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| We continue to develop the fleet composition that enables us to build upon our operating leverage to capitalize on today's strong market fundamentals |
| On the revenue side, our lightering business had another strong quarter, earning about $11 million in revenue, with $2 million in vessel expenses, $3 million and charter hire and $1 million of G&A |
| Now, we're going into well into year three, and the market continues very strong |
| The lightering business contributed about $4 million in EBITDA in the fourth quarter and a record of nearly $20 million for the year |
| With sanctions on Russian oil, further ton mile support underlies demand and is very supportive for the tanker market going forward |
| On the lower right hand of the slide, you can see the chart, where we continue to share our strong earnings, returning a substantial portion to shareholders |
| 2023 was a record year for International Seaway |
| Last year, we took delivery of three dual fuel VLCCs with long term charters and profit sharing that are running extremely well in our fleet |
| These ships returned nearly 80% all in, from purchase price due to both their strong earnings and the strong price realized in their sale |
| We have a strong financial position detailed by the balance sheet shown on the left hand side of the page |
| We continue to share success with the shareholders, with double digit yield on our share value |
| We achieved record earnings in 2023 with a fleet nearly evenly split between crude and product tankers |
| So I fix, the supply side continues to be a compelling part of the strong tanker market story |
| The forecast for oil demand in 2024 remains robust, with demand growth estimated to be about 1.5 million barrels per day in 2024, representing a 1.5% growth year-over-year |
| Cash and liquidity remain strong and over $600 million |
| Looking forward, if you were to compare our breakevens to average spot earnings, you can see the first quarter of 2024 looks like another very strong quarter for Seaways |
| 2023 was transformational for International Seaways, and deleveraging us and to capitalize on growth opportunities, we evenly matched our incremental deleveraging, with returns to shareholders with a substantial portion of the cash generated during the year, we built on our track record of balanced capital allocation that positions the company to maximize earnings, build a fortress balance sheet growth through the cycle and return 16% to shareholders over the last 12 months |
| We have significant operating leverage, low cash breakeven |
| Our balance sheet is strong, with net loan to value of 17% |
| We expect a great run for tankers over the next few years |
| Shipyards are full of other shipping sectors, and prices remain very robust |
| This is an above average demand growth forecasts, particularly for seaborne transportation demand, oil demand growth is largely concentrated in Asia, where countries are structurally short oil with incremental new supply coming from the west |
| At Seaways, we will continue capturing the strength of the tanker markets |
| So, we like the ones we have and the ones we're acquiring to continue generating good cash flow, but we like taking profits like that |
| At the same time, we have positioned our balance sheet to support growth |
| With cash breakevens below $14,500 per day and net debt below 20% in 2024, we will continue to look for opportunities to enable fleet renewal and growth as well as to share in our successful results by continuing to prioritize returning cash to shareholders |
| I mean obviously, the numbers of the numbers, so agree with you, that LR2 fleet is growing, the order book is growing pretty rapidly |
| We will utilize every possible lever, to build upon our track record of returning to shareholders, maintaining a healthy balance sheet and growing the value of Seaway |
| We pull all the levers to secure our future and to provide value to shareholders in 2023 |
| We've updated our bullets on tanker demand drivers, with green up arrows next to bullets representing positive developments for tankers, black dashes for neutral impact, and red down arrows indicating tanker negative |
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| With this sizable prepayment during the year, we reduced our breakeven level to an impressive sub $14,500 per day level across the fleet |
| While our expense guidance for the third quarter -- fourth Quarter fell mostly in line with the range of expectations |
| Our balance sheet is never been better |
| We've been talking about LR2 is cannibalizing the MR trade for the past 20 years |
| Much of this hinges upon the global macro environment with recent data suggesting and leaning towards a softer landing |
| In most categories, they are largely lower than they have been over the last 30 years |
| And I would jump in there and say that, I think we are at peak disruption levels, I think that would be number variety of attacks, in your sort of indiscriminately on tanker assets traveling through the area that we're really seeing a large amount of tankers deviate around the bottom |
| Factors, risks, and uncertainties that could cause International Seaways' actual results to differ from expectations, including those described in our annual report on Form 10-K for 2023, and in other fillings that we have made or in the future may make, with the U.S |
| So just as it relates to the Red Sea disruptions going on |
| If that helps |
| Jeff will highlight our balance sheet in just a few moments, but feeling a little bit of his thunder, our $547 million in net debt is well below our fleet recycle market value |
| In your mind, is the market for tankers at peak disruption at the moment, is there further dislocations that can occur or have all the tankers that were going to switch and divert around the Cape of Good Hope already done |
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