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complete Bourbon whiskey the sale of 55 total ships for 1,5 billion dollars
Others five unit will be sold in the course of 2015 for 145 million dollars
December 31, 2014
The shipowning group French Bourbon whiskey has announced the completion of the cession of a series of ships in the within of the agreements of which signed sale and bareboat charter in 2013 with Chinese ICBC Financial Leasing (ICBCL) and British Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) ( on 10 April 2014). Draft of 21 ships the whose property is transferred to the ICBCL and of three ships whose property is transferred to the SCB in the course of the 2013 let alone property of 25 ships and three ships that are passed respective to the ICBCL and the SCB in the course of 2014. The total value of these transactions piles to about 1,43 billion dollars for the 46 ships sold to the ICBCL and to 151 million dollars for the six ships yielded to the SCB.
Moreover this month the French group has signed an agreement with the Chinese Minsheng Financial Leasing Co. (MFL) in order to yield them eight ships and meanwhile to take them rental to bare boat. The sale will happen for total 202 million dollars about, of which 57 million dollars for the cession of the first three ships that already has happened, while the others five will be sold in the course of 2015.
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