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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Teekay Tankers EPS ResultsActual EPS$1.41Consensus EPS $1.59Beat/MissMissed by -$0.18One Year Ago EPS$3.11Teekay Tankers Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$154.23 millionExpected Revenue$162.67 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$8.44 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ATeekay Tankers Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2025Date7/30/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, July 31, 2025Conference Call Time11:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Teekay Tankers Q2 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 31, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Q2 net income of $62.6 M and free cash flow of $62.8 M with $712 M in cash and no debt underpin Teekay Tankers’ financial strength. Positive Sentiment: Ongoing fleet renewal with sales of older vessels and acquisitions including a modern Suezmax and the remaining 50% of the Hong Kong Spirit VLCC. Positive Sentiment: Q2 spot rates outperformed long-term averages, and Q3 to-date bookings cover ~43% of the spot base at $31.4 k/day for Suezmax and $28.2 k/day for Aframax/LR2. Positive Sentiment: Market fundamentals are supportive as OPEC+ unwinds cuts and South American output rises, likely boosting tanker ton-mile demand in H2. Negative Sentiment: Geopolitical volatility—from Middle East tensions to new sanctions and price caps on Russian and Iranian exports—could drive short-term rate fluctuations. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallTeekay Tankers Q2 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xThere are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Welcome to the Teekay Group's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Results Conference Call. As a reminder, this call is being recorded now. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn it over to the company. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:40Before we begin, I would like to direct all participants to our website at www.teekay.com, where you will find a copy of The Teekay Group's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings presentation. Kenneth will review this presentation during today's conference call. Please allow me to remind you that our discussion today contains forward looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from results projected by those forward looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward looking statements is contained in the second quarter twenty twenty five Teekay Group earnings presentation available on our website. Speaker 100:01:18I will now turn the call over to Ken Fidd, Teekay Corporation and Teekay Tankers' President and CEO, David Yang. Speaker 200:01:26Thank you, Ed. Hello, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today for the Teekay Group's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today for the Q and A session is Brody Spears, Teekay Corporation's and Teekay Tankers' CFO Ryan Hamilton, our VP, Finance and Corporate Development and Christian Waldegrave, our Director of Research. Starting on slide three of the presentation, we will cover Teekay Tankers' recent highlights. Teekay Tankers reported GAAP net income of $62,600,000 or $1.81 per share and adjusted net income of $48,700,000 or $1.41 per share in the second quarter. Speaker 200:02:12Second quarter spot rates were counter seasonally strong with rates outperforming the last two quarters and above long term averages for second quarter. Further, with spot rates well above our free cash flow breakeven levels, the company generated approximately $62,800,000 in free cash flow from operations and at the end of the quarter had a cash and short term investment position of $712,000,000 and no debt. With strong free cash flow generation and cash position, Teekay Tankers is well positioned to continue actively executing on our fleet renewal strategy. This includes reducing our exposure to 18 to 19 year old vessels as well as opportunistically selling some 2,009 built Suezmaxes in today's historically higher asset price environment as well as making incremental purchases of modern vessels. In July, we acquired one modern Suezmax, and we agreed to acquire the remaining 50% ownership interest in the Hong Kong Spirit VLCC from our joint venture partner. Speaker 200:03:17This VLCC acquisition was opportunistic based on relative market values and our belief in the near term strength of the tanker market. In addition, the company agreed to sell four Suezmaxes and one LR2, which will be delivered to the new owners in the third and fourth quarters for a combined total of $158,500,000 which we expect to result in an estimated book gain on sale of approximately $46,000,000 So far in 2025, we have sold or agreed to sell 11 vessels for total gross proceeds of $340,000,000 and estimated bookings on sale of approximately $100,000,000 Although our sales have outpaced our purchases so far this year, the plan is to gradually change the pace of buying as we remain focused on renewing and growing our fleet in an accretive manner to future earnings. Looking at our third quarter to date rates, we have secured spot rates of $31,400 per day and $28,200 per day for our Suezmax and Aframax LR2 fleets, respectively, with approximately 43% of our spot base booked. We believe there are potential tailwinds for the tanker markets towards the end of the year and that the fundamentals for the medium term remain balanced, but with more uncertainty due to the complex geopolitical landscape. Speaker 200:04:44We'll discuss the drivers of the market in the next few slides. Lastly, Teekay Tankers has declared its regular quarterly fixed dividend of $0.25 per share. Moving to Slide four, we look at recent developments in the spot market. Spot tanker rates improved during the second quarter compared to the last two quarters, and rates were above long term average levels for a second quarter. The strength in tanker rates was primarily due to longer average voyage distances during April, though rates subsequently softened during the remainder of the quarter in line with normal seasonal trends. Speaker 200:05:22The market saw a brief period of volatility in the June following the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran. However, there was no material disruption to regional oil production, exports or tanker movements with several spot charters, failing subjects and rates quickly reverting to prior levels once a ceasefire was announced. Turning to Slide five, we look at near term oil fundamentals, which we believe could give support to tanker rates during the second half of the year. Global oil production is expected to increase sharply in the coming months due to the unwinding of OPEC plus supply cuts and higher production from South America. The OPEC plus group has accelerated their unwind and at the current pace will have fully unwound the 2,200,000 barrels per day of voluntary supply cuts by September 2025, a full year ahead of schedule. Speaker 200:06:19This should translate into increased tanker ton mile demand, particularly from September onwards as reduced domestic demand will allow Middle Eastern producers led by Saudi Arabia to increase seaborne exports. New offshore oil production coming online in Brazil and Guyana should also increase volumes and support crude tanker ton mile demand during the second half of the year. As shown by the chart on the left of the slide, global oil supply is expected to exceed demand in the coming quarters, leading to an expected build in global oil inventories. The chart on the right shows that oil inventories outside of China are currently below average levels. Therefore, we expect that the market will be able to absorb the additional supply that is due to come online. Speaker 200:07:08Periods of oil inventory builds have historically been positive for tanker rates, and we believe this could be another tailwind for rates as we move into the seasonally stronger winter months. Turning to Slide six, we review the key drivers of the medium term outlook, but also some of the uncertainties which add a layer of complexity. Global oil demand is projected to increase by point 7,000,000 barrels per day in both 2025 and 2026 as per the IEA. While this is lower than projections made at the start of the year, it still represents healthy growth and would push total oil demand to a record high of almost 105,000,000 barrels per day. As mentioned on the previous slide, growing oil supply from both OPEC plus and non OPEC plus sources will help meet this demand growth and provide positive tanker ton miles demand growth, particularly as we anticipate that a growing portion of new oil supply coming online in the Atlantic Basin will be moved long haul to meet growing demand in Asia. Speaker 200:08:17Turning to global fleet supply. The pace of new tanker orders has slowed significantly since the start of the year with 11,000,000 deadweight of new orders placed in the first six months compared to 42,000,000 deadweight in the same period of 2024. The order book when measured as a percentage of the global tanker fleet has stabilized in recent months at approximately 15%. Meanwhile, a lack of tanker scrapping means that the fleet continues to age, with the average age of the global tanker fleet at twenty five year high of 14. Should tanker market conditions worsen, there could be increased pressure on the large and growing pool of scrap candidates to leave the market, providing a mechanism to rebalance the global fleet. Speaker 200:09:02We believe the combination of the current order book and aging tanker fleet and constraints on available yard space points towards a balanced fleet supply outlook and should result in continued low levels of tanker fleet growth over the medium term. While underlying tanker market fundamentals look positive, a number of geopolitical factors add complexity to the outlook and will likely influence the direction of spot tanker rates. I'll not go into each point in detail, but I note that in September alone, we expect that the OPEC plus group will complete the unwinding of their 2,200,000 barrels per day of voluntary supply cuts. The EU will introduce a new price cap of $0.04 $7.06 $0 per barrel on Russian crude oil exports. President Trump's fifty day ultimatum to Russia is set to expire, though this time line could be moved up given Trump's recent comments. Speaker 200:09:57And as we saw yesterday, The U. S. Just announced sanctions on additional 50 vessels moving Iranian crude oil. As such, we anticipate that the market will continue to exhibit volatility going forward, both in the short and medium term. Turning to Slide seven, we highlight how Teekay Tankers continues to build value while remaining patient for future fleet renewal. Speaker 200:10:22With our operating leverage and low free cash flow breakevens of $13,000 per day, Teekay Tankers generated $128,000,000 in free cash flow in the first half of the year. With no debt on our balance sheet, the company continues to build its financial strength and flexibility. Looking ahead, the company is well positioned to continue generating free cash flows To emphasize, for every $5,000 increase in spot rates above our breakeven, produces $1.89 per share of annual free cash flow or over 4% on a free cash flow yield basis. In summary, Teekay Tankers is an operating company in a cyclical capital intensive business. We remain disciplined in our capital allocation as our financial strength positions the company well for future fleet renewal while enabling us to continue to build value in a complex tanker market outlook. Speaker 200:11:22In the near term, with a low cash flow breakeven, we expect to continue generating strong cash flows and taking incremental steps on fleet renewal while returning capital to shareholders. With that, operator, we're now available to take questions. Operator00:11:40Thank telephone and would like to ask a question, you. Please signal by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please make sure your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach the equipment. Again, press star one to ask a question. If you are in the event via web interface and would like to ask a question, simply type your question in the ask a question box and click send. Operator00:12:10Our first question is going to come from Omar Nokta from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Speaker 300:12:19Hi, Kenneth. Hi. Hi, guys. Good after good morning. Thanks for Speaker 100:12:24the update. Just wanted to, yeah, just wanted to ask quickly, Speaker 300:12:28maybe if you wouldn't mind just expanding on the comments you made early in the presentation, you're referencing the purchasing of the the latest ship and then some of the sales you did. And you mentioned that you would be looking to change the pace given the need to renew. And so just wanted a bit more clarity. Are you talking about accelerating the pace of acquisitions or maybe rightsizing the ratio between purchasing and and and selling? Speaker 200:12:55Yeah. Good morning, Omar. Thanks for thanks for that question. I think what we wanted to to point out as as, everybody can see, we've been fairly fairly active in selling some of our older ships in in the first half of of this year. So we sold a a total of of 11 ships. Speaker 200:13:11And and then at the same time, we've we've started picking up a a couple of younger ships. Last year, we picked up a couple of Aframaxes. We did a Suezmax now, and then we simplified the ownership structure around the VLCC that we own 50% of. So the point that we're making here is that I think we've said that the selling is largely done for now. And what we're looking to do is we are are going to recycle, a lot of the capital that that we, will be collecting from those sales and and gradually start adding newer ships to to the fleet again. Speaker 300:13:49Okay. Thank you. And you mentioned the opportunistic transaction to take the full ownership of the VLCC. You've also got, I guess, the opportunistic stake in Ardmore, given your exposure to MRs and obviously have your bread and butter, so as an oxalap for Max, how are you thinking about further capital deployment as you renew the fleet? Are you looking within the same your main asset class? Speaker 300:14:15Or do you look towards a larger or perhaps a smaller segment? Speaker 200:14:20Yeah. I would say our our number one priority is is finding good purchase candidates within our core segments of of Aframaxes and and and Suezmaxes. We're, of course, looking at at at where we are and trying to square making sense of of selling at at what we think are are are quite strong prices for for the older assets and then recycling the capital into younger assets where we can find good value. And there's some relative price movements there, and we think that there are the odd opportunity that allows us to kind of create a positive arbitrage on that. So in the near term, I think that you will see us finding single vessels in in our core segments, Aframaxes and Suezmaxes. Speaker 200:15:04And over the medium term, we might be going in a little bit bigger with with newbuildings if if you think that that's the right time or or we may be looking at, at all the asset classes. But the priority right now and and in the near term here is is really just reloading on, on on our core asset classes. Speaker 300:15:25Okay. Very good and very clear. Thanks, Kenneth. I'll pass it back. Speaker 100:15:30Appreciate it. Thanks, Omar. Operator00:15:33And our next question is gonna come from Ken Hoexter from Bank of America. Please go ahead. And, Ken, are you there? Do you perhaps have your mute function button on? Speaker 400:15:51This is Tim Chang on for Ken Hoexter with DofA. You mentioned OPEC plus unwinding production cuts in September, an increase in non OPEC production in the Atlantic Basin as favorable for demand uplift later in the year. Do you see this lifting rates mainly in 4Q just given that rate softening due to seasonality in the third quarter? Speaker 500:16:16Yeah. Hi. It's Christian here. Yeah. We definitely see more oil volumes coming on the market later in the year with OPEC plus. Speaker 500:16:25It's not just the production increase, but the fact that, you know, the Middle Eastern countries have been keeping more oil domestically during the summer months of power generation. So as we get through the summer and probably into September, we should see more Middle East volumes hitting the water. And then we do expect more oil coming from Guyana and Brazil in the second half as well. And we still have the normal seasonality in tanker rates. The summer months, as we've seen in the last couple of months here, tend to be a bit flatter. Speaker 500:16:56Winter do tend to be seasonally stronger months. So with more export volumes coming online in the second half and also some of the geopolitical complexities as well that Kenneth touched on in terms of, more sanctions on Russia and Iran, which just makes trade in general less efficient, we certainly think that there'll be some more volatility and stronger rates as we go into the latter part of the year. Speaker 400:17:20Got it. Thank you. And then secondly, other revenue stepped up materially to $42,000,000 from around $33,000,000 last quarter. How should we think about run rate going forward there? Speaker 100:17:35Yeah. Hi. This is Brody. Yeah. The other revenues were a bit higher this quarter because we had a one time restructuring charge in our Australian business that was funded by one of our customers for for an FPSO that the the contract had expired on. Speaker 100:17:54So it's about 6,000,000 higher this quarter than it otherwise would be because of that. So so that was a a flow through cost to TK. Speaker 400:18:03Got it. Very clear. Thank you for taking my question. Operator00:18:09And there are no further questions in the queue at this moment. I'll turn the conference back over to the company for any additional or closing remarks. Speaker 200:18:19Well, thank you very much for tuning into our call this morning, and we look forward to reporting back to you next quarter. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Welcome to the Teekay Group's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Results Conference Call. As a reminder, this call is being recorded now. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn it over to the company. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:40Before we begin, I would like to direct all participants to our website at www.teekay.com, where you will find a copy of The Teekay Group's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings presentation. Kenneth will review this presentation during today's conference call. Please allow me to remind you that our discussion today contains forward looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from results projected by those forward looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in the forward looking statements is contained in the second quarter twenty twenty five Teekay Group earnings presentation available on our website. Speaker 100:01:18I will now turn the call over to Ken Fidd, Teekay Corporation and Teekay Tankers' President and CEO, David Yang. Speaker 200:01:26Thank you, Ed. Hello, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today for the Teekay Group's second quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today for the Q and A session is Brody Spears, Teekay Corporation's and Teekay Tankers' CFO Ryan Hamilton, our VP, Finance and Corporate Development and Christian Waldegrave, our Director of Research. Starting on slide three of the presentation, we will cover Teekay Tankers' recent highlights. Teekay Tankers reported GAAP net income of $62,600,000 or $1.81 per share and adjusted net income of $48,700,000 or $1.41 per share in the second quarter. Speaker 200:02:12Second quarter spot rates were counter seasonally strong with rates outperforming the last two quarters and above long term averages for second quarter. Further, with spot rates well above our free cash flow breakeven levels, the company generated approximately $62,800,000 in free cash flow from operations and at the end of the quarter had a cash and short term investment position of $712,000,000 and no debt. With strong free cash flow generation and cash position, Teekay Tankers is well positioned to continue actively executing on our fleet renewal strategy. This includes reducing our exposure to 18 to 19 year old vessels as well as opportunistically selling some 2,009 built Suezmaxes in today's historically higher asset price environment as well as making incremental purchases of modern vessels. In July, we acquired one modern Suezmax, and we agreed to acquire the remaining 50% ownership interest in the Hong Kong Spirit VLCC from our joint venture partner. Speaker 200:03:17This VLCC acquisition was opportunistic based on relative market values and our belief in the near term strength of the tanker market. In addition, the company agreed to sell four Suezmaxes and one LR2, which will be delivered to the new owners in the third and fourth quarters for a combined total of $158,500,000 which we expect to result in an estimated book gain on sale of approximately $46,000,000 So far in 2025, we have sold or agreed to sell 11 vessels for total gross proceeds of $340,000,000 and estimated bookings on sale of approximately $100,000,000 Although our sales have outpaced our purchases so far this year, the plan is to gradually change the pace of buying as we remain focused on renewing and growing our fleet in an accretive manner to future earnings. Looking at our third quarter to date rates, we have secured spot rates of $31,400 per day and $28,200 per day for our Suezmax and Aframax LR2 fleets, respectively, with approximately 43% of our spot base booked. We believe there are potential tailwinds for the tanker markets towards the end of the year and that the fundamentals for the medium term remain balanced, but with more uncertainty due to the complex geopolitical landscape. Speaker 200:04:44We'll discuss the drivers of the market in the next few slides. Lastly, Teekay Tankers has declared its regular quarterly fixed dividend of $0.25 per share. Moving to Slide four, we look at recent developments in the spot market. Spot tanker rates improved during the second quarter compared to the last two quarters, and rates were above long term average levels for a second quarter. The strength in tanker rates was primarily due to longer average voyage distances during April, though rates subsequently softened during the remainder of the quarter in line with normal seasonal trends. Speaker 200:05:22The market saw a brief period of volatility in the June following the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran. However, there was no material disruption to regional oil production, exports or tanker movements with several spot charters, failing subjects and rates quickly reverting to prior levels once a ceasefire was announced. Turning to Slide five, we look at near term oil fundamentals, which we believe could give support to tanker rates during the second half of the year. Global oil production is expected to increase sharply in the coming months due to the unwinding of OPEC plus supply cuts and higher production from South America. The OPEC plus group has accelerated their unwind and at the current pace will have fully unwound the 2,200,000 barrels per day of voluntary supply cuts by September 2025, a full year ahead of schedule. Speaker 200:06:19This should translate into increased tanker ton mile demand, particularly from September onwards as reduced domestic demand will allow Middle Eastern producers led by Saudi Arabia to increase seaborne exports. New offshore oil production coming online in Brazil and Guyana should also increase volumes and support crude tanker ton mile demand during the second half of the year. As shown by the chart on the left of the slide, global oil supply is expected to exceed demand in the coming quarters, leading to an expected build in global oil inventories. The chart on the right shows that oil inventories outside of China are currently below average levels. Therefore, we expect that the market will be able to absorb the additional supply that is due to come online. Speaker 200:07:08Periods of oil inventory builds have historically been positive for tanker rates, and we believe this could be another tailwind for rates as we move into the seasonally stronger winter months. Turning to Slide six, we review the key drivers of the medium term outlook, but also some of the uncertainties which add a layer of complexity. Global oil demand is projected to increase by point 7,000,000 barrels per day in both 2025 and 2026 as per the IEA. While this is lower than projections made at the start of the year, it still represents healthy growth and would push total oil demand to a record high of almost 105,000,000 barrels per day. As mentioned on the previous slide, growing oil supply from both OPEC plus and non OPEC plus sources will help meet this demand growth and provide positive tanker ton miles demand growth, particularly as we anticipate that a growing portion of new oil supply coming online in the Atlantic Basin will be moved long haul to meet growing demand in Asia. Speaker 200:08:17Turning to global fleet supply. The pace of new tanker orders has slowed significantly since the start of the year with 11,000,000 deadweight of new orders placed in the first six months compared to 42,000,000 deadweight in the same period of 2024. The order book when measured as a percentage of the global tanker fleet has stabilized in recent months at approximately 15%. Meanwhile, a lack of tanker scrapping means that the fleet continues to age, with the average age of the global tanker fleet at twenty five year high of 14. Should tanker market conditions worsen, there could be increased pressure on the large and growing pool of scrap candidates to leave the market, providing a mechanism to rebalance the global fleet. Speaker 200:09:02We believe the combination of the current order book and aging tanker fleet and constraints on available yard space points towards a balanced fleet supply outlook and should result in continued low levels of tanker fleet growth over the medium term. While underlying tanker market fundamentals look positive, a number of geopolitical factors add complexity to the outlook and will likely influence the direction of spot tanker rates. I'll not go into each point in detail, but I note that in September alone, we expect that the OPEC plus group will complete the unwinding of their 2,200,000 barrels per day of voluntary supply cuts. The EU will introduce a new price cap of $0.04 $7.06 $0 per barrel on Russian crude oil exports. President Trump's fifty day ultimatum to Russia is set to expire, though this time line could be moved up given Trump's recent comments. Speaker 200:09:57And as we saw yesterday, The U. S. Just announced sanctions on additional 50 vessels moving Iranian crude oil. As such, we anticipate that the market will continue to exhibit volatility going forward, both in the short and medium term. Turning to Slide seven, we highlight how Teekay Tankers continues to build value while remaining patient for future fleet renewal. Speaker 200:10:22With our operating leverage and low free cash flow breakevens of $13,000 per day, Teekay Tankers generated $128,000,000 in free cash flow in the first half of the year. With no debt on our balance sheet, the company continues to build its financial strength and flexibility. Looking ahead, the company is well positioned to continue generating free cash flows To emphasize, for every $5,000 increase in spot rates above our breakeven, produces $1.89 per share of annual free cash flow or over 4% on a free cash flow yield basis. In summary, Teekay Tankers is an operating company in a cyclical capital intensive business. We remain disciplined in our capital allocation as our financial strength positions the company well for future fleet renewal while enabling us to continue to build value in a complex tanker market outlook. Speaker 200:11:22In the near term, with a low cash flow breakeven, we expect to continue generating strong cash flows and taking incremental steps on fleet renewal while returning capital to shareholders. With that, operator, we're now available to take questions. Operator00:11:40Thank telephone and would like to ask a question, you. Please signal by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please make sure your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach the equipment. Again, press star one to ask a question. If you are in the event via web interface and would like to ask a question, simply type your question in the ask a question box and click send. Operator00:12:10Our first question is going to come from Omar Nokta from Jefferies. Please go ahead. Speaker 300:12:19Hi, Kenneth. Hi. Hi, guys. Good after good morning. Thanks for Speaker 100:12:24the update. Just wanted to, yeah, just wanted to ask quickly, Speaker 300:12:28maybe if you wouldn't mind just expanding on the comments you made early in the presentation, you're referencing the purchasing of the the latest ship and then some of the sales you did. And you mentioned that you would be looking to change the pace given the need to renew. And so just wanted a bit more clarity. Are you talking about accelerating the pace of acquisitions or maybe rightsizing the ratio between purchasing and and and selling? Speaker 200:12:55Yeah. Good morning, Omar. Thanks for thanks for that question. I think what we wanted to to point out as as, everybody can see, we've been fairly fairly active in selling some of our older ships in in the first half of of this year. So we sold a a total of of 11 ships. Speaker 200:13:11And and then at the same time, we've we've started picking up a a couple of younger ships. Last year, we picked up a couple of Aframaxes. We did a Suezmax now, and then we simplified the ownership structure around the VLCC that we own 50% of. So the point that we're making here is that I think we've said that the selling is largely done for now. And what we're looking to do is we are are going to recycle, a lot of the capital that that we, will be collecting from those sales and and gradually start adding newer ships to to the fleet again. Speaker 300:13:49Okay. Thank you. And you mentioned the opportunistic transaction to take the full ownership of the VLCC. You've also got, I guess, the opportunistic stake in Ardmore, given your exposure to MRs and obviously have your bread and butter, so as an oxalap for Max, how are you thinking about further capital deployment as you renew the fleet? Are you looking within the same your main asset class? Speaker 300:14:15Or do you look towards a larger or perhaps a smaller segment? Speaker 200:14:20Yeah. I would say our our number one priority is is finding good purchase candidates within our core segments of of Aframaxes and and and Suezmaxes. We're, of course, looking at at at where we are and trying to square making sense of of selling at at what we think are are are quite strong prices for for the older assets and then recycling the capital into younger assets where we can find good value. And there's some relative price movements there, and we think that there are the odd opportunity that allows us to kind of create a positive arbitrage on that. So in the near term, I think that you will see us finding single vessels in in our core segments, Aframaxes and Suezmaxes. Speaker 200:15:04And over the medium term, we might be going in a little bit bigger with with newbuildings if if you think that that's the right time or or we may be looking at, at all the asset classes. But the priority right now and and in the near term here is is really just reloading on, on on our core asset classes. Speaker 300:15:25Okay. Very good and very clear. Thanks, Kenneth. I'll pass it back. Speaker 100:15:30Appreciate it. Thanks, Omar. Operator00:15:33And our next question is gonna come from Ken Hoexter from Bank of America. Please go ahead. And, Ken, are you there? Do you perhaps have your mute function button on? Speaker 400:15:51This is Tim Chang on for Ken Hoexter with DofA. You mentioned OPEC plus unwinding production cuts in September, an increase in non OPEC production in the Atlantic Basin as favorable for demand uplift later in the year. Do you see this lifting rates mainly in 4Q just given that rate softening due to seasonality in the third quarter? Speaker 500:16:16Yeah. Hi. It's Christian here. Yeah. We definitely see more oil volumes coming on the market later in the year with OPEC plus. Speaker 500:16:25It's not just the production increase, but the fact that, you know, the Middle Eastern countries have been keeping more oil domestically during the summer months of power generation. So as we get through the summer and probably into September, we should see more Middle East volumes hitting the water. And then we do expect more oil coming from Guyana and Brazil in the second half as well. And we still have the normal seasonality in tanker rates. The summer months, as we've seen in the last couple of months here, tend to be a bit flatter. Speaker 500:16:56Winter do tend to be seasonally stronger months. So with more export volumes coming online in the second half and also some of the geopolitical complexities as well that Kenneth touched on in terms of, more sanctions on Russia and Iran, which just makes trade in general less efficient, we certainly think that there'll be some more volatility and stronger rates as we go into the latter part of the year. Speaker 400:17:20Got it. Thank you. And then secondly, other revenue stepped up materially to $42,000,000 from around $33,000,000 last quarter. How should we think about run rate going forward there? Speaker 100:17:35Yeah. Hi. This is Brody. Yeah. The other revenues were a bit higher this quarter because we had a one time restructuring charge in our Australian business that was funded by one of our customers for for an FPSO that the the contract had expired on. Speaker 100:17:54So it's about 6,000,000 higher this quarter than it otherwise would be because of that. So so that was a a flow through cost to TK. Speaker 400:18:03Got it. Very clear. Thank you for taking my question. Operator00:18:09And there are no further questions in the queue at this moment. I'll turn the conference back over to the company for any additional or closing remarks. Speaker 200:18:19Well, thank you very much for tuning into our call this morning, and we look forward to reporting back to you next quarter. Have a great day.Read morePowered by