HAVILA SHIPPING ASA
Havila Shipping ASA is a Norwegian public limited company (allmennaksjeselskap) registered with Brønnøysundregistrene, the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises, under organisation number 882811972. The company was established on 3 October 2000 and registered in the Foretaksregisteret in 2001; its status on the register is currently active, with no bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings recorded. Havila Shipping ASA has been registered for VAT since 1 July 2003 and reports its registered business address as Mjølstadnesvegen 24, 6092 Fosnavåg, in Herøy municipality, Norway.
The company owns and operates a fleet of offshore support vessels serving the international offshore oil, gas and renewable-energy industries, including anchor-handling tug supply vessels, platform supply vessels, subsea construction vessels and a rescue and recovery vessel. Its registered industry activity (Norwegian industry code 50.203) is offshore supply shipping, and its stated charter purpose covers shipping operations and related activities, including holding shares in companies engaged in similar operations. Beyond core supply and subsea support work, Havila Shipping ASA has extended some vessels into offshore wind-related services, including walk-to-work transfers, cable trenching and ploughing operations.
Havila Shipping ASA’s shares trade on Oslo Børs (Euronext) under the ticker HAVI, ISIN NO0010257728, and remained actively traded as of September 2026. Following a period of financial distress, the company implemented a restructuring agreement under which NOK 568 million of debt due 30 December 2024 was converted into 251,392,575 new shares, after the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet) approved a prospectus for the listing on 16 December 2024; this raised the company’s registered share capital to NOK 68,792,218.75 across 275,168,875 shares. The restructuring subsequently became contested: lenders DNB Bank, Swedbank and Danske Bank NUF alleged that the company had defaulted on the agreement, and Havila Shipping ASA took the dispute to the Oslo District Court, which ruled against the company on 8 December 2025 over the conversion of the banks’ non-interest-bearing debt tranches into shares. The company disputed the ruling and lodged an appeal, with a hearing before the Borgarting Court of Appeal scheduled for 29 September 2026; in the meantime, the three banks issued a demand for prepayment of outstanding debt in December 2025, and a petition to register arrest over certain company assets was received in April 2026. The Board of Directors approved Havila Shipping ASA’s 2025 annual report on 20 April 2026, following preliminary accounts released on 26 February 2026.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Havila Shipping ASA
The Norwegian shareholder register (Aksjonærregisteret) records five holders of Havila Shipping ASA as of 2 August 2026, together accounting for the company’s full 275,168,875 shares outstanding. The largest holder is Havila Holding AS, with 140,227,951 shares (50.96%), a majority direct holding. It is followed by an aggregated category described in the register as remaining shareholders, covering 61,150,356 shares (22.22%) attributed to smaller holders not individually named in this snapshot. The remaining named holders are Eksportfinansiering Norge (Export Finance Norway, the Norwegian state export credit agency), with 29,561,997 shares (10.74%); SpareBank 1 SMN, with 25,098,138 shares (9.12%); and Islandsbanki hf., recorded on its own account, with 19,130,433 shares (6.95%). The presence of a state export-credit agency and two commercial banks among the top holders is consistent with the company’s December 2024 conversion of lender debt into new shares under its restructuring agreement.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No individual ultimate beneficial owner is confirmed from the available records. The largest holder, Havila Holding AS, is itself a corporate shareholder; Brønnøysundregistrene’s public data for Havila Shipping ASA does not carry a verified beneficial-ownership filing tracing this holding to a natural person, and no complete ownership chain with dated percentages at each link was available to calculate an effective UBO percentage. Havila Holding AS is publicly associated in company and media reporting with the Sævik family, but this profile does not treat that association as a substitute for a verified UBO filing.
Data availability
Shareholder information for Havila Shipping ASA is major-shareholders-only: four individually named holders are disclosed alongside one aggregated balance for remaining shareholders, which is typical for a Norwegian company whose shares are tracked through the Aksjonærregisteret rather than a fully itemised retail register. The snapshot is dated 2 August 2026 and may not reflect movements after that date.
Sources
- Brønnøysundregistrene (Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises), organisation number 882811972 — retrieved 15 September 2026 — https://data.brreg.no/enhetsregisteret/api/enheter/882811972
- Norwegian Aksjonærregisteret (Shareholder Register) shareholder data, verified 2 August 2026
- Havila Shipping ASA: The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway has approved prospectus for listing of new shares, Euronext company announcement, 16 December 2024
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with the source register, including entries the profile above does not cover.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAVILA HOLDING AS | 51% | ||
| Øvrige Aksjonærer | 22.2% | ||
| EKSPORTFINANSIERING NORGE | 10.7% | ||
| SPAREBANK 1 SMN | 9.1% | ||
| Islandsbanki Hf. Own Account | 7% |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Havila Shipping ASA
Brønnøysundregistrene’s role register for Havila Shipping ASA lists one chief executive (daglig leder) and a board of a chairman plus four members, all currently active with no resignation recorded. The chief executive is Njål Sævik (born August 1969); this role entry was last updated 19 March 2001. The board, last updated 31 May 2023, is chaired by Henrik Grung (born August 1970), with board members Hege Sævik Rabben (born April 1971), Nina Skage (born July 1962), Jogeir Romestrand (born December 1961) and Olav Holst-Dyrnes (born June 1970). PricewaterhouseCoopers AS (Norwegian organisation number 987009713) is registered as the company’s auditor, a role last updated 5 June 2018. The company’s own 2026 announcements separately name Arne Johan Dale as Chief Financial Officer, a position that is not itself a registrable role in the Foretaksregisteret. This overview corrects previously held platform data, which listed a director named Helge Aarseth and omitted Njål Sævik, Nina Skage and Jogeir Romestrand; the register data used here reflects the current Brønnøysundregistrene role listing checked on 15 September 2026.
Data availability
Brønnøysundregistrene discloses each officer’s full name and date of birth but does not publish nationality or country of residence for board members or the chief executive; these fields should be treated as not disclosed by this registry rather than absent by omission. One exception is Njål Sævik, whose Norwegian nationality is separately confirmed by a UK Companies House filing naming him as a person with significant control of an affiliated UK company, Havila Shipping UK Limited (company number SC180168), where his recorded date of birth (August 1969) matches the Norwegian registry record. The last-updated dates recorded above reflect when each role entry was last modified in the register, which is not necessarily the same as the original appointment date.
Sources
- Brønnøysundregistrene, role register (roller) for organisation number 882811972 — retrieved 15 September 2026
- UK Companies House, persons with significant control, Havila Shipping UK Limited (SC180168) — retrieved 15 September 2026
- Havila Shipping ASA: Annual report 2025, company announcement, 20 April 2026
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with the source register, including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of Havila Shipping ASA
Havila Holding AS is confirmed as Havila Shipping ASA’s immediate parent, holding a direct 50.96% majority stake per the Norwegian shareholder register dated 2 August 2026. Brønnøysundregistrene’s own company record for Havila Shipping ASA does not carry a formal in-a-corporate-group (konsern) flag, so this parent relationship rests on the verified majority shareholding rather than a consolidated-group registration filed with the registry. Havila Holding AS is in turn associated in company and industry reporting with the wider Havila Group, whose businesses include the separately listed coastal-route operator Havila Kystruten AS and the offshore/renewables operator Havila Subsea & Renewables AS (formerly Volstad Maritime); no verified ownership chain linking Havila Shipping ASA itself to these entities was found, and they are not treated here as subsidiaries or sister companies of Havila Shipping ASA. A number of single-purpose Norwegian companies sharing Havila fleet-vessel names (for example Havila Harmony AS, Havila Offshore AS, Havila Chartering AS and Havila Management AS) and one UK entity, Havila Shipping UK Limited (Companies House number SC180168), appear as linked entities in the platform’s underlying corporate-registry data. A spot check of one of these, Havila Harmony AS, found no parent company or group flag registered against it at Brønnøysundregistrene, and Havila Shipping ASA’s own annual report, which would typically list its subsidiaries in a dedicated note, could not be retrieved in a form that could be independently checked for this profile. These entities are therefore presented as possible, unverified relationships rather than confirmed subsidiaries.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havila Holding AS | Norway | NO 979366256 | Immediate parent | 50.96% (direct) | Active | 2 August 2026 |
Recent structural changes
The most material recent change to Havila Shipping ASA’s capital structure was the December 2024 conversion of NOK 568 million of lender debt into 251,392,575 new shares under its restructuring agreement, following a prospectus approved by Finanstilsynet on 16 December 2024. This increased the number of shares in issue to 275,168,875 and brought new shareholders, including Eksportfinansiering Norge, SpareBank 1 SMN and Islandsbanki hf., onto the share register, but did not itself alter Havila Shipping ASA’s own corporate group affiliations.
Data availability
Group-structure information for Havila Shipping ASA is partial: the immediate parent is verified through the official shareholder register, but the company’s subsidiaries could not be independently confirmed from a primary registry or annual-report filing within the sources reviewed for this profile.
Sources
- Norwegian Aksjonærregisteret (Shareholder Register) shareholder data, verified 2 August 2026
- Brønnøysundregistrene, organisation numbers 882811972 (Havila Shipping ASA) and 998629799 (Havila Harmony AS) — retrieved 15 September 2026
- UK Companies House, Havila Shipping UK Limited (SC180168) — retrieved 15 September 2026
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with the source register, including entries the profile above does not cover.
Havila Holding AS
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Havila Shipping ASA's registration number?
Havila Shipping ASA is registered with Brønnøysundregistrene, the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises, under organisation number 882811972.
When was Havila Shipping ASA established?
The company was established on 3 October 2000 and registered in the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises (Foretaksregisteret) in 2001.
What does Havila Shipping ASA do?
Havila Shipping ASA owns and operates offshore support vessels for the international offshore oil, gas and renewable-energy industries, including anchor-handling tug supply vessels, platform supply vessels, subsea construction vessels and a rescue and recovery vessel.
Is Havila Shipping ASA a publicly listed company?
Yes. Havila Shipping ASA shares trade on Oslo Børs (Euronext) under the ticker HAVI, ISIN NO0010257728, and remained actively traded as of September 2026.
What is Havila Shipping ASA's current registry status?
Brønnøysundregistrene records Havila Shipping ASA's status as active, with no bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings recorded, as of the September 2026 check.
Who is the majority shareholder of Havila Shipping ASA?
Havila Holding AS is the majority shareholder, holding 140,227,951 shares (50.96%) per the Norwegian shareholder register dated 2 August 2026.
Does Havila Shipping ASA have a confirmed ultimate beneficial owner?
No individual UBO is confirmed. The majority shareholder, Havila Holding AS, is itself a corporate entity, and no verified ownership chain tracing the holding to a named natural person was found.
Who is the CEO of Havila Shipping ASA?
Njål Sævik is registered as chief executive (daglig leder) of Havila Shipping ASA per Brønnøysundregistrene's role register.
Who chairs Havila Shipping ASA's board of directors?
Henrik Grung is registered as chairman of the board. Other board members are Hege Sævik Rabben, Nina Skage, Jogeir Romestrand and Olav Holst-Dyrnes.
What debt restructuring has Havila Shipping ASA undergone?
In December 2024, Havila Shipping ASA converted NOK 568 million of debt due 30 December 2024 into 251,392,575 new shares under a restructuring agreement, after Finanstilsynet approved a listing prospectus on 16 December 2024, raising total shares outstanding to 275,168,875.
Is Havila Shipping ASA in a legal dispute with its lenders?
Yes. Lenders DNB Bank, Swedbank and Danske Bank NUF alleged default on the restructuring agreement; the Oslo District Court ruled against the company on 8 December 2025, the company has appealed, with a Borgarting Court of Appeal hearing scheduled for 29 September 2026, and the banks separately demanded prepayment of outstanding debt in December 2025.
Does Havila Shipping ASA have subsidiaries?
A number of single-purpose Norwegian and one UK entity sharing Havila fleet-vessel names appear as linked entities in registry data, but these could not be independently verified as subsidiaries from a primary registry or the company annual report within the sources reviewed for this profile.
What is Havila Shipping ASA's registered address?
The registered business address on file is Mjølstadnesvegen 24, 6092 Fosnavåg, in Herøy municipality, Norway.
Who audits Havila Shipping ASA?
PricewaterhouseCoopers AS (Norwegian organisation number 987009713) is registered as Havila Shipping ASA's auditor at Brønnøysundregistrene.