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PREMUDA

Our Mission is to support global trade

PREMUDA is one of the oldest and most renowned brands within the worldwide shipping. Incorporated in Italy, with premises in the port city of Genova, we have active subsidiaries in Italy and Malta. As leading provider of dry cargo and tanker services globally, PREMUDA presently controls a fleet of 23 vessels and is capable to offer to clients and charterers a broad range of best in class transport solutions. Our main equity is PEOPLE. As such we care about them and we support meritocracy, diversity and inclusiveness. As a team we work together to discover new solutions and to set new standards within the sector in which we operate. We have extensive experience and a strong global network with all the key players of international shipping and finance community. The combination of PREMUDA team capabilities and the present investor base is a unique blend and provides an ideal platform to swiftly execute and manage investment opportunities from both financial and commercial perspective. Our team today comprises some 34 people ashore, plus some 931 seafarers on average, with more than 15 nationalities represented.

About

we came from far

Premuda was established in Trieste in 1907, when this historic city was still part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. We still keep the first articles of association of the company, according to which it was founded under the name of “Navigazione a Vapore” (steamship navigation) G.L. Premuda.

As such, despite many people still today tend to connect the name of PREMUDA with the celebration of the well-known “Impresa di Premuda” (naval war action conducted in 1918 by the Italian Navy against the Austrian one in the Adriatic Sea, in the waters off the isle of Prèmuda, in today’s Croatia), the reality is different. The business establishment was precedent and PREMUDA is the name of the main shareholder of the ship-owning company, which according to the deed of incorporation was intended to be public from the very beginning.

Hence, differently from many other Italian shipping company, we really have in our DNA the fact of being public, open to frequent changes in investor base and keen to financial innovation. Our legal address has been in Trieste until 2017, before the definitive move to Genoa and our strong link with this cosmopolite city is witnessed by the recent naming of our new flagship vessel as “PS Trieste”.

After its foundation, PREMUDA was able to survive two World Wars and its relentless growth lasted until the end of 2007. In that year, consolidated net equity reached the highest level of Euro 207 million after the distribution of an extraordinary dividend to celebrate the 100th year of activity. In 2016 Pillarstone (Italian subsidiary of KKR) become the main lender of record by acquiring the exposures of the main Italian banks. The step-in of Pillarstone was providential for the Group, which was struggling with a comprehensive financial reorganization, and opened the doors of a new and unexpected phase of development. Pillarstone supported the relaunch of Premuda with a remarkable cash injection (USD 44 million) and become the new sole shareholder of the company (which at that time was delisted from the Milan Stock Exchange). After the Pillarstone step-in, the Group structure was streamlined and a significant operational turnaround was implemented in order to reduce complexity and set-up a lean and efficient platform to support the relaunch of the fleet reconstruction, also leveraging on other shipping investments in the Pillarstone portfolio.

At the beginning of 2019 a new team of senior executives was appointed: Marco Fiori as Chief Executive Officer and Enrico Barbieri as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director. Under the tenure of the new management team the fleet size increased rapidly and a great number of special projects were delivered, including S&P deals, refinancing arrangements, fleet integrations and corporate transactions.

As successful player in the consolidation of the Italian maritime cluster, with the financial and strategic support of our shareholder Pillarstone, our ultimate goal as PREMUDA is to set sails towards the new frontiers of the global smart shipping, primarily by increasing the fuel efficiency of the existing fleet and also by taking into account the IMO targets on CO2 reductions in developing the concept of our fleet renewal.

OngoingProjects

The new management has developed, in agreement with Pillarstone, a wide range of extraordinary transactions, which have marked the resurgence of PREMUDA in the global shipping market after many years of low profile:

S & P

In FY19 our Group purchased the first second-hand vessel after many years of downtime. The purchased vessel was the “High Efficiency”, a medium range tanker vessel, Japanese built (year 2009). She was renamed “PS Tokyo” to celebrate the proficient relationship of our Group with Japan. In January 2021 we purchased in joint venture with FINAV Group the vessel “Silver Point”, a medium range tanker vessel, built in Korea in 2011. She was then renamed “PS Roma”.

CONSOLIDATION

PREMUDA acted as operating partner of the FINAV project, a unique concept of consolidation of distressed assets in the Italian maritime cluster. In FY19-FY20 our Group supported the FINAV fund in the activities of takeover of the target vessels (10 on aggregate) that are now under the full management of PREMUDA. In early FY20 moreover PREMUDA took delivery of 5 Aframax/LR2 vessels from Norma Reoco (part of Pillarstone Group) under a bareboat contract.

REFINANCING

PREMUDA holds strong relationships with Japanese Owners and Banks. Between FY19 and FY20, in less than 12 months, the Group executed 5 sales and leaseback transactions with Japanese owners with tenures ranging between 5 and 7 years (purchase options starting from 2nd or 3rd anniversary and final repurchase obligations). Thanks to these alternative financing solutions, PREMUDA was able to raise finance at competitive cost, mantaining an exposure to the underlying freight market.

LONG TERM T/C

In FY20, during the pandemics, we regularly took delivery of the Yufu Crown, a super-eco medium range product tanker built 2020 in Japan in Minaminippon shipbuilding (long term timecharter – 7 years with purchase options and no obligation). We have a pipeline of further 2 long-term timecharter (5 to 7 years, with purchase options and no obligations) with delivery expected in FY22. These ships – cutting-edge and very much efficient in terms of speed and consumption – are core in our program of fleet renewal.

ALLIANCES

As PREMUDA we are keen to build-up long-term relationships and explore constructive alliances to raise the enterprise value of our Group. As evidence, we have contributed to the establishment in late 2020 of CSM Italy, an innovative joint venture between PREMUDA and Columbia Shipmanagement, a world-class provider of ship-management and maritime services. CSM Italy, based in Genova, will take care of the entire Premuda Group fleet and will have the mission to develop new business.

Team

Who We Are

Our success depends on the strength of our team.

Marco fiori

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICIER (CEO)

ENRIco barbieri

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICIER (CFO)

Board of directors

BOD

Luca Benzi

HEAD OF CHARTERING AND OPERATIONS

andrea berlingIeri

GENERAL COUNSEL

Fleet Composition

Premuda Fleet

Group Vessels
VSL Name Dlvd IMO N° VSL Type Flag DWT Status
1 Four Aida 2009 9449340 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
2 Four Butterfly 2011 9480708 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
3 Four Rigoletto 2011 9450674 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
4 Four Turandot 2012 9480710 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
5 Four Nabucco 2010 9450650 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
6 Four Otello 2010 9450662 Handy Bulk Malta 34.400 Owned
7 PS Framura 2014 9691395 Panamax (ECO) Malta 76.800 Owned
8 Nina 2010 9451733 Handy Tanker Italy 40.400 Managed
9 PS Imabari 2022 9908504 MR2(Eco) Marshall Islands 52.800 TC-IN with P.O.
10 PS Sydney 2019 9829459 MR2(Eco+Scrubber) Italy 47500 Managed
11 PS New Orleans 2022 9919577 MR2(Eco) Marshall Islands 52.800 TC-IN with P.O.
12 PS Augusta 2011 9506693 MR2 Malta 51.000 Managed
13 PS Capri 2011 9528392 MR2 Malta 50.900 Managed
14 PS Vancouver 2007 9379337 MR2 Italy 50.900 Managed
15 PS Roma 2011 9510462 MR2(IceClass) Malta 51.000 Owned
16 Yufu Crown 2020 9822229 MR2(Eco) Marshall Islands 51400 TC-IN with P.O.
17 PS Atene 2018 9831206 MR2(Eco) Italy 50.000 Managed
18 PS Hamburg 2016 9657806 MR2(Eco) Madeira 50.100 SLB
19 PS Milano 2018 9828144 MR2(Eco) Italy 50.000 Managed
20 PS Singapore 2018 9828156 MR2(Eco) Italy 50.000 Managed
21 Four Wind 2009 9419553 Aframax LR2 Italy 115.700 Owned
22 PS Amalfi 2010 9439395 Aframax LR2 Italy 109.000 SLB
23 PS Trieste 2011 9473054 Aframax Italy 107.500 SLB

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Information and data updated on 25/11/2024

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Contacts

Premuda Headquarters

Tel.: +39 (010) 5444-1

Via Ceccardi 4/28
16121 genova It

info@premuda.net
www.premuda.net

Premuda MALTA

Tel.: +356 2763 0036

136 St. Christopher Street
VLT 1436

info@premuda.net
www.premuda.net