JR Shipping Group provides the knowledge and operational efficiency required to work together on new asset, financing and ship management structures, with the focus on multipurpose and container feeders as well as to the restructuring and refinancing of then. Being an all-round shipping company, we can support debt financiers, equity investors, shipowners and management compagnies. financiers, equity investors, shipowners and management compagnies.

Experienced in managing successfull restructurings and refinancing

The extraordinary mixture of specialties that are united within the JR Shipping Group constitutes the foundation for a modern form of partnership that the shipping company offers in cases of complex restructuring and transition projects. This form of service providing started in the years after 2000 when the effects of a global economie crisis had enormous impact on the shipping industry. In the first stage of that crisis, the shipping group took several restructuring and refinancing measures for its own fleet, which proved to be become benchmark. The most significant success factors were: permanent investor confidence and close coordination with shipping bankers; market know how; financial resilience; transparency and operational versatility. Example cases:

• Implementation of a wide range of working capital finance solutions for distressed shipping funds.
• Structuring the consolidation of a portfolio of single ship companies into a fleet fund structure which resulted in risk mitigation, balancing of working capital positions and significat lower dept capital costs.
• Turn around management for a fleet of CV 1100plus vessels financed by a German bank and previously owned/managed by another shipping company.
• Managing portfolio deals for distressed debt investors.
• Managing asset for a wide range of shipping investors, such as private equity investers, family offices and wealthy individuals.
• Crisis management over other shipping companies