{"id":7272,"date":"2009-10-30T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/10\/30\/banks-open-for-limited-port-business\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:31:56","slug":"banks-open-for-limited-port-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/banks-open-for-limited-port-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks open for limited port business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knut Ola Skotvedt, a senior vice president of Norway&#8217;s largest financial services group, said that while the bank sees green shoots, the lending market still has limited capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say the lending market is dead, but it is not very healthy,&#8221; said Mr Skotvedt. &#8220;Banks are returning to the three C&#8217;s of client, cashflow, and collateral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could argue that the recession is over, but unfortunately green shoots are inevitable when reaching a low level and are not proof of a sustainable recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However he did concede that Dnb NOR Bank was more worried about the shipping than the ports industry, given the over-supply crippling the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks offering finance to ports are open for business,according to DnB NOR Bank, but opening hours are limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}