Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 2187O

Braemar Shipping Services PLC

24 June 2010

Braemar Shipping Services plc (the "Company")

Director / PDMR Shareholding

The Company announces that on 18 June 2010 the Company's Remuneration Committee granted the below listed awards of ordinary shares to each of Alan Marsh, James Kidwell, Quentin Soanes and Denis Petropoulos, all executive directors of the Company under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP).

Director	LTIP award
A.R.W. Marsh	75,000
J.R.V. Kidwell	40,000
Q.B. Soanes	47,500
D. Petropoulos	33,644

The 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.

Following these awards under the LTIP the executive directors have the following interest in ordinary shares subject to options, held and granted under the 1997 Scheme, the SAYE Scheme and the LTIP as set out below:

Director	Scheme	Date of Grant	Number of ordinary shares under option	Exercise price (p)	Date options exercisable	Date options expire
A.R.W. Marsh	SAYE	1 Feb 09	4,887	196.4	1 Feb 12	1 July 12
	LTIP	11 May 07	20,000	-	11 May 10	11 May 17
	LTIP	18 June 10	75,000	-	18 June 13	18 June 20
			99,887

J.R.V. Kidwell	SAYE	1 Feb 09	4,887	196.4	1 Feb 12	1 July 12
	LTIP	11 May 07	20,000	-	11 May 10	11 May 17
	LTIP	18 June 10	40,000	-	18 June 13	18 June 20
			64,887

Q.B. Soanes	SAYE	1 Feb 09	4,887	196.4	1 Feb 12	1 July 12
	LTIP	11 May 07	20,000	-	11 May 10	11 May 17
	LTIP	18 June 10	47,500	-	18 June 13	18 June 20
			72,387

D. Petropoulos	SAYE	1 Feb 09	4,887	196.4	1 Feb 12	1 July 12
	LTIP	11 May 07	20,000	-	11 May 10	11 May 17
	LTIP	18 June 10	33,644	-	18 June 13	18 June 20
			58,531