Sea Containers Ltd. Information

Sea Containers Ltd. is a Bermuda company with regional offices in London, Genoa, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Sydney. It is owned primarily by U.S. shareholders and its common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbols SCRA and SCRB. The company is engaged in three main activities: ferry services, rail operations and marine container leasing. Within each activity are a number of operating units. Ferries consists of fast ferry services in the English Channel under the brand "Hoverspeed"; fast ferry services in New York City under the brand "SeaStreak"; fast and conventional ferry services in the Baltic under the brand "Silja Line"; and in the Adriatic under the brand "SNAV-Hoverspeed" (50% owned). Rail operations in the U.K. are conducted by the Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). Marine container leasing is conducted primarily through GE SeaCo SRL, a Barbados company owned 50% by Sea Containers and 50% by General Electric Capital Corporation. GE SeaCo operates one of the largest marine container fleets in the world, nearly one million units. Sea Containers also owns or partly owns five container service depots, four container manufacturing facilities, a forwarding and logistics business in Australasia and a refrigerated container service business. The company also owns 25% of the equity of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., the common shares of which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under OEH. This company has 49 de luxe leisure properties in 25 countries. Most of the properties are owned but some are partly owned. Its hotels, restaurants, river cruise ships and tourist trains compete in the top end of the market. Other lesser Sea Containers activities include port interests in the U.K. and Greece, property development, publishing, fruit farming in the Ivory Coast and Brazil, and a U.K.-based travel agency.