Erik Lystad is the general manager and local representative of Deep Blue Offshore Ltd. in China since 2014. Erik has been located in Shenzhen during the last 7+ years, heading Deep Blue activity in China, and has been focusing on cooperating with several large Chinese enterprises providing services for newbuilding contracting of both offshore units, ships, and offshore/onshore fish farming. Furthermore, he has been assisting with sale and purchase and project financing solutions for their clients in Norway, Europe and South America. Deep blue is a fairly young brokering company, but the other partner has been active in China for the last 4 decades as a shipbroker, and Erik has taken over the network of contacts in the business, as well as further developing this network in China.