Grieg Group is a shipping

Shipping

Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck...

 and investment corporation based in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Its main activities include ship operation, ship brokering and logistics as well as partial ownership of Grieg Seafood

Grieg Seafood

Grieg Seafood is an international seafood company with fish farms in Rogaland and Finnmark in Norway, British Columbia and the Shetlands. It has an annual production of 80,000 tonnes of salmon and trout. The company is based in Bergen, Norway, and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.The company was...

, Star Shipping

Star Shipping

Grieg Star Shipping is a shipping company based in Bergen, Norway that operates 60–70 vessels with a total of 3 million deadweight tonnes. The company is a joint venture between Grieg Group and Masterbulk that was founded in 1961. The main area is industrial transport with 50 open hatch ships....

 and Aon Grieg.

Twenty-five percent of the company is owned by the Grieg Foundation. The foundation's primary purpose is to support SOS Children's Villages

SOS Children's Villages

SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. It was founded by Hermann Gmeiner in Imst, Austria...

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The division operates 23 open-hatch vessels, with four more on order, that are chartered out to Star Shipping, a company joint owned with Masterbulk

Masterbulk

Masterbulk Private Limited was established in Singapore in July 1995 following a major spin off from Westfal-Larsen & Co A/S in Bergen, Norway.The Company owns a total of 23 Open Hatch Gantry Crane vessels.Its fleet operates in the drybulk segment and is involved in the transportation of...

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