Arne Blystad

Blystad Group is a family-owned Norwegian group with three core segments: shipping, real estate and investments. Its shipping business owns and operates vessels in tankers, container feeder and offshore supply through Songa Shipholding. Its real estate projects, run through Songa Eiendom, include commercial space, housing and city development.

The group's investment activities, run through Songa Investments and Songa Capital, combine industrial and capital markets expertise and hold short and long-term positions in listed and unlisted companies and startups in energy, shipping and other sectors. The group also owns Haakon VIIs gate 1, a prime office building in Oslo's central business district, and holds a stake in the private equity firm Driv Kapital. Its businesses are run through subsidiaries that use the Songa prefix.

The group was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Oslo. It employs 27 people at its Oslo headquarters, and its maritime organisation has about 50 onshore staff in Glasgow, Scotland. The fleet has about 1,350 seafarers onboard. The group's history traces back to the textile industry.

Product: Vessel ownership and operation in shipping, real estate projects and investments in listed and unlisted companies.