An offshore shipowner combining Aker's interests in Rem Offshore and Solstad with Farstad Shipping will still not be enough to impact rates, Clarksons Platou Securities says.
Analyst Turner Holm said he was 'busting the myth' that the group can gain critical mass in a depressed, fractured North Sea spot market.
A potential merger of Farstad into the Kjell Inge Rokke-controlled companies has been backed by the Farstad board, according to TradeWinds' sister newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv.
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