Harry Vafias
Management
Good morning, everyone. And thank you all for joining us at our Q4 and 12 months 2024 Conference Call. I’m Harry Vafias, the CEO of Imperial Petroleum; and joining us today is Fenia Sakellari who will be discussing our financial performance. Before we commence our discussion, please read the Safe Harbor disclaimer on Slide 2. In essence, it is made clear that this presentation may contain some forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities and Litigation Reform Act. We raise the attention of our investors to the fact that such forward-looking statements are based upon current beliefs and expectations of Imperial Petroleum and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause future results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. In addition, before we commence our discussion, we would like to clarify that during this call, we will quote monetary amounts, unless explicitly stated otherwise, all in U.S. dollars. In Slide 3, we summarize our key highlights for Q4 2024 and 12 months 2024. As a general remark, market conditions during the last quarter of 2024 were somewhat atypical as the expected seasonal strengthening failed to materialize. Geopolitical tensions, mild winter along with rapid delays in unwinding, the production cuts brought upon a softness in the tanker market. In spite of a lack of strong market momentum in the fourth quarter 2024, we managed to attain a strong operational utilization of 86% attributed to an increase in time charter coverage with negligible quarterly technical off-hire. Indeed, in Q4, compared to the fourth quarter of 2023, our time charter coverage increased by 180% as two of our product tankers were under time charter employment for the whole period. Looking at the 12-month results, our operational utilization came in at 78.3%, about 69% of our fleet calendar days were dedicated…