Syndicated loans gone
Severe doubts have been raised about the global shipping industry's ability to raise large amounts of capital, as shipping banks and owners declared that the syndicated loan market, a major source of funding, had “disappeared”.
There have been just four syndicated deals done so far in 2009, a fraction of the 268 deals completed in the whole of 2008, Fortis Bank said.
In the first quarter of 2008, transactions worth US$15.8bn were recorded, compared...
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