Friday, July 24, 2009

Is Hapag-Lloyd close to bankruptcy?

Lloyd's List has a lenghty article today regarding the current situation at Hapag-Lloyd.

It says they are asking shipowners for charter price cuts, similar to what was received by CSAV. This, in addition to needing more cash from their shareholders.

I find this a bit disturbing, because I thought they negotiated with the shipowners last month, with the shipowners investing money in the company in exchange for equity.

At the time, I thought it was a bad move not to get lower charter rates, but maybe this was the plan all along.

I doubt it. I think things are worse than they thought.

This comment really caught my eye.

Without financial aid from its shareholders, the line would face bankruptcy within weeks, industry insiders said.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I work at Maersk; a customer told me that he hears rumours of CMA and Hapag merging. That ought to shake things up!