John Fredriksen has topped up his holding in offshore support vessel giant Solstad Farstad.  

Fredriksen’s Hemen Holding bought 1.5 million shares in the Oslo-listed OSV specialist today in a NOK 14.07 ($1.7m) move, according to a disclosure to the stock exchange. 

Based on the NOK 9.38 per share purchase price Fredriksen’s enlarged 17.2% slice of Solstad Farstad is worth NOK 470.8m