Nordic American Tankers Ltd (NYSE:NAT) - New Time Charter with a Major Oil Company
January 16 2018 - 11:57AM
YASTEST
Hamilton, Bermuda, January 16, 2018
Dear Sirs,
In the autumn of 2017, we advised you of our time
charter activities with oil companies such as Shell, BP, ExxonMobil
and other major oil companies in the West and in the Far
East. The ExxonMobil time charter for a suezmax recently
expired. However, we have an important contract with them
involving lube oil for our suezmax fleet. From time to time
we also have shorter contracts (typically up to 60 days) for ships
serving as storage space for major companies.
Expanding our time charter portfolio, we would
like to inform you that we have entered into a one-year term
charter with the major Spanish oil company Cepsa. The ship in
question is the 2004 built Nordic Castor. She is expected to be
delivered on the time charter late February, subject to a
satisfactory inspection in next discharge port. The fact that
NAT has only one million barrel suezmax ships allows us to achieve
economies of scale. The agreed rate secures a good cash flow.
The contract may last for 15 months.
With the conclusion of this deal, we will have 5
our 33 ships (of which three new builds for delivery in 2018),
employed on time charters with major oil companies.
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Matters discussed in this press
release may constitute forward-looking statements. The
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe
harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to
encourage companies to provide prospective information about their
business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning
plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance,
and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other
than statements of historical facts.
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Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary
statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The
words "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "forecast,"
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"pending" and similar expressions identify forward-looking
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The forward-looking statements in
this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of
which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including
without limitation, our management's examination of historical
operating trends, data contained in our records and other data
available from third parties. Although we believe that these
assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions
are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and
contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and are
beyond our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or
accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. We
undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement,
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
Important factors that, in our
view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those
discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of
world economies and currencies, general market conditions,
including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes
in demand in the tanker market, as a result of changes in OPEC's
petroleum production levels and worldwide oil consumption and
storage, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker
prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels,
availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental
rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities,
potential liability from pending or future litigation, general
domestic and international political conditions, potential
disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events,
vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other important
factors described from time to time in the reports filed by the
Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
prospectus and related prospectus supplement, our Annual Report on
Form 20-F, and our reports on Form 6-K.
Contacts:
Herbjørn
Hansson, Chairman & CEO
Nordic American Tankers Limited
Tel: +1 866 805 9504 or +47 90 14 62
91
|
Bjørn
Giæver, CFO
Nordic American Tankers Limited
Tel: +1 888 755 8391 or +47 91 35 00 91 |
Gary J.
Wolfe
Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, USA
Tel: +1 212 574 1223 |
www.nat.bm |
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