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76% of Boskalis shareholders elects stock dividend

Press release

Papendrecht, 9 June 2015 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 75.70 percent of the shareholders has elected a stock dividend distributed in the form of ordinary shares. As a result, the stock dividend will amount to 3,318,365 shares. For the stock dividend, Boskalis will issue 2,689,242 new ordinary shares today. The remaining 629,123 shares were repurchased last year through the share buyback program and these shares will be used for the stock dividend. Under the rules of Euronext Rulebook Book I, the newly issues shares will be admitted to trading on Euronext Amsterdam. The admission will take place today on 9 June 2015. With the admission, the total number of the ordinary shares of Boskalis is 125,627,062. An information document as referred to in articles 5:3 sub d and 5:4 sub e of the Financial Markets Supervision Act (Wet op het financieel toezicht) is simultaneously with this press release made available through the website of Boskalis (www.boskalis.com) and hence no obligation to publish a prospectus in connection with this admission exists. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Investor relations:
Martijn L.D. Schuttevâer
ir@boskalis.com Press:
Arno Schikker
press@boskalis.com T +31 78 6969310 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. is a leading global services provider operating in the dredging, maritime infrastructure and maritime services sectors. The company provides creative and innovative all-round solutions to infrastructural challenges in the maritime, coastal and delta regions of the world with services including the construction and maintenance of ports and waterways, land reclamation, coastal defense and riverbank protection. In addition, Boskalis offers a wide variety of marine services and contracting for the offshore energy sector including subsea, heavy transport, lifting and installation (through Boskalis, Dockwise and Fairmount) and towage and salvage (through SMIT). Furthermore, Boskalis has a number of strategic partnerships in harbor towage and terminal services (Keppel Smit Towage, SAAM SMIT Towage and Smit Lamnalco). With a versatile fleet of 1,000 units Boskalis operates in around 75 countries across six continents. Excluding its share in partnerships, Boskalis has approximately 8,500 employees. This press release can also be found on our website www.boskalis.com.

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