Privately-owned Arne Blystad AS has hired ABN Amro banker Geir Nedrelo as its new chief financial officer.

The move is part of preparations for a main-board Oslo stock-listing at Blystad-controlled OHT, the former Offshore Heavy Transport. Until now, Tom Jebsen has been serving as CFO at both OHT and the Oslo shipowner and investor's private Arne Blystad AS.

"I am coming back to Blystad where I started my career about 20 years ago," Nedrelo told TradeWinds.