August 15th, 20190Danish tanker operator Torm has sealed sale and leaseback deals for six MR tankers, the company revealed in its latest set of results. The first deal is with a...
August 9th, 20190Hong Kong-listed CSSC Shipping, the leasing arm of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), has announced that the company has entered into sale and leaseback deals...
August 5th, 20190Savona-based Finbeta, a shipping firm founded by the Bertani family and active in the chemical tanker business with a fleet of five ships, has changed hands and is now...
August 5th, 20190Norway’s Awilco LNG has agreed a deal with an Asian-based leasing company for the refinancing of the company’s two 2013-built LNG carriers, WilForce and...
July 31st, 20191An average 5% interest rate differential between Chinese leasing and institutional investors in the west is proving irresistible with finance institutions from Beijing...
July 31st, 20190Navios Maritime Containers has revealed the refinancing of seven containerships as well as the conversion of a purchase obligation to an option in its latest set of...
July 26th, 20190France’s Bourbon Corporation has requested redressement judiciaire (rehabilitation proceedings) in the Commercial Court of Marseilles. The company made the move...
July 18th, 20190Greek tanker owner Top Ships has concluded a financing agreement with a major Chinese financier. The gross proceeds from the new financing is around $25.6m and will...
July 17th, 20190Oceanis, a Hamburg-based start-up, is looking to reshape ship financing through digitisation. Having worked in both shipping and finance for several years, Maximilian...
July 17th, 20193A well known name in Greek ship finance has come onboard Dagfinn Lunde’s eShipfinance.com, a platform launched last year at Posidonia in Athens. XRTC Business...
July 17th, 20190Bulker sales are picking up in tandem with rising freight rates with the Chinese proving especially aggressive. This week three ships listed owned by troubled HNA...
July 15th, 20190Piraeus Bank, Greece’s largest lender by assets, is close to forming a strategic partnership with an unspecified major Asian Pacific financial conglomerate to boost...
July 4th, 20190In claiming the next generation of loss prevention has arrived, the Swedish Club has detailed a new pilot project whereby shipowners can now be offered real time...
July 2nd, 20190Nasdaq Capital Market-listed Greek dry bulk owner Castor Maritime is looking to raise up to $10m, which it says will likely be used to add to its fleet. The company...
July 2nd, 20190Greek owner Globus Maritime has completed the refinancing of its fleets of five vessels through a term loan facility with EnTrust Global’s Blue Ocean Fund. EnTrust...
June 28th, 20190Next month Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) will become the first company in Japan to issue sustainability bonds aimed at individual investors, with some of the cash raised...
June 28th, 20190Nasdaq-listed Grindrod Shipping has sealed a sale and leaseback transaction with a Japanese shipowner for 2010-built 33,100 dwt handysize drybulk carrier IVS...
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