.0 million pursuant to its new repurchase program . in march 2018 , as part of a public equity offering of nclh 2019s ordinary shares owned by apollo and genting hk , nclh repurchased 4722312 of its ordinary shares sold in the offering for approximately $ 263.5 million pursuant to its then existing share repurchase program . in june 2012 , we exercised our option with genting hk to purchase norwegian sky . we paid the total amount of $ 259