The most reliable weather and routing intelligence platform for towage, heavy lift, and abnormal marine transports. Navigate weather uncertainty with confidence, even under operational constraints.
Not a generic routing tool. A dedicated weather intelligence layer designed around the specific constraints of towage, heavy lift, and abnormal load operations, from first planning to final arrival.
Ensuring smart & informed decisions.
Safety & efficiency in execution.
Tow resistance, sea state effects, and vessel-specific speed curves factored into every routing calculation throughout the voyage.
Weather, current, operational limits, port windows, and cargo motion criteria handled simultaneously, not as a sequence of trade-offs.
Thresholds expressed as exceedance probabilities. Every forecast integrates uncertainty, full traceability for insurance, port authorities, and client records.
Direct access to a dedicated routing expert at any hour, ensuring continuity and accountability throughout the critical phase.
Marine Weather Intelligence enhances safety management by providing personalised alerts on hazardous conditions, delivered clearly, only when relevant, so operations proceed with complete confidence.
Receive alerts by email or directly within the platform. Proximity alerts warn you before dangerous conditions happen.
Operations teams get a live view of every tow in progress with Fleet Center: a consolidated map showing position, routing status, and weather exposure across all active operations.
A centralised overview of every vessel under your responsibility, position, heading, routing status, and last update, all on a single live map with full weather data overlay.
And the most consequential. Every missed window and every suboptimal decision carries a direct operational and financial cost.
Towage and heavy lift operations depend on precise weather windows. A delayed departure triggers day-rate overruns, port congestion, and cascading schedule impacts.
A tow in heavy seas, a counter-current event, or an unexpected frontal passage can place crew, cargo, and third parties at serious risk.
Marine insurers, charterers, and flag authorities increasingly require traceable, expert-backed weather decisions. A verbal briefing is no longer sufficient.
Routing around adverse weather without data costs more than routing through it safely with data. Tow resistance modelling reduces operational cost without compromising safety.
Our routing methodology was built in the world's most demanding offshore races: the Vendée Globe, The Ocean Race, Route du Rhum. Operations where margins are tight, constraints are real, and every forecast decision carries consequences. That same rigour now drives every recommendation we make for towage and heavy lift operations.
Christian Dumard's career spans four Vendée Globe campaigns and complex maritime logistics including oil platform towing and the transport of the James Webb Telescope. Marine Weather Intelligence's AI does not replace this expertise. It makes it available to every operation, at every scale.
MWI's probabilistic forecasting is a game-changer for towage planning. The exceedance probability data for each threshold gives us the confidence to commit to windows and the documentation our clients and insurers require.
Heavy lift transports leave no room for forecasting surprises. MWI's D-15 outlook and AI model selection give our operations team the lead time to plan safe weather windows and minimise costly standby days at anchorage.
Combining long-range probabilistic windows with real-time alerts has transformed how we route our abnormal transports. The expert meteorologist support during critical passages gives our skippers and clients real peace of mind.
Expert articles, platform updates, and case studies from Marine Weather Intelligence.
Thirty years of offshore racing meteorology expertise, now applied to AI-driven routing for commercial maritime operations. How Marine Weather Intelligence transfers race-level know-how to every sea-dependent sector.
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Weather routing is not just about avoiding storms, it is about finding the optimal balance between speed, sea state, and fuel burn across the full passage. Small course and speed adjustments, made at the right moment, compound into significant savings.
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In maritime operations, it is commonly assumed that reducing vessel speed lowers fuel consumption. While true in stable conditions, real-world voyages are shaped by evolving weather and sea state, and the relationship between speed and fuel use is not always what it seems.
Read the article →Every heavy transport project is unique. Our experts will review your constraints, timeline, and vessel profile to propose the weather intelligence setup that fits your operation.
