page_title: Solstad Farstad
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Solstad Farstad / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Docked in Falmouth in 2012
context_page_description: Solstad Offshore is a Norwegian offshore service and supply ship shipping company that operates 50 vessels and two newbuilding CSV, including 19 construction service vessels, 22 anchor handling tug supply vessels and 9 platform supply vessels. The company is based in Karmøy, but also has offices in Aberdeen, Rio de Janeiro, Perth and Singapore.
  The company has been renamed to Solstad Offshore from Solstad Farstad on 3rd Oct 2018.
context_section_description: The company was founded as Solstad Rederi by Johannes Solstad in 1964, in a town called Skudeneshavn, on the island of Karmøy, where it is still headquartered to this day. It started off with ten bulk carriers in the range of 7,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) to 14,000 DWT, but entered the offshore supply sector in 1973 with the delivery of four supply ships. By 1982 the entire dry bulk fleet had been sold and Solstad continued as a pure offshore vessel operator, though from 1989 to 1998 it operated five handysize bulk carriers. A fleet renewal program started in 1996 increased the fleet size from 12 to 43 by 2007. The same year it was floated on the Oslo Stock Exchange, though the Solstad family retains a major ownership in the company.
  Since its initial start in 1964, Solstad Offshore ASA now has become one of the biggest players of modern and advanced vessels for offshore service, with worldwide activities and projects for many of the major oil companies.
  Solstad Offshore ASA is a member of the Norwegian Shipowners Association (Rederiforbundet). The company employs about 1800 people,  and has since 2005 been the shipping company with most Norwegian crew sailing in international trade.
  The company has offices in Skudeneshavn (Norway), Aberdeen (United Kingdom), Singapore (Singapore), Macae and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Perth (Australia).
  In June 2017, Solstad Offshore merged with Farstad Shipping and Deep Sea Supply to become Solstad Farstad.
  In October 2018, the company's name was changed to Solstad Offshore ASA.
caption: Normand Mermaid in Falmouth in 2012, one of Solstad's construction support vessels
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