Facility Agreement for $44.0 million term loan facility, dated August 8, 2012



 Exhibit 10.2 
 Private and Confidential 
 DATED 8 August 2012 

NAVIOS MARITIME PARTNERS L.P. 
 as Borrower 
 THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 

listed in Schedule 1 
 as Lenders 
 and 

DVB BANK SE 

as Agent, Arranger 
 and Security Trustee 
  

 
 FACILITY
AGREEMENT FOR A USD44,000,000 
 TERM LOAN FACILITY 

 
  

INCE & CO 
 PIRAEUS 







 Index 

 

							
	Clause	 	 	  	Page	 
			
	 1
	 	PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS, CONSTRUCTION & MAJORITY LENDERS	  	 	3	  
			
	 2
	 	The Available Commitment and CANCELLATION	  	 	23	  
			
	 3
	 	Interest and Interest Periods	  	 	25	  
			
	 4
	 	Repayment and prepayment	  	 	28	  
			
	 5
	 	Fees and expenses	  	 	30	  
			
	 6
	 	Payments and taxes; accounts and calculations	  	 	32	  
			
	 7
	 	Representations and warranties	  	 	36	  
			
	 8
	 	Undertakings	  	 	43	  
			
	 9
	 	Conditions	  	 	57	  
			
	 10
	 	Events of Default	  	 	58	  
			
	 11
	 	Indemnities	  	 	65	  
			
	 12
	 	Unlawfulness and increased costs	  	 	66	  
			
	 13
	 	APPLICATION OF MONEYS, set off, pro-rata payments AND MISCELLANEOUS	  	 	68	  
			
	 14
	 	ACCOUNTS and retentions	  	 	72	  
			
	 15
	 	Assignment, transfer and lending office	  	 	74	  
			
	 16
	 	ARRANGER, AGENT AND SECURITY TRUSTEE	  	 	79	  
			
	 17
	 	Notices and other matters	  	 	93	  
			
	 18
	 	Governing law	  	 	96	  
			
	 19
	 	Jurisdiction	  	 	96	  
		
	 Execution Pages
	  	 	99	  


  
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 THIS AGREEMENT dated 8th August 2012 is made BY and BETWEEN: 

 

	(1)	NAVIOS MARITIME PARTNERS L.P. as Borrower; 

  

	(2)	THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS whose names and addresses are set out in schedule 1 as Lenders; and 


 

	(3)	DVB BANK SE as Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee. 

 NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS: 
  

	1	PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS, CONSTRUCTION & MAJORITY LENDERS 

  

	1.1	Purpose 

 This Agreement
sets out the terms and conditions on which DVB BANK SE agree to make available to the Borrower a loan in an amount not exceeding the lesser of (i) forty four million Dollars (USD44,000,000) and (ii) 60% of the aggregate Valuation Amounts
of the Vessels not more than 15 days or less than 5 Banking Days prior to the Drawdown Date, in a single advance, for the purpose of enabling the Borrower to on-lend the same to the Guarantors to refinance part of the purchase price of the Vessels.

  

	1.2	Definitions 

 In this
Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: 
 “Account Bank” means such bank as may be designated by the
Agent as the Account Bank for the purposes of this Agreement and which is of a rating acceptable to the Lenders, in their sole discretion; 
 “Agent” means DVB BANK SE a company incorporated in Germany, acting through its branch at Platz der Republik, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (or of such other address as may last have
been notified to the other parties to this Agreement pursuant to clause 17.2.3) or such other person as may be appointed as agent by the Lenders pursuant to clause 16.13; 
 “Approved Broker” means each of Fearnleys A.S., Oslo Shipbrokers A.S., Clarkson Valuations Limited, Simpson Spence & Young Shipbrokers Ltd., E.A. Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd., Jacq.
Pierot Jr. & Sons, Allied Shipbroking, Greece, Maritime Strategies International Ltd., RS Platou ASA, ICAP Shipping Limited, Island Shipbrokers PTE LTD, Singapore, Arrow Valuations, Golden Destiny S.A. or such other reputable, independent
and first class firm of shipbrokers specialising in the valuation of vessels of the relevant type appointed by the Agent and agreed with the Borrower; 

  
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 “Arranger” means DVB BANK SE a company incorporated in Germany, acting
through its branch at Platz der Republik, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 
 “Authorised Person” means each
person named as an Authorised Person in the Loan Administration Form who are authorised, on behalf of the Borrower, to request information or communicate generally with the Agent in relation to the administration of the Loan by the Agent during the
Facility Period, and with whom the Agent will liaise in the first instance in relation to the administration of the Loan; 

“Banking Day” means a day on which dealings in deposits in USD are carried on in the London Interbank Eurocurrency Market
and (other than Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for business in Athens, London, Piraeus, Frankfurt and New York City (or any other relevant place of payment under clause 6); 

“Banks” means, together, the Arranger, the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Lenders and any Transferee Lenders;

 “Borrower” means Navios Maritime Partners L.P, a limited partnership established in the Marshall Islands and
having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960; 

“Break Costs” means the aggregate amount of all losses, premiums, penalties, costs and expenses whatsoever certified by
the Agent at any time and from time to time as having been incurred by the Lenders or any of them in maintaining or funding their Contributions or in liquidating or re-employing fixed deposits acquired to maintain the same as a result of either:

  

	 	(a)	any repayment or prepayment of the Loan or any part thereof otherwise than (i) in accordance with clause 4.1 or (ii) on an Interest Payment Date whether on a
voluntary or involuntary basis or otherwise howsoever; or 

  

	 	(b)	as a result of the Borrower failing or being incapable of drawing the Loan after the Drawdown Notice has been given; 


  
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 “Certified Copy” means in relation to any document delivered or issued by
or on behalf of any company, a copy of such document certified as a true, complete and up to date copy of the original by any of the directors or officers for the time being of such company or by such company’s attorneys or solicitors;

 “Charter Assignment” means a specific assignment of each Existing Charter and each Extended Employment
Contract required to be executed hereunder by any Owner in favour of the Security Trustee (including any notices and/or acknowledgements and/or undertakings associated therewith) in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in
their sole discretion; 
 “Charter Insurance Assignment” means a first priority assignment of the Charter
Insurances executed or to be executed by such named insured as the Agent may require in favour of the Security Trustee, in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may in their sole discretion require; 

“Charter Insurances” means all policies and contracts of insurance which are from time to time during the Security Period
in place or taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of inter alia the Owners or any of them in respect of loss of charter earnings and all benefits thereof (including claims of whatsoever nature and return of premiums); 

“Classification” means, in relation to each Mortgaged Vessel, the highest class available for a vessel of her type with
the relevant Classification Society; 
 “Classification Society” means, in relation to each Mortgaged Vessel,
any IACS classification society which the Lenders shall, at the request of the Borrower, have agreed in writing shall be treated as the classification society in relation to such Mortgaged Vessel for the purposes of the relevant Ship Security
Documents; 
 “Commitment” means in relation to each Lender, the sum set out opposite its name in schedule 1
part 1 or any replacement thereof, pursuant to the terms of any relevant Transfer Certificate as the amount which, subject to the terms of this Agreement, it is obliged to advance to the Borrower hereunder in respect of the Loan Facility, in each
case as such amount may have been reduced and/or cancelled under this Agreement; 
 “Compliance Certificate”
means a certificate substantially in the form set out in schedule 6 signed by the chief financial officer of the Borrower; 

  
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 “Compulsory Acquisition” means, in respect of a Mortgaged Vessel,
requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition including, if that ship is not released therefrom within the Relevant Period, capture, appropriation, forfeiture, seizure, detention, deprivation or confiscation howsoever for any reason (but
excluding requisition for use or hire) by or on behalf of any Government Entity or other competent authority or by pirates, hijackers, terrorists or similar persons; “Relevant Period” means for the purposes of this definition of Compulsory
Acquisition either (i) sixty (60) days or, (ii) if relevant underwriters confirm in writing (in terms satisfactory to the Majority Lenders) prior to the end of such sixty (60) day period that such capture, seizure, detention or
confiscation will be fully covered by the relevant Owner’s war risks insurance if continuing for a further period exceeding ten (10) calendar months, the shorter of twelve (12) months and such period at the end of which cover is
confirmed to attach; 
 “Contribution” means, at any relevant time, in relation to each Lender, the principal
amount of the Loan owing to such Lender at such time; 
 “Default” means any Event of Default or any event or
circumstance which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction of any other condition (or any combination thereof) would constitute an Event of Default; 
 “Dollars” and “USD” mean the lawful currency of the USA and in respect of all payments to be made under any of the Security Documents means funds which are for same day
settlement in the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or such other US dollar funds as may at the relevant time be customary for the settlement of international banking transactions denominated in US dollars); 

“Drawdown Date” means any date being a Banking Day falling during the relevant Drawdown Period, on which the Loan is, or
is to be, made available; 
 “Drawdown Notice” means a notice substantially in the form of schedule 3;

 “Drawdown Period” means the period commencing on the Execution Date and ending on 31 August 2012 or in
any case any date on which the Commitment is finally cancelled or no longer available under the terms of this Agreement; 

“Earnings Account” means the interest bearing USD current account of the Shareholder paying interest at a rate to be
agreed between the Account Bank and the Shareholder opened with the Account Bank and includes any sub-accounts thereof and any other account designated in writing by the Agent to be Earnings Account A for the purposes of this Agreement; 

  
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 “Earnings Account Pledge” means a first priority charge required to be
executed hereunder between the Shareholder and the Security Trustee in respect of the Earnings Account in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“EBITDA” means the aggregate amount of combined pre-tax profits of the Group before extraordinary or exceptional items,
interest, depreciation and amortisation as shown, at any relevant time, by the Latest Accounts; 
 “Encumbrance”
means any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, hypothecation, assignment, title retention, preferential right, option, trust arrangement or security interest or other encumbrance, security or arrangement conferring howsoever a priority of payment in
respect of any obligation of any person; 
 “Environmental Affiliate” means any agent or employee of the
Borrower, the Manager, or any other Group Member or any other person having a contractual relationship with the Borrower, the Manager or any other Group Member in connection with any Relevant Ship or its operation or the carriage of cargo and/or
passengers thereon and/or the provision of goods and/or services on or from any Relevant Ship; 
 “Environmental
Approval” means any consent, authorisation, licence or approval of any governmental or public body or authorities or courts applicable to any Relevant Ship or its operation or the carriage of cargo and/or passengers thereon and/or the
provision of goods and/or services on or from any Relevant Ship required under any Environmental Law; 
 “Environmental
Claim” means (i) any claim by, or directive from, any applicable Government Entity alleging breach of, or non-compliance with, any Environmental Laws or Environmental Approvals or otherwise howsoever relating to or arising out of an
Environmental Incident or (ii) any claim by any other third party howsoever relating to or arising out of an Environmental Incident (and, in each such case, “claim” shall include a claim for damages and/or direction for and/or
enforcement relating to clean-up costs, removal, compliance, remedial action or otherwise) or (iii) any Proceedings arising from any of the foregoing; 

  
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 “Environmental Incident” means, regardless of cause, (i) any actual or
threatened discharge or release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from any Relevant Ship; (ii) any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is discharged or released from a vessel other than a Relevant Ship which involves
collision between a Relevant Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, where the Relevant Ship, the Manager and/or the relevant Owner and/or the relevant Group Member and/or the relevant Operator
are actually, contingently or allegedly at fault or otherwise howsoever liable (in whole or in part) or (iii) any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is discharged or released from a vessel other than a Relevant Ship and where
such Relevant Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested as a result and/or where the Manager and/or the relevant Owner and/or other Group Member and/or the relevant Operator are actually, contingently or allegedly at fault or otherwise
howsoever liable; 
 “Environmental Laws” means all laws, regulations, conventions and agreements whatsoever
relating to pollution, human or wildlife well-being or protection of the environment (including, without limitation, the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and any comparable laws of the individual States of the USA); 

“Environmentally Sensitive Material” means oil, oil products or any other products or substance which are polluting,
toxic or hazardous or any substance the release of which into the environment is howsoever regulated, prohibited or penalised by or pursuant to any Environmental Law; 
 “Event of Default” means any of the events or circumstances listed in clause 10.1; 
 “Execution Date” means the date on which this Agreement has been executed by all the parties hereto; 
 “Extended Employment Contract” means, in respect of a Mortgaged Vessel, any time charterparty, contract of affreightment or other contract of employment of such ship (including the entry
of any Vessel in any pool) which has a tenor of not less than twelve (12) months (including any options to renew or extend such tenor); 
 “Facility Period” means the period starting on the date of this Agreement and ending on such date as all obligations whatsoever of all of the Security Parties under or pursuant to the
Security Documents whensoever arising, actual or contingent, have been irrevocably paid, performed and/or complied with; 

  
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 “Flag State” means Panama or any other country acceptable to the Lenders;

 “General Assignment” means, in respect of each Mortgaged Vessel, the deed of assignment of its earnings,
insurances and requisition compensation executed or to be executed by the relevant Owner in favour of the Security Trustee in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“Government Entity” means any national or local government body, tribunal, court or regulatory or other agency and any
organisation of which such body, tribunal, court or agency is a part or to which it is subject; 
 “Group” means
the Borrower and its subsidiaries; 
 “Group Member” means any member of the Group; 

“Guarantee” means each unconditional, irrevocable and on demand guarantee of the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement required to be executed by the Guarantors and the Shareholder in favour of the Security Trustee in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“Guarantors” means each of the following corporations, each of which is incorporated in the Marshall Islands, and has its
registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960: 
  

	 	(a)	Floral Marine Ltd. (“Floral”); 

  

	 	(b)	Golem Navigation Limited (“Golem”); and 

  

	 	(c)	Kymata Shipping Co. (“Kymata”); 

 “IAPPC” means an International Air Pollution Prevention Certificate issued or to be issued in relation to any Vessel by the relevant Flag State; 

“Indebtedness” means any obligation howsoever arising (whether present or future, actual or contingent, secured or
unsecured as principal, surety or otherwise) for the payment or repayment of money; 
 “Interest Expense” means,
for any relevant financial year, the aggregate interest payable by the Group and any member thereof on any Indebtedness during such period; 

  
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 “Interest Payment Date” means the last day of an Interest Period and, if an
Interest Period is longer than three (3) months, the date falling at the end of each successive period of three (3) months from the start of such Interest Period; 
 “Interest Period” means, in relation to the Loan, each period for the calculation of interest ascertained in accordance with clauses 3.2 and 3.3; 

“ISM Code Documentation” means, in relation to a Mortgaged Vessel, the document of compliance (DOC) and safety management
certificate (SMC) issued by a Classification Society pursuant to the ISM Code in relation to that Mortgaged Vessel within the periods specified by the ISM Code; 
 “ISM SMS” means the safety management system which is required to be developed, implemented and maintained under the ISM Code; 

“ISPS Code” means the International Ship and Port Security Code of the International Maritime Organisation and includes
any amendments or extensions thereto and any regulations issued pursuant thereto; 
 “ISSC” means an
International Ship Security Certificate issued in respect of a Mortgaged Vessel pursuant to the ISPS Code; 
 “Latest
Accounts” means, in respect of any financial quarter or year of the Group, the latest unaudited (in respect of each financial quarter) or audited (in respect of each financial year) financial statements required to be prepared pursuant to
clause 8.1.6; 
 “Lenders” means the banks and financial institutions listed in schedule 1 part 1 and Transferee
Lenders; 
 “Lending Branch” means, in respect of each Lender, its office or branch at the address set out
beneath its name in schedule 1 (or, in the case of a Transferee, in the Transfer Certificate to which it is a party as Transferee) or such other office or branch as any Lender shall from time to time select and notify through the Agent to the other
parties to this Agreement; 
 “LIBOR” means, the greater of (i) and (ii) below: 

(i) the rate equal to the offered quotation for deposits in USD in an amount comparable with the amount in relation


  
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to which LIBOR is to be determined for a period equal to, or as near as possible equal to, the relevant period which appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 at or about 11 a.m. on the second Banking
Day before the first day of such period (and, for the purposes of this Agreement, “Reuters Screen LIBOR01” means the display designated as “LIBOR01” on the Reuters Service or such other page as may replace LIBOR01 on that service
for the purpose of displaying rates comparable to that rate or on such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as the information vendor for the purpose of displaying the British Bankers’ Association Interest
Settlement Rates for USD); and 
 (ii) the rate per annum determined (which determination shall be final, conclusive and
binding) by the relevant Bank from any source (including, but not limited to, quotes from a broker or brokers for refinancing rates available in the European Financial markets, and, if quotes are obtained by a Bank in the ordinary course of its
business from more than one broker, then “LIBOR” shall be the arithmetic average of those quotes) the relevant Bank may reasonably select in the ordinary course of its business to be the rate which reflects the cost of funding its
respective Contributions (or the relevant part thereof) during the relevant Interest Period (there being no obligation on any Bank to actually refinance its Contribution at that rate) 

and for the purposes of calculating the interest payable by the Borrower under Clause 3.1 “LIBOR” shall be such rate so that
each Lender shall receive interest on its Contribution in accordance with its determination of LIBOR; 

“Liquidity” means: 
  

	 	(a)	cash in hand legally and beneficially owned by any Group Member; and 

  

	 	(b)	cash deposits legally and beneficially owned by any Group Member and which are deposited with (i) any of the Banks or (ii) any other bank or financial
institution; and 

  

	 	(c)	any undrawn Commitment under this Agreement which may be promptly drawn in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; 


  
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 which in each case: 

 

	 	(a)	is free from any Encumbrance other than in respect of any deposit with a Lender, any Encumbrance given as security for the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement; and 

  

	 	(b)	is otherwise at the free and unrestricted disposal of the relevant Group Member by which it is owned; 


“Loan” means the aggregate principal amount in respect of the Loan Facility owing to the Lenders under this Agreement at
any relevant time; 
 “Loan Administration Form” means a letter substantially in the form set out in Schedule 9
signed by the Borrower; 
 “Loan Facility” means the loan facility provided by the Lenders on the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement in the amount of USD44,000,000; 
 “Majority Lenders” means at any
relevant time when there are two Lenders, both of them, and at any time when there are more than two Lenders, the Lenders whose Contributions exceed 75% of the Loan; 
 “Management Agreement” means, in respect of each Mortgaged Vessel, the agreement dated 16 November 2007 (as amended and/or otherwise up-dated) made between the Borrower (on behalf of
each Owner) and the Manager, in a form previously approved in writing by the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders); 
 “Manager” means Navios Shipmanagement Inc., a company incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island,
Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960 or any other person appointed by an Owner, with the prior written consent of the Agent, as the commercial and/or technical manager of the relevant Mortgaged Vessel; 

“Manager’s Undertakings” means, collectively, the undertakings and assignments required to be executed hereunder by
the Manager in favour of the Security Trustee in respect of each of the Mortgaged Vessels each in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“Margin” means, 3.50% per annum; 

  
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 “Material Adverse Effect” means any event or occurrence which the Majority
Lenders reasonably determine has had or could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (i) the Banks’ rights under, or the security provided by, any Security Document, (ii) the ability of any Security Party or other
member of the Group to perform or comply with any of its obligations under any Security Document or (iii) the value or nature of the property, assets, operations, liabilities or financial condition of any member of the Group; 

“Maturity Date” means the date falling 66 months after the Drawdown Date; 

“MII & MAP Policy” means a mortgagee’s interest and pollution risks insurance policy (including additional
perils (pollution) cover) in respect of each Mortgaged Vessel to be effected by the Security Trustee on or before the first Drawdown Date to cover the Mortgaged Vessels as the same may be renewed or replaced annually thereafter and maintained
throughout the Facility Period through such brokers, with such underwriters and containing such coverage as may be acceptable to the Security Trustee in its sole discretion, insuring a sum of at least one hundred and twenty per cent (120%) of
the Loan in respect of mortgagee’s interest insurance and one hundred and twenty per cent (120%) of the Loan in respect of additional perils cover; 
 “Minimum Liquidity” means the higher of (a) USD20,000,000 and (b) the aggregate of sums falling due and payable by the Group (or any member thereof) in respect of interest and
principal or otherwise in respect of any Borrowed Money during the previous six months where “Borrowed Money” means Indebtedness in respect of money borrowed or raised and debit balances at banks and interest thereon; 

“month” means a period beginning in one calendar month and ending in the next calendar month on the day numerically
corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which it started, provided that (a) if the period started on the last Banking Day in a calendar month or if there is no such numerically corresponding day, it shall end on the last Banking Day
in such next calendar month and (b) if such numerically corresponding day is not a Banking Day, the period shall end on the next following Banking Day in the same calendar month but if there is no such Banking Day it shall end on the preceding
Banking Day and “months” and “monthly” shall be construed accordingly; 

  
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 “Mortgage” means, in respect of each Vessel, the first preferred Panamanian
Ship mortgage thereof required to be executed hereunder by the Owner thereof in favour of the Lenders, each in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“Mortgaged Vessel” means, at any relevant time, any Vessel which is at such time subject to a Mortgage and a Vessel
shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be regarded as a Mortgaged Vessel as from the date on which the Mortgage of that Vessel has been executed and registered in accordance with this Agreement until whichever shall be the earlier of
(i) the payment in full of the amount required to be paid to the Agent pursuant to clause 4.3 or 4.5 following the Total Loss or sale respectively of such Vessel and (ii) the end of the Facility Period; 

“Navios GP” means Navios GP L.L.C., a limited liability company organised and existing under the laws of the Marshall
Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands; 
 “Navios Holdings” means Navios Maritime Holdings Inc., a corporation incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road,
Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands; 
 “Net Worth” means, by reference to the Latest Accounts in
respect of the Group, the Total Assets (adjusted for market values of vessels calculated in accordance with Clause 8.2.2) less Total Liabilities of the Group; 
 “Omnibus Agreement” means the agreement dated 16 November 2007 (as amended and updated) made between the Borrower, the Shareholder, Navios GP and Navios Holdings in relation to
certain business opportunities of the parties thereto in a form acceptable to the Lenders; 
 “Operator” means
any person who is from time to time during the Facility Period concerned in the operation of a Relevant Ship and falls within the definition of “Company” set out in rule 1.1.2 of the ISM Code; 

“Owner” means, in respect of each Vessel, the Guarantor which is the owner thereof; 

“Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance in favour of the Banks or any of them created pursuant to the Security
Documents and Permitted Liens; 

  
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 “Permitted Liens” means any lien on any Mortgaged Vessel for master’s,
officer’s or crew’s wages outstanding in the ordinary course of trading, any lien for salvage and any ship repairer’s or outfitter’s possessory lien for a sum not (except with the prior written consent of the Agent) exceeding the
Casualty Amount (as defined in the Ship Security Documents for such Mortgaged Vessel); 
 “Permitted Owners”
means, in relation to the Borrower, any one or more of Navios Holdings, any of its subsidiaries, Navios GP and, (as legal and/or beneficial owner), Mrs. Angeliki Frangou; 
 “Pertinent Jurisdiction” means any jurisdiction in which or where any Security Party is incorporated, resident, domiciled, has a permanent establishment or assets, carries on, or has a
place of business or is otherwise howsoever effectively connected; 
 “Prepayment Ratio” means in respect of the
sale or Total Loss of a Mortgaged Vessel the Valuation Amount of such Mortgaged Vessel immediately prior to such sale or Total Loss divided by the aggregate of the Valuation Amounts of all Mortgaged Vessels immediately prior to such sale or Total
Loss and for these purposes any valuation of a Vessel (calculated in accordance with Clause 8.2.2) may be no more than two months old; 
 “Prohibited Person” means any person with whom transactions are currently prohibited or restricted under the United States of America sanctions administered by the United States of
America Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), any other United States of America government sanction, export or procurement laws or any other sanctions or other such restrictions on business dealings imposed by a
member state of the European Union, including a person on any list of restricted entities, persons or organisations published by the United States of America government, the United Nations or the European Union or any member state of the European
Union, including without limitation: 
  

	 	(a)	the United States of America Government’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, Denied Persons List, Entities List, Debarred Parties List,
Excluded Parties List and Terrorism Exclusion List; 

  

	 	(b)	Her Majesty’s Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets; 


 

	 	(c)	the European Union Restricted Person Lists issued pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No. 881/2002 of 27 May 2002, Council Regulation (EC) No. 2580/2001
of 27 December 2001 and Council Common Position 2005/725/CFSP of 17 October 2005; and 


  
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	 	(d)	the United Nations Consolidated List established and maintained by the 1267 Committee; 


“Proceedings” means any litigation, arbitration, legal action or complaint or judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative
proceedings whatsoever arising or instigated by anyone (private or governmental) in any court, tribunal, public office or other forum whatsoever and wheresoever (including, without limitation, any action for provisional or permanent attachment of
any thing or for injunctive remedies or interim relief and any action instigated on an ex parte basis); 

“Registry” means, in relation to each Vessel, the office of the registrar, commissioner or representative of the Flag
State, who is duly empowered to register such Vessel, the relevant Owner’s title thereto and the relevant Mortgage under the laws and flag of the Flag State; 
 “Relevant Ship” means each of the Mortgaged Vessels and any other ship from time to time (whether before or after the date of this Agreement) owned, managed or crewed by, or chartered to,
any Group Member; 
 “Repayment Dates” means, subject to clause 6.3, each of the dates falling at quarterly
intervals after the Drawdown Date, up to and including the Maturity Date; 
 “Required Authorisation” means any
authorisation, consent, declaration, licence, permit, exemption, approval or other document, whether imposed by or arising in connection with any law, regulation, custom, contract, security or otherwise howsoever which must be obtained at any time
from any person, Government Entity, central bank or other self-regulating or supra-national authority in order to enable the Borrower lawfully to borrow the loan or draw the Loan and/or to enable any Security Party lawfully and continuously to
continue its corporate existence and/or perform all its obligations whatsoever whensoever arising and/or grant security under the relevant Security Documents and/or to ensure the continuous validity and enforceability thereof; 

“Required Security Amount” means the amount in USD (as certified by the Agent) which is at any relevant time one hundred
and forty per cent (140%) of the Loan; 
 “Retention Account” means an interest bearing USD current account
of the Shareholder paying interest at a rate to be agreed between the Account Bank and the Shareholder opened with the Account Bank and includes any sub-accounts thereof and any other account designated in writing by the Agent to be the Retention
Account for the purposes of this Agreement; 

  
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 “Retention Account Pledge” means a first priority charge required to be
executed hereunder between the Shareholder and the Security Trustee in respect of the Retention Account in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 

“Retention Amount” means, in relation to any Retention Date, such sum as shall be the aggregate of: 

 

	 	(a)	(on and after the date falling 2 months before the first Repayment Date under Clause 4.1(a)) one-third (1/3rd) of the repayment instalment in respect of the Loan
falling due for payment pursuant to clause 4.1.1 (as the same may have been reduced by any prepayment) on the next Repayment Date after the relevant Retention Date; and 


 

	 	(b)	the applicable fraction (as hereinafter defined) of the aggregate amount of interest falling due for payment in respect of each part of the Loan during and at the end
of each Interest Period current at the relevant Retention Date and, for this purpose, the expression “applicable fraction” in relation to each Interest Period shall mean a fraction having a numerator of one and a denominator equal
to the number of Retention Dates falling within the relevant Interest Period; 

 “Retention Dates”
means the date falling thirty (30) days after Drawdown Date , and thereafter each of the dates falling at monthly intervals after such date and prior to the Maturity Date; 
 “Security Documents” means this Agreement, the Mortgages, the Guarantees, the General Assignments, the Charter Insurance Assignment, the Charter Assignments, the Earnings Account Pledge,
the Retention Account Pledge, the Manager’s Undertakings, (with effect from the date of execution pursuant to Clause 8.1.17) the Shares Pledges and any other documents as may have been or shall from time to time after the date of this Agreement
be executed to guarantee and/or to govern and/or secure all or any part of the Loan, interest thereon and other moneys from time to time owing by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (whether or not any such document also secures moneys from time
to time owing pursuant to any other document or agreement); 

  
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 “Security Party” means the Borrower, the Manager, the Guarantors or any
other person who may at any time be a party to any of the Security Documents (other than the Banks); 
 “Security
Trustee” means DVB BANK SE a company incorporated in Germany, acting through its branch at Platz der Republik, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (or of such other address as may last have been notified to the other parties to this
Agreement pursuant to clause 17.2.3) or such other person as may be appointed as Security Trustee and trustee by the Lenders and the Agent pursuant to clause 16.14; 
 “Security Value” means the amount in USD (as certified by the Agent) which is, at any relevant time, the aggregate of (a) the Valuation Amounts of the Mortgaged Vessels as most
recently determined in accordance with clause 8.2.2 and (b) the net realizable market value of any additional security (including cash), for the time being actually provided to the Lenders pursuant to clause 8.2.1(b); 

“Shareholder” means, Navios Maritime Operating L.L.C. a company incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its
registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960; 
 “Shares
Pledge” means the first priority pledge of the shares of and in each Owner required to be executed at any time under clause 8.1.17 by the Shareholder in favour of the Security Trustee and/or a Lender in such form as the Agent and the
Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion and in the plural means all of them; 
 “Ship Security
Documents” means, in relation to each Mortgaged Vessel, the relevant Mortgage, the relevant General Assignment, any relevant Charter Assignment and the relevant Manager’s Undertaking; 

“subsidiary” of a person means any company or entity directly or indirectly controlled by such person, and for this
purpose “control” means either the ownership of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the voting share capital (or equivalent rights of ownership) of such company or entity or the power to direct its policies and management, whether by
contract or otherwise; 
 “Taxes” includes all present and future income, corporation, capital or value-added
taxes and all stamp and other taxes and levies, imposts, deductions, duties, charges and withholdings whatsoever together with interest thereon and penalties in respect thereto, if any, and charges, fees or other amounts made on or in respect
thereof (and “Taxation” shall be construed accordingly); 

  
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 “Total Assets” and “Total Liabilities” mean, respectively,
the total assets and total liabilities of the Group as evidenced at any relevant time by the Latest Accounts, in which they shall have been calculated by reference to the meanings assigned to them in accordance with US GAAP provided that the
value of any ship shall be the value thereof calculated in accordance with Clause 8.2.2 and not as set out in the Latest Accounts, but in the case of Total Liabilities, excluding the amount of charterhire which has been paid on account by the
charterer under the charterparty in respect of NAVIOS HOPE, as such amount reduces from time to time; 
 “Total
Commitment” means, at any relevant time, the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders at such time (being the aggregate of the sums set out opposite their names in schedule 1); 

“Total Loss” means, in relation to each Mortgaged Vessel: 

 

	 	(a)	actual, constructive, compromised or arranged total loss of such Mortgaged Vessel; or 


 

	 	(b)	Compulsory Acquisition; or 

  

	 	(c)	any hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of such Mortgaged Vessel not falling within the definition of Compulsory
Acquisition by any Government Entity, or by persons allegedly acting or purporting to act on behalf of any Government Entity, unless such Mortgaged Vessel be released and restored to the relevant Owner within thirty (30) (or, in the case of
seizure of the Vessel by pirates, ninety (90)) days after such incident; 

 “Transfer
Certificate” means a certificate in substantially the form set out in schedule 5; 
 “Transferee
Lender” has the meaning ascribed thereto in clause 15.3; 
 “Transferor Lender” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in clause 15.3; 
 “Trust Deed” means a trust deed in the form, or substantially in the form,
set out in schedule 7; 

  
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 “Trust Property” means (i) the security, powers, rights, titles,
benefits and interests (both present and future) constituted by and conferred on the Banks or any of them under or pursuant to the Security Documents (excluding the Mortgages, but including, without limitation, the benefit of all covenants,
undertakings, representations, warranties and obligations given, made or undertaken to any Bank in the Security Documents), (ii) all moneys, property and other assets paid or transferred to or vested in any Bank (or anyone else on such
Bank’s behalf) or received or recovered by any Bank (or anyone else on such Bank’s behalf) pursuant to, or in connection with, any of the Security Documents whether from any Security Party or any other person and (iii) all moneys,
investments, property and other assets at any time representing or deriving from any of the foregoing, including all interest, income and other sums at any time received or receivable by any Bank (or anyone else on such Bank’s behalf) in
respect of the same (or any part thereof); 
 “Underlying Documents” means, together, the Existing Charters, any
Extended Employment Contracts and the Management Agreement; 
 “Unlawfulness” means any event or circumstance
which either is or, as the case may be, might in the opinion of the Agent become the subject of a notification by the Agent to the Borrower under clause 12.1; 
 “US GAAP” means the generally accepted accounting principles applied in the Unites States of America as at the Execution Date (without taking into account any changes thereto);

 “USA” means the United States of America; 

“Valuation Amount” means, in respect of each Mortgaged Vessel, the value thereof as most recently determined under clause
8.2.2; and 
 “Vessels” means together Vessel A, Vessel B and Vessel C. 

Words and expressions defined in Schedule 2 (Vessel Details) shall have the meanings given to them therein as if the same were set out in
full in this clause 1.2. 
  

	1.3	Construction 

 In this
Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: 
  

	1.3.1	clause headings and the index are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the construction of this Agreement; 


  
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	1.3.2	references to clauses and schedules are to be construed as references to clauses of, and schedules to, this Agreement and references to this Agreement include its
schedules and any supplemental agreements executed pursuant hereto; 

  

	1.3.3	references to (or to any specified provision of) this Agreement or any other document shall be construed as references to this Agreement, that provision or that
document as in force for the time being and as duly amended and/or supplemented and/or novated; 

  

	1.3.4	references to a “regulation” include any present or future regulation, rule, directive, requirement, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of
law) of any Government Entity, central bank or any self-regulatory or other supra-national authority; 

  

	1.3.5	references to any person in or party to this Agreement shall include reference to such person’s lawful successors and assigns and references to a Lender shall also
include a Transferee Lender; 

  

	1.3.6	words importing the plural shall include the singular and vice versa; 

  

	1.3.7	references to a time of day are, unless otherwise stated, to Hamburg time; 


 

	1.3.8	references to a person shall be construed as references to an individual, firm, company, corporation or unincorporated body of persons or any Government Entity;


  

	1.3.9	references to a “guarantee” include references to an indemnity or any other kind of assurance whatsoever (including, without limitation, any kind of
negotiable instrument, bill or note) against financial loss or other liability including, without limitation, an obligation to purchase assets or services as a consequence of a default by any other person to pay any Indebtedness and
“guaranteed” shall be construed accordingly; 

  

	1.3.10	references to any statute or other legislative provision are to be construed as references to any such statute or other legislative provision as the same may be re
enacted or modified or substituted by any subsequent statute or legislative provision (whether before or after the date hereof) and shall include any regulations, orders, instruments or other subordinate legislation issued or made under such statute
or legislative provision; 


  
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	1.3.11	a certificate by the Agent as to any amount due or calculation made or any matter whatsoever determined in connection with this Agreement shall be conclusive and
binding on the Borrower except for manifest error; 

  

	1.3.12	if any document, term or other matter or thing is required to be approved, agreed or consented to by any of the Banks such approval, agreement or consent must be
obtained in writing unless the contrary is stated; 

  

	1.3.13	time shall be of the essence in respect of all obligations whatsoever of the Borrower under this Agreement, howsoever and whensoever arising; 


 

	1.3.14	and the words “other” and “otherwise” shall not be construed eiusdem generis with any foregoing words where a wider construction is possible.


  

	1.4	Accounting terms and references to currencies 

 Currencies are referred to in this Agreement by the three letter currency codes (ISO 4217) allocated to them by the International Organisation for Standardisation. 

 

	1.5	Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 

 Except for clause 19, no part of this Agreement shall be enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by a person who is not a party to this Agreement. 

 

	1.6	Majority Lenders 

 Where
this Agreement or any other Security Document provides for any matter to be determined by reference to the opinion of the Majority Lenders or to be subject to the consent or request of the Majority Lenders or for any decision or action to be taken
on the instructions in writing of the Majority Lenders, such opinion, consent, request or instructions shall (as between the Lenders) only be regarded as having been validly given or issued by the Majority Lenders if all the Lenders with a
Commitment and/or Contribution shall have received prior notice of the matter on which such opinion, consent, request or instructions are required to be obtained and the relevant majority of such Lenders shall have given or issued such opinion,
consent, request or instructions but so that (as between the Borrower and the Banks) the Borrower shall be entitled (and bound) to assume that such notice shall have been duly received by each relevant Lender and that the relevant majority shall
have been obtained to constitute Majority Lenders whether or not this is in fact the case. 

  
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	2	THE AVAILABLE COMMITMENT AND CANCELLATION 

  

	2.1	Agreement to lend 

 The
Lenders, relying upon each of the representations and warranties in clause 7, agree to provide to the Borrower upon and subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Loan by making available an amount not exceeding the lesser of (i) forty four
million Dollars (USD44,000,000) and (ii) 60% of the aggregate Valuation Amounts of the Vessels not more than 15 days or less than 5 Banking Days prior to the Drawdown Date, in a single advance, for the purpose of enabling the Borrower to
on-lend the same to the Guarantors to refinance part of the purchase price of the Vessels. 
 Subject to the terms of this
Agreement, the obligations of the Lenders shall be to contribute to the Loan, the proportion of the Loan which their respective Commitments bear to the aggregate Commitments on the Drawdown Date. 

 

	2.2	Obligations several 

 The
obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement are several according to their respective Commitments and/or Contributions. The failure of any Lender to perform such obligations shall not relieve any other party to this Agreement of any of its
respective obligations or liabilities under this Agreement nor shall any Bank be responsible for the obligations of any other Bank (except for its own obligations, if any, as a Lender) under this Agreement. 

 

	2.3	Interests several 


Notwithstanding any other term of this Agreement (but without prejudice to the provisions of this Agreement relating to or requiring
action by the Majority Lenders) the interests of the Banks are several and the amount due to any Bank is a separate and independent debt. Each Bank shall have the right to protect and enforce its rights arising out of this Agreement and it shall not
be necessary for any other Bank to be joined as an additional party in any Proceedings for this purpose. 
  

	2.4	Drawdown 

  

	2.4.1	Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Loan shall be made available to the Borrower following receipt by the Agent from the Borrower of the Drawdown
Notice not later than 10:00 a.m. on the third Banking Day before the date, which shall be a Banking Day falling within the Drawdown Period, on which the Borrower proposes the Loan is made available. 


  
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	2.4.2	The Drawdown Notice shall be effective on actual receipt by the Agent and, once given, shall, subject as provided in clause 3.6, be irrevocable.


  

	2.5	Limitation and application of the Loan 

  

	2.5.1	The amount of the Loan shall not exceed the amount of the Loan Facility. 

  

	2.5.2	The Loan shall be made available by the advance of the amounts referred to in clause 2.1. 


 

	2.5.3	The Loan shall be paid forthwith upon drawdown to such account or accounts as the Borrower shall stipulate in the Drawdown Notice. 


 

	2.6	Availability 

  

	 	Upon receipt of the Drawdown Notice complying with the terms of this Agreement, the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender and each Lender shall make available to the
Agent its portion of the Loan for payment by the Agent in accordance with clause 6.2. The Borrower acknowledges that payment of the Loan to the account referred to in Clause 2.5.3 shall satisfy the obligation of the Lenders to lend the Loan to the
Borrower under this Agreement. 

  

	2.7	Cancellation in changed circumstances 

 The Borrower may also at any time during the Facility Period by notice to the Agent (effective only on actual receipt) prepay and cancel with effect from a date not less than fifteen (15) days after
receipt by the Agent of such notice, the whole but not part only, but without prejudice to the Borrower’s obligations under clauses 6.6 and 12, of the Contribution and Commitment (if any) of any Lender to which the Borrower shall have become
obliged to pay additional amounts under clause 12 or clause 6.6. Upon any notice of such prepayment and cancellation being given, the Commitment of the relevant Lender shall be reduced to zero, the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the
Contribution of such Lender and such Lender’s related costs (including but not limited to Break Costs) on such date and such Lender shall be under no obligation to participate in the Loan. 

  
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	2.8	Use of proceeds 

 Without
prejudice to the Borrower’s obligations under clause 8.1.4, no Bank shall have any responsibility for the application of the proceeds of the Loan or any part thereof by the Borrower. 

 

	3	INTEREST AND INTEREST PERIODS 

  

	3.1	Normal interest rate 

 The
Borrower must pay interest on the Loan in respect of each Interest Period relating thereto on each Interest Payment Date at the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of (i) in respect of Interest Periods of 3 months or less
(a) the Margin and (b) LIBOR or (ii) in respect of Interest Periods of more than 3 months (a) the Margin and (b) (in respect of each Contribution) the actual cost of funds to that Lender to fund its Contribution. 

 

	3.2	Selection of Interest Periods 

 Subject to clause 3.3, the Borrower may by notice received by the Agent not later than 10:00 a.m. on the fourth Banking Day before the beginning of each Interest Period specify whether such Interest
Period shall have a duration three (3) months or such other period as the Borrower may select and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders) may agree. 
  


	3.3	Determination of Interest Periods 

 Subject to Clause 3.3.1 every Interest Period shall be of the duration specified by the Borrower pursuant to clause 3.2 but so that: 

 

	3.3.1	the first Interest Period shall start on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall start on the last day of the previous Interest Period provided that
each Repayment Date shall be the final day of an Interest Period; 

  

	3.3.2	if any Interest Period would otherwise overrun a relevant Repayment Date, then the Loan shall be divided into parts so that there is one part in the amount of the
repayment instalment due on such Repayment Date and having an Interest Period ending on the relevant Repayment Date and another part in the amount of the balance of the Loan having an Interest Period ascertained in accordance with clause 3.2 and the
other provisions of this clause 3.3; 


  
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	3.3.3	if the Borrower fails to specify the duration of an Interest Period in accordance with the provisions of clause 3.2 and this clause 3.3, such Interest Period shall have
a duration of three (3) months or such other period as shall comply with this clause 3.3. 

  

	3.4	Default interest 

 If the
Borrower fails to pay any sum (including, without limitation, any sum payable pursuant to this clause 3.4) on its due date for payment under any of the Security Documents, the Borrower must pay interest on such sum on demand from the due date up to
the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at a rate determined by the Agent pursuant to this clause 3.4. The period starting on such due date and ending on such date of payment shall be divided into successive periods of not more
than three (3) months as selected by the Agent each of which (other than the first, which shall start on such due date) shall start on the last day of the preceding such period. The rate of interest applicable to each such period shall be the
aggregate (as determined by the Agent) of (a) two per cent (2%) per annum, (b) the Margin and (c) LIBOR for such periods. Such interest shall be due and payable on demand, or, if no demand is made, then on the last day of
each such period as determined by the Agent and on the day on which all amounts in respect of which interest is being paid under this Clause are paid, and each such day shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be treated as an Interest Payment
Date, provided that if such unpaid sum is an amount of principal which became due and payable by reason of a declaration by the Agent under clause 10.2.2 or a prepayment pursuant to clauses 4.3, 4.5, 8.2.1(a) or 12.1, on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date relating thereto, the first such period selected by the Agent shall be of a duration equal to the period between the due date of such principal sum and such Interest Payment Date and interest shall be payable on such principal
sum during such period at a rate of two per cent (2%) above the rate applicable thereto immediately before it shall have become so due and payable. If, for the reasons specified in clause 3.6.1, the Agent is unable to determine a rate in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause 3.4, each Lender shall promptly notify the Agent of the cost of funds to such Lender and interest on any sum not paid on its due date for payment shall be calculated at a rate determined by the
Agent to be two per cent (2%) per annum above the aggregate of the Margin and the arithmetic mean of the cost of funds to the Lenders compounded at such intervals as the Agent selects. 

  
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	3.5	Notification of Interest Periods and interest rate 

 The Agent agrees to notify (i) the Lenders promptly of the duration of each Interest Period and (ii) the Borrower and the Lenders promptly of each rate of interest determined by it under this
clause 3.5. 
  

	3.6	Market disruption; non-availability 

  

	3.6.1	Whenever, at any time prior to the commencement of any Interest Period: 

  

	 	(a)	the Agent shall have determined that adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR during such Interest Period; or 


 

	 	(b)	the Agent shall have received notification from a Lender or Lenders that deposits in USD are not available to such Lender or Lenders in the London InterBank Market in
the ordinary course of business to fund their Contributions to the Loan for such Interest Period 

  

	 	(c)	the Agent must promptly give notice (a “Determination Notice”) thereof to the Borrower and to each of the Lenders. A Determination Notice shall contain
particulars of the relevant circumstances giving rise to its issue. After the giving of any Determination Notice, regardless of any other provision of this Agreement, the Commitment shall not be borrowed until notice to the contrary is given to the
Borrower by the Agent. 

  

	3.6.2	Within ten (10) days of any Determination Notice being given by the Agent under clause 3.6.1, each Lender must certify an alternative basis (the
“Alternative Basis”) for maintaining its Contribution. The Alternative Basis may at the relevant Lender’s sole discretion include (without limitation) alternative interest periods, alternative currencies or alternative rates of
interest but shall include a Margin above the cost of funds to such Lender. The Agent shall calculate the arithmetic mean of the Alternative Bases provided by the relevant Lenders (the “Substitute Basis”) and certify the same to the
Borrower and the Lenders. The Substitute Basis so certified shall be binding upon the Borrower, and shall take effect in accordance with its terms from the date specified in the Determination Notice until such time as the Agent notifies the Borrower
that none of the circumstances specified in clause 3.6.1 continues to exist whereupon the normal interest rate fixing provisions of this Agreement shall again apply and, subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Commitment may again be
borrowed. 


  
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 Provided that the Banks shall try to ensure that any loss suffered by the Borrower as a
result of the circumstances referred to above are kept to a minimum 
  

	4	REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT 

  

	4.1	Repayment 

  

	4.1.1	Subject to any obligation to pay earlier under this Agreement, the Borrower must repay the Loan by 22 equal quarterly instalments of USD925,000 each, one such
instalment to be repaid on each of the Repayment Dates and a balloon instalment of USD23,650,000 (the “Balloon Instalment”) to be repaid on the final Repayment Date. 


If the Commitment is not drawn in full, the amount of each repayment instalment, including the Balloon Instalment, shall be reduced
proportionately. 
  

	4.2	Voluntary prepayment 


Subject to clauses 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 the Borrower may, subject to having given 5 Banking Days prior notice thereof to the Agent,
prepay any specified amount (such part being in an amount of five hundred thousand Dollars (USD500,000) or any larger sum which is an integral multiple of such amount) of the Loan on any relevant Interest Payment Date without premium or penalty.

  

	4.3	Mandatory Prepayment/Reduction on Total Loss 

 On the date falling one hundred and twenty (120) days after that on which a Mortgaged Vessel became a Total Loss or, if earlier, on the date upon which the relevant insurance proceeds are, or
Requisition Compensation (as defined in the Mortgage for such Vessel) is, received by the Owner thereof (or the Security Trustee or any other Bank pursuant to the Security Documents) the Borrower must prepay the Loan by an amount equal to the amount
of the Loan on the date on which such prepayment is required to be made multiplied by the Prepayment Ratio. 
  

	4.4	Interpretation 

 For the
purpose of this Agreement, a Total Loss shall be deemed to have occurred: 
  

	4.4.1	in the case of an actual total loss of a Vessel, on the actual date and at the time such Vessel was lost or, if such date is not known, on the date on which such Vessel
was last reported; 


  
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	4.4.2	in the case of a constructive total loss of a Vessel, upon the date and at the time notice of abandonment of the ship is given to the then insurers of such Vessel
(provided a claim for total loss is admitted by such insurers) or, if such insurers do not immediately admit such a claim, at the date and at the time at which either a total loss is subsequently admitted by such insurers or a total loss is
subsequently adjudged by a competent court of law or arbitration tribunal to have occurred; 

  

	4.4.3	in the case of a compromised or arranged total loss of a Vessel, on the date upon which a binding agreement as to such compromised or arranged total loss has been
entered into by the then insurers of such Vessel; 

  

	4.4.4	in the case of Compulsory Acquisition, on the date upon which the relevant requisition of title or other compulsory acquisition occurs; and 


 

	4.4.5	in the case of hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of a Vessel (other than within the definition of Compulsory
Acquisition) by any Government Entity, or by persons allegedly acting or purporting to act on behalf of any Government Entity, which deprives an Owner of the use of such Vessel for more than thirty (30) (or, in the case of an act of piracy,
ninety (90)) days, upon the expiry of the period of thirty (30) or, as the case may be, ninety (90) days after the date upon which the relevant incident occurred. 


 

	4.5	Mandatory prepayment/Reduction on sale of Mortgaged Vessel 

 On the date of completion of the sale of any Mortgaged Vessel the Borrower must prepay the Loan by an amount equal to the amount of the Loan on the date on which such prepayment is required to be made
multiplied by the Prepayment Ratio plus such additional amount as the Lenders shall decide after consultation in good faith with the Borrower, having regard to any charter, the earnings capacity, the age on the Maturity Date and value of the
relevant prepayment date of the remaining Mortgaged Vessel. 
  

	4.6	Amounts payable on prepayment 

 Any prepayment of all or part of the Loan under this Agreement shall be made together with: 
  

	4.6.1	accrued interest on the amount to be prepaid to the date of such prepayment; 


 

	4.6.2	any additional amount payable under clauses 3.6, 6.6 or 12.2; and 


  
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	4.6.3	all other sums payable by the Borrower to the Banks under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents including, without limitation any Break Costs and, if
the whole Loan is being prepaid, any accrued commitment commission payable under clause 5.1. 

  

	4.7	Notice of prepayment; reduction of maximum loan amount 

  

	4.7.1	Every notice of prepayment shall be effective only on actual and shall oblige the Borrower to make such prepayment on the date specified. Subject to the other
provisions of this Agreement and in particular Clause 2.6, no amount prepaid under this Clause 4 in respect of the Loan may be reborrowed. 

  

	4.7.2	Any amounts prepaid pursuant to clause 4.2 shall be applied against the Loan in reducing the outstanding repayment instalments (including the Balloon Instalment)
referred to in Clause 4.1 pro rata. 

  

	4.7.3	The Borrower’s obligations set out in Clause 4.1.1 shall not be affected by any prepayment in respect of the Loan pursuant to clause 4.2. 


 

	4.7.4	The Borrower may not prepay any part of the Loan except as expressly provided in this Agreement. 


 

	5	FEES AND EXPENSES 

  

	5.1	Commission 

  

	5.1.1	The Borrower agrees to pay to the Agent for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with their Total Commitments on each Drawdown Date and on the last day of
the Drawdown Period commitment commission computed from the Execution Date at a rate of one point five per cent (1.5%) per annum on the daily amount of the undrawn Loan Facility. 


 

	5.1.2	The commission referred to in clause 5.1.1 must be paid by the Borrower to the Agent, whether or not any part of the Total Commitment is ever advanced and shall be
non-refundable. 

  

	5.2	Fees 

 The Borrower shall
pay to the Agent (i) a non-refundable agency fee of USD10,000 per annum for the account of the Agent, such fee being payable in advance on the Execution Date and annually thereafter and (ii) a non-refundable up-front fee of USD700,000 to
be shared equally between the Lenders, such fee being payable on the Execution Date. 

  
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	5.3	Expenses 

 The Borrower
agrees to reimburse the Banks on a full indemnity basis within ten (10) days of demand all expenses and/or disbursements whatsoever (including without limitation legal, printing, travel and out of pocket expenses and expenses related to the
provision of legal and insurance opinions referred to in schedule 4) certified by the Banks or any of them as having been incurred by them from time to time: 
  

	5.3.1	in connection howsoever with the syndication of the Loan Facility and with the negotiation, preparation, execution and, where relevant, registration of the Security
Documents and of any contemplated or actual amendment, or indulgence or the granting of any waiver or consent howsoever in connection with, any of the Security Documents (including legal fees and any travel expenses); and 


 

	5.3.2	in contemplation or furtherance of, or otherwise howsoever in connection with, the exercise or enforcement of, or preservation of any rights, powers, remedies or
discretions under any of the Security Documents, or in consideration of the Banks’ rights thereunder or any action proposed or taken following the occurrence of a Default or otherwise in respect of the moneys owing under any of the Security
Documents, 

 together with interest at the rate referred to in clause 3.4 from the date on which reimbursement of
such expenses and/or disbursements were due following demand to the date of payment (as well after as before judgment). 
  

	5.4	Value added tax 

 All fees
and expenses payable pursuant to this Agreement must be paid together with value added tax or any similar tax (if any) properly chargeable thereon in any jurisdiction. Any value added tax chargeable in respect of any services supplied by the Banks
or any of them under this Agreement shall, on delivery of the value added tax invoice, be paid in addition to any sum agreed to be paid hereunder. 

  
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	5.5	Stamp and other duties 


The Borrower must pay all stamp, documentary, registration or other like duties or taxes (including any duties or taxes payable by any of
the Banks) imposed on or in connection with any of the Underlying Documents, the Security Documents or the Loan and agree to indemnify the Banks or any of them against any liability arising by reason of any delay or omission by the Borrower to pay
such duties or taxes. 
  

	6	PAYMENTS AND TAXES; ACCOUNTS AND CALCULATIONS 

  

	6.1	No set-off or counterclaim 


All payments to be made by the Borrower under any of the Security Documents must be made in full, without any set off or counterclaim
whatsoever and, subject as provided in clause 6.6, free and clear of any deductions or withholdings, in USD on or before 11:00 am on the due date in freely available funds to such account at such bank and in such place as the Agent may from time to
time specify for this purpose. Save as otherwise provided in this Agreement or any other relevant Security Documents, such payments shall be for the account of all Lenders and the Agent shall distribute such payments in like funds as are received by
the Agent to the Lenders rateably, in the proportions which their respective Contributions bear to the Loan on the date on which such payment is made. 
  

	6.2	Payment by the Lenders 


All sums to be advanced by the Lenders to the Borrower under this Agreement shall be remitted in USD on the relevant Drawdown Date to the
account of the Agent at such bank as the Agent may have notified to the Lenders and shall be paid by the Agent on such date in like funds as are received by the Agent to the account specified in the Drawdown Notice. 

 

	6.3	Non-Banking Days 

 When
any payment under any of the Security Documents would otherwise be due on a day which is not a Banking Day, the due date for payment shall be extended to the next following Banking Day unless such Banking Day falls in the next calendar month in
which case payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Banking Day. 

  
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	6.4	Calculations 

 All
interest and other payments of an annual nature under any of the Security Documents shall accrue from day to day and be calculated on the basis of actual days elapsed and a three hundred and sixty (360) day year. 

 

	6.5	Currency of account 

 If
any sum due from the Borrower under any of the Security Documents, or under any order or judgment given or made in relation thereto, must be converted from the currency (“the first currency”) in which the same is payable thereunder into
another currency (“the second currency”) for the purpose of (i) making or filing a claim or proof against the Borrower, (ii) obtaining an order or judgment in any court or other tribunal or (iii) enforcing any order or
judgment given or made in relation thereto, the Borrower undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless the Lender from and against any loss suffered as a result of any discrepancy between (a) the rate of exchange used for such purpose to convert
the sum in question from the first currency into the second currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange at which the Lender may in the ordinary course of business purchase the first currency with the second currency upon receipt of a sum
paid to it in satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any such order, judgment, claim or proof. Any amount due from the Borrower under this clause 6.5 shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other
sums due under or in respect of any of the Security Documents and the term “rate of exchange” includes any premium and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of the first currency with the second currency. 

 

	6.6	Grossing-up for Taxes - by the Borrower 

 If at any time the Borrower must make any deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes or otherwise from any payment due under any of the Security Documents for the account of any Bank or if the Agent or
the Security Trustee must make any deduction or withholding from a payment to another Bank or withholding in respect of Taxes from any payment due under any of the Security Documents, the sum due from the Borrower in respect of such payment must be
increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of such deduction or withholding, the relevant Bank receives on the due date for such payment (and retains, free from any liability in respect of such deduction or withholding), a
net sum equal to the sum which it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been required to be made and the Borrower must indemnify each Bank against any losses or costs incurred by it by reason of any failure of the Borrower to make
any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. 

  
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The Borrower must promptly deliver to the Agent any receipts, certificates or other proof evidencing the amounts (if any) paid or payable in respect of any deduction or withholding as aforesaid.

  

	6.7	Grossing-up for Taxes - by the Lenders 

 If at any time a Lender must make any deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes from any payment due under any of the Security Documents for the account of the Agent or the Security Trustee, the sum
due from such Lender in respect of such payment must be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of such deduction or withholding, the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee receives on the due date for such
payment (and retains free from any liability in respect of such deduction or withholding) a net sum equal to the sum which it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been required to be made and each Lender must indemnify the Agent
and the Security Trustee against any losses or costs incurred by it by reason of any failure of such Lender to make any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. 

 

	6.8	Loan account 

 Each Lender
shall maintain, in accordance with its usual practice, an account evidencing the amounts from time to time lent by, owing to and paid to it under the Security Documents. The Agent and/or the Security Trustee shall maintain a control account showing
the Loan and other sums owing by the Borrower under the Security Documents and all payments in respect thereof being made from time to time. The control account shall, in the absence of manifest error, be prima facie evidence of the amount from time
to time owing by the Borrower under the Security Documents. 
  

	6.9	Agent may assume receipt 


Where any sum is to be paid under the Security Documents to the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee for the account of
another person, the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee may assume that the payment will be made when due and the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee may (but shall not be obliged to) make such sum available to the
person so entitled. 

  
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If it proves to be the case that such payment was not made to the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee, then the person to whom such sum was so made available must on request refund
such sum to the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee together with interest thereon sufficient to compensate the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee for the cost of making available such sum up to the date of such
repayment and the person by whom such sum was payable must indemnify the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee for any and all loss or expense which the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee may sustain or incur as a
consequence of such sum not having been paid on its due date. 
  

	6.10	Partial payments 

 If, on
any date on which a payment is due to be made by the Borrower under any of the Security Documents, the amount received by the Agent from the Borrower falls short of the total amount of the payment due to be made by the Borrower on such date then,
without prejudice to any rights or remedies available to the Agent, the Agent, the Security Trustee and the Lenders under any of the Security Documents, the Agent must apply the amount actually received from the Borrower in or towards discharge of
the obligations of the Borrower under the Security Documents in the following order, notwithstanding any appropriation made, or purported to be made, by the Borrower: 
  

	6.10.1	first, in or towards payment, on a pro-rata basis, of any unpaid costs and expenses of the Agent and the Security Trustee under any of the Security Documents;


  

	6.10.2	secondly, in or towards payment of any fees payable to the Arranger, the Agent or any of the other Banks under, or in relation to, the Security Documents which remain
unpaid; 

  

	6.10.3	thirdly, in or towards payment to the Lenders, on a pro rata basis, of any accrued interest owing in respect of the Loan which shall have become due under any of the
Security Documents but remains unpaid; 

  

	6.10.4	fourthly, in or towards payment to the Lenders, on a pro rata basis, of any principal in respect of the Loan which shall have become due but remain unpaid; and


  

	6.10.5	fifthly, in or towards payment to the Lenders, on a pro rata basis, any Break Costs and any other sum relating to the Loan which shall have become due under any of the
Security Documents but remains unpaid. 


  
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 The order of application set out in clauses 6.10.1 to 6.10.6 may be varied by the Agent if
the Majority Lenders so direct, without any reference to, or consent or approval from, the Borrower. 
  

	7	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 

  

	7.1	Continuing representations and warranties 

 The Borrower represents and warrants to each Bank that: 
  

	7.1.1	Due incorporation 

 each of the
Security Parties are duly incorporated or formed, as the case may be, and validly existing in good standing, under the laws of its respective country of incorporation or formation, in each case, as a limited partnership, limited liability company or
corporation as the case may be, and has power to carry on its respective businesses as it is now being conducted and to own their respective property and other assets to which it has unencumbered legal and beneficial title except as disclosed to the
Agent in writing; 
  

	7.1.2	Limited Partnership, limited liability company or corporate power 

 each of the Security Parties has power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations and, as the case may be, to exercise its rights under the Underlying Documents and the Security Documents to which it
is a party; all necessary limited partnership, limited liability company, corporate, partner, member, shareholder and other action has been taken to authorise the execution, delivery and on the execution of the Security Documents performance of the
same and no limitation on the powers of the Borrower to borrow or any other Security Party to howsoever incur liability and/or to provide or grant security will be exceeded as a result of borrowing any part of the Loan; 

 

	7.1.3	Binding obligations 

 the
Underlying Documents and the Security Documents, when executed, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the relevant Security Parties enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and admissible in evidence and the Security
Documents (other than the Corporate Guarantees) will create first priority Encumbrances; 

  
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	7.1.4	No conflict with other obligations 

 the execution and delivery of, the performance of their obligations under, and compliance with the provisions of, the Underlying Documents and the Security Documents by the relevant Security Parties will
not (i) contravene any existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation or any judgment, decree or permit to which any Security Party or other member of the Group is subject, (ii) conflict with, or result in any breach of any of the
terms of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or other instrument to which any Security Party or any other member of the Group is a party or is subject or by which it or any of its property is bound, (iii) contravene or conflict with
any provision of the constitutional documents of any Security Party or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of, or oblige any of the Security Parties to create, any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance) on any of the
undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any of the Security Parties; 
  

	7.1.5	No default 

 no Default has
occurred; 
  

	7.1.6	No litigation or judgments 

 no
Proceedings are current, pending or, to the knowledge of the officers of the Borrower, threatened against any of the Security Parties or any other Group Members or their assets which could have a Material Adverse Effect and there exist no judgments,
orders, injunctions which would materially affect the obligations of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; 
  

	7.1.7	No filings required 

 except for
the registration of the Mortgages in the relevant register under the laws of the relevant Flag State through the relevant Registry, it is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of any of the
Underlying Documents or any of the Security Documents that they or any other instrument be notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court, public office or elsewhere in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration or
similar tax or charge be paid in any Pertinent Jurisdiction on or in relation to any of the Underlying Documents or the Security Documents and each of the Underlying Documents and the Security Documents is in proper form for its enforcement in the
courts of each Pertinent Jurisdiction; 

  
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	7.1.8	Required Authorisations and legal compliance 

 all Required Authorisations have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect and no Security Party has in any way contravened any applicable law, statute, rule or regulation (including all
such as relate to money laundering); 
  

	7.1.9	Choice of law 

 the choice of
English law to govern the Underlying Documents and the Security Documents (other than the Mortgages, the Earnings Account Pledge and the Retention Account Pledge), the choice of the law of the Flag State to govern the Mortgages, the choice of Dutch
law to govern the Earnings Account Pledge and the Retention Account Pledge and the submissions by the Security Parties to the jurisdiction of the English courts and the obligations of such Security Parties associated therewith, are valid and
binding; 
  

	7.1.10	No immunity 

 no Security Party
nor any of their assets is entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any Proceedings whatsoever; 
  

	7.1.11	Financial statements correct and complete 

 the latest audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower in respect of the relevant financial year as delivered to the Agent present or will present fairly and accurately the
financial position of the Borrower and the consolidated financial position of the Group as at the date thereof and the results of the operations of the Borrower and the consolidated results of the operations of the Group for the financial year ended
on such date and, as at such date, neither the Borrower nor any of its subsidiaries had any significant liabilities (contingent or otherwise) or any unrealised or anticipated losses which are not disclosed by, or reserved against or provided for in,
such financial statements; 
  

	7.1.12	Pari passu 

 the obligations of
the Borrower under this Agreement are direct, general and unconditional obligations of the Borrower and rank at least pari passu with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower except for obligations which
are mandatorily preferred by operation of law and not by contract; 

  
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	7.1.13	Information 

 all information,
whatsoever provided by any Security Party to the Agent in connection with the negotiation and preparation of the Security Documents or otherwise provided hereafter in relation to, or pursuant to this Agreement is, or will be, true and accurate in
all material respects and not misleading, does or will not omit material facts and all reasonable enquiries have been, or shall have been, made to verify the facts and statements contained therein and there has not occurred any event which could
have a Material Adverse Effect on any Security Party since such information was provided to the Agent; there are, or will be, no other facts the omission of which would make any fact or statement therein misleading; 

 

	7.1.14	No withholding Taxes 

 no Taxes
anywhere are imposed whatsoever by withholding or otherwise on any payment to be made by any Security Party under the Underlying Documents or the Security Documents to which such Security Party is or is to be a party or are imposed on or by virtue
of the execution or delivery by the Security Parties of the Underlying Documents or the Security Documents or any other document or instrument to be executed or delivered under any of the Security Documents; 

 

	7.1.15	Use of proceeds 

 the Borrower
shall apply the Loan only for the purposes specified in clause 2.1; 
  

	7.1.16	The Mortgaged Vessels 


throughout the Facility Period (or, as the case may be, from their acquisition by the relevant Owner) each Mortgaged Vessel will be :

  

	 	(a)	in the absolute sole, legal and beneficial ownership of the relevant Owner; 


 

	 	(b)	registered through the offices of the relevant Registry as a ship under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State; 


 

	 	(c)	in compliance with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code and operationally seaworthy and in every way fit for service; 


 

	 	(d)	in good and sea-worthy and cargo-worthy condition; and 


  
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	 	(e)	classed with the relevant Classification free of all requirements and recommendations of the relevant Classification Society which have not been complied with in
accordance with their terms; 

  

	 	(f)	insured in accordance with the relevant Ship Security Documents; and 

  

	 	(g)	managed by the Manager in accordance with the terms of the Management Agreement. 


 

	7.1.17	Earnings 

 except with the prior
written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or under any Existing Charterparty, there will not be any agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings (as defined in the relevant Ship Security Documents) of any
Mortgaged Vessel may be shared or pooled howsoever with any other person; 
  

	7.1.18	Freedom from Encumbrances 

 no
Mortgaged Vessel nor its Earnings, Insurances or Requisition Compensation (each as defined in the relevant Ship Security Documents) nor the Earnings Account, nor the Retention Account nor any Extended Employment Contract in respect of such Mortgaged
Vessel or Existing Charter nor any other properties or rights which are, or are to be, the subject of any of the Security Documents nor any part thereof will be subject to any Encumbrance except Permitted Encumbrances; 

 

	7.1.19	Environmental Matters 

 except as
may already have been disclosed by the Borrower in writing to, and acknowledged and accepted in writing by, the Agent: 
  

	 	(a)	the Owners and, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge and belief (having made due enquiry), their respective Environmental Affiliates have complied with the
provisions of all Environmental Laws; 

  

	 	(b)	the Owners and, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge and belief (having made due enquiry), their respective Environmental Affiliates have obtained all
Environmental Approvals and are in compliance with all such Environmental Approvals; 


  
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	 	(c)	no Environmental Claim has been made or threatened or pending against any Owner or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge and belief (having made due enquiry),
any of their respective Environmental Affiliates; and 

  

	 	(d)	there has been no Environmental Incident. 

  

	7.1.20	ISM and ISPS Code 

 each of the
Owners has complied with and continues to comply with and has procured that the Manager has complied with and continues to comply with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and all other statutory and other requirements relative to its business and in
particular each Owner or the Manager has obtained and maintains a valid DOC and SMC and when the same becomes applicable to any Vessel, an IAPPC duly issued by that Vessel’s Flag State for each Vessel and that it and the Manager has implemented
and continues to implement an ISM SMS; 
  

	7.1.21	Copies true and complete 

 the
Certified Copies of the constitutional documents of the Security Parties and the Certified Copies or originals of the Underlying Documents delivered or to be delivered to the Agent pursuant to clause 8.1 are, or will when delivered be, true and
complete copies or, as the case may be, originals of such documents; and such documents constitute valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and there have been no amendments or
variations thereof or defaults thereunder: 
  

	7.1.22	the Borrower and other members of the Group are the ultimate beneficiaries of the Loan; 


 

	7.1.23	no Security Party has incurred any Indebtedness save under this Agreement or as otherwise disclosed to the Lenders or as disclosed in filings at the SEC;


  

	7.1.24	all Guarantors and the Borrower have filed all tax and other fiscal returns required to be filed by any tax authority to which they are subject;


  

	7.1.25	the Borrower does not have an office in England; 

  

	7.1.26	Prohibited Persons, unlawful activity 


  
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	 	(a)	to the best of their knowledge, none of the shares in either Borrower nor in either Vessel are or will be at any time during the Facility Period legally and
beneficially owned and controlled by a Prohibited Person; 

  

	 	(b)	to the best of their knowledge, no Prohibited Person has or will have at any time during the Facility Period any legal or beneficial interest of any nature whatsoever
in any of the shares of any of the Security Parties; and 

  

	 	(c)	to the best of their knowledge, no title in any property or other assets subject to an Encumbrance created by a Security Document has been obtained in breach of any
existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation; 

  

	7.1.27	Insolvency 

 none of the Security
Parties is unable or has admitted inability to pay its debts as they fall due, has suspended making payments on any of its debts or has announced an intention to do so, is or has become insolvent; or has suffered the declaration of a moratorium in
respect of any of its Indebtedness; 
  

	7.1.28	No business 

 the Borrower has
not undertaken any business or employed any person or incurred any obligations in respect of any pension scheme; 
  

	7.1.29	Ownership of Borrower 

 the
Borrower is owned as set out in (i) of Part 1 of Schedule 4; 
  

	7.1.30	Accounting reference date 

 The
Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ accounting reference date is 31 December; 
  

	7.1.31	Manager 

 the Manager is fit and
proper commercial and technical manager of the Vessels with the sufficient and fully trained personnel, experience and ability to perform their obligations in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with first class
international ship management practice. 

  
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	7.2	Repetition of representations and warranties 

 On each day throughout the Facility Period, the Borrower shall be deemed to repeat the representations and warranties in clause 7 updated mutatis mutandis as if made with reference to the facts and
circumstances existing on such day. 
  

	8	UNDERTAKINGS 

  

	8.1	General 

 The Borrower
undertakes with each Bank that, from the Execution Date until the end of the Facility Period, it will: 
  

	8.1.1	Notice of Default and Proceedings 


promptly inform the Agent of (a) any Default and of any other circumstances or occurrence which might adversely affect the ability of
any Security Party to perform its obligations under any of the Security Documents and (b) as soon as the same is instituted or threatened, details of any Proceedings involving any Security Party which could have a material adverse effect on
that Security Party and/or the operation of any of the Mortgaged Vessels (including, but not limited to any Total Loss of a Vessel or the occurrence of any Environmental Incident) and will from time to time, if so requested by the Agent, confirm to
the Agent in writing that, save as otherwise stated in such confirmation, no Default has occurred and is continuing and no such Proceedings are on foot or threatened; 
  

	8.1.2	Authorisation 

 obtain or cause
to be obtained, maintain in full force and effect and comply fully with all Required Authorisations, provide the Agent with Certified Copies of the same and do, or cause to be done, all other acts and things which may from time to time be necessary
or desirable under any applicable law (whether or not in the Pertinent Jurisdiction) for the continued due performance of all the obligations of the Security Parties under each of the Security Documents; 

  
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	8.1.3	Limited partnership, limited liability company and corporate existence 

 ensure that each Security Party maintains its existence as a limited partnership, limited liability company or body corporate, as the case may be, duly organised and validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the Pertinent Jurisdiction; 
  

	8.1.4	Use of proceeds 

 use the Loan
exclusively for the purposes specified in clauses 1.1 and 2.1; 
  

	8.1.5	Pari passu 

 ensure that their
obligations under this Agreement shall at all times rank at least pari passu with all their other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law and not by
contract; 
  

	8.1.6	Provision of financial statements. 

 send to the Agent (or procure that is sent): 
  

	 	(a)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of each of its Financial Years, annual audited (prepared in accordance with US GAAP by a
firm of accountants acceptable to the Agent) consolidated accounts of the Borrower and all companies which are owned, directly or indirectly, or controlled by it (commencing with the Financial Year ending 31 December 2012) together with
cashflow reports of the Borrower for that financial year certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Borrower; and 

  

	 	(b)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 60 days after the end of each 3 month period in each of its Financial Years, the Borrower’s unaudited accounts for
that 3 month period certified as to their correctness by its chief financial officer; 

  

	 	(c)	on the Agent’s request, reports on the employment and earnings of each Vessel in a form acceptable to the Agent. 


 

	8.1.7	Reimbursement of MII & MAP Policy premiums 

 Whether or not any amount is borrowed under this Agreement, reimburse the Security Trustee on the Security Trustee’s written demand the amount of the premium payable by the Security Trustee for the
inception or, as the case may be, extension and/or continuance of the MII & MAP Policy (including any insurance tax thereon); 

  
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	8.1.8	Compliance Certificates 

 deliver
to the Agent on the earlier of (i) the date on which the quarterly reports are delivered under clause 8.1.6 and (ii) the date falling 75 days after the end of the financial quarter to which they refer, a Compliance Certificate together
with such supporting information as the Agent may require. 
  

	8.1.9	Provision of further information 


provide the Agent, and procure that the Guarantors and the General Partner provide the Agent, with such financial or other information
concerning the Borrower and their respective affairs, activities, financial standing, Indebtedness and operations and the performance of the Mortgaged Vessels as the Agent or any Lender (acting through the Agent) may from time to time reasonably
require and all other documentation and information as any Lender may from time to time require in order to comply with its, and all other relevant, know-your-customer regulations; 

 

	8.1.10	Obligations under Security Documents 

 duly and punctually perform each of the obligations expressed to be imposed or assumed by them under the Security Documents and Underlying Documents and will procure that each of the other Security
Parties will, duly and punctually perform each of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it under the Security Documents and the Underlying Documents to which it is a party; 

 

	8.1.11	Compliance with ISM Code 

 and
will procure that any Operator will, comply with and ensure that the Vessels and any Operator comply with the requirements of the ISM Code, including (but not limited to) the maintenance and renewal of valid certificates pursuant thereto throughout
the Security Period (as defined in the Mortgages); 

  
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	8.1.12	Withdrawal of DOC, SMC or IAPPC 


Immediately inform the Agent if there is any actual withdrawal of their or any Operator’s DOC or the SMC or IAPPC of any Vessel;

  

	8.1.13	Issuance of DOC and SMC 

 and
will procure that any Operator will promptly inform the Agent of the receipt by any Owner or any Operator of notification that its application for a DOC or any application for an SMC or IAPPC for any Vessel has been refused; 

 

	8.1.14	ISPS Code Compliance 

 and will
procure that the Manager or any Operator will: 
  

	 	(a)	maintain at all times a valid and current ISSC in respect of each Vessel; 

  


	 	(b)	immediately notify the Agent in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC in respect of a Vessel; and


  

	 	(c)	procure that each Vessel will comply at all times with the ISPS Code; 

  

	8.1.15	Compliance with Laws and payment of taxes 

 comply with, and will ensure that the Manager, each Owner and each Mortgaged Vessel complies with, all relevant Environmental Laws, laws, statutes, directives, regulations, decrees, rulings and analogous
rules (including, but not limited to, rules relating to international sanctions) and regulations and pay all taxes for which it is liable as they fall due and has or have at all times all trading certificates necessary to carry out the trade in
which the Vessels are engaged at any relevant time; 
  

	8.1.16	Charters etc. 

 deliver to the
Agent, a Certified Copy of each Extended Employment Contract upon its execution, (ii) forthwith on the request of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) execute (a) a Charter Assignment in respect thereof and
(b) any notice of assignment required in connection therewith and use reasonable efforts to procure the acknowledgement of any such notice of assignment by the relevant charterer (provided that any failure to procure the same shall not
constitute an Event of Default) and (iii) pay all legal and other costs incurred by any Bank in connection with any such Charter Assignments, forthwith following the Agent’s demand. 

  
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	8.1.17	Shares Pledges 

 Forthwith upon
the written request of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), deliver to the Agent or the relevant Lender such Shares Pledges as the Agent or the relevant Lender shall specify, each duly executed by the Shareholder together
with documentation equivalent to that referred to in Part 1 of Schedule 4 at items (a)-(d) (inclusive) in respect of the Shareholder and together with all other documentation required to be delivered pursuant to the terms thereof and the
Borrower shall pay all legal and other costs incurred by any Bank in relation thereto. 
  

	8.1.18	Financial Covenants of the Group 


procure that 
  

	 	(a)	at no time shall the Liquidity of the Group be less than the Minimum Liquidity; 


 

	 	(b)	the ratio of EBITDA to Interest Expense shall at all times be at least 2 to 1; 


 

	 	(c)	the Total Liabilities divided by the Total Assets (adjusted for market values of vessels calculated in accordance with Clause 8.2.2) shall be less than 75%; and


  

	 	(d)	the Net Worth shall at all times be equal to or more than USD200,000,000; 


 

	8.1.19	Inspection 

 Procure that the
Guarantors permit the Agent, at the cost of the Borrower and upon receipt of at least 15 days written notice, by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for such purpose, to board any Mortgaged Vessel at all other reasonable times for the purpose
of inspecting her and to afford all proper facilities for such inspections and for this purpose to give the Agent reasonable advance notice of any intended drydocking of a Mortgaged Vessel (whether for the purpose of classification, survey or
otherwise) and to pay the costs in respect of one inspection in each calendar year; and 

  
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	8.1.20	Capital Reserve 

 Maintain at all
times a minimum Estimated Maintenance and Replacement Capital Expenditure Reserve (as defined in the Registration Statement in form F1 dated 12 November 2007 filed in respect of the Borrower under the US Securities act 1933) as the directors of
the Borrower may from time to time approve or require. 
  

	8.1.21	Subordination 

 ensure that all
Indebtedness of the Borrower to its general partner, to the Manager or to any other Group Member is fully subordinated, and to subordinate any Indebtedness issued to it by any Guarantor, all in a form acceptable to the Agent (acting on the
instructions of the Majority Lenders); and 
  

	8.1.22	Classification Society undertaking 

 If so requested by the Agent, on or before any Drawdown Date, or immediately on any change of Classification Society for any Vessel, irrevocably instruct (in such form as the Agent and the Majority
Lenders may require in their sole discretion) the Classification Society of such Vessel to do all or any of the following during the Facility Period (and use reasonable endeavours to procure that the Classification Society undertakes with the Agent
at such time): 
  

	 	(a)	to send to the Agent, following receipt of a written request from the Agent, certified true copies of all original class records held by the Classification Society in
relation to that Vessel; 

  

	 	(b)	to allow the Agent (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of the relevant Owner and that Vessel at the
offices of the Classification Society and to take copies of them; 

  

	 	(c)	to notify the Agent immediately by email (drybulk@dvbbank.com) if the Classification Society: 


 

	 	(i)	receives notification from the relevant Owner or any person that that Vessel’s Classification Society is to be changed; 


 

	 	(ii)	becomes aware of any facts or matters which may result in or have resulted in a change, suspension, discontinuance, withdrawal or expiry of that Vessel’s class
under the rules or terms and conditions of that Owner’s or that Vessel’s membership of the classification society; or 


  
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	 	(iii)	has imposed any requirements or recommendations in respect of the relevant Vessel which have not been complied with in accordance with their terms;


  

	 	(d)	following receipt of a written request from the Agent: 

  

	 	(i)	to confirm that the relevant Owner is not in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society and, without limiting the
foregoing, that it has paid in full all fees or other charges due and payable to the classification society; or 

  

	 	(ii)	if that Owner is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Agent in reasonable detail the facts
and circumstances of such default, the consequences thereof, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society. 

  

	8.1.23	Class records 

 arrange for the
Agent to have access electronically to the class records of each Vessel by either (i) arranging for the relevant Classification Society to give the Agent direct access to such class records or (ii) designating the Agent as a user or
administrator of the relevant Owner’s electronic accounts with the relevant Classification Society; and 
  

	8.1.24	Insurance opinion 

 provide the
Agent on request, at the Borrower’s cost, with an opinion from insurance consultants on the insurances effected or to be effected in respect of each Vessel, confirming that the Vessels are insured on terms approved by the Agent (acting on the
instructions of the Lenders) or, if such insurance opinion has been obtained by the Agent, shall reimburse the Agent for the cost of such opinion. 
  

	8.1.25	Sanctions 

 ensure that no Vessel
will be employed, and will not suffer any Vessel to be employed, and will not and will ensure that no Group Member does, conduct or undertake any business: 
  

	 	(a)	in breach of any embargo or sanction or prohibited order (or any similar order or directive) of: 


 

	 	(i)	the United Nations Security Council; 


  
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	 	(ii)	the European Union; 

  

	 	(iii)	the United Kingdom; or 

  

	 	(iv)	the United States of America, 


as they apply to their members or nationals; or 
  

	 	(b)	in any trade, carriage of goods or business which is forbidden by the laws of the United Kingdom or the United States of America as they apply to their members or
nationals, or any law applicable to an Owner, the Borrower, any Operator of any Vessel, any charterer of any Vessel or any country which any Vessel may visit; or 


 

	 	(c)	in carrying illicit or prohibited goods; or 

  

	 	(d)	in a way which may make it liable to be condemned by a prize court or destroyed, seized or confiscated; or 


 

	 	(e)	to the knowledge of the Borrower, by or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person 


 

	8.1.26	Delivery of reports 

 at all
times following the occurrence of an event of Default or otherwise on the Agent’s request, deliver to the Agent, and procure that the Owners shall deliver to the Agent, concurrently with the issue thereof as many Certified Copies as the Agent
may reasonably require of every report, circular, notice or like document issued by any Security Party to its shareholders or creditors generally; 
  

	8.1.27	Vessel information 

 provide the
Agent, and shall procure that the Owners shall provide the Agent, promptly on request with all such information as it may from time to time require in relation to each Vessel, her Insurances (as defined in, and in accordance with the requirements
of, the Ship Security Documents), her employment, position and engagements, particulars of all towages and salvages, and copies of all charters and other contracts for her employment, or otherwise howsoever concerning her, as well as copies of all
original class records held by the Classification Society in relation to each Vessel, all reports of port state control inspections of each Vessel and information on the financial and operating performance of each Vessel in such form as the Agent
may approve or require and all such information as it may from time to time require to determine the Market Value of each Vessel in accordance with clause 8.2.2; 

  
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	8.1.28	Insolvency 

 procure that neither
a Guarantor nor any material creditor of the Borrower presents a petition, gives notice or takes any other step which could result in the Borrower being declared insolvent or being dissolved or in the appointment of an administrator of the Borrower
or have an effect equivalent or similar thereto; 
  

	8.1.29	Transactions with associated companies 

 not enter into any transactions with any Group Member, other than on arm’s length terms; 
  

	8.1.30	Technical reports 

 deliver to
the Agent, and shall procure that the Manager shall deliver to the Agent, on request copies of the latest complete technical reports in respect of the Vessels. 
  

	8.2	Security value maintenance 

  

	8.2.1	Security shortfall 

 If, at any
time after the first Drawdown Date, the Security Value shall be less than the Required Security Amount, the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall give notice to the Borrower requiring that such deficiency be remedied and
then the Borrower must either: 
  

	 	(a)	prepay within a period of thirty (30) days of the date of receipt by the Borrower of the Agent’s said notice such part of the Loan as will result in the
Security Value after such prepayment (taking into account any other repayment of the Loan made between the date of the notice and the date of such prepayment) being equal to or higher than the Required Security Amount; or 


 

	 	(b)	within thirty (30) days of the date of receipt by the Borrower of the Agent’s said notice constitute to the satisfaction of the Agent such further security
for the Loan as shall be acceptable to the Majority Lenders having a value for security purposes (as determined by the Agent in its absolute discretion) at the date upon which such further security shall be constituted which, when added to the
Security Value, shall not be less than the Required Security Amount as at such date. 


  
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 The provisions of clauses 4.6 and 4.7 shall apply to prepayments under clause 8.2.1(a)
provided that the Agent shall apply such prepayments in reduction of the repayment instalments under clause 4.1 in order of their maturity and the amounts of the Loan prepaid hereunder shall not be available to be re-borrowed. 

 

	8.2.2	Valuation of Mortgaged Vessels 


Each Mortgaged Vessel shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be valued (at the Borrower’s expense) in USD by taking a valuation
prepared by an Approved Broker appointed by the Borrower, or, if the Agent so requests, the average of valuations prepared by the Approved Broker appointed by the Borrower and by an Approved Broker appointed by the Agent, such valuations to be made
without physical inspection, and on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash at arms’ length, on normal commercial terms, as between a willing buyer and a willing seller, without taking into account the benefit or burden of any
charterparty or other engagement concerning the relevant Mortgaged Vessel provided that if the Agent requests two valuations such two valuations vary by more than 15% then the Agent shall appoint a third Approved Broker to provide a valuation and
the Valuation amount shall be the average of such three valuations, such valuations to be obtained: 
  

	 	(a)	on the date falling on the last day of March, June, September and December in each year; and 


 

	 	(b)	(in addition to (a) above) at any other time as the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall additionally require, at the cost of the
Lenders 

 The Approved Broker’s valuations for each Mortgaged Vessel on each such occasion shall constitute
the Valuation Amount of such Mortgaged Vessel for the purposes of this Agreement until superceded by the next such valuation. 
  

	8.2.3	Information 

 The Borrower
undertakes with the Banks to supply to the Agent and to the Approved Broker such information concerning the relevant Mortgaged Vessel and its condition as such shipbrokers may require for the purpose of determining any Valuation Amount. 

  
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	8.2.4	Costs 

 All costs in connection
with obtaining and determining (i) any Valuation Amount pursuant to Clause 8.2.2(a), (ii) any Valuation Amount pursuant to clause 8.2.2(b) after the occurrence of a Default, (iii) any Valuation Amount which obliges the Borrower to
make a prepayment of the Loan or provide additional security in accordance with Clause 8.2.1, and (iv) any valuation either of any additional security for the purposes of ascertaining the Security Value at any time or necessitated by the
Borrower electing to constitute additional security pursuant to clause 8.2.1(b), must be paid by the Borrower and all costs in connection with obtaining and determining any Valuation Amount under clause 8.2.2(b) prior to the occurrence of a Default
shall be at the cost of the Lenders. 
  

	8.2.5	Valuation of additional security 


For the purposes of this clause 8.2, the market value (i) of any additional security over a ship (other than the Vessels) shall be
determined in accordance with clause 8.2.2 and (ii) of any other additional security provided or to be provided to the Banks or any of them shall be determined by the Agent in its absolute discretion. 

 

	8.2.6	Documents and evidence 

 In
connection with any additional security provided in accordance with this clause 8.2, the Agent shall be entitled to receive (at the Borrower’s expense) such evidence and documents of the kind referred to in schedule 4 as may in the Agent’s
opinion be appropriate and such favourable legal opinions as the Agent shall in its absolute discretion require. 
  

	8.3	Negative undertakings 


The Borrower undertakes with each Bank that, from the Execution Date until the end of the Facility Period, it will not, without the prior
written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Banks): 
  

	8.3.1	Negative pledge 

 permit any
Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance) to subsist, arise or be created or extended over all or any part of its present or future undertakings, assets, rights or revenues which secure the Loan to secure or prefer any present or future
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	8.3.2	No merger or transfer 

 merge or
consolidate with any other person or permit any change to the legal or beneficial ownership of (a) any Security Party’s (other than the Manager’s) shares from that existing at the Execution Date and (b) any of the shares of the
Borrower which would give rise to an Event of Default under Clause 10.1.29; 
  

	8.3.3	Disposals 

 Permit any Guarantor
to sell, transfer, assign, create security or option over, pledge, pool, abandon, lend or otherwise dispose of or cease to exercise direct control over any part of their present or future undertaking, assets, rights or revenues (otherwise than by
transfers, sales or disposals for full consideration in the ordinary course of trading) whether by one or a series of transactions related or not which could have a material (in the reasonable opinion of the Lenders) adverse affect on the ability of
that Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is a party; 
  

	8.3.4	Other business or manager 


Permit the Owners to undertake any business other than the ownership, chartering-in, chartering-out and operation of ships or permit the
owners of the Mortgaged Vessels to employ anyone other than the Manager as commercial and technical manager of any Vessel; 
  

	8.3.5	Acquisitions 

 permit any
Guarantor (other than the Shareholder) to acquire any further assets; 
  

	8.3.6	Other obligations 

 incur any
obligations with Navios GP, any Guarantor or other company in the Group or associated company of any of them except for obligations arising under the Security Documents, under the Omnibus Agreement or contracts reasonably entered into in the
ordinary course of business with such person (and for the purposes of this Agreement any obligations incurred under any of the Omnibus Agreement are deemed to have been reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of business) or as otherwise
disclosed in writing by the Borrower to the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement; 

  
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	8.3.7	No borrowing 

 permit any
Guarantor to incur, any Indebtedness except for Indebtedness pursuant to the Security Documents or otherwise with the consent of the Lenders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); 

 

	8.3.8	Repayment of borrowings 

 permit
any Guarantor to repay or prepay the principal of, or pay interest on or any other sum in connection with any Indebtedness except for Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Clause 8.3.7 or pursuant to the Security Documents; 

 

	8.3.9	Guarantees 

 permit any Guarantor
to issue any guarantees or otherwise become directly or contingently liable for the obligations of any person, firm, or corporation except (i) pursuant to the Security Documents, (ii) in relation to the normal business of the Borrower for
a contingent aggregate liability of up to USD500,000 per calendar year or (iii) otherwise with the consent of the Lenders (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld); 

 

	8.3.10	Loans 

 Permit any Guarantor to
make any loans or grant any credit to any person or agree to do so; 
  

	8.3.11	Share capital and distribution 


purchase or otherwise acquire for value any partnership interest, membership interest or shares of their capital, as the case may be, or
declare or pay any dividends or distribute any of their present or future assets, undertakings, rights or revenues to any of their partners, members or shareholders, as the case may be, except the Borrower may re-purchase any of its partnership
interest or make any distributions to its partners only (i) if there has not occurred any Event of Default and (ii) no Event of Default would occur as a result of such payment provided that, as long as no Event of Default has occurred
which is continuing, the Borrower may declare and pay dividends up to USD1.78 per unit/USD0.445 per quarter unit; 
  

	8.3.12	Subsidiaries 

 Permit any
Guarantor (other than the Shareholder) to form or acquire any Subsidiaries; 

  
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	8.3.13	Ownership 

 Permit any change
from the corporate structure set out at item (i) in Part 1 of Schedule 4; 
  

	8.3.14	Change of name, flag or class 


Permit any change the name, flag, Classification or Classification Society of any Vessel 

 

	8.3.15	Approved Employment Contracts 

  

	 	(a)	agree to shorten the tenor of any Approved Employment Contract; or 

  

	 	(b)	agree to reduce the charter hire payable under any Approved Employment Contract; 


 

	 	(c)	without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Banks) and then, if such consent is given, only subject to such conditions as
the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Banks) may impose, let or agree to let any Ship: 

  

	 	(i)	on demise charter for any period; or 

  

	 	(ii)	by any time or consecutive voyage charter for a term which exceeds or which by virtue of any optional extensions therein contained may exceed three
(3) months’ duration; or 

  

	 	(iii)	on terms whereby more than two (2) months’ hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance; or 


 

	 	(iv)	below a fair and reasonable arm’s length rate obtainable at the time when the relevant Ship is fixed. 


 

	8.3.16	Nuclear waste 

 permit any Vessel
to carry nuclear waste or radioactive material. 
  

	8.3.17	Charters 

 permit to be made any
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	8.3.18	Prohibited Persons 

 have, and
shall use reasonable endeavours to procure that no Group Member will have, any course of dealings, directly or indirectly, with any Prohibited Person; 
  

	8.3.19	Change in constitutional documents 

 permit any Guarantor to amend or vary its constitutional documents; 
  

	8.3.20	Employees 

 Permit any Owner to
employ any person except the Master, officers and crew of the Vessel owned by it; 
  

	8.3.21	Investments 

 permit any
Guarantor to make any investment of any kind or acquire any asset without the prior written consent of the Lenders. 
  

	9	CONDITIONS 

  

	9.1	Advance of the Loan 

 The
obligation of each Lender to make its Commitment available in respect of the Loan is conditional upon: 
  

	9.1.1	the Agent, or its authorised representative, having received, not later than two (2) Banking Days before the day on which the Drawdown Notice is given, the
documents and evidence specified in Part 1 of schedule 4 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders); and 


 

	9.1.2	the representations and warranties contained in clause 7 being then true and correct as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such
time and the same being unaffected by drawdown of the Loan; and 

  

	9.1.3	no Default having occurred and being continuing and there being no Default which would result from the lending of the Loan. 


  
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	9.2	Lenders’ Commitment 


The obligation of each Lender to make its Commitment available in respect the Loan is conditional upon: 

 

	9.2.1	the Lenders, or their authorised representative, having received, on or prior to the relevant Drawdown Date, the documents and evidence specified in Part 2 of schedule
4 in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders; 

  

	9.2.2	the representations and warranties contained in clause 7 being then true and correct as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such
time and the same being unaffected by drawdown of the Loan; and 

  

	9.2.3	no Default having occurred and being continuing and there being no Default which would result from the lending of the Loan. 


 

	9.3	Waiver of conditions precedent 

 The conditions specified in this clause 9 are inserted solely for the benefit of the Lenders and may be waived by the Agent in whole or in part and with or without conditions only with the consent of the
Majority Lenders. 
  

	9.4	Further conditions precedent 

 Not later than five (5) Banking Days prior to the Drawdown Date and not later than five (5) Banking Days prior to any Interest Payment Date, the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) may request and the Borrower must, not later than two (2) Banking Days prior to such date, deliver to the Agent (at the Borrower’s expense) on such request further favourable certificates and/or opinions as to any or all of the
matters which are the subject of clauses 7, 8, 9 and 10. 
  

	10	EVENTS OF DEFAULT 

  

	10.1	Events 

 Each of the
following events shall constitute an Event of Default (whether such event shall occur voluntarily or involuntarily or by operation of law or regulation or in connection with any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority or otherwise,
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	10.1.1	Non-payment: any Security Party fails to pay any sum payable by it under any of the Security Documents at the time, in the currency and in the manner stipulated
in the Security Documents or the Underlying Documents (and so that, for this purpose, sums payable (i) under clauses 3.1 and 4.1 shall be treated as having been paid at the stipulated time if (aa) received by the Agent within two (2) days
of the dates therein referred to and (bb) such delay in receipt is caused by administrative or other delays or errors within the banking system and (ii) on demand shall be treated as having been paid at the stipulated time if paid within two
(2) Banking Days of demand); or 

  

	10.1.2	Breach of Insurance and certain other obligations: any Owner or, as the context may require, the Manager or any other person fails to obtain and/or maintain the
Insurances (as defined in, and in accordance with the requirements of, the Ship Security Documents) for any of the Mortgaged Vessels or if any insurer in respect of such Insurances cancels the Insurances or disclaims liability by reason, in either
case, of mis-statement in any proposal for the Insurances or for any other failure or default on the part of the Borrower or any other person or the Borrower commits any breach of or omits to observe any of the obligations or undertakings expressed
to be assumed by them under clause 8; or 

  

	10.1.3	Breach of other obligations: any Security Party commits any breach of or omits to observe any of its obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it
under any of the Security Documents (other than those referred to in clauses 10.1.1 and 10.1.2 above) unless such breach or omission, in the opinion of the Agent (following consultation with the Lenders) is capable of remedy, in which case the same
shall constitute an Event of Default if it has not been remedied within fifteen (15) days of the occurrence thereof; or 

  

	10.1.4	Misrepresentation: any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or in respect of any Security Party in or pursuant to any of the
Security Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered under any of the Security Documents is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect; or 


 

	10.1.5	 Cross-default: There shall occur a default (howsoever therein described) if any Indebtedness of any Security Party (other than the Manager) is
not paid when due (subject to applicable grace periods) or any Indebtedness of any Security Party (other than the Manager) becomes (whether by declaration or automatically in accordance with the relevant agreement or instrument constituting the
same) due and payable prior to the date when it would otherwise have become due (unless as a result of the exercise by the relevant Security Party of a voluntary right of prepayment), or any creditor of any Security Party (other than the Manager)
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or commitment available to any Security Party (other than the Manager) relating to Indebtedness is withdrawn, suspended or cancelled by reason of any default (however described) of the person
concerned; or 
  

	10.1.6	Execution: any uninsured judgment or order made against any Security Party (other than the Manager) is not stayed, appealed against or complied with within
fifteen (15) days or a creditor attaches or takes possession of, or a distress, execution, sequestration or other process is levied or enforced upon or sued out against, any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party
(other than the Manager) and is not discharged within thirty (30) days; or 

  

	10.1.7	Insolvency: any Security Party or Navios GP is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due; suspends making payments on any of its debts or
announces an intention to do so; becomes insolvent; or suffers the declaration by any court, liquidator, receiver or administrator of a moratorium in respect of any of its Indebtedness; or 


 

	10.1.8	Reduction or loss of capital: a meeting is convened by any Security Party (other than the Manager or the Borrower) without the Agent’s prior written
consent, for the purpose of passing any resolution to purchase, reduce or redeem any of its share capital without the Agent’s prior written consent; or 


 

	10.1.9	Dissolution: any limited partnership, limited liability company or corporate action, Proceedings or other steps are taken to dissolve or wind-up any Security
Party (other than the Manager) or Navios GP or an order is made or resolution passed for the dissolution or winding up of any Security Party (other than the Manager) or a notice is issued convening a meeting for such purpose; or


  

	10.1.10	Administration: any petition is presented, notice given or other steps are taken anywhere to appoint an administrator of any Security Party (other than the
Manager) or Navios GP or the Agent believes that any such petition or other step is imminent or an administration order is made in relation to any Security Party (other than the Manager); or 


 

	10.1.11	Appointment of receivers and managers: any administrative or other receiver is appointed anywhere of any Security Party (other than the Manager) or Navios GP or
any part of its assets and/or undertaking or any other steps are taken to enforce any Encumbrance over all or any part of the assets of any Security Party (other than the Manager); or 


  
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	10.1.12	Compositions: any limited partnership, limited liability company or corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedures or steps are taken, or negotiations
commenced, by any Security Party (other than the Manager) or Navios GP or by any of its creditors with a view to the general readjustment or rescheduling of all or part of its Indebtedness or to proposing any kind of composition, compromise or
arrangement involving such limited partnership, limited liability company or corporation and any of its creditors; or 

  

	10.1.13	Analogous proceedings: there occurs, in relation to any Security Party (other than the Manager) or Navios GP, in any country or territory in which any of them
carries on business or to the jurisdiction of whose courts any part of their assets is subject, any event which, in the reasonable opinion of the Agent, appears in that country or territory to correspond with, or have an effect equivalent or similar
to, any of those mentioned in clauses 10.1.6 to 10.1.12 (inclusive) or any Security Party (other than the Manager) or Navios GP otherwise becomes subject, in any such country or territory, to the operation of any law relating to insolvency,
bankruptcy or liquidation; or 

  

	10.1.14	Cessation of business: any Security Party suspends or ceases or threatens to suspend or cease to carry on its business without the prior written consent of the
Agent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld; or 

  

	10.1.15	Seizure: all or a material part of the undertaking, assets, rights or revenues of, or shares or other ownership interests in, any Security Party (other than the
Manager) are seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under the authority of any Government Entity; or 

  

	10.1.16	Invalidity: any of the Security Documents and the Underlying Documents shall at any time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise cease to
remain in full force and effect, or if the validity or enforceability of any of the Security Documents and the Underlying Documents shall at any time and for any reason be contested by any Security Party which is a party thereto, or if any such
Security Party shall deny that it has any, or any further, liability thereunder; or 

  

	10.1.17	Unlawfulness: any Unlawfulness occurs or it becomes impossible or unlawful at any time for any Security Party, to fulfil any of the covenants and obligations
expressed to be assumed by it in any of the Security Documents or for a Bank to exercise the rights or any of them vested in it under any of the Security Documents or otherwise; or 


  
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	10.1.18	Repudiation: any Security Party repudiates any of the Security Documents or does or causes or permits to be done any act or thing evidencing an intention to
repudiate any of the Security Documents; or 

  

	10.1.19	Encumbrances enforceable: any Encumbrance (other than Permitted Liens) in respect of any of the property (or part thereof) which is the subject of any of the
Security Documents becomes enforceable; or 

  

	10.1.20	Arrest: a Mortgaged Vessel is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any
possessory lien or other claim or otherwise taken from the possession of its Owner and that Owner shall fail to procure the release of such Mortgaged Vessel within a period of fifteen (15) days thereafter (this clause does not include capture
of a Vessel by pirates for up to 12 months (but does apply if such capture exceeds 12 months) if relevant underwriters confirm in writing (in customary terms) within ninety (90) day of capture, that such capture will be covered by the relevant
Owner’s war risks insurance); or 

  

	10.1.21	Registration: the registration of any Mortgaged Vessel under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State is cancelled or terminated without the prior written
consent of the Majority Lenders; or 

  

	10.1.22	Unrest: the Flag State of any Vessel or the country in which any Security Party is incorporated or domiciled becomes involved in hostilities or civil war or
there is a seizure of power in the Flag State by unconstitutional means unless the Owner of the Vessel registered in such Flag State shall have transferred its Vessel onto a new flag acceptable to the Lenders within sixty (60) days of the start
of such hostilities or civil war or seizure of power; or 

  

	10.1.23	Environmental Incidents: an Environmental Incident occurs which gives rise, or may give rise, to an Environmental Claim which could, in the opinion of the Agent
be expected to have a material adverse effect (i) on the business, assets or financial condition of any Security Party or the Group taken as a whole or (ii) on the security constituted by any of the Security Documents or the enforceability
of that security in accordance with its terms; or 

  

	10.1.24	P&I: an Owner or the Manager or any other person fails or omits to comply with any requirements of the protection and indemnity association or other insurer
with which a Mortgaged Vessel is entered for insurance or insured against protection and indemnity risks (including oil pollution risks) to the effect that any cover (including, without limitation, any cover in respect of liability for Environmental
Claims arising in jurisdictions where such Mortgaged Vessel operates or trades) is or may be liable to cancellation, qualification or exclusion at any time; or 


  
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	10.1.25	Material events: any other event occurs or circumstance arises which, in the opinion of the Agent (following consultation with the Lenders), is likely materially
and adversely to affect either (i) the ability of any Security Party to perform all or any of its obligations under or otherwise to comply with the terms of any of the Security Documents or (ii) the security created by any of the Security
Documents; or 

  

	10.1.26	Account: moneys are withdrawn from the Earnings Account other than in accordance with clause 14; or 


 

	10.1.27	Required Authorisations: any Required Authorisation is revoked or withheld or modified or is otherwise not granted or fails to remain in full force and effect or
if any exchange control or other law or regulation shall exist which would make any transaction under the Security Documents or the continuation thereof, unlawful or would prevent the performance by any Security Party of any term of any of the
Security Documents; 

  

	10.1.28	Material adverse change: there occurs a material adverse change in: 


 

	 	(a)	the financial condition or strength of the Borrower and/or Navios GP by reference to the financial position or strength of the Borrower and Navios GP as described by
any Security Party to the Agent in the negotiation of this Agreement or either Existing Agreement; or 

  

	 	(b)	in the conditions prevailing in the international money and capital markets; or 


 

	 	(c)	in the financial, political or economic situation globally; or 

  

	 	(d)	the financial prospects of the Borrower and/or Navios GP in the reasonable opinion of the Lenders, 


which, in the opinion of the Agent (following consultation with the Lenders) could prejudice the ability of the Borrower and/or Navios GP
to fulfil their respective obligations under the Security Documents either on time or at all; 

  
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	10.1.29	Money Laundering: any Security Party is in breach of or fails to observe any law, requirement, measure or procedure implemented to combat “money
laundering” as defined in Article 1 of the Directive (91/308 EEC) of the Council of the European Communities; or 

  

	10.1.30	Change of Ownership. Without the prior consent of the Agent (A) There shall occur a change in the ownership of any Guarantor, the Shareholder or Navios GP
from the first Drawdown Date or (B) the Permitted Owners sell any shares in the Borrower which would reduce the proportion of issued shares owned by them in aggregate in the Borrower to below 20% or (C) the Borrower issues further shares
which would reduce the proportion of issued shares in the Borrower owned by the Permitted Owners in aggregate to below 20% 

 PROVIDED THAT that there shall not be an Event of Default solely by reason of any of the events or circumstances described in clauses 10.1.5 to 10.1.15 inclusive taking place with respect to any
Group Member which is not a Security Party unless in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, the ability of any Security Party to perform all or any of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it under, or otherwise to comply with the terms of, the
Security Documents which it is a party would be materially and adversely affected. 
  

	10.2	Acceleration 

 The Agent
may, and if so requested by the Majority Lenders shall, without prejudice to any other rights of the Lenders, at any time after the happening of an Event of Default by notice to the Borrower declare that: 

 

	10.2.1	the obligation of each Lender to make its Commitment available shall be terminated, whereupon the Commitment shall be reduced to zero forthwith; and/or


  

	10.2.2	the Loan and all interest accrued and all other sums payable whatsoever under the Security Documents have become due and payable, whereupon the same shall, immediately
or in accordance with the terms of such notice, become due and payable. 

  

	10.3	Demand Basis 

 If, under
clause 10.2.2, the Agent has declared the Loan to be due and payable on demand, at any time thereafter the Agent may (and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders shall) by written notice to the Borrower (a) demand repayment of the g Loan on
such date as may be specified whereupon, regardless of any other provision of this Agreement, the Loan shall become due and payable on the date so specified together with all interest accrued and all other sums payable under this Agreement or
(b) withdraw such declaration with effect from the date specified in such notice. 

  
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	11	INDEMNITIES 

  

	11.1	General indemnity 

 The
Borrower agrees to indemnify each Bank on demand, without prejudice to any of such Bank’s other rights under any of the Security Documents, against any loss (including loss of Margin) or expense (including, without limitation, Break Costs)
which such Bank shall certify as sustained by it as a consequence of any Default, any prepayment of the Loan being made under clauses 4.3, 4.5, 8.2.1(a) or 12.1 or any other repayment or prepayment of the Loan or part thereof being made otherwise
than on an Interest Payment Date relating to the part of the Loan prepaid or repaid; and/or the Loan not being made for any reason (excluding any default by the Agent or any Lender) after the Drawdown Notice has been given. 

 

	11.2	Environmental indemnity 


The Borrower shall indemnify each Bank on demand and hold it harmless from and against all costs, claims, expenses, payments, charges,
losses, demands, liabilities, actions, Proceedings, penalties, fines, damages, judgements, orders, sanctions or other outgoings of whatever nature which may be incurred or made or asserted whensoever against such Bank at any time, whether before or
after the repayment in full of principal and interest under this Agreement, arising howsoever out of an Environmental Claim made or asserted against such Bank which would not have been, or been capable of being, made or asserted against such Bank
had it not entered into any of the Security Documents or been involved in any of the resulting or associated transactions. 
  

	11.3	Capital adequacy and reserve requirements indemnity 

 The Borrower shall promptly indemnify each Lender on demand against any cost incurred or loss suffered by such Lender as a result of its complying with (i) the minimum reserve requirements from time
to time of the European Central Bank (ii) any capital adequacy directive of the European Union and/or (iii) any revised framework for international convergence of capital measurements and capital standards and/or any regulation imposed by
any Government Entity in connection therewith, and/or in connection with maintaining required reserves with a relevant national central bank to the extent that such compliance or maintenance relates to such Lender’s Commitment and/or
Contribution or deposits obtained by it to fund the whole or part thereof and to the extent such cost or loss is not recoverable by such Lender under clause 12.2. 

  
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	12	UNLAWFULNESS AND INCREASED COSTS 

  

	12.1	Unlawfulness 

 If it is or
becomes contrary to any law, directive or regulation for any Lender to contribute to the Loan or to maintain its Commitment or fund its Contribution to the Loan, such Lender shall promptly, through the Agent, give notice to the Borrower whereupon
(a) such Lender’s Contribution and Commitment shall be reduced to zero and (b) the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay such Lender’s Contribution either (i) forthwith or (ii) on a future specified date not being earlier
than the latest date permitted by the relevant law, directive or regulation together with interest accrued to the date of prepayment and all other sums payable by the Borrower under this Agreement. 

 

	12.2	Increased costs 

 If the
result of any change in, or in the interpretation or application of, or the introduction of, any law or any regulation, request or requirement (whether or not having the force of law, but, if not having the force of law, with which a Lender or, as
the case may be, its holding company habitually complies), including (without limitation) those relating to Taxation, capital adequacy, liquidity, reserve assets, cash ratio deposits and special deposits, is to: 

 

	12.2.1	subject any Lender to Taxes or change the basis of Taxation of any Lender with respect to any payment under any of the Security Documents (other than Taxes or Taxation
on the overall net income, profits or gains of such Lender imposed in the jurisdiction in which its principal or lending office under this Agreement is located); and/or 


 

	12.2.2	increase the cost to, or impose an additional cost on, any Lender or its holding company in making or keeping such Lender’s Commitment available or maintaining or
funding all or part of such Lender’s Contribution; and/or 

  

	12.2.3	reduce the amount payable or the effective return to any Lender under any of the Security Documents; and/or 


  
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	12.2.4	reduce any Lender’s or its holding company’s rate of return on its overall capital by reason of a change in the manner in which it is required to allocate
capital resources to such Lender’s obligations under any of the Security Documents; and/or 

  

	12.2.5	require any Lender or its holding company to make a payment or forgo a return on or calculated by reference to any amount received or receivable by such Lender under
any of the Security Documents; and/or 

  

	12.2.6	require any Lender or its holding company to incur or sustain a loss (including a loss of future potential profits) by reason of being obliged to deduct all or part of
its Contribution or the Loan from its capital for regulatory purposes, 

 then and in each such case (subject to
clause 12.3): 
  

	 	(a)	such Lender shall notify the Borrower in writing of such event promptly upon its becoming aware of the same; and 


 

	 	(b)	the Borrower shall on demand made at any time whether or not such Lender’s Contribution has been repaid, pay to the Agent for the account of such Lender the amount
which such Lender specifies (in a certificate setting forth the basis of the computation of such amount but not including any matters which such Lender or its holding company regards as confidential) is required to compensate such Lender and/or (as
the case may be) its holding company for such liability to Taxes, cost, reduction, payment , forgone return or loss. 

 For the purposes of this clause 12.2 “holding company” means the company or entity (if any) within the consolidated supervision of which a Lender is included. 

 

	12.3	Exception 

 Nothing in
clause 12.2 shall entitle any Lender to receive any amount in respect of compensation for any such liability to Taxes, increased or additional cost, reduction, payment, foregone return or loss to the extent that the same is the subject of an
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	13	APPLICATION OF MONEYS, SET OFF, PRO-RATA PAYMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS 


 

	13.1	Application of moneys 


All moneys received by the Agent and/or the Security Trustee under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents and expressed to be
applicable in accordance with the provisions of this clause 13.1 or in a manner determined in the Security Trustee’s or (as the case may be) the Agent’s discretion, shall be applied in the following manner: 

 

	13.1.1	first, in or towards payment, on a pro-rata basis, of any unpaid costs and expenses of the Banks or any of them under any of the Security Documents;


  

	13.1.2	secondly, in or towards payment of any fees payable to the Arranger, the Agent or any of the other Banks under, or in relation to, the Security Documents which remain
unpaid; 

  

	13.1.3	thirdly, in or towards payment to the Lenders, on a pro rata basis, of any accrued interest owing in respect of the Loan which shall have become due under any of the
Security Documents but remains unpaid; 

  

	13.1.4	fourthly, in or towards repayment of the Loan (in such proportions as the Lenders require and whether the same is due and payable or not) and shall be applied, in
respect of the Loan, pro rata against the outstanding repayment instalments; 

  

	13.1.5	fifthly, in or towards payment to the Lenders, on a pro rata basis any Break Costs and any other sum relating to the Loan which shall have become due under any of the
Security Documents but remains unpaid; and 

  

	13.1.6	sixthly, the surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Borrower or to whomsoever else may then be entitled to receive such surplus. 


 

	13.2	Set-off 

  

	13.2.1	The Borrower irrevocably authorises each Bank (without prejudice to any of such Bank’s rights at law, in equity or otherwise), at any time and without notice to
the Borrower, to apply any credit balance to which the Borrower is then entitled standing upon any account of the Borrower with any branch of such Bank in or towards satisfaction of any sum due and payable from the Borrower to such Bank under any of
the Security Documents. For this purpose, each Bank is authorised to purchase with the moneys standing to the credit of such account such other currencies as may be necessary to effect such application. 


  
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	13.2.2	No Bank shall be obliged to exercise any right given to it by this clause 13.2. Each Bank shall notify the Borrower through the Agent forthwith upon the exercise or
purported exercise of any right of set off giving full details in relation thereto and the Agent shall inform the other Banks. 

  

	13.2.3	Nothing in this clause 13.2 shall be effective to create a charge or other security interest. 


 

	13.3	Pro rata payments 

  

	13.3.1	If at any time any Lender (the “Recovering Lender”) receives or recovers any amount owing to it by the Borrower under this Agreement (other than
pursuant to any other Security Document) by direct payment, set-off or in any manner other than by payment through the Agent pursuant to clauses 6.1 or 6.9 (not being a payment received from a Transferee Bank or a sub-participant in such
Lender’s Contribution or any other payment of an amount due to the Recovering Lender for its sole account pursuant to clauses 3.6, 5, 6.6, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, or 12.2), the Recovering Lender shall, within two (2) Banking Days of such
receipt or recovery (a “Relevant Receipt”) notify the Agent of the amount of the Relevant Receipt. If the Relevant Receipt exceeds the amount which the Recovering Lender would have received if the Relevant Receipt had been received
by the Agent and distributed pursuant to clause 6.1 or 6.10 (as the case may be) then: 

  

	 	(a)	within two (2) Banking Days of demand by the Agent, the Recovering Lender shall pay to the Agent an amount equal (or equivalent) to the excess;


  

	 	(b)	the Agent shall treat the excess amount so paid by the Recovering Lender as if it were a payment made by the Borrower and shall distribute the same to the Lenders
(other than the Recovering Lenders) in accordance with clause 6.10; and 

  

	 	(c)	as between the Borrower and the Recovering Lender the excess amount so re-distributed shall be treated as not having been paid but the obligations of the Borrower to
the other Lenders shall, to the extent of the amount so re-distributed to them, be treated as discharged. 

  

	13.3.2	If any part of the Relevant Receipt subsequently has to be wholly or partly refunded by the Recovering Lender (whether to a liquidator or otherwise) each Lender to
which any part of such Relevant Receipt was so re-distributed shall on request from the Recovering Lender repay to the Recovering Lender such Lender’s pro-rata share of the amount which has to be refunded by the Recovering Lender.



  
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	13.3.3	Each Lender shall on request supply to the Agent such information as the Agent may from time to time request for the purposes of this clause 13.3.


  

	13.3.4	Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this clause 13.3, no Recovering Lender shall be obliged to share any Relevant Receipt which it receives or recovers pursuant
to Proceedings taken by it to recover any sums owing to it under this Agreement with any other party which has a legal right to, but does not, either join in such Proceedings or commence and diligently pursue separate Proceedings to enforce its
rights in the same or another court (unless the Proceedings instituted by the Recovering Lender are instituted by it without prior notice having been given to such party through the Agent). 


 

	13.4	No release 

 For the
avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that failure by any Recovering Lender to comply with the provisions of clause 13.3 shall not release any other Recovering Lender from any of its obligations or liabilities under clause 13.3. 

 

	13.5	No charge 

 The provisions
of this clause 13 shall not, and shall not be construed so as to, constitute a charge or create or declare a trust by a Lender over all or any part of a sum received or recovered by it in the circumstances mentioned in clause 13.3. 

 

	13.6	Further assurance 

 The
Borrower undertakes with each Bank that the Security Documents shall both at the date of execution and delivery thereof and throughout the Facility Period be valid and binding obligations of the respective parties thereto which, with the rights of
each Lender thereunder, are enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and that they will, at their expense, execute, sign, perfect and do, and will procure the execution, signing, perfecting and doing by each of the other Security
Parties of, any and every such further assurance, document, act or thing as in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders may be necessary or desirable for perfecting the security contemplated or constituted by the Security Documents.


  
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	13.7	Conflicts 

 In the event
of any conflict between this Agreement and any of the other Security Documents, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail. 
  

	13.8	No implied waivers, remedies cumulative 

 No failure or delay on the part of any of the Banks to exercise any power, right or remedy under any of the Security Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise
by any Bank of any power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy. The remedies provided in the Security Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies
provided by law. No waiver by any Bank shall be effective unless it is in writing. 
  

	13.9	Severability 

 If any
provision of this Agreement is prohibited, invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such prohibition, invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect or impair howsoever the remaining provisions thereof or affect the
validity, legality or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. 
  

	13.10	Force Majeure 

 Regardless
of any other provision of this Agreement, none of the Banks shall be liable for any failure to perform the whole or any part of this Agreement resulting directly or indirectly from (i) the action or inaction or purported action of any
governmental or local authority (ii) any strike, lockout, boycott or blockade (including any strike, lockout, boycott or blockade effected by or upon the Bank or any of its representatives or employees) (iii) any act of God (iv) any
act of war (whether declared or not) or terrorism (v) any failure of any information technology or other operational systems or equipment affecting the Bank or (vi) any other circumstances whatsoever outside the Bank’s control.

  

	13.11	Amendments 

 This
Agreement may be amended or varied only by an instrument in writing executed by all parties hereto who irrevocably agree that the provisions of this clause 13.11 may not be waived or modified except by an instrument in writing to that effect signed
by both of them. 

  
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	13.12	Counterparts 

 This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and all such counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same agreement which may be sufficiently evidenced by one counterpart. 

 

	13.13	English language 

 All
documents required to be delivered under and/or supplied whensoever in connection howsoever with any of the Security Documents and all notices, communications, information and other written material whatsoever given or provided in connection
howsoever therewith must either be in the English language or accompanied by an English translation certified by a notary, lawyer or consulate acceptable to the Agent. 
  


	14	ACCOUNTS AND RETENTIONS 

  

	14.1	General 

 The Borrower
undertakes with each Bank that it will ensure that: 
  

	14.1.1	the Shareholder will on or before the Drawdown Date, open the Earnings Account and the Retention Account in its name; and 


 

	14.1.2	all moneys payable to any Owner in respect of the Earnings (as defined in the relevant Mortgage) of its Mortgaged Vessel shall, unless and until the Agent (acting on
the instructions of the Majority Lenders) directs to the contrary pursuant to the provisions of the relevant Mortgage, be paid to the Earnings Account Provided however that if any of the moneys paid to the Earnings Account are payable in a currency
other than USD, they shall be paid to a sub-account of the Earnings Account denominated in such currency (except that if the Shareholder fails to open such a sub-account, the Account Bank shall then convert such moneys into USD at the Account
Bank’s spot rate of exchange at the relevant time for the purchase of USD with such currency and the term “spot rate of exchange” shall include any premium and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of USD with such
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	14.2	Earnings Account: withdrawals 

 Any sums standing to the credit of the Earnings Account may be applied from time to time (i) firstly and to make the payments required under this Agreement, (ii) secondly subject to there being
no breach of Clause 14.3 and to no Event of Default having occurred, in the operation of the Mortgaged Vessels and (iii) subject to there being at any time sufficient funds to pay amounts due under (i) and (ii) above as they fall due,
thirdly for the general corporate purposes of the Borrower. 
  

	14.3	Retention Account: credits and withdrawals 

  

	14.3.1	The Borrower undertakes with each Bank that, throughout the Facility Period, it will procure that, on each Retention Date there is paid (whether from the Earnings
Account or elsewhere) to the Retention Account, the Retention Amount for such date. 

  

	14.3.2	Unless and until there shall occur an Event of Default (whereupon the provisions of clause 14.5 shall apply), all Retention Amounts credited to the Retention Account
together with interest from time to time accruing or at any time accrued thereon must be applied by the Account Bank upon each Repayment Date and/or on each day that interest is payable on the Loan pursuant to clause 3.1, in or towards payment to
the Agent of the instalment then falling due for repayment or, as the case may be, the amount of interest then due. Each such application by the Account Bank shall constitute a payment in or towards satisfaction of the Borrower’s corresponding
payment obligations under this Agreement but shall be strictly without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower to make any such payment to the extent that the aforesaid application by the Account Bank is insufficient to meet the same.


 Unless the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Banks) otherwise agrees in writing and subject to
this clause 14.3.2, Borrower shall not be entitled to withdraw any moneys from the Retention Account at any time during the Facility Period. 
  

	14.4	Application of accounts 


At any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Agent may (and on the instructions of the Majority Lenders shall), without
notice to the Borrower or the Shareholder, instruct the Account Bank to apply all moneys then standing to the credit of the Earnings Account and/or the Retention Account (together with interest from time to time accruing or accrued thereon) in or
towards satisfaction of any sums due to the Banks or any of them under the Security Documents in the manner specified in clause 13.1. 

  
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	14.5	Charging of accounts 

 The
Earnings Account and the Retention Account and all amounts from time to time respectively standing to the credit thereof shall be subject to the security constituted and the rights conferred by, respectively, the Earnings Account Pledge and the
Retention Account Pledge. 
  

	15	ASSIGNMENT, TRANSFER AND LENDING OFFICE 

  

	15.1	Benefit and burden 

 This
Agreement shall be binding upon, and enure for the benefit of, the Banks and the Borrower and their respective successors in title. 
  

	15.2	No assignment by Borrower 


No Borrower may assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement. 

 

	15.3	Transfers by Banks 

 any
Lender (the “Transferor Lender”) may at any time, without the consent of, or consultation with, or notice to, the Borrower and/or the Guarantors and/or any charterer of a Vessel (other than in the circumstances referred to in Clause
15.9, in respect of which the terms of Clause 15.9 shall apply), cause all or any part of its rights, benefits and/or obligations under this Agreement and the other Security Documents to be transferred to (i) another Lender, (ii) another
branch, subsidiary or affiliate of a Lender, (iii) another first class international bank or financial institution, (iv) a trust corporation, fund or other person which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making,
purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets and which is advised by or the assets of which are managed or serviced by a Lender (in each case a “Transferee Lender”) in each case by delivering to the Agent a
Transfer Certificate duly completed and duly executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender. No such transfer is binding on, or effective in relation to, the Borrower or the Agent unless (i) it is effected or evidenced by a
Transfer Certificate which complies with the provisions of this clause 15.3 and is signed by or on behalf of the Transferor Lender, the Transferee Lender and the Agent (on behalf of itself, the Borrower and the other Banks) and (ii) such
transfer of rights under the other Security Documents has been effected and registered. Upon signature of any such Transfer Certificate by the Agent, which signature shall be effected as promptly as is practicable after such Transfer Certificate has
been delivered to the Agent, and subject to the terms of such Transfer Certificate, such Transfer Certificate shall have effect as set out below. 

  
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 The following further provisions shall have effect in relation to any Transfer Certificate:

  

	15.3.1	a Transfer Certificate may be in respect of a Lender’s rights in respect of all, or part of, its Commitment and shall be in respect of the same proportion of its
Contribution; 

  

	15.3.2	a Transfer Certificate shall only be in respect of rights and obligations of the Transferor Lender in its capacity as a Lender and shall not transfer its rights and
obligations (if applicable) as the Agent and/or the Agent and/or the Security Trustee, or in any other capacity, as the case may be and such other rights and obligations may only be transferred in accordance with any applicable provisions of this
Agreement; 

  

	15.3.3	a Transfer Certificate shall take effect in accordance with English law as follows: 


 

	 	(a)	to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate, the Transferor Lender’s payment rights and all its other rights (other than those referred to in clause 15.3.2
above) under this Agreement are assigned to the Transferee Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Transferor Lender’s title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower had against the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender
assumes all obligations of the Transferor Lender as are transferred by such Transfer Certificate; 

  

	 	(b)	the Transferor Lender’s Commitment is discharged to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate; 


 

	 	(c)	the Transferee Lender becomes a Lender with a Contribution and/or a Commitment in respect of the Loan Facility of the amounts specified in the Transfer Certificate;


  

	 	(d)	the Transferee Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of this Agreement and the Security Documents which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including those
about pro-rata sharing and the exclusion of liability on the part of, and the indemnification of, the Agent and the Agent and the Security Trustee and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes bound by those provisions, the Transferor Lender
ceases to be bound by them; 

  

	 	(e)	the Loan or part of the Loan which the Transferee Lender makes after the Transfer Certificate comes into effect ranks in point of priority and security in the same way
as it would have ranked had it been made by the Transferor Lender, assuming that any defects in the Transferor Lender’s title and any rights or equities of any Security Party against the Transferor Lender had not existed; and



  
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	 	(f)	the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under this Agreement which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited to those relating
to the Majority Lenders and those under clauses 3.6, 5 and 12 and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to such rights, the Transferor Lender ceases to be entitled to them; 


 

	15.3.4	the rights and equities of the Borrower or of any other Security Party referred to above include, but are not limited to, any right of set-off and any other kind of
cross-claim; and 

  

	15.3.5	the Borrower, the Security Trustee, the Agent and the Lenders hereby irrevocably authorise and instruct the Agent to sign any such Transfer Certificate on their behalf
and undertake not to withdraw, revoke or qualify such authority or instruction at any time. Promptly upon its signature of any Transfer Certificate, the Agent shall notify the Borrower, the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender.


  

	15.4	Reliance on Transfer Certificate 

  

	15.4.1	The Agent shall be entitled to rely on any Transfer Certificate believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been presented or signed by the persons by whom it
purports to have been presented or signed, and shall not be liable to any of the parties to this Agreement and the Security Documents for the consequences of such reliance. 


 

	15.4.2	The Agent shall at all times during the continuation of this Agreement maintain a register in which it shall record the name, Commitments, Contributions and
administrative details (including the lending office) from time to time of the Lenders holding a Transfer Certificate and the date at which the transfer referred to in such Transfer Certificate held by each Lender was transferred to such Lender, and
the Agent shall make the said register available for inspection by any Lender or the Borrower during normal banking hours upon receipt by the Agent of reasonable prior notice requesting the Agent to do so. 


 

	15.4.3	The entries on the said register shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive in determining the identities of the Commitments, the Contributions and the
Transfer Certificates held by the Lenders from time to time and the principal amounts of such Transfer Certificates and may be relied upon by all parties to this Agreement. 


  
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	15.5	Transfer fees and expenses 


Any Transferor Lender who causes the transfer of all or any part of its rights, benefits and/or obligations under the Security Documents
in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause 15, must, on each occasion, pay to the Agent a transfer fee of one thousand five hundred Dollars (USD 1,500) and, in addition, be responsible for all other costs and expenses (including, but
not limited to, reasonable legal fees and expenses) associated therewith and all value added tax thereon, as well as those of the Agent (in addition to its fee as aforesaid) in connection with such transfer. 

 

	15.6	Documenting transfers 

 If
any Lender assigns all or any part of its rights or transfers all or any part of its rights, benefits and/or obligations as provided in clause 15.3, the Borrower undertakes, immediately on being requested to do so by the Agent and at the cost of the
Transferor Lender, to enter into, and procure that the other Security Parties shall (at the cost of the Transferor Lender) enter into, such documents as may be necessary or desirable to transfer to the Transferee Lender all or the relevant part of
such Lender’s interest in the Security Documents and all relevant references in this Agreement to such Lender shall thereafter be construed as a reference to the Transferor Lender and/or its Transferee Lender (as the case may be) to the extent
of their respective interests. 
  

	15.7	Sub-Participation 

 A
Lender may sub-participate all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under the Security Documents at its own expense without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower. 

 

	15.8	Lending office 

 Each
Lender shall lend through its office at the address specified in schedule 1 or, as the case may be, in any relevant Transfer Certificate or through any other office of such Lender selected from time to time by it through which such Lender wishes to
lend for the purposes of this Agreement. If the office through which a Lender is lending is changed pursuant to this clause 15.8, such Lender shall notify the Agent promptly of such change and the Agent shall notify the Borrower, the Security
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	15.9	Securitisation 

 A Lender
may include all or any part of the Loan in a securitisation or similar transaction after consultation with, and after giving 45-day notice to, the Borrower but without the consent of the Borrower or any Security Party or any charterer of a Vessel.
The Borrower will assist the Lenders as necessary to achieve a successful securitisation (or similar transaction) Provided that the Borrower shall not be required to bear any third party costs related to any such securitisation and need only provide
such information which any third parties may reasonably request. 
 Provided that a Lender may only give, divulge and reveal such
information as the Borrower would be authorised to disclose in accordance with the rules and regulations of the public stock exchange in which it is listed and the recipient of such information shall execute a confidentiality agreement in relation
to such information. 
  

	15.10	Disclosure of information 


The Borrower hereby does, and shall procure that the other Security Parties do, irrevocably authorise each Bank to give, divulge and
reveal from time to time information and details relating to their accounts, the Vessels, the Security Documents, the Loan, the Commitments and any agreement entered into by the Borrower and/or a Security Party or information provided by the
Borrower or a Security Party in connection with the Security Documents to: 
  

	 	(i)	any public or internationally recognised authorities that are entitled to and have requested to obtain such information, 


 

	 	(ii)	the Banks’ respective head offices, branches and affiliates and professional advisors, 


 

	 	(iii)	any other parties to the Security Documents, 

  

	 	(iv)	a rating agency or their professional advisors, 

  

	 	(v)	any person with whom such Bank proposes to enter (or considers entering) into contractual relations in relation to the Loan and/or its Commitment or Contribution, and


  

	 	(vi)	any other person regarding the funding, re-financing, transfer, assignment, sale, sub-participation or operational arrangements or other transaction in relation to the
Loan, its Contribution or its Commitment, including without limitation, for purposes in connection with a securitisation or similar transaction or any enforcement, preservation, assignment, transfer, sale or sub-participation of any of such
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 Provided that, in respect of paragraphs (iv), (v) and (vi) above, a Lender may
only give, divulge and reveal such information as the Borrower would be authorised to disclose in accordance with the rules and regulations of the public stock exchange in which it is listed and the recipient of such information shall execute a
confidentiality agreement in relation to such information. 
  

	16	ARRANGER, AGENT AND SECURITY TRUSTEE 

  

	16.1	Appointment of the Agent 


Each Lender irrevocably appoints the Agent as its agent for the purposes of this Agreement and such of the Security Documents to which it
may be appropriate for the Agent to be party. Accordingly each of the Lenders hereby authorise the Agent: 
  

	16.1.1	to execute such documents as may be approved by the Majority Lenders for execution by the Agent; and 


 

	16.1.2	(whether or not by or through employees or agents) to take such action on such Lender’s behalf and to exercise such rights, remedies, powers and discretions as are
specifically delegated to the Agent by any Security Document, together with such powers and discretions as are reasonably incidental thereto. 

  

	16.2	Agent’s actions 

 Any
action taken by the Agent under or in relation to any of the Security Documents whether with requisite authority or on the basis of appropriate instructions received from the Majority Lenders (or as otherwise duly authorised) shall be binding on all
the Banks. 
  

	16.3	Agent’s duties 

  

	16.3.1	The Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the contents of each notice, certificate or other document received by it from the Borrower under or pursuant to clauses
8.1.1, 8.1.6, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.13 and 8.1.17; and 


  
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	16.3.2	The Agent shall (subject to the other provisions of this clause 16) take (or instruct the Security Trustee to take) such action or, as the case may be, refrain from
taking (or authorise the Security Trustee to refrain from taking) such action with respect to the exercise of any of its rights, remedies, powers and discretions as agent, as the Majority Lenders may direct. 


 

	16.4	Agent’s rights 

 The
Security Trustee and the Agent may: 
  

	16.4.1	in the exercise of any right, remedy, power or discretion in relation to any matter, or in any context, not expressly provided for by this Agreement or any of the other
Security Documents, act or, as the case may be, refrain from acting (or authorise the Security Trustee to act or refrain from acting) in accordance with the instructions of the Lenders, and shall be fully protected in so doing;


  

	16.4.2	unless and until it has received directions from the Majority Lenders, take such action or, as the case may be, refrain from taking such action (or authorise the
Security Trustee to take or refrain from taking such action) in respect of a Default of which the Agent has actual knowledge as it shall consider advisable in the best interests of the Lenders (but shall not be obliged to do so);


  

	16.4.3	refrain from acting (or authorise the Security Trustee to refrain from acting) in accordance with any instructions of the Lenders to institute any Proceedings arising
out of or in connection with any of the Security Documents until it and/or the Security Trustee has been indemnified and/or secured to its satisfaction against any and all costs, expenses or liabilities (including legal fees) which it would or might
incur as a result; 

  

	16.4.4	deem and treat (i) each Lender as the person entitled to the benefit of the Contribution of such Lender for all purposes of this Agreement unless and until a
notice shall have been filed with the Agent pursuant to clause 15.3 and shall have become effective, and (ii) the office set opposite the name of each of the Lenders in schedule 1 as its lending office unless and until a written notice of
change of lending office shall have been received by the Agent and the Agent may act upon any such notice unless and until the same is superseded by a further such notice; 


  
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	16.4.5	rely as to matters of fact which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of any Security Party upon a certificate signed by any director or officer of
the relevant Security Party on behalf of the relevant Security Party; and 

  

	16.4.6	do anything which is in its opinion necessary or desirable to comply with any law or regulation in any jurisdiction. 


 

	16.5	No Liability of Security Trustee, Arranger or Agent 

 None of the Security Trustee, the Arranger, the Agent nor any of their respective employees and agents shall: 
  

	16.5.1	be obliged to make any enquiry as to the use of any of the proceeds of the Loan unless (in the case of the Agent) so required in writing by a Lender, in which case the
Agent shall promptly make the appropriate request to the Borrower; or 

  

	16.5.2	be obliged to make any enquiry as to any breach or default by the Borrower or any other Security Party in the performance or observance of any of the provisions of the
Security Documents or as to the existence of a Default unless (in the case of the Agent) the Agent has actual knowledge thereof or has been notified in writing thereof by a Bank, in which case the Agent shall promptly notify the Banks of the
relevant event or circumstance; or 

  

	16.5.3	be obliged to enquire whether or not any representation or warranty made by the Borrower or any other Security Party pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other
Security Documents is true; or 

  

	16.5.4	be obliged to do anything (including, without limitation, disclosing any document or information) which would, or might in its opinion, be contrary to any law or
regulation or be a breach of any duty of confidentiality or otherwise be actionable or render it liable to any person; or 

  

	16.5.5	be obliged to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account; or 


 

	16.5.6	be obliged to institute any Proceedings arising out of or in connection with any of the Security Documents other than on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; or



  
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	16.5.7	be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted under or in connection with any of the Security Documents unless caused by its gross negligence or wilful
misconduct. 

 For the purposes of this clause 16, none of the Security Trustee, the Arranger nor the Agent shall
be treated as having actual knowledge of any matter of which the corporate finance or any other division outside the agency or loan administration department of the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the person for the time being acting as the
Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent may become aware in the context of corporate finance, advisory or lending activities from time to time undertaken by the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security
Trustee or the Agent for any Security Party or any other person which may be a trade competitor of any Security Party or may otherwise have commercial interests similar to those of any Security Party. 

 

	16.6	Non –reliance on Arranger, Security Trustee, Agent 

 Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied on any statement, opinion, forecast or other representation made by the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent to induce it to enter into any of the
Security Documents and that it has made and will continue to make, without reliance on the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent and based on such documents as it considers appropriate, its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security
Parties and its own independent investigation of the financial condition, prospects and affairs of the Security Parties in connection with the making and continuation of such Lender’s Commitment or Contribution under this Agreement. None of the
Arranger, the Security Trustee and the Agent shall have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any Lender with any credit or other information with respect to any Security Party whether coming into its
possession before the making of the Loan or at any time or times thereafter other than as provided in clause 16.3.1. 
  

	16.7	No responsibility on Arranger, Security Trustee or Agent for Borrower’s performance 


None of the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent shall have any responsibility or liability to any Lender: 

 

	16.7.1	on account of the failure of any Security Party to perform its obligations under any of the Security Documents; or 


 

	16.7.2	for the financial condition of any Security Party; or 


  
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	16.7.3	for the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties in any of the Security Documents or any document delivered under any of the Security
Documents; or 

  

	16.7.4	for the execution, effectiveness, adequacy, genuineness, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of any of the Security Documents or of any certificate,
report or other document executed or delivered under any of the Security Documents; or 

  

	16.7.5	to investigate or make any enquiry into the title of the Borrower or any other Security Party to the Mortgaged Vessels or any other security or any part thereof; or


  

	16.7.6	for the failure to register any of the Security Documents with any official or regulatory body or office or elsewhere; or 


 

	16.7.7	for taking or omitting to take any other action under or in relation to any of the Security Documents or any aspect of any of the Security Documents; or


  

	16.7.8	on account of the failure of the Security Trustee to perform or discharge any of its duties or obligations under the Security Documents; or 


 

	16.7.9	otherwise in connection with the Security Documents or their negotiation or for acting (or, as the case may be, refraining from acting) in accordance with the
instructions of the Lenders. 

  

	16.8	Reliance on documents and professional advice 

 Each of the Arranger, the Security Trustee and the Agent shall be entitled to rely on any communication, instrument or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by
the proper person and shall be entitled to rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by it (including those in the Arranger’s, the Security
Trustee’s or the Agent’s employment). 
  

	16.9	Other dealings 

 Each of
the Arranger, the Security Trustee and the Agent may, without any liability to account to the Lenders, accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with, and provide advisory or other services
to, any Security Party or any company in the same group of companies as such Security Party or any of the Lenders as if it were not the Arranger, the Security Trustee or the Agent. 

  
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	16.10	Rights of Agent as Lender; no partnership 

 With respect to its own Commitment and Contribution (if any) the Security Trustee and the Agent shall have the same rights and powers under the Security Documents as any other Lender and may exercise the
same as though it were not performing the duties and functions delegated to it under this Agreement and the term “Lenders” shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include the Security Trustee and the Agent in their
respective individual capacity as a Lender. This Agreement shall not be construed so as to constitute a partnership between the parties or any of them. 
  

	16.11	Amendments and waivers 

  

	16.11.1	Subject to clause 16.11, the Arranger, the Security Trustee and/or the Agent (as the case may be) may, with the consent of the Majority Lenders (or if and to the extent
expressly authorised by the other provisions of any of the Security Documents) and, if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, shall: 

  

	16.11.2	agree (or authorise the Security Trustee to agree) amendments or modifications to any of the Security Documents with the Borrower and/or any other Security Party;
and/or 

  

	16.11.3	vary or waive breaches of, or defaults under, or otherwise excuse performance of, any provision of any of the other Security Documents by the Borrower and/or any other
Security Party (or authorise the Security Trustee to do so). 

 Any such action so authorised and effected by the
Agent shall be documented in such manner as the Security Trustee and/or the Agent (as the case may be) shall (with the approval of the Majority Lenders) determine, shall be promptly notified to the Lenders by the Security Trustee and/or the Agent
(as the case may be) and (without prejudice to the generality of clause 16.2) shall be binding on the Lenders. 
  

	16.11.4	Except with the prior written consent of the Lenders, the Security Trustee and the Agent shall have no authority on behalf of the Lenders to agree (or authorise the
Security Trustee to agree) with the Borrower and/or any other Security Party any amendment or modification to any of the Security Documents or to grant (or authorise the Security Trustee to grant) waivers in respect of breaches or defaults or to
vary or excuse (or authorise the Security Trustee to vary or excuse) performance of or under any of the Security Documents by the Borrower and/or any other Security Party, if the effect of such amendment, modification, waiver or excuse would be to:



  
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	 	(a)	reduce the Margin, postpone the due date or reduce the amount of any payment of principal, interest or other amount payable by any Security Party under any of the
Security Documents; 

  

	 	(b)	change the currency in which any amount is payable by any Security Party under any of the Security Documents; 


 

	 	(c)	increase any Lender’s Commitment; 

  

	 	(d)	extend the Maturity Date; 

  

	 	(e)	change any provision of any of the Security Documents which expressly or impliedly requires the approval or consent of all the Lenders such that the relevant approval
or consent may be given otherwise than with the sanction of all the Lenders; 

  

	 	(f)	change the order of distribution under clauses 6.10 and 13.1; 

  

	 	(g)	change this clause 16.11; 

  

	 	(h)	change the definition of “Majority Lenders” in clause 1.2; 


 

	 	(i)	release any Security Party from the security constituted by any Security Document (except as required by the terms thereof or by law) or change the terms and conditions
upon which such security or guarantee may be, or is required to be, released. 

  

	16.12	Reimbursement and indemnity by Lenders 

 Each Lender shall reimburse the Security Trustee and the Agent (rateably in accordance with such Lender’s Commitment or, after the the Loan has been drawn, its Contribution) to the extent that the
Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent is not reimbursed by the Borrower, for the costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent which are expressed to be payable by the Borrower under
clause 5.2 including (in each case), without limitation, the fees and expenses of legal or other professional advisers provided that, if following any payment to 

  
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 the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent by a Lender under this clause the
Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent receives payment from the Borrower in respect of the same costs, fees or expenses, the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent shall upon receipt thereof reimburse the relevant Lender.
Each Lender must on demand indemnify the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent (rateably in accordance with such Lender’s Commitment or, after the Loan has been drawn, its Contribution) against all liabilities, damages, costs and
claims whatsoever incurred by the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent in connection with any of the Security Documents or the performance of its duties under any of the Security Documents or any action taken or omitted by the Security
Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent, under any of the Security Documents, unless such liabilities, damages, costs or claims arise from the Security Trustee’s or, as the case may be, the Agent’s own gross negligence or wilful
misconduct. 
  

	16.13	Retirement of Agent 

  

	16.13.1	The Agent may, having given to the Borrower and each of the Lenders not less than fifteen (15) days’ notice of its intention to do so, retire from its
appointment as the Agent under this Agreement, provided that no such retirement shall take effect unless there has been appointed by the Lenders as a successor agent: 


 

	 	(a)	a company in the same group of companies as the Agent nominated by the Agent, 


 

	 	(b)	a Lender nominated by the Majority Lenders or, failing such a nomination, 

  


	 	(c)	any reputable and experienced bank or financial institution nominated by the retiring Agent. 


Any corporation into which the retiring Agent may be merged or converted or any corporation with which the Agent may be consolidated or
any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, amalgamation, consolidation or other reorganisation to which the Agent shall be a party shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be the successor Agent under this Agreement and the
other Security Documents without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part of any of the parties to the Security Documents save that notice of any such merger, conversion, amalgamation, consolidation or other
reorganisation shall forthwith be given to each Security Party and the Lenders. Prior to any such successor being appointed, the Agent agrees to consult with the Borrower and the Lenders as to the identity of the proposed successor and to take
account of any reasonable objections which the Borrower and the Lenders may raise to such successor being appointed. 

  
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	16.13.2	If the Majority Lenders, acting reasonably, are of the opinion that the Agent is unable to fulfil its obligations under this Agreement in a professional and acceptable
manner, then they may require the Agent, by written notice, to resign in accordance with clause 16.13.1, which the Agent shall promptly do, and the terms of clause 16.13.1 shall apply to the appointment of any substitute Agent, save that the same
shall be appointed by the Majority Lenders and not by all of the Lenders. 

  

	16.13.3	Upon any such successor as aforesaid being appointed, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation under the Security Documents (but shall
continue to have the benefit of this clause 16 in respect of any action it has taken or refrained from taking prior to such discharge) and its successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations among
themselves as they would have had if such successor had been a party to this Agreement in place of the retiring Agent. The retiring Agent shall (at its own expense) provide its successor with copies of such of its records as its successor reasonably
requires to carry out its functions under the Security Documents. 

  

	16.14	Appointment and retirement of Security Trustee 

  

	16.14.1	Appointment 

 Each of the Lenders
and the Agent irrevocably appoints the Security Trustee as its Security Trustee and trustee for the purposes of the Security Documents, in each case on the terms set out in this Agreement. Accordingly, each of the Lenders and the Agent hereby
authorises the Security Trustee (whether or not by or through employees or agents) to take such action on its behalf and to exercise such rights, remedies, powers and discretions as are specifically delegated to the Security Trustee by this
Agreement and/or the Security Documents, together with such powers and discretions as are reasonably incidental thereto. 
  

	16.14.2	Retirement 

 Without prejudice to
clause 16.13, the Security Trustee may, having given to the Borrower and each of the Lenders not less than fifteen (15) days’ notice of its intention to do so, retire from its appointment as Security Trustee under this Agreement and any
Trust Deed, provided that no such retirement shall take effect unless there has been appointed by the Lenders and the Agent as a successor Security Trustee and trustee: 

  
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	 	(a)	a company in the same group of companies of the Security Trustee nominated by the Security Trustee which the Lenders hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agree to
appoint or, failing such nomination, 

  

	 	(b)	a Lender or trust corporation nominated by the Majority Lenders or, failing such a nomination, 


 

	 	(c)	any bank or trust corporation nominated by the retiring Security Trustee, 

 and, in any case, such successor Security Trustee and trustee shall have duly accepted such appointment by delivering to the Agent (i) written confirmation (in a form acceptable to the Agent) of such
acceptance agreeing to be bound by this Agreement in the capacity of Security Trustee as if it had been an original party to this Agreement and (ii) a duly executed Trust Deed. 

Any corporation into which the retiring Security Trustee may be merged or converted or any corporation with which the Security Trustee may
be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, amalgamation, consolidation or other reorganisation to which the Security Trustee shall be a party shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be the successor Security
Trustee under this Agreement, any Trust Deed and the other Security Documents without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement, any Trust Deed and the other Security Documents
save that notice of any such merger, conversion, amalgamation, consolidation or other reorganisation shall forthwith be given to each Security Party and the Lenders. Prior to any such successor being appointed, the Security Trustee agrees to consult
with the Borrower as to the identity of the proposed successor and to take account of any reasonable objections which the Borrower may raise to such successor being appointed. 
 Upon any such successor as aforesaid being appointed, the retiring Security Trustee shall be discharged from any further obligation under the Security Documents (but shall continue to have the benefit of
this clause 16 in respect of any action it has taken or refrained from taking prior to such discharge) and its successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations among themselves as they would have
had if such successor had been a party to this Agreement in place of the retiring Security Trustee. The retiring Security Trustee shall (at its own expense) provide its successor with copies of such of its records as its successor reasonably
requires to carry out its functions under the Security Documents. 

  
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	16.15	Powers and duties of the Security Trustee 

  

	16.15.1	The Security Trustee shall have no duties, obligations or liabilities to any of the Lenders and the Agent beyond those expressly stated in any of the Security
Documents. Each of the Agent and the Lenders hereby authorises the Security Trustee to enter into and execute: 

  

	 	(a)	each of the Security Documents to which the Security Trustee is or is intended to be a party; and 


 

	 	(b)	any and all such other Security Documents as may be approved by the Agent in writing (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) for entry into by the Security
Trustee, 

 and, in each and every case, to hold any and all security thereby created upon trust for the Lenders
and the Agent for the time being in the manner contemplated by this Agreement. 
  

	16.15.2	Subject to clause 16.15.3 the Security Trustee may, with the prior consent of the Majority Lenders communicated in writing by the Agent, concur with any of the Security
Parties to: 

  

	 	(a)	amend, modify or otherwise vary any provision of the Security Documents to which the Security Trustee is or is intended to be a party; or 


 

	 	(b)	waive breaches of, or defaults under, or otherwise excuse performance of, any provision of the Security Documents to which the Security Trustee is or is intended to be
a party; or 

  

	 	(c)	give any consents to any Security Party in respect of any provision of any Security Document 


Any such action so authorised and effected by the Security Trustee shall be promptly notified to the Lenders and the Agent by the Security
Trustee and shall be binding on the other Banks. 
  

	16.15.3	The Security Trustee shall not concur with any Security Party with respect to any of the matters described in clause 16.11.4 without the consent of the Lenders
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	16.15.4	The Security Trustee shall (subject to the other provisions of this clause 16) take such action or, as the case may be, refrain from taking such action, with respect to
any of its rights, powers and discretions as Security Trustee and trustee, as the Agent may direct. Subject as provided in the foregoing provisions of this clause, unless and until the Security Trustee has received such instructions from the Agent,
the Security Trustee may, but shall not be obliged to, take (or refrain from taking) such action under or pursuant to the Security Documents referred to in clause 16.14 as the Security Trustee shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Banks
provided that (for the avoidance of doubt), to the extent that this clause might otherwise be construed as authorising the Security Trustee to take, or refrain from taking, any action of the nature referred to in clause 16.15.2 - and for which the
prior consent of the Lenders is expressly required under clause 16.15.3 - clauses 16.15.2 and 16.15.3 shall apply to the exclusion of this clause. 

  

	16.15.5	None of the Lenders nor the Agent shall have any independent power to enforce any of the Security Documents referred to in clause 16.14 or to exercise any rights,
discretions or powers or to grant any consents or releases under or pursuant to such Security Documents or any of them or otherwise have direct recourse to the security and/or guarantees constituted by such Security Documents or any of them except
through the Security Trustee. 

  

	16.15.6	For the purpose of this clause 16, the Security Trustee may, rely and act in reliance upon any information from time to time furnished to the Security Trustee by the
Agent (whether pursuant to clause 16.15.7 or otherwise) unless and until the same is superseded by further such information, so that the Security Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility to any party as a consequence of placing reliance on
and acting in reliance upon any such information unless the Security Trustee has actual knowledge that such information is inaccurate or incorrect. 

  

	16.15.7	Without prejudice to the foregoing each of the Agent and the Lenders (whether directly or through the Agent) shall provide the Security Trustee with such written
information as it may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out its duties and obligations under the Security Documents referred to in clause 16.14. 


 

	16.16	Trust provisions 

  

	16.16.1	The trusts constituted or evidenced in or by this Agreement and the Trust Deed shall remain in full force and effect until whichever is the earlier of:


  

	 	(a)	the expiration of a period of eighty (80) years from the date of this Agreement; and 


  
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	 	(b)	receipt by the Security Trustee of confirmation in writing by the Agent that there is no longer outstanding any Indebtedness (actual or contingent) which is secured or
guaranteed or otherwise assured by or under any of the Security Documents, 

 and the parties to this Agreement
declare that the perpetuity period applicable to this Agreement and the trusts declared by the Trust Deed shall for the purposes of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 be the period of eighty (80) years from the date of this Agreement.

  

	16.16.2	In its capacity as trustee in relation to the Security Documents specified in clause 16.14, the Security Trustee shall, without prejudice to any of the powers,
discretions and immunities conferred upon trustees by law (and to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of any of those Security Documents), have all the same powers and discretions as a natural person acting as the beneficial owner of
such property and/or as are conferred upon the Security Trustee by any of those Security Documents. 

  

	16.16.3	It is expressly declared that, in its capacity as trustee in relation to the Security Documents specified in clause 16.14, the Security Trustee shall be entitled to
invest moneys forming part of the security and which, in the opinion of the Security Trustee, may not be paid out promptly following receipt in the name or under the control of the Security Trustee in any of the investments for the time being
authorised by law for the investment by trustees of trust moneys or in any other property or investments whether similar to the aforesaid or not or by placing the same on deposit in the name or under the control of the Security Trustee as the
Security Trustee may think fit without being under any duty to diversify its investments and the Security Trustee may at any time vary or transpose any such property or investments for or into any others of a like nature and shall not be responsible
for any loss due to depreciation in value or otherwise of such property or investments. Any investment of any part or all of the security may, at the discretion of the Security Trustee, be made or retained in the names of nominees.


  

	16.17	Independent action by Banks 

 None of the Banks shall enforce, exercise any rights, remedies or powers or grant any consents or releases under or pursuant to, or otherwise have a direct recourse to the security and/or guarantees
constituted by any of the Security Documents without the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders but, provided such consent has been obtained, it shall not be necessary for any other Bank to be joined as an additional party in any Proceedings
for this purpose. 

  
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	16.18	Common Agent and Security Trustee 

 The Agent and the Security Trustee have entered into the Security Documents in their separate capacities (a) as agent for the Lenders under and pursuant to this Agreement (in the case of the Agent)
and (b) as Security Trustee and trustee for the Lenders and the Agent under and pursuant to this Agreement, to hold the guarantees and/or security created by the Security Documents specified in clause 16.14 on the terms set out in such Security
Documents (in the case of the Security Trustee). If and when the Agent and the Security Trustee are the same entity and any Security Document provides for the Agent to communicate with or provide instructions to the Security Trustee (and vice
versa), all parties to this Agreement agree that any such communications or instructions on such occasions are unnecessary and are hereby waived. 
  

	16.19	Co-operation to achieve agreed priorities of application 

 The Lenders and the Agent shall co-operate with each other and with the Security Trustee and any receiver under the Security Documents in realising the property and assets subject to the Security
Documents and in ensuring that the net proceeds realised under the Security Documents after deduction of the expenses of realisation are applied in accordance with clause 13.1. 

 

	16.20	The Prompt distribution of proceeds 

 Moneys received by any of the Banks (whether from a receiver or otherwise) pursuant to the exercise of (or otherwise by virtue of the existence of) any rights and powers under or pursuant to any of the
Security Documents shall (after providing for all costs, charges, expenses and liabilities and other payments ranking in priority) be paid to the Agent for distribution (in the case of moneys so received by any of the Banks other than the Agent or
the Security Trustee) and shall be distributed by the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee (in the case of moneys so received by the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee) in each case in accordance with clause 13.1. The
Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee shall make each such application and/or distribution as soon as is practicable after the relevant moneys are received by, or otherwise become available to, the Agent or, as the case may be, the
Security Trustee save that (without prejudice to any other provision contained in any of the Security Documents) the Agent or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or any receiver may credit
any moneys received by it to a suspense account for so long and in such manner as the Agent or such receiver may from time to time determine with a view to preserving the rights of the Agent and/or the Security Trustee and/or the Arranger and/or the
Lenders or any of them to provide for the whole of their respective claims against the Borrower or any other person liable. 

  
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	16.21	Reconventioning 

 After
consultation with the Borrower and the Lenders and notwithstanding clause 16.11, the Agent shall be entitled to make such amendments to this Agreement as it may determine to be necessary to take account of any changes in market practices as a
consequence of the European Monetary Union (whether as to the settlement or rounding of obligations, business days, the calculation of interest or otherwise whatsoever). So far as possible such amendments shall be such as to put the parties in the
same position as if the event or events giving rise the need to amend this Agreement had not occurred. Any amendment so made to this Agreement by the Agent shall be promptly notified to the other parties hereto and shall be binding on all parties
hereto. 
  

	16.22	Exclusivity 

 Without
prejudice to the Borrower’s rights, in certain instances, to give their consent thereunder, clauses 15 and 16 are for the exclusive benefit of the Banks. 
  

	17	NOTICES AND OTHER MATTERS 

  

	17.1	Notices 

  

	17.1.1	unless otherwise specifically provided herein, every notice under or in connection with this Agreement shall be given in English by letter delivered personally and/or
sent by post and/or transmitted by fax and/or electronically; 

  

	17.1.2	in this clause “notice” includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction, certificate, request, waiver or other communication.



  
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	17.2	Addresses for communications, effective date of notices 

  

	17.2.1	Subject to clause 17.2.2, clause 17.2.5 and 17.3 notices to the Borrower shall be deemed to have been given and shall take effect when received in full legible form by
the Borrower at the address and/or the fax number appearing below (or at such other address or fax number as the Borrower may hereafter specify for such purpose to the Agent by notice in writing); 


 

			
	Address	 	c/o Navios ShipManagement Inc.
		 	85 Akti Miaouli
		 	Piraeus
		 	Greece
		
	Fax no:	 	+ 30 210 453 1984

  

	17.2.2	notwithstanding the provisions of clause 17.2.1 or clause 17.2.5, a notice of Default and/or a notice given pursuant to clause 10.2 or clause 10.3 to the Borrower shall
be deemed to have been given and shall take effect when delivered, sent or transmitted by the Banks or any of them to the Borrower to the address or fax number referred to in clause 17.2.1; 


 

	17.2.3	subject to clause 17.2.5, notices to the Agent and/or the Arranger and/or the Security Trustee shall be deemed to be given, and shall take effect, when received in full
legible form by the Agent at the address and/or the fax number address appearing below (or at any such other address or fax number as the Agent (as appropriate) may hereafter specify for such purpose to the Borrower and the other Lenders by notice
in writing); 

  

			
	Agent:	 	
		
	Address:	 	DVB Bank SE
		 	Park House
		 	16-18 Finsbury Circus
		 	London EC2M 7EB
		 	England
		
	Attn:	 	Transaction & Loan Services.
	Fax no:	 	+44 207 256 4552
		
	with a copy to:	 	DVB Bank SE
		 	Representative Office
		 	South Polis Center
		 	Building K4,
		 	3, Moraitini Street & 1, Palea Leof. Posidonos
		 	Delta Paleo Faliro
		 	175 61 Athens
		 	Greece


  
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	Attn:	 	Dry Bulk Group
	Fax no:	 	+30 210 455 7420

  

	17.2.4	subject to clause 17.2.5 and 17.3, notices to a Lender shall be deemed to be given and shall take effect when received in full legible form by such Lender at its
address and/or fax number specified in schedule 1 or in any relevant Transfer Certificate (or at any other address or fax number as such Lender may hereafter specify for such purpose to the other Banks); and 


 

	17.2.5	if under clause 17.2.1 or clause 17.2.3 a notice would be deemed to have been given and effective on a day which is not a working day in the place of receipt or is
outside the normal business hours in the place of receipt, the notice shall be deemed to have been given and to have taken effect at the opening of business on the next working day in such place. 


 

	17.3	Electronic Communication 

  

	17.3.1	Any communication to be made by and/or between the Banks or any of them and the Security Parties or any of them under or in connection with the Security Documents or
any of them may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if and provided that all such parties: 

  

	 	(a)	notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and


  

	 	(b)	notify each other of any change to their electronic mail address or any other such information supplied by them. 


 

	17.3.2	Any electronic communication made by and/or between the Banks or any of them and the Security Parties or any of them will be effective only when actually received in
readable form and, in the case of any electronic communication made by the Borrower or the Lenders to the Agent, only if it is addressed in such manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose 


 

	17.4	Notices through the Agent 


Every notice under this Agreement or (unless otherwise provided therein) any other Security Document to be given by the Borrower to any
other party, shall be given to the Agent for onward transmission as appropriate and every notice under this Agreement to be given to the Borrower shall (except otherwise provided in the Security Documents) be given to the Borrower by the Agent.


  
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	18	GOVERNING LAW 

 This
Agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law. 
  

	19	JURISDICTION 

  

	19.1	Exclusive Jurisdiction 


For the benefit of the Banks, and subject to clause 19.4 below, the Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees that the courts of England shall
have exclusive jurisdiction: 
  

	19.1.1	to settle any disputes or other matters whatsoever arising under or in connection with this Agreement and any disputes or other such matters arising in connection with
the negotiation, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any part thereof, whether the alleged liability shall arise under the laws of England or under the laws of some other country and regardless of whether a particular cause of action may
successfully be brought in the English courts; and 

  

	19.1.2	to grant interim remedies or other provisional or protective relief. 

  

	19.2	Submission and service of process 

 The Borrower accordingly irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of the English courts. Without prejudice to any other mode of service the Borrower: 

 

	19.2.1	irrevocably empowers and appoints HFW Nominees Ltd at present of Marlow House, Lloyds Avenue, London EC3N 3AL, England as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf
any process or other document relating to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Agreement; 

  

	19.2.2	agrees to maintain such an agent for service of process in England from the date hereof until the end of the Facility Period; 


 

	19.2.3	agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower of service of process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned; 


 

	19.2.4	 without prejudice to the effectiveness of service of process on its agent under clause 19.2.1 above but as an alternative method, consents to the
service of process relating to any such proceedings by mailing or delivering a copy of the process to its address for the time being applying under clause 17.2; 



  
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	19.2.5	agrees that if the appointment of any person mentioned in clause 19.2.1 ceases to be effective, the Borrower shall immediately appoint a further person in England to
accept service of process on its behalf in England and, failing such appointment within seven (7) days the Lender shall thereupon be entitled and is hereby irrevocably authorised by the Borrower in those circumstances to appoint such person by
notice to the Borrower. 

  

	19.3	Forum non conveniens and enforcement abroad 

 The Borrower: 
  

	19.3.1	waives any right and agrees not to apply to the English court or other court in any jurisdiction whatsoever to stay or strike out any proceedings commenced in England
on the ground that England is an inappropriate forum and/or that Proceedings have been or will be started in any other jurisdiction in connection with any dispute or related matter falling within clause 19.1; and 


 

	19.3.2	agrees that a judgment or order of an English court in a dispute or other matter falling within clause 19.1 shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and may be
enforced against it in the courts of any other jurisdiction. 

  

	19.4	Right of Lender, but not Borrower, to bring proceedings in any other jurisdiction 


 

	19.4.1	Nothing in this clause 19 limits the right of any Lender to bring Proceedings, including third party proceedings, against any one or more Borrower, or to apply for
interim remedies, in connection with this Agreement in any other court and/or concurrently in more than one jurisdiction; 

  

	19.4.2	the obtaining by any Lender of judgment in one jurisdiction shall not prevent such Lender from bringing or continuing proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether or
not these shall be founded on the same cause of action. 

  

	19.5	Enforceability despite invalidity of Agreement 

 Without prejudice to the generality of clause 13.9, the jurisdiction agreement contained in this clause 19 shall be severable from the rest of this Agreement and shall remain valid, binding and in full
force and shall continue to apply notwithstanding this Agreement or any part thereof being held to be avoided, rescinded, terminated, discharged, frustrated, invalid, unenforceable, illegal and/or otherwise of no effect for any reason. 

  
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	19.6	Effect in relation to claims by and against non-parties 

  

	19.6.1	For the purpose of this clause “Foreign Proceedings” shall mean any Proceedings except proceedings brought or pursued in England arising out of or in
connection with (i) or in any way related to any of the Security Documents or any assets subject thereto or (ii) any action of any kind whatsoever taken by any Bank pursuant thereto or which would, if brought by any one or more of the
Borrower against the Lender, have been required to be brought in the English courts; 

  

	19.6.2	no Borrower shall bring or pursue any Foreign Proceedings against any Bank and shall use its best endeavours to prevent persons not party to this Agreement from
bringing or pursuing any Foreign Proceedings against any Bank; 

  

	19.6.3	If, for any reason whatsoever, any Security Party and/or any person connected howsoever with any Security Party (including but not limited to any general or limited
partners of the Borrower) brings or pursues against any Bank any Foreign Proceedings, the Borrower shall indemnify such Bank on demand in respect of any and all claims, losses, damages, demands, causes of action, liabilities, costs and expenses
(including, but not limited to, legal costs) of whatsoever nature howsoever arising from or in connection with such Foreign Proceedings which such Bank (or the Agent on its behalf) certifies as having been incurred by it; 


the Banks and the Borrower hereby agree and declare that the benefit of this clause 19 shall extend to and may be enforced by any officer,
employee, agent or business associate of any of the Banks against whom the Borrower brings a claim in connection howsoever with any of the Security Documents or any assets subject thereto or any action of any kind whatsoever taken by, or on behalf
of or for the purported benefit of any Bank pursuant thereto or which, if it were brought against the Lender, would fall within the material scope of clause 19.1. In those circumstances this clause 19 shall be read and construed as if references to
any Bank were references to such officer, employee, agent or business associate, as the case may be. 

  
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 Execution Pages 
 IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to be duly executed on the date first above written. 

 

							
	 SIGNED as a deed for and on behalf of
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 NAVIOS MARITIME PARTNERS L.P.
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 By NAVIOS GP L.L.C., its sole general partner
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 By NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.,
	  	 	)	  	 	/s/ Todd Johnson
	 its sole member by TODD JOHNSON
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 (as Borrower under and pursuant to
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 a power of attorney dated 27 July 2012)
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 in the presence of
	  	 	)	  	 	
			
	/s/ Ronan Le Du	  				 	
			
	 SIGNED by ROBIN PARRY
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 for and on behalf of
	  	 	)	  	 	/s/ Robin Parry
	 DVB BANK SE
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 (as a Lender) in the presence of
	  	 	)	  	 	
			
	/s/ Ronan Le Du	  				 	
			
	SIGNED by ROBIN PARRY	  	 	)	  	 	
	 for and on behalf of
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 DVB BANK SE
	  	 	)	  	 	/s/ Robin Parry
	 (as Arranger, Agent and
	  	 	)	  	 	
	 Security Trustee) in the presence of
	  	 	)	  	 	
			
	/s/ Ronan Le Du	  				 	


  
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