1月28日，由中央广播电视总台主办的中央重点新闻网站《国际在线》，报道了江苏金融租赁股份有限公司（以下简称“江苏租赁”）为响应国家“交通强国”、“航运强国”号召，创新开展船舶融资租赁业务，以专业、高效、灵活的服务，想客户所想，急客户所急，助力中国船东驶向“深蓝”。

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Jiangsu Financial Leasing: Exploiting the Advantages of Leasing to Help Chinese Shipowners Move from Offshore Regions to Oceans

At 9:00 am on January 18, 2022, Sammi Zhang, the head of the Shipping Division of Jiangsu Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jiangsu Financial Leasing"), and her team members were gazing at the TV screen in the conference room. A remote video conference spanning Nanjing, Liberia and South Korea was in full swing through the screen.

Upon the acceptance of remote command materials and the completion of crew shifts, a Chinese shipping company completed the handover of works with the Korean seller. Immediately afterwards, Jiangsu Financial Leasing, as the investor, signed an agreement with the shipping company, indicating a bulk carrier valued at nearly USD 20 million has formally entered the fleet of Jiangsu Financial Leasing. So far, a cross-border "ship sale and leaseback project" has been officially concluded.

This is just one of the numerous cases in the field of shipping vessels handled by Jiangsu Financial Leasing. Since 2004, it has been involved in the field of shipping vessels and experienced many market fluctuations. In the second half of 2019, in response to the Chinese government's call for a "country with strong transportation network" and "country with strong shipping network", Jiangsu Financial Leasing set shipping vessels as one of the company's strategically important development sectors, helping dozens of "Belt and Road Initiative" Chinese shipowners move from offshore regions to oceans. In May, 2021, Jiangsu Financial Leasing won the  Innovation Award of China Maritime Finance "Qianxing" Awards for its first domestic chemical tanker leasing project in which a leasing company and a shipowner jointly applied from the Ministry of Transport of China for transport capacity.

Over the past two years, Jiangsu Financial Leasing has always been growing with shipowners. Up to now, Jiangsu Financial Leasing boasts a fleet of 54 vessels with a total capacity of over 2 million deadweight tons, including bulk carriers, container ships, product oil tankers, chemical tankers to other various types of ships. The cumulative investment amount exceeds CNY 3.5 billion.

Xiong Xiangen, the chairman of Jiangsu Financial Leasing remarked: "We will keep caring and supporting the Chinese shipping market, exerting our leasing advantages, and helping Chinese shipowners go global."