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Record second quarter for container ship charterer Global Ship Lease
The company believes it has excellent prospects for further growth at least until 2023-2024
August 9, 2021
In the light of these forecasts, GSL has initiated investments for the acquisition of additional ships: «we continue - has specified Youroukos - to be very active in the acquisition of high-quality container ships with solids performance profiles and low risks. Already in 2021 - has remembered - we have increased our fleet by more than 50%». Currently the GSL fleet consists of 65 container holders, four of which are still to be taken over, for a load capacity of 342 thousand teu.
Global Ship Lease closed the second quarter of this year with record revenues of $82.9 million, up the +16.1% on the same period of 2020. Values never achieved in previously were also recorded by operating profit and net profit, which amounted to 45.4 million respectively of dollars (+53.0%) and 32.1 million dollars (+137.3%).
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