Good day, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the MPC Container Ships EGM conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Pål Sætre. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator, good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to today's Extraordinary General Meeting of MPC Container Ships ASA. My name is Pål Sætre. I am the General Manager of MPC Container Ships. From our office in Oslo, I'm chairing this event today in absence of Ulf Holländer, the Chairman of the Board, who is unfortunately unable to attend. It's my pleasure to welcome you to this virtual EGM, where all shareholders participate digitally. I would like to thank the shareholders who have logged in today. I would like to start with some practical information. The webcast does not offer participants to vote. All shareholders have been given the opportunity to vote in advance or by granting proxies. Alternatively, you may access and vote via the Lumi system.
A guide describing more in detail how to participate and vote in the virtual meeting is available on the company's website, www.mpc-container.com. Go to the section named Governance, thereafter to General Meeting, and at the bottom you will find a guide for online participation. Please also note that questions must be submitted through the Lumi application. It is now closed for additional shareholders to log in, and we will move on to the list of represented shares. Out of the 443,700,279 shares in MPCC, the share capital represented here today is as follows: 16,477,743 shares are represented by advanced votes. 20,350,800 shares are represented by proxy.
106,051,586 shares are represented by instructions to chair of the board. Shareholders that are attending and voting online is representing 5,846 shares. This sums up in total of 142,885,966 shares, representing 32.2% of the voting share capital of MPC Container Ships ASA. The figures will also be presented in the minutes, which will be published after the general meeting. Let me start with the first agenda item, election of a chairperson and a person to co-sign the minutes. I am proposed to chair the meeting and Magnus Granerød is proposed to co-sign the minutes. We have not received any comments regarding this item and will proceed to the votes.
If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their votes, please do so now. We will wait for approximately half a minute so that everybody gets the chance to vote. I would like to point out that you are also free to vote on the remaining items if you would like. Please vote now. The voting is now closed. We have received votes on the agenda item one. We have 99.99% of the votes in favor of this agenda item, and therefore this agenda item is passed. I would stop for another few seconds to see whether there are any questions or comments from the audience on that agenda item. That does not seem to be the case. I continue with agenda item two, approval of the notice and the agenda.
The proposal is for the general meeting to approve the EGM notice and agenda. We have not received any comments regarding this item and will proceed to votes. If anybody has not voted or yet wants to change their votes, please do so now. We will wait for another while and then so that everybody gets the chance to vote. The voting is now closed. We have received votes on the agenda item two. We have 99.99% of the votes in favor of this agenda item, and therefore, this agenda item is passed. I would stop for another few seconds to see whether are any questions or comments from the audience on that agenda item through the button. Okay, no comments. We move on to the third agenda item.
The third agenda item is the election of the new independent member of the board of directors in MPCC. The board proposed that the EGM passes the following resolution. Pia Meling is elected as new member of the company's board of directors until the ordinary general meeting in 2024. After this, the company's board of directors would consist of the following members: Chairman Ulf Holländer, Dr. Axel Schröder, Ellen Hanetho, Peter Frederiksen, and Pia Meling. We have not received any comments regarding this item, and we'll proceed to the votes. If anybody has not voted yet or wants to change their votes, please do so now. We will wait for half a minute or so everyone has a chance to vote. The voting is now closed. We have received votes on agenda item three.
We have 99.99% in favor of this agenda item, and therefore, the agenda item is passed. I will wait for another few seconds to see if there are any questions or comments from the audience on that agenda item. That does not seem to be the case. To conclude, we have then completed today's agenda and the EGM. I would like to thank everyone for their interest and attention. We are close to Christmas, I will take the opportunity to wish everybody happy holidays, and thank our shareholders for the trust throughout the year. On behalf of my colleagues and the executive of MPCC, we look forward to create further shareholder values in 2023. For that, I herewith close the meeting with all three agenda items being approved by the EGM.
Many thanks, and back to you, operator.
Thank you. That does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.