石油圈中国石化新闻网讯 据路透社12月6日伦敦报道，全球最大航运融资商之一的北欧银行高管表示，北欧银行的目标是增加对不断增长的LNG行业的航运融资活动。 中国对污染的打击，以及对LNG等更环保能源需求的增长，推动了船只运输燃料的需求。 北欧地区航运主管Geir Atle Lerkerod对路透社表示：“我们希望扩大投资组合，并扩大某些领域的业务，如LNG方面。” 他本周在伦敦举行的北欧银行投资者活动期间表示：“随着时间的推移，我们看到了潜在的强劲需求，我们也看到了未来的趋势。” 在这次会议上，LNG运输官员们预计未来两年将有强劲的市场，但他们也表示，随着40到50艘LNG船舶的订单，通过新订单进一步增加船舶数量可能会破坏商业前景。 北欧银行的官员表示，北欧银行的航运和离岸投资组合为90亿欧元（合102亿美元），LNG贷款约占15%，其中包括专门的浮动储存和再净化船只的融资。 北欧银行国际航运及离岸业务主管Thor-Erik Bech表示，该银行还希望增加对干散货船和油轮行业的贷款。 他在接受路透社采访时表示：“我们预计2019年和2020年将是干散货期，并可能出现令人惊讶的情况，就像我们现在在油轮上业务看到的情况。” 在经历了多年的艰难环境后，降低干散货船和油轮订单的速度，有助于提升前景。 德国银行曾是全球最大的航运融资机构，但它们已经退出市场，或试图出售数十亿欧元的贷款，其中大部分是不良贷款。 Bech称，北欧银行不想从其他银行购买投资组合。 詹晓晶摘自路透社 原文如下： Nordea Bank to boost shipping finance for booming LNG industry Nordea Bank aims to increase shipping finance activities to the growing liquefied natural gas (LNG)industry, executives at one of the world’s biggest shipping financiers said. China’s crackdown on pollution and its growing demand for more environmentally friendly sources of power, such as LNG, are boosting demand for ships to transport the fuel. “We would like to expand the portfolio and there are certain segments that we would like to expand in. One of them is on the LNG side,” Geir Atle Lerkerod, Nordea’s head of shipping for the Nordic region, told Reuters. “We see there is an underlying strong demand over time and we see that going forward as well,” he said on the sidelines of the Nordic bank’s investor event in London this week. LNG shipping officials at the event expected strong markets for the next two years. But they said that, with 40 to 50 LNG ships on order, a further build up of vessels through new ordering could undermine business prospects. Nordea’s shipping and offshore portfolio stands at 9 billion euros ($10.2 billion), with LNG lending accounting for about 15 percent, which includes the financing of specialist floating storage and regassification vessels, Nordea officials said. Thor-Erik Bech, Nordea’s head of international shipping and offshore, said the bank also wanted to boost lending to the dry bulk and tanker industries. “We expect that 2019 and 2020 will be decent years in dry bulk and potentially a surprise on the upside as we have seen now on tankers,” he told Reuters. Slowing orders for dry bulk vessels and tankers have helped boost prospects after years of tough conditions. German banks were once the top global shipping financiers, but they have been exiting the market or are trying to sell billions of euros in loans, much of them non-performing. Bech said Nordea did not want to buy portfolios from other banks.
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