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Braemar Shipping Services PLC

19 May 2011

Braemar Shipping Services plc (the "Company")

Director / PDMR Shareholding

The Company announces that, on 17 May 2011, the Company's Remuneration Committee granted awards in total over 240,727 ordinary shares of 10 pence each ("Shares") under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"). Directors of the Company received grants of Shares under the LTIP as follows:

 
                   Shares granted under 
 Director                          LTIP 
 A.R.W. Marsh                    97,436 
 J.R.V. Kidwell                  45,000 
 Q.B. Soanes                     55,556 
 D. Petropoulos                  42,735 
 

These awards have been made at nil cost and will vest over a period of three years provided certain performance criteria have been fulfilled. The performance conditions applied to the awards are based on the Company's earnings per share over a period of three years.

The Company also announces that on 17 May 2011, the trustee of the Employee Share Ownership Plan (the "ESOP") transferred Shares to Directors of the Company as follows:

 
 Director          Shares 
----------------  ------- 
 
 A.R.W. Marsh       6,667 
 J.R.V. Kidwell     6,667 
 Q.B. Soanes        6,667 
 D. Petropoulos     6,667 
 

These Shares were transferred out of the ESOP for nil consideration in order to satisfy the vesting of Shares granted under the LTIP, following satisfaction of the conditions of such grant.

Following the vesting referred to above the holdings of those Directors in Shares, all of which are beneficial, are set out below:

 
                               % of issued share 
 Director             Shares             capital 
----------------  ----------  ------------------ 
 
 A.R.W. Marsh      1,251,073                5.93 
 J.R.V. Kidwell      103,084                0.49 
 Q.B. Soanes       1,187,344                5.63 
 D. Petropoulos      586,525                2.78 
 

Following the above transactions, the directors also have an interest in Shares subject to options, held and granted under the 1997 Scheme, the SAYE Scheme and the LTIP as set out below:

 
                                    Number 
                                    of 
                                    ordinary 
                                    shares     Exercise                 Date 
                          Date of   under       price     Date          of 
 Director       Scheme     Grant    option      (p)       exercisable   expiry 
-------------  --------  --------  ---------  ---------  ------------  ------- 
                          1 Feb                                         1 July 
 A.R.W. Marsh   SAYE       09       4,887      196.4      1 Feb 12       12 
                          11 May                          11 May 
                LTIP       07       6,666      -           10           - 
                          18 June                         18 June 
                LTIP       10       75,000     -           13           - 
                          17 May                          17 May 
                LTIP       11       97,436     -           14           - 
                                    183,989 
 
 J.R.V.                   1 Feb                                         1 July 
  Kidwell       SAYE       09       4,887      196.4      1 Feb 12       12 
                          11 May                          11 May 
                LTIP       07       6,666      -           10           - 
                          18 June                         18 June 
                LTIP       10       40,000     -           13           - 
                          17 May                          17 May 
                LTIP       11       45,000     -           14           - 
                                    96,553 
 
                          1 Feb                                         1 July 
 Q.B. Soanes    SAYE       09       4,887      196.4      1 Feb 12       12 
                          11 May                          11 May 
                LTIP       07       6,666      -           10           - 
                          18 June                         18 June 
                LTIP       10       47,500     -           13           - 
                          17 May                          17 May 
                LTIP       11       55,556     -           14           - 
                                    114,609 
 
 D.                       1 Feb                                         1 July 
  Petropoulos   SAYE       09       4,887      196.4      1 Feb 12       12 
                          11 May                          11 May 
                LTIP       07       6,666      -           10           - 
                          18 June                         18 June 
                LTIP       10       33,644     -           13           - 
                          17 May                          17 May 
                LTIP       11       42,735     -           14           - 
                                    94,288 
 

Following the vesting noted above the Directors noted above, Messrs Marsh, Kidwell, Soanes and Petropoulos who are all executive directors of the Company, in common with the other employees have an interest in 890,574 Shares held on behalf of the ESOP.

19 May 2011

For further information, contact:

 
 Braemar Shipping Services plc       Tel: 020 7535 2881 
  James Kidwell (Finance Director) 
 Arbuthnot Securities Limited        Tel: 0207 012 2000 
  Nick Tulloch 
  Henry Willcocks 
 

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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