High interest cost is affecting the profitability of Essar Ports, which runs Vadinar and Hazira ports in Gujarat. The company faces high interest cost of around 12-14 percent which is eroding its profit. Port operators including Essar have appealed to the shipping ministry to raise the bar on external commercial borrowings (ECBs) from the current 25
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Essar Steel to reduce interest cost by raising dollar debt
Dilip Oomen, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Essar Steel informed media persons that the company plans to replace its rupee debt with dollar debt in order to reduce interest cost. By September 2013, the firm plans to refinance its entire domestic debt of around Rs 20,000 crore into dollar terms
High interest outgo raises loss of GMR Infra
Huge interest outgo crimped the bottomline of infrastructure developer GMR Infrastructure, which posted a net loss of Rs 217 crore during Oct-Dec 2012. The company's interest outgo during the period is said to have risen 24 per cent to a total of Rs 525 crore, reports suggest. It is sitting on a consolidated debt
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