Global Ship Lease to Present at the Stifel 2015 Transportation & Logistics Conference

Feb 09, 2015

LONDON, Feb. 9, 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 the Stifel 2015 Transportation & Logistics Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida on Wednesday, February 11, at 4:30 p.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 long-term, fixed rate charters to top tier container liner companies.

Global Ship Lease currently owns 18 vessels with a total capacity of 74,412 TEU and an average age, weighted by TEU capacity, at December 31, 2014 of 10.7 years. All 18 vessels are currently fixed on time charters, 15 of which are with CMA CGM. The average remaining term of the charters is 5.9 years or 6.4 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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