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NOC-06.30.2014-Ex103

Exhibit 10.3

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO 
2014 RESTRICTED PERFORMANCE STOCK RIGHTS 
GRANTED UNDER THE 2011 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE STOCK PLAN
These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) apply to certain “Restricted Performance Stock Rights” (“RPSRs”) granted by Northrop Grumman Corporation (the “Company”) in 2014 under its 2011 Long-Term Incentive Stock Plan. If you were granted an RPSR award by the Company in 2014, the date of grant of your RPSR award and the target number of RPSRs applicable to your award are set forth in the letter from the Company announcing your RPSR award (your “Grant Letter”) and are also reflected in the electronic stock plan award recordkeeping system (“Stock Plan System”) maintained by the Company or its designee. These Terms apply only with respect to the 2014 RPSR award, except as provided in Sections 7.5 and 11. If you were granted an RPSR award, you are referred to as the “Grantee” with respect to your award. Capitalized terms are generally defined in Section 12 below if not otherwise defined herein.
Each RPSR represents a right to receive one share of the Company’s Common Stock, or cash of equivalent value as provided herein subject to vesting as provided herein. The performance period applicable to your award is January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016 (the “Performance Period”). The target number of RPSRs subject to your award is subject to adjustment as provided herein. The RPSR award is subject to all of the terms and conditions set forth in these Terms, and is further subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Plan, as it may be amended from time to time, and any rules adopted by the Committee, as such rules are in effect from time to time.
		
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	Vesting; Payment of RPSRs.

The RPSRs are subject to the vesting and payment provisions established by the Committee with respect to the Performance Period. RPSRs (and any Dividend Equivalents (as defined below)) that vest based on such provisions will be paid as provided below. No fractional shares will be issued.
1.1.    Performance-Based Vesting of RPSRs. Subject to Sections 2 and 6 below, the RPSRs subject to the award shall vest and become nonforfeitable based on the performance methodology and goals established by the Committee for the Performance Period. At the conclusion of the Performance Period, the Committee shall determine whether and the extent to which the performance goals have been achieved. The percentage of target RPSRs subject to the award (if any) that have vested for the Performance Period (the “Earnout Percentage”) shall be determined by the Committee based on the methodology and goals as established by the Committee, and its determination of the Earnout Percentage shall be conclusive and binding. Any RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award that are not vested as of the conclusion of the Performance Period after giving effect to the Committee’s determinations under this Section 1.1 shall terminate and become null and void as of the last day of the Performance Period.
1.2.    Payment of RPSRs. The number of RPSRs payable at the conclusion of the Performance Period (“Vested RPSRs”) shall be determined by multiplying the Earnout Percentage by the target number of RPSRs subject to the award. The Vested RPSRs and any RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6 may be paid out in either an equivalent number of shares 

 
of Common Stock, or, in the discretion of the Committee, in cash or in a combination of shares of Common Stock and cash. In the event of a cash payment, the amount of payment for each Vested RPSR to be paid in cash will equal the Fair Market Value (as defined below) of a share of Common Stock as of the date the Committee determines the extent to which the applicable RPSR performance criteria have been achieved. Vested RPSRs will be paid within 60 days of the vesting date, but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the last day of the Performance Period.
1.3.    Dividend Equivalents. The Grantee shall be entitled to payment for Dividend Equivalents (if any) with respect to any Vested RPSRs and any RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6. For purposes of these Terms, “Dividend Equivalents” means the aggregate amount of dividends paid by the Company on a number of shares of Common Stock equivalent to the number of Vested RPSRs (or the number of RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6) during the period from the beginning of the Performance Period until the date the Vested RPSRs (or the RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6) are paid, without interest or other adjustments to reflect the time value of money. For these purposes, any Vested RPSRs or RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6 in excess of the target number of RPSRs subject to the award shall be considered to have been granted at the beginning of the Performance Period. Dividend Equivalents (if any) will be paid at the same time as the Vested RPSRs (or the RPSRs that vest and become payable pursuant to Section 2 or 6) to which they relate are paid. Dividend Equivalents will be paid in cash.

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	Early Termination of Award; Termination of Employment.

2.1General. The RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award shall terminate and become null and void prior to the conclusion of the Performance Period if and when (a) the award terminates in connection with a Change in Control pursuant to Section 6 below, or (b) except as provided below in this Section 2 and in Section 6, the Grantee ceases for any reason to be an employee of the Company or one of its subsidiaries.
2.2Termination of Employment Due to Retirement, Death or Disability. The number of RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award shall vest on a prorated basis as provided herein if the Grantee’s employment by the Company and its subsidiaries terminates due to the Grantee’s Early Retirement, death, or Disability and, in each case, only if the Grantee has completed at least six (6) consecutive calendar months of employment with the Company or a subsidiary during the three-year Performance Period. Such prorating of RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) shall be based on the number of calendar days the Grantee was actually employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries over the number of calendar days in the Performance Period (the number of prorated RPSRs, the “Prorated RPSRs”). If the Grantee ceases to be employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries due to the Grantee’s Normal Retirement and such Normal Retirement occurs more than six (6) months after the Grant Date, the RPSRs will vest as if the employee had remained an employee for the full Performance Period. Any RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award that do not vest in accordance with this Section 2.2 upon a termination of the Grantee’s employment due to Early Retirement or Normal Retirement (collectively “Retirement”), death or Disability shall terminate immediately upon such termination of employment.
Death or Disability. In the case of death or Disability (a) the Earnout Percentage of the Grantee’s Prorated RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) will be deemed to be 100% (target), regardless of actual performance, and (b) payment of the Prorated RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) that vest pursuant to this Section 2.2 will be made within 60 days of the Grantee’s death or Disability, but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the date of the death or Disability. 
Retirement in General. Subject to the following provisions of this Section 2.2, in the case of Retirement, the Earnout Percentage will be used to calculate the Grantee’s Vested RPSRs, and payment of the Vested RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) will be made in accordance with Section 1.2 above. 

 
In determining the Grantee’s eligibility for Retirement, service is measured by dividing (a) the number of days the Grantee was employed by the Company or a subsidiary in the period commencing with his or her last date of hire by the Company or a subsidiary through and including the date on which the Grantee is last employed by the Company or a subsidiary, by (b) 365. If the Grantee ceased to be employed by the Company or a subsidiary and was later rehired by the Company or a subsidiary, the Grantee’s service prior to the break in service shall be disregarded in determining service for such purposes; provided that, if the Grantee’s employment with the Company or a subsidiary had terminated due to the Grantee’s Retirement, or by the Company or a subsidiary as part of a reduction in force (in each case, other than a termination by the Company or a subsidiary for cause) and, within the two-year period following such termination of employment (the “break in service”) the Grantee was subsequently rehired by the Company or a subsidiary, then the Grantee’s period of service with the Company or a subsidiary prior to and ending with the break in service will be included in determining service for such purposes. In the event the Grantee is employed by a business that is acquired by the Company or a subsidiary, the Company shall have discretion to determine whether the Grantee’s service prior to the acquisition will be included in determining service for such purposes.
Retirement Due to Government Service. In the case of a Governmental Service Retirement by the Grantee (a) the Performance Period used to calculate the Grantee’s Vested RPSRs will be deemed to have ended as of the most recent date that performance has been measured by the Company with respect to the RPSRs prior to the Grantee’s Retirement (but in no event shall such date be more than one year before the Grantee’s Retirement), (b) the Earnout Percentage of the Grantee’s Prorated RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) will be determined based on actual performance for that short Performance Period, and (c) payment of the Prorated RPSRs that become Vested RPSRs (and Dividend Equivalents thereon) will be made within 10 days after Retirement. 
2.3Other Terminations of Employment. Subject to Section 6.2, all RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award shall terminate immediately upon a termination of the Grantee’s employment: (a) for any reason other than due to the Grantee’s Retirement, death or Disability; or (b) for Retirement, death or Disability, if the six-month employment requirement under Section 2.2 above is not satisfied.

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2.4Leave of Absence. Unless the Committee otherwise provides (at the time of the leave or otherwise), if the Grantee is granted a leave of absence by the Company, the Grantee (a) shall not be deemed to have incurred a termination of employment at the time such leave commences for purposes of the award, and (b) shall be deemed to be employed by the Company for the duration of such approved leave of absence for purposes of the award. A termination of employment shall be deemed to have occurred if the Grantee does not timely return to active employment upon the expiration of such approved leave or if the Grantee commences a leave that is not approved by the Company.
2.5Salary Continuation. Subject to Section 2.4 above, the term “employment” as used herein means active employment by the Company and salary continuation without active employment (other than a leave of absence approved by the Company that is covered by Section 2.4) will not, in and of itself, constitute “employment” for purposes hereof (in the case of salary continuation without active employment, the Grantee’s cessation of active employee status shall, subject to Section 2.4, be deemed to be a termination of “employment” for purposes hereof). Furthermore, salary continuation will not, in and of itself, constitute a leave of absence approved by the Company for purposes of the award.
2.6Sale or Spinoff of Subsidiary or Business Unit. For purposes of the RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award, a termination of employment of the Grantee shall be deemed to have occurred if the Grantee is employed by a subsidiary or business unit and that subsidiary or business unit is sold, spun off, or otherwise divested, the Grantee does not otherwise continue to be employed by the Company or one of its subsidiaries after such event, and the divested entity or business (or its successor or a parent company) does not assume the award in connection with such transaction. In the event of such a termination of employment, the termination shall be deemed to be a Retirement treated as provided for in Section 2.2 (subject to Section 6).
2.7Continuance of Employment Required. Except as expressly provided in Section 2.2, Section 2.4 and in Section 6, the vesting of the RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award requires continued employment through the last day of the Performance Period as a condition to the vesting of any portion of the award. Employment for only a portion of the Performance Period, even if a substantial portion, will not entitle the Grantee to any proportionate vesting or avoid or mitigate a termination of rights and benefits upon or following a termination of employment. Nothing contained in these Terms, the Grant Letter, the Stock Plan System, or the Plan constitutes an employment 

 
commitment by the Company or any subsidiary, affects the Grantee’s status (if the Grantee is otherwise an at-will employee) as an employee at will who is subject to termination without cause, confers upon the Grantee any right to continue in the employ of the Company or any subsidiary, or interferes in any way with the right of the Company or of any subsidiary to terminate such employment at any time.
2.8Death. In the event of the Grantee’s death subsequent to the vesting of RPSRs but prior to the delivery of shares or other payment with respect to such RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents), the Grantee’s Successor shall be entitled to any payments to which the Grantee would have been entitled under these Terms with respect to such RPSRs.
3.Non-Transferability and Other Restrictions.
3.1Non-Transferability. The award, as well as the RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award, are non-transferable and shall not be subject in any manner to sale, transfer, anticipation, alienation, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or charge. The foregoing transfer restrictions shall not apply to transfers to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may honor any transfer required pursuant to the terms of a court order in a divorce or similar domestic relations matter to the extent that such transfer does not adversely affect the Company’s ability to register the offer and sale of the underlying shares on a Form S-8 Registration Statement and such transfer is otherwise in compliance with all applicable legal, regulatory and listing requirements.
3.2Recoupment of Awards. Any payments or issuances of shares with respect to the award are subject to recoupment pursuant to the Company’s Policy Regarding the Recoupment of Certain Performance-Based Compensation Payments as in effect from time to time as well as any recoupment or similar provisions of applicable law, and the Grantee shall promptly make any reimbursement requested by the Board or Committee pursuant to such policy or applicable law with respect to the award. Further, the Grantee agrees, by accepting the award, that the Company and its affiliates may deduct from any amounts it may owe the Grantee from time to time (such as wages or other compensation) to the extent of any amounts the Grantee is required to reimburse the Company pursuant to such policy or applicable law with respect to the award.
4.Post-Employment Conduct.
4.1Corporate Policy Council Contribution. You acknowledge and agree that as a member of the Corporate Policy Council (“CPC”), you are involved in managing the global operations of the Company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Virginia. You are involved in the most sensitive and proprietary matters affecting the 

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Company, its subsidiaries, predecessors, and/or affiliates (collectively, “Northrop Grumman”), including from a technical, strategic and financial perspective, and are widely exposed to confidential, sensitive and proprietary information concerning Northrop Grumman’s global operations, at the headquarters and each of the operating sectors, including in the areas of manned and unmanned aircraft, space, C4ISR, cyber, sensors, electronics, through-life support and technical services. Your job responsibilities require that you have a primary office location in Virginia and/or you spend substantial time at the corporate headquarters in Virginia, among other things, attending CPC and other leadership meetings, and managing operations and employees in Virginia. You occupy one of the most senior executive positions in the Company and have far-reaching access to highly confidential, valuable and sensitive information, customer, vendor and employee relationships, intellectual property, strategic and tactical plans, and financial information and plans. The Company has a legitimate business interest in restricting your ability to compete in the specific manner set forth below. The Company has provided you this grant, subject to these Terms and as consideration for the restrictive covenants set forth in this section 4.
4.2Non-Competition. For a period of six (6) months from the date of the termination of Grantee’s employment for any reason other than a Reduction-in-Force as determined at the Company’s sole discretion (“Termination”), you will not, directly or indirectly, oversee, control, or participate in the design, operation, research, manufacture, marketing, sale, or distribution of “Competitive Products and Services”. For the purpose of this section, “Competitive Products and Services” shall mean products or services that compete with, or are an alternative or potential alternative to, the products sold or services provided by Northrop Grumman, including without limitation products and services in the areas of manned and unmanned aircraft, space, C4ISR, cyber, sensors, electronics, through-life support and technical services.
4.3Non-Solicitation of Customers. For a period of eighteen (18) months from your Termination, you shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit any customer, supplier, or teammate of Northrop Grumman with whom you came into contact, or about whom you received confidential information, while employed by Northrop Grumman, for purposes of providing products or services in competition with Northrop Grumman. In the case of a governmental, regulatory or administrative agency, commission, department or other governmental authority, the customer is determined by reference to the specific program offices or activities for which Northrop Grumman provides goods or services.

 
4.4Non-Solicitation of Employees. For a period of eighteen (18) months from your Termination, you shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or offer to hire, any person who was, within a period of six months prior to your Termination, employed by Northrop Grumman, with whom you worked or about whom you received confidential information while employed by Northrop Grumman.
4.5Non-Disparagement. You will not issue or communicate any statement, whether verbal or written, or take any other action that disparages or may be interpreted to disparage the Company, its products, services, officers, directors, or employees; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to any truthful statements made in connection with a formal legal process or government investigation. 
4.6Exceptions. You may request an exception to the covenants in this section by making a written request to the Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer, with such exceptions being considered at the sole discretion of the Company and communicated in writing to you.
4.7Reasonableness. You agree that the restrictions set forth in this section are (i) reasonable and necessary in all respects, including duration, territory and scope of activity, in order to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests, (ii) that the parties have attempted to limit your right to compete only to the extent necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests, and (iii) that you will be able to earn a livelihood without violating the restrictions in this section. It is the intent of the parties that the provisions of this section shall be enforced to the fullest extent permissible under applicable law. However, if any portion of this covenant is deemed unenforceable, the parties agree that a court or arbitrator may revise the portion deemed unenforceable to the maximum extent possible to achieve the objective of the parties, and the remainder of the covenant shall remain in full force and affect.
4.8Remedies. If you violate any provision in Section 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and/or 4.5 of this section, the Company shall have the right to terminate without payment to you any unvested and/or unpaid RPSRs (and associated Dividend Equivalents) and require that you immediately deliver to the Company an amount in cash equal to the aggregate Fair Market Value, determined as of the vesting and/or payment date of all RPSRs already received, including any Dividend Equivalents, within one year prior to the breach. Further, you acknowledge and agree that a breach of any of the provisions of this section will result in immediate, irreparable, and continuing damage to the Company for which there is no adequate remedy at law, and the Company will be entitled to injunctive relief, a decree of specific performance, and other relief as may be proper, including monetary damages, to the maximum extent available.

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	5.
	Compliance with Laws; No Stockholder Rights Prior to Issuance.

The Company’s obligation to make any payments or issue any shares with respect to the award is subject to full compliance with all then applicable requirements of law, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over the Company and its shares, and of any exchange upon which stock of the Company may be listed. The Grantee shall not have the rights and privileges of a stockholder, including without limitation the right to vote or receive dividends (except as expressly provided in these Terms with respect to Dividend Equivalents), with respect to any shares which may be issued in respect of the RPSRs until the date appearing on the certificate(s) for such shares (or, in the case of shares entered in book entry form, the date that the shares are actually recorded in such form for the benefit of the Grantee), if such shares become deliverable.
6.Adjustments; Change in Control.
6.1Adjustments. The RPSRs and the shares subject to the award are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of events such as stock splits, stock dividends and other changes in capitalization in accordance with Section 6(a) of the Plan. In addition, for RPSRs that do not use a relative total shareholder return metric as the applicable performance criterion, the applicable performance criteria and goals are subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 8 of the Plan. Any such adjustment or determination not to make any adjustment shall be conclusive and binding.
6.2Possible Acceleration on Change in Control. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2 hereof, and further subject to the Company’s ability to terminate the award as provided in Section 6.3 below, the Grantee shall be entitled to vesting of the award as provided below in the event of the Grantee’s termination of employment if at the time of the termination, the termination occurs either within the Protected Period corresponding to a Change in Control of the Company or within twenty-four (24) calendar months following the date of a Change in Control of the Company, and the Grantee’s employment by the Company and its subsidiaries is involuntarily terminated by the Company and its subsidiaries for reasons other than Cause or by the Grantee for Good Reason.
Notwithstanding anything else contained herein to the contrary, the termination of the Grantee’s employment (or other events giving rise to Good Reason) shall not entitle the Grantee to any accelerated vesting pursuant to this Section 6.2 if there is objective evidence that, as of the commencement of the Protected Period, the Grantee had specifically been identified by the Company as an employee whose employment would be terminated as part 

 
of a corporate restructuring or downsizing program that commenced prior to the Protected Period and such termination of employment was expected at that time to occur within six (6) months.
In the event the Grantee is entitled to payment in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.2, then the Grantee will be eligible for payment of a number of RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) determined in accordance with the following formula: (a) the Earnout Percentage determined in accordance with Section 1 but calculated based on performance for the portion of the three-year Performance Period ending on the last day of the month coinciding with or immediately preceding the date of the termination of the Grantee’s employment, multiplied by (b) the target number of RPSRs subject to the award. Payment of any amount due under this Section 6.2 will be made within 60 days of the date of the termination of Grantee’s employment, but in no event later than March 15th of the year following the Grantee’s termination of employment.
6.3Automatic Acceleration; Early Termination. If the Company undergoes a Change in Control triggered by clause (iii) or (iv) of the definition thereof and the Company is not the surviving entity and the successor to the Company (if any) (or a Parent thereof) does not agree in writing prior to the occurrence of the Change in Control to continue and assume the award following the Change in Control, or if for any other reason the award would not continue after the Change in Control, then upon the Change in Control the Grantee shall be entitled to a payment of the RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) as provided below and the award shall terminate. Unless the Committee expressly provides otherwise in the circumstances, no acceleration of vesting of the award shall occur pursuant to this Section 6.3 in connection with a Change in Control if either (a) the Company is the surviving entity, or (b) the successor to the Company (if any) (or a Parent thereof) agrees in writing prior to the Change in Control to assume the award. The Committee may make adjustments pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Plan and/or deem an acceleration of vesting of the award pursuant to this Section 6.3 to occur sufficiently prior to an event if necessary or deemed appropriate to permit the Grantee to realize the benefits intended to be conveyed with respect to the shares underlying the award; provided, however, that, the Committee may reinstate the original terms of the award if the related event does not actually occur.
In the event the Grantee is entitled to a payment in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.3, then the Grantee will be eligible for payment of a number of RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) determined in accordance with the following formula: (a) the Earnout Percentage determined in accordance with Section 1 but calculated based on performance for the 

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portion of the three-year Performance Period ending on the date of the Change in Control of the Company, multiplied by (b) the target number of RPSRs subject to the award. Payment of any amount due under this Section 6.3 will be made within 60 days of the Change of Control, but in no event later than March 15 of the year following the Change in Control. In the event the Grantee is employed by the Company or a subsidiary immediately prior to the Change in Control and is entitled to payment in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.3, then this Section 6.3 shall control as to the amount and timing of the payment of the award notwithstanding anything in Section 2.2 or 6.2 to the contrary. In the event of the Grantee’s Retirement pursuant to Section 2.2 prior to a Change in Control described in the first paragraph of this Section 6.3 in which the award is to be terminated, the Earnout Percentage shall no longer be based on the portion of the Performance Period otherwise considered for purposes of Section 2.2 but shall instead be calculated based on performance for the portion of the three-year Performance Period ending on the date of the Change in Control of the Company.
		
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	Tax Matters.

7.1 Tax Withholding. The Company or the subsidiary which employs the Grantee shall be entitled to require, as a condition of making any payments or issuing any shares upon vesting of the RPSRs and related Dividend Equivalents, that the Grantee or other person entitled to such shares or other payment pay the minimum sums required to be withheld by federal, state, local or other applicable tax law with respect to such vesting or payment. Alternatively, the Company or such subsidiary, in its discretion, may make such provisions for the withholding of taxes as it deems appropriate (including, without limitation, withholding the taxes due from compensation otherwise payable to the Grantee or reducing the number of shares otherwise deliverable with respect to the award (valued at their then Fair Market Value) by the amount necessary to satisfy such statutory minimum withholding obligations).
7.2Transfer Taxes. The Company will pay all federal and state transfer taxes, if any, and other fees and expenses in connection with the issuance of shares in connection with the vesting of the RPSRs.
7.3Compliance. These Terms are designed to be exempt from Code Section 409A, and the Committee shall administer and construe the award, and may amend the Terms of the award, in such a way as to be exempt from and to avoid adverse tax consequences under Code Section 409A.
7.4Unfunded Arrangement. The right of the Grantee to receive payment under the award shall be an unsecured contractual claim against the Company. As 

 
such, neither the Grantee nor any Successor shall have any rights in or against any specific assets of the Company based on the award. Awards shall at all times be considered entirely unfunded for tax purposes.
7.5Code Section 280G. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that any amounts payable to you as a result of Section 6.2 or 6.3 hereof, either alone or together with amounts payable pursuant to any other plan, program or arrangement (a) constitute “parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code, and (b) but for this Section 7.5 would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code or any comparable successor provisions (the “Excise Tax”), then the vesting acceleration provided in Section 6.2 or 6.3, as applicable, shall be either (a) provided to you in full, or (b) provided to you to such lesser extent that would result in no portion of the payments so accelerated being subject to the Excise Tax, whichever of the foregoing amounts, when taking into account applicable federal, state, local and foreign income and employment taxes, the Excise Tax, and any other applicable taxes, results in the receipt by you, on an after-tax basis, of the greatest amount of benefits, notwithstanding that all or some portion of such benefits may be subject to the Excise Tax. All determinations required to be made under this Section 7.5 shall be made by a registered public accounting firm selected by the Company, which shall provide supporting calculations both to the Company and you no later than the date of the applicable Change in Control. In the event that the Payments are to be reduced pursuant to this Section 7.5, such Payments shall be reduced such that the reduction of compensation to be provided to the Executive as a result of this Section 7.5 is minimized. In applying this principle, the reduction shall be made in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A and where two economically equivalent amounts are subject to reduction but payable at different times, such amounts shall be reduced on a pro rata basis but not below zero. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the terms and conditions of all prior grants are hereby modified to add this Section 7.5. 
8.Choice of Law; Venue; Arbitration. 
This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware. Any cause of action or claim arising out of or related to the terms and conditions applicable to this grant will be determined through final and binding arbitration, in accordance with Northrop Grumman Corporate Procedure H103A, provided that the prevailing party in the arbitration shall be entitled to receive from the losing party reasonably incurred attorneys’ fees and costs. You and the Company agree that any arbitration hearing and related proceedings shall be convened and conducted in Falls Church, VA. If you or the Company believes they require immediate relief to enforce or challenge these 

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terms, before arbitration is commenced or concluded, either party may seek injunctive or other provisional equitable relief from a state or federal court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. All court actions or proceedings arising under these terms shall be heard in a state or federal court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Company and you hereby agree to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia and waive any right to object to such actions on grounds of venue, jurisdiction or convenience.
		
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	Committee Authority.

The Committee has the discretionary authority to determine any questions as to the date when the Grantee’s employment terminated and the cause of such termination and to interpret any provision of these Terms, the Grant Letter, the Stock Plan System, the Plan, and any other applicable rules. Any action taken by, or inaction of, the Committee relating to or pursuant to these Terms, the Grant Letter, the Stock Plan System, the Plan, or any other applicable rules shall be within the absolute discretion of the Committee and shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.
		
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	Plan; Amendment.

The RPSRs (and related Dividend Equivalents) subject to the award are governed by, and the Grantee’s rights are subject to, all of the terms and conditions of the Plan and any other rules adopted by the Committee, as the foregoing may be amended from time to time. The Grantee shall have no rights with respect to any amendment of these Terms or the Plan unless such amendment is in writing and signed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of the Grant Letter and/or the Stock Plan System and the provisions of these Terms and/or the Plan, the provisions of these Terms and/or the Plan, as applicable, shall control.
		
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	Required Holding Period.

The holding requirements of this Section 11 shall apply to any Grantee who is an elected or appointed officer of the Company on the date any RPSRs are paid (or, if earlier, on the date the Grantee’s employment by the Company and its subsidiaries terminates for any reason). Any Grantee subject to this Section 11 shall not be permitted to sell, transfer, anticipate, alienate, assign, pledge, encumber or charge 50% of the total number (if any) of shares of Common Stock the Grantee receives as payment for the RPSRs until the earlier of (A) the third anniversary of the date such shares of Common Stock are paid to the Grantee, (B) the date the Grantee’s employment by the Company and its subsidiaries terminates due to the Grantee’s death or Disability, (C) the occurrence of a Change in Control that results in termination and payment under Section 6.2 or 6.3 above, 

 
or (D) with respected to Grantee’s entering a federal government position only, the latest of (i) the date the Grantee’s employment with the Company terminates, or (ii) the date the Grantee formally accepts the government position in writing, or (iii) the date the government confirms the Grantee (for positions requiring nomination and confirmation). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the terms and conditions of all prior 2011-2014 grants are hereby modified to add the foregoing subpart (D) of this section 11 to the Required Holding Period Section of those grant terms and conditions. Should the Grantee’s employment by the Company and its subsidiaries terminate (regardless of the reason for such termination, but other than due to the Grantee’s death or Disability or a Change in Control related termination under Section 6.2), such holding period requirement shall not apply as to any shares acquired upon payment of RPSRs to the extent such payment is made more than one year after such termination of employment. (For purposes of clarity, in such circumstances the holding period requirement will apply as to any shares acquired upon payment of RPSRs within one year after such a termination of employment.) For purposes of this Section 11, the total number of shares of Common Stock the Grantee receives as payment for RPSRs shall be determined on a net basis after taking into account any shares otherwise deliverable with respect to the award that the Company withholds to satisfy tax obligations pursuant to Section 7.1. Any shares of Common Stock received in respect of shares that are covered by the holding period requirements of this Section 11 (such as shares received in respect of a stock split or stock dividend) shall be subject to the same holding period requirements as the shares to which they relate.
		
	12.
	Definitions.

Whenever used in these Terms, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below and, when the meaning is intended, the initial letter of the word is capitalized:
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
“Cause” means the occurrence of either or both of the following:
		
	(i)
	The Grantee’s conviction for committing an act of fraud, embezzlement, theft, or other act constituting a felony (other than traffic related offenses, as a result of vicarious liability, or as a result of good faith actions as an officer of the Company); or

		
	(ii)
	The willful engaging by the Grantee in misconduct that is significantly injurious to the Company. However, no act, or failure to act, on the Grantee’s part shall be considered “willful” unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Grantee 

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not in good faith and without reasonable belief that his or her action or omission was in the best interest of the Company.
“Change in Control” is used as defined in the Plan.
“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Committee” means the Company’s Compensation Committee or any successor committee appointed by the Board to administer the Plan.
“Common Stock” means the Company’s common stock.
“Disability” means, with respect to a Grantee, that the Grantee: (i) is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months; or (ii) is, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less than three months under an accident and health plan covering employees of the Grantee’s employer.
“Early Retirement” means that the Grantee’s employment terminates in any of the following circumstances, and other than a termination of employment that constitutes a Normal Retirement or occurs in connection with a termination by the Company or a subsidiary for cause:
(i)     a termination of employment after the Grantee has attained age 55 with at least 10 years of service.
(ii)    a termination of employment by the Company or a subsidiary as part of a reduction in force and, at the time of such termination, the Grantee has attained age 53 with at least 10 years of service.
(iii)    a termination of employment by the Company or a subsidiary as part of a reduction in force and, at the time of such termination, the sum of the Grantee’s age and years of service is at least 75.
“Fair Market Value” is used as defined in the Plan; provided, however, the Committee in determining such Fair Market Value for purposes of the award may utilize such other exchange, market, or listing as it deems appropriate.
“Good Reason” means, without the Grantee’s express written consent, the occurrence of any one or more of the following:
		
	(i)
	A material and substantial reduction in the nature or status of the Grantee’s authorities or 

 
responsibilities (when such authorities and/or responsibilities are viewed in the aggregate) from their level in effect on the day immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period, other than (A) an inadvertent act that is remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by the Grantee, and/or (B) changes in the nature or status of the Grantee’s authorities or responsibilities that, in the aggregate, would generally be viewed by a nationally-recognized executive placement firm as resulting in the Grantee having not materially and substantially fewer authorities and responsibilities (taking into consideration the Company’s industry) when compared to the authorities and responsibilities applicable to the position held by the Grantee immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period. The Company may retain a nationally-recognized executive placement firm for purposes of making the determination required by the preceding sentence and the written opinion of the firm thus selected shall be conclusive as to this issue.
In addition, if the Grantee is a vice president, the Grantee’s loss of vice-president status will constitute “Good Reason”; provided that the loss of the title of “vice president” will not, in and of itself, constitute Good Reason if the Grantee’s lack of a vice president title is generally consistent with the manner in which the title of vice president is used within the Grantee’s business unit or if the loss of the title is the result of a promotion to a higher level office. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the Grantee’s lack of a vice-president title will only be considered generally consistent with the manner in which such title is used if most persons in the business unit with authorities, duties, and responsibilities comparable to those of the Grantee immediately prior to the commencement of the Protected Period do not have the title of vice-president.
		
	(ii)
	A material reduction by the Company in the Grantee’s annualized rate of base salary as in effect on the first to occur of the start of the Performance Period or the start of the Protected Period, or as the same shall be increased from time to time.

		
	(iii)
	A material reduction in the aggregate value of the Grantee’s level of participation in any of the Company’s short and/or long-term incentive compensation plans (excluding stock-based incentive compensation plans), employee benefit or retirement plans, or policies, practices, or arrangements in which the Grantee participates 

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immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period provided; however, that a reduction in the aggregate value shall not be deemed to be “Good Reason” if the reduced value remains substantially consistent with the average level of other employees who have positions commensurate with the position held by the Grantee immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period.
		
	(iv)
	A material reduction in the Grantee’s aggregate level of participation in the Company’s stock-based incentive compensation plans from the level in effect immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period; provided, however, that a reduction in the aggregate level of participation shall not be deemed to be “Good Reason” if the reduced level of participation remains substantially consistent with the average level of participation of other employees who have positions commensurate with the position held by the Grantee immediately prior to the start of the Protected Period. 

		
	(v)
	The Grantee is informed by the Company that his or her principal place of employment for the Company will be relocated to a location that is greater than fifty (50) miles away from the Grantee’s principal place of employment for the Company at the start of the corresponding Protected Period; provided that, if the Company communicates an intended effective date for such relocation, in no event shall Good Reason exist pursuant to this clause (v) more than ninety (90) days before such intended effective date.

The Grantee’s right to terminate employment for Good Reason shall not be affected by the Grantee’s incapacity due to physical or mental illness. The Grantee’s continued employment shall not constitute a consent to, or a waiver of rights with respect to, any circumstances constituting Good Reason herein.
“Governmental Service Retirement” means a Retirement by the Grantee where the Grantee accepts a position in the federal government or a state or local government and an accelerated distribution under the award is permitted under Code Section 409A based on such government employment and related ethics rules.
“Normal Retirement” means that the Grantee terminates employment after attaining age 65 with at least 10 years of service (other than in connection with a termination by the Company or a subsidiary for cause). In the case of a Grantee who is an officer of the Company subject to the Company’s mandatory retirement at age 65 policy and who, at the applicable time, is not otherwise eligible for Normal Retirement as defined in the preceding sentence, “Normal Retirement” as to that 

 
Grantee means that the Grantee’s employment is terminated pursuant to such mandatory retirement policy (regardless of the Grantee’s years of service and other than in connection with a termination by the Company or a subsidiary for cause).
“Parent” is used as defined in the Plan.
“Plan” means the Northrop Grumman 2011 Long-Term Incentive Stock Plan, as it may be amended form time to time.
The “Protected Period” corresponding to a Change in Control of the Company shall be a period of time determined in accordance with the following:
		
	(i)
	If the Change in Control is triggered by a tender offer for shares of the Company’s stock or by the offeror’s acquisition of shares pursuant to such a tender offer, the Protected Period shall commence on the date of the initial tender offer and shall continue through and including the date of the Change in Control; provided that in no case will the Protected Period commence earlier than the date that is six (6) months prior to the Change in Control.

		
	(ii)
	If the Change in Control is triggered by a merger, consolidation, or reorganization of the Company with or involving any other corporation, the Protected Period shall commence on the date that serious and substantial discussions first take place to effect the merger, consolidation, or reorganization and shall continue through and including the date of the Change in Control; provided that in no case will the Protected Period commence earlier than the date that is six (6) months prior to the Change in Control.

		
	(iii)
	In the case of any Change in Control not described in clause (i) or (ii) above, the Protected Period shall commence on the date that is six (6) months prior to the Change in Control and shall continue through and include the date of the Change in Control.

 “Successor” means the person acquiring a Grantee’s rights to a grant under the Plan by will or by the laws of descent or distribution.

9EX-10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 

Private and Confidential 
 DATED 27th June 2014 
 ASTRA MARITIME CORPORATION 

EMERY SHIPPING CORPORATION 

and 
 SERENITY SHIPPING
ENTERPRISES INC. 
 as Borrowers 

DVB BANK SE 

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK 

and 
 NORDDEUTSCHE
LANDESBANK 
 GIROZENTRALE 

as Lenders 
 and 

DVB BANK SE 
 as
Arranger, Agent and Security Trustee 
  

 
 FACILITY
AGREEMENT FOR A USD 65,538,438 
 TERM LOAN FACILITY 

IN THREE TRANCHES 
  

 

INCE & CO 

PIRAEUS 

 Index 
  

							
	Clause	  	Page	 
			
	 1
	  	 Purpose, definitions, construction & Majority Lenders
	  	 	1	  
			
	 2
	  	 The Available Commitment and cancellation
	  	 	22	  
			
	 3
	  	 Interest and Interest Periods
	  	 	24	  
			
	 4
	  	 Repayment and prepayment
	  	 	27	  
			
	 5
	  	 fees and expenses
	  	 	31	  
			
	 6
	  	 Payments and taxes; accounts and calculations
	  	 	33	  
			
	 7
	  	 Representations and warranties
	  	 	39	  
			
	 8
	  	 Undertakings
	  	 	46	  
			
	 9
	  	 Conditions
	  	 	60	  
			
	 10
	  	 Events of Default
	  	 	61	  
			
	 11
	  	 Indemnities
	  	 	67	  
			
	 12
	  	 Unlawfulness and increased costs
	  	 	68	  
			
	 13
	  	 Application of Moneys, set off, pro-rata payments and Miscellaneous
	  	 	70	  
			
	 14
	  	 Accounts
	  	 	75	  
			
	 15
	  	 Assignment, transfer and lending office
	  	 	77	  
			
	 16
	  	 Arranger, Agent and Security Trustee
	  	 	82	  
			
	 17
	  	 Notices and other matters
	  	 	97	  
			
	 18
	  	 Borrowers’ obligations
	  	 	99	  
			
	 19
	  	 Governing law
	  	 	102	  
			
	 20
	  	 Jurisdiction
	  	 	102	  
		
	 Schedule 1 The Lenders and their Commitments
	  			
		
	 Schedule 2 Form of Drawdown Notice
	  			
		
	 Schedule 3 Conditions precedent
	  			
		
	 Schedule 4 Form transfer certificate
	  			
		
	 Schedule 5 Form of Trust Deed
	  			

							
	 Schedule 6 Form of Compliance Certificate
	  			
		
	 Schedule 7 Vessel details
	  			
		
	 Schedule 8 Form of Loan Administration Form
	  			
		
	 Schedule 9 Indenture Excerpt
	  			
		
	 Schedule 10 Indenture Definitions
	  			
		
	 Execution Page
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 THIS AGREEMENT dated 27th June 2014 is made
BY and BETWEEN: 
  

	(1)	ASTRA MARITIME CORPORATION, EMERY SHIPPING CORPORATION and SERENITY SHIPPING ENTERPRISES INC. as Borrowers; 

  

	(2)	DVB BANK SE, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK and NORDDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE as Lenders; and 

 

	(3)	DVB BANK SE as Arranger, Agent 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,
Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale agree to make available to the Borrowers a loan of up to sixty five million five hundred and thirty eight thousand four hundred and thirty eight Dollars
(USD65,538,438) in three Tranches of: 
  

	 	(a)	twenty two million seven hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred Dollars (USD22,737,500), for the purpose of re-financing certain existing indebtedness secured on Vessel A, owned by Serenity; 

 

	 	(b)	twelve million eight hundred thousand nine hundred and thirty eight Dollars (USD12,800,938) for the purpose of re-financing certain existing indebtedness secured on Vessel B owned by Astra; and 

 

	 	(c)	the lesser of (i) thirty million Dollars (USD30,000,000) and (ii) 55% of the Valuation Amount of Vessel C, for the purposes of re-financing the purchase price of Vessel C owned by Emery. 

 

	1.2	Definitions 

 In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: 

“Agent” means DVB Bank SE acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its branch at Platz der Republik 6, D- 60325 Frankfurt Am-Main, Germany (or of such other address as may last have been notified to the other parties to this Agreement) or such other person as may be appointed as agent by the Banks pursuant to
clause 16.13; 

  
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 “Approved Broker” means each of Fearnleys A.S., Clarkson Valuations Limited,
Simpson Spence & Young Shipbrokers Ltd., Maritime Strategies International Ltd. and RS Platou 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 Borrowers; 
 “Arranger” means DVB Bank SE acting through its branch at Platz der Republik
6, 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 Borrowers, 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 London, Frankfurt, Hannover, Piraeus, Athens 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; 
 “Borrowed Money” means Indebtedness in respect of (i) money borrowed or raised and debit
balances at banks, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture or similar debt instrument, (iii) acceptance or documentary credit facilities, (iv) receivables sold or discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis),
(v) deferred payments for assets or services acquired, (vi) finance leases and hire purchase contracts, (vii) swaps, forward exchange contracts, futures and other derivatives, (viii) any other transaction (including without
limitation forward sale or purchase agreements) having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money or of any of (ii) to (vii) above and (ix) guarantees in respect of Indebtedness of any person falling within any of
(i) to (viii) above; 

  
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 “Borrower” means each of Astra Maritime Corporation (“Astra”),
Emery Shipping Corporation (“Emery”) and Serenity Shipping Enterprises Inc. (“Serenity”) each having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands
and in the plural means all of them; 
 “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 Borrowers failing or being incapable of drawing a Tranche after the Drawdown Notice has been given; 

“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 Extended Employment Contract required to be executed hereunder by the
relevant 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; 

“Classification” means, in relation to each Vessel, the highest class available for a vessel of her type with the relevant
Classification Society; 
 “Classification Society” means, in relation to each Vessel, any International Association of
Classification Societies classification society which the Lenders shall, at the request of the Borrowers, have agreed in writing shall be treated as the classification society in relation to such Vessel for the purposes of the relevant Ship Security
Documents; 
 “Code” means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations promulgated and rulings
issued thereunder; 

  
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 “Commitment” means, in relation to the Loan in relation to each Lender, the sum
set out opposite its name in Schedule 1 or any replacement thereof, or otherwise 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 Borrowers
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 Corporate Guarantor; 
 “Compulsory Acquisition” means, in respect of a 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) ninety (90) days or, (ii) if relevant underwriters confirm in writing (in customary terms) prior to the end of such ninety (90) day period that such capture, seizure, detention or confiscation will be covered by the relevant
Owner’s war risks insurance the shorter of twelve (12) months and such period for 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; 
 “Corporate Guarantee” means the guarantee required to be executed hereunder by the Corporate Guarantor in
such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion; 
 “Corporate Guarantor” means Navios
Maritime Holdings 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; 

“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); 

  
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 “Drawdown Date” means any date being a Banking Day falling during the Drawdown
Period on which the Tranches are, or are to be, made available; 
 “Drawdown Notice” means a notice substantially in the
form of Schedule 2; 
 “Drawdown Period” means the period commencing on the Execution Date and ending on the earlier of
(a) 30 August 2014 (or such later date as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Lenders, agree with the Borrowers) and (b) any date on which (i) the amount of the Loan is equal to the Total Commitment or (ii) the
Total Commitment is reduced to zero pursuant to clauses 10.2 or 12; 
 “Earnings Account” means, in respect of each
Borrower, an interest bearing USD Account required to be opened hereunder with an Earnings Account Bank in the name of that Borrower designated “[NAME OF BORROWER] - Earnings Account” and includes any other account designated in writing by
the Agent to be an Earnings Account for the purposes of this Agreement; 
 “Earnings Account Bank” means, in respect of the
Earnings Account opened by Emery, DVB Bank SE, and in respect of the Earnings Accounts opened by Astra and serenity, Crédit Agricole Corporate And Investment Bank, or in each case such other bank as may be designated by the Agent as the
Earnings Account Bank for the purposes of this Agreement and which is of a rating acceptable to the Lenders, in their sole discretion; 

“Earnings Account Pledge” means, in respect of each Earnings Account, a first priority charge required to be executed
hereunder between the relevant Borrower and the Security Trustee in respect of its Earnings Account in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion, and in the plural means all of them; 

“EIAPP Certificate” means the Engine International Air Pollution Prevention Certificate issued or to be issued pursuant to
Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, MARPOL 73/78 (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) in relation to a Vessel; 

  
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 “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 any Borrower, the Manager, or any other Group Member or any other
person having a contractual relationship with any 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 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; 
 “Environmental Incident” means, regardless of cause, (i) any 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
reasonably likely 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 or contingently at fault or allegedly and reasonably likely to be found at fault or
otherwise howsoever liable to any administrative or legal action; 

  
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 “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; 

“Existing Mortgagee” means DVB Bank SE of Frankfurt, Germany; 

“Extended Employment Contract” means, in respect of a 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 exceeding 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; 

“FATCA” means: 
  

	 	(a)	sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance; 

  

	 	(b)	any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the
implementation of paragraph (a) above; or 

  

	 	(c)	any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.

  
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 “FATCA Application Date” means: 

 

	 	(a)	in relation to a “withholdable payment” described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014;

  

	 	(b)	in relation to a “withholdable payment” described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to “gross proceeds” from the disposition of property of a type that can produce interest from
sources within the US), 1 January 2017; or 

  

	 	(c)	in relation to a “passthru payment” described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above, 1 January 2017, 

or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any
change in FATCA after the date of this Agreement. 
 “FATCA Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under
a Security Document required by or under FATCA; 
 “FATCA Exempt Party” means a party to a Security Document that is
entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction; 
 “FATCA Protected Lender” means any Lender irrevocably
designated as a FATCA Protected Lender by the Borrowers by notice to that Lender and the Agent at least six months prior to the earliest FATCA Application Date for a payment by a Party to that Lender (or to the Agent for the account of that Lender);

 “First Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of 28 January 2011 for USD 350,000,000 issued by the Corporate
Guarantor and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. for 8 1/8% Senior Notes due on 15 February 2019; 
 “Flag State”
means Malta, Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands or any other country acceptable to the Lenders; 
 “General Assignment”
means, in respect of each 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 and in the plural means all of them; 

  
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 “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 at any relevant time the Corporate Guarantor and its subsidiaries but not including any subsidiary which is
listed on any public stock exchange; 
 “Group Member” means any member of the Group; 

“IAPP Certificate” means the International Air Pollution Prevention Certificate issued or to be issued pursuant to Annex VI of
the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, MARPOL 73/78 (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) in relation to a Vessel; 

“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; 
 “Indentures” means, together, the First
Indenture and the Secured Indenture; 
 “Indenture Excerpt” means the excerpt from the First Indenture set out in Schedule
9; 
 “Interest Payment Date” means, in relation to each Tranche, the last day of an Interest Period and, if an Interest
Period is longer than 3 months, the date falling at the end of each successive period of 3 months during such Interest Period starting from its commencement; 

“Interest Period” means each period for the calculation of interest in respect of the Loan or, as the case may be, Tranche
ascertained in accordance with the provisions of clause 3; 
 “ISM Code Documentation” means, in relation to a 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 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;

  
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 “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 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 listed in Schedule 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 London Interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any
other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for USD for the relevant period on the relevant Quotation Day displayed on page LIBOR01 of the Reuters screen (or any replacement Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the
appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Reuters; 

“Liquidity” means the aggregate of all cash deposits legally and beneficially owned by any Group Member which: 

 

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

 

	 	(b)	are 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; 

  
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 “Loan Administration Form” means a letter substantially in the form set out in
Schedule 8 signed by the Borrowers; 
 “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 USD 65,538,438; 
 “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: 
  

	 	(a)	in respect of Vessel A: 

 (i) the agreement dated 21 March 2012 made between Serenity and
Navios Shipmanagement; and 
 (ii) the agreement dated 9 July 2013 made between Serenity and Kleimar; 

 

	 	(b)	in respect of Vessel B: 

 (i) the agreement dated 17 February 2011 made between Astra and
Navios Shipmanagement; and 
 (ii) the agreement dated 9 July 2013 made between Astra and Navios Corporation; and 

 

	 	(c)	in respect of Vessel C the agreement dated 4 June 2014 made between Emery and Navios Shipmanagement 

each in a form previously approved in writing by the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and in the plural means all of
them; 
 “Manager” means: 
  

	 	(i)	in respect of Vessel A, each of Navios Shipmanagement Inc. (“Navios Shipmanagement”) and Kleimar Ltd., (“Kleimar”) as co-managers, each a corporation incorporated in the Marshall
Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960; 

  

	 	(ii)	in respect of Vessel B, each of Navios Shipmanagement and Navios Corporation, a corporation incorporated in the Marshall Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island,
Majuro, Marshall Islands, MH96960 as co-managers; and 

  

	 	(iii)	in respect of Vessel C, Navios Shipmanagement as manager; 

  
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 or (without the need for the Agent’s consent) any Group Member or (with the prior written
consent of the Agent) any other person appointed by an Owner, as the commercial and/or technical manager of the relevant Mortgaged Vessel and, in the plural, means all of them; 

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

“Margin” means: 
  

	 	(a)	in respect of Tranche A, 2.85% per annum; 

  

	 	(b)	in respect of Tranche B, 3.6% per annum; and 

  

	 	(c)	in respect of Tranche C, 2.75% per annum; 

 “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 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 Security Party;

 “Maturity Date” means in respect of each Tranche, the date falling 6 years after the Drawdown Date in respect thereof;

 “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; 

  
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 “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; 

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

“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; 

“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 relation
to: 
  

	 	(iv)	Vessel A, Serenity; 

  

	 	(v)	Vessel B, Astra; and 

  

	 	(vi)	Vessel C, Emery 

 and in the plural means all of them; 

  
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 “Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance in favour of the Banks or any of
them created pursuant to, or expressly permitted by, the Security Documents and Permitted Liens; 
 “Permitted Liens” means
any lien on any 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 Vessel); 

“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; 

“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); 
 “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 

  

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

  
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 “Quotation Day” means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is
to be determined, two (2) Banking Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the London interbank market, in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice in the
London interbank market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the London interbank market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days); 

“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 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, in respect of each
Tranche, subject to clause 6.3, each of the following dates and each of the dates falling at quarterly intervals thereafter: 
  

	 	(i)	in respect of Tranche A, 26 September 2014; 

  

	 	(ii)	in respect of Tranche B, 28 July 2014; and 

  

	 	(iii)	in respect of Tranche C, the date falling 3 months after the Drawdown Date, 

 up to and
including, in each case, the date falling 66 months thereafter in respect of Tranche A and 69 months thereafter in respect of Tranche B and Tranche C; 

“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 Borrowers lawfully to borrow the loan or draw a Tranche 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; 

  
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 “Required Security Amount” means the amount in USD (as certified by the Agent)
which is at any relevant time (i) up to the date falling one year after the Execution Date, 111% of the Loan, (ii) between the second and the third anniversaries of the Execution Date, 117% of the Loan and (iii) thereafter, 125% of
the Loan; 
 “Secured Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of 29 November 2013 for USD 650,000,000 issued by the
Corporate Guarantor and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. for 7.375% First Priority Ship Mortgage Notes due in 2022; 
 “Security
Documents” means this Agreement, the Mortgages, the Corporate Guarantee, the General Assignments, the Charter Assignments, the Insurance Assignments, the Shares Pledges, the Earnings Account Pledges, the Manager’s Undertakings 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
Borrowers 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); 

“Security Party” means the Borrowers, the Corporate Guarantor, the Shareholder, the Managers 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 acting
for the purposes of this Agreement through its branch at Platz der Republik 6, 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 by the Lenders, the Arranger 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 for the time being actually provided to the Lenders pursuant
to clause 8.2.1(b) and (c) cash over which there is an Encumbrance as security for the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement; 

“Shareholder” means (i) in respect of Astra and Serenity, Anemos Maritime Holdings Inc., a company incorporated in the
Marshall Islands and (ii) in respect of Emery, Navios Asia LLC, a limited liability company formed in the Marshall Islands and each having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands,
MH96960; 

  
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 “Shares Pledge” means the first priority pledge of the shares of and in each
Borrower to be executed by the Shareholder which is the holder of the shares in that Borrower, in favour of the Security Trustee 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 Vessel, the relevant Mortgage, the relevant General
Assignment, any relevant Charter Assignment and the relevant Manager’s Undertakings; 
 “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, 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); 
 “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 which is in effect as at the Execution Date provided that cash shall be deducted from Total Assets and Total Liabilities; 

“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 and means (i) USD 22,737,500 in respect of Tranche A, (ii) USD 12,800,938 in respect of Tranche B and the lesser of (i) USD 30,000,000 and (ii) 55% of the Valuation
Amount of Vessel C (to be determined no more than 60 days before the Drawdown Date) in respect of Tranche C; 

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

 

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

  

	 	(b)	Compulsory Acquisition; or 

  

	 	(c)	any hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of such 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 Vessel be released and restored to the relevant Owner within ninety (90) days after such incident; 

“Tranche” means any of Tranche A, Tranche B or Tranche C and in the plural means all of them; 

“Tranche A” means the amount of USD 22,737,500 to be made available by the Lenders to the Borrowers to be applied in or
towards refinancing certain existing Indebtedness secured on Vessel A or, as the context requires, the amount thereof outstanding from time to time; 

“Tranche B” means the amount of up to USD 12,800,938 to be made available by the Lenders to the Borrowers to be applied in or
towards refinancing certain existing Indebtedness secured on Vessel B or, as the context requires, the amount thereof outstanding from time to time; 

“Tranche C” means the amount of the lesser of (i) USD 30,000,000 and (ii) 55% of the Valuation Amount of Vessel C
(to be determined no more than 30 days before the Drawdown Date) for the purpose of refinancing Vessel C or, as the context requires, the amount thereof outstanding from time to time; 

“Transfer Certificate” means a certificate in substantially the form set out in Schedule 4; 

“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 5; 

  
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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 (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 the Management Agreements; 

“Unlawfulness” means any event or circumstance which either is or, as the case may be, might in the reasonable opinion of the
Agent become the subject of a notification by the Agent to the Borrowers under clause 12.1; 
 “USA” means the United States
of America; 
 “Valuation Amount” means, in respect of each Vessel, the value thereof as most recently determined under
clause 8.2.2; and 
 “Vessel” means each of Vessel A, Vessel B and Vessel C and in the plural means all of them. 

Words and expressions defined in Schedule 7 (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 London 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 reenacted 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; 

 

	1.3.11	a certificate by the Agent or the Security Trustee 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 Borrowers except
for manifest error; 

  
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	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 Borrowers 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 20, 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 Borrowers and
the Banks) the Borrowers 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 Borrowers upon and subject to the terms of this Agreement, the principal sum of up to sixty five million five hundred and thirty eight thousand four hundred and thirty eight Dollars (USD 65,538,438) by making
available: 
  

	 	(a)	Tranche A in the amount of twenty two million seven hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred Dollars (USD 22,737,500); 

  

	 	(b)	Tranche B in the amount of twelve million eight hundred thousand nine hundred and thirty eight Dollars (USD 12,800,938); and 

  

	 	(c)	Tranche C in the amount of the lesser of (i) thirty million Dollars (USD30,000,000) and (ii) 55% of the Valuation Amount of Vessel C (to be determined no more than 30 days before the Drawdown Date) for the
purpose of refinancing Vessel C. 

 Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the obligations of the Lenders shall be to
contribute to each Tranche, the proportion of the relevant Tranche which their respective Commitments bear to the Total Commitment 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. 

  
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	2.4	Drawdown 

  

	2.4.1	On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, each Tranche shall be advanced to the Borrowers on the Drawdown Date following receipt by the Agent from the Borrowers of the Drawdown Notice not later than
10:00 a.m. on the third Banking Day before the proposed Drawdown Date. 

  

	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 Tranches 

  

	2.5.1	The amount of the Loan shall not exceed the amount of the Loan Facility and the amount of each Tranche shall not exceed: 

  

	 	(a)	in respect of Tranche A, USD 22,737,500; 

  

	 	(b)	in respect of Tranche B, USD 12,800,938; and 

  

	 	(c)	in respect of Tranche C, the lesser of (i) USD 30,000,000 and (ii) 55% of the Valuation Amount of Vessel C under the valuation to be provided under (p) in Part B of Schedule 3. 

 

	2.5.2	The Loan shall be made available by the advance of Tranche A, Tranche B and Tranche C each in the amounts referred to in clause 2.5.1 and the same shall be applied: 

 

	 	(a)	as to Tranche A and Tranche B, in payment to the Existing Mortgagee ; and 

  

	 	(b)	as to Tranche C, in payment to whomever within the Group the Borrowers may request. 

  

	2.5.3	Each Tranche shall be paid forthwith upon drawdown to such account or accounts as the Borrowers shall stipulate in the Drawdown Notice. 

  
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	2.6	Availability 

 Upon receipt of a 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 relevant Tranche for payment by the Agent in accordance with clause 6.2. The Borrowers acknowledge that payment of a Tranche
to the account referred to in the Drawdown Notice shall satisfy the obligation of the Lenders to lend that Tranche to the Borrowers under this Agreement. 
  

	2.7	Voluntary cancellation of Facility 

 The Borrowers may at any time during the Drawdown
Period by notice to the Agent (effective only on actual receipt) cancel with effect from a date not less than five Banking Days after the receipt by the Agent of such notice the whole or any part (being five hundred thousand Dollars (USD 500,000) or
any larger sum which is an integral multiple of five hundred thousand Dollars (USD 500,000)) of the Total Commitment. Any such notice of cancellation, once given, shall be irrevocable and the Total Commitment shall be reduced accordingly and each
Lender’s Commitment shall be reduced pro rata according to the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitment. 
  

	2.8	Use of proceeds 

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

	3	INTEREST AND INTEREST PERIODS 

  

	3.1	Normal interest rate 

 The Borrowers must pay interest on each Tranche 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 (a) the Margin and (b) LIBOR. 
  

	3.2	Selection of Interest Periods 

 Subject to clause 3.3, the Borrowers 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 of three (3) months or (with the prior agreement of all the
Lenders) such other period as the Borrowers may select and the Lenders may, in their complete discretion, agree, and if the Borrowers wish to specify an Interest Period of more than 12 months, they must give at least 5 Banking Days prior notice
thereof. 

  
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	3.3	Determination of Interest Periods 

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

	3.3.1	the first Interest Period in respect of each Tranche shall start on the Drawdown Date in respect of that Tranche, and each subsequent Interest Period shall start on the last day of the previous Interest Period;

  

	3.3.2	if any Interest Period would otherwise overrun a Repayment Date, then the relevant Tranche 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 relevant Tranche having an Interest Period ascertained in accordance with clause 3.2 and the other provisions of this clause 3.3;
and 

  

	3.3.3	if the Borrowers fail to specify the length of an Interest Period in accordance with the provisions of clause 3.2 and this clause 3.3 such Interest Period shall last three months or such other period as complies with
this clause 3.3. 

  

	3.4	Default interest 

 If the Borrowers fail 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 Borrowers 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) the cost of funds to the Lenders which is the highest 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 if the unpaid amount is in respect of the Loan, the cost of funds to the Lenders which is the highest 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 Borrowers and the Lenders promptly of each rate of interest determined by it under this clause 3. 

 

	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers by the Agent. 

  
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	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 Borrowers and the Lenders. The Substitute Basis so
certified shall be binding upon the Borrowers, 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 Borrowers 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. 

Provided that the Banks shall try to ensure that any loss suffered by the Borrowers 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 as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Borrowers must repay: 

 (a) Tranche A by 23
equal quarterly instalments of USD 362,500 each, one such instalment to be repaid on each of the Repayment Dates in respect of that Tranche and a balloon instalment of USD 14,400,000 to be repaid on the relevant final Repayment Date; 

(b) Tranche B by 24 equal quarterly instalments of USD 268,632.81 each, one such instalment to be repaid on each of the Repayment Dates in
respect of that Tranche and a balloon instalment of USD 6,353,750.56 to be repaid on the relevant final Repayment Date; and 
 (c) Tranche C
by 24 equal quarterly instalments of USD 468,750 each, one such instalment to be repaid on each of the Repayment Dates in respect of that Tranche and a balloon instalment of USD 18,750,000 to be repaid on the relevant final Repayment Date. 

  
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 If the Commitment in respect of any Tranche is not drawn in full, the amount of each repayment
instalments, including the Balloon Instalment, for that Tranche shall be reduced proportionately. 
  

	4.1.2	The Borrowers shall on the Maturity Date also pay to the Agent and the Lenders all other amounts in respect of interest or otherwise then due and payable under this Agreement and the Security Documents.

  

	4.2	Voluntary prepayment 

 Subject to clauses 4.5 and 4.6 the Borrowers 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 (USD 500,000) or any larger sum which is an integral multiple of such amount) of any Tranche on
any relevant Interest Payment Date without (subject to Clause 4.6.3) premium or penalty. 
  

	4.3	Mandatory Prepayment on Total Loss 

 On the date falling one hundred and eighty
(180) 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
relevant Borrower (or the Security Trustee pursuant to the Security Documents), the Borrowers must prepay the Tranche relating to that Mortgaged Vessel, together with, in the case of a Total Loss of Vessel B or Vessel C, an amount (to be applied
against Tranche A, pro rata against the remaining repayment instalments under clause 4.1(including the relevant Balloon Instalment)) so that after such prepayment the ratio of the Loan to the aggregate Valuation Amounts of the Mortgaged Vessels is
65%. 
  

	4.3.1	Interpretation 

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

	 	(a)	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; 

 

	 	(b)	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; 

  
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	 	(c)	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;

  

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

 

	 	(e)	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 ninety (90) days, upon the expiry of the Relevant Period where “Relevant Period” means, for the
purposes of this clause 4.3.1(e), either (i) the period of ninety (90) days after the date upon which the relevant incident occurred or, (ii) if relevant underwriters confirm in writing (in customary terms) prior to the end of such
ninety (90) day period that such capture, seizure, detention or confiscation will be covered by the relevant Owner’s war risks insurance the shorter of twelve (12) months and such period for which cover is confirmed to attach.

  

	4.4	Mandatory prepayment on sale of Mortgaged Vessel 

 On the date of completion of the sale
of a Mortgaged Vessel the Borrowers must prepay the Tranche relating to that Mortgaged Vessel, together with, in the case of a sale of Vessel B or Vessel C, an amount (to be applied against Tranche A, pro rata against the remaining repayment
instalments under clause 4.1 (including the relevant Balloon Instalment)) so that after such prepayment, the ratio of the Loan to the aggregate Valuation Amount of the Mortgaged Vessels is 65%. 

  
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	4.5	Mandatory repayment and cancellation of FATCA Protected Lenders 

 If on the
date falling six months before the earliest FATCA Application Date for any payment by a Party to a FATCA Protected Lender (or to the Agent for the account of that Lender), that Lender is not a FATCA Exempt Party and, in the opinion of that Lender
(acting reasonably), that Party will, as a consequence, be required to make a FATCA Deduction from a payment to that Lender on or after that FATCA Application Date (a “FATCA Event”): 

 

	 	(i)	that Lender shall, reasonably promptly after that date, notify the Agent of that FATCA Event and the relevant FATCA Application Date; 

 

	 	(ii)	on the date falling one month before such FATCA Application Date: 

  

	 	(A)	that Lender may, at any time between one month and two weeks before such FATCA Application Date, notify the Agent; 

  

	 	(B)	upon the Agent notifying the Borrowers, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and 

  

	 	(C)	the Borrowers shall repay that Lender’s Contribution on the last day of the Interest Period occurring after the Agent has notified the Borrowers or, if earlier, the last Banking Day before the relevant FATCA
Application Date. 

  

	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 

  

	4.6.3	all other sums payable by the Borrowers 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 receipt by the Agent, shall be irrevocable, shall specify the amount to be prepaid and shall oblige the Borrowers 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. 

  
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	4.7.2	Any amounts prepaid pursuant to clauses 4.2 and 8.2.1(a) shall be applied against the Loan pro rata between the Tranches in reducing (i) the repayment instalments of Tranche A and Tranche B (aa) if made under
clause 4.2, in order of maturity or (bb) if made under clause 8.2.1(a), pro rata including the Balloon Instalments, and (ii) the Balloon Instalment of Tranche C and thereafter the other instalments of Tranche C in inverse order of maturity.

  

	4.7.3	The Borrowers’ 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 Borrowers 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	Subject to clause 5.1.2, the Borrowers agree to pay to the Agent for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with their Total Commitments quarterly in arrears from the Execution Date until the end of the
Drawdown Period and on the last day of the Drawdown Period, commitment commission computed from the Execution Date at a rate of one per cent (1.0%) per annum on the daily amount of the undrawn Loan Facility. 

 

	5.1.2	If the Drawdown Date occurs on or after the sixth Banking Day after the Execution Date, the commission referred to in clause 5.1.1 must be paid by the Borrowers to the Agent, whether or not any part of the Total
Commitment is ever advanced and shall be non-refundable. 

  

	5.2	Upfront Fee 

 The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent on the Execution Date, an upfront fee
of USD 300,000 for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with their respective Commitments. 
  

	5.3	Agency Fee 

 The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, for its own account, on the Execution
Date and annually thereafter, an agency fee of USD 20,000 payable in advance for each year or part thereof of the Facility Period. 

  
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	5.4	Expenses 

 The Borrowers agree 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
3) certified by the Banks or any of them as having been incurred by them from time to time: 
  

	5.4.1	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 

 

	5.4.2	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). 

 

	5.5	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. 
  

	5.6	Stamp and other duties 

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

  
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	6	PAYMENTS AND TAXES; ACCOUNTS AND CALCULATIONS 

  

	6.1	No set-off or counterclaim 

 All payments to be made by the Borrowers 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 aggregate of the Loan and the Tranches 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 Borrowers under
this Agreement shall be remitted in USD on the 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. 
  

	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. 

  
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	6.5	Currency of account 

 If any sum due from the Borrowers 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 Borrowers, (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 Borrowers
undertake 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 

 If at any time the Borrowers must make any
deduction or withholding in respect of Taxes (other than a FATCA Deduction) or deduction in respect of any royalty payment, duty, assessment or other charge 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers must indemnify each Bank against any losses or costs incurred by it by reason of any
failure of the Borrowers to make any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. Provided however that if any Bank or the Agent or the Security Trustee shall be or become
entitled to any Tax credit or relief in respect of any Tax which is deducted from any payment by the Borrowers and it actually receives a benefit from such Tax credit or relief in its country of domicile, incorporation or residence, the relevant
Bank or the Agent or the Security Trustee, as the case may be, shall, subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, pay to the Borrowers after such benefit is effectively received by the relevant Bank or the Agent or the Security Trustee,
as the case may be, such amounts (which shall be conclusively certified by the Agent) as shall ensure that the net amount actually retained by the relevant Bank or the Agent or the Security Trustee, as the case may be, is equal to the amount which
would have been retained if there had been no such deduction. The Borrowers 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. 

  
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	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, the Tranches and other sums owing by the
Borrowers 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 Borrowers
under the Security Documents. 

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

	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;

  
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	6.10.4	fourthly, in or towards repayment of the Loan which have become due and payable; 

  

	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; and

 The order of application set out in clauses 6.10.1 to 6.10.5 may be varied by the Agent if the Majority Lenders so direct,
without any reference to, or consent or approval from, the Borrowers. 
  

	6.11	FATCA 

  

	 	(a)	FATCA Information 

  

	 	(b)	Subject to subclause (c) below, each party to a Security Document shall, within ten Banking Days of a reasonable request by another party to the Security Documents: 

 

	 	(i)	confirm to that other party whether it is a FATCA Exempt Party or is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and 

  

	 	(ii)	supply to the requesting party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable “passthru percentage” or other information required under the
regulations of the US Treasury Department or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as the requesting party reasonably requests for the purposes of such requesting party’s compliance with FATCA. 

 

	 	(c)	If a party to any Security Document confirms to another party pursuant to subclause (a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt
Party, that party shall notify that other party and the Agent reasonably promptly. 

  

	 	(d)	Subclause (a) above shall not oblige any Lender to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation, any policy of that Lender, any fiduciary duty or any duty
of confidentiality, or to disclose any confidential information (including, without limitation, its tax returns and calculations); provided, however, that information required (or equivalent to the information so required) by United States Internal
Revenue Service Forms W-8 or W-9 (or any successor forms) shall not be treated as confidential information of such Lender for purposes of this subclause (c). 

  
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	 	(e)	If a party to any Security Document fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with subclause (a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where
subclause (c) above applies), then 

  

	 	(i)	if that party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Security Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and

  

	 	(ii)	if that party failed to confirm its applicable passthru percentage then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Security Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable passthru percentage is
100%, 

 until (in each case) such time as the party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or
other information. 
  

	6.11.2	FATCA Deduction 

  

	 	(a)	Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it
makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. 

  

	 	(b)	Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in
addition, shall notify the Borrowers, the Agent and the other Banks. 

  
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	7	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 

  

	7.1	Continuing representations and warranties 

 The Borrowers represent and warrant to each
Bank that: 
  

	7.1.1	Due incorporation 

 each of the Security Parties is duly incorporated and validly existing in
good standing, under the laws of its respective country of incorporation, in each case, as a corporation 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	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 corporate, 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 Borrowers 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 Guarantee) will create first
priority Encumbrances; 
  

	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; 

  
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	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 any 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; 

 

	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); 

  
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	7.1.9	Choice of law 

 the choice of English law to govern the Underlying Documents and the Security
Documents (other than the Mortgages and the Earnings Account Pledge), the choice of the law of the Flag State to govern the Mortgages, the choice of the relevant law to govern the Earnings 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 Corporate Guarantor in respect of the relevant financial year as delivered to the Agent present or will present fairly and accurately the financial position of the Corporate Guarantor and the consolidated financial
position of the Group as at the date thereof and the results of the operations of the Corporate Guarantor 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
Corporate Guarantor 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 Borrowers under this Agreement are direct, general and
unconditional obligations of the Borrowers and rank at least pari passu with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Borrowers except for obligations which are mandatorily preferred by operation of law and not
by contract; 
  

	7.1.13	Information/ Material Adverse Effect 

 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; 

  
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	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 Borrowers shall apply the Loan only for the purposes specified in clauses
1.1 and 2.1; 
  

	7.1.16	The Mortgaged Vessels 

 throughout the Facility Period, each Mortgaged Vessel (and in relation
to (a), her Earnings and Insurances, as defined in, and in accordance with the requirements of, the Ship Security Documents) will, following the date on which it becomes a Mortgaged Vessel, 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; 

  

	 	(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 relevant Manager in accordance with the terms of the relevant Management Agreement; 

  
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	7.1.17	Earnings 

 except with prior notice to the Lenders, there will not be any agreement or
arrangement whereby the Earnings (as defined in the relevant Ship Security Documents) of either Mortgaged Vessel may be shared howsoever with any other person; 
  

	7.1.18	Freedom from Encumbrances 

 save as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent
on or prior to the date of this Agreement and disclosed in the Corporate Guarantor’s public filings, no Mortgaged Vessel nor its Earnings, Insurances or Requisition Compensation (each as defined in the relevant Ship Security Documents) nor the
Earnings Account nor any Extended Employment Contract in respect of such Mortgaged Vessel 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 Borrowers in writing
to, and acknowledged and accepted in writing by, the Agent: 
  

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

  

	 	(b)	the Borrowers and, to the best of the Borrowers’ 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; 

  

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

  

	 	(d)	there has been no Environmental Incident; 

  
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	7.1.20	ISM and ISPS Code 

 With effect from the date on which it executes a Mortgage over its Vessel,
each of the Borrowers will comply with and continue to comply with and procure that the Manager complies 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 Borrower or the Manager will obtain and maintain a valid DOC and SMC for each Mortgaged Vessels and that it and the Manager will implement and continue 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 Borrowers are the ultimate beneficiaries of the Loan; 

  

	7.1.23	no Security Party has incurred any Indebtedness save under this Agreement and the Indentures or as otherwise disclosed to the Agent in writing or as disclosed in the Group’s public filings; 

 

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

 

	7.1.25	no Borrower has an office in England; 

  

	7.1.26	Prohibited Persons, unlawful activity 

  

	 	(a)	to the best of their knowledge, none of the shares in any Borrower nor in any 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;

  
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	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 

 no Borrower has undertaken any business or employed any person or incurred any
obligations in respect of any pension scheme, save in respect of the Master, officers and crew of the Vessel owned by it; 
  

	7.1.29	Ownership of Borrowers 

 all the shares in each Borrower are legally and beneficially owned and
controlled by the Shareholder, all of whose shares are legally and beneficially owned and controlled by the Corporate Guarantor; 
  

	7.1.30	Accounting reference date 

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

	7.1.31	Indentures 

 The entry by the Borrowers into this Agreement, and their borrowing of the Loan
hereunder, and the execution by the Corporate Guarantor of the Corporate Guarantee do not breach Section 4.10 or any other provision of either Indenture; 
  

	7.1.32	Manager 

 each Manager is fit and proper commercial and technical manager of the Vessel with the
sufficient and fully trained personnel, experience and ability to perform its 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers undertake with each Bank that, from the Execution Date until the
end of the Facility Period, they will: 
  

	8.1.1	Notice of Default and Proceedings 

 promptly inform the Agent of (a) any Default (including
the occurrence of any Event of Default under (and as defined in) either Indenture, in which case the Borrowers shall also provide to the Agent copies of all demands or notices made in connection therewith) 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 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	Corporate Existence/Ownership 

 ensure that each Security Party maintains its corporate
existence as a body corporate duly organised and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Pertinent Jurisdiction and ensure that each Borrower is owned, directly or through other companies, by the Corporate Guarantor; 

 

	8.1.4	Use of proceeds 

 use the Tranches 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	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 balance sheet and profit and loss accounts of the Corporate Guarantor (commencing with the financial year ending 31 December 2014), together with updated details (in a form acceptable to the Agent) of all off-balance sheet and
time-charter hire commitments of any ship owned by a Group Member; and 

  

	 	(b)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 75 days after the end of each 3 month period in each of its financial years, the Corporate Guarantor’s Management accounts for that 3 month period certified as to
their correctness by its chief financial officer. 

  

	8.1.7	Reimbursement of MII & MAP Policy premiums 

 Whether or not any amount is borrowed
under this Agreement, reimburse each Bank on the Agent’s written demand the amount of the premium payable by such Bank 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(b) 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 Corporate Guarantor
provides the Agent, with such financial or other information concerning the Corporate Guarantor, all vessels (including those under construction) owned (or to be owned in the case of newbuildings) by the Corporate Guarantor or any of its
subsidiaries, including, in relation to Borrowed Moneys, repayment of Borrowed Money, operating expenses and charter arrangements in respect of all ships (including newbuildings under construction) which are owned, chartered, or controlled by any
Group Member 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	Provision of bank statements 

 provide the Agent at the Agent’s request, with copy, in an
electronic format, of all bank statements relating to the Earnings Accounts; 
  

	8.1.11	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; 
  

	8.1.12	Compliance with ISM Code 

 comply with, and will procure that any Operator will comply with, and
ensure that the Mortgaged 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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	8.1.13	Withdrawal of DOC and SMC 

 immediately inform the Agent if there is any actual withdrawal of
their or any Operator’s DOC or the SMC of either Mortgaged Vessel; 
  

	8.1.14	Issuance of DOC and SMC 

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

	8.1.15	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 Mortgaged 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 Mortgaged Vessel; and 

 

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

  

	8.1.16	Compliance with Laws and payment of taxes 

 comply with, and will ensure that the Managers, each
Mortgaged Vessel all relevant Environmental Laws, laws, statutes, directives, decrees, rulings and analogous rules 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; 
  

	8.1.17	Charters etc. 

  

	 	(i)	deliver to the Agent a Certified Copy of each Extended Employment Contract upon its execution, (ii) forthwith on the Agent’s request 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 the Agent in connection with any such Charter Assignments, forthwith following the Agent’s demand. 

  
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	8.1.18	Indentures 

 comply with all of the obligations undertaken by the Corporate Guarantor under the
Indentures which are set out in the Indenture Excerpt and the Borrowers further agree: 
 (a) any terms defined in the First Indenture shall
have those meanings when used in the Indenture Excerpt; 
 (b) no waiver or variation of any term of either Indenture by any person shall
waive or vary the Borrowers’ obligations hereunder to comply with the obligations in the Indenture Excerpt, except with the consent of the Agent; 

(c) the Borrowers shall continue to be bound by their, or as the case may be, the Corporate Guarantor’s, obligations as set out in the
Indenture Excerpt following a Covenant Defeasance (as defined in either Indenture) or a Legal Defeasance (as defined in either Indenture) or other termination or cancellation of the Indenture; 

(d) the Borrowers will not, and will procure that the Corporate Guarantor will not, vary any material term of either Indenture without the
prior written consent of the Banks, however this will not affect its right of partial or full prepayment of either Indenture; 
  

	8.1.19	Financial Covenants of the Corporate Guarantor’s Group 

 procure that 

 

	 	(a)	at no time shall the Liquidity of the Group be less than USD30,000,000; 

  

	 	(b)	the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as that is defined in Schedule 10 and tested annually in accordance with the Indenture) must 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 but taking into account the burden or benefit of any charter party) shall be less than
75% 

  
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 provided that if any Group Member is required, in relation to any of its Indebtedness, to comply
with any covenants (the “Related Covenants”) which are equivalent or similar to those set out in this Clause 8.1.19, but impose (respectively), a greater ratio (in respect of (b) above) or a lower percentage (in respect of
(c) above), then the Borrowers shall procure that the relevant one of the Related Covenants is complied with in place of the relevant one of those set out above; 
  

	8.1.20	Inspection 

 permit the Agent, upon receipt of at least 15 days written notice, by surveyors or
other persons appointed by it for such purpose, to board a Mortgaged Vessel at all reasonable times (which the Agent shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure do not adversely affect the operation of the Vessels) 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 each Vessel (whether for the purpose of classification, survey or otherwise) and the Borrower
shall pay the costs in respect of (i) one inspection in each calendar year and (ii) all such inspections following the occurrence of an Event of Default which has not been remedied or waived and the Borrowers shall effect all repairs which
the Agent may reasonably request as a result of such inspection; 
  

	8.1.21	Subordination 

 ensure that all Indebtedness of any Borrower to the Shareholders, to the Manager
or to any other Group Member is fully subordinated, and to subordinate any Indebtedness (save for the Indentures) issued to it by the Corporate 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 and provided that the
Classification rules allow, on or before the 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 each 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; 

  
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	 	(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 (dbg@dvbbank.com, and techcom@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 

  

	 	(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 Borrowers’ electronic accounts with the
relevant Classification Society if so allowed under the Classification Society rules; and 

  
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	8.1.24	Insurance opinion 

 provide the Agent on request, at the Borrowers’ 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 (once in any twelve-month period). 
  

	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; 

  

	 	(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 each 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 Borrowers, by or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person 

  
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	8.1.26	Dividends 

 The Corporate Guarantor may declare or pay dividends in accordance with the terms of
the Indentures for up to USD0.06 per issued share per financial quarter and then so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred, or shall occur as a result of such declaration and/or payment. 

 

	8.1.27	Vessel information 

 provide the Agent, and shall procure that the Corporate Guarantor 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 and technical reports 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; 
  

	8.1.28	Transactions with associated companies 

 not enter into any transactions with any Group Member,
other than on arm’s length terms and shall not co-mingle its assets, nor become liable for any third party obligations or encumber its rights under this Agreement (and for the purpose of this clause, the Management Agreement are to be treated
as having been entered into on arms-length terms); 

  
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	8.2	Security value maintenance 

  

	8.2.1	Security shortfall 

 If, at any time after the first anniversary of the second (or if Tranche B
is not drawn down, 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 Borrowers requiring that such deficiency be remedied
and then the Borrowers must either: 
  

	 	(a)	prepay within a period of thirty (30) days of the date of receipt by the Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 Lenders
in their discretion having a value for security purposes (as determined by the Lenders in their discretion which valuation shall be final and binding) 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. 

 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 (i) pro rata against the Tranches, (ii) in reduction of the repayment instalments under clause 4.1 pro rata and the amounts of the Loan
prepaid hereunder shall not be available to be re-borrowed. 

  
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	8.2.2	Valuation of Mortgaged Vessels 

 Each Mortgaged Vessel shall, for the purposes of this
Agreement, be valued (at the Borrowers’ expense) in USD by taking either (i) the valuation prepared by an Approved Broker appointed by the Borrowers or (ii) if requested by the Agent, the arithmetic mean of valuations prepared by the
Approved Broker so appointed by the Borrowers and an Approved Broker appointed by the Agent (which shall be Maritime Strategies International Ltd. or such other Approved Broker as the Agent may notify to the Borrower), in each case 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 such two valuations vary by 15% or more then the Agent may select a third Approved Broker to provide a valuation and the Valuation Amount shall be the
arithmetic mean of such three valuations. Valuations shall be obtained: 
  

	 	(a)	on the date falling three months after the Drawdown Date and quarterly thereafter; and 

  

	 	(b)	(in addition to (a) above) at any other time as the Agent shall require (in its absolute discretion). 

The Approved Brokers’ 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 Borrowers undertake 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. 
  

	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers electing to constitute additional security pursuant to
clause 8.2.1(b), must be paid by the Borrowers 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 (except for cash) provided or to be provided to the Banks or any of them
shall be determined by the Agent in its discretion. 

  
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	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 Borrowers’ expense) such evidence and documents of the kind referred to in Schedule 3 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 Borrowers jointly and severally undertake with each Bank
that, from the Execution Date until the end of the Facility Period, they will not, without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders): 
  

	8.3.1	Negative pledge 

 permit any Encumbrance (other than a Permitted Encumbrance or as otherwise
disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement) to subsist, arise or be created or extended over all or any part of their respective present or future undertakings, assets, rights or revenues to secure
or prefer any present or future Indebtedness or other liability or obligation of any Group Member or any other person, unless the same is reasonably required in the ordinary course of business; 

 

	8.3.2	No merger or transfer 

 merge or consolidate with any other person or permit any change to the
legal ownership of their shares from that existing at the Execution Date; 
  

	8.3.3	Disposals 

 Save as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to
the date of this Agreement, sell, transfer, assign, create security or option over, pledge, pool, abandon, lend or otherwise dispose of or cease to exercise direct control over more than 30% (in aggregate) of their present or future undertakings,
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; 

  
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	8.3.4	Other business or manager 

 undertake any business other than the ownership and operation of the
Vessels or employ anyone other than the Manager as commercial and technical manager of the Vessels; 
  

	8.3.5	Acquisitions or investments 

 acquire any further assets other than the Vessels and rights
arising under contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Borrowers in the ordinary course of their businesses of owning, operating and chartering the Vessels, or make any financial investments; 

 

	8.3.6	Other obligations 

 incur any obligations (to any Group Member or otherwise) except for
obligations arising under the Underlying Documents or the Security Documents or contracts entered into (or in the case of any obligation to any Group Member, reasonably entered into) in the ordinary course of their business of owning, operating and
chartering the Vessels (and for the purposes of this Agreement any obligations incurred under any of the Management Agreement are deemed to have been reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of business) or as otherwise disclosed in writing by the
Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement; 
  

	8.3.7	No borrowing 

 incur any Borrowed Money except for Borrowed Money pursuant to the Security
Documents or as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement; 
  

	8.3.8	Repayment of borrowings 

 repay or prepay the principal of, or pay interest on or any other sum
in connection with any of their Borrowed Money except for Borrowed Money pursuant to the Security Documents or as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to the date of this Agreement; 

 

	8.3.9	Guarantees 

 issue any guarantees or otherwise become directly or contingently liable, or give
security or quasi security for the obligations of any person, firm, or corporation except pursuant to the Security Documents and except for (i) guarantees from time to time required in the ordinary course by any protection and indemnity or war
risks association with which a Vessel is entered, guarantees required to procure the release of such Vessel from any arrest, detention, attachment or levy or guarantees required for the salvage of a Vessel and (ii) such other guarantees to
which the Agent shall have consented in writing on behalf of the Banks and (iii) senior unsecured guarantees issued under the Indentures and (iii) as otherwise disclosed in writing by the Borrowers to the Agent on or prior to the date of
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	8.3.10	Loans 

 make any loans or grant any credit (save for normal trade credit in the ordinary course
of business) to any person or agree to do so; 
  

	8.3.11	Sureties 

 permit any Indebtedness of any Borrower to any person (other than the Banks pursuant
to the Security Documents) to be guaranteed by any person (except for guarantees from time to time required in the ordinary course of business and in the ordinary course by any protection and indemnity or war risks association with which a Vessel is
entered, guarantees required to procure the release of such Vessel from any arrest, detention, attachment or levy or guarantees or undertakings required for the salvage of a Vessel); 

 

	8.3.12	Subsidiaries 

 form or acquire any Subsidiaries; 

 

	8.3.13	Change of name, flag or class 

 change the name, flag, Classification or Classification Society
or any Manager of any Vessel; 
  

	8.3.14	Charters 

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

 

	 	(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 twelve (12) months’ duration; or 

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

  

	 	(iv)	below a fair and reasonable arms-length rate obtainable at the time when the relevant Vessel is fixed; 

  

	8.3.15	Nuclear waste 

 permit any Vessel to carry nuclear waste or radioactive material. 

 

	8.3.16	Prohibited Persons 

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

	8.3.17	Change in constitutional documents 

 amend or vary its constitutional documents; 

 

	8.3.18	Employees 

 employ any person except the Master, officers and crew of the Vessel owned by it.

  

	8.4	Indentures 

 Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement: 

(i) any terms, transactions or events permitted by the Indenture Excerpt and 

(ii) save as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any other terms or transactions or events permitted by the Indentures 

shall be deemed to be permitted by this Agreement 
  

	9	CONDITIONS 

  

	9.1	Advance of a Tranche 

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

	9.1.1	that, on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice the Agent has received the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (after consultation with the Lenders) and
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	9.1.2	that, on or before the Drawdown Date but prior to making a Tranche available, the Agent has received the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers;

  

	9.1.3	the representations and warranties contained in clause 7 and clauses 4.1 and 4.2 of the Corporate Guarantee being then true and correct as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such
time; and 

  

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

  

	9.2	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. 
  

	9.3	Further conditions precedent 

 Not later than five (5) Banking Days prior to a
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 Borrowers must, not later than two (2) Banking Days prior to such
date, deliver to the Agent (at the Borrowers’ 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, howsoever): 

 

	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

  
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	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 Borrowers or any other person or a 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 Banks) 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) under any Indebtedness of any Borrower in an amount exceeding one million Dollars (USD1,000,000) or any Indebtedness of any Security Party
in an amount exceeding ten million Dollars (USD10,000,000) is not paid when due (subject to applicable grace periods) or any such Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Security Party 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 Borrower or Security Party of a voluntary right of prepayment),
or any creditor of a Borrower or any Security Party becomes entitled to declare any such Indebtedness due and payable or any facility or commitment available to any Borrower or any Security Party relating to Indebtedness is withdrawn, suspended or
cancelled by reason of any default (however described) of the person concerned; or 

  
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	10.1.6	Execution: any uninsured judgment or order made against any Security Party 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 and is not discharged within thirty (30) days; or 

 

	10.1.7	Insolvency: any Security Party 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 Corporate Guarantor and the Shareholder) 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 corporate action, Proceedings or other steps are taken to dissolve or wind-up any Security Party or an order is made or resolution passed for the dissolution or winding up of any Security Party
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 or the Agent reasonably believes that any such petition or other step is
imminent or an administration order is made in relation to any Security Party; or 

  

	10.1.11	Appointment of receivers and managers: any administrative or other receiver is appointed anywhere of any Security Party 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; or 

  
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	10.1.12	Compositions: any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedures or steps are taken, or negotiations commenced, by any Security Party or by any of its creditors (other than the Corporate Guarantor), 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 company and any of its creditors; or 

 

	10.1.13	Analogous proceedings: there occurs, in relation to any Security Party, 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 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 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 

  

	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

  
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	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 a Mortgaged Vessel under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State is cancelled or terminated without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks; or 

 

	10.1.22	Unrest: the Flag State of a Mortgaged 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 Banks 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 Banks), 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	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; 

 

	10.1.27	Ownership: there is any change in the direct or indirect ownership of any Borrower without the prior written consent of the Agent; 

 

	10.1.28	Change of Control: There shall occur a “Change of Control” (as defined in the Secured Indenture) or the “Permitted Holder” (as defined in the Secured Indenture) owns less than 20% of the
issued share capital of the Corporate Guarantor; 

  

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

  

	 	(a)	the financial condition or strength of any Borrower or the Corporate Guarantor by reference to the financial position or strength of such Security Party as described by any Security Party to the Agent in the negotiation
of this Agreement; or 

  

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

  

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

 which, in the reasonable opinion of
the Agent (following consultation with the Lenders) could prejudice the ability of the Borrowers and of the Corporate Guarantor to fulfil their respective obligations under the Security Documents either on time or at all. 

  
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	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers (a) demand repayment of the 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. 
  

	11	INDEMNITIES 

  

	11.1	General indemnity 

 The Borrowers agree 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 and VAT (or equivalent)) which such Bank shall certify as
sustained by it as a consequence of any Default, any prepayment of the Loan being made under clauses 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 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 a Tranche not being made available for any reason (excluding any default by the Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender) after the Drawdown Notice for such Tranche has been
given; and/or any breach by any Security Party of any existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation; and/or any breach by a Borrower or other Security Party of clauses 8.1.25 or 8.3.16; and/or any notice sent in accordance with Clause 17
purporting to be sent by a Security Party but being sent without proper authorisation or fraudulently. 

  
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	11.2	Environmental indemnity 

 The Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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. 
  

	12	UNLAWFULNESS AND INCREASED COSTS 

  

	12.1	Unlawfulness 

 If it is or becomes unlawful or contrary to a directive or regulation for
any Lender to contribute to a Tranche or to maintain its Commitment or fund its Contribution to the Loan or a Tranche, such Lender shall promptly, through the Agent, give notice to the Borrowers whereupon (a) such Lender’s Contribution and
Commitment shall be reduced to zero and (b) the Borrowers 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 Borrowers under this Agreement. 

  
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	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 

  

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

 

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

  

	 	(b)	the Borrowers 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. 

 Provided that the Banks shall try to ensure that any
loss suffered by the Borrowers as a result of the circumstances referred to above are kept to a minimum. 
 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 additional payment under clause 6.6 or (b) attributable to a
FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party. 
  

	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; 

  
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	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 Banks, 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 (whether the same is due and payable or not); 

  

	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;

  

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

  

	13.2	Set-off 

  

	13.2.1	Each 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 Borrowers, to apply any credit balance to which
any Borrower is then entitled standing upon any account of any Borrower with any branch of such Bank in or towards satisfaction of any sum due and payable from the Borrowers 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. 

  

	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 Borrowers 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. 

  
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	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers and shall distribute the same to the Lenders (other than the Recovering Lenders) in accordance with
clause 6.10; and 

  

	 	(c)	as between the Borrowers and the Recovering Lender the excess amount so re-distributed shall be treated as not having been paid but the obligations of the Borrowers 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. 

 

	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). 

  
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	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 

 Each 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. 
  

	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. 

  
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	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 any 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 any Bank or (vi) any other circumstances whatsoever outside any 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 all of them. 

 

	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	Financial collateral arrangements 

  

	13.13.1	Each of the agreements for the opening of the Earnings Accounts and each of the Earnings Account Pledges shall include, inter alia, “a close-out netting provision” under law 3301/2004 and Directive 2002/47/EC
of the European Parliament and the Council of 6 June 2002 on financial collateral arrangements (the “Cash Collateral Legislation”); 

  

	13.13.2	Upon the occurrence of an Enforcement Event, both any amount standing to the Earnings Accounts (regardless of any other provision) and the Loan together with any accrued interest shall become, immediately and
automatically without any notice, due and payable and shall be set off and a net sum equal to any difference shall be payable by the party from whom the larger amount is due to the other party (Close Out netting); 

  
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	13.13.3	In the event that the terms of this clause 13.13 apply pursuant to an Enforcement Event relating to the Lender at which the Earnings Accounts are held, the Contribution of that Lender shall be reduced by the aggregate
amount standing to the credit of the Earnings Accounts, and the Contributions of the other Lenders shall not be affected by such set-off; 

  

	13.13.4	For the purposes of this Clause 13.13, “Enforcement Event” means in respect of the Banks and/or the Borrowers “winding up proceedings” or “reorganisation measures” (as these terms
are defined in the Cash Collateral Legislation) or any other event (except an Event of Default) which, in each case, prevents or results in preventing the Borrowers from withdrawing the funds deposited into the Earnings Accounts, whether this is by
virtue of a provision of any law, regulation, statutory rule or regulatory requirement or any request or order of any central bank, monetary, regulatory or other authority or any court. 

 

	13.14	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 

  

	14.1	General 

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

 

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

  

	14.1.2	all moneys payable to any Borrower in respect of the Earnings (as defined in the relevant Mortgage) of its 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 its Earnings Account, Provided however that if any of the moneys paid to an Earnings Account are payable in a currency other than USD, they shall be paid to a sub-account of
that Earnings Account denominated in such currency (except that if the relevant Borrower fails to open such a sub-account, the relevant Earnings Account Bank shall then convert such moneys into USD at that Earnings 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 currency).

  
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	14.2	Earnings Accounts: withdrawals 

 Any sums standing to the credit of the Earnings Accounts
may be applied from time to time (i) firstly 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) thirdly in building up a balance of USD500,000 (hereinafter, the “Minimum Balance”) on each Earnings Account and (iv) subject to there being at any time sufficient funds to pay amounts due under
(i) and (ii) above as they fall due, fourthly for the general corporate purposes of the Borrowers. 
  

	14.3	Minimum Balance. 

 The Borrowers shall accumulate and maintain the Minimum Balance on
each Earnings Account throughout the Facility Period by no later than (i) in respect of the Earnings Accounts owned by Astra and Serenity, the Drawdown Date and (ii) in respect of the Earnings Account owned by Emery, the first anniversary
of the Execution Date. 
  

	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 Borrowers, instruct the relevant Earnings Account Bank to apply all moneys then standing to the credit of the Earnings Accounts (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 Accounts and all amounts from time to time standing
to the credit thereof shall be subject to the security constituted and the rights conferred by the Earnings Account Pledges respectively and the Borrowers undertake to take all such steps, and give all such instructions to the Earnings Account Banks
to enable the Agent and/or the Security Trustee to have: 
  

	 	(a)	full e-banking monitoring access to the Earnings Accounts at all times; and 

  

	 	(b)	full unconditional access to the Earnings Accounts following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing. 

  

	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 Borrowers and their respective successors in title. 
  

	15.2	No assignment by Borrowers 

 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, but after giving 30-day notice to, the Borrowers and/or the Corporate Guarantor (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, or company controlled
by, a Lender, (iii) another first class international bank or financial institution, insurer, social security fund, pension fund, capital investment company, financial intermediary or special purpose vehicle associated to any of them,
(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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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; 

  
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	 	(e)	a Tranche or part of a Tranche 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 

 

	 	(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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers, 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 Borrowers, 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 Borrowers 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, each 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, consultation with or notice to, the Borrowers. 
  

	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 Borrowers, the Security Trustee, the Agent and the other Lenders. 

  
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	15.9	Securitisation 

 A Lender may include all or any part of the Loan in a securitisation or
similar transaction without the consent of, but after prior consultation with the Borrowers and the Corporate Guarantor, and after giving 30 days’ notice to the Borrowers and each Security Party. The Borrowers will (and will procure that the
Corporate Guarantor) assist the Lenders as necessary to achieve a successful securitisation (or similar transaction) Provided that the Borrowers shall not bear any third party costs related to any such securitisation and need only provide such
information which any third parties may reasonably request. 
  

	15.10	Disclosure of information 

 The Borrowers hereby do, 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 Security Parties, the Vessels, the Security Documents, the Loan, the Commitments and any
agreement entered into by the Borrowers and/or Security Party or information provided by the Borrowers or 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 Bank’s rights and obligations 

  
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 Provided that, prior to the provision of any information under sub-clauses (v) and
(vi) above, such persons therein referred to will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement. 
  

	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 Borrowers under or pursuant to clauses 8.1.1, 8.1.6, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.13, 8.1.17 and
8.1.18; and 

  

	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. 

  
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	16.4	Security Trustee’s and 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; 

  

	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. 

  
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	16.5	No Liability of Agent or Arranger 

 None of the Security Trustee, the Agent, the Arranger
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 Borrowers; or 

  

	16.5.2	be obliged to make any enquiry as to any breach or default by the Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 

 

	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 or 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 Agent 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 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. 

  
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	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 a Tranche available or 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, Agent for Borrowers’ 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 

  

	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 

  
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	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 Borrowers or any other Security Party to the 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, Security Trustee’s or 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers and/or any other Security Party, if the effect of such amendment, modification, waiver or excuse would be to: 

 

	 	(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; 

  
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	 	(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 any 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; 

  

	 	(j)	result in a FATCA Deduction, unless the Agent has given the Lenders ten Banking Days prior notice or each Lender is a FATCA Protected Lender. The Agent shall notify the Lenders reasonably promptly of any amendments or
waivers proposed by the Borrowers 

 provided that: 
  

	 	(i)	if the Agent or a Lender reasonably believes that an amendment or waiver may constitute a “material modification” for the purposes of FATCA that may result (directly or indirectly) in a Party being required to
make a FATCA Deduction and the Agent or that Lender (as the case may be) notifies the Company and the Agent accordingly, that amendment or waiver may, subject to paragraph (ii) below, not be effected without the consent of the Agent or that
Lender (as the case may be); and 

  

	 	(ii)	the consent of a Lender shall not be required pursuant to paragraph (i) above if that Lender is a FATCA Protected Lender. 

  
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	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 first Tranche or the Loan has been drawn, its Contribution,) to the extent that the Security Trustee or the Agent is not reimbursed by the Borrowers, for the
costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Security Trustee or the Agent which are expressed to be payable by the Borrowers under clause 5.3 including (in each case), without limitation, the fees and expenses of legal or other professional advisers
provided that, if following any payment to the Security Trustee or the Agent by a Lender under this clause the Security Trustee or the Agent receives payment from the Borrowers in respect of the same costs, fees or expenses, the Security Trustee or
the Agent shall upon receipt thereof reimburse the relevant Lender. Each Lender must on demand indemnify the Security Trustee or the Agent (rateably in accordance with such Lender’s Commitment or, after the first Tranche or the Loan has been
drawn, its Contribution) against all liabilities, damages, costs and claims whatsoever incurred by the Security Trustee 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 the Security Trustee /Agent 

  

	16.13.1	The Agent may, having given to the Borrowers and each of the Lenders not less than fifteen (15) days’ notice of its intention to do so, retire from its appointment as the Security Trustee or the Agent (as the
case may be) 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 Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent nominated by the Security Trustee or, as the case may be, the Agent, 

  
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	 	(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 or, as the case may be, the retiring Security Trustee. 

Any corporation into which the retiring Agent and/or the retiring Security Trustee (as the case may be) may be merged or converted or any
corporation with which the Security Trustee and/or the Agent (as the case may be) may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion, amalgamation, consolidation or other reorganisation to which the Security Trustee or the
Agent (as the case may be) shall be a party shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be the successor Agent or Security Trustee 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 Borrowers and the Lenders as to the identity of the proposed successor and to take account of any reasonable objections which the Borrowers and the Lenders may raise to such
successor being appointed. 
  

	16.13.2	If the Majority Lenders, acting reasonably, are of the opinion that the Security Trustee or Agent is unable to fulfil its respective obligations under this Agreement in a professional and acceptable manner, then they
may require the Security Trustee or 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 Security Trustee or 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 or, as the case may be, the 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 Agent or Security Trustee. 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. 

  
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	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
Borrowers 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: 
  

	 	(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 Borrowers as to the identity of the proposed successor and to take account of any reasonable
objections which the Borrowers may raise to such successor being appointed. 

  
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 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. 
  

	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. 

  
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	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 communicated in writing by the Agent. 

 

	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. 

  
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	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 

  

	 	(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. 

  
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	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. 
  

	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. 

  
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	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
Borrowers or any other person liable. 
  

	16.21	Reconventioning 

 After consultation with the Borrowers 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 to 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. 

  
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	16.22	Exclusivity 

 Without prejudice to the Borrowers’ 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. 

 

	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 Borrowers shall be deemed to have been given and shall take effect when received in full legible form by the Borrowers at the address and/or the fax number
appearing below (or at such other address or fax number as the Borrowers 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 4171984

  

	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers to the address or fax number referred to in clause 17.2.1; 

  
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	17.2.3	subject to clause 17.2.5, notices to the Agent and/or the Security Trustee and/or Security Trustee shall be deemed to be given, and shall take effect, when received in full legible form by the Agent and/or the Security
Trustee at the address and/or the fax number address appearing below (or at any such other address or fax number as the Agent and/or the Security Trustee (as appropriate) may hereafter specify for such purpose to the Borrowers 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
		  	3, Moraitini Street & 1, Palea Leof. Posidonos
		  	Delta Paleo Faliro
		  	17561 Athens
		  	Greece
		
	Attn:	  	Dry Bulk Group
	Fax no:	  	+30210 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. 

  
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	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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers 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 Borrowers shall (except as
otherwise provided in the Security Documents) be given to the Borrowers by the Agent. 
  

	18	BORROWERS’ OBLIGATIONS 

  

	18.1	Joint and several 

 Regardless of any other provision in any of the Security Documents,
all obligations and liabilities whatsoever of the Borrowers herein contained are joint and several and shall be construed accordingly. Each of the Borrowers agrees and consents to be bound by the Security Documents to which it becomes a party
notwithstanding that the other Borrower may not do so or be effectually bound and notwithstanding that any of the Security Documents may be invalid or unenforceable against the other Borrower, whether or not the deficiency is known to any Bank. 

  
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	18.2	Borrowers as principal debtors 

 Each Borrower acknowledges that it is a principal and
original debtor in respect of all amounts which may become payable by the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of any of the Security Documents and agrees that each Bank may continue to treat it as such, whether or not such Bank is or becomes
aware that such Borrower is or has become a surety for the other Borrower. 
  

	18.3	Indemnity 

 The Borrowers undertake to keep the Banks fully indemnified on demand against
all claims, damages, losses, costs and expenses arising from any failure of any Borrower to perform or discharge any purported obligation or liability of that Borrower which would have been the subject of this Agreement or any other Security
Document had it been valid and enforceable and which is not or ceases to be valid and enforceable against the other Borrower on any ground whatsoever, whether or not known to any Bank including, without limitation, any irregular exercise or absence
of any corporate power or lack of authority of, or breach of duty by, any person purporting to act on behalf of the other Borrower (or any legal or other limitation, whether under the Limitation Acts or otherwise or any disability or death,
bankruptcy, unsoundness of mind, insolvency, liquidation, dissolution, winding up, administration, receivership, amalgamation, reconstruction or any other incapacity of any person whatsoever (including, in the case of a partnership, a termination or
change in the composition of the partnership) or any change of name or style or constitution of any Security Party). 
  

	18.4	Liability unconditional 

 None of the obligations or liabilities of the Borrowers under
any Security Document shall be discharged or reduced by reason of: 
  

	18.4.1	the death, bankruptcy, unsoundness of mind, insolvency, liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, administration, receivership, amalgamation, reconstruction or other incapacity of any person whatsoever (including, in the
case of a partnership, a termination or change in the composition of the partnership) or any change of name or style or constitution of any Borrower or any other person liable; 

 

	18.4.2	any Bank granting any time, indulgence or concession to, or compounding with, discharging, releasing or varying the liability of, any Borrower or any other person liable or renewing, determining, varying or increasing
any accommodation, facility or transaction or otherwise dealing with the same in any manner whatsoever or concurring in, accepting, varying any compromise, arrangement or settlement or omitting to claim or enforce payment from any Borrower or any
other person liable; or 

  
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	18.4.3	anything done or omitted which but for this provision might operate to exonerate the Borrowers or all of them. 

  

	18.5	Recourse to other security 

 No Bank shall be obliged to make any claim or demand or to
resort to any security or other means of payment now or hereafter held by or available to them for enforcing any of the Security Documents against any Borrower or any other person liable and no action taken or omitted by any Bank in connection with
any such security or other means of payment will discharge, reduce, prejudice or affect the liability of the Borrowers under the Security Documents to which any of them is, or is to be, a party. 

 

	18.6	Waiver of Borrowers’ rights 

 Each Borrower agrees with the Banks that, throughout
the Facility Period, it will not, without the prior written consent of the Agent: 
  

	18.6.1	exercise any right of subrogation, reimbursement and indemnity against the other Borrower or any other person liable under the Security Documents; 

 

	18.6.2	demand or accept repayment in whole or in part of any Indebtedness now or hereafter due to such Borrower from the other Borrower or from any other person liable for such Indebtedness or demand or accept any guarantee
against financial loss or any document or instrument created or evidencing an Encumbrance in respect of the same or dispose of the same; 

  

	18.6.3	take any steps to enforce any right against the other Borrower or any other person liable in respect of any such moneys; or 

  

	18.6.3	claim any set-off or counterclaim against the other Borrower or any other person liable or claim or prove in competition with any Bank in the liquidation of the other Borrower or any other person liable or have the
benefit of, or share in, any payment from or composition with, the other Borrower or any other person liable or any security granted under any Security Document now or hereafter held by any Bank for any moneys owing under this Agreement or for the
obligations or liabilities of any other person liable but so that, if so directed by the Agent, it will prove for the whole or any part of its claim in the liquidation of the other Borrower or other person liable on terms that the benefit of such
proof and all money received by it in respect thereof shall be held on trust for the Banks and applied in or towards discharge of any moneys owing under this Agreement in such manner as the Agent shall require. 

  
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	19	GOVERNING LAW 

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

	20	JURISDICTION 

  

	20.1	Exclusive Jurisdiction 

 For the benefit of the Banks, and subject to clause 20.4 below,
the Borrowers hereby irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction: 
  

	20.1.1	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

  

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

  

	20.2	Submission and service of process 

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

	20.2.1	irrevocably empowers and appoints HFW Nominees Ltd at present of Friary Court, 65 Crutched Friars, London EC3N 2AE, 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; 

  

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

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

  

	20.2.4	without prejudice to the effectiveness of service of process on its agent under clause 20.2.1 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; 

  

	20.2.5	agrees that if the appointment of any person mentioned in clause 20.2.1 ceases to be effective, the Borrowers 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 Agent shall thereupon be entitled and is hereby irrevocably authorised by the Borrowers in those circumstances to appoint such person by notice to the Borrowers. 

 

	20.3	Forum non conveniens and enforcement abroad 

 Each Borrower: 

 

	20.3.1	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 20.1; and 

 

	20.3.2	agrees that a judgment or order of an English court in a dispute or other matter falling within clause 20.1 shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrowers and may be enforced against it in the courts of any other
jurisdiction. 

  

	20.4	Right of Banks, but not Borrowers, to bring proceedings in any other jurisdiction 

  

	20.4.1	Nothing in this clause 20 limits the right of any Bank to bring Proceedings, including third party proceedings, against any one or both Borrowers, or to apply for interim remedies, in connection with this Agreement in
any other court and/or concurrently in more than one jurisdiction; 

  

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

  
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	20.5	Enforceability despite invalidity of Agreement 

 Without prejudice to the generality of
clause 13.9, the jurisdiction agreement contained in this clause 20 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. 
  

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

  

	20.6.1	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 or all of the Borrowers against any Bank, have been required to be brought in
the English courts; 

  

	20.6.2	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; 

  

	20.6.3	If, for any reason whatsoever, any Security Party and/or any person connected howsoever with any Security Party brings or pursues against any Bank any Foreign Proceedings, the Borrowers 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
Borrowers hereby agree and declare that the benefit of this clause 20 shall extend to and may be enforced by any officer, employee, agent or business associate of any of the Banks against whom a 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 any Bank, would fall within the
material scope of clause 20.1. In those circumstances this clause 20 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 Page 

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

 

			
	SIGNED by ALEXANDROS LAIOS	  	)
	as a deed for and on behalf of	  	)
	ASTRA MARITIME CORPORATION	  	) /s/ Alexandros Laios
	(as Borrower under and pursuant to	  	)
	a power of attorney dated	  	)
	25 June 2014) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	
		
	SIGNED by ALEXANDROS LAIOS	  	)
	as a deed for and on behalf of	  	)
	EMERY SHIPPING CORPORATION	  	) /s/ Alexandros Laios
	(as Borrower under and pursuant to	  	)
	a power of attorney dated	  	)
	25 June 2014) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	
		
	SIGNED by ALEXANDROS LAIOS	  	)
	as a deed for and on behalf of	  	)
	SERENITY SHIPPING ENTERPRISES INC.	  	) /s/ Alexandros Laios
	(as Borrower under and pursuant to	  	)
	a power of attorney dated	  	)
	25 June 2014) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	
		
	SIGNED by RONAN LE DU	  	)
	for and on behalf of	  	)
	DVB BANK SE	  	) /s/ Ronan Le Du
	(as a Lender) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	
		
	SIGNED by RONAN LE DU	  	)
	for and on behalf of	  	)
	CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK	  	) /s/ Ronan Le Du
	(as a Lender) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	
		
	SIGNED by RONAN LE DU	  	)
	for and on behalf of	  	)
	NORDDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK	  	) /s/ Ronan Le Du
	GIROZENTRALE	  	)
	(as a Lender under and pursuant to	  	)
	a power of attorney dated	  	)
	June 2014) in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	

  
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	SIGNED by RONAN LE DU	  	)
	for and on behalf of	  	)
	DVB BANK SE	  	) /s/ Ronan Le Du
	(as Arranger, Agent and Security Trustee)	  	)
	in the presence of:	  	)
	Robin Parry	  	)
	/s/ RP	  	

  
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