BRAEMAR PLC (BMS) — Half‐year results for the six months ended 31 August 2022

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Good morning, and welcome to the BRAEMAR PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation for the six months ended 08/31/2022. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Just click Q and A, scroll to the bottom, type in your question and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. I hope the company review all questions submitted today and public responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Nick Stone, CFO. Good morning. Morning. Thank you very much, Paul. First thing just to say to everybody, and thank you for joining us. James Gundy sends his apologies. He's currently in Australia. We've had a a great couple of years down there in the in the dry cargo market, and James is on a long long overdue trip to go and visit the offices there and and and meet meet and greet some of the clients employees that we've got. So Trish and myself will take you through the presentation, we'll as Paul says, we'll do our best to answer the questions at the end. Moving on then. Just just our introduction for the year. Our results, as you'll have seen, are very, very strong and significantly ahead of our original expectations. We've had revenue and fixture volumes growing, and and we've seen profits double. We'll talk a little bit about the reasons for for the for that on the the coming slides. But success is in many ways due to the focus on our core strengths in the business. As you know, the business has been simplified. We've carried out a number of diversifications over the las...