Hapag-Lloyd today placed approximately 700 million US dollars (equivalent) senior notes in the capital market. In response to the strong investor demand, Hapag-Lloyd increased the originally considered note issue volume of 500 million US dollars by 200 million US dollars. In addition, Hapag-Lloyd entered into a syndicated credit line of 360 million US dollars.
Beforehand, Hapag-Lloyd had terminated the state loan guarantee and thus the payment restrictions imposed by such guarantee ceased to exist. Therefore, Hapag-Lloyd resumes interest and redemption payments on the financing instruments granted by TUI.
TUI expects payments from Hapag-Lloyd of around 65 million euros on deferred interest as well as the 227 million euros redemption payment of the bridge loan at the beginning of November 2010.
In addition, Hapag-Lloyd intends to use a portion of the proceeds of the notes to make a repayment of Hybrid III in the near future subject to compliance with certain contractual liquidity requirements and financial ratios.
Furthermore, as per end of September, TUI has issued 100 million euros of private placements with maturity in August 2014. The envisaged Hapag-Lloyd repayments and the new private placements enhance TUI’s liquidity position.
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The Senior Notes will not be or have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.