Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited Declares Dividend on Its 8.75% Series D Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Shares
/EINPresswire.com/ -- ATHENS, GREECE -- (Marketwired) -- 08/18/16 -- Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited ("TEN") (NYSE: TNP), a leading crude, product, and LNG tanker operator, today announced that its Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.546875 per share for its 8.75% Series D Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series D Preferred Shares") (NYSE: TNPPRD) for the period from May 28, 2016 through August 27, 2016. The dividend will be paid on August 29, 2016 to all holders of record of the Series D Preferred Shares as of August 24, 2016 as the dividend payment date of August 28, 2016 falls on a Sunday this year.
Dividends on the Series D Preferred Shares will be payable quarterly in arrears on the 28th day (unless the 28th falls on a weekend or public holiday, in which case the payment date is moved to the next business day) of February, May, August and November of each year when, as and if declared by TEN's Board of Directors. This is the fifth dividend on the Series D Preferred Shares.
TEN has 3,400,000 Series D Preferred Shares outstanding as of the date of this press release.
ABOUT TSAKOS ENERGY NAVIGATION
TEN, founded in 1993, is one of the first and most established public shipping companies in the world today. The Company's pro-forma fleet, including one VLCC, one LNG carrier, seven Aframax tankers, a Suezmax DP2 shuttle tanker and two LR1 product tankers all under construction, consists of 65 double-hull vessels, constituting a mix of crude tankers, product tankers and LNG carriers, totaling 7.2 million dwt. Of these, 47 vessels trade in crude, 13 in products, three are shuttle tankers and two are LNG carriers. All of TEN's tanker newbuildings except the one remaining VLCC Hercules and the LNG carrier Maria Energy are fixed on long-term project businesses. As of August 2016, about 60% of 2016 fleet available days, assuming nine deliveries, are on secured contracts with an average length of 2.5 years and minimum gross revenues of about $1.5 billion.
VESSELS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Vessel Name Type Dwt Delivery Status Employment ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Ulysses VLCC 300,000 Q2 2016 Delivered Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Elias Tsakos Aframax 112,700 Q2 2016 Delivered Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Thomas Zafiras Aframax 112,700 Q3 2016 Delivered Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Leontios H Aframax 112,700 Q4 2016 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 TS Parthenon Aframax 112,700 Q4 2016 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 TS Marathon Aframax 112,700 Q1 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 TS Sola Aframax 112,700 Q1 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 TS Oslo Aframax 112,700 Q2 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 TS Stavanger Aframax 112,700 Q3 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 TS Bergen Aframax 112,700 Q4 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Sunray Panamax LR1 74,200 Aug 2016 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Sunrise Panamax LR1 74,200 Q3 2016 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 Lisboa City DP2 Shuttle 157,000 Q1 2017 TBD Yes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Hercules VLCC 300,000 Q4 2016 TBD In Negotiations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Maria Energy LNG 93,616 Q3 2016 TBD In Negotiations ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted by such forward-looking statements. TEN undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
For further information please contact:
Company
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd.
George Saroglou
COO
+30210 94 07 710
gsaroglou@tenn.gr
Investor Relations / Media
Capital Link, Inc.
Nicolas Bornozis
Paul Lampoutis
+212 661 7566
ten@capitallink.com
