Tsakos Energy Navigation : ("TEN Ltd") Announces Delivery and Long Term Charter of Aframax Tanker "Thomas Zafiras"
August 15, 2016 at 04:45 pm EDT
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ATHENS, GREECE--(Marketwired - Aug 15, 2016) - TEN Ltd. (NYSE: TNP), a leading crude, product and LNG tanker operator, today announced the delivery of the Aframax crude tanker "Thomas Zafiras" from Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries which will immediately enter a long term contract to a Northern European charterer that could generate gross revenues in excess of $100 million.
This is the second vessel in a series of nine purposely built Aframax tankers on long term time charters at accretive rates. TEN's new building program continues later this month with the delivery of a Panamax LR1 tanker also chartered to long term accretive employment.
The majority of the Company's new building vessels are built against long lasting time charters that secure revenue growth and dividend distributions.
ABOUT TSAKOS ENERGY NAVIGATION
TEN, founded in 1993, is one of the first and most established public shipping companies in the world today. The Company's pro-forma fleet, including one VLCC, one LNG carrier, eight Aframax tankers, a Suezmax DP2 shuttle tanker and two LR1 product tankers all under construction, consists of 65 double-hull vessels, constituting a mix of crude tankers, product tankers and LNG carriers, totaling 7.2 million dwt. Of these, 47 vessels trade in crude, 13 in products, three are shuttle tankers and two are LNG carriers. All of TEN's tanker newbuildings except the one remaining VLCC Hercules and the LNG carrier Maria Energy are fixed on long-term project businesses. As of August 2016, about 60% of 2016 fleet available days, assuming nine deliveries, are on secured contracts with an average length of 2.5 years and minimum gross revenues of about $1.5 billion.
VESSELS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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Vessel Name
Type
Dwt
Delivery
Status
Employment
1
Ulysses
VLCC
300,000
Q2 2016
Delivered
Yes
2
Elias Tsakos
Aframax
112,700
Q2 2016
Delivered
Yes
3
Thomas Zafiras
Aframax
112,700
Q3 2016
Delivered
Yes
4
Leontios H
Aframax
112,700
Q4 2016
TBD
Yes
5
TS Parthenon
Aframax
112,700
Q4 2016
TBD
Yes
6
TS Marathon
Aframax
112,700
Q1 2017
TBD
Yes
7
TS Sola
Aframax
112,700
Q1 2017
TBD
Yes
8
TS Oslo
Aframax
112,700
Q2 2017
TBD
Yes
9
TS Stavanger
Aframax
112,700
Q3 2017
TBD
Yes
10
TS Bergen
Aframax
112,700
Q4 2017
TBD
Yes
11
Sunray
Panamax LR1
74,200
Aug 2016
TBD
Yes
12
Sunrise
Panamax LR1
74,200
Q3 2016
TBD
Yes
13
Lisboa City
DP2 Shuttle
157,000
Q1 2017
TBD
Yes
14
Hercules
VLCC
300,000
Q4 2016
TBD
In Negotiations
15
Maria Energy
LNG
93,616
Q3 2016
TBD
In Negotiations
ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted by such forward-looking statements. TEN undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd is a Greece-based provider of international seaborne crude oil and petroleum product transportation services. The Company operates through the maritime transportation of liquid energy-related products segment. The Company's fleet consists of 70 vessels, constituting a mix of crude tankers, product tankers, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, totaling more than 7 million dwt. It includes VLCC, Aframax, Panamax, handysize, handymax tankers, LNG carrier, and DP2 shuttle tankers, which allows the Company to serve its customers' international petroleum product and crude oil transportation needs.