Age Remoy is gunning to regain a shipowning presence in offshore, after the forced merger of his Oslo-listed Rem Offshore with what is now Norwegian giant SolstadFarstad.

After losing Rem to Solstad, when Aker bought negative control in the company, Remoy launched In Nord Vest with NOK 500m ($62.4m) to seek opportunistic purchases in the downturn.

“I think we learned some lessons when Aker took Rem and put it in Solstad," he said this week.