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IAG MAY 2020年5月 亞博匯 18 亞博匯早報 BREAKFAST BRIEFS CROWN SECURES AU$1 BILLION IN ADDITIONAL DEBT FACILITIES TO RIDE OUT COVID-19 澳洲皇冠獲10億澳元的額外債務融資以度疫情難關 AUSTRALIA’S CROWN RESORTS LTD has secured more than AU$1 billion in additional debt facilities as it looks to navigate the closure of its casinos in Melbourne and Perth due to COVID-19. The additional funding includes AU$560 million in new bilateral facilities with relationship banks and another AU$450 million project finance facility to support the ongoing construction of its AU$2.2 billion Crown Sydney development, due to open in 2021, Crown said in a market update. The company added it already has cash reserves of around AU$500 million on hand. “We came in with a very clean balance sheet but we obviously need to get through some period of time where we’ll have almost no revenue,” Crown CEO Ken Barton said in an interview published by The Australian Financial Review . “It means we can sustain ourselves for a quite a while irrespective of what goes on. I really think that any of the scenarios people can throw at us we will be able to get through.” Crown also revealed it has stood down more than 11,500 employees, representing 95% of its workforce, since the Australia-wide shutdown of non-essential services began in late March. 澳洲 皇冠度假集團日前獲得逾10億澳元的 額外債務融資，該公司此前因應COVID-19疫 情影響計劃關閉其於墨爾本及珀斯的賭場。 皇冠在其市場報告中表示，該筆額外 融，以包括與關係銀行新設立的5.6億澳元的 雙邊貸款以及一個4.5億澳元的項目融資以 支持在建中的Crown Sydney項目。後者計 劃於2021年開放，預計投資額為22億澳元。 皇冠補充稱，手頭已有大約5億澳元的 現金。 皇冠行政總裁Ken Barton在接受《The Australian Financial Review》採訪時稱：「 我們的資產負債表非常乾淨，但顯然我們需 要經歷一段幾乎沒有營收的時期。」 「這意味著無論發生甚麼，我們都可以 維持一段時間。我真心認為我們必將度過難 關。」 皇冠同時透露，自3月下旬澳洲全境 關閉非必要服務以來，公司已經裁減超過 11,500名員工，佔其員工總數的95％。