Pyxis Tankers Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Mar 28, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Mar 28, 2025
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Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Our disclosure and analysis in this Annual Report pertaining to our operations, cash flows and financial position, including, in particular, the likelihood of our success in developing and expanding our business and making acquisitions, include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, or that include words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “seeks,” “targets,” “continue,” “contemplate,” “possible,” “likely,” “might,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “predicts,” “potential”, “may,” “should” and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All statements in this Annual Report that are not statements of either historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, such matters as our future operating or financial results, global and regional economic and political conditions, including piracy, pending vessel acquisitions, our business strategy and expected capital spending or operating expenses, including dry-docking and insurance costs, competition in the product tanker industry, statements about shipping market trends, including charter rates and factors affecting supply and demand, in particular, the effects of the war in the Ukraine or armed conflicts within the Middle East, our financial condition and liquidity, including our ability to obtain financing in the future to fund capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate activities, our ability to enter into fixed-rate charters after our current charters expire and our ability to earn income in the spot market and our expectations of the availability of vessels to purchase, the time it may take to construct new vessels, and vessels’ useful lives. Many of these statements are based on our assumptions about factors that are beyond our ability to control or predict and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are described more fully under the “Item 3. Key Information – D. Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report. Any of these factors or a combination of these factors could materially affect our future results of operations and the ultimate accuracy of the forward-looking statements.
| ● | changes in governmental taxation, rules and regulations or actions and compliance, including environmental and securities matters, taken by regulatory authorities; |
| ● | the impact of the U.S. presidential and congressional election results effecting the economy, future laws and regulations and trade policy matters, such as the imposition of tariffs and other import restrictions; |
| ● | changes in economic and competitive conditions affecting our business, including market fluctuations in charter rates and charterers’ abilities to perform under existing time charters; |
| ● | our future operating or financial results; |
| ● | the central bank policies intended to combat overall inflation and rising interest rates and foreign exchange rates; |
| ● | our continued borrowing availability under our existing and future debt agreements and compliance with the covenants contained therein; |
| ● | our ability to procure or have access to financing, our liquidity and the adequacy of cash flows for our operations; |
| ● | our ability to successfully employ our vessels, including under time charters; |
| ● | changes in our operating expenses, including bunker fuel prices, crewing expenses, dry docking costs, general and administrative expenses and insurance costs, including adequacy of coverage; |
| ● | our ability to fund future capital expenditures and investments in the acquisition and refurbishment of our vessels (including the amount and nature thereof and the timing of completion thereof, the delivery and commencement of operations dates, expected downtime and lost revenue); |
| ● | planned, pending or recent acquisitions and divestitures, business strategy and expected capital spending or operating expenses, including drydocking, surveys, upgrades and insurance costs; |
| ● | vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hire; |
| ● | potential claims or liability from future litigation, government inquiries and investigations and potential costs due to environmental damage and vessel collisions; |
| ● | the arrest or detention of our vessels by maritime claimants or governmental authorities; |
| ● | any disruption of information technology systems and networks that our operations rely on or any impact of a possible cybersecurity breach; |
| ● | general product tanker and dry-bulk shipping market trends, including fluctuations in charter hire rates and vessel values and their useful lives; |
| ● | changes in supply and demand in the product tanker and dry-bulk shipping sectors, including the market for our vessels and the number of new buildings under construction; |
| ● | changes in economic and competitive conditions affecting our business, including market fluctuations in charter rates and charterers’ abilities to perform under existing time charters; |
| ● | disruption of world trade due to rising protectionism, breakdown of multilateral trade agreements, introduction or expansion of tariffs or other trade restrictions by countries, acts of piracy (e.g. east coast of Somalia), terrorism, political events, public health threats, international hostilities, including the recent armed conflicts between Russia and Ukraine (the “Ukraine War”) as well as ongoing developments in the Middle East, such as the conflict between Israel and Hamas, vessel attacks in the Red Sea and other terrorist activity in the region, oil and other sanctions on Iran imposed by multiple jurisdictions, (the “Middle East conflicts”) and related instability; |
| ● | changes in interest rates, including the impact on our debt from movements in Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), and foreign exchange rates; |
| ● | changes in seaborne and other transportation; |
| ● | Severe and potentially extended weather disruptions, such as, the extreme drought conditions in Panama which restricted the number of vessel transits through its canal for a period of approximately 18 months ending summer, 2024; |
| ● | business disruptions due to natural disasters and the length and severity of epidemics and pandemics and their impact on the demand for seaborne transportation in the tanker and dry-bulk sectors; |
| ● | impacts of supply chain disruptions that began during the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic and the resulting inflationary environment; |
| ● | any non-compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or other applicable regulations relating to bribery or corruption; |
| ● | the impact of scrutiny and changing expectations from investors, lenders and other market participants with respect to our Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) policies and the impact of climate change; |
| ● | general domestic and international political conditions; the length and number of off-hire periods and dependence on key employees and third-party managers; and |
| ● | other factors discussed under the “Item 3. Key Information – D. Risk Factors” in this Annual Report and please see the Company’s other filings with the SEC for a more complete discussion of certain of these and other risks and uncertainties. |
You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report, because they are statements about events that are not certain to occur as described or at all. All forward-looking statements in this Annual Report are qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained in this Annual Report. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of our future performance, and actual results and future developments may vary materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, we undertake no obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this Annual Report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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