Competitive Strengths

GSL's competitive strengths will allow the Company to execute its business strategy and deliver a clear value proposition both to its shareholders and customers.

Cost effective.
GSL's business model drives operational and financing efficiencies and maximizes the quality of its service offering. Selected activities are outsourced to quality service providers, in order to keep overheads low and allow the business to be readily scalable.

Reputable and expert ship management.
We will work with reputable and expert third party ship managers. This will allow us to cater to the ship manager preferences of our customer base while also benefiting from economies of scale and expertise. Furthermore, it will help us to enhance risk management and facilitate benchmarking of costs and best practices.

Appropriate asset mix.
The composition of GSL's fleet is designed to meet the needs of its customer base over the long-term. The diversity of GSL's containership fleet means the Company can offer vessels which can be deployed on many different trade routes, giving increased flexibility in the re-charter market.







Full service solution.
GSL provides time charters, which combine full financing and technical management of vessels, allowing liner companies to manage their balance sheets and free up strategic capital and management resources for other core activities.

Broad service offering.
We offer both the back-to-back purchase and charter of newbuildings, and the purchase and charter-back of existing tonnage.

Experienced management team.
GSL's management team has an aggregate of over 80 years of experience within the shipping industry including within liner shipping, ship finance and ship management. This affords the Company an in-depth understanding of the needs of its customer base. Further strengthened and supported by the GSL Board of Directors, the management team has access to the experience and network of industry relationships to identify future acquisitions and charter opportunities and expand the Company's customer base.

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