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Shipping companies and cargo businesses pay SFL Corporation Ltd. to use its ships to transport goods. Its fleet carries containers, oil, cars and bulk commodities. Most revenue comes from contracts that provide ships for an agreed period at a fixed rate, rather than payment for individual voyages. Maersk is its largest customer, and Hapag-Lloyd is another important container-shipping customer.
SFL also earns drilling revenue from oil and gas companies. Its rig Linus works for ConocoPhillips in Norway, providing a separate source of income tied to offshore drilling activity.
Long-term contracts limit the immediate effect of changing freight markets, but SFL depends on customers continuing to pay and on finding new contracts when existing ones end. It uses borrowing and lease financing to fund its assets, so charter receipts also support debt payments, and access to refinancing matters. Sanctions restrict where its ships can trade and which cargoes and counterparties they can serve; safety and environmental rules also constrain vessel and rig operations.
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SFL’s results hinge on fixed-rate charter performance and renewals, making Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd worth watching: absent from this list, they together accounted for 41% of its 2025 consolidated operating revenue.
Global Ship Lease and SFL both collect fixed daily rent from liner companies including Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd for containerships. Watch Global Ship Lease’s charter extensions and new rental rates with those customers for clues to SFL’s renewal conditions, rather than immediate changes to its existing fixed-rate income.
Euroseas Ltd.(Marshall Islands) and SFL both earn money chartering containerships to liner operators, so demand for leased ships matters to SFL’s largest fleet category. Euroseas’s revenue from period and voyage charters offers a read on that business.
Frontline both competes with SFL to supply crude-oil tankers to oil companies and traders and finds work for SFL’s two spot-trading tankers. Its ability to secure cargoes on market terms matters directly to those vessels’ earnings, although SFL warns that conflicts could remain despite Frontline’s promise not to favor affiliated ships.
ConocoPhillips pays SFL to use its Linus drilling rig in Norway through May 2029; that contract generated 13% of SFL’s 2025 consolidated operating revenue. The oil and gas producer’s news about that rig and contract matters directly to this revenue stream.
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. and SFL both rent oil tankers for agreed periods to oil companies and refiners, so vessel employment and renewal terms matter to both. Watch TEN’s new tanker contracts for the rates available when SFL’s charters come up for renewal.
International Seaways and SFL both earn money providing tankers that carry crude oil and refined products, putting them in overlapping charter markets. International Seaways’s rates for individual voyages and fixed-period rentals help distinguish current freight conditions from the terms available for longer contracts.
Seadrill and SFL both supply offshore rigs to oil companies, making Seadrill’s contract wins and working-rig count useful for judging demand for SFL’s drilling services. This matters because SFL’s drilling-contract revenue fell 59% in 2025, mainly because Hercules was kept idle in Norway.
Hafnia Limited and SFL both supply product and chemical tankers to oil companies and commodity traders, exposing them to overlapping rental markets and vessel values. Watch Hafnia’s charter terms for these ships, where price and the availability of competing vessels shape the business SFL can win.
Scorpio Tankers and SFL both earn money providing ships to transport refined petroleum products, but SFL’s long-term fixed rents cushion immediate freight-rate changes. Scorpio’s product-tanker business is relevant to SFL’s nine product tankers at year-end 2025, not a direct measure of SFL’s current rental income.
TORM plc and SFL both provide tankers to carry refined oil products, linking them through demand for those ships. TORM mainly earns from individual voyages at current market rates, so its tanker results show conditions that SFL’s existing long-term fixed charters do not immediately reflect.
Teekay Tankers and SFL both provide tanker transport to energy companies and oil traders, but Teekay’s spot-heavy earnings react faster to freight changes. Watch its voyage earnings for conditions affecting SFL’s two Suezmax tankers in spot or short-term markets, rather than the bulk of SFL’s fixed-rate charter income.
ARDMORE SHIPPING CORPORATION and SFL both earn money offering product and chemical tankers, making Ardmore’s charter terms relevant to those parts of SFL’s fleet. Ardmore finds work directly in the spot market for most of its ships, so its new bookings offer a view of current demand for these vessels.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
SFL’s Fed interest-rate decision tracks the policy rate that influences what it pays on floating-rate debt and new borrowing, affecting interest costs and cash left after debt service.
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If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is higher than expected, SFL may pay more interest on the portion of its floating-rate debt not fixed by swaps, leaving less cash for debt service and other needs.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is lower than expected, SFL may pay less interest on the portion of its floating-rate debt not fixed by swaps, leaving more cash for debt service and other needs.
Seadrill Limited earningsSDRL
Seadrill’s report will show whether oil companies are putting more offshore rigs to work, a signal of how readily SFL may find new contracts for idle rigs.
Look at Seadrill’s new contracts and the number of rigs actually working. More contracts and more working rigs would point to stronger demand for drilling services and better chances for SFL to find work for idle rigs; fewer contracts and fewer working rigs would suggest SFL may find it harder to restore drilling-contract revenue.
SFL Corporation Ltd. earningsThis company
SFL collects charter and drilling-contract payments from customers, and this report will show whether those payments are still generating enough cash to support debt service and dividends.
Read operating cash flow alongside debt payments, then look at what SFL says about refinancing and dividends. Cash flow that covers debt service with room for distributions would show that charter and drilling income is still producing usable cash; weaker cash flow or heavier repayment pressure would leave less room to refinance and maintain dividends.
