The Covid-19 pandemic forced V.Group into a new line of work.

With hotels unwilling to take on the liability of housing seafarers, the ship manager started running its own accommodation last summer.

"We started being hotel managers ourselves," said Allan Falkenberg, V.Group's chief executive of crew management and offshore.

Running two facilities with nearly 400 rooms to make sure seafarers can get adequate quarantine before crew changes is not something the company is likely to continue as the pandemic winds down.