Transportation Finance


CIT Transportation Finance specializes in providing customized leasing and secured financing, primarily to end-users of aircraft, locomotives, railcars and ships. Our transportation equipment financing services include operating leases, single investor leases, leveraged financing, sale and leaseback arrangements, as well as loans secured by equipment. Our transportation equipment financing clients represent major and regional airlines (United States and International), North American railroads, global vessel owners and operators, and middle-market to larger-sized companies.

Aerospace

We offer full-service leasing and financing options to airlines around the globe.

Business Aircraft Finance

We offer aircraft financing and aircraft leasing programs for owners of business jet aircraft and turbine helicopters, both in the United States and selected international venues. We also provide fractional share financing or leasing to customers of NetJets .

Maritime Finance

We provide customized financial solutions including vessel acquisition financing, sale/leasebacks, and debt refinancing for companies from all major segments of the marine industry, including deep ocean, offshore, coastal, and inland waterways.

RAIL

Our specialty is to combine our freight transportation equipment knowledge, our financing structuring expertise and our access to capital markets to tailor transportation solutions that can free up capital and unlock new growth potential.

Transportation Lending

We provide comprehensive financing solutions to manufacturers, suppliers and service providers in aerospace, defense, homeland security, rail, intermodal logistics and marine industries.

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Svein Engh, Group Head and Managing Director of CIT Maritime Finance, discusses the opportunities and challenges currently facing the Maritime Finance business.

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