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Rickmers Holding AG rating updated to CC (negative outlook)
Hamburg, 15 November 2016 – The rating agency Creditreform has updated its rating for Rickmers Holding AG, parent of the shipping company Rickmers Group, from CCC (negative outlook) to CC (negative outlook).
Creditreform bases the new rating above all on the overall market conditions prevalent in the container shipping sector and the corresponding weaker development of the Rickmers Group’s operative business as well as the resulting impairments.
To counteract the current market conditions, the Rickmers Group is working on the implementation of a bundle of multistage measures. In particular, this is intended to strengthen the company’s liquidity position and to restructure its liabilities. As communicated on 11 November 2016, as part of its refinancing of selected bank loans the Rickmers Group has formally approached the Group’s principal lending banks to agree a repayment profile and covenant structure, among other measures, that better reflect the current crisis in the shipping sector.
Hamburg, 15 November 2016 – The rating agency Creditreform has updated its rating for Rickmers Holding AG, parent of the shipping company Rickmers Group, from CCC (negative outlook) to CC (negative outlook).
Creditreform bases the new rating above all on the overall market conditions prevalent in the container shipping sector and the corresponding weaker development of the Rickmers Group’s operative business as well as the resulting impairments.
To counteract the current market conditions, the Rickmers Group is working on the implementation of a bundle of multistage measures. In particular, this is intended to strengthen the company’s liquidity position and to restructure its liabilities. As communicated on 11 November 2016, as part of its refinancing of selected bank loans the Rickmers Group has formally approached the Group’s principal lending banks to agree a repayment profile and covenant structure, among other measures, that better reflect the current crisis in the shipping sector.