Vinashin Seeks 90% Debt Forgiveness on Defaulted Local Bonds
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Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group, the state-owned company with more than $4 billion of debt, asked holders of a local-currency bond it defaulted on in April to write off as much as 90 percent of the money owed, according to a bondholder who met with company officials in Hanoi last week.
Officials told creditors the shipyard is unable to make any payments until 2015 at the earliest, Pham Viet Bac, general director of Ho Chi Minh City-based Sabeco Fund Management, which holds 30 billion dong ($1.5 million) of Vinashin bonds, said in a phone interview yesterday.