There are over 100 Banks and Institutions around the globe currently active within the ship finance market, all have specific and inflexible lending criteria offering very different products.

Typical Finance Structures Include:

• Syndicated ship finance
• Club lending ship finance
• Traditional ship finance - Ship mortgage
• Tax based ship finance lending
• Mezzanine ship finance
• Government backed ship finance schemes
• Structured ship funding 

Current Market

“The extreme volatility of the spot container shipping market is an industry issue not just for shippers, who cannot forecast their transport costs or their products’ total landed costs, but also for container shipping companies and forwarders,”