Offshore wind installation hirer
Atlantic Offshore Projects
Three serious bids on a wanted ad between Friday and Monday
Atlantic Offshore Projects subcontracts vessels for offshore wind farm installation campaigns on the west coast of Ireland and the UK Celtic Sea. Their work is bursty — a campaign needs three multicats next Tuesday and then nothing for six weeks — so they don't own boats, they hire them.
The old workflow was a wall of WhatsApp messages and emails to known operators, plus a few brokers on retainer. A typical wanted-vessel post took nine days to attract a single serious bid: most operators wouldn't even see the request until a broker forwarded it on, by which point the cheaper boats were already gone.
On Vessel4you, James posted a wanted ad on a Friday afternoon for two multicats off Galway in two weeks' time. By Monday lunch there were three serious bids on the table from operators he had never worked with before — one of them was twelve percent under the rate he'd budgeted, and the operator turned out to be twenty nautical miles away.
"Posted a wanted ad on a Friday afternoon and had three serious bids before Monday lunch."