Book chapter
Loans and Risk Management Considerations
Abstract
This chapter aims to outline the considerations associated to the financial decisions related to loans and the related risk management approaches. The first section presents the elementary calculations related to loan calculations and the impact of the decision-variables. The basic financial criteria for projects are also briefly presented and sensitivity analysis on the basis of numerical examples set forth the effect of the selected assumptions. The second section analyses the key risks and presents the ways commonly mitigated in the ship loan policies.
How to cite
Schinas, O., Kewitsch, S. (2014). Loans and Risk Management Considerations. In Schinas, O., Grau, C., Johns, M. (Eds.), The HSBA Handbook on Ship Finance, Springer, pp. 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43410-9_2