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Adani International Container Terminal Limited (AICTPL), a subsidiary of globally-diversified group, had raised $300 million by issuing bonds to global investors.
The issue witnessed large participation from marquee real money investors with interests coming from around 220 accounts leading to approximately 10 times oversubscription. “The issue of 10 years was priced at par to yield 3 per cent that is also the lowest coupon achieved by any corporate Indian issuer in the last 5 years,” the company said in a statement.
AICTPL, a joint venture between Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. (APSEZ) and Terminal Investment Ltd., is a container terminal operating company based out of Mundra, having an annual capacity of handling over 3.1 million twenty foot equivalent units. The terminal is equipped to handle the largest size container carriers operating in the world.
The issuance is in line with Adani Group’s philosophy to tap the capital market to re-engineer the capital structure for assets and finance them with debt extending for the life of the project. The issuance also fits perfectly into TiL’s strategy to diversify and optimize funding sources for its terminal companies around the globe.
Karan Adani, CEO and Whole Time Director of APSEZ said, “The issuance is in line to the Group’s capital management philosophy of re-engineering the capital structure & extending debt maturity inline to the life of the asset. Our relationship with TiL is very important to us & holds the key to our strategy for making Mundra container hub for the region and AICTPL as our flagship terminal. Successful issuance demonstrates the appreciation & acceptance of level of corporate governance at the private JV level. The first note issuance by any port vertical JV company also paves the way and sets the benchmark for other JVs & Subsidiary companies of the group to tap the capital market.”
Ammar Kanaan, CEO of TiL said, “Our relationship with Adani is a classic example of a commercial partnership which is based on core principles of trust, transparency, and respect. AICTPL holds a key position in our overall portfolio of terminals across all continents and is ideally located at Mundra port enabling it to be the port of choice for cargo going to North India. AICTPL’s operational performance continues to be amongst the best in the portfolio of terminals owned by us. India is a strategic place for our investment, and we foresee great opportunities going forward.”
