Sector: Industrials | Industry: Marine Freight & Logistics |
Global Ship Lease, Inc. is a United Kingdom-based containership owner that leases ships to container shipping companies under fixed-rate time charters. The Company focuses on mid-size Post-Panamax and smaller containerships. As a containership owner, its business is both pro-cyclical with chartered tonnage and counter-cyclical with sale and lease-back structures. The Company owns approximately 64 containerships, ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU), with an aggregate capacity of 341,230 TEU. 32 ships are wide beam Post-Panamax. The mix of ship sizes within its fleet provides flexibility to deploy its vessels on a range of trading routes. Its portfolio of vessels includes CMA CGM Thalassa, ZIM Norfolk, Anthea Y, ZIM Xiamen, MSC Tianjin, MSC Qingdao, GSL Ningbo, GSL Christel Elisabeth, CMA CGM Alcazar, CMA CGM Jamaica, CMA CGM Sambhar, CMA CGM America, Beethoven tbr GSL Chloe, Newyorker, and GSL Maren, among others.
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