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and welcome to the CMB Tech earnings release for the second quarter of this year. My name is Alexander Savris and I'm joined by my colleagues Ludovic, Joris and Enya. We would like to discuss the CMB Tech and Golden Ocean merger first to start, that is the news of last week. Then we will zoom in on the second quarter financials and highlights. conclude and have time for some questions and answers. Let me first start with the news of last week. On the 20th of August, we have completed the CNB Tech and Golden Ocean merger to create a leading diversified maritime group. For those of you who have followed us before, you will recognize this slide, but I do want to take you through the combined Golden Ocean CNB Tech fleet. We have today 206 modern ecovessels on the water, with another 44 on order. Of our 250 ships, about one-third will be powered or will be capable to be powered by ammonia and hydrogen. Our contract backlog stands at close to $3 billion, and the average age of our fleet is a tick under six years. The total fair market value of the fleet is close to $11 billion, we have 1.9 billion dollars of capex commitments still outstanding. We are listed on NYC in New York, Euronext Brussels and since last week as well on the Oslo bears. You can see the detailed breakdown of our fleet at the bottom of the slide. with the major change being that BOSIMAR now has incorporated the fleet of Golden Ocean. We have added 89 vessels to the fleet. Our dry-boat division now has 119 ships. After the merger with Golden Ocean, we are the largest listed diversified maritime group. You can see the comparison to some of our peers, the pure-play peers and the more diversified peers. We have a market cap of over $2 billion. Our free float is now a significant 38%. And recently, we have had a 3.5 million turnover in shares, average daily turnover. Looking at our fleet and how it will evolve in the next quarters, we are adding new buildings nearly every month, every week. You can see that today our fleet stands at 206 ships. End of the quarter, fourth quarter 2025, we will be at 218 vessels and we will add another 23 ships next year. So our fleet is growing and growing rapidly. Translated to available days, This is also an updated sheet after the integration of Golden Ocean into CNB Tech. You can see that we have about 54,000 days in 2025 going to 60,000 days next year. And you can also see the detailed breakdown between the different segments. The dry bulk division, BOSIMAR, has become our largest division. And what we are showing on this slide as well is the split between our spot days and time charter days. You can see that in our divisions containers and chemical tankers, we are very well covered on the time-charter side, and on dry bulk and tankers, crude oil tankers, we are very much spot-oriented. The reason we're doing that has to do with many things, but primarily on our view on how we see the market in the next 12 to 24 months. On the right side of this slide, you can see the order book to fleet ratio. In segments like dry bulk and tankers, where we see a low order book to fleet ratio, we're expecting better rates. We are more spot oriented. In segments where we believe there might be some oversupply in the months and years to come, we have taken more cover on the time charter side. I would like to hand over to our CFO, Ludovic, to talk a little bit about the financials and starting with the free cash flow of CMB Tech.

Thanks, Alex. This slide is trying to show, in connection with the operational strategy of being open on dry bulk and tankers what's the hypothetical one year free cash flow could be operationally this is excluding the remaining capex to be paid excluding the cash received from vessel sales On the bottom right, we've made some assumptions. This is by no means a pure science, but we have presented three cases where you can see that all throughout the various segments we would generate in a bear case loss of 35 million cash, a medium case 170 million cash, and on the upside 380 million. Just to highlight the bull case, the high case we're showing here is actually the market today. So if the market would continue in the current state with our spot exposure, we would add roughly $380 million of free cash in the next 12 months. Going into an update of the contract backlog, we have stayed at roughly 2.9 billion compared to last quarter. This is thanks to the additional long-term charters we have received from Golden Ocean, primarily on Kamsar Maxis and six Cape sizes that they originally had in their fleets. moving then to the financials of q2 we have ended the quarter of this year with a loss of 7.5 million dollars which is 7.7 million profit for the old cmb tech and a 50 million loss on the golden ocean exposure The liquidity stands at roughly $400 million as of today. The contract battle we've discussed, the outstanding capex of $1.86 billion, that is from August forward till the end, from which $1.6 billion we have already committed financing, and $270 million is unfunded. So when people ask on this big order book how much will we need to use from operational cash flow or vessel sales, the answer is 270 million, which has broken down 30 million remaining in this year of unfunded equity, 170 next year, and then 70 million in 2027, 28, and 29. If we focus a little bit more on the Q2 figures, on the left side we show that our figures have indicated a higher revenue, higher OPEX, higher GNA and also higher depreciation. This is by the mere fact of putting the two companies together. On the right side, we are indicating that the figures have been impacted by some one-offs. I think there was $22 million on unrealized foreign exchange losses and interest rate swaps. We've had a loss on a sale of the Golden Zushan. the second quarter and on the highlights um we've mentioned the loss of 7.6 million and evda of 224 million we've completed the merger as alex mentioned um we are the board have decided to issue a dividend for the q2 figures of five cents which will be payable uh as soon as practically possible uh beginning october the contract backlog we have discussed We have signed in the combined entity a new $2 billion facility from which 1.25 has been used to refinance the whole fleet of Golden Ocean. And we have 750 million of undrawn revolvers that we can use for repaying some of the other debts. We are listed on three exchanges, which we're pretty proud to be a member of the Oslo Stock Exchange as well. The deliveries of the new buildings have continued unabated. We have five Newcastle Maxis, one CSRV and two CTVs, actually six Newcastle Maxis, apologies. The VLCC Iris has been sold. The Hakata and Hakone have been delivered to their new owners. I'm happy to report as well that we have sold the Sophia recently. where we will log a capital gain of $20.4 million in the last quarter of this year. And the Golden Ocean team has delivered two Kamsar Maxis and one Cape Sizes to their new owners last quarter and in the next quarter. This is again what we mentioned where as a pro-memory you can see the P&L break-evens throughout the divisions and what we have fixed on the quarter to date, but Alex will jump in those figures at a later stage.

Thank you very much. I will now zoom in on our marine division and segment by segment to talk about a market update and what has happened in our various divisions. Starting with Euronav on the Crudol front, the picture you see here is our very first VLCC being built at Qingdao Beihai Shipyard in China, being launched. We will take delivery of the vessel in November of this year. Starting with some highlights, some of which have already been mentioned, just reminding you that we have 10 VLCCs and 18 SUISMAXs on the water today. We have another five VLCCs on order and two Suez Maxis. The results, time charge equivalent for the second quarter for our Vs, sat at $45,000. Q3 quarter to date, we are at $32,000. For the Suez Maxis, the number is $40,000 for Q2 and also $40,000 for Q3 to date. We have sold, as Ludovic just mentioned, four vessels. The Iris Hakata Hakone have been delivered to their new owners, and the Sophia will deliver in the fourth quarter of this year. You can see our OPEX P&O break-evens on the right side of this slide. We also like to point out to some important indicators for the market. You can see on the right side of the slide that there are some indicators on the demand side that are positive in green, like world oil demand, which is growing slightly, supply from OPEC and non-OPEC countries, OECD crude oil stocks, and then definitely the tanker fleet, which definitely in the short term is only going to grow by a very small amount. There are some negatives on US crude oil exports, China oil imports, and then the global crude oil floating storage, which are all down. Looking at the mid-term tanker market, I'd like to talk about the supply of oil and the supply of ships. Starting on this slide with the supply of oil, you have all been following the OPEC Plus cuts since 2022. They started off with cutting 2 million barrels per day, then 1.6 million barrels per day, and then the last one was 2.2 million barrels per day. In recent months, this has been turned around, and we are expecting by October that this voluntary second cut of 2.2 million barrels will be totally reversed. If that happens as per plan, and we are seeing some signs already of increased volumes, this will obviously be positive for the tanker markets. More oil coming out, more oil on VLCCs should support our markets. Looking forward to the next couple of years, if we take the IEA forecasts, you will see that the gap between supply and demand will be in favor of supply, so there will be more oil. More oil means more storage. More oil should mean also lower prices, which could be very supportive for our tanker markets. If we're looking at the vessel side, so the supply side of the ships, It's becoming a bit of a mixed story, whereas the last two or three years, we didn't see any new building orders for crude oil tankers, and the order book was very low. We have seen an uptick in the order book over the last six months, also a little bit last year, and the Suezmax order book to freight now stands at 19%, the VLCC order book to freight at 14%. In the short term, we still see that there's very few ships coming to the market, but as from the second half of next year, we will see a pickup and more vessels coming to the market. That contrasts a bit with a more fundamental analysis of the age of the fleet and the scrapping and recycling potential. When we look at the age of the fleet by 2030, 40% of VLCCs and 40% of existing sluice maxes will be older than 20 years. So there's a lot of potential to scrap and recycle vessels. So it will be interesting to see in the next couple of months on how the slightly increased order book will match with potential recycling and whether that will be in balance. Of course, we need to talk about dry bulk as well. Bossimar, our dry bulk division, has become our biggest division. The picture you see on this slide is not a picture of a ship, but a picture of the very first ammonia engine that will be installed on one of our Newcastle MAXs beginning of next year. So in Bossimar, we've split it for this quarter in two between CMB Tech and Golden Ocean, because it was of course a transition quarter. On the CMB Tech side, we have 17 SuperEco Newcastle MAXs on the water, another 11 that need to deliver. We achieved a time charge equivalent through our fleet of $23,000 net, and Q3 TCE to date stands at $28,000 net. On the Golden Ocean side, we're talking about 89 vessels on the water. It's 18 nukes, 41 capes, and the rest are Kamsamaxes and Panamaxes. We achieved in second quarter for the Newcastle Maxis $18,500 a day. Q3 today sits at $23,500. And for the Kamsa Maxis and Panamaxis, the number is $10,500 and $13,500. Golden Ocean sold three vessels recently. The Golden Keen and Golden Yonari, as Ludovic said already, were delivered to their new owners. And the Golden Zushan will deliver in Q4. Indicators on dry bulk on the right side of the slide. A lot of green indicators. On the demand side, we see the China steel mill utilization, which is good. Steel inventories have come off tremendously, which is usually a good sign for extra demand. Iron ore inventories are down as well. Iron ore imports, on the other hand, are starting to increase. And then Brazil and Australia, and I'll talk about that in a second, exports of iron ore are also up. The only negative, and then specifically for China, is that the coal imports are down by 8%. Fleet supply, we are looking at a number of a fleet increasing of 2% to 3%. Looking at the long-term dry bulk market attractiveness, you can see on the supply side, the left side of the slide, that we are way below historical averages in terms of deliveries today, but also in the next couple of years. Average age of the fleet is high. We're at close to 12 years. Order book of 9.4% is low. And when we look at the fleet composition, you see that there are already 113 capes that are older than 20 years. Another 500 will turn 20 years in five years from now versus 150 capes on order. So this is all very supportive. There are some extra elements that are supporting the supply story. One is that 500 caves need to dry dock in 25, 26 and 27. That's basically on an annualized basis, 2% of capacity that is taken out of the markets in these years. And then a recurring theme, the environmental legislation, which is becoming more stringent, will definitely impact cave size and Newcastle Max speed and availability. When we look at the demand side, We see that iron ore in China domestically, the production is going down, meaning that the Chinese are importing more iron ore. We see extra supply of iron ore coming on stream in areas in Australia, Brazil, and of course Guinea, which we have discussed in previous calls already, with a iron ore price which is still very much supported. So if we look at that, there is still a positive sentiment for the global mining of iron ore. Adding to the demand side, we have the bauxite story, and I have a slide on that in a second, and also the grain, which are positive and show very healthy growth numbers. Here you see a slide on the Brazilian iron ore trade. What we wanted to highlight here is showing that the seasonality with the bad weather, of course, always impacts iron ore exports out of the Atlantic. But now that the bad weather should be behind us, we will see an uptick in iron ore volumes coming out of Brazil. Even with the bad weather, we did see numbers that are at five-year highs. So that's definitely supporting our markets. Same thing can be said on the Pacific iron ore. We have shown some more data on specific producers like BHP and FMG. When we look at what they have already produced and what they have as targets for the year, this should definitely be supportive for our market and has already supported the market in recent months, as you have seen with rates increasing. And then on Guinea, I think this will definitely be a team that we will discuss in every quarterly call, because we had the Bauxite trade, which was already very important for the Cape Sars and Newcastle Max market, and we will add to that, hopefully, end of this year and definitely next year, all the iron ore volumes coming from So also very supportive, and this, as you know, from a ton-mile perspective, is definitely supportive for the Cape size story. Coal and grain, so negative on coal, positive on grain. You can see that the stock inventories in China are at record highs for the last five years. The Chinese are producing more coal domestically, also more coal coming from Mongolia. And so there's less Chinese coal being imported as we speak today. The story globally is a little bit more positive, but overall coal trade, seaborne coal this year will have a contraction. On the grain trade, we are seeing positive numbers, and even though technically it does not affect our Capes and Newcastle maxes directly, it does affect them indirectly through the Kamsa Max and Panamax markets, and of course very important for our Kamsa Maxes and Panamaxes that we have from Golden Ocean. I want to move to the container division. Not a lot to be said on the container division in terms of the activities of Delphi's, because as you know our fleet is fully fixed. We are waiting for the delivery of one more new building next year in July. What I can say about the market is that we see a clear softening trend on the spot freight rates, even though the time charter market is still very well supported. What we like a little bit less about the container market is the high order book, but that doesn't mean that we will not look at new projects with some of our close customers, because there is still demand for certain sizes, specifically the feeder sizes. On the chemical tanker side, we have a fleet today of six vessels on the water. We have another two chemical tankers delivering to us in the next couple of weeks and months. And then in 2026, we take delivery of two bitumen tankers. And in 2028 and 2029, we will take delivery of our ammonia, radium ammonia fitted chemical tankers with our long-term time charges. As you know, most of our chemical tankers are fixed long term. We have only two ships that are operating on the spot market through the pool. And you can see the results in the pool in the second quarter were very satisfactory. We were at $22,000. The number you see for the third quarter was for the month of July. But meanwhile, rates have been ticking up a little bit higher. So we're expecting Q3 to come in higher than that number. The big element on the chemical tanker markets will be what the MRs will do and how the MR and chemical tanker markets will relate to each other. Ending with our offshore wind division and wind cut, you see a beautiful picture of our wind cut Rotterdam. For some of you who are dialing in who were in Singapore yesterday, we have officially introduced and presented the wind cut Rotterdam to the broader public. That is our very first CSOV on the water with another five to come. Activities in Windcat, we have 56 CTVs on the water, another 7 are on order. Our CISO visa just said we have 1 delivered and 5 that are coming. We see the market on offshore wind, oil and gas as healthy. We haven't seen the typical decline towards the end of the summer. The market is still very much okay as we speak. Our utilizations were very good, and you can see the numbers that we have achieved both on time charges and what our breakeven rates are. On the seas of ease, we are seeing interest both from offshore wind projects, but also of oil and gas projects that need good and modern vessels to support their operations. And we are expecting these trends to continue in the following months. This is a summary. We are positive on tankers and dry bulk. This is also where our biggest spot exposure stands. We are cautious. That has not changed compared to the last quarter on containers and chemicals. That does not mean that we will not look at projects, but we will make sure that these projects then are secured with time charters. And then on offshore wind, we are still very positive. There's still a lot of capacity being built. We see healthy demands in that market. To conclude, we discussed our numbers. Our loss in the second quarter, the blended loss between CNB Tech and Golden Ocean was $7.6 million. Very important and very happy and satisfied that we could complete the Golden Ocean merger last week. We have our three listings, so very happy that we now have one more reason to go to Oslo. And we have declared an interim dividend of $0.05. Our portfolio stands, as you know, with our contract backlog, with our modern fleet, and very important, with our decarbonization optionality, providing additional upside potential for our earnings. Looking ahead, we are positive for tankers and dry. We have our long-term contracts and future-proof tonnage that is gaining further traction. And then on the chemical and container markets, as you know, we have covered most of our exposure. We've added a slide with our new-built delivery fleet list, 44 or 45 vessels with all the delivery dates. You can go through that at your leisure, but it's still a significant fleet to be delivered in the following quarters. And with that, I would like to end this part and hand it over to Enya for the Q&A.