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Lottie123,

Thank you for your insight into the complexity and cost of a rights issue.

Can you comment on the £700k costs incurred in arranging the latest placing?

droderick,

"Working on a shoe-string budget" and "million pound bonuses" hardly sit well together.

INFA doesn't "own" the assets you list: Belfast is mortgaged, Appledore is yet to be paid for (cue another raise in the summer right there) and Bifab ditto, assuming the company can actually generate sufficient revenue in the first place to hit payment triggering targets - if not, then all this is moot anyway. The Saipem contract was not "won" in the true sense of the word, more re-ignited. I agree with a previous poster that the RNS announcing this "win" was spuriously-worded at best, omitting as it did details of the performance bond.

You are absolutely correct that the company cannot tender for, and execute, major contracts without substantial amounts of cash, but that is exactly the problem - win contract, need to raise more cash, rinse and repeat. It will always be one step forward and two steps back.

The only chance of survival here is public money and lots of it, paid up-front. Much as I wholly disapprove of the practice, I hope that JW is calling his old mate, Boris, and chums, applying a gun to the head of job creation and economic regeneration in deprived areas.

https://youtu.be/fG3dfwEkGos?t=5

Tango1,

I don't believe that JW will be here in 12 months' time (whether INFA is still here at that point is a different matter). I just wonder whether he will trouser another cheeky mill in the meantime.

jfk9,

I would suggest the seeming unavailability of further debt facilities gives a true sense of the value of those assets...Would you lend against defunct shipyards, to a company that is high on words but has yet to deliver anything, except a nice bump to the directors' bank balances? They didn't even know where they were with their own marine licence application. Remember too that Belfast is already hocked.

Pokerchips,

How delightfully naive!

MaryBr190,

It's a bit of a stretch to bracket INFA with RR!

Even I didn't expect the inevitable placing to be as low as 30p. Who will buy this cr@p, even at 30p? As I posted a while back, if they manage to get this one away, it will be the last. INFA has just about run out of road, without the ML pronto and some semblance of a decent, profitable contract for our glorious shipyards.

Doubtless there will be enough in the kitty for the next round of bonuses, though - cheers!

I am still awaiting the inrush of canny investors, as predicted on here, who wised up over the weekend to the multi-bagging potential, following the transformative news announced on Friday last week.

Oh wait, the market seems to have realised that a £26m contract won't even touch the sides and that the numbers announced on Monday were shocking.

No sarcasm.

Tango1,

3 years?

stokey12,

Once again, this is becoming tedious. Clearly you were unaware of the debt facility until my previous post - I will leave it at that.

stokey12,

Oh dear. May I point you to the RNS released on 10th February 2020? I suggest you sit down before reading, as it seems that you have been investing in this company without being aware of some rather salient points.

stokey12,

A reminder that all the assets of H&W Belfast are already hocked to the leg-breakers and that INFA is paying a usurious interest rate for the privilege. Given the collateral-worthiness of the remaining assets, how much more asset-backed finance do you think the company could raise and at what rate? Don't forget that the company has to pay back the principal to the leg-breakers in February (or is it March?) next year. That time is not far away.

As for dilution, mine currently stands at seven-fold, thanks very much.

Speedy_Gonzalez,

Some of us have a life beyond LSE!

This announcement can only be considered as good news - as long as the contract has been written on profitable terms, of course... I would also hope that payment terms have been inscribed in concrete; I have to be careful what I write on a public forum, but I am aware of one company that went bust due to non-payment by a "significant Italian energy-sector player"...Good luck insisting on due process via the Italian courts. I may speak from experience...

I maintain that there is little prospect of profit from the combined H&W shipyards from the marine sector, based on personal experience - on which I may well expound on another day.

A protester who has only ever posted in support of IslandMagee (and against H&W)?

OK...

Speedy_Gonzalez,

Don't worry, if and when I get my exit point (here's hoping), I might well stick around.

Do INFA's directors enjoy a round of golf? I believe the courses in Florida are quite something...

Speedy_Gonzalez,

I have only ever one post to be deleted that was when a new poster, assuming my name, proceeded to post a blatant and non-informed post in my user-name.

This was quickly acknowledged, and deleted, by the moderators - to their immense credit.

Si_Derman,

Thank you. As stated below, I continue to maintain my position in INFA.

Despite the continual abuse that I receive here, I have never reciprocated, although I did question stokey12's grasp of the English language, simply because many of his/her/their posts are so muddled as to be unintelligible. The same could be said of others', to be fair...I have never stated that INFA is not currently revenue-generating, merely that the use of the term "revenue-generating", in this context is, at best, disingenuous.

Similarly, unlike many other frequent posters on this board, I have never predicted a movement in the share price of INFA, either positive or negative; in my view, that way madness lies.

My criticisms have always lain at the door of the directors, who, I maintain, are entirely self-serving and whose actions certainly do not align with the interests of shareholders. The continued absence of the marine licence for IslandMagee, given the arrogance on public display from the board at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, when INFA's share price rocketed (as a result of a blatant pump-and-dump campaign on social media, involving a former TR1 holder) can only be put down to either incompetence or, to be politely euphemistic, "mis-information." Neither instills confidence.

I do not recall making any reference to JW's "shaft" - though I will state that his history as a phoenix (of which, I admit, I was ignorant until it was posted here), his "amusing" recent bonus and the payment by INFA for services to a company owned by our erstwhile CEO, make me inclined to suggest that he may be carrying out a "shafting" of his own...

I suspect my professional knowledge and experience of shipyards and of the wider shipping industry surpass that of most who post on this forum; it is on this basis that I continue to add my own thoughts.

As to why I continue to hold (yes, Speedy_Gonzalez, I continue to hold), I have also stated here in the past that my own investment philosophy is never to sell at a loss. Not the most efficient of plays, I acknowledge, but I hold only 2 dogs in my portfolio - one of which is INFA (the other having dropped out of the FTSE100 not long ago, so at the other end of the risk/investment spectrum).

Let the insults commence...

Tailor,

I remember the post to which you refer.

Your apology is accepted.

Tailor028, apologies for mis-spelling your user name.

Trailor028,

You appear to be another of INFA's confused. I maintain my +/-60,000 holding.