soff industry shipping founded 1964 headquarters karm y norway area served global services supply ships website www.solstad.no solstad offshore ose soff is a norwegian offshore service and supply ship shipping company that operates 50 vessels and two newbuilding csv both are due for delivery in 2014 including 19 construction service vessels 22 anchor handling tug supply vessels and 9 platform supply vessels . the company is based in karm y but also has offices in aberdeen rio de janeiro perth and singapore . history edit the company was founded as solstad rederi by johannes solstad in 1964 in a town called skudeneshavn on the island of karm y 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 . normand mermaid in falmouth in 2012 one of solstad s construction support vessels 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 world wide 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 . this article related to a norwegian ship transport company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title solstad offshore & oldid 698935821 categories shipping companies of norwaysupply shipping companiescompanies established in 1964non renewable resource companies established in 19641964 establishments in norwaycompanies listed on the oslo stock exchangenorwegian shipping company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 9 january 2016 at 05 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view