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Ship financing is an old industry. Already in the 16th century finance for building vessels and the risks associated with operating vessels were high for one person and often shared between a group of persons. Today ship financing is a specialised and sophisticated global industry.

The amounts involved justify complex structures in addition to also available straight forward lending products. Layered financing, leasing, residual value risk mitigations, outside investors, tax optimising, Islamic funding are all well developed within the shipping finance industry. The wide range of possibilities is attractive but can also be confusing.

In shipping an agreed financing structure typically involves multi million USD transactions and tenors between 5 - 10 years. If closing such long term, high value, financial shipping transactions is not your day-to-day work making selections and decisions can be difficult. Finamar provides assistance, develops better alternatives and manages the process for shipping companies. Even for larger shipping companies with more specialised staffing Finamar can add value via new alternatives and releasing valuable management time by managing the financing process.

The financial crises has a huge impact on a capital intensive industry as shipping. Not only the borrowers (shipping companies) but also the lenders (banks and other financial institutions) are faced with new and challenging problems and a substantial additional work load. Finamar arranges financial restructuring of transactions and manages complex multi party negotiations.

The Chinese word for crises is a combination of the characters for threat and opportunity. Also the current financial and shipping crises creates opportunities. Finamar advises investors about investment opportunities in shipping and the optimal structuring of those investment. Via the extensive relationship network in shipping "private" deals can be sourced and presented providing better risk/ return ratios compared to the public market deals.