Wallenius Wilhelmsen Asa (WAWIF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to our quarterly presentation. It's great to see so many people here today. A warm welcome to all of you and a warm welcome to all of you watching us online. So, Anders, what can we expect today? Well, I think we're going to hear how we have maneuvered in a volatile world and we'll get an update on the results for the quarter. Very soon, as usual, we'll start with our CEO, Lasse Kristoffersen, who will take us through the market and also how we have delivered this quarter. He will be followed by Bjørnar Bukholm, our CFO, who will take the financial highlights. Lasse will then be back and, as usual, again, take the market outlook. And then, Anders, you will take the Q&A session. So what do we need to know about that? Well, for the online audience, please post questions in the Q&A box. Be aware it takes a while for the questions to arrive, actually, in the digital world. So post them as early as you can in order to make sure that we can answer them. And there will also be a possibility to answer questions here in the audience, and we'll send around a microphone. Perfect. I think we're set then. Are we? We should be all right. So with that, Lasse, the stage is yours. Good morning and welcome. And I must admit, when I got up this morning and thought about this presentation, I was a little bit surprised by the fact how fast we forget. Second quarter was maybe the most uncertain, volatile, and in many ways, outlier in global economics and global trade. And there was a constant change in what was the reality was and how volumes moved. And then looking back on how we have performed as a company, I must say I'm really, really proud of the team and the numbers we can present today. And we'll give you some more details of why we've been able to do so. B...