{"id":82345,"date":"2012-10-09T22:25:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ex-im-bank-grants-loan-to-vietnam-for-lockheed-satellite\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:25:47","slug":"ex-im-bank-grants-loan-to-vietnam-for-lockheed-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ex-im-bank-grants-loan-to-vietnam-for-lockheed-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Im Bank Grants Loan to Vietnam for Lockheed Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the <strong>Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) <\/strong>has authorized a $118 million direct loan to the government of Vietnam for the export of a <strong>Lockheed Martin Space Systems<\/strong> telecommunications satellite and additional goods and services, Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 2. \t<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The Vinasat-2 geosynchronous satellite recently completed a series of in-orbit tests following its May 15 launch. Equipped with a payload of 24 active Ku-band transponders, the satellite aims to provide telecommunications and television services to developing markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. The loan represents Ex-Im Bank\u2019s first satellite transaction with the Vietnamese government and will finance $125 million in export sales. Hanoi-based state-owned enterprise Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) is acting on behalf of the government in the transaction. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;BNP Paribas will serve as the documentation agent and letter-of-credit bank. \tEx-Im Bank Chairman and President Fred Hochberg noted that the Bank\u2019s credit exposure in Vietnam accounted for $185 million of its portfolio as of December 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized a $118 million direct loan to the government of Vietnam for the export of a Lockheed Martin Space Systems telecommunications satellite and additional goods and services, Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 2. &nbsp; &nbsp;The Vinasat-2 geosynchronous satellite recently completed a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}