Neptune Maritime Leasing

What Neptune Maritime Leasing does

Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd. is a private, Jersey-domiciled maritime leasing platform founded in 2021 that provides sale and leaseback financing to shipowners across containerships, dry bulk, tankers, and offshore vessels. The company acquires vessels from shipowners and leases them back under long-term charters, generating lease-based revenue with stated targets of risk-adjusted returns, equity upside, and inflation protection. Neptune operates with a relationship-driven, enterprise go-to-market model, sourcing transactions through its senior leadership team's shipping-finance network and active participation in maritime industry conferences and forums.

The platform's core offering is a single product — a maritime vessel leasing and S&L financing facility — structured bespoke on a transaction-by-transaction basis with multi-year contracts. Underlying operations are relationship- and underwriting-led rather than technology-led: there is no proprietary AI or software product, no application or API, and the customer interface is direct enterprise sales supported by investor relations via Capital Link. Strategic backing is anchored by the Latsco Family Office (original anchor investor with shipping heritage dating to the 1940s) and Costamare Inc. (NYSE: CMRE), which invested up to US$200M in March 2023 and holds three board seats.

Neptune serves two primary customer segments: shipowners seeking flexible financing outside traditional bank channels amid capital-restricted conditions and environmental-regulation-driven fleet renewal needs, and institutional investors seeking exposure to an under-invested, uncorrelated asset class with stable long-term cash flows. Disclosed customers include Global Ship Lease, Inc. (first S&L transaction, 2021) and Golden Energy Offshore Services ASA (US$95M, seven-vessel facility, June 2025). The company has received Marine Money's Private Equity Deal of the Year 2023, Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards' Shipping Financier of the Year 2024, and has sponsored the Greek Shipping Awards for three consecutive years.

Name

Neptune Maritime Leasing

Legal name

Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd.

Website

https://neptuneleasing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd. is a Jersey-domiciled maritime leasing platform, founded in 2021, that provides sale and leaseback financing to shipowners across containerships, dry bulk, tankers, and offshore vessels, and gives institutional investors access to maritime assets, anchored by the Latsco Family Office and Costamare Inc.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Maritime Vessel Leasing

NAICS

Commercial Air, Rail, and Water Transportation Equipment Rental and Leasing (532411)

SIC

Finance Lessors (6172)

akta.pro primary industry

Marine & Boat Finance (FSAKADAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Boat & Marine Leasing (FSAKANAH)

Keywords

• Maritime leasing
• Sale and leaseback
• Ship financing
• Vessel leasing
• Maritime investment

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Helier

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Maritime Sale and Leaseback Financing: Neptune provides sale and leaseback financing to shipowners, acquiring vessels and leasing them back under long-term charters. Revenue is generated through lease payments that provide attractive, long-term, risk-adjusted returns with equity upside and inflation protection. The company invests in attractively priced, highly liquid maritime assets that generate long-term stable cash flows.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Neptune Maritime Leasing provides shipowners with access to flexible sale and leaseback financing for vessels across multiple maritime sectors including containerships, dry bulk, tankers, and offshore vessels. The company acquires vessels and leases them back to shipowners under long-term charter contracts, generating lease payments that deliver long-term, risk-adjusted returns with equity upside and inflation protection for its investors. Simultaneously, the platform provides institutional investors with secure access to maritime assets as an under-invested, uncorrelated asset class.

Product overview

Neptune Maritime Leasing is a single-product maritime leasing platform that provides sale and leaseback financing solutions for shipowners. The platform invests in attractively priced, highly liquid maritime assets that generate long-term and stable cash flows through long-term charter contracts. Neptune focuses on diverse maritime sectors including containerships, dry bulk, and offshore vessels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Maritime Vessel Leasing Platform (Sale and Leaseback Financing)

Quantifiable outcome

• Costamare Inc. invested up to $200M, making them the leading investor
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Golden Energy Offshore Services ASAminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2025Neptune completed a USD 95,000,000 sale and leaseback facility for the seven-vessel fleet of Golden Energy Offshore Services ASA (OSLO: GEOS) in June 2025. This represents one of Neptune's significant portfolio transactions.
• Lars SolbakkenminorOthers · 5 June 2023Lars Solbakken joined Neptune Leasing as an adviser to its executive Board. He has extensive experience including CEO of Ship Finance International Ltd, Norwegian Car Carriers ASA, and Ocean Yield ASA until early 2022, as well as senior banking roles at Fortis Bank and Christiania Bank.
• United Nations Global CompactminorOthers · 25 August 2022Neptune joined the United Nations Global Compact, the largest corporate sustainable development initiative in the world. Neptune joined the UN Global Compact Network Hellas, advancing shared values in Greece and committing to ten principles in human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
• HELMEPAminorOthers · 4 April 2022Neptune was accepted as an Associate Member of HELMEPA (Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association), a proactive community committed to marine environment protection, safety at sea, and sustainability with 2,000+ merchant vessels and 240+ shipping companies in membership.
• Global Ship Lease, Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2021Neptune concluded its first sale and leaseback transaction with Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE-listed containership owner) for the M/V GSL Violetta, subject to long-term charter with Maersk Line A/S. This was GSL's first sale and leaseback financing transaction.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Minsheng Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. Large Chinese financial lessor with a maritime leasing book, providing transaction comparables in sale-and-leaseback of vessels – particularly relevant given Neptune's new Asia origination push.

Broad incumbents

• Bocom Leasing (Bank of Communications subsidiary): Chinese bank-affiliated lessor active in ship financing, comparable in scale of transaction size and vessel-asset focus, including sale and leaseback structures.
• Costamare Inc. NYSE-listed containership owner that is simultaneously Neptune's largest investor ($200M) and an operator in the same maritime finance ecosystem; comparable for vessel-financing intelligence though it is an owner/operator rather than a pure lessor.

Direct peers

• Danaos Corporation: Containership lessor with large sale-and-leaseback exposure to containers, comparable in customer profile (shipowners seeking capital) and underlying asset class.
• Global Ship Lease, Inc. NYSE-listed containership lessor and existing Neptune transaction counterparty, operating a comparable sale-and-leaseback model on containership tonnage under long-term charter.
• Ocean Yield ASA: Maritime leasing company (now majority-owned by KKR) that acquires vessels and structures sale and leaseback financings – the closest direct comparable to Neptune's model across tankers, containerships and offshore.
• SeaCube Container Leasing: Pure-play container leasing platform (KKR/CMA CGM portfolio company) – comparable transaction structure (S&L of vessels under long-term charter) and target customer (shipowners).
• Ship Finance International Limited: Long-established maritime sale-and-leaseback lessor (now part of Frontline), operating in the same product category as Neptune across tankers and bulkers, with multiple decades of through-cycle track record.

Others

• Capital Link Inc. Investor relations and advisory firm serving shipping and maritime clients – Neptune's retained IR/media advisor, useful as an ecosystem comparator for maritime capital-markets distribution.
• Aviation Capital Group: Aircraft (rather than maritime) sale-and-leaseback specialist owned by Tokyo Century – illustrates the structural 'capital-restricted alternative financier' archetype that Neptune applies to shipping and is the closest cross-asset analogue to Neptune's model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/neptune-leasing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments1 record

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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