Shipping & Finance LTD, combines the experience and expertise of its founding partners in investment banking and ship brokerage. SFL provides investment banking advisory services for cargo and passenger vessels and also for offshore energy vessels and rigs, closing more than $2.5 billion in financing or joint venture transactions for clients. As shipbrokers SFL has arranged numerous newbuilding contracts in the U.S. and international markets, arranging charters for oil tankers, dry cargo ships and for the US Navy (Military Sealift Command).