Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE:GSL) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2023 10:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Ian Webber - CEO

George Youroukos - Executive Chairman

Thomas Lister - Chief Commercial Officer & Head, ESG

Anastasios Psaropoulos - CFO & Treasurer

Conference Call Participants

Omar Nokta - Jefferies

Liam Burke - B. Riley Securities

Christopher Robertson - Deutsche Bank

Climent Molins - Value Investor's Edge

Operator

Hello, and welcome to Global Ship Lease Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call. I will now turn the call over to Ian Webber, Chief Executive Officer. Sir, you may begin.

Ian Webber

Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Global Ship Lease Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. You will find the slides that a company today's presentation on our website at www.globalshiplease.com. As usual, slides 2 and 3 of that presentation, remind you that today's call may include forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations and assumptions and are, by their nature, inherently are certain and outside of the company's control. Actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to many factors, including those described in the safe harbor section of the slide presentation.

We would also like to direct your attention to the Risk Factors section in our most recent annual report on our 2022 Form 20-F, which was filed with the SEC on March 23 of this year. You can find the form on our website or indeed on the SEC's. All of our statements are qualified by these and other disclosures in our reports filed with the SEC. We do not undertake any duty to update forward-looking statements. The reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to which we will refer during this call to the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, please refer to the earnings call that we -- the earnings release that we issued this morning, which is also available on our website. As usual, I'm joined today by our Executive Chairman, George Youroukos, our Chief Financial Officer, Tassos Psaropoulos and our Chief Commercial Officer, Tom Lister. George will begin the call with a high-level commentary on GSL and our industry.

And then Tassos, Tom and I will take you through our recent activity, the quarter's results and the financials and the current market environment.

After that, we'll be pleased to take your questions. So turning now to slide 4. I'll pass the call over to George.