BUSINESS
History and Development of the Company
We are an international provider of marine transportation to global oil industries. We were formed as a Marshall Islands corporation in October
2007 by Teekay Corporation (NYSE: TK), a leading provider of international crude oil and other marine transportation services. We completed our initial public offering on December 18, 2007, with an initial fleet of nine Aframax oil tankers
which were transferred to us by Teekay Corporation.
Our tanker fleet size has increased from nine owned Aframax tankers in 2007 to 42
owned tankers, eight in-chartered tankers and one jointly-owned Very Large Crude Carrier (or VLCC) tanker as of June 30, 2024. The capacity of our tanker fleet has risen from approximately 980,000
deadweight tonnes (or dwt) in 2007 to approximately 6,097,500 dwt as of June 30, 2024.
In July 2015, we acquired our STS
transfer business, which provides full service lightering and lightering support, from a company jointly-owned by Teekay Corporation and a Norway-based marine transportation company, I.M. Skaugen SE. We currently
in-charter two work boats to support our STS operations.
In May 2017, we completed the
acquisition from Teekay Holdings Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Teekay Corporation, of the remaining 50% interest in Teekay Tanker Operations Ltd. (or TTOL), which owns certain tanker commercial management and technical management
operations.
In November 2017, we completed a merger with Tanker Investments Ltd. (or TIL) by acquiring all of the remaining
27.0 million issued and outstanding common shares of TIL, by way of a share-for-share exchange resulting in TIL becoming a wholly owned subsidiary. Upon completion
of the merger, we acquired TILs fleet of ten Suezmax tankers and eight Aframax / LR2 tankers.
We sold one Aframax / LR2 tanker in
the first quarter of 2024, one Aframax / LR2 tanker in 2023, one Suezmax tanker and three Aframax / LR tankers in 2022 and four Aframax / LR2 tankers in 2021. In May 2024, we entered into an agreement to sell one Aframax / LR2 tanker and one Suezmax
tanker which are expected to be delivered to their buyers in the third or fourth quarters of 2024. In June 2024, we entered into an agreement to purchase one Aframax / LR2 tanker and took delivery of this vessel in July 2024.
We completed two sale-leaseback financing transactions in 2022 relating to nine Suezmax tankers and four Aframax / LR2 tankers, as well as two
sale-leaseback financing transactions in 2021 relating to six Aframax / LR2 tankers and two Suezmax tankers. In 2023, we repurchased 19 tankers for a total cost of $364.3 million pursuant to repurchase options under related sale-leaseback
arrangements. In March 2024, we completed the repurchase of eight Suezmax tankers for a total cost of $137.0 million, pursuant to repurchase options under related sale-leaseback arrangements. Currently, the eight vessels are unencumbered.
From time to time, we also charter-in vessels, typically from third parties as part of our chartering
strategy. Most of our vessel acquisitions were financed by a combination of utilizing the net proceeds from public equity offerings or private placements, as well as raising new debt, the assumption of existing debt, drawing on our revolving credit
facility, and using our available working capital.
We incorporated on October 17, 2007, under the laws of the Marshall Islands as
Teekay Tankers Ltd. and maintain our principal executive office at 4th Floor, Belvedere Building, 69 Pitts Bay Road, Hamilton, HM 08, Bermuda. Our telephone number at such address is (441) 298-2530.
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