Norway's Eidesvik Offshore has continued the trend of selling offshore oil and gas support vessels out of their traditional markets.
The Oslo-listed offshore shipowner has offloaded the 3,500-dwt platform supply vessel Viking Athene (built 2006) to an unnamed company operating in the fish-farming sector.
Delivery took place at the end of April.
"The vessel will, after the sale, exit the North Sea supply vessel market and be utilised by the new owner as a farming service vessel," Eidesvik said.
VesselsValue assesses the unit to be worth $3m for further trading, but only $960,000 for scrap.
The sales price and new owner are unknown.
The deal is the latest example of unwanted oil and gas tonnage being sold into other sectors, including renewables and for charity work, in recent months.
Solstad selling too
Rival owner Solstad Offshore has also disposed of a laid-up anchor-handling tug supply ship as the company sells off non-core vessels following its 2020 financial restructuring.
The buyer of the 16,157-bhp Far Strait (built 2006) has not been named.
The unit is a legacy vessel taken over during the 2017 merger with Farstad Shipping.
Solstad said the deal will have a negligible accounting effect.
VesselsValue rates the ship to be worth $4.2m.
Havila extends PSV deals
Meanwhile, Oslo-listed Havila Shipping has signed contract extensions with Total in Denmark for two PSVs: the 4,100-dwt Havila Heroy (built 2010) and 3,900-dwt Havila Fano (built 2009).
The charterer has declared options for three months from 1 June.
There are further extensions of four months each attached to the contract.
