Global Ship Lease
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GSL is a containership lessor with a fleet of containerships leased out under long-term, fixed-rate time charters to container shipping liner companies.
Notwithstanding recent disruptions in trade flows caused by global economic upheaval, container shipping is a growth industry. As a key component of the intermodal transportation infrastructure supporting globalization, containerized trade exhibited a compound annual growth rate in volume terms (as measured in TEUs) of approximately 10% over the period from 1997 to 2007.
As a containership lessor, GSL's business is both pro-cyclical (with chartered tonnage used as a growth platform by liner shipping companies) and counter-cyclical (with sale and charter-back structures used by liner companies as a balance sheet management tool).
Value proposition for investors.
GSL's business model is designed to generate stable and predictable cash flows.
Value proposition for liner shipping companies.
GSL is a vessel financing and chartering partner, providing liner shipping companies with the means to free up capital and management resources to focus upon other strategic needs.