Company: CMRE-PC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001140361-25-005199
Chunk: 23

Company: Costamare Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 23
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 financing or committing to financing on unattractive terms could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition, as well as our cash flows, including cash available for dividends to our stockholders.
 
Our managers may be unable to attract and retain qualified, skilled crews on our behalf necessary to operate our business or may pay rising crew wages and other vessel operating costs, which may have the effect of increasing costs or reducing our fleet utilization which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
 
Acquiring and renewing time charters depends on a number of factors, including our ability to man our vessels with suitably experienced, high-quality masters, officers and crews. Our success will depend in large part on our managers’ ability to attract, hire, train and retain suitably skilled and qualified personnel. In recent years, the limited supply of and the increased demand for well-qualified crew, due to the increase in the size of the global shipping fleet, has created upward pressure on crewing costs, which we bear under our time charters. Changing conditions in the home country of our seafarers, such as increases in the local general living standards or changes in taxation, may make serving at sea less appealing and thus further reduce the supply of crew and/or increase the cost of hiring competent crew. Unless we are in a position to increase our hire rates to compensate for increases in crew costs and other vessel operating costs such as insurance, repairs and maintenance, and lubricants, our business, results of operations, financial condition and our profitability may be adversely affected. In addition, any inability we experience in the future to attract, hire, train and retain a sufficient number of qualified employees could impair our ability to manage, maintain and grow our business. If we cannot attract and retain sufficient numbers of quality onboard seafaring personnel, our fleet utilization will decrease, which could also have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition, as well as our cash flows, including cash available for dividends to our stockholders.
 
Fuel, or bunker, price fluctuations may have an adverse effect on our cash flows, liquidity and our ability to pay dividends to our stockholders.
 
The price and supply of vessel fuel, known as bunkers, is unpredictable and fluctuates based on events outside our control, including geo-political developments, supply and demand for oil, actions by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (“OPEC”) and other oil and gas producers, economic or