Nordic American Tankers Limited (NYSE:NAT) Announces Public Offering
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Hamilton, Bermuda, November 21, 2013
Nordic American Tankers Limited (the "Company") today announced an underwritten
public offering of approximately $65 million aggregate amount of common shares
pursuant to the Company's effective shelf registration statement. The Company's
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Herbjørn Hansson is expected to
purchase about $2.0 million worth of common shares in the offering on the same
terms as other investors. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is acting as the bookrunning
manager for the offering and DNB Markets Inc. and Pareto Securities Inc. are
acting as co-managers of the offering. The Company also intends to grant the
underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional common shares representing
up to 15% of the offered shares.
The investors participating in this offering are entitled to a dividend of $0.16
per share. This dividend was announced October 21, 2013 and is payable on or
about December 11, 2013.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of this offering primarily to
finance its investment in Nordic American Offshore Ltd. ("NAO"). NAO is an
independent company from Nordic American Tankers that will initially own six
platform supply vessels built in 2012 and 2013 by the Ulstein Group in Norway.
One objective of the NAT investment in NAO is to enable NAT to pay a higher
dividend to NAT shareholders than otherwise would be the case.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of
an offer to buy securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or
sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
The offering is being made by means of a prospectus and related prospectus
supplement. Copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement relating to the
offering may be obtained from the offices of Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at 180
Varick Street, Second Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus
Department.
About the Company
The Company is an international tanker company that owns 20 double-hull Suezmax
tankers.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking
statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe
harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage
companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-
looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals,
strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other
statements, which are other than statements of historical facts.
The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this
cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words
"believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "plan,"
"potential," "will," "may," "should," "expect," "pending" and similar
expressions identify forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various
assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions,
including without limitation, our management's examination of historical
operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from
third parties. Although we believe that these assumptions were reasonable when
made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant
uncertainties and contingencies which are difficult or impossible to predict and
are beyond our control, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or accomplish
these expectations, beliefs or projections. We undertake no obligation to
update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Important factors that, in our view, could cause actual results to differ
materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the
strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including
fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand in the tanker
market, as a result of changes in OPEC's petroleum production levels and
worldwide oil consumption and storage, changes in our operating expenses,
including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for our
vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental
rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential
liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international
political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents
or political events, vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other
important factors described from time to time in the reports filed by the
Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the prospectus
and related prospectus supplement, our Annual Report on Form 20-F, and our
reports on Form 6-K.
The Company has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the offering to which this
communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that
registration statement, the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to this
offering and other documents the Company has filed with the SEC for more
complete information about the Company and this offering. You may get these
documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov.
Alternatively, copies may be obtained from Morgan Stanley at 180 Varick Street,
Second Floor, New York, New York 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department. You
may also request a copy of these documents by sending an e-mail to ir(at)nat.bm.
Contacts:
Scandic American Shipping Ltd.
Manager for:
Nordic American Tankers Limited
P.O Box 56, 3201 Sandefjord, Norway
Tel: + 47 33 42 73 00 E-mail: nat(at)scandicamerican.com
Jacob Ellefsen,
Manager, Investor Relations and Research, Monaco
Nordic American Tankers Limited
Tel: + 377 93 25 89 07 or + 33 678 631 959
Rolf Amundsen, Advisor, Norway
Nordic American Tankers Limited
Tel: +1 800 601 9079 or + 47 908 26 906
Turid M. Sørensen, EVP & CFO, Norway
Nordic American Tankers Limited
Tel: +47 33 42 73 00 or +47 90 57 29 27
Gary J. Wolfe
Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, USA
Tel: +1 212 574 1223
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