Market Show Confidence in Baltic Trading's Public Offering
Baltic Trading Limited has successfully completed its previously announced public offering, issuing 12,650,000 new shares of common stock, which included the exercise in full of the underwriters' option to purchase up to 1,650,000 shares of common stock. Gross proceeds of the offering were approximately $58.2 million. Baltic Trading intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for future vessel acquisitions or, to the extent it does not so use them, for working capital and general corporate purposes. Jefferies LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering, and DVB Capital Markets LLC, Cowen and Company, LLC, and Clarkson Capital Markets LLC acted as co-managers for the offering.
Bulkship Owners, Baltic Trading, Make Public Stock Offering
Baltic Trading say they intend to use the net proceeds from the offering for future vessel acquisitions or as working capital and for general corporate purposes. Jefferies LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, and DVB Capital Markets LLC is acting as co-manager for the offering. Baltic Trading has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus and related preliminary prospectus supplement for the common stock offering) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering to which this communication relates. Baltic Trading Limited is a drybulk company focused on the spot charter market. The companhy transports iron ore, coal, grain, steel products and other drybulk cargoes along global shipping routes.