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Virtual Roundtable
Ship Financing: Investment Opportunities and Strategies for New Market Segments
In the context of the Conference on Ship Financing at SMM 2008, Hamburg and the 12. HANSA-Forum Schiffsfinanzierung 08, Hamburg. Read more about the upcoming HANSA-Forum on Nov 13th here or directly on www.hansa-online.de
While international financial crisis still increases in size and reach some major national economies face severe recession risks. The international ship financing community - being the pacemaker of international trade and growth - now has to deal with those issues as well.
Hence, the ship finance industry has to give some answers to how maritime markets and players are affected by the credit crisis. Which challenges do shipowners face in the near or even distant future, is bank money for new ships getting to expensive to obtain? Do we have to invent new and innovative financing schemes? Will there even be new opportunities for ship financing arising from the crisis?
The DMKN-roundtable wants to shed some light on these issues related to ship financing. We invite experts from companies, banks and institutions to present their views on current and future market perspectives.
The discussed questions are:
1) Which of the players in the ship financing sector are affected most by the credit crisis? Why is this so, are there substantial differences by country / on the global level?
2) Is bank money for new ships getting expensive to obtain? Will the business model stay as attractive as in the last years, especially with the German investors playing a leading role in the sector?
3) Is there a need to invent completely new and innovative financing schemes? Will there even be new opportunities for ship financing arising from the crisis?
4) Please name - from your personal expertise - the most significant challenges ship owners will have to face in the near future?
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