US-listed Capital Product Partners (CPLP) has doubled the size of its LNG carrier fleet, exercising options to buy three newbuildings following a successful bond sale in its home country of Greece, which financed part of the acquisition.
The $623m purchase of the 174,000-cbm vessels will be financed through about $168m in net proceeds from the bond issue, $439.4m in sale-and-leaseback financing debt, as well as $15.7m