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Credit crunch will see train leasing costs rise by up to 40%, says ROSCO

By James Dark
21 November 2008
Hayden Abbott of Angel Trains says lenders are insisting on much higher debt margins
Hayden Abbott of Angel Trains says lenders are insisting on much higher debt margins

 

Leasing prices negotiated for new rolling stock orders will be 30-50% higher in today’s market than last year’s, one of Europe’s leading train financiers has warned.

Haydn Abbott, chief executive of Angel Trains International, said part of the increase was accounted for by the sale of the rolling stock leasing companies from banks to consortiums of equity investors. He said the new ownership structures created a “totally different situation” and calculated that the...

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