Global Ship Lease to Present at Imperial Capital's Ninth Annual Global Opportunities Conference

Sep 10, 2015

LONDON, Sept. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE:GSL) (the "Company") announced today that the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Ian Webber, is scheduled to present at Imperial Capital's Ninth Annual Global Opportunities Conference in New York City on Thursday, September 17, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

A live webcast of the presentation and slides will be available in the Investor Relations section of Global Ship Lease's website: http://www.globalshiplease.com.

About Global Ship Lease

Global Ship Lease is a containership charter owner. Incorporated in the Marshall Islands, Global Ship Lease commenced operations in December 2007 with a business of owning and chartering out containerships under mainly long-term, fixed-rate charters to top tier container liner companies.

Global Ship Lease currently owns 19 vessels with a total capacity of 82,475 TEU and an average age, weighted by TEU capacity, at June 30, 2015 of 11.2 years. All 19 vessels are currently fixed on time charters, 15 of which are with CMA CGM. The average remaining term of the charters at June 30, 2015 was 5.0 years or 5.5 years on a weighted basis, excluding Ville d'Aquarius, and Ville d'Orion, which are deployed in the short term charter market.

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