ST. HELIER, Channel Islands, Apr 29, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Double Hull Tankers, Inc. (NYSE:DHT) announced today the pricing of 8,000,000 common shares at a public offering price of $10.50 per share in an underwritten public offering. In connection with the offering, the underwriters have been granted an option to purchase up to 1,200,000 additional common shares to cover overallotments, if any.
The net proceeds from the underwritten public offering, after underwriting discounts and offering expenses, to the company will be $79,478,360. The company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, without limitation, vessel acquisitions, business acquisitions or other strategic alliances, reduction of outstanding borrowings, capital expenditures and working capital.
Merrill Lynch & Co. and UBS Investment Bank are acting as joint bookrunning managers of the offering. Dahlman Rose & Company is acting as co-manager.
A registration statement relating to the securities described herein has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is effective. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus.
Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus related to this offering may be obtained from Merrill Lynch & Co., 4 World Financial Center, New York, NY 10080, or from UBS Securities LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 299 Park Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10171.
About Double Hull Tankers, Inc.
Double Hull Tankers, Inc. operates a fleet of double hull tankers. The company’s fleet currently consists of three very large crude carriers, which are tankers ranging in size from 200,000 to 320,000 deadweight tons, or ”dwt,” two Suezmax tankers, which are tankers ranging in size from 130,000 to 170,000 dwt, and four Aframax tankers, which are tankers ranging in size from 80,000 to 120,000 dwt. The company’s fleet principally operates on international routes and had a combined carrying capacity of 1,506,998 dwt and a weighted average age of 7.8 years as of December 31, 2007. More information is available at www.dhtankers.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release may contain assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future events, in particular regarding daily charter rates, vessel utilization, the future number of newbuildings, oil prices and seasonal fluctuations in vessel supply and demand. When used in this document, words such as “believe,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “project,” “forecast,” “plan,” “potential,” “will,” “may,” “should,” and “expect” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. These statements are intended as “forward-looking statements.” All statements in this document that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements included in this press release reflect the company’s current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. We caution that assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future events may and often do vary from actual results and the differences can be material. The reasons for this include the risks, uncertainties and factors described under the section of our latest annual report on Form 20-F entitled “Risk Factors,” a copy of which is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These include the risk that the company may not be able to pay dividends; the highly cyclical nature of the tanker industry; global demand for oil and oil products; the number of newbuilding deliveries and the scrapping rate of older vessels; the risks associated with acquiring additional vessels; changes in trading patterns for particular commodities significantly impacting overall tonnage requirements; risks related to terrorist attacks and international hostilities; expectations about the availability of insurance; our ability to repay our credit facility or obtain additional financing; our ability to find replacement charters for our vessels when their current charters expire; compliance costs with environmental laws and regulations; risks incident to vessel operation, including discharge of pollutants; and unanticipated changes in laws and regulations.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward-looking statements included in this press release. The company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements.
SOURCE: Double Hull Tankers, Inc.
Double Hull Tankers, Inc.
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