Performance Shipping secures sale, leaseback agreement for LR1 tanker

Performance Shipping (PSHG) announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a sale and leaseback agreement with an unaffiliated third party for its previously announced LR1 tanker newbuilding vessel, to be named M/T P. San Francisco, currently under construction at Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and scheduled for delivery in early 2027. The bareboat financing amount totals $37.8 million. As part of this agreement, the Vessel will be sold and then chartered back to the Company on a bareboat basis for a ten-year period starting from delivery from the shipyard. The bareboat charter includes 120 monthly installments equivalent to $5,451 per day, with an implied interest rate of Term SOFR plus 2.00% per annum. Additionally, a balloon payment of approximately $18.1 million will be due together with the last installment. The Company has continuous options to repurchase the Vessel at predetermined rates following the second anniversary of the bareboat charter.