New York-listed Scorpio Bulkers has renewed a shelf registration of securities in the sum of $500m, but the filing is a matter of housekeeping, with no connection to any imminent plan to sell shares.

Emanuele Lauro-led Scorpio has been adamant about its ability to carry out an unprecedented transformation from the dry bulk trade to the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) sector without the need to sell any new shares in the short or medium term.