Navigator Holdings is already looking ahead to next year.

A number of one-off incidents worldwide pushed the New York-listed company into the red for the first quarter, but chief executive David Butters said other projects identified on the company's "road to 2020" are humming along.

"We believe in the milestones we identified on that road to 2020 remain achievable and essentially on our original time schedule," Butters said today during a first-quarter earnings call.