A few days after Aggelikousis Group’s US$1.25 billion credit facility with six banks for the financing of nine LNG carriers was made public, delegates of a shipbuilding conference held during the fourth day of this year’s Posidonia Exhibition heard that increasing defaults on existing financing agreements between shipowners and lenders will ultimately lead to an era of no new lending. Speaking at the ‘Building for the Future 2012’ shipbuilding conference, on the penultimate day of Posidonia 2012, Jean Richards, CEO of Second Wind Shipping Limited, said that while finance is still available through traditional banks, Chinese banks, bond and equity markets, financiers tend to specialize in specific asset types while setting demanding preconditions.