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77% of Boskalis shareholders elects stock dividend

Press release

Papendrecht, 6 June 2017 Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 77.30% 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 3,275,042 shares. For the stock dividend, Boskalis will issue 3,275,042 new ordinary shares today. Under the rules of Euronext Rulebook Book I, the newly issued shares will be admitted to trading on Euronext Amsterdam. The admission will take place today on 6 June 2017. With the admission, the total number of ordinary shares of Boskalis is 133,351,894. An information document as referred to in articles 5:3 sub clause 2 under d and 5:4 sub clause 1 under 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. 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 oil and gas sector and offshore wind industry as well as salvage solutions (SMIT Salvage). Furthermore, Boskalis has a number of strategic partnerships in harbor towage and terminal services (KOTUG SMIT Towage, Keppel Smit Towage, Saam Smit Towage and Smit Lamnalco). With a versatile fleet of more than 900 vessels and floating equipment and 11,700 employees, including associated companies, Boskalis operates in 90 countries across six continents. This press release can also be found on our website www.boskalis.com.

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