A family owned business managed by our core values and principles
Integrity
We build and maintain trust by conducting every element of our business to the highest standards of integrity.
Longevity
Solidity, security, value creation and active patience is in our DNA and plays a vital part in our decision making.
Trustworthy
Our word is our promise – we build our business by creating and maintaining good relationships with our partners, financiers, clients and counterparts.
Collaboration
Our proudest moments arise from teamwork with our business partners and with our colleagues. We invest in people.

Company structure
The Group has active operations within three core segments; Shipping, Real Estate and Investments.
We create value by combining our industrial expertise with capital markets and by building reliable partnerships with other experts while maintaining our agile investment approach.
Whilst we are known as the Blystad Group, our business is handled through various subsidiaries using the prefix SONGA. The “Songa”-name comes from a river in Norway running through the town where the Blystad-familiy have their heritage.
The Blystad Group employs 25 professionals located at the company’s headquarters in Oslo. Our maritime organization employs ~50 onshore staff in Glasgow Scotland, and ~1,350 seafarers onboard our fleet.
Looking forward
Our Shared future
“Ever since the Group was involved in the textile industry in the early 1900s, we have managed to adapt to the changing circumstances surrounding us.
The Blystad Group today is a testament of creating value through longevity by embracing ingenuity.
Embracing ingenuity is about being willing to take the next step when others dare not. As a result, the Blystad Group is today a Nordic powerhouse with a global presence.
Longevity, on the other hand, is defined not by what happened in history, but by what happens next. Guided by our experience, we shape our future course together with our partners, colleagues and investment projects. All based on the same set of sound Norwegian family values with the local and global scene as our operating landscape.
We create value off our core values, combining industrial expertise with capital markets. We make every effort to be dynamic by cultivating opportunities, and solid by obtaining your trust as a partner.
Going into the next decade, we will continue our strive to be your trusted partner, colleague and teammate. Longevity will be created by our shared future.”
Fredrik Platou – CEO
Our reports

Board of Directors

Marianne H. Blystad

Arne Blystad
People

Arne Blystad
Chairman

Fredrik Platou
CEO

Geir Nedrelo
CFO

Andreas Tronstad
Head of Real Estate

Agnes Marie Blystad Sulejewski
Head of Legal

Sidsel Sørlie
Group Finance Manager

Per Kristian Aamlid
Investment Manager
Shipping

Jacob Ziesler
Investment Director
Investments

James Buck
Investment Director
Shipping

Felix Fürst
Investment Manager

Nina R. Bakke
Project Manager
Shipping

Markus Tryggvason Lanesskog
Investment Analyst
Investments

Arve Aslaksen
Project Manager
Real Estate

Hans Petter Gjerde
Asset Manager
Real Estate

Leif Arne Iversen
Head of Group Reporting
Accounting

Ingrid Hæreid
Head of Group Controlling
Accounting

John Murray
Group Controller and Head of IT
Accounting

Johannes K. Bruland
Group Controller
Accounting

Cecilie Reksten
Group Controller
Accounting

Dina Dæhli
Group Controller
Accounting

May Storaune
Senior Accounts Officer
Accounting

Wenche Kristin Horten
Senior Accounts Officer
Accounting

Edyta Sala
Senior Accounts Officer
Accounting

Nina Brandt Henriksen
Personal Assistant

Even Torgersen
Operations Support

Åsa Victoria Roverudseter
Office & Administration
Contact us
Please specify if your request is related to Shipping, Investments, Real Estate or Other.
Postal address
Arne Blystad AS, P.O. Box 1468,
Vika No-0116 Oslo, Norway
Visiting/Parcel delivery address
Haakon VIIs gt. 1, 11th floor,
0161 Oslo, Norway
Office Hours
Monday – Friday, 08.30 – 16.30