Germany's second-biggest lender to the shipping industry, Norddeutsche Landesbank (NordLB), will try to make Asian private equity funds acquire parts of the bank's loans. Last year the German bank began to combine ships in bundles of 10-20 units that the bank offers to equity funds in Asia through its Singapore branch, Thomas Buerkle, member of the NordLB executive team and head of the bank's risk division, tells Bloomberg.