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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

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

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

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

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