Finance

Lindblad Expeditions Holdings has entered into an agreement with a group of investors for the private placement of $85 mill of convertible preferred stock. The investors include MSD Partners, Durable Capital, Headlands Capital, Deep Field Asset Management and [Read more...]

Following an announcement that it was suspending certain payments to creditors, Genting Hong Kong has announced an EBITDA loss of $204.1 mill for the first half of this year, compared to a positive EBITDA of $76.9 mill in [Read more...]

At the beginning of September, Tallink Grupp informed its staff that it was to make further redundancies in the different group subsidiaries. It said it had has notified the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund and the Estonian Independent Maritime [Read more...]

Royal Caribbean Group has secured a binding commitment from Morgan Stanley for a $700 mill term loan facility. The company said it may draw on the facility at any time prior to 12th August, 2021. Once drawn, the [Read more...]

Ro-ro and ropax ferry operator DFDS has reported that there was a rebound in freight volumes at the end of the second quarter of this year and into July. There was also an encouraging pickup in passenger demand [Read more...]

Viking Line is to start negotiations with land-based staff in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Åland in a bid to reorganise their functions. This initiative is aimed at cutting costs, improve operational efficiency and safeguard the company’s future competitiveness [Read more...]

Malaysian tycoon, Lim Kok Thay, has pledged most of his stake in beleaguered cruise operator Genting Hong Kong as collateral for loans, according to local media. This move came after the company said that it had suspended all payments to [Read more...]

Italian shipbuilding and engineering firm Fincantieri suffered a net loss of €137 mill on revenues of €2.4 bill for the the first half of this year. This compares to net income of €47 mill on revenues of €2.8 [Read more...]

Royal Caribbean has amended its $1.55 bill unsecured revolving credit facility due 2022 with Nordea Bank ABP, New York Branch, as administrative agent, its $1.925 bill unsecured revolving credit facility due 2024 with The Bank of Nova Scotia [Read more...]

Several businesses attached to Tennor Holding are taking on 350 employees from the insolvent Gemran shipbuilder, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG). These include all 31 trainees and nine students, in a combined work-study programme, as well as shipyard business assets, [Read more...]