Costamare Declares Quarterly Dividend

Costamare Inc. (NYSE: CMRE), owners and providers of containerships for charter, announced that the company's board of directors declared a dividend for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010, of $0.25 per share payable on February 4, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of trading of the company's common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 28, 2011. This is the first cash dividend the Company has declared since its initial public offering on November 4, 2010.