integrated simulation and data analytics solutions for the Design as well as Execution of offshore wind farms covering construction and O&M resource management, scheduling optimization, planning, dispatching, and reporting. 

“Information is integrated from multiple sources as windfarm, vessels, and weather data are easily accessible from the same system. With many of our customers also using Shoreline Wind, it enables our collaboration with them, which is key for our growth”, said Eneti’s Managing Director, Tim Sanger.