GSL Global Ship Lease Inc

Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE:GSL) (the "Company") announced today that the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Ian Webber, is scheduled to present at the Wells Fargo Securities 2015 Industrial and Construction Conference in New York City on Wednesday, May 6, at 9:55 a.m. Eastern Time.

A live webcast of the presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of Global Ship Lease's website: http://www.globalshiplease.com.

About Global Ship Lease

Global Ship Lease is a containership charter owner. Incorporated in the Marshall Islands, Global Ship Lease commenced operations in December 2007 with a business of owning and chartering out containerships under mainly long-term, fixed-rate charters to top tier container liner companies.

Global Ship Lease owns 19 vessels with a total capacity of 82,475 TEU and an average age, weighted by TEU capacity, at March 31, 2015 of 11.0 years. All 19 vessels are currently fixed on time charters, 15 of which are with CMA CGM. The average remaining term of the charters at March 31, 2015 is 5.3 years or 5.8 years on a weighted basis, excluding Ville d'Aquarius, and Ville d'Orion, which are deployed in the short-term charter market.

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