{"id":1500,"date":"2019-04-17T04:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T04:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2019-04-17T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T04:10:00","slug":"scorpio-refinances-six-ultramaxes-with-avic-sale-and-leaseback-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/scorpio-refinances-six-ultramaxes-with-avic-sale-and-leaseback-deal\/1500\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpio refinances six ultramaxes with AVIC sale and leaseback deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monaco-headquartered Scorpio Bulkers has agreed to the sale and leaseback of six ultramax vessels to China\u2019s AVIC International Leasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>SBI Antares<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>SBI Bravo<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>SBI Hydra<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>SBI Leo<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>SBI Lyra<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>SBI Maia<\/em>&nbsp;are the vessels being sold, with completion scheduled by the end of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal will see Scorpio add up to $62.4m to its liquidity, and it will bareboat charter the vessels back for a period of eight years. Scorpio has options to buy back the vessels from after the second year and an obligation to purchase the vessels at the end of the charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scorpio has been active this year refinancing its fleet, having sealed a sale and leaseback earlier this month with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/scorpio-bulkers-secures-sale-and-leaseback-deal-with-ocean-yield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ocean Yield for two ultramaxes<\/a>&nbsp;and a seven-ship deal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/scorpio-seals-sale-and-leaseback-with-cmb-for-seven-bulkers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last month with China\u2019s CMB Financial Leasing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monaco-headquartered Scorpio Bulkers has agreed to the sale and leaseback of six ultramax vessels to China\u2019s AVIC International Leasing. SBI Antares,&nbsp;SBI Bravo,&nbsp;SBI Hydra,&nbsp;SBI Leo,&nbsp;SBI Lyra&nbsp;and&nbsp;SBI Maia&nbsp;are the vessels being sold, with completion scheduled by the end of June. The deal will see Scorpio add up to $62.4m to its liquidity, and it will bareboat charter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,57],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-shipping-news","tag-scorpio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}