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End of Summer Bond Markets Opening Back Up

Sep 4, 2025

Following Ocean Yield’s end-of-summer bond issuance, the Nordic fixed-income market appears to be heating back up with a flood of new and contemplated issuances across shipping and offshore. Companies: Ocean Yield’s , Navios South American Logistics’ , Contships, Performance Shipping, Arctic Securities, Fearnley Securities, Tidewater, DOF Group ASA , DNB Carnegie, Pareto Securities, Clarksons Securities, Danske Bank.

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International Seaways Receives $331 Million From DNB in K-SURE Backed Facility

Aug 28, 2025

One theme that keeps recurring this year is substantially lower newbuilding orders with Clarksons data showing, as stated before, a 54% decrease overall year-on-year in newbuild orders. Companies: Clarksons, DHT, International Seaways , DNB, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation

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Are the Deals in Non-Standardized Assets?

Aug 21, 2025

When we think of shipping finance, most would think of capital flowing into mainstream asset classes like tankers, bulkers, and containerships.

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NOTOS

Aug 21, 2025

VLCC FLEET OUTLOOK: AGEING TONNAGE MEETS LIMITED NEWBUILDS
SHIPPING STOCK PRICES TAKE A BREATHER

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Dealogic Data Update

Aug 14, 2025

This week, we received Dealogic’s “Marine Finance Rankings Syndicated Loans—Second Quarter 2025,” providing some insight into the current ship lending markets and quantifying some of our observed trends. Companies: Bank of America Securities, DNB Carnegie, Crédit Agricole, Nordea, BNP Paribas

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Hafnia Acquires Large Stake in TORM – Strategic Peer-to-Peer Acquisitions Continue

Sep 4, 2025

The list of peer investments in shipping this year keeps on building. While tonnage remains expensive, shipping companies continue to bolster their balance sheets, ensuring they can strike on the next lucrative deal efficiently. Companies: Hafnia, , TORM Plc, Oaktree

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Notos Group

Aug 28, 2025

VLCCs ARE AWAKENING
SHIPPING STOCKS GAIN STRENGTH

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Debt Capital Markets Present New Opportunities: Torm Refinances Leases

Aug 21, 2025

Earlier in the year, at Marine Money Hamburg, sentiment around ship lending was a bit of a mixed signal. Companies: Torm, Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, Kromann Reumert,

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Building Resilience Through Liquidity: Revolving Credit Facilities Replace Mortgages

Aug 14, 2025

Recent news has been dominated by a flood of earnings reports. Some companies are selling ships, others are buying, or sometimes doing both to renew their fleet. Companies: Star Bulk, ABN AMRO, National Bank of Greece, Genco, Hafnia

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A Surge of Maritime Tech Transactions

Aug 7, 2025

This summer, in an unassuming corner of the European venture ecosystem, the Belgian startup Tilla raised €2 million in seed funding. Companies: Tilla, Motion Ventures, Exmar, Voyager Portal, Sedna, Dataloy Systems AS, Veson Nautical, OrbitMI, AuQub Intelligence, NAPA, StormGeo, Thetius, Digital Ship

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ADNOC L&S Successfully Executes Secondary Share Sale

Sep 4, 2025

Equity raises for shipping companies have become rare occurrences in Western capital markets. Companies: ADNOC Logistics & Services , Pershing Square Holdings, KKR/Ocean Yield

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Ocean Yield Places Extremely Competitive Nordic Shipping Bond

Aug 28, 2025

Last week’s issue of Freshly Minted featured a discussion around Ocean Yield and their financial sponsor, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (“KKR”), which jointly acquired CapeOmega. Companies: Ocean Yield, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, CapeOmega, Navigator Gas, Scorpio

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Ocean Yield Co-Invests with KKR to Acquire CapeOmega

Aug 21, 2025

Many private equity funds have moved in and out of the shipping markets opportunistically, but a few funds have distinguished themselves through long-term commitment to our industry. Companies: Oaktree, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, Chembulk Tankers, Borealis/Australis, Embarcadero Maritime, U.N. Ro-Ro, Nord LB, Maritime Finance Company, Ocean Yield, CapeOmega, Partners Group, Knutsen, Shell, Engle, QatarEnergy, Geogas, France LNG Shipping

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Chinese Leasing Continues Supporting Domestic Shipping

Aug 14, 2025

Shipping has faced a tumultuous year in shipping policy. While much of the politics has focused more broadly on the general economy and trade (like tariffs), some have specifically targeted the maritime sector, like the proposed USTR fees on Chinese owned/operated vessels, the result of which has been much more uncertainty surrounding Chinese leasing transactions. Companies: Sallaum Lines , FuJian MaWei ShipBuilding , CMHI Jinling, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Shenzhen Capital Group Co.

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Trade Deals: Can Japanese and Korean Investment Revive U.S. Shipbuilding?

Aug 7, 2025

It is hard to believe it was only four months ago that the Trump administration’s sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” shocked markets worldwide—leading to the eventual decision by the White House to delay and negotiate until August 1st. Companies:

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U.S. Shipbuilding Developments Continue

Sep 4, 2025

Over the course of the summer season, as tariff delays and exemptions approached their August 1st deadline, the U.S. began a spree of bilateral trade deals, many of which included or targeted the U.S. shipping and shipbuilding industry. Companies: Ocean Network Express, Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, Cerberus Capital Management, HD Hyundai, Cerberus Maritime, Korea Development Bank, MSIP/Crowley, Hanwha, Philadelphia Shipyard , Hanwha Shipping

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Is Momentum Building in the LNG Sector?

Aug 28, 2025

Gas and specifically LNG investments in shipping have often been amongst the few shipping sectors to still attract longer-term outside capital. Companies: Höegh LNG , Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, Golar LNG , NFE, Basalt Infrastructure, Apollo, Hav Energy, Ocean Yield, France LNG , KKR, CapeOmega , Hanwha, Venture Global, DNV Maritime, Clarksons Data, Department of Energy , EIA, Trafigura, Korea Gas Corporation , Cheniere, Gunvor , Macquarie Group , AMIGO LNG, Epcilon LNG , LNG Alliance

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Not Just Bank Debt: Ocean Network Express Enters JOLCOs Insured by ECAs

Aug 21, 2025

While Torm and others turn to bank debt to refinance their capital structures, the leasing market has hardly come to a standstill, whether it be private lease strategies, Chinese leases, or Japanese Operating Leases with Call Options (“JOLCOs”). Companies: Ocean Network Express, Nihon Shipyard Co, Imabari Shipbuilding Co, K-SURE, Sinosure, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Nippon Export and Investment Insurance , BNP Paribas , HSBC, Citibank , Financial Partners Group, Watson Farley Williams, Norton Rose Fulbright

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Notos Group

Aug 14, 2025

SUEZMAX RATES SURGE
SHIPPING STOCKS: EVERY SECTOR IN THE GREEN

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HCOB Refinances LEMSCO Fleet—No Summer Slump in Dealmaking This Year!

Aug 7, 2025

While newbuild financing may provide a new vector for capital deployment, refinancing transactions like Costamare’s are still proving a reliable source of deal flow. Companies: Hamburg Commercial Bank , LEMSCO, Stena AB , ProMarine AG, ABN AMRO, DNV, Proman

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