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COPENHAGEN, July 7 (Reuters) - Investment firms 3iInfrastructure and AMP Capital have agreed tobuy Danish shipping company Esvagt for 4.1 billion Danish crowns($607 million), aiming to tap growing demand for servicingoffshore wind farms.
Esvagt is being sold by Danish shipping and oil group A.P.Moller-Maersk, which controls 75 percent of theshares, and a group of individual investors who own the rest.
It has a fleet of 43 vessels and is a provider of offshoresafety and support primarily in and around the North Sea and theBarents Sea.
The buyout will be backed with 3 billion crowns of leveragedloans in a financing deal led by Royal Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Scotland, banking sources said.
The financing comprises around 2 billion crowns of termloans and 1 billion crowns of undrawn facilities, bothdenominated in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish crowns as well assterling, the sources said.
The loans will be sold to investors in a syndication processin the coming weeks, the sources added.
Esvagt made a record profit of 252 million crowns in 2014 onturnover of 943 million crowns.
Since 2010, the company has been servicing the Bligh BankOffshore Wind Farm for Danish wind turbine maker Vestas.
This year, it has put two specially built service vesselsfor offshore wind turbine farms into operation for Siemens WindPower.
A.P. Moller-Maersk has offloaded a string of companies andstakes in subsidiaries in recent years to focus on containershipping, oil, port operations and drilling. It has booked morethan $11 billion from divestments since 2009.
($1 = 6.7689 Danish crowns) (Reporting by Ole Mikkelsen; Additional reporting by ClaireRuckin in London; Editing by Mark Potter and Pravin Char)
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