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Textainer invests newly in the container purchase
Bought 81,000 teu that they take part of the fleet managed from the company
October 3, 2012
The intermodal charter of container Textainer has invested 98 million dollars in order to acquire about 81.000 container teu that they take part of the fleet managed from the same company. With the purchase the percentage of container of property of the Textainer in the fleet operated from the society is gone up to 66%.
"For a long time - it has remembered the president and managing director of the company, Philip K. Brewer - we say that the strategy of Textainer is that to increase is our total fleet that the quota our property. This acquisition demonstrates to our success in implementing such strategy. This - it has added - is second the important managed acquisition of container from the Textainer (follows in fact that of 52.000 teu last month announced, on September 10, 2012, ndr), for a total of beyond 164 million dollars, and it evidences our ability to use the recently obtained liquidity to beyond the initial expectations. With these recent operations we preview that the investments in the 2012 will go up to levels record".
At the end last month the consistency of the fleet of Textainer was of 1,7 million teu for a volume pairs to beyond 2,6 million teu.
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