Paving
a new financial
road to Japan Nippon Maritime Bank is
your closest assistant
for Japanese financing solutions.

NMB provides direct loans to foreign shipping companies, not only for new acquisition purposes from the second-hand market but additionally for refinancing your existing fleet.

What we offer might seem similar to direct funding from banks, but our funding source is individual investor capital, rather than depositor capital. This allows us to execute loans with added value compared to conventional banks.

In addition, due to NMB’s great relationships with certain Japanese financial institutions, we can create further value to our service by forming syndicate loans with such financial institutions toward a larger project.

The Japanese Operating Lease Call Option, known as “JOLCO” is already well-known and proven scheme among foreign shipping companies.

As a registered “Type II financial instrument business operator” in Japan, NMB can form JOLCO schemes by soliciting investment from domestic corporate investors.

Typically, JOLCO arrangers can only do projects that meet bank-like criteria, whereas NMB has wide group of shipping experienced staff, which allows us to tackle shipping-like projects that other arrangers would not attempt.

Japanese ship owners have a great relationship with local banks. The number of Sales & Lease back transactions that have been done indicate that the service provided by Japanese Shipowners is very attractive to foreign shipping companies.

NMB also provides a broking service to match you and Japanese ship owners. We believe our broking is unique in that we also offer assistance in-between ship owners and local banks.