Global Ship Lease Appoints Philippe Lemonnier to the Company’S Board of Directors
September 21, 2017 at 09:15 pm
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Global Ship Lease, Inc. announced the appointment of Philippe Lemonnier to the company’s Board of Directors, increasing the Board to seven members. Mr. Lemonnier was appointed by the existing Board of Directors following his nomination by the company’s largest shareholder, CMA CGM. Mr. Lemonnier currently serves as CMA CGM’s Vice President of Finance Transformation, Cost Efficiency and Transversal Projects, having joined the company in 2005.
Global Ship Lease, Inc. is a United Kingdom-based containership owner, leasing ships to container shipping companies under industry-standard, fixed-rate time charters. The Company focuses on mid-size Post-Panamax and smaller containerships. As a containership owner, its business is both procyclical with chartered tonnage and counter-cyclical with sale and lease-back structures. The Company owns 68 containerships, ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 TEU, with a combined capacity of 375,406 TEU. 36 ships are wide beam Post-Panamax. The mix of ship sizes within its fleet provides flexibility to deploy its vessels on a range of trading routes. Its portfolio of vessels includes CMA CGM Thalassa, ZIM Norfolk, Anthea Y, ZIM Xiamen, MSC Tianjin, MSC Qingdao, GSL Ningbo, GSL Alexandra, GSL Effie, GSL Lydia, GSL Sofia, GSL Kalliopi, GSL Grania, GSL Eleni, Mary, Kristina, Katherine, Alexandra, Alexis, Olivia I, CMA CGM Berlioz, Agios Dimitrios, and GSL Christel Elisabeth, among others.
GLOBAL SHIP LEASE, INC. 
