Day: September 2, 2022

SFL Corporation Ltd. (NYSE: SFL) (“SFL” or the “Company”) announced today that it has agreed to acquire two new eco-design feeder container vessels in combination with long term time charters to a leading European liner company. The Company expects to take delivery of the vessels from the shipyard in Q3 and Q4 2022. The time charters will run for a period of minimum seven years, with purchase options at the end of year six and seven, including a profit share feature. The fixed rate charter backlog will increase by approximately $120 million, with an EBITDA contribution from the vessels estimated to approximately $13 million per year. Ole B. Hjertaker, CEO of SFL Management AS, said in a comment: «The transaction demonstrates our ability to expand our fleet and existing customer relationships through repeat transactions with swift execution....

manifesto for improving sleep manifesto for improving sleepWith the aim of helping Dutch people get a better night’s rest, Beter Bed has launched a manifesto for improving sleep. Sleep deprivation can affect your body, brain and life expectancy. Matthew Walker, an internationally renowned sleep scientist and author of ‘Why We Sleep’ and TEDx speaker with more than 16 million views, recognises the problem and supports the manifesto with his first signature.  Shaking the Netherlands awake Sleeping well makes you happier, more productive and healthier. One in five Dutch people suffers from some form of sleep deprivation. We can safely say there’s a social problem. It’s time for the whole of the Netherlands to wake up and realise the importance of better sleep, because right now not enough attention is being paid to preventing...

  Bekaert announces that it has decided to renew for one year, effective as of today, the liquidity contract it entered into with Kepler Cheuvreux on 2 September 2021 relating to its ordinary shares admitted to trading on Euronext Brussels (ISIN Code BE0974258874). This contract provides for the purchase and sale by Kepler Cheuvreux of Bekaert shares on the regulated market of Euronext Brussels. Kepler Cheuvreux will be acting in the name and on behalf of Bekaert and within the framework of a discretionary mandate, as authorized by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Bekaert of 13 May 2020. In accordance with the conditions specified by this Extraordinary General Meeting (i) the total number of own shares held by Bekaert pursuant to such authorization shall never exceed twenty per cent of the total number of Bekaert shares outstanding...

Jaanus Seppa, the Chairman of the Management Board of AS LHV Kindlustus, a subsidiary of AS LHV Group, will leave his position on 30 September 2022. The Supervisory Board of AS LHV Kindlustus decided to recall Jaanus Seppa from the position of Chairman of the Management Board and appointed Management Board Member Tarmo Koll as Acting Chairman. The search for a new Board Member has started. The decision to elect a new Management Board Member will be adopted by the company’s Supervisory Board after finding the new CEO. Jaanus Seppa has worked at LHV since the spring of 2020, since the founding of the non-life insurance company AS LHV Kindlustus. The company has won the trust of 149,000 customers and grown into an insurer with more than 30 employees. In a short period of time, the company has launched most of the products for retail customers...