Farstad Shipping, which trades on the Oslo bourse, shed light on the revelation in its latest earnings report.

The operator said three modern anchor-handlers and an ageing platform-supply vessel (PSV) recently entered “temporary” lay-up as a consequence of “conditions” in the North Sea.

While the anchor handlers have previously been reported by TradeWinds to have been taken out of the market, the PSV lay-up had not been written of before.