DHT Holdings, Inc. announces delivery of VLCC newbuilding

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 4, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DHT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DHT) ("DHT") announced that, on January 4, 2016, it took delivery of a VLCC newbuilding from Hyundai Heavy Industries. The vessel is named DHT Leopard and is entering the spot market. It is the second of a series of six VLCC newbuildings to be delivered to the company from November 2015 to October 2016. The newbuildings are all fully funded and are expected to contribute greatly to the company's earnings power. The next newbuilding is scheduled to deliver early April 2016.  

About DHT Holdings, Inc.

DHT is an independent crude oil tanker company operating a fleet of crude oil tankers in the VLCC, Suezmax and Aframax segments. We operate through our wholly owned management companies in Oslo, Norway and Singapore.  For further information: www.dhtankers.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and information relating to the Company that are based on beliefs of the Company's management as well as assumptions, expectations, projections, intentions and beliefs about future events, in particular regarding dividends (including our dividend plans, timing and the amount and growth of any dividends), daily charter rates, vessel utilization, the future number of newbuilding deliveries, oil prices and seasonal fluctuations in vessel supply and demand. When used in this document, words such as "believe," "intend," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "forecast," "plan," "potential," "will," "may," "should" and "expect" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements.  These statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties.  Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.  These forward-looking statements represent the Company's estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this press release and are not intended to give any assurance as to future results.  For a detailed discussion of the risk factors that might cause future results to differ, please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2015.

The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.  In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed in this press release might not occur, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

CONTACTS:
Svein Moxnes Harfjeld and Trygve P. Munthe, Co-CEOs
Phone: +47 414 04 886 and +47 913 50 025
E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]

Eirik Uboe, CFO
Phone: +47 412 92 712
E-mail: [email protected]

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