d'Amico International Shipping S.A.

Good afternoon, this is the conference operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the D'Amico International Shipping Second Quarter and First Half 2026 Results Web Call. All participants are in listen-only mode and after the presentation there will be a Q&A session. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Federico Rosen, CFO. Please go ahead, sir.

Good afternoon and welcome to our earnings call for Q2 NH1 2026 results. As usual, I'll skip the executive summary and go straight to page seven. Snapshot of our fleet as at the end of June 2026, we had 28 ships on the water, six LR1s, 16 MRs, and six Andes. We also have, as you know, 10 ships currently under construction. Four are once scheduled for delivery in 2027, in the second half of next year. Four MRs, four MR2s, also called, and two Handys that are scheduled for delivery in 2029. Modern fleet, 9.9 average years. and moving to the next page, this is our situation on the bank debt front in H126 in line with our strategy, with our financial strategy that we discussed several times in our previous calls. We kept on voluntarily prepaying some of our existing debt and we, for $45.8 million actually in the first half of the year. And we drew down new facilities at a considerably lower cost of debt, taking advantage also of our enhanced credit merit. And also, we have some facilities which were coming to maturity in 2027. which is also a capital intensive year for us. As we mentioned before, we would take the delivery of four vessels next year. So we also extended our maturity on this depth. So right now we have zero depth expiring in 2027. and a very limited amount expiring in 28, $13.8 million on a ship that today is worth over $54 million and $17 million expiring in 2029. We are assuming here, as you can see in this graph, to repay debt again in the second half of this year. Actually, this is going to happen in July, by tomorrow, actually. for $13.5 million and to draw a new facility for $16.5 million. Again, a very much improved margin over software. And going into 27 and 29, in which, as I mentioned before, we will take the delivery of 10 ships, 10 new ships, we are assuming at the moment to get a leverage of 50% of the contract price that we have on these vessels. We also show, as usual, our daily bank loan repayments on our own vessels, which tells a lot about our substantial deleveraging plan that we've been implementing. So this figure was $6,147 a day in 2019, and it dropped down to $2,050 a day as of this year. Going ahead to the following page, Here, as always, we provide a situation of how Q3 looks right now based on everything that we have been fixing so far on the market. So we have at the moment 61% Tyneshire coverage, 61% of our Q3 days at an average of 23,562. We also fixed 18% of our Q3 days on the spot market at an average of $30,900 a day. And so this entails a blended daily TCE, so the sum of the time shattered and the spot components of 80% of the Q3 days at an average of $25,257 a day. Also, we provide on the right sensitivity relative to the numbers that I just mentioned. So should we run the rest of the year, so the days that are currently unfixed at $25,000 a day, our Q3 26 potential blended TCE would be $25,200 a day. Should it be $27,500 a day on the free spot days, this figure would rise to $25,700 a day. And should we make $30,000 a day on the spot market on the remaining spot days, We would achieve a daily average DC of $26,200 a day. Following page, we show the estimated evolution of our fleet. Here, as you know, we have sold the oldest vessels of our fleet, the ICs and a Tide. One of this vessel was already delivered to the buyers, so it's out of our fleet at the end of June. in April, at the end of April. The other ship will be delivered to the buyers by November, by early November. And of course, as I mentioned, we will take the delivery of 10 ships between 2027 and 2029. On the right up above, we show the sensitivity relative to the spot market, to the spot rate. So every $1,000 a day, Thank you very much. Instead, we show on the left what our estimated net result would be should we run the rest of the year at breakeven level, which is, of course, considerably lower, much, much lower relative to where the market is right now. So assuming this, we would make a net result of $109.2 million. And on the right, We also ran sensitivity relative to this figure. So should we make $20,000 a day on our free days in 2026, for the remainder of 2026, our potential net result would rise to $117.6 million. Should we make $22,500 a day, we would make almost $122 million. Should we make $25,000 a day, then we would have a net profit of almost $126 million for 2026. Next page, on the cost side, daily OPEX of $8,580 a day in H126, a bit higher, 5% higher compared with the same period of last year. in reality very much in line with our internal projections. We were expecting this. We were, of course, subject to some inflationary pressure this year and also to some higher logistic costs related to the spare part deliveries, which is very much related to where the ships are actually employed. So there are certain parts of the world in which it's much more expensive to send and deliver on board spare parts. On the G&A's front, very stable situation as you can see, so $13.1 million in H-126, very much in line with the same period of last year. Of course, as I mentioned several times, the increase that you see relative to the previous years is due to the variable component of the personnel cost of DIS. which is obviously the reflection also of the very good years that have been having, the very profitable years that we have been having.

Net financial position, very meaningful here.

We reached at the end of H126 a net cash position of $19.2 million or $21 million excluding a small residual life for a 16 effect. We had cash and cash equivalent at the end of the period, of $231.7 million, and also our financial leverage ratio, which we always calculate as the proportion between our net financial position and the fleet market value of our fleet, turned negative because we are in a net cash position situation, and it's minus 1.6%. and I forgot to mention that our fleet market value was assessed at $1.28 billion at the end of the period. Going to the income statement, we recorded a very profitable first semester of the year, $79.4 million. 105.8 million EBITDA, over 67% EBITDA margin, much higher in the same period of last year where we made $38.5 million net profit. Looking at Q2 alone, extremely strong, almost $52 million bottom line with an EBITDA of $64.9 million, which represents an EBITDA margin of over 72%. Next page, our key operating measures. In the first half of the year, we covered almost 64% of our days at an average of $23,600 a day. At the same time, we achieved on the remaining days a daily spot average of $40,240 a day. Leading to a total blended BTC of $31,125 a day. Much stronger, as you can see, compared with the same period of last year. Q2 2026, extremely strong on the spot market. This is a record figure for us. We achieved a daily spot rate of $57,500 a day. We also cover 65.3% of our days at 24,272, leading to a total blinded BTC of $35,833 a day. And I pass it on to Carlos.

Thank you, Federico. Good afternoon. So as usual, now we continue with our CAPEX commitments.

and the total commitments in relation to the new buildings, 10 new buildings we ordered is of around 512 million, of which around 437 still outstanding. Most of the payments occurring in 27 when four LL1s should be delivered to us and in 29 when we should take delivery of two MR1s and four MR2s. Purchase options on lease vessels. We still have these two vessels here that we can exercise at any moment with three months notice. Given our very strong financial position, net cash position recently, we are now looking into this more and I would say it is likely that we will be exercising one of these options soon. Here we just like to show that all the options we have exercise on the vessels which were time charted in and which are today own vessels. And it's also nice to see that relative to The date in which the options were exercised, some value was created at the time. The delta between the market value and the exercise price was around $57 million. Today, it's closer to $90 million if we compare the market value to the book value of the vessels at the end of June. Contract coverage. Now here there is some news because overnight we got fully fixed on a new time charter contract, an extension of an existing contract for another three years. So that slightly increases our coverage for this year. It's a contract which... should be terminating at around the middle of September, which was extended for three years. But it increases more so our coverage for 27, 28, and also partly in 29. So we are happy about this additional coverage, which provides us more visibility on earnings for the coming years, that's still a very profitable rate. Overall, today we have 57% of our remaining days in 26 are H2 26 days covered through period contracts. And we have 31% of our days in 27 covered through such contracts. The markets. Well, as you saw from the figures just described by Federico, we have benefited from extraordinarily strong markets in Q2. The market spiked, reaching record levels, as is clear from the graph on the left here, the yellow line. following the onset of the war in Ukraine. This spike did not last too long, but we were able to capture part of this upswing quite well through some very good fixtures and the market corrected since then, but stays at very profitable levels. And I would say that most recently, This is maybe not evident in this graph. In the last week, we have seen actually some further strengthening of the market. The market east of Suez is pretty flat right now at mid-low 20s. But in the U.S. Gulf, it is in the high 30s, low 40s, in the Atlantic Basin, let's say. So it's still very strong markets, so very profitable markets. Period rates reflected and reflect anticipation that these markets should stay strong, very strong for the coming year and strong, I would say, for the coming two or three years. So asset values also have moved up Marc Ridley over the last few months and at very high levels. So very positive outlook for the sector as seems to be indicated by these values here. Refining margins, very strong margins. of course very strong because there is a lack of refined volumes coming out from the Persian Gulf but very strong also because of the Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries which have led Russia to curtail exports of certain refined products. The disruption to homeless oil flows has been significant since the onset of the war. There was much more oil flowing just after the MOU was signed between the US and Iran. That did not last very long, unfortunately, and now volumes are back. two levels that we saw in April and May and so with very limited crossings of the Strait of Hormuz. Stocks have declined markedly but the effect on the rest of the world was dampened by the fact that China took the brunt of this adjustment by lowering substantially its imports of crude oil since the war started by around 5 to 6 million barrels per day. There were also 2 million barrels per day of releases of strategic reserves But stocks nonetheless in OECD countries did come down and in certain parts and certain areas and for certain specific products they are starting to reach critical levels. Here we see, we have a slide here again, the situation in the Red Sea and more specifically in the Babelman Depth Strait. is becoming again very relevant. There was an increase in crossings that we were seeing. The situation was normalizing throughout the course of this year. But most recently the Houthis threatened to attack all vessels linked to Saudi interests. And that... should entail, of course, vessels controlled by Saudi Arabia, but also likely cargo loaded in Saudi Arabian ports. So the Jambu port was a critical outlet for crude oil, which helped to mitigate the effects of the lost barrels transiting Hormuz. and as we see on the graph on the right top hand side here we see that product flows from the Red Sea did not change very much after the beginning of the war but crude oil flows going in particular crude oil flows going east rose significantly from around one million barrels per day to four million barrels per day. So with this new situation here, we are seeing that more of this crude is now being redirected through Suez and in some cases being transported through pipelines, through the Sumet pipeline to Egypt and then being exported from there. More of it is likely to end up in the Mediterranean. But that means that Asia will then have to import more from the US Gulf. So again, very positive for ton miles. So this situation here is, if it were to continue, is likely to provide a further boost to the market and a further boost to ton miles. In particular for the crude tankers, but of course indirectly also to the product tankers as the two sectors are linked, especially through the LR2 segment, as we have mentioned several times and as we will see later in the presentation. These slides here confirm, you see here quite evidently, how Russia's refined products exports have been collapsing lately as a result of the Ukrainian attacks. Overnight they attacked another two important refineries in Russia, they attacked again the CPC terminal, So they are going all in in this strategy, which they realize is being very effective at damaging Russia economically. And that is creating a lot of tightness, especially on the diesel market, which Russia used to be a very important exporter of. and the number of sanctioned vessels on the water continues rising. Recently another sanctioned package was approved by the EU. We are now approaching 20% of the overall tanker fleet which has been sanctioned in that way terms and that of course reduces the productivity of this fleet. and Improves leads to stronger markets for also all the compliant tonnage. Venezuela was also a positive factor, the lifting of sanctions on Venezuela. As expected, a large portion of this Venezuelan oil is ending up in the U.S. Gulf. Many refineries in the U.S. were built to process this heavy crude oil that is freeing up more oil from the U.S. to be exported to more distant locations in Asia. And also Venezuela is importing more NAFTA as a deduant for the crude oil that it needs to export. And that is positive also for product anchors. So... On these slides here we will not dwell very much into because these forecasts from the EIA are just as good as their estimates of the timing of reopening for the Strait of Hormuz. So it is very difficult for anyone to make any forecast on this matter. And here, these slides confirm that stocks have been coming down. The graph on the bottom left, the data, it's a bit dated. The last data point is from May. But for sure, this has continued declining until the end of July, and we are now well below the last five years average. and here again we show this which has been a very important factor supporting product anchors throughout last year and even more so since the onset of the war in Iran there has been this huge migration of LR2s into dirty trades as you can see on the left hand graph the yellow line which has been moving up vertically whilst there was a reduction in the number of LR2s trading clean and that despite the fact that over the last year or so there were many LR2s deliveries. So here looking at the period between January 25 and July 26 there were around 100, almost 100 LR2s delivered But nonetheless, there was a reduction of the LR2s trading clean of 71 vessels. So that has tightened the product tanker market for all the other segments. And we have benefited from that. That has happened, of course, because the Afrax Max market has been extremely strong and has outperformed and is still outperforming the LR2 clean market. Not much change here relative to our last presentation with the refinery additions still occurring mostly in the Middle East, India and China and Africa, and which should be contributing positive to Ton Miles in the coming years. The fleet continues aging very rapidly. We now are approaching 22% of DMR and LR1 fleet, which is above 20 years of age, and we should be at around 25% by the end of 27. We have today 14% or the book for the MRs and LR1s. So this gap between the order book and the proportion of the fleet, which is more than 20 years of age, continues increasing despite quite a substantial number of vessels ordered this year. And we see on the bottom left, The fact that from 28 we have quite a big percentage of the fleet which is reaching 25 years of age, which is the average demolition age for these type of vessels. So even if these vessels were not to be demolished at this age, this would either indicate a very strong market or in any case they would be trading in very marginal trades and not competing with the mainstream tankers. And that in reality already happens as in most cases the activity of vessels is already very limited after they cross the 20-year threshold. So that has been and should continue supporting the markets. Demolition, which had been picking up throughout 2025 has slowed down again markedly because of the very strong markets this year. Deliveries instead have been rising and they should continue rising also next year. and the order book here. We see the number of vessels ordered in the first six months of 2026. And we are at almost 90 vessels on the four MRs and LL1s. So if annualized, that would be 180. which is not too far from the 2024 figure. So this is something we have to keep a close eye on. The situation now is still, I would say, positive because of the rapidly aging fleet. But of course, if ship owners were to get carried away ordering vessels, that could be a cause of concern in the coming years. Here we see that A fleet growth should accelerate next year, but what we are not showing here is the fleet growth of the sub-20 fleet and there the growth is much more limited than around 1%. So it's still a very positive situation also for next year. Here we show our NAV, the overall NAV which reached 1.3 billion dollars thanks to the positive net cash position and the fleet market value which is approaching 1.3 billion dollars and so we at the end of June were trading at 30% discount to NAV today, slightly smaller discount because the shares have traded up since. And here we show that we have been quite generous in improving our payout ratio as we have strengthened our balance sheet. and so hopefully we will continue, we will be able to confirm a generous payout ratio also out of the 2026 results. And that's it and I pass it over to you for the Q&A.

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To enter the queue for questions, please click on the Q&A icon on the left side of your screen. When announced, please click continue on the pop-up window. If you are connected in audio only, please press star and one on your telephone. The first question is from Massimo Bonisoli of Equita. Please go ahead.

Hello, Carlos. Hello, Federico. Can you hear me?

Yeah. Hi, Massimo. Hi, Massimo.

Hello. One question regarding the current spot earnings, if you can update us on the number on the market you see for July and in the early fixture for August, how they compare with... with the volatility we have seen around Q2, which has been pretty strong considering the trends both in Atlantic and, let's say, east of Hormuz. And the second question is on refining and downstream. Current diesel and gasoline cracks are at record level, never seen such a strong refining crack. So I would have expected even A stronger demand on the tanker market. So if you can provide some color on that in the sense that I would have expected maybe a stronger demand and also what I would have expected over the past few months is a level of inventories that have been Yeah, Massimo, thank you for the

Other good questions.

In terms of starting with the spot earnings, so I'm going back to one of the slides of the presentation here where we provide an update on that. So this is what has been fixed by us on the spot market so far in Q3. So an average of 31,000. Today, I would say that the market is not, on average, maybe not too far from these levels. Potentially, it depends on how vessels are positioned in the different basins. But as I was mentioning, in the Atlantic Basin, usually the markets, and still today, are slightly weaker in Northern Europe. and in the Mediterranean, and that is what we have been seeing, although they have been improving also in this part of the world. The market for the handy sizes, the dirty handy sizes especially, has been very strong in the Mediterranean. We don't have an exposure to that market right now, although we do have one vessel. We just finished a dry dock handy vessel, which is going to, Dry Dock in Turkey and then we will have to find a new employment for that vessel. We still have to decide whether to trade it a bit on the spot market before fixing it on a new time charter. And we are seeing instead quite a strong market in the US Gulf. Currently in the high 30s, low 40s, depending on the routes. And it has been the US golf market, a volatile market. So you have had strong corrections and then the market has also rebounded very, very strongly. But the averages have been quite attractive. East of Suez, we are seeing a market which was quite weak recently in the Middle East. There was a bit of a glut of vessels there because vessels had positioned in that area in an anticipation of the reopening of Hormuz and which was expected to continue and to actually gain There was a resurgence of violence, unfortunately, and the closure of the strait, so vessels which were there, some started ballasting away from the area, either going to Southeast Asia, to North Asia, or to the Atlantic Basin. And so now that the number of vessels in that area decreased, we are starting to see some improvements in the Middle East again. Whilst the markets which were a bit firmer in the North and Southeast Asia are still stronger than the Middle East market. They are in the low 20s, mid-low 20s. but they have a more soft undertone currently because of the vessels which have ballasted into those regions recently because of the weak market in the Middle East. But overall it's still a very strong market. I think it could get stronger if... We have this positive ton-myelose effect because of the closure or partial closure of the Babelman-Leb Strait. Refining margins, as you correctly mentioned, are extremely strong, but sometimes that is not enough because The volumes of course available to be transported are much lower than they were previously. So what is compensating for that is the inefficiencies, the longer distances, but occasionally there are moments where more product has to be kept domestically and because stocks are low, also where refineries are located, not only in import countries. And that is a negative, of course, for the seaboard transportation of demand for refined products. you have these contrary forces at play but overall I think still quite a positive outlook for the market with of course you know the risk that if this were to continue for too long it could then lead to some bigger Thank you very much. So, in terms of the stocks, I agree with you. I also would have expected a bigger decrease in stocks. I think that there was a big decrease in stock in China, which are, however, still at quite high levels, because they came into this conflict with extremely high stocks. They were building stocks throughout last year. but they did help to cushion the blow to the to the rest of the of the world and there was this release of strategic stocks which means that yes also strategic stocks came down and so but that helped to mitigate the the reduction in stocks of commercial stocks and of course there was in certain areas of the world there was the which are more price sensitive and where certain measures to restrict consumption were adopted, you have also a reduction in consumption which helped a bit to rebalance the market and to reduce this drawdown in stocks. So the system proved much more resilient than could have been anticipated. But we are navigating in quite dangerous waters. There is a risk that at a certain point we might reach an inflection point where prices don't move just linearly up in a gradual fashion, but they move. There is a more important increase in oil prices.

I hope I answered your questions, Massimo.

Thank you, Carlos.

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Well, thank you, everyone. If there are no more questions, thank you. There's another question?

Yes, yes. Okay, I'll promote her. Terazzi, the floor is yours.

Yes, good afternoon. Thanks for the presentation. I would ask you an update on the dividend policy and capital allocation strategy, please. Thank you.

Yes, thanks, Arianna. Dividend policy, I would say that not much has changed.

I think that we don't have a formal dividend policy, but The company has decided to link the payout ratio to the leveraging of its balance sheet and therefore we were able to increase the portion of profits distributed in the course of the years as we reduced the proportion of leverage in our balance sheet. And so today we are fortunate to be in a net cash position and the outlook for the markets continues being very strong. So if things were not to change in a negative way in the coming months, we hope the company will be able to confirm A similar payout ratio to the one approved out of the 2025 results.

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Thank you everyone for joining the call today.

Thank you for the very good questions and look forward to our next call for the presentation of our Q3 results and a good summer to everyone. Bye. Thank you.

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