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A full-service strategic marine advisory service. AIR provides operational and commercial decision-making tools and insights to industry stakeholders who are already operating in, or looking to enter, the offshore wind sector.

Combining Clarksons’ global reach and unrivalled experience across vessel procurement, market intelligence & industry research along with energy and marine experts, the service will support clients minimise risk, increase operational efficiency, and deliver seamless end-to-end winning marine strategies, no matter how complex the challenge.

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An established team

Our track record in offshore wind

Clarksons’ DNA stems from 170 years of global shipping and offshore activities including 20 years of pioneering the offshore wind sector. Our combined resources represent the largest full-service marine shipbroking, logistics and advisory firm in the offshore renewable energy sector. With AIR, we are uniquely positioned to utilize our vast cross-sector experience from our deep-water shipping, port services, investment banking, research, IT and oil & gas teams to enable the marine advisory service to act as a catalyst for our clients strategies, be that shipowners, OEMs, OWF developers, oil & gas companies, T&I contractors, fabrication yards, banks, investors or government agencies.

Clarksons’ DNA stems from 170 years of global shipping and offshore activities including 20 years of pioneering the offshore wind sector. Our combined resources represent the largest full-service marine shipbroking, logistics and advisory firm in the offshore renewable energy sector. With AIR, we are uniquely positioned to utilize our vast cross-sector experience from our deep-water shipping, port services, investment banking, research, IT and oil & gas teams to enable the marine advisory service to act as a catalyst for our clients strategies, be that shipowners, OEMs, OWF developers, oil & gas companies, T&I contractors, fabrication yards, banks, investors or government agencies.

Frederik C. Andersen

Managing Director

10

Offshore offices

22

Industry experts engaged in the renewable division

80

Offshore brokers and consultants

200+

Client transactions

Working with clients on global projects

Global map colour coded to depict where the AIR team have conducted projects with clients.

Marine advisory and commercial support

Our services

  • Commercial forecasting
  • Macro analysis on specific offshore wind markets
  • Vessel demand forecast in specific regions
  • Pipeline of offshore wind farms in a specific region
  • Periodic updates / market surveillance
  • Key market barriers
  • Technology (fuel types, mission equipment, vessel types)
  • Company and vessel assessments (e.g. SWOT)
  • Technical due diligence
  • Commercial due diligence
  • Joint venture support
  • Vessel concept development
  • Logistic vessel setup considering client risk profile
  • Exploit synergies across client projects, packages & contractors
  • Vessel design and workflow
  • Procurement strategy
  • Tender advisory, support & execution
  • Marine management software
  • Maturity assessment of the supply chain
  • Development of new supply chain
  • Eliminate supply chain barriers
  • Supplier identification
  • Supplier evaluation
  • Vessel categorisation and recommendations
  • Assessment of local supply chain requirements
Providing a bespoke service

How we can help

Providing auction input and price forecasting, local supply chain assessment in new markets, budgeting projects based on statements of work (SOW), optimisation and de-risking.

Supporting Surveys, core drilling, rock dumping, boulder removal and un exploded ordnance (UXO) clearance.

Our logistics and long haul experts can deliver a full package from fabrication yard to staging port, for onshore and offshore wind farms equipment.

Broker and commercial advisory services for the main packages of work for both multi contracting and EPCI including market screening, chartering and the newbuilding of vessels.

We work with developers, vessel owners, energy companies, shipyards, designers, class authorities, investors and financial institutions, where we apply our expertise to support the industry with next generation vessels i.e. wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs), construction support vessels (CSOV), service operations vessels (SOVs), floating foundation installation vessels (FFIV) and crew transfer vessels (CTVs). The vessels and procedures are constantly evolving as is the mission equipment they use.