LONDON, Jan. 22, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE: GSL) (the “Company” or “GSL”), a containership charter owner, today announced that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Ian Webber, is scheduled to present at Noble Capital Markets’ Fifteenth Annual Investor Conference at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
A high-definition, video webcast of the presentation will be available the following day on the Company's website, www.globalshiplease.com, at Noble Capital Markets’ Conference website, www.nobleconference.com, and on the new investor portal created by Noble called Channelchek, www.channelchek.com. The webcast will be archived on the Company's website, the NobleCon website, and on Channelchek for 90 days following the event.
About Global Ship Lease
Global Ship Lease is a leading independent owner of containerships with a diversified fleet of mid-sized and smaller containerships. Incorporated in the Marshall Islands, Global Ship Lease commenced operations in December 2007 with a business of owning and chartering out containerships under mainly long-term, fixed-rate charters to top tier container liner companies. On November 15, 2018, it completed a strategic combination with Poseidon Containers.
Global Ship Lease owns 38 vessels ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 TEU, of which nine are fuel efficient new-design wide beam, with a total capacity of 198,793 TEU and an average age, weighted by TEU capacity, of 11.0 years determined as at December 31, 2018.
The average remaining term of the charters at December 31, 2018 was 2.5 years on a weighted basis.
About Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
2019 marks Noble Capital Markets’ 35th anniversary. The Company is an equity-research driven, full-service, investment & merchant banking boutique focused on emerging growth companies. In addition to NobleCon, Noble hosts numerous “non-deal” corporate road shows across the United States and Canada. In late 2018, Noble launched Channelchek.com which features advanced market data, institutional-quality research, balanced news, videos and podcasts covering more than 6,000 emerging growth companies. There is no cost for investors to join. Members: FINRA, SIPC, MSRB. www.noblecapitalmarkets.com
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