10 Oct 2019 07:00
10 October 2019
Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited (The "Company")
$8.75m Investment in one Containership
The Board of Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited (ticker: SHIP.L) is pleased to announce that the Company has agreed to acquire a Containership for $8.75m. This acquisition will take the Company's fleet to seventeen vessels.
The vessel is time chartered to part of a major, investment grade, container shipping group for at least three years. The forecasted yield exceeds the targets expressed in the Company's prospectus dated 25 September 2018.
This is the first investment funded entirely from the proceeds of the placing announced on 20 September 2019.
Tufton Oceanic Ltd, the Investment Manager, continues to identify an attractive pipeline of opportunities across a range of the Company's target sectors.
For further information, please contact:
Tufton Oceanic Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 20 7518 6700
Andrew Hampson
Paulo Almeida
N+1 Singer Tel: +44 (0) 207 496 3000
James Maxwell, Alex Bond (Corporate Finance)
Alan Geeves, James Waterlow, Sam Greatrex (Sales)
Hudnall Capital LLP Tel: +44 (0) 20 7520 9085
Andrew Cade
About the Company
Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited invests in a diversified portfolio of secondhand commercial sea-going vessels with the objective of delivering strong cash flow and capital gains to investors. The Company's investment manager is Tufton Oceanic Ltd. The Company has raised a total of approximately $250m (gross) through its Initial Public Offering on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange, on 20 December 2017, a subsequent placing and offer in October 2018, a placing in March 2019 and a placing in September 2019.