Laila Halvorsen
Management
Thank you. Good morning and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome and thank you for joining DHT Holdings third quarter 2021 earnings call. I’m joined by DHT’s Co-CEO, Svein Moxnes Harfjeld; and Wilhelm Flinder, Head of Investor Relations. As usual, we will go through some financials and some highlights before we open up for your questions. The link to the slide deck can be found on our website, dhtankers.com. Before we get started with today’s call, I would like to make the following remarks. A replay of this conference call will be available at our website, dhtankers.com until November 10th. In addition, our earnings press release will be available on our website and on the SEC EDGAR system as an exhibit to our Form 6-K. As a reminder, on this conference call, we will discuss matters that are forward-looking in nature. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations about future events, including DHT’s prospects, dividends, share repurchases, and debt repayment; the outlook for the tanker market in general; daily charter high rates and vessel utilization; forecasts of world economic activity; oil prices and oil trading patterns; anticipated levels of new buildings and scrapping; and projected drydock schedules. Actual results may differ materially from the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements. We urge you to read our periodic reports available on our website and on the SEC EDGAR system, including the risk factors in these reports, for more information regarding risks that we face. As you all know, we are still in a historically weak tanker market, which has impacted the results for the third quarter of 2021. Looking at the P&L highlights, EBITDA for the third quarter was $14 million and net loss came in at $21 million. The results include the gain of $1.6 million related to the sale of DHT Condor and a non-cash gain in fair value related to interest rate derivatives of $2.3 million. The Company continues to show a very good cost control. OpEx for the quarter, came in at $19.2 million, equal to $8,000 per day, while average OpEx year-to-date is equal to $7,800 per day. G&A for the quarter was $4.4 million. In the third quarter of 2021, the Company achieved an average TCE of $16,300 per day, while the average TCE for the first nine months of 2021 amounted to $22,400 per day. For the fourth quarter, we have booked income for 70% of the fleet at an average rate of $20,700 per day. This includes 25% of the fleet on time charters at an average rate of about $32,000 per day. Moving over to the balance sheet. The quarter ended with $64.5 million of cash. At quarter-end, the Company’s availability under both revolving credit facilities was $180.5 million, putting total liquidity at $245 million as of September 30th. Financial leverage is about 30% based on market values for the ships. And net debt per vessel was $17.7 million at quarter-end, which is well below current scrap value. Looking at the cash bridge. The quarter started with $52 million of cash and we generated $14 million in EBITDA. Ordinary debt repayment and cash interest amounted to $7 million. $10 million was used related to share buyback and dividends payment and $2 million was used for maintenance and scrubber CapEx. Changes in working capital amounted to $11 million. Proceeds from sales of vessel were $30 million. And the quarter ended with $64.5 million of cash. The change in working capital for the quarter is mainly a result of vessels on time charter being redelivered and bunkers being purchased back from charterers. And now, over to capital allocation. For the third quarter, a total of $10.1 million will be returned to shareholders. As previously announced, the Company bought back 1.23 million of its own shares at an average price of $5.47. The shares were retired upon receipt. In addition to this share buyback, the Company will pay a dividend of $0.02 per share for the quarter. It will be payable on the 23rd of November to shareholders of record as of 16th of November. And this marks the 47th consecutive quarterly cash dividend. Year-to-date, the Company is returning $42.7 million to shareholders, $13.5 million in cash dividends and $29.2 million in share buyback. With that, I will turn the call over to Svein.