Ardmore Shipping Corporation

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Ardmore Shipping's second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Today's call is being recorded and an audio webcast and presentation are available in the investor relations section of the company's website, ardmoreshipping.com. We will conduct a question and answer session after the opening remarks. Instructions will follow at that time. A replay of the conference call will be accessible anytime during the next two weeks by dialing 1-877-344-7529 or 1-412-317-0088 and entering passcode 101589, excuse me, 101-58719. Again, 101-58719. If you require operator assistance, please press star then zero. At this time, I will turn the call over to Anthony Gurney, Chief Executive Officer of Ardmore Shipping.

Thank you and good morning and welcome to Ardmore Shipping second quarter 2021 earnings call. First of all, I'll ask Paul Titman, our CFO to describe the format for the call. and discuss forward-looking statements.

Thanks, Tony, and welcome, everyone. Before we begin our conference call, I would like to direct all participants to our website at ardmoreshipping.com, where you'll find the links to this morning's second quarter 2021 earnings release and presentation. Tony and I will take about 15 minutes to go through the presentation and then open up the call to questions. Turning to slide two, please allow me to remind you that our discussions today contain forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from the results projected from those forward-looking statements. And additional information concerning factors that could cause the actual results to maturely differ from those in the four living statements is contained in the second quarter 2021 earnings release, which is available on our website. And with that, I'll turn the call back over to Tony.