Cp Ships Holdings Inc News

Standard & Poor's placed its triple-'B'-corporate credit rating on CP Ships Holdings Inc. and its triple-'B'-minus corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings on Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust on CreditWatch with negative implications. The CreditWatch placements follows Canadian Pacific Ltd.'s announcement that it intends to split into five separate companies (see related press release). Under the proposal, PanCanadian Petroleum, Canadian Pacific Railway, CP Ships, and Fording would become publicly traded companies, each separately owned, operated, and capitalized. Canadian Pacific would then be left with its sole remaining holding of a 100% interest in CP Hotels, constituting the fifth separate company.