Document:

Exhibit 4.20

Dated 26 March 2015

TUVALU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

JABAT SHIPPING COMPANY INC. and

BIKINI SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

 as joint and several Borrowers

and

THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

listed in Schedule 1

as Lenders

and

ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

 as Swap Bank

and

ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

as Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee

LOAN AGREEMENT

relating to a senior secured term loan facility of up to US$53,000,000 to finance part

of the acquisition cost of three dry bulk carriers

named respectively "MYRTO", "MAIA" and "NEW YORK"

Index

 

 

	
Clause

	 	
Page

 

	
1

	
Interpretation

	
1

	
2

	
Facility

	
17

	
3

	
Position of the Lenders, the Swap Bank and the Majority Lenders

	
17

	
4

	
Drawdown

	
20

	
5

	
Interest

	
21

	
6

	
Interest Periods

	
23

	
7

	
Default Interest

	
23

	
8

	
Repayment and Prepayment

	
25

	
9

	
Conditions Precedent

	
27

	
10

	
Representations and Warranties

	
28

	
11

	
General Undertakings

	
31

	
12

	
Corporate Undertakings

	
37

	
13

	
Insurance

	
38

	
14

	
Ship Covenants

	
43

	
15

	
Security Cover

	
47

	
16

	
Payments and Calculations

	
49

	
17

	
Application of Receipts

	
51

	
18

	
Application of Earnings; Swap Payments

	
52

	
19

	
Events of Default

	
53

	
20

	
Fees and Expenses

	
57

	
21

	
Indemnities

	
59

	
22

	
No Set-Off or Tax Deduction

	
62

	
23

	
Illegality, etc.

	
64

	
24

	
Increased Costs

	
64

	
25

	
Set-Off

	
66

	
26

	
Transfers and Changes in Lending Offices

	
67

	
27

	
Variations and Waivers

	
71

	
28

	
Notices

	
72

	
29

	
Joint and Several Liability

	
74

	
30

	
Supplemental

	
75

	
31

	
Confidentiality

	
76

	
32

	
Law and Jurisdiction

	
78

	
Schedule 1 Lenders and Commitments

	
80

	
Schedule 2 Drawdown Notice

	
81

	
Schedule 3 Condition Precedent Documents

	
82

	
Schedule 4 Transfer Certificate

	
85

	
Schedule 5 Designation Notice

	
89

	
Execution Pages

	
90

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 26 March 2015

PARTIES

		(1)	TUVALU SHIPPING COMPANY INC., JABAT SHIPPING COMPANY INC. and BIKINI SHIPPING COMPANY INC., as joint and several Borrowers;

		(2)	THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1, as Lenders;

		(3)	ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Swap Bank;

		(4)	ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Agent;

		(5)	ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Arranger; and

		(6)	ABN AMRO BANK N.V., as Security Trustee.

BACKGROUND

		(A)	The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrowers a senior secured term loan facility in an amount of up to the lesser of (i) US$53,000,000 and (ii) 66 per cent. of the aggregate market value (determined pursuant to paragraph 5 of Schedule 3, Part B) of two Kamsarmax bulk carriers named respectively "MYRTO" and "MAIA" and a Capesize bulk carrier named "NEW YORK", in a single advance, for the purpose of financing part of the aggregate acquisition cost of those ships.

		(B)	The Swap Bank has agreed to enter into interest rate swap transactions with the Borrowers from time to time to hedge the Borrowers' exposure under this Agreement to interest rate fluctuations.

		(C)	The Lenders and the Swap Bank have agreed to share pad passu in the security to be granted to the Security Trustee pursuant to this Agreement.

IT IS AGREED as follows:

	1.	INTERPRETATION

	1.1	Definitions

Subject to Clause 1.5, in this Agreement:

"Account Pledge" means, in relation to each Earnings Account, a pledge agreement creating security in respect of that Earnings Account in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Affected Lender" has the meaning given in Clause 5.7;

"Affiliate" means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company;

"Agency and Trust Agreement" means the agency and trust agreement dated the same date as this Agreement and made between the same parties;

"Agent" means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and Trust Agreement;

"Agreed Form" means in relation to any document, that document in the form approved in writing by the Agent or as otherwise approved in accordance with any other approval procedure specified in any relevant provisions of any Finance Document;

"Annex VI" means Annex VI (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973 (as modified in 1978 and 1997);

"Approved Broker" means any of Arrow Sale & Purchase (UK) Limited, Breamar Seascope Ltd, H. Clarkson & Co. Ltd., Fearnleys AS, Maersk Brokers K/S, R.S. Platou Shipbrokers AS and Simpson Spence & Young (London) Ltd. (including their successors or assigns and such Subsidiary or other company in the same corporate group through which valuations are commonly issued by each of those brokers) or any other reputable sale and purchase broker approved and appointed by the Agent;

"Approved Flag" means the Marshall Islands flag or any other flag which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve as the flag on which a Ship may be registered;

"Approved Flag State" means the Republic of the Marshall Islands or any other state in which the Agent may, in its absolute discretion, at the request of the Borrowers, approve that a Ship be registered;

"Approved Manager" means, in relation to the commercial and technical management of each Ship, Diana Shipping Services S.A., a company incorporated and existing under the laws of Panama having its registered office at Edificio Universal, Piso 12, Avenida Federico Boyd, Panama, Republic of Panama and maintaining an office at 16 Pendelis Street, 175 64, Palaio Faliro, Greece or any other company which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve from time to time as the technical and/or commercial manager of each Ship;

"Approved Manager's Undertaking" means, in relation to each Ship, a letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of that Ship and subordinating its rights against that Ship and the Borrower which is the owner thereof to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Arranger" means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor;

"Availability Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on:

		(a)	30 June 2015 (or such later date as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, agree with the Borrowers); or

		(b)	if earlier, the date on which the Total Commitments are fully borrowed, cancelled or terminated;

"Balloon Instalment" has the meaning given in Clause 8.1(b);

"Basel III" means:

		(a)	the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems", "Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating 

 

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the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; and

		(b)	any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to "Basel III";

"Borrower" means each of Borrower A, Borrower B and Borrower C and, in the plural, means, all of them;

"Borrower A" means Tuvalu Shipping Company Inc., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, The Marshall Islands;

"Borrower B" means Jabat Shipping Company Inc., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, The Marshall Islands;

"Borrower C" means Bikini Shipping Company Inc., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, The Marshall Islands;

"Business Day" means a day on which banks are open in London, Athens, Rotterdam and, in respect of a day on which a payment is required to be made under a Finance Document, also in New York City;

"Change of Control" means any change in the direct legal ownership of any Borrower from that disclosed to the Agent in writing on or before the date of this Agreement;

"Charterparty" means, in relation to each Ship, any charter (in the case of Ship C, other than the Initial Charter) or other contract of employment or any consecutive voyage charter or contract of affreightment in respect of that Ship of a duration (or capable of having or exceeding a duration) of 12 months or more and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Charterparty Assignment" means, in relation to each Charterparty, a specific deed of assignment of the rights, title and interests of the Borrower who is a party to that Charterparty in respect of that Charterparty in the Agreed Form;

"Code" means the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986;

"Commitment" means, in relation to a Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1, or, as the case may require, the amount specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate, as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this Agreement (and "Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders);

"Compliance Certificate" means a certificate in the form set out in the Schedule to the Corporate Guarantee (or in any other form which the Agent may approve or require);

"Confidential Information" means all information relating to the Loan, any Borrower, any Security Party, any member of the Group or the Finance Documents of which the Creditor Parties becomes aware in its capacity as Creditor Party or which is received by the Creditor Parties in relation to the Finance Documents from any member of the Group or any of its advisers in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes information that:

		(a)	is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by a Creditor Party of Clause 31; or

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		(b)	is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any member of the Group or Security Party or any of its advisers; or

		(c)	is known by the Creditor Parties before the date the information is disclosed to it or is lawfully obtained by the Creditor Parties after that date, from a source which is, as far as the Creditor Parties are aware, unconnected with the Group and which, in either case, as far as the Lender is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality;

"Confirmation" and "Early Termination Date", in relation to any continuing Designated Transaction, have the meanings given in the Master Agreement;

"Contractual Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 21.5;

"Contribution" means, in relation to a Lender, the part of the Loan which is owing to that Lender;

"Corporate Guarantee" means a corporate guarantee of the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement, the Master Agreement and the other Finance Documents, executed or (as the context may require) to be executed by the Corporate Guarantor in the Agreed Form;

"Corporate Guarantor" means Diana Shipping Inc., a corporation domesticated in the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, The Marshall Islands;

"Corresponding Debt" means any amount which a Borrower owes to a Creditor Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents;

"CRD IV" means Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Union on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms;

"CRR" means Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 of the European Union on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms;

"Creditor Party" means the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Arranger, the Swap Bank or any Lender, whether as at the date of this Agreement or at any later time;

"Designated Transaction" means a Transaction which fulfils the following requirements:

		(a)	it is entered into by the Borrowers pursuant to the Master Agreement with the Swap Bank which, at the time the Transaction is entered into, is also a Lender;

		(b)	its purpose is the hedging of all or part of the Borrowers' exposure under this Agreement to fluctuations in LIBOR arising from the funding of the Loan (or any part thereof) for a period expiring no later than the final Repayment Date; and

		(c)	it is designated by the Borrowers, by delivery by the Borrowers to the Agent of a notice of designation in the form set out in Schedule 5, as a Designated Transaction for the purposes of the Finance Documents;

"Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency for the time being of the US;

"Drawdown Date" means the date requested by the Borrowers for the Loan to be advanced, or (as the context requires) the date on which the Loan is actually advanced;

"Drawdown Notice" means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 (or in any other form which the Agent approves or reasonably requires);

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"Earnings" means, in relation to a Ship, all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the relevant Borrower owning that Ship or the Security Trustee and which arise out of the use or operation of that Ship, including (but not limited to):

		(a)	except to the extent that they fall within paragraph (b);

		(i)	all freight, hire and passage moneys;

		(ii)	compensation payable to a Borrower or the Security Trustee in the event of requisition of a Ship for hire;

		(iii)	remuneration for salvage and towage services;

		(iv)	demurrage and detention moneys;

		(v)	damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of a Ship; and

		(vi)	all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire; and

		(b)	if and whenever a Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a)(i) to (vi) are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship;

"Earnings Account" means, in relation to each Ship, an account in the name of the Borrower owning that Ship with the Agent in Rotterdam designated "[name of relevant Borrower]-Earnings Account", or any other account (with that or another office of the Agent or with a bank or financial institution other than the Agent) which is designated by the Agent as the Earnings Account in respect of that Ship for the purposes of this Agreement, and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Environmental Claim" means:

		(a)	any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law; or

		(b)	any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental Incident,

and "claim" means a claim for damages, compensation, fines, penalties or any other payment of any kind whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action, including the arrest or attachment of any asset;

"Environmental Incident" means:

		(a)	any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from the Ship; or

		(b)	any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than a Ship and which involves a collision between a Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which a Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or a Ship and/or the Borrower and/or any 

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operator or manager of a Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; or

		(c)	any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from a Ship and in connection with which a Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where any Borrower and/or any operator or manager of a Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action;

"Environmental Law" means any law relating to pollution or protection of the environment, to the carriage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material;

"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means oil, oil products and any other substance (including any chemical, gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous;

"Event of Default" means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 19.1; "FATCA" means:

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

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

		(c)	any agreement pursuant to the implementation of any treaty, law or regulation referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the IRS, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction;

"FATCA Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under any Finance Document required by or under FATCA;

"FATCA Exempt Party" means a party to a Finance Document that is entitled under FATCA to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction;

"Finance Documents" means:

		(a)	this Agreement;

		(b)	the Agency and Trust Agreement;

		(c)	the Master Agreement;

		(d)	the Master Agreement Assignment;

		(e)	the Corporate Guarantee;

		(f)	the General Assignments;

		(g)	the Mortgages;

		(h)	the Account Pledges;

		(i)	the Shares Pledges;

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		(j)	the Initial Charter Assignment;

		(k)	the Approved Manager's Undertakings;

		(l)	any Charterparty Assignment; and

		(m)	any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor, the Approved Manager or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lenders and/or the Swap Bank under this Agreement or any of the other documents referred to in this definition;

"Financial Indebtedness" means, in relation to a person (the "debtor"), a liability of the debtor:

		(a)	for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor;

		(b)	under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor;

		(c)	under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility or dematerialised equivalent made available to the debtor;

		(d)	under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money by the debtor;

		(e)	under any foreign exchange transaction, any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; or

		(f)	under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within paragraphs (a) to (e) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person;

"Financial Year" means, in relation to the Corporate Guarantor, each period of 1 year commencing on 1 January in respect of which its annual audited accounts are or ought to be prepared;

"Fleet Vessels" means all of the vessels (including, but not limited to, the Ships) from time to time wholly owned by members of the Group (each a "Fleet Vessel");

"GAAP" means, at any time, the most recent and updated generally accepted accounting principles in the US;

"General Assignment" means, in relation to each Ship, a first priority general assignment of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in relation to that Ship in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Group" means the Corporate Guarantor and all its subsidiaries (including, but not limited to, the Borrowers) from time to time during the Security Period and "member of the Group" shall be construed accordingly;

"Holding Company" means, in relation to a person, any other person in respect of which it is a Subsidiary;

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"IACS" means the International Association of Classification Societies;

"IAPPC" means a valid international air pollution prevention certificate issued under Annex VI;

"Initial Charter" means, in respect of Ship C, the time charterparty dated 11 December 2014 (as evidenced by a recapitulation email dated 12 December 2014) made between Borrower C as owner and the Initial Charterer for a period of at least 14 months at a minimum daily charter hire of $12,850;

"Initial Charter Assignment" means an assignment of the rights of Borrower C under the Initial Charter in favour of the Security Trustee in the Agreed Form;

"Initial Charterer" means Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in Singapore with registered office at 12 Marina Boulevard, #35-02 Marina Bay Financial Tower 3, Singapore 018982, Singapore;

"Initial Market Value" means, in respect of a Ship, the Market Value of that Ship calculated in accordance with the valuation (or, if required by the Agent pursuant to the proviso to Clause 15.3, calculated by taking the arithmetic mean of two valuations) relative thereto referred to in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3, Part B;

"Insurances" means, in relation to a Ship:

		(a)	all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries of the Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, effected in respect of the Ship, its Earnings or otherwise in relation to the Ship whether before, on or after the date of this Agreement; and

		(b)	all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium and any rights in respect of any claim whether or not the relevant policy, contract of insurance or entry has expired on or before the date of this Agreement;

"Interest Period" means a period determined in accordance with Clause 6; "IRS" means the US Internal Revenue Service;

"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time (and the terms "safety management system", "Safety Management Certificate" and "Document of Compliance" have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code);

"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code as adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time;

"ISSC" means a valid and current International Ship Security Certificate issued under the ISPS Code;

"Lender" means a bank or financial institution listed in Schedule 1 and acting through its branch indicated in Schedule 1 (or through another branch notified to the Agent under Clause 26.14) or its transferee, successor or assign and, in the plural, means all of them;

"LIBOR" means, for an Interest Period:

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		(a)	the rate per annum equal to the offered quotation for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to, or as near as possible equal to, the relevant Interest Period which appears on the Screen Rate; or

		(b)	if no rate is quoted on the Screen Rate, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the rate per annum notified to the Agent by the Reference Bank as the rate at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Reference Bank by leading banks in the London Interbank Market at the Reference Bank's request at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for that Interest Period for a period equal to that Interest Period and for delivery on the first Business Day of it,

and, if any such rate is below zero, LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero;

"Loan" means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under this Agreement;

"Major Casualty" means, in relation to a Ship, any casualty to that Ship in respect of which the claim or the aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds $1,000,000 or the equivalent in any other currency;

"Majority Lenders" means:

		(a)	before the Loan has been advanced, Lenders whose Commitments total 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments; and

		(b)	after the Loan has been advanced, Lenders whose Contributions total 66.66 per cent. of the Loan;

"Mandatory Cost" means any cost calculated by the Agent pursuant to Clause 21.9; "Margin" means 2 per cent. per annum;

"Market Value" means, in relation to each Ship (and each other Fleet Vessel), the market value thereof determined in accordance with Clause 15.3;

"Master Agreement" means the master agreement (on the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement form) in the Agreed Form made or to be made between the Borrowers and the Swap Bank and includes all Designated Transactions from time to time entered into and Confirmations from time to time exchanged under the master agreement;

"Master Agreement Assignment" means the assignment of the Master Agreement in the Agreed Form;

"Material Adverse Effect" means in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders a material adverse effect on:

		(a)	the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Borrowers (or any of them) and/or any of the Security Parties and/or the Group; or

		(b)	the ability of a Borrower or a Security Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents; or

		(c)	the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Security Interest granted or purported to be granted pursuant to any of, the Finance Documents or the rights or remedies of any Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents;

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"Minimum Liquidity Amount" has the meaning given in Clause 11.17;

"Mortgage" means, in relation to a Ship, the first preferred or, as the case may be, priority, ship mortgage (and, if applicable, a deed of covenant collateral thereto) on that Ship in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Negotiation Period" has the meaning given in Clause 5.10;

"Notifying Lender" has the meaning given in Clause 23.1 or Clause 24.1 as the context requires;

"Parallel Debt" means any amount which a Borrower owes to the Security Trustee under Clause 3.7;

"Participating Member State" means any member state of the European Union that has the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union;

"PATRIOT Act" means the United States Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (H.R. 3199);

"Payment Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 21.5; 

"Permitted Security Interests" means:

		(a)	Security Interests created by the Finance Documents;

		(b)	liens for unpaid master's and crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice;

		(c)	liens for salvage;

		(d)	liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months' prepaid hire under any charter in relation to a Ship not prohibited by this Agreement;

		(e)	liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course of the operation, repair or maintenance of a Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the relevant Borrower in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 14.13(g);

		(f)	any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any proceedings or arbitration as security for costs and expenses where the Borrower is actively prosecuting or defending such proceedings or arbitration in good faith;

		(g)	Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment or in respect of taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made; and

		(h)	a right of pledge (and set-off) under and pursuant to the general conditions of ABN AMRO Bank N.V.;

"Pertinent Document" means:

		(a)	any Finance Document;

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		(b)	any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 13 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;

		(c)	any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document; and

		(d)	any document which has been or is at any time sent by or to a Servicing Bank in contemplation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any policy, contract or document falling within paragraphs (b) or (c);

"Pertinent Jurisdiction", in relation to a company, means:

		(a)	England and Wales;

		(b)	the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed;

		(c)	a country in which the company has the centre of its main interests or in which the company's central management and control is or has recently been exercised;

		(d)	a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax;

		(e)	a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which the company maintains a branch or permanent place of business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and

		(f)	a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company, whether as main or territorial or ancillary proceedings, or which would have such jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c);

"Pertinent Matter" means:

		(a)	any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or in connection with a Pertinent Document; or

		(b)	any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a),

and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of this Agreement or on or at any time after that signing;

"Potential Event of Default" means an event or circumstance which, with the giving of any notice, the lapse of time, a determination of the Majority Lenders and/or the satisfaction of any other condition, would constitute an Event of Default;

"Quotation Date" means, in relation to any Interest Period (or any other period for which an interest rate is to be determined under any provision of a Finance Document, the day which is 2 Business Days before the first day of that Interest Period or any other period, unless market practice differs in the London Interbank Market for a currency, in which case the Quotation Date 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 Date will be the last of those days);

 

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"Reference Bank" means, subject to Clause 26.16, the branch of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. at Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands or any other bank or financial institution selected by the Agent;

"Related Fund" in relation to a fund (the "first fund"), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund;

"Relevant Person" has the meaning given in Clause 19.9;

"Repayment Date" means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 8;

"Repayment Instalment" has the meaning given in Clause 8.1(a);

"Representative" means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian;

"Requisition Compensation" includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "Total Loss";

"Restricted Person" means a person that is (i) listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on, any Sanctions List; (ii) located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide Sanctions (including, without limitation, at the date of this Agreement Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Syria and Sudan); or (iii) otherwise a target of Sanctions;

"Sanctions" means any economic sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (i) the US government; (ii) the United Nations; (Hi) the European Union or its Member States; (iv) any country to which any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any other Security Party, or any other member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them is bound; or (v) the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (OFAC), the US Department of State and Her Majesty's Treasury (HMT) (together "Sanctions Authorities");

"Sanctions List" means the "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" list issued by OFAC, the "Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and Investment Ban List" issued by HMT, or any similar list issued or maintained or made public by any of the Sanctions Authorities;

"Screen Rate" means the London interbank offered rate administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for Dollars for the relevant period displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 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. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrowers and the Lenders;

"Secured Liabilities" means all liabilities which the Borrowers and the Security Parties or any of them have, at the date of this Agreement or at any later time or times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any 

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bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country;

"Security Interest" means:

		(a)	a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind;

		(b)	the security rights of a plaintiff under an action in rem; and

		(c)	any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the position in which B would have been had he held a security interest over an asset of A; but this paragraph (c) does not apply to a right of set off or combination of accounts conferred by the standard terms of business of a bank or financial institution;

"Security Party" means the Corporate Guarantor, the Approved Manager and any other person (except a Creditor Party) who, as a surety or mortgagor, as a party to any subordination or priorities arrangement, or in any similar capacity, executes a document falling within the last paragraph of the definition of "Finance Documents";

"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date on which the Agent notifies the Borrowers, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties that:

		(a)	all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrowers or any Security Party under the Finance Documents have been paid;

		(b)	no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any Finance Document;

		(c)	none of the Borrowers nor any Security Party has any future or contingent liability under Clauses 20, 21 or 22 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; and

		(d)	the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Arranger, the Swap Bank and the Majority Lenders do not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible future bankruptcy of a Borrower or a Security Party or in any present or possible future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document;

"Security Trustee" means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at Coolsingel 93, 3012 AE Rotterdam, The Netherlands, or any successor of it appointed under clause 5 of the Agency and Trust Agreement;

"Servicing Bank" means the Agent or the Security Trustee;

"Shares Pledge" means, in relation to each Borrower, a deed executed by the Corporate Guarantor creating security over the share capital of that Borrower in the Agreed Form and, in the plural, means all of them;

"Ship A" means the 2013-built Kamsarmax bulk carrier vessel of approximately 43012 deadweight tonnage registered in the ownership of Borrower A under the Marshall Islands flag under IMO No. 9518086 with the name "MYRTO";

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"Ship B" means the 2009-built Kamsarmax bulk carrier vessel of approximately 42930 deadweight tonnage registered in the ownership of Borrower B under the Marshall Islands flag under IMO No. 9422938 with the name "MAIA";

"Ship C" means the 2010-built Capesize bulk carrier vessel of approximately 91407 deadweight tonnage registered in the ownership of Borrower C under the Marshall Islands flag under IMO No. 9405332 with the name "NEW YORK";

"Ships" means, together, Ship A, Ship B and Ship C and, in the singular, means any of them;

"SMC" means a safety management certificate issued in respect of each Ship in accordance with Rule 13 of the ISM Code;

"Subsidiary" means a subsidiary within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;

"Swap Bank" means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., acting in such capacity through its office at Gustav Mahrerlaan 10, NL-1082 PP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or its successor or assign;

"Swap Exposure" means, as at any relevant date, the amount certified by the Swap Bank to the Agent to be the aggregate net amount in Dollars which would be payable by the Borrowers to the Swap Bank under (and calculated in accordance with) section 6(e)(i) (Payments on Early Termination) of the Master Agreement if an Early Termination Date had occurred on the relevant date in relation to all continuing Designated Transactions;

"Total Loss" means, in relation to a Ship:

		(a)	actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship;

		(b)	any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority (excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 1 year without any right to an extension) unless it is within 1 month redelivered to the full control of the Borrower owning that Ship;

		(c)	any condemnation of the Ship by any tribunal or by any person or person claiming to be a tribunal; and

		(d)	any arrest, capture, seizure or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless it is within 1 month redelivered to the full control of the Borrower owning the Ship;

"Total Loss Date" means, in relation to a Ship:

		(a)	in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of;

		(b)	in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earliest of:

		(i)	the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and

		(ii)	the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Borrower owning the Ship with the Ship's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat the Ship as a total loss; and

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		(c)	in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Agent that the event constituting the total loss occurred;

"Transaction" has the meaning given in the Master Agreement; 

"Transfer Certificate" has the meaning given in Clause 26.2; and

"Trust Property" has the meaning given in clause 3.1 of the Agency and Trust Agreement; and

"US" means the United States of America.

	1.2	Construction of certain terms

In this Agreement:

"administration notice" means a notice appointing an administrator, a notice of intended appointment and any other notice which is required by law (generally or in the case concerned) to be filed with the court or given to a person prior to, or in connection with, the appointment of an administrator;

"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 13, approved in writing by the Agent;

"asset" includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;

"company" includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association;

"consent" includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration, notarisation and legalisation;

"contingent liability" means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or the amount of which remains unascertained;

"document" includes a deed; also a letter or fax;

"excess risks" means, in relation to a Ship, the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies in respect of that Ship in consequence of its insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims;

"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable value added or other tax;

"law" includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, any treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or its Security Council;

"legal or administrative action" means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory action or investigation;

"liability" includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise;

"months" shall be construed in accordance with Clause 1.3;

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"obligatory insurances" means, in relation to a Ship, all insurances effected, or which the Borrower owning that Ship is obliged to effect, under Clause 13 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;

"person" includes any company; any state, political sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority; and any international organisation;

"policy", in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms;

"protection and indemnity risks" means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of clause 6 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/11/95) or clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any equivalent provision;

"regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;

"successor" includes any person who is entitled (by assignment, novation, merger or otherwise) to any person's rights under this Agreement or any other Finance Document (or any interest in those rights) or who, as administrator, liquidator or otherwise, is entitled to exercise those rights; and in particular references to a successor include a person to whom those rights (or any interest in those rights) are transferred or pass as a result of a merger, division, reconstruction or other reorganisation of it or any other person;

"tax" includes any present or future tax, duty, impost, levy or charge of any kind which is imposed by any state, any political sub-division of a state or any local or municipal authority (including any such imposed in connection with exchange controls), and any connected penalty, interest or fine; and

"war risks" includes the risk of mines, blocking and trapping, terrorism, piracy and confiscation and all other risks excluded by clause 29, 30 and 31 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 24, 25 and 26 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/11/95) or clause 23 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83).

	1.3	Meaning of "month"

A period of one or more "months" ends on the day in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("the numerically corresponding day"), but:

		(a)	on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or

		(b)	on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of the period has no numerically corresponding day,

and "month" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly.

	1.4	General Interpretation

In this Agreement:

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		(a)	references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise;

		(b)	references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or otherwise;

		(c)	words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa;

		(d)	a Potential Event of Default is "continuing" if it has not been remedied or waived and an Event of Default is "continuing" if it has not been waived; and

		(e)	Clauses 1.1 to 1.4 apply unless the contrary intention appears.

	1.5	Headings

In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all clause, sub-clause and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.

	2.	FACILITY

	2.1	Amount of facility

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall make available to the Borrowers, in a single advance, a senior secured term loan facility in an amount of up to the lesser of (i) $53,000,000 and (ii) 66 per cent. of the aggregate Initial Market Value of the Ships, for the purpose of financing part of the aggregate acquisition cost of the Ships.

	2.2	Lenders' participations in Loan

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in the Loan in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.

	2.3	Purpose of Loan

The Borrowers undertake with each Creditor Party to use the Loan only for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.

	3.	POSITION OF THE LENDERS, THE SWAP BANK AND THE MAJORITY LENDERS

	3.1	Interests of Lenders and Swap Bank several

The rights of the Lenders and the Swap Bank under this Agreement and the Master Agreement are several; accordingly:

		(a)	each Lender shall be entitled to sue for any amount which has become due and payable by the Borrowers to it under this Agreement; and

		(b)	the Swap Bank shall be entitled to sue for any amount which has become due and payable by the Borrowers to it under the Master Agreement,

without joining the Agent, the Security Trustee, any other Lender and the Swap Bank as additional parties in the proceedings.

	3.2	Proceedings by individual Lender or Swap Bank

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However, without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders, no Lender nor the Swap Bank may bring proceedings in respect of:

		(a)	any other liability or obligation of a Borrower or a Security Party under or connected with a Finance Document; or

		(b)	any misrepresentation or breach of warranty by a Borrower or a Security Party in or connected with a Finance Document.

	3.3	Obligations several

The obligations of the Lenders and the Swap Bank under this Agreement and of the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender or the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement or of the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under the Master Agreement shall not result in:

		(a)	the obligations of the other Lenders or (as the case may be) the Swap Bank being increased; nor

		(b)	any Borrower, any Security Party or any other Creditor Party being discharged (in whole or in part) from its obligations under any Finance Document,

and in no circumstances shall a Lender or the Swap Bank have any responsibility for a failure of another Lender or the Swap Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Master Agreement.

	3.4	Parties bound by certain actions of Majority Lenders

Every Lender, the Swap Bank, each Borrower and each Security Party shall be bound by:

		(a)	any determination made, or action taken, by the Majority Lenders under any provision of a Finance Document;

		(b)	any instruction or authorisation given by the Majority Lenders to the Agent or the Security Trustee under or in connection with any Finance Document (subject always to Clause 27.2); and

		(c)	any action taken (or in good faith purportedly taken) by the Agent or the Security Trustee in accordance with such an instruction or authorisation.

	3.5	Reliance on action of Agent

However, each Borrower and each Security Party:

		(a)	shall be entitled to assume that the Majority Lenders have duly given any instruction or authorisation which, under any provision of a Finance Document, is required in relation to any action which the Agent has taken or is about to take; and

		(b)	shall not be entitled to require any evidence that such an instruction or authorisation has been given.

	3.6	Construction

In Clauses 3.4 and 3.5 references to action taken include (without limitation) the granting of any waiver or consent, an approval of any document and an agreement to any matter.

	3.7	Parallel debt

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		(a)	Each Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Security Trustee amounts equal to, and in the currency or currencies of, its Corresponding Debt.

		(b)	The Parallel Debt of a Borrower:

		(i)	shall become due and payable at the same time as its Corresponding Debt;

		(ii)	is independent and separate from, and without prejudice to, its Corresponding Debt.

		(c)	For the purposes of this Clause, the Security Trustee:

		(i)	is the independent and separate creditor of all the Parallel Debt;

		(ii)	acts in its own name and not as agent, representative or trustee of the Creditor Parties and its claims in respect of the Parallel Debt shall not be held on trust; and

		(iii)	shall have the independent and separate right to demand payment of any or all the Parallel Debt in its own name (including, without limitation, through any suit, execution, enforcement of security, recovery of guarantees and applications for and voting in any kind of insolvency proceeding).

		(d)	The Parallel Debt of a Borrower shall be (a) decreased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has been irrevocably and unconditionally paid or discharged and (b) increased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has increased, and the Corresponding Debt of a Borrower shall be (x) decreased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has been irrevocably and unconditionally paid or discharged and (y) increased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has increased, in each case provided that the Parallel Debt of a Borrower shall never exceed its Corresponding Debt.

		(e)	All amounts received or recovered by the Security Trustee in connection with this Clause, to the extent permitted by applicable law, shall be applied in accordance with Clause 17 (Application of receipts).

	3.8	Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany

On any matter referred to in Clause 11.19 in respect of which the Lenders are to vote but in respect of which a Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany to whom Clause 11.19(d) applies shall not vote in accordance with such paragraph:

		(a)	for the purposes of determining whether approval of the Majority Lenders is obtained the references in the definition of "Majority Lenders" to 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments and to 66.66 per cent. of the Loan shall for this purpose be construed to refer to 66.66 per cent. of the Total Commitments or, as the case may be, the Loan only taking account of the other Commitments of, or as the case may be, the participation in the Loan of, the Lenders and ignoring the Commitment of or, as the case may be, the participation in the Loan of, the Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany; and an action taken by the Majority Lenders as such definition is modified by this paragraph (a) shall be valid in the applicable circumstances and binding all parties; and

		(b)	for the purposes of determining whether the approval of all Lenders is obtained, all Lenders shall be construed to mean the other Lenders ignoring the Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany and an action taken by all Lenders as modified by this paragraph (b) shall be valid in the applicable circumstances and binding on all the parties of this Agreement.

 

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	4.	DRAWDOWN

	4.1	Request for the Loan

Subject to the following conditions, the Borrowers may request the Loan to be advanced by ensuring that the Agent receives a completed Drawdown Notice not later than 11.00 a.m. (Rotterdam time) 3 Business Days (or such shorter period as the Agent may, in its absolute discretion, agree) prior to the intended Drawdown Date.

	4.2	Availability

The conditions referred to in Clause 4.1 are that:

		(a)	the Drawdown Date has to be a Business Day during the Availability Period;

		(b)	the amount of the Loan shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of (i) $53,000,000 and (ii) 66 per cent. of the aggregate Initial Market Value of the Ships; and

		(c)	the Loan shall be applied in financing part of the aggregate acquisition cost of each Ship.

	4.3	Notification to Lenders of receipt of a Drawdown Notice

The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received a Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:

		(a)	the amount of the Loan and the Drawdown Date;

		(b)	the amount of that Lender's participation in the Loan; and

		(c)	the duration of the first Interest Period.

	4.4	Drawdown Notice irrevocable

A Drawdown Notice must be signed by a director or an authorised representative of each Borrower; and once served, a Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Agent, acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders.

	4.5	Lenders to make available Contributions

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall, on and with value on the Drawdown Date, make available to the Agent for the account of the Borrowers the amount due from that Lender on the Drawdown Date under Clause 2.2.

	4.6	Disbursement of Loan

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent shall on the Drawdown Date pay to the Borrowers the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.5; and that payment to the Borrowers shall be made:

		(a)	to the account which the Borrowers specify in the Drawdown Notice; and

		(b)	in the like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders.

	4.7	Disbursement of Loan to third party

The payment by the Agent under Clause 4.6 shall constitute the making of the Loan and the Borrowers shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligors, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's Contribution.

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	5.	INTEREST

	5.1	Payment of normal interest

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on the Loan in respect of each Interest Period applicable thereto shall be paid by the Borrowers on the last day of that Interest Period.

	5.2	Normal rate of interest

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the rate of interest on the Loan in respect of an Interest Period shall be the aggregate of (i) the Margin, (ii) the Mandatory Cost (if any) and (iii) LIBOR for that Interest Period.

	5.3	Payment of accrued interest

In the case of an Interest Period longer than 3 months, accrued interest shall be paid every 3 months during that Interest Period and on the last day of that Interest Period.

	5.4	Notification of Interest Periods and rates of normal interest

The Agent shall notify the Borrowers and each Lender of:

		(a)	each rate of interest; and

		(b)	the duration of each Interest Period

as soon as reasonably practicable after each is determined.

	5.5	Obligation of Reference Bank to quote

The Reference Bank which is a Lender shall use all reasonable efforts to supply the quotation required of it for the purposes of fixing a rate of interest under this Agreement.

	5.6	Absence of quotations by Reference Bank

If the Reference Bank fails to supply a quotation, the relevant rate of interest shall be set in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 5.

	5.7	Market disruption

The following provisions of this Clause 5 apply if:

		(a)	no screen rate is quoted in the Screen Rate and the Reference Bank does not, before 1.00 p.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date, provide quotations to the Agent in order to fix LIBOR; or

		(b)	at least 1 Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, Lenders having Contributions together amounting to 50 per cent. or more of the Loan (or, if the Loan has not been made, Commitments amounting to 50 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments) notify the Agent that LIBOR fixed by the Agent would not accurately reflect the cost to those Lenders of funding their respective Contributions (or any part of them) during the Interest Period in the London Interbank Market at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for the Interest Period; or

		(c)	at least 1 Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, the Agent is notified by a Lender (the "Affected Lender") that for any reason it is unable to obtain Dollars in the 

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London Interbank Market in order to fund its Contribution (or any part of it) during the Interest Period.

	5.8	Notification of market disruption

The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and each of the Lenders and the Swap Bank stating the circumstances falling within Clause 5.7 which have caused its notice to be given.

	5.9	Suspension of drawdown

If the Agent's notice under Clause 5.8 is served before the Loan is advanced:

		(a)	in a case falling within Clauses 5.7(a) or 5.7(b), the Lenders' obligations to advance the Loan; and

		(b)	in a case falling within Clause 5.7(c), the Affected Lender's obligation to participate in the Loan,

shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Agent's notice continue.

	5.10	Negotiation of alternative rate of interest

If the Agent's notice under Clause 5.8 is served after the Loan is borrowed, the Borrowers, the Agent, the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender and the Swap Bank shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, within 30 days after the date on which the Agent serves its notice under Clause 5.8 (the "Negotiation Period"), an alternative interest rate or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender to fund or continue to fund their or its Contribution during the Interest Period concerned.

	5.11	Application of agreed alternative rate of interest

Any alternative interest rate or an alternative basis which is agreed during the Negotiation Period shall take effect in accordance with the terms agreed.

	5.12	Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement

If an alternative interest rate or alternative basis is not agreed within the Negotiation Period, and the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the Negotiation Period, then the Agent shall, with the agreement of each Lender or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender, set an interest period and interest rate representing the cost of funding of the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender in Dollars or in any available currency of their or its Contribution plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any); and the procedure provided for by this Clause 5.12 shall be repeated if the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the interest period so set by the Agent.

	5.13	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrowers do not agree with an interest rate set by the Agent under Clause 5.12, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 15 Business Days' notice of their intention to prepay the Loan at the end of the interest period set by the Agent.

	5.14	Prepayment; termination of Commitments

A notice under Clause 5.13 shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders or (as the case may require) the Affected Lender of the Borrowers' notice of intended prepayment; and:

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		(a)	on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Total Commitments or (as the case may require) the Commitment of the Affected Lender shall be cancelled; and

		(b)	on the last Business Day of the interest period set by the Agent, the Borrowers shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan or, as the case may be, the Affected Lender's Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).

	5.15	Application of prepayment

The provisions of Clause 8 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.

	6.	INTEREST PERIODS

	6.1	Commencement of Interest Periods

The first Interest Period applicable to the Loan shall commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.

	6.2	Duration of normal Interest Periods

Subject to Clauses 6.3 and 6.4, each Interest Period shall be:

		(a)	1, 3, 6 or 9 months as notified by the Borrowers to the Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. (Rotterdam time) 3 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period Provided that the Borrowers may not select a 1-month Interest Period more than 4 times per calendar year; or

		(b)	3 months, if the Borrowers fail to notify the Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a); or

		(c)	such other period as the Agent may, with the authorisation of all the Lenders, agree with the Borrowers.

	6.3	Duration of Interest Periods for Repayment Instalments

In respect of an amount due to be repaid under Clause 8 on a particular Repayment Date, an Interest Period shall end on that Repayment Date.

	6.4	Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected

If, after the Borrowers have selected and the Lenders have agreed an Interest Period longer than 3 months, any Lender notifies the Agent by 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the third Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period that it is not satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the London Interbank Market when the Interest Period commences, the Interest Period shall be of 3 months.

	7.	DEFAULT INTEREST

	7.1	Payment of default interest on overdue amounts

The Borrowers shall pay interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 7 on any amount payable by the Borrowers under any Finance Document which the Agent, the Security Trustee or the other designated payee does not receive on or before the relevant date, that is:

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		(a)	the date on which the Finance Documents (or any of them) provide that such amount is due for payment; or

		(b)	if a Finance Document provides that such amount is payable on demand, the date on which the demand is served; or

		(c)	if such amount has become immediately due and payable under Clause 19.4, the date on which it became immediately due and payable.

	7.2	Default rate of interest

Interest shall accrue on an overdue amount from (and including) the relevant date until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be 2 per cent. above:

		(a)	in the case of an overdue amount of principal, the higher of the rates set out at Clauses 7.3(a) and 7.3(b); or

		(b)	in the case of any other overdue amount, the rate set out at Clause 7.3(b).

	7.3	Calculation of default rate of interest The rates referred to in Clause 7.2 are:

		(a)	the rate applicable to the overdue principal amount immediately prior to the relevant date (but only for any unexpired part of any then current Interest Period applicable to it); and

		(b)	the aggregate of the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any) plus, in respect of successive periods of any duration (including at call) up to 3 months which the Agent may select from time to time:

		(i)	LIBOR; or

		(ii)	if the Agent (after consultation with the Reference Bank) determines that Dollar deposits for any such period are not being made available to the Reference Bank by leading banks in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business, a rate from time to time determined by the Agent by reference to the cost of funds to the Reference Bank from such other sources as the Agent (after consultation with the Reference Bank) may from time to time determine.

	7.4	Notification of interest periods and default rates

The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrowers of each interest rate determined by the Agent under Clause 7.3 and of each period selected by the Agent for the purposes of paragraph (b) of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply that the Borrowers are liable to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the Agent's notification.

	7.5	Payment of accrued default interest

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, any interest due under this Clause shall be paid on the last day of the period by reference to which it was determined; and the payment shall be made to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Party to which the overdue amount is due.

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	7.6	Compounding of default interest

Any such interest which is not paid at the end of the period by reference to which it was determined shall thereupon be compounded.

	7.7	Application to Master Agreement

For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 7 does not apply to any amount payable under the Master Agreement in respect of any continuing Designated Transaction as to which section 2(e) (Default Interest and Compensation) of the Master Agreement shall apply.

	8.	REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT

	8.1	Amount of Repayment Instalments

 The Borrowers shall repay the Loan by:

		(a)	24 equal consecutive three-monthly instalments (the "Repayment Instalments" and each a "Repayment Instalment") in the amount of $1,050,000 each; and

		(b)	a balloon instalment in the amount of $27,800,000 (the "Balloon Instalment")

Provided that if the maximum amount of the Loan is not drawn down hereunder each Repayment Instalment and the Balloon Instalment shall be reduced pro rata by an amount in aggregate equal to the undrawn balance.

	8.2	Repayment Dates

The first Repayment Instalment shall be repaid on the date falling three months after the Drawdown Date, each subsequent Repayment Instalment shall be repaid at three-monthly intervals thereafter and the last Repayment Instalment shall be repaid, together with the Balloon Instalment, on the date falling on the earlier of (a) the sixth anniversary of the Drawdown Date and (b) 30 June 2021.

	8.3	Final Repayment Date

On the final Repayment Date, the Borrowers shall additionally pay to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.

	8.4	Voluntary prepayment

Subject to the following conditions, the Borrowers may prepay the whole or any part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.

	8.5	Conditions for voluntary prepayment

The conditions referred to in Clause 8.4 are that:

		(a)	a partial prepayment shall be $500,000 or a higher integral multiple of $500,000;

		(b)	the Agent has received from the Borrowers at least 5 Business Days prior written notice specifying the amount to be prepaid, the date on which the prepayment is to be made and the manner of application of such prepayment;

		(c)	the Borrowers have provided evidence satisfactory to the Agent that any consent required by any Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment has been obtained 

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 and remains in force, and that any requirement relevant to this Agreement which affects any Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with; and

		(d)	the Borrowers have complied with Clause 8.12 on or prior to the date of prepayment.

	8.6	Effect of notice of prepayment

A prepayment notice may not be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Agent, given with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, and the amount specified in the prepayment notice shall become due and payable by the Borrowers on the date for prepayment specified in the prepayment notice.

	8.7	Notification of notice of prepayment

The Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon receiving a prepayment notice, and shall provide any Lender which so requests with a copy of any document delivered by the Borrowers under Clause 8.5(c).

	8.8	Mandatory prepayment

The Borrowers shall be obliged to prepay the Relevant Amount if:

		(a)	a Ship is sold or becomes a Total Loss:

		(i)	in the case of a sale, on or before the date on which the Mortgage on that Ship is released; or

		(ii)	in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling 180 days after the Total Loss Date and the date of receipt by the Security Trustee of the proceeds of insurance relating to such Total Loss; or

		(b)	without the prior written consent of the Agent (to be given on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) there is a Change of Control, on the date on which the Change of Control occurred.

In this Clause 8.8:

"Relevant Amount" means:

		(a)	in the case of the sale or Total Loss of a Ship, an amount which, after the application of the prepayment to be made pursuant to Clause 8.8(a), results in the security cover ratio set out in Clause 15.1 being at least equal to the greater of (a) 125 per cent. and (b) the percentage which applied immediately prior to the sale or Total Loss; and

		(b)	in the case of a Change of Control, the Loan and all other amounts then outstanding under the Finance Documents in full.

	8.9	Amounts payable on prepayment

A prepayment shall be made together with accrued interest (and any other amount payable under Clause 21 or otherwise) in respect of the amount prepaid and, if the prepayment is not made on the last day of an Interest Period together with any sums payable under Clause 21.1(b) but without premium or penalty.

	8.10	Application of partial prepayment

Each partial prepayment made pursuant to:

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		(a)	Clause 8.4, shall be applied in the manner specified by the Borrowers in the notice referred to in Clause 8.5(b); and

		(b)	Clauses 8.8, 8.12, 15.2, 23.3 or 24.5, shall be applied pro rata against the then outstanding Repayment Instalments and the Balloon Instalment.

	8.11	No reborrowing

No amount prepaid or repaid may be reborrowed.

	8.12	Unwinding of Designated Transactions

On or prior to any repayment or prepayment of all or any part of the Loan under this Clause 8 or any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrowers shall wholly or partially reverse, offset, unwind or otherwise terminate one or more of the continuing Designated Transactions so that the notional principal amount of the continuing Designated Transactions thereafter remaining does not and will not in the future (taking into account the scheduled amortisation) exceed the amount of the Loan as reducing from time to time thereafter pursuant to Clause 8.1.

	9.	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

	9.1	Documents, fees and no default

Each Lender's obligation to contribute to the Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent:

		(a)	that, on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice, the Agent receives:

		(i)	the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers; and

		(ii)	payment of any expenses pursuant to Clause 20.2;

		(b)	that, on the Drawdown Date but prior to the making of the Loan, the Agent receives or is satisfied that it will receive on the making of the Loan:

		(i)	the documents described in Part B of Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers;

		(ii)	payment of the arrangement fee pursuant to Clause 20.1(a) and all accrued commitment fee pursuant to Clause 20.1(b); and

		(iii)	payment of any expenses pursuant to Clause 20.2;

		(c)	that both at the date of the Drawdown Notice and at the Drawdown Date:

		(i)	no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or would result from the borrowing of the Loan;

		(ii)	the representations and warranties in Clause 10.1 and those of any Borrower or any Security Party which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be true and not misleading if repeated on each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing;

		(iii)	none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 5.7 has occurred and is continuing; and

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		(iv)	there has been no Material Adverse Effect;

		(d)	that, if the ratio set out in Clause 15.1 were applied immediately following the making of the Loan, the Borrowers would not be obliged to provide additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause; and

		(e)	that the Agent has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance Documents which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, request by notice to the Borrowers prior to the Drawdown Date.

	9.2	Waiver of conditions precedent

If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit the Loan to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 9.1 are satisfied, the Borrowers shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 5 Business Days after the Drawdown Date (or such longer period as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, specify).

	10.	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

	10.1	General

Each Borrower represents and warrants to each Creditor Party as follows.

	10.2	Status

Each Borrower is duly incorporated and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Marshall Islands.

	10.3	Shares capital and ownership

Each Borrower is authorised to issue Five hundred (500) registered shares with par value of $0,01 each and the legal title and beneficial ownership of all those shares is held, free of any Security Interest or other claim, by the Corporate Guarantor.

	10.4	Corporate power

Each Borrower has the corporate capacity, and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents necessary for it:

		(a)	to carry out its business carried on or to be carried on by it and own its assets owned or to be owned by it;

		(b)	to register permanently the Ship owned by it in its name under an Approved Flag;

		(c)	to execute the Finance Documents to which that Borrower is a party; and

		(d)	to borrow under this Agreement, to enter into Designated Transactions under the Master Agreement and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which it is a party.

	10.5	Consents in force

All the consents referred to in Clause 10.4 remain in force and nothing has occurred which makes any of them liable to revocation.

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	10.6	Legal validity; pari passu ranking; admissibility in evidence; effective Security Interests

The Finance Documents to which each Borrower is a party, do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and, where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):

		(a)	are in full force and effect;

		(b)	rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law;

		(c)	constitute that Borrower's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against that Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and

		(d)	create legal, valid and binding Security Interests enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their terms, relate,

subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors' rights generally.

	10.7	No third party Security Interests

Without limiting the generality of Clause 10.6, at the time of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document to which a Borrower is a party:

		(a)	each Borrower which is a party to that Finance Document will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and

		(b)	no third party will have any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to any asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms, relates.

	10.8	No conflicts

The execution by each Borrower of each Finance Document to which it is a party, and the borrowing by that Borrower of the Loan, and its compliance with each Finance Document to which it is a party will not involve or lead to a contravention of:

		(a)	any law or regulation; or

		(b)	the constitutional documents of that Borrower; or

		(c)	any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on that Borrower or any of its assets.

	10.9	No withholding taxes; stamp duty

All payments which each Borrower is liable to make under the Finance Documents to which it is a party may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction. No Finance Document is subject to any filing or stamp duty in any Pertinent Jurisdiction.

	10.10	No default

No Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred.

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	10.11	Information

All information which has been provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrowers or any Security Party to any Creditor Party in connection with any Finance Document satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.5; all audited and unaudited accounts which have been so provided satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.7; and there has been no Material Adverse Effect.

	10.12	No litigation

No legal or administrative action involving any Borrower (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code) has been commenced or taken or, to any Borrower's knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken.

	10.13	Validity and completeness of Initial Charter

The Initial Charter constitutes valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the Initial Charterer and Borrower C in accordance with its terms; and:

		(a)	the copy of the Initial Charter delivered to the Agent before the date of this Agreement is a true and complete copy; and

		(b)	other than those amendments and additions to the Initial Charter disclosed to the Agent before the date of this Agreement, no amendments or additions to the Initial Charter have been agreed nor has Borrower C or the Initial Charterer waived any of their respective rights under the Initial Charter.

	10.14	Compliance with certain undertakings

At the date of this Agreement, the Borrowers are in compliance with Clauses 11.2, 11.4, 11.9, 11.13, 11.19, 13, 14.3 and 14.10.

	10.15	Taxes paid

Each Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to that Borrower, its business or the Ship owned by it.

	10.16	ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance

All requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they relate to the Borrowers, the Approved Manager and the Ships have been complied with.

	10.17	No money laundering; anti-bribery

		(a)	Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 2.3, in relation to the borrowing by the Borrowers of the Loan, the performance and discharge of their obligations and liabilities under the Finance Documents, and the transactions and other arrangements affected or contemplated by the Finance Documents to which a Borrower is a party, the Borrowers confirm (i) that they are acting for their own account; (ii) that they will use the proceeds of the Loan for their own benefit, under their full responsibility and exclusively for the purposes specified in this Agreement; and (iii) that the foregoing will not involve or lead to a contravention of any law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat "money laundering" (as defined in Article 1 of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council).

		(b)	The Borrowers will promptly inform the Agent by written notice, if they are not or cease to be the beneficiary and will provide in writing the name and address of the beneficiary.

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		(c)	The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any written notice it receives under this Clause 10.17.

	10.18	No immunity

None of the Borrowers, nor any of their assets are entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (including, without limitation, suit attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement).

	10.19	Title and ownership

Each Borrower has good title to each of the assets owned or purported to be owned by it.

	10.20	Pali passu ranking

The obligations of each Borrower under the Finance Documents to which it is a party rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors, except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.

	10.21	PATRIOT Act

To the extent applicable, each Borrower is in compliance with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the US Treasury Department (31 C.F.R., Subtitle B, Chapter V) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto and (ii) the PATRIOT Act. No part of the proceeds of the Loan will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

	10.22	Repetition

The representations and warranties set out in:

		(a)	Clause 10 shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrowers:

		(i)	on the date of service of the Drawdown Notice;

		(ii)	on the Drawdown Date; and

		(b)	Clauses 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.6, 10.7, 10.14, 10.17, and 10.20 on the first day of each Interest Period,

as if made with reference to the facts and circumstances existing on each such day.

	11.	GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS

	11.1	General

Each Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 11 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit in writing.

	11.2	Title; negative pledge and pail passu ranking

Each Borrower will:

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		(a)	hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in the Ship owned by it, her Insurances and her Earnings, free from all Security Interests and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance Documents and the effect of assignments contained in the Finance Documents and except for Permitted Security Interests;

		(b)	not create or permit to arise any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) over any other asset, present or future (including, but not limited to, that Borrower's rights against the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement or all or any part of that Borrower's interest in any amount payable to that Borrower by the Swap Bank under the Master Agreement); and

		(c)	procure that its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party do and will rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law.

	11.3	No disposal of assets

No Borrower will transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of:

		(a)	all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not nor acquire any new assets other than the Ship; or

		(b)	any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation,

but paragraph (a) does not apply to any charter of a Ship as to which Clause 14.13 applies.

	11.4	No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred

No Borrower will incur any Financial Indebtedness, liability or obligation (including, without limitation, to the Corporate Guarantor or any other member of the Group) except:

		(a)	liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party;

		(b)	liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of owning, operating and chartering the Ship; and

		(c)	in respect of the Designated Transactions.

	11.5	Information provided to be accurate

All financial and other information which is provided in writing by or on behalf of a Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document will be true and not misleading and will not omit any material fact or consideration.

	11.6	Provision of financial statements

Each Borrower will send or procure that are sent to the Agent:

		(a)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of each Financial Year of the Corporate Guarantor the audited annual consolidated financial statements of the Group for that Financial Year of the Corporate Guarantor (commencing with the financial statements for the year that ended on 31 December 2014);

		(b)	as soon as available, but in no event later than 120 days after the end of the 6-month period ending on 30 June and 31 December in each Financial Year of the Corporate Guarantor, the unaudited semi-annual consolidated financial statements of the Group (in

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the form published in the relevant press release) for that 6-month period (commencing with the financial statements for the 6-month period ending on 30 June 2015) certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Corporate Guarantor; and

		(c)	promptly after each request by the Agent, such further information regarding the financial condition, business and operations of the Borrowers, the Ships, the Security Parties and the Group as the Agent may reasonably require.

	11.7	Form of financial statements

All accounts (audited and unaudited) delivered under Clause 11.6 will:

		(a)	be prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and GAAP consistently applied;

		(b)	give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group at the date of those accounts and of its profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and

		(c)	fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Group.

	11.8	Shareholder and creditor notices

Each Borrower will send to the Agent, at the same time as they are despatched, copies of all communications which are despatched to that Borrower's shareholders or creditors or any class of them.

	11.9	Consents and compliance with laws

Each Borrower will maintain in force and promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Agent of, all consents required:

		(a)	for that Borrower to perform its obligations under any Finance Document to which it is a party;

		(b)	for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document to which it is a party;

		(c)	for that Borrower to continue to own and operate the Ship owned by it; and

		(d)	(without prejudice to its other obligations under the Finance Documents), for that Borrower to comply in all respects, with all laws and regulations to which it may be subject including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws and all intellectual property laws,

and that Borrower will comply with the terms of all such consents.

	11.10	Maintenance of Security Interests

Each Borrower will:

		(a)	at its own cost, do all that is necessary to ensure that any Finance Document to which it is a party validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to create; and

		(b)	without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or authority in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is or has become necessary or desirable for any Finance Document to be valid, enforceable or admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates.

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	11.11	Notification of litigation

Each Borrower will provide the Agent with details of any legal or administrative action involving that Borrower, any Security Party, the Approved Manager or the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes apparent to that Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any Finance Document.

	11.12	No amendment to Master Agreement

No Borrower will agree to any amendment or supplement to, or waive or fail to enforce, the Master Agreement or any of its provisions.

	11.13	Principal place of business

No Borrower will establish, or do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in England or the United States of America.

	11.14	Confirmation of no default

Each Borrower will, within 2 Business Days after service by the Agent of a written request, serve on the Agent a notice which is signed by an officer of that Borrower and which:

		(a)	states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred; or

		(b)	states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given.

The Agent may serve requests under this Clause 11.14 from time to time but only if asked to do so by a Lender or Lenders having Contributions exceeding 10 per cent. of the Loan or (if the Loan has not been made) Commitments exceeding 10 per cent of the Total Commitments; and this Clause 11.14 does not affect the Borrowers' obligations under Clause 11.15.

	11.15	Notification of default

Each Borrower will notify the Agent as soon as that Borrower becomes aware of:

		(a)	the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or

		(b)	any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred,

and will keep the Agent fully up to date with all developments.

	11.16	Provision of further information

Each Borrower will, as soon as practicable after receiving the request, provide the Agent with any additional financial or other information relating:

		(a)	to the Borrowers, the Group, the Corporate Guarantor, any other Security Party, the Ships, the other Fleet Vessels, their Insurances or their Earnings (including, but not limited to, any sales or purchases of any Fleet Vessels, the incurrence of Financial Indebtedness by members of the Group and details of the employment of the Fleet Vessels); or

		(b)	to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document, which may reasonably be requested by the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Swap Bank or any Lender at any time.

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	11.17	Minimum liquidity

Each Borrower shall maintain in its Earnings Account as from the Drawdown Date and at all times thereafter a credit balance of not less than $400,000 (the "Minimum Liquidity Amount").

	11.18	Provision of copies and translation of documents

Each Borrower will supply the Agent with a sufficient number of copies of the documents referred to above to provide 1 copy for each Creditor Party; and if the Agent so requires in respect of any of those documents, the Borrowers will provide a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent.

	11.19	Sanctions and compliance with laws

		(a)	Compliance with laws

Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Borrower, each Security Party and each other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them shall, comply in all respect with all Sanctions.

		(b)	Sanctions

		(i)	Each Borrower undertakes that it, and shall procure that each other Borrower, each Security Party and any other member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them, or any director, officer, agent, employee or person acting on behalf of the foregoing, is not a Restricted Person and does not act directly or indirectly on behalf of a Restricted Person;

		(ii)	Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Borrower, each Security Party and any other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them shall, not use any revenue or benefit derived from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Person in discharging any obligation due or owing to the Creditor Parties;

		(iii)	Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Borrower and each Security Party shall, procure that no proceeds from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Person are credited to any bank account held with any Creditor Party in its name or in the name of any other Borrower or any Security Party or any other member of the Group or any Affiliate of any of them;

		(iv)	Each Borrower undertakes that it, and shall procure that each other Borrower and each Security Party and each other member of the Group and each Affiliate of any of them, has taken reasonable measures to ensure compliance with Sanctions;

		(v)	Each Borrower shall, and shall procure that each other Borrower, each Security Party and each other member of the Group shall, to the extent permitted by law promptly upon becoming aware of them supply to the Agent details of any claim, action, suit, proceedings or investigation against it with respect to Sanctions by any Sanctions Authority; and

		(vi)	Each Borrower shall not, and shall procure that no other Borrower and no Security Party shall, accept, obtain or receive any goods or services from any Restricted Person, except (without limiting Clause 11.19(a) (Compliance with laws)), to the extent relating to any warranties and/or guarantees given and/or liabilities incurred 

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in respect of an activity or dealing with a Restricted Person by any Security Party in accordance with this Agreement.

		(c)	Use of proceeds

No Borrower shall, and shall procure that no other Borrower or Security Party or member of the Group and any Affiliate of any of them shall, permit or authorise any other person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any part of the proceeds of the Loan or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement to fund or facilitate trade, business or other activities: (a) involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Person; or (b) in any other manner that could result in any Security Party or a Creditor Party being in breach of any Sanctions or becoming a Restricted Person.

		(d)	Each party to this Agreement acknowledges and agrees that the Borrower does not undertake under paragraphs (a) to (c) (inclusive) above in favour of any Lender incorporated or having its registered office in the Federal Republic of Germany and no such Lender shall have any right thereunder and shall be deemed not to be a party to the provisions of this Clause 11.19.

	11.20	"Know your customer" checks

If:

		(a)	the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;

		(b)	any change in the status of any Borrower or any Security Party after the date of this Agreement; or

		(c)	a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,

obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrowers shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or the Lender concerned supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or the Lender concerned (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent, the Lender concerned or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents, including without limitation obtaining, verifying and recording certain information and documentation that will allow the Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Borrower and any Security Party in accordance with the requirements of the PATRIOT Act.

	11.21	No amendment to Initial Charter

Each Borrower will ensure that the parties to the Initial Charter will not agree to any amendment or supplement to, or waive or fault to enforce, the Initial Charter or any of its provisions.

	11.22	Ownership

Each Borrower shall procure that there is no change in the legal ownership of its shares throughout the Security Period.

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	11.23	Notification of non-compliance with financial covenants

If prior to the delivery of a Compliance Certificate by the Corporate Guarantor to the Agent, a Borrower becomes aware that the financial covenants set out in clause 12.3 of the Corporate Guarantee will not be complied with, the Borrowers (or any of them) shall promptly notify the Agent.

	12.	CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS

	12.1	General

Each Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 12 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit in writing.

	12.2	Maintenance of status

Each Borrower will maintain its separate corporate existence and remain in good standing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

	12.3	Negative undertakings

No Borrower will:

		(a)	carry on any business other than the ownership, chartering and operation of the Ship owned by that Borrower; or

		(b)	pay any dividend or make any other form of distribution (if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the relevant time or an Event of Default would result from the payment of such dividend or the making of such distribution) or effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital; or

		(c)	provide any form of credit or financial assistance to:

		(i)	a person who is directly or indirectly interested in that Borrower's share or loan capital; or

		(ii)	any company in or with which such a person is directly or indirectly interested or connected,

or enter into any transaction with or involving such a person or company on terms which are, in any respect, less favourable to that Borrower than those which it could obtain in a bargain made at arms' length; or

		(d)	open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with the Agent for the purposes of the Finance Documents; or

		(e)	issue, allot or grant any person a right to any shares in its capital or repurchase or reduce its issued share capital; or

		(f)	acquire any shares or other securities other than US or UK Treasury bills and certificates of deposit issued by major North American or European banks, or enter into any transaction in a derivative other than the Designated Transactions; or

		(g)	enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation; or

		(h)	change its constitutional documents; or

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		(i)	acquire any vessel other than the Ship owned by it.

	13.	INSURANCE

	13.1	General

Each Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 13 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit.

	13.2	Maintenance of obligatory insurances

Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it insured at the expense of that Borrower against:

		(a)	fire and usual marine risks (including increased value, hull and machinery and excess risks);

		(b)	war risks;

		(c)	protection and indemnity risks (including excess war risk P&I cover); and

		(d)	any other risks against which the Security Trustee considers, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, it would in the opinion of the Security Trustee be reasonable for that Borrower to insure and which are specified by the Security Trustee by notice to that Borrower.

	13.3	Terms of obligatory insurances

Each Borrower shall effect such insurances:

		(a)	in Dollars;

		(b)	in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, in an amount on an agreed value basis at least the greater of (i) an amount which when aggregated with the insured value of the other Ships then subject to a Mortgage, 120 per cent of the aggregate of the Loan and the Swap Exposure (if any) and (ii) the Market Value of the Ship owned by it;

		(c)	in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection and indemnity club entry and in the international marine insurance market;

		(d)	in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full tonnage of the Ship;

		(e)	on approved terms; and

		(f)	through approved brokers and with approved insurance companies and/or underwriters or, in the case of war risks and protection and indemnity risks, in approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations.

	13.4	Further protections for the Creditor Parties

In addition to the terms set out in Clause 13.3, each Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances effected by it shall:

		(a)	subject always to paragraph (b), name that Borrower as the sole named assured unless the interest of every other named assured is limited:

		(i)	i respect of any obligatory insurances for hull and machinery and war risks:

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		(A)	to any provable out-of-pocket expenses that it has incurred and which form part of any recoverable claim on underwriters; and

		(B)	to any third party liability claims where cover for such claims is provided by the policy (and then only in respect of discharge of any claims made against it); and

		(ii)	in respect of any obligatory insurances for protection and indemnity risks, to any recoveries it s entitled to make by way of reimbursement following discharge of any third party liability claims made specifically against it,

and every other named assured has undertaken in writing to the Security Trustee (in such form as it requires) that any deductible shall be apportioned between that Borrower and every other named assured in proportion to the gross claims made or paid by each of them and that it shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances;

		(b)	whenever the Security Trustee requires, name (or be amended to name) the Security Trustee as additional named assured for its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with full waiver of rights of subrogation against the Security Trustee, but without the Security Trustee thereby being liable to pay (but having the right to pay) premiums, calls or other assessments in respect of such insurance;

		(c)	name the Security Trustee as loss payee with such directions for payment as the Security Trustee may specify;

		(d)	provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Security Trustee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim or deductions or condition whatsoever;

		(e)	provide that such obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances which may be carried by the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party; and

		(f)	provide that the Security Trustee may make proof of loss if that Borrower fails to do so.

	13.5	Renewal of obligatory insurances

Each Borrower shall:

		(a)	at least 21 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance effected by it:

		(i)	notify the Security Trustee of the brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom that Borrower proposes to renew that obligatory insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and

		(ii)	obtain the Security Trustee's approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i);

		(b)	at least 14 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Security Trustee's approval pursuant to paragraph (a); and

		(c)	procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall promptly after the renewal notify the Security Trustee in writing of the terms and conditions of the renewal.

	13.6	Copies of policies; letters of undertaking

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Each Borrower shall ensure that all approved brokers provide the Security Trustee with pro forma copies of all policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they are to effect or renew and of a letter or letters of undertaking in a form required by the Security Trustee and including undertakings by the approved brokers that:

		(a)	they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 13.4;

		(b)	they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Security Trustee in accordance with the said loss payable clause;

		(c)	they will advise the Security Trustee immediately of any material change to the terms of the obligatory insurances;

		(d)	they will notify the Security Trustee, not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice of renewal instructions from that Borrower or its agents and, in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Security Trustee of the terms of the instructions; and

		(e)	they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship owned by that Borrower under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of that Ship or otherwise, they waive any lien on the policies, or any sums received under them, which they might have in respect of such premiums or other amounts, and they will not cancel such obligatory insurances by reason of non-payment of such premiums or other amounts, and will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of that Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Security Trustee.

	13.7	Copies of certificates of entry

Each Borrower shall ensure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship owned by it is entered provides the Security Trustee with:

		(a)	a certified copy of the certificate of entry for that Ship owned by it;

		(b)	a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Security Trustee;

		(c)	where required to be issued under the terms of insurance/indemnity provided by a Borrower's protection and indemnity association, a certified copy of each US voyage quarterly declaration (or other similar document or documents) made by that Borrower in accordance with the requirements of such protections and indemnity association; and

		(d)	a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant certifying authority in relation to that Ship.

	13.8	Deposit of original policies

Each Borrower shall ensure that all policies relating to obligatory insurances effected by it are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.

	13.9	Payment of premiums

Each Borrower shall punctually pay all premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances effected by it and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Security Trustee.

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	13.10	Guarantees

Each Borrower shall ensure that any guarantees required by a protection and indemnity or war risks association are promptly issued and remain in full force and effect.

	13.11	Compliance with terms of insurances

No Borrower shall do nor omit to do (nor permit to be done or not to be done) any act or thing which would or might render any obligatory insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum payable under an obligatory insurance repayable in whole or in part; and, in particular:

		(a)	each Borrower shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and (without limiting the obligation contained in Clause 13.6(c)) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Security Trustee has not given its prior approval;

		(b)	no Borrower shall make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or manager or operator of the Ship owned by it approved by the underwriters of the obligatory insurances;

		(c)	each Borrower shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Agent of) all quarterly or other voyage declarations which may be required by the protection and indemnity risks association in which the Ship owned by it is entered to maintain cover for trading to the US and Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation); and

		(d)	no Borrower shall employ the Ship owned by it, nor allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory insurances, without first obtaining the consent of the insurers and complying with any requirements (as to extra premium or otherwise) which the insurers specify.

	13.12	Alteration to terms of insurances

No Borrower shall make nor agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance nor waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance.

	13.13	Settlement of claims

No Borrower shall settle, compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty, and shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances.

	13.14	Provision of copies of communications

Each Borrower shall provide the Security Trustee, at the time of each such communication, with copies of all written communications between a Borrower and:

		(a)	the approved brokers;

		(b)	the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and

		(c)	the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to:

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		(i)	that Borrower's obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums or calls; and

		(ii)	any credit arrangements made between that Borrower and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances; and

		(iii)	a claim under any obligatory insurances of the Ship owned by it. 13.15

	13.15	Provision of information

In addition, each Borrower shall promptly provide the Security Trustee (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Security Trustee (or any such designated person) requests for the purpose of:

		(a)	obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be effected; and/or

		(b)	effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 13.16 or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances,

and the Borrowers shall, forthwith upon demand, indemnify the Security Trustee in respect of all fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Security Trustee in connection with any such report as is referred to in paragraph (a).

	13.16	Mortgagee's interest, marine insurance and additional perils insurance

The Security Trustee shall be entitled from time to time to effect, maintain and renew a mortgagee's interest marine insurance, and mortgagee's interest additional perils insurance in an amount not less than 120 per cent. of the Loan on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Security Trustee may from time to time consider appropriate and each Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Creditor Parties in respect of all premiums and other expenses which are incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurance or dealing with, or considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance.

	13.17	Review of insurance requirements

The Security Trustee shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 13 from time to time in order to take account of any changes in circumstances after the date of this Agreement which are, in the opinion of the Security Trustee, significant and capable of affecting the Borrowers, the Ships and their Insurances (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which each Borrower may be subject), and may appoint insurance consultants in relation to this review at the cost of the relevant Borrower.

	13.18	Modification of insurance requirements

The Security Trustee shall notify the Borrowers of any proposed modification under Clause 13.17 to the requirements of this Clause 13 which the Security Trustee reasonably considers appropriate in the circumstances, and such modification shall take effect on and from the date it is notified in writing to the relevant Borrower as an amendment to this Clause 13 and shall bind that Borrower accordingly.

	13.19	Compliance with mortgagee's instructions

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The Security Trustee shall be entitled (without prejudice to or limitation of any other rights which it may have or acquire under any Finance Document) to require a Ship to remain at any safe port or to proceed to and remain at any safe port designated by the Security Trustee until the Borrower owning that Ship implements any amendments to the terms of the obligatory insurances and any operational changes required as a result of a notice served under Clause 13.18.

	14.	SHIP COVENANTS

	14.1	General

Each Borrower also undertakes with each Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 14 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may otherwise permit in writing (and in the case of Clauses 14.2 and 14.13(e), such permission not to be unreasonably withheld).

	14.2	Ship's name and registration

Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it registered in its name under an Approved Flag; shall not do, omit to do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be cancelled or imperilled; and shall not change the name or port of registry of the Ship owned by it.

	14.3	Repair and classification

Each Borrower shall keep the Ship owned by it in a good and safe condition and state of repair:

		(a)	consistent with first class ship ownership and management practice;

		(b)	so as to maintain the highest class free of overdue recommendations and conditions with a classification society which is a member of IACS acceptable to the Agent (such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld); and

		(c)	so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the applicable Approved Flag State or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to which that Ship may trade from time to time, including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code.

	14.4	Classification society undertaking

Each Borrower shall instruct the classification society referred to in Clause 14.3:

		(a)	to send to the Security Trustee, following receipt of a written request from the Security Trustee, certified true copies of all original class records held by the classification society in relation to its Ship;

		(b)	to allow the Security Trustee (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of that Borrower and its Ship at the offices of the classification society and to take copies of them;

		(c)	to notify the Security Trustee immediately in writing if the classification society:

		(i)	receives notification from that Borrower or any other person that its Ship's classification society is to be changed; or

		(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 Ship's class under the rules or terms and conditions of that Borrower's or its Ship's membership of the classification society; and

 

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

		(i)	to confirm that a Borrower 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 a Borrower is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Security Trustee in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances of such default, the consequences of such default, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society.

	14.5	Modification

No Borrower shall make any modification or repairs to, or replacement of, any Ship or equipment installed on it which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of that Ship or materially reduce its value.

	14.6	Removal of parts

No Borrower shall remove any material part of any Ship, or any item of equipment installed on, any Ship unless the part or item so removed is forthwith replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item removed, is free from any Security Interest or any right in favour of any person other than the Security Trustee and becomes on installation on the relevant Ship the property of the relevant Borrower and subject to the security constituted by the relevant Mortgage Provided that a Borrower may install equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to the Ship owned by it.

	14.7	Surveys

Each Borrower shall submit the Ship owned by it regularly to all periodical or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes and, if so required by the Security Trustee provide the Security Trustee, with copies of all survey reports.

	14.8	Inspection

Each Borrower shall permit the Security Trustee (by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship owned by it at the cost of the Borrowers no more than once in any calendar year to inspect its condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections Provided that if an Event of Default occurs which is continuing the Security Trustee may, by surveyors or other persons appointed by it, board the Ship and carry out such inspection at all times as it deems fit at the Borrowers' cost.

	14.9	Prevention of and release from arrest

Each Borrower shall promptly discharge:

		(a)	all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances;

		(b)	all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances; and

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		(c)	all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances,

and, forthwith upon receiving notice of the arrest of the Ship owned by it, or of its detention in exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim, that Borrower shall procure its release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.

	14.10	Compliance with laws etc.

Each Borrower shall:

		(a)	comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws, all Sanctions and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship owned by it, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of that Borrower;

		(b)	not employ the Ship owned by it nor allow its employment in any manner contrary to any law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and all Sanctions;

		(c)	in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit the Ship owned by it to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship's war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Security Trustee has been given and that Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Security Trustee may require; and

		(d)	comply with the PATRIOT Act and the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

	14.11	Provision of information

Each Borrower shall promptly provide the Security Trustee with any information which it requests regarding:

		(a)	the Ship owned by it, its employment, position and engagements;

		(b)	the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the master and crew of the Ship owned by it;

		(c)	any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship owned by it and any payments made in respect of that Ship;

		(d)	any towages and salvages; and

		(e)	its compliance, the Approved Manager's compliance and the compliance of the Ship owned by it with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and Sanctions,

and, upon the Security Trustee's request, provide copies of any current charter relating to the Ship owned by it , of any current charter guarantee and copies of that Borrower's or the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance.

	14.12	Notification of certain events

Each Borrower shall immediately notify the Security Trustee by fax, confirmed forthwith, by letter of:

		(a)	any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty;

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		(b)	any occurrence as a result of which the Ship owned by it has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss;

		(c)	any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with;

		(d)	any arrest or detention of the Ship owned by it, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on that Ship or its Earnings or any requisition of that Ship for hire;

		(e)	any intended dry docking of the Ship owned by it;

		(f)	any Environmental Claim made against that Borrower or in connection with the Ship owned by it, or any Environmental Incident;

		(g)	any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against that Borrower, the Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship owned by it; or

		(h)	any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with,

and that Borrower shall keep the Security Trustee advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Security Trustee shall require of that Borrower's, the Approved Manager's or any other person's response to any of those events or matters.

	14.13	Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.

No Borrower shall, in relation to the Ship owned by it:

		(a)	let that Ship on demise charter for any period;

		(b)	other than the Initial Charter in the case of Borrower C, enter into any time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of that Ship for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed, 12 months;

		(c)	enter into any charter in relation to that Ship under which more than 2 months' hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance;

		(d)	charter that Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm's length terms at the time when that Ship is fixed;

		(e)	appoint a manager of that Ship other than the Approved Manager or agree to any alteration to the terms of the Approved Manager's appointment;

		(f)	de activate or lay up that Ship; or

		(g)	put that Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed 1,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Security Trustee and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on that Ship or its Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason.

	14.14	Notice of Mortgage

Each Borrower shall keep the relevant Mortgage registered against the Ship owned by it as a valid first priority or preferred mortgage, carry on board that Ship a certified copy of the relevant Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the Master's cabin of that Ship a framed printed notice stating that that Ship is mortgaged by that Borrower to the Security Trustee.

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	14.15	Sharing of Earnings

No Borrower shall:

		(a)	enter into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings; or

		(b)	enter into any agreement or arrangement for the postponement of any date on which any Earnings are due, the reduction of the amount of any Earnings or otherwise for the release or adverse alteration of any right of a Borrower to any Earnings.

	14.16	ISPS Code

Each Borrower shall comply with the ISPS Code and in particular, without limitation, shall:

		(a)	procure that the Ship owned by that Borrower and the company responsible for that Ship's compliance with the ISPS Code comply with the ISPS Code;

		(b)	maintain for that Ship an ISSC; and

		(c)	notify the Agent immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC.

	14.17	Charterparty Assignment

If a Borrower enters into any Charterparty (subject to the Agent's approval pursuant to Clause 14.13), it shall, on the date of entry into such Charterparty, execute in favour of the Security Trustee (and register, if applicable) a Charterparty Assignment and shall:

		(a)	serve notice of the Charterparty Assignment on the relevant charterer procure that the charterer acknowledges such notice in such form as the Agent may approve or require; and

		(b)	deliver to the Agent such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3, Part A as the Agent may require.

	14.18	Responsible Ship Recycling

If a Ship is sold for scrapping, the Borrower owning that Ship shall ensure that that Ship shall be dismantled in a safe, sustainable and socially and environmentally responsible way.

	15.	SECURITY COVER

	15.1	Minimum required security cover

Clause 15.2 applies if the Agent notifies the Borrowers that:

		(a)	the aggregate of the Market Value of the Ships; plus

		(b)	the net realisable value of any additional security previously provided under this Clause 15, is below 125 per cent of the aggregate of (i) the Loan and (ii) any Swap Exposure.

	15.2	Provision of additional security; prepayment

If the Agent serves a notice on the Borrowers under Clause 15.1, the Borrowers shall prepay such part at least of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall on or before the date falling 30 days after the date on which the Agent's notice is served under Clause 15.1 (the "Prepayment Date") unless at least 1 Business Day before the Prepayment Date the Borrowers have provided, or ensured that a third party has provided, additional security .

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which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, has a net realisable value at least equal to the shortfall and is documented in such terms as the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve or require

	15.3	Valuation of Ships

The Market Value of a Ship (or any other Fleet Vessel) at any date during the Security Period is that shown by a valuation to be prepared:

		(a)	as at a date not more than 14 days previously;

		(b)	by an Approved Broker (selected by the Borrowers and approved by the Agent);

		(c)	addressed to the Agent;

		(d)	with or without physical inspection of the Ship (as the Agent may require);

		(e)	on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm's length commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer, free of any existing charter or other contract of employment; and

		(f)	after deducting the estimated amount of the usual and reasonable expenses which would be incurred in connection with the sale,

Provided that the Agent shall have the right to appoint (at the Borrowers' expense) another Approved Broker to provide a second valuation of that Ship addressed to the Agent and prepared in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in which case the Market Value of that Ship shall be the arithmetic average of the two valuations.

	15.4	Value of additional vessel security

The net realisable value of any additional security which is provided under Clause 15.2 and which consists of a Security Interest over a vessel shall be that shown by a valuation complying with the requirements of Clause 15.3.

	15.5	Valuations binding

Any valuation under Clause 15.2, 15.3 or 15.4 shall be binding and conclusive as regards the Borrowers, as shall be any valuation which the Majority Lenders make of any additional security which does not consist of or include a Security Interest.

	15.6	Provision of information

The Borrowers shall promptly provide the Agent and any Approved Broker or expert acting under Clause 15.3 or 15.4 with any information which the Agent or the Approved Broker or expert may request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrowers fail to provide the information by the date specified in the request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which the Approved Broker or the Majority Lenders (or the expert appointed by them) consider prudent.

	15.7	Frequency of valuations

Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Agent may commission valuation(s) of each Ship at such times as the Agent shall deem necessary.

	15.8	Payment of valuation expenses

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Without prejudice to the generality of the Borrowers' obligations under Clauses 202, 20.3 and 21.3, the Borrowers shall, on demand, pay the Agent the amount of the fees and expenses of any Approved Broker or expert instructed by the Agent under this Clause and all legal and other expenses incurred by any Creditor Party in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause Provided that so long as (i) no Event of Default has occurred and (ii) no mandatory prepayment is required to be made pursuant to Clause 8.8(a), the Borrowers shall not be obliged to pay any such fees or expenses in respect of more than one valuation of each Ship (and, if required by the Agent pursuant to Clause 15.3, one additional valuation of such Ship) in any calendar year.

	15.9	Application of prepayment

Clause 8.10(b) shall apply in relation to any prepayment pursuant to Clause 15.2.

	16.	PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS

Currency and method of payments

All payments to be made by the Lenders or by any Borrower under a Finance Document shall be made to the Agent or to the Security Trustee, in the case of an amount payable to it:

		(a)	by not later than 11.00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date;

		(b)	in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other manner as the Agent shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement);

		(c)	in the case of an amount payable by a Lender to the Agent or by any Borrower to the Agent or any Lender, to the account of the Agent with correspondent bank Bank of America Intl. New York (correspondent bank SWIFT: BOFAUS3N (SWIFT: ABNANL2A, beneficiary: ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Amsterdam and account number: NL60ABNA0626269504) with reference "$53,000,000 facility re m.v.s NEW YORK, MYRTO and MAIA", or to such other account with such other bank as the Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrowers and the other Creditor Parties; and

		(d)	in the case of an amount payable to the Security Trustee, to such account as it may from time to time notify to the Borrowers and the other Creditor Parties.

	16.2	Payment on non-Business Day

If any payment by any Borrower under a Finance Document would otherwise fall due on a day which is not a Business Day:

		(a)	the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or

		(b)	if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day,

and interest shall be payable during any extension under paragraph (a) at the rate payable on the original due date.

	16.3	Basis for calculation of periodic payments

All interest and commitment fee and any other payments under any Finance Document which are of an annual or periodic nature shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360 day year.

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	16.4	
Distribution of payments to Creditor Parties 

 

Subject to Clauses 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7:

		(a)	any amount received by the Agent under a Finance Document for distribution or remittance to a Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee shall be made available by the Agent to that Lender, the Swap Bank or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee by payment, with funds having the same value as the funds received, to such account as the Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee may have notified to the Agent not less than 5 Business Days previously; and

		(b)	amounts to be applied in satisfying amounts of a particular category which are due to the Lenders and/or the Swap Bank generally shall be distributed by the Agent to each Lender and the Swap Bank pro rata to the amount in that category which is due to it.

	16.5	Permitted deductions by Agent

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent may, before making an amount available to a Lender or the Swap Bank, deduct and withhold from that amount any sum which is then due and payable to the Agent from that Lender or the Swap Bank under any Finance Document or any sum which the Agent is then entitled under any Finance Document to require that Lender or the Swap Bank to pay on demand.

	16.6	Agent only obliged to pay when monies received

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent shall not be obliged to make available to any Borrower or any Lender or the Swap Bank any sum which the Agent is expecting to receive for remittance or distribution to that Borrower or that Lender or the Swap Bank until the Agent has satisfied itself that it has received that sum.

	16.7	Refund to Agent of monies not received

If and to the extent that the Agent makes available a sum to a Borrower or a Lender or the Swap Bank, without first having received that sum, that Borrower or (as the case may be) the Lender concerned or the Swap Bank shall, on demand:

		(a)	refund the sum in full to the Agent; and

		(b)	pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding or other loss, liability or expense incurred by the Agent as a result of making the sum available before receiving it.

	16.8	Agent may assume receipt

Clause 16.7 shall not affect any claim which the Agent has under the law of restitution, and applies irrespective of whether the Agent had any form of notice that it had not received the sum which it made available.

	16.9	Creditor Party accounts

Each Creditor Party shall maintain accounts showing the amounts owing to it by the Borrowers and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrowers and any Security Party.

	16.10	Agent's memorandum account

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The Agent shall maintain a memorandum account showing the amounts advanced by the Lenders and all other sums owing to the Agent, the Security Trustee and each Lender from the Borrowers and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrowers and any Security Party.

	16.11	Accounts prima facie evidence

If any accounts maintained under Clauses 16.9 and 16.10 show an amount to be owing by a Borrower or a Security Party to a Creditor Party, those accounts shall be prima facie evidence that that amount is owing to that Creditor Party.

	17.	APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS

	17.1	Normal order of application

Except as any Finance Document may otherwise provide, any sums which are received or recovered by any Creditor Party under or by virtue of any Finance Document shall be applied:

		(a)	FIRST: in or towards satisfaction of any amounts then due and payable under the Finance Documents in the following order and proportions:

		(i)	firstly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of all amounts then due and payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents other than those amounts referred to at paragraphs (ii) and (Hi) (including, but without limitation, all amounts payable by any Borrower under Clauses 20, 21 and 22 of this Agreement or by any Borrower or any Security Party under any corresponding or similar provision in any other Finance Document);

		(ii)	secondly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents (and, for this purpose, the expression "interest" shall include any net amount which any Borrower shall have become liable to pay or deliver under section 2(e) (Obligations) of the Master Agreement but shall have failed to pay or deliver to the Swap Bank at the time of application or distribution under this Clause 17); and

		(iii)	thirdly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of the Loan and the Swap Exposure (in the case of the latter, calculated as at the actual Early Termination Date applying to each particular Designated Transaction, or if no such Early Termination Date shall have occurred, calculated as if an Early Termination Date occurred on the date of application or distribution hereunder);

		(b)	SECONDLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Agent, by notice to any Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties, states in its opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the provisions of Clause 17.1(a); and

		(c)	THIRDLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrowers or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it.

	17.2	Variation of order of application

The Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders and the Swap Bank, by notice to the Borrowers, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties provide for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 17.1 either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.

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	17.3	Notice of variation of order of application

The Agent may give notices under Clause 17.2 from time to time; and such a notice may be stated to apply not only to sums which may be received or recovered in the future, but also to any sum which has been received or recovered on or after the third Business Day before the date on which the notice is served.

	17.4	Appropriation rights overridden

This Clause 17 and any notice which the Agent gives under Clause 17.2 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by any Borrower or any Security Party.

	18.	APPLICATION OF EARNINGS; SWAP PAYMENTS

	18.1	Payment of Earnings

Each Borrower undertakes with each Creditor Party to ensure that, throughout the Security Period:

		(a)	(and subject only to the provisions of the General Assignments) all Earnings of the Ship owned by it are paid to the Earnings Account for that Ship; and

		(b)	all payments by the Swap Bank to the Borrowers under each Designated Transaction are paid to the Earnings Accounts (or any of them).

	18.2	Location of accounts

Each Borrower shall promptly:

		(a)	comply with any requirement of the Agent as to the location or re-location of its Earnings Account; and

		(b)	execute any documents which the Agent specifies to create or maintain in favour of the Security Trustee a Security Interest over (and/or rights of set-off, consolidation or other rights in relation to) its Earnings Account.

	18.3	Debits for expenses etc.

The Agent shall be entitled (but not obliged) from time to time to debit any Earnings Account without prior notice in order to discharge any amount due and payable under Clause 20 or 21 to a Creditor Party or payment of which any Creditor Party has become entitled to demand under Clause 20 or 21.

	18.4	Borrowers' obligations unaffected

The provisions of this Clause 18 do not affect:

		(a)	the liability of the Borrowers to make payments of principal and interest on the due dates; or

		(b)	any other liability or obligation of the Borrowers or any Security Party under any Finance Document.

	18.5	Earnings Accounts balances

Subject to the other terms of this Agreement (including, without limitation, the terms of Clause 11.17 and this Clause 18), the monies on each Earnings Account (other than the

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Minimum Liquidity Amount) shall be freely available to the Borrowers to be used in accordance with and in compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement Provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

	19.	EVENTS OF DEFAULT

	19.1	Events of Default

An Event of Default occurs if:

		(a)	any Borrower or any Security Party fails to pay when due or (if so payable) on demand any sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document unless such failure is caused by an administrative or technical error or any other event which disrupts any applicable payment or communication system and is beyond the control of the Borrowers (or any of them) or any Security Party and in which case the payment is made within 3 Business Days of its due date; or

		(b)	any breach occurs of Clause 9.2, 10.17, 10.18, 10.20, 11.2, 11.3, 11.9, 11.17, 11.19, 12.2, 12.3, 13.2, 13.3, 14.2 or 15.2 of this Agreement or clause 12.3 of the Corporate Guarantee; or

		(c)	any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a) or (b)) which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is capable of remedy, and such default continues unremedied 10 days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same; or

		(d)	(subject to any applicable grace period specified in any Finance Document) any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach falling within paragraphs (a), (b) or (c)); or

		(e)	any representation, warranty or statement made or repeated by, or by an officer of, a Borrower or a Security Party in a Finance Document or in a Drawdown Notice or any other notice or document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading when it is made or repeated; or

		(f)	any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person (in the case of all Relevant Persons (taken as a whole) exceeding in aggregate $10,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) at any relevant time Provided that in the case of each Borrower, individually, any Financial Indebtedness exceeding $500,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency)):

		(i)	any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is not paid when due; or

		(ii)	any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date as a consequence of any event of default; or

		(iii)	a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes capable of being terminated as a consequence of any termination event; or

		(iv)	any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes capable of being required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of default; or

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		(v)	any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes enforceable; or

		(g)	any of the following occurs in relation to a Relevant Person:

		(i)	a Relevant Person becomes, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or

		(ii)	any assets of a Relevant Person are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress or any form of freezing order in respect of a sum of, or sums exceeding, in aggregate, in the case of all Relevant Persons (taken as a whole) $10,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) at any relevant time Provided that in the case of each Borrower, individually, any sum of, or sums exceeding, in aggregate $500,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency);

		(iii)	any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of a Relevant Person; or

		(iv)	an administrator is appointed (whether by the court or otherwise) in respect of a Relevant Person; or

		(v)	any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that a Relevant Person is insolvent or likely to become insolvent is made by a Relevant Person or by the directors of a Relevant Person or, in any proceedings, by a lawyer acting for a Relevant Person; or

		(vi)	a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of a Relevant Person, a winding up order is made in relation to a Relevant Person or a winding up resolution is passed by a Relevant Person; or

		(vii)	a resolution is passed, an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by (aa) a Relevant Person, (bb) the members or directors of a Relevant Person, (cc) a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person, or (dd) a government minister or public or regulatory authority of a Pertinent Jurisdiction for or with a view to the winding up of that or another Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of that or another Relevant Person, or that or another Relevant Person ceasing or suspending business operations or payments to creditors, save that this paragraph does not apply to a fully solvent winding up of a Relevant Person other than a Borrower or the Corporate Guarantor which is, or is to be, effected for the purposes of an amalgamation or reconstruction previously approved by the Majority Lenders and effected not later than 3 months after the commencement of the winding up; or

		(viii)	an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by a creditor of a Relevant Person (other than a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person) for the winding up of a Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of a Relevant Person in any Pertinent Jurisdiction, unless the proposed winding up, appointment of a provisional liquidator or administration is being contested in good faith, on substantial grounds and not with a view to some other insolvency law procedure being implemented instead and either (aa) the application or petition is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of being made or presented, or (bb) within 30 days of the administration notice being given or filed, or the other relevant steps being taken, other action is taken which will ensure that there will be no administration and (in both cases (aa) or (bb)) the Relevant Person will continue to carry on business in 

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the ordinary way and without being the subject of any actual, interim or pending insolvency law procedure; or

		(ix)	a Relevant Person or its directors take any steps (whether by making or presenting an application or petition to a court, or submitting or presenting a document setting out a proposal or proposed terms, or otherwise) with a view to obtaining, in relation to that or another Relevant Person, any form of moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of debt (or certain debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of creditors or of any class of them or any such moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by court order, by the filing of documents with a court, by means of a contract or in any other way at all; or

		(x)	any meeting of the members or directors, or of any committee of the board or senior management, of a Relevant Person is held or summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of a type described in paragraphs (iv) to (ix) or a step preparatory to such action, or (with or without such a meeting) the members, directors or such a committee resolve or agree that such an action or step should be taken or should be taken if certain conditions materialise or fail to materialise; or

		(xi)	in a country other than England, any event occurs, any proceedings are opened or commenced or any step is taken which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders is similar to any of the foregoing; or

		(h)	any Borrower ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is material in the context of this Agreement; or

		(i)	it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible:

		(i)	for any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any other Security Party to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Majority Lenders consider material under a Finance Document; or

		(ii)	for the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Lenders or the Swap Bank to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a Finance Document; or

		(j)	any official consent (including, without limitation, consents required pursuant to the relevant entity's constitutional documents of those required by law) necessary to enable any Borrower to own, operate or charter the Ship owned by it or to enable any Borrower or any Security Party to comply with any provision which the Majority Lenders consider material of a Finance Document is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or

		(k)	any provision which the Majority Lenders consider material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable, or a Security Interest created by a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another Security Interest or any other third party claim or interest; or

		(l)	the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or

		(m)	without the prior written consent of the Lenders, the shares of the Corporate Guarantor cease to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange; or

		(n)	an Event of Default (as defined in section 14 of the Master Agreement) occurs; or

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		(o)	the Master Agreement is terminated, cancelled, suspended, rescinded or revoked or otherwise ceases to remain in full force and effect for any reason except with the consent of the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders ; or

		(p)	any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation:

		(i)	a change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of any Borrower and/or any Security Party and/or any member of the Group; or

		(ii)	any accident or any Environmental Incident or other event involving any Ship or another vessel owned, chartered or operated by a Relevant Person,

which may have a Material Adverse Effect.

	19.2	Actions following an Event of Default

On, or at any time after, the occurrence of an Event of Default:

		(a)	the Agent may, and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall:

		(i)	serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that all or part of the Commitments and of the other obligations of each Lender to the Borrowers under this Agreement are cancelled; and/or

		(ii)	serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that all or part of the Loan together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due and payable or are due and payable on demand; and/or

		(iii)	take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (i) or (ii), the Agent and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law; and/or

		(b)	the Security Trustee may, and if so instructed by the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, the Security Trustee shall take any action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (a) (i) or (ii), the Security Trustee, the Agent, the Arranger and/or the Lenders and/or the Swap Bank are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law.

	19.3	Termination of Commitments

On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(i), the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrowers under this Agreement shall be cancelled.

	19.4	Acceleration of Loan

On the service of a notice under Clause 19.2(a)(ii), all or, as the case may be, the part of the Loan specified in the notice together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrowers or any Security Party under this Agreement and every other Finance Document shall become immediately due and payable or, as the case may be, payable on demand.

	19.5	Multiple notices; action without notice

The Agent may serve notices under Clauses 19.2(a)(i) and 19.2(a)(ii) simultaneously or on different dates and it and/or the Security Trustee may take any action referred to in Clause 19.2 if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such notices.

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	19.6	Notification of Creditor Parties and Security Parties

The Agent shall send to each Lender, the Swap Bank, the Security Trustee and each Security Party a copy or the text of any notice which the Agent serves on the Borrowers under Clause 19.2; but the notice shall become effective when it is served on the Borrowers, and no failure or delay by the Agent to send a copy or the text of the notice to any other person shall invalidate the notice or provide any Borrower or any Security Party with any form of claim or defence.

	19.7	Creditor Party's rights unimpaired

Nothing in this Clause shall be taken to impair or restrict the exercise of any right given to individual Lenders or the Swap Bank under a Finance Document or the general law; and, in particular, this Clause is without prejudice to Clause 3.1.

	19.8	Exclusion of Creditor Party liability

No Creditor Party, and no receiver or manager appointed by the Security Trustee, shall have any liability to a Borrower or a Security Party:

		(a)	for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest; or

		(b)	as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in the value of such an asset,

except that this does not exempt a Creditor Party or a receiver or manager from liability for losses shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty or the wilful misconduct of such Creditor Party's own officers and employees or (as the case may be) such receiver's or manager's own partners or employees.

	19.9	Relevant Persons

In this Clause 19, a "Relevant Person" means a Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or a Security Party, and any company which is a Subsidiary of the Corporate Guarantor or a Security Party and any other member of the Group but excluding any company which is dormant and the value of whose gross assets is $50,000 or less.

	19.10	Interpretation

In Clause 19.1(f), references to an event of default or a termination event include any event, howsoever described, which is similar to an event of default in a facility agreement or a termination event in a finance lease; and in Clause 19.1(g), "petition" includes an application.

	19.11	Position of Swap Bank

Neither the Agent nor the Security Trustee shall be obliged, in connection with any action taken or proposed to be taken under or pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Clause 19, to have any regard to the requirements of the Swap Bank except to the extent that the Swap Bank is also a Lender.

	20.	FEES AND EXPENSES

	20.1	Arrangement and commitment fees

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The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent:

		(a)	on the Drawdown Date, a non-refundable arrangement fee equal to 0.6 per cent. of the total amount of the Loan drawn on the Drawdown Date; and

		(b)	a non-refundable commitment fee at the rate of 0.8 per cent. per annum on the undrawn or un-cancelled amount of the Total Commitments, during the period from (and including) the date of this Agreement up to the earlier of (i) the Drawdown Date and (ii) the last day of the Availability Period, such commitment fee to be payable quarterly in arrears during such period and on the last day thereof.

	20.2	Costs of negotiation, preparation etc.

The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent on its demand the amount of all expenses incurred by the Agent or the Security Trustee in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document or with any transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document (including, but not limited to, any costs incurred by the Agent in connection with the insurance opinion to be provided to it in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part B, Schedule 3).

	20.3	Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc.

The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, on the Agent's demand, for the account of the Creditor Party concerned, the amount of all expenses incurred by a Creditor Party in connection with:

		(a)	any amendment or supplement to a Finance Document, or any proposal for such an amendment to be made;

		(b)	any consent or waiver by the Lenders, the Swap Bank, the Majority Lenders or the Creditor Party concerned under or in connection with a Finance Document, or any request for such a consent or waiver;

		(c)	the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 15 or any other matter relating to such security;

		(d)	where the Security Trustee, in its absolute opinion, considers that there has been a material change to the insurances in respect of a Ship, the review of the insurances of that Ship pursuant to Clause 13.17; and

		(e)	any step taken by the Creditor Party concerned with a view to the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose (including, without limitation, a request for the preparation of any insurance opinion prepared by an insurance expert acceptable to the Agent, which, in the opinion of the Agent, opines on the matters requested by the Agent in a satisfactory manner).

There shall be recoverable under paragraph (d) the full amount of all legal expenses, whether or not such as would be allowed under rules of court or any taxation or other procedure carried out under such rules.

	20.4	Extraordinary management time

The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent on its demand compensation in respect of the reasonable and documented amount of time which the management of either Servicing Bank has spent in connection with a matter covered by Clause 20.3 and which exceeds the amount of time which would ordinarily be spent in the performance of the relevant Servicing Bank's routine functions. Any such compensation shall be based on such reasonable daily or

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hourly rates as the Agent may notify to the Borrowers and is in addition to any fee paid or payable to the relevant Servicing Bank.

	20.5	Documentary taxes

The Borrowers shall promptly pay any tax payable on or by reference to any Finance Document, and shall, on the Agent's demand, fully indemnify each Creditor Party against any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrowers to pay such a tax.

	20.6	Certification of amounts

A notice which is signed by 2 officers of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 20 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.

	21.	INDEMNITIES

	21.1	Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan

The Borrowers shall fully indemnify the Agent and each Lender on the Agent's demand and the Security Trustee on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are made or brought against or incurred by that Creditor Party, or which that Creditor Party reasonably and with due diligence estimates that it will incur, as a result of or in connection with:

		(a)	the Loan not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender claiming the indemnity;

		(b)	the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period;

		(c)	any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrowers to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document on the due date or, if so payable, on demand (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the Borrowers on the amount concerned under Clause 7); and

		(d)	the occurrence and/or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 19,

and in respect of any tax (other than tax on its overall net income or a FATCA Deduction) for which a Creditor Party is liable in connection with any amount paid or payable to that Creditor Party (whether for its own account or otherwise) under any Finance Document.

	21.2	Breakage costs

Without limiting its generality, Clause 21.1 covers any claim, expense, liability or loss, including a loss of a prospective profit, incurred by a Lender:

		(a)	in liquidating or employing deposits from third parties acquired or arranged to fund or maintain all or any part of its Contribution and/or any overdue amount (or an aggregate amount which includes its Contribution or any overdue amount); and

		(b)	in terminating, or otherwise in connection with, any interest and/or currency swap or any other transaction entered into (whether with another legal entity or with another office or department of the Lender concerned) to hedge any exposure arising under this

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Agreement or that part which the Lender concerned determines is fairly attributable to this Agreement of the amount of the liabilities, expenses or losses (including losses of prospective profits) incurred by it in terminating, or otherwise in connection with, a number of transactions of which this Agreement is one.

	21.3	Miscellaneous indemnities

The Borrowers shall fully indemnify each Creditor Party severally on their respective demands in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which may be made or brought against or incurred by a Creditor Party, in any country, as a result of or in connection with:

		(a)	any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Arranger or any other Creditor Party or by any receiver appointed under a Finance Document; and

		(b)	any other Pertinent Matter,

other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Creditor Party concerned.

Without prejudice to its generality, this Clause 21.3 covers any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code or any Environmental Law.

	21.4	Environmental Indemnity

Without prejudice to its generality, Clause 21.3 covers any claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, taxes, losses or expenses of every kind which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, pollution or the protection of the environment, the ISM Code or the ISPS Code.

	21.5	Currency indemnity

If any sum due from any Borrower or any Security Party to a Creditor Party under a Finance Document or under any order or judgment relating to a Finance Document has to be converted from the currency in which the Finance Document provided for the sum to be paid (the "Contractual Currency") into another currency (the "Payment Currency") for the purpose of:

		(a)	making or lodging any claim or proof against any Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or

		(b)	obtaining an order or judgment from any court or other tribunal; or

		(c)	enforcing any such order or judgment,

the Borrowers shall indemnify the Creditor Party concerned against the loss arising when the amount of the payment actually received by that Creditor Party is converted at the available rate of exchange into the Contractual Currency.

In this Clause 21.5, the "available rate of exchange" means the rate at which the Creditor Party concerned is able at the opening of business (London time) on the Business Day after it receives the sum concerned to purchase the Contractual Currency with the Payment Currency.

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This Clause 21.5 creates a separate liability of the Borrowers which is distinct from their other liabilities under the Finance Documents and which shall not be merged in any judgment or order relating to those other liabilities.

	21.6	Application to Master Agreement

For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 21.5 does not apply in respect of sums due from the Borrowers to the Swap Bank under or in connection with the Master Agreement as to which sums the provisions of section 8 (Contractual Currency) of the Master Agreement shall apply.

	21.7	Certification of amounts

A notice which is signed by 2 officers of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 21 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.

	21.8	Sums deemed due to a Lender

For the purposes of this Clause 21, a sum payable by the Borrowers to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender.

	21.9	Mandatory Cost

The Borrowers shall, on demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender, such amount which any Lender certifies in a notice to the Agent to be its good faith determination of the amount necessary to compensate it for complying with:

		(a)	in the case of a Lender lending from a lending office in a Participating Member State, the minimum reserve requirements (or other requirements having the same or similar purpose) of the European Central Bank or any other authority or agency which replaces all or any of its functions) in respect of loans made from that facility office; and

		(b)	in the case of any Lender lending from a lending office in the United Kingdom, any reserve asset, special deposit or liquidity requirements (or other requirements having the same or similar purpose) of the Bank of England (or any other governmental authority or agency) and/or paying any fees to the Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority (or any other governmental authority or agency which replaces all or any of their functions), which, in each case, is referable to that Lender's participation in the Loan.

	21.10	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrowers are not willing to continue to indemnify the Creditor Parties for any tax for which the Creditor Parties are liable under Clause 21.1, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 14 days' notice of their intention to prepay the Loan at the end of an Interest Period.

	21.11	Prepayment

A notice under Clause 21.10 shall be irrevocable; and on the date specified in the Borrowers' notice of intended prepayment, the Commitments shall terminate and the Borrowers shall prepay the Loan together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).

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	22.	NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION

	22.1	No deductions

All amounts due from the Borrowers under a Finance Document shall be paid:

		(a)	without any form of set off, cross-claim or condition; and

		(b)	free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which a Borrower is required by law to make.

	22.2	Grossing-up for taxes

If a Borrower is required by law to make a tax deduction from any payment:

		(a)	that Borrower shall notify the Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement;

		(b)	that Borrower shall pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises; and

		(c)	the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that each Creditor Party receives and retains (free from any liability relating to the tax deduction) a net amount which, after the tax deduction, is equal to the full amount which it would otherwise have received.

	22.3	Evidence of payment of taxes

Within 1 month after making any tax deduction, the Borrower concerned shall deliver to the Agent documentary evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the tax had been paid to the appropriate taxation authority.

	22.4	Exclusion of tax on overall net income

In this Clause 22 "tax deduction" means any deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, excluding any FATCA Deduction, except tax on a Creditor Party's overall net income.

	22.5	Application to Master Agreement

For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 22 does not apply in respect of sums due from the Borrowers to the Swap Bank under or in connection with the Master Agreement as to which sums the provisions of section 2(d) (Deduction or Withholding for Tax) of the Master Agreement shall apply.

	22.6	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrowers are not willing to continue to make a tax deduction under Clause 22.2 the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 14 days' notice of their intention to prepay the Loan at the end of an Interest Period.

	22.7	Prepayment

A notice under Clause 22.6 shall be irrevocable; and on the date specified in the Borrowers' notice of intended prepayment, the Commitments shall terminate and the Borrowers shall prepay the Loan, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).

	22.8	FATCA

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		(a)	FATCA Information

		(i)	Subject to paragraph (iii) below, each party to a Finance Document shall, within 10 Business Days of a reasonable request by another party to the Finance Documents:

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

		(B)	supply to the requesting party such forms (including IRS Form W-8 or Form W-9 or any successor or substitute form, as applicable), documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable "passthru percentage" or other information required under the US Treasury regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as the requesting party reasonably requests for the purposes of such requesting party's compliance with FATCA;

		(ii)	If a party to any Finance Document confirms to another party pursuant to Clause 22.8(a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party or provides an IRS Form W-8 or W-9 showing 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, or that the IRS Form has ceased to be valid, that party shall notify that other party reasonably promptly;

		(iii)	Sub-clause (i) above shall not oblige any Creditor Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation, any policy of that party, 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 IRS Forms W-8 or W-9 (or any successor forms) shall not be treated as confidential information of such party for purposes of this sub-clause (iii);

		(iv)	If a party to any Finance Document fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with sub-clause (i) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where sub-clause (iii) above applies), then:

		(A)	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 Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and

		(B)	if that party failed to confirm its applicable passthru percentage then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable passthru percentage is 100 per cent.,

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

		(b)	FATCA Withholding

		(i)	Each party to any Finance Document 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.

		(ii)	Each party to any Finance Document 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 

 

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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 Creditor Parties.

	23.	ILLEGALITY, ETC.

	23.1	Illegality

This Clause 23 applies if a Lender (the "Notifying Lender") notifies the Agent that it has become, or will with effect from a specified date, become:

		(a)	unlawful or prohibited as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or will be interpreted or applied; or

		(b)	contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation,

for the Notifying Lender to maintain or give effect to any of its obligations under this Agreement in the manner contemplated by this Agreement.

	23.2	Notification of illegality

The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and the other Lenders of the notice under Clause 23.1 which the Agent receives from the Notifying Lender.

	23.3	Prepayment; termination of Commitment

On the Agent notifying the Borrowers under Clause 23.2, the Notifying Lender's Commitment shall terminate; and thereupon or, if later, on the date specified in the Notifying Lender's notice under Clause 23.1 as the date on which the notified event would become effective the Borrowers shall prepay the Notifying Lender's Contribution in accordance with Clause 8.

	23.4	Mitigation

If circumstances arise which would result in a notification under Clause 23.1 then, without in any way limiting the rights of the Notifying Lender under Clause 23.3, the Notifying Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to transfer its obligations, liabilities and rights under this Agreement and the Finance Documents to another office or financial institution not affected by the circumstances but the Notifying Lender shall not be under any obligation to take any such action if, in its opinion, to do would or might:

		(a)	have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition; or

		(b)	involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation; or

		(c)	involve it in any expense (unless indemnified to its satisfaction) or tax disadvantage.

	24.	INCREASED COSTS

	24.1	Increased costs

This Clause 24 applies if a Lender (the "Notifying Lender") notifies the Agent that the Notifying Lender considers that as a result of:

		(a)	the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in which a law is interpreted or applied

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		(a)	(disregarding any effect which relates to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on that Lender's overall net income); or

		(b)	complying with any regulation (including the "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004, in the form existing on the date of this Agreement ("Basel II") and any other regulation which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in which the Notifying Lender allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement; or

		(c)	the introduction, implementation, application, administration or compliance with Basel III, CRD IV or CRR or any law or regulation which implements or applies Basel III, CRD IV or CRR (regardless of the date on which it is enacted, adopted or issued and regardless of whether any such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, the Creditor Party or any of its Affiliates) after the date of this Agreement,

the Notifying Lender (or its Holding Company) has incurred or will incur an "increased cost".

	24.2	Meaning of "increased costs"

In this Clause 24, "increased costs" means, in relation to a Notifying Lender:

		(a)	an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Notifying Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement or a Transfer Certificate, of funding or maintaining its Commitment or Contribution or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of its Contribution or other unpaid sums;

		(b)	a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Notifying Lender under this Agreement or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the Notifying Lender or on its capital;

		(c)	an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Notifying Lender's Contribution or (as the case may require) the proportion of that cost attributable to the Contribution; or

		(d)	a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Notifying Lender under this Agreement,

but not an item attributable to (i) a change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the Notifying Lender (or its Holding Company), (ii) a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a party to a Finance Document or (iii) an item covered by the indemnity for tax in Clause 21.1 or by Clause 22.

For the purposes of this Clause 24.2 the Notifying Lender may in good faith allocate or spread costs and/or losses among its assets and liabilities (or any class of its assets and liabilities) on such basis as it considers appropriate.

	24.3	Notification to Borrowers of claim for increased costs

The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Security Parties of the notice which the Agent received from the Notifying Lender under Clause 24.1.

	24.4	Payment of increased costs

The Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, on the Agent's demand, for the account of the Notifying Lender the amounts which the Agent from time to time notifies the Borrowers that the Notifying Lender has specified to be necessary to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost.

 

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	24.5	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrowers are not willing to continue to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost under Clause 24.4, the Borrowers may give the Agent not less than 14 days' notice of their intention to prepay the Notifying Lender's Contribution at the end of an Interest Period.

	24.6	Prepayment; termination of Commitment

A notice under Clause 24.5 shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Notifying Lender of the Borrowers' notice of intended prepayment; and:

		(a)	on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Commitment of the Notifying Lender shall be cancelled; and

		(b)	on the date specified in its notice of intended prepayment, the Borrowers shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Notifying Lender's Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if any).

	24.7	Application of prepayment

Clause 8 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.

	25.	SET-OFF

	25.1	Application of credit balances

Each Creditor Party may without prior notice:

		(a)	apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of a Borrower at any office in any country of that Creditor Party in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from that Borrower to that Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents; and

		(b)	for that purpose:

		(i)	break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of that Borrower;

		(ii)	convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and

		(iii)	enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Creditor Party concerned considers appropriate.

	25.2	Existing rights unaffected

No Creditor Party shall be obliged to exercise any of its rights under Clause 25.1; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which a Creditor Party is entitled (whether under the general law or any document).

	25.3	Sums deemed due to a Lender

For the purposes of this Clause 25, a sum payable by the Borrowers to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to, or for the account of, a Lender shall be treated as a sum 

 

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due to that Lender; and each Lender's proportion of a sum so payable for distribution to, or for the account of, the Lenders shall be treated as a sum due to such Lender.

	25.4	No Security Interest

This Clause 25 gives the Creditor Parties a contractual right of set-off only, and does not create any equitable charge or other Security Interest over any credit balance of any Borrower.

	26.	TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICES

	26.1	Transfer by Borrowers

No Borrower may, without the prior written consent of the Agent, given on the instructions of all the Creditor Parties, transfer any of its rights, liabilities or obligations under any Finance Document.

	26.2	Transfer by a Lender

Subject to Clause 26.4, a Lender (the "Transferor Lender") may at any time cause:

		(a)	its rights in respect of all or part of its Contribution; or

		(b)	its obligations in respect of all or part of its Commitment; or

		(c)	a combination of (a) and (b),

to be (in the case of its rights) transferred to, or (in the case of its obligations) assumed by, another bank or financial institution or a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (a "Transferee Lender") by delivering to the Agent a completed certificate in the form set out in Schedule 4 with any modifications approved or required by the Agent (a "Transfer Certificate") executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender.

However any rights and obligations of the Transferor Lender in its capacity as Agent or Security Trustee will have to be dealt with separately in accordance with the Agency and Trust Agreement.

A transfer pursuant to this Clause 26.2 shall be effected:

(i)    without the consent of the Borrowers:

		(A)	following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing; and/or

		(B)	if such transfer is to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender; and

		(ii)	in all other circumstances with the consent of the Borrowers (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the Borrowers will be deemed to have given its consent 5 Business Days following the request of the Transferor Lender unless the consent is expressly refused by the Borrowers within that time.

	26.3	Transfer Certificate, delivery and notification

As soon as reasonably practicable after a Transfer Certificate is delivered to the Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that the Transfer Certificate may be defective):

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		(a)	sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of itself, the Borrowers, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee, each of the other Lenders and the Swap Bank;

		(b)	on behalf of the Transferee Lender, send to each Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of the Transfer Certificate and attaching a copy of it; and

		(c)	send to the Transferee Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above,

but the Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to that Transferee Lender.

	26.4	Effective Date of Transfer Certificate

A Transfer Certificate becomes effective on the date, if any, specified in the Transfer Certificate as its effective date, Provided that it is signed by the Agent under Clause 26.3 on or before that date.

	26.5	No transfer without Transfer Certificate

Except as provided in Clause 26.17, no assignment or transfer of any right or obligation of a Lender under any Finance Document is binding on, or effective in relation to, any Borrower, any Security Party, the Agent or the Security Trustee unless it is effected, evidenced or perfected by a Transfer Certificate.

	26.6	Lender re-organisation; waiver of Transfer Certificate

However, if a Lender enters into any merger, de-merger or other reorganisation as a result of which all its rights or obligations vest in another person (the "successor"), the Agent may, if it sees fit, by notice to the successor and the Borrowers and the Security Trustee waive the need for the execution and delivery of a Transfer Certificate; and, upon service of the Agent's notice, the successor shall become a Lender with the same Commitment and Contribution as were held by the predecessor Lender.

	26.7	Effect of Transfer Certificate

A Transfer Certificate takes effect in accordance with English law as follows:

		(a)	to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate, all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents (other than the Master 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 any Borrower or any Security Party had against the Transferor Lender;

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

		(c)	the Transferee Lender becomes a Lender with the Contribution previously held by the Transferor Lender and a Commitment of an amount specified in the Transfer Certificate;

		(d)	the Transferee Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) 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 Security Trustee and, to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes bound by those provisions (other than those relating to exclusion of liability), the Transferor Lender ceases to be bound by them;

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		(e)	any part of the Loan which the Transferee Lender advances after the Transfer Certificate's effective date ranks in point of priority and security in the same way as it would have ranked had it been advanced by the transferor, assuming that any defects in the transferor's title and any rights or equities of any Borrower or any Security Party against the Transferor Lender had not existed;

		(f)	the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited to those relating to the Majority Lenders and those under Clause 5.7 and Clause 20, and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to such rights, the Transferor Lender ceases to be entitled to them; and

		(g)	in respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with a Finance Document, the Transferee Lender shall be entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by it as a result of the breach or misrepresentation, irrespective of whether the original Lender would have incurred a loss of that kind or amount.

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

	26.8	Maintenance of register of Lenders

During the Security Period the Agent shall maintain a register in which it shall record the name, Commitment, Contribution and administrative details (including the lending office) from time to time of each Lender holding a Transfer Certificate and the effective date (in accordance with Clause 26.4) of the Transfer Certificate; and the Agent shall make the register available for inspection by any Lender, the Security Trustee and the Borrowers during normal banking hours, subject to receiving at least 3 Business Days' prior notice.

	26.9	Reliance on register of Lenders

The entries on that register shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive in determining the identities of the Lenders and the amounts of their Commitments and Contributions and the effective dates of Transfer Certificates and may be relied upon by the Agent and the other parties to the Finance Documents for all purposes relating to the Finance Documents.

	26.10	Authorisation of Agent to sign Transfer Certificates

Each Borrower, the Security Trustee, each Lender and the Swap Bank irrevocably authorise the Agent to sign Transfer Certificates on its behalf.

	26.11	Registration fee

In respect of any Transfer Certificate, the Agent shall be entitled to recover a registration fee of $2,500 from the Transferor Lender or (at the Agent's option) the Transferee Lender.

	26.12	Sub-participation; securitisation; subrogation assignment

		(a)	A Lender may sub-participate or include in a securitisation or similar transaction all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents without the consent of, or any notice to, any Borrower, any Security Party, the Agent or the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party; and the Lenders may assign, in any manner and terms agreed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent and the Security Trustee, all or any part of those rights to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them.

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		(b)	The Borrower shall, and shall procure that each Security Party shall, do everything desirable or necessary to assist a Lender to achieve a successful (in the opinion of that Lender) securitisation (or similar transaction).

	26.13	Disclosure of information

In relation to any information which a Lender has received in relation to any Borrower, any Security Party or their affairs under or in connection with any Finance Document that Lender may disclose any such information without the prior irrevocable authorisation of or notice to that Borrower and the Corporate Guarantor to:

		(a)	a potential transferee lender, sub-participant, Affiliate, any other assignee or transferee or any other person who may propose entering into a contractual relation with that Lender in relation to this Agreement; and/or

		(b)	any direct or indirect Subsidiary, any direct or indirect Holding Company, any Affiliate or any other company in its group; and/or

		(c)	any authorities (including, without limitation, any private, public or internationally recognised authorities) or any party to any Finance Document or any professional adviser to that Lender; and/or

		(d)	a rating agency or their professional advisors; and/or

		(e)	any other person regarding the funding, refinancing, transfer, assignment, sale, sub-participation, operational arrangement or other transaction in relation thereto including without limitation any enforcement, preservation, assignment, transfer, sale or sub-participation of that Lender's rights and obligations,

and including, without limitation, (x) for purposes in connection with (1) any enforcement or (2) assignment or transfer of that Lender's rights or obligations under any Finance Document or (y) to the extent desirable or necessary in connection with or in contemplation of a securitisation (or similar transaction).

	26.14	Change of lending office

A Lender may change its lending office by giving notice to the Agent and the change shall become effective on the later of:

		(a)	the date on which the Agent receives the notice; and

		(b)	the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect.

	26.15	Notification

On receiving such a notice, the Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Security Trustee; and, until the Agent receives such a notice, it shall be entitled to assume that a Lender is acting through the lending office of which the Agent last had notice.

	26.16	Replacement of the Reference Bank

If the Reference Bank ceases to be a Lender or is unable on a continuing basis to supply quotations for the purposes of Clause 5 then, unless the Borrowers, the Agent and the Majority Lenders otherwise agree, the Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, and after consulting the Borrowers, shall appoint another bank (whether or not a Lender) to be a replacement Reference Bank; and, when that appointment comes into effect, the first mentioned Reference Bank's appointment shall cease to be effective.

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	26.17	Security over Lenders' rights

In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 26, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from any Borrower or any Security Party, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation:

		(a)	any charge, assignment or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and

		(b)	in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities,

except that no such charge, assignment or Security Interest shall:

		(i)	release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest for that Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or

		(ii)	require any payments to be made by any Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.

	27.	VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS

	27.1	Variations, waivers etc. by Majority Lenders

Subject to Clause 27.2, a document shall be effective to vary, waive, suspend or limit any provision of a Finance Document, or any Creditor Party's rights or remedies under such a provision or the general law, only if the document is signed, or specifically agreed to by fax, by the Borrowers, by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders, by the Agent and the Security Trustee in their own rights, and, if the document relates to a Finance Document to which a Security Party is party, by that Security Party.

	27.2	Variations, waivers etc. requiring agreement of all Lenders.

However, as regards the following, Clause 27.1 applies as if the words "by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders" were replaced by the words "by or on behalf of every Lender and the Swap Bank":

		(a)	a reduction in the Margin;

		(b)	a postponement to the date for, or a reduction in the amount of, any payment of principal, interest, fees or other sum payable under this Agreement;

		(c)	an increase in any Lender's Commitment;

		(d)	a change to the definition of "Majority Lenders";

		(e)	a change to Clause 3 or this Clause 27;

		(f)	any release of, or material variation to, a Security Interest, guarantee, indemnity or subordination arrangement set out in a Finance Document; and

		(g)	any other change or matter as regards which this Agreement or another Finance Document expressly provides that each Lender's consent is required.

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	27.3	Exclusion of other or implied variations

Except for a document which satisfies the requirements of Clauses 27.1 and 27.2 no document, and no act, course of conduct, failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence on the part of the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) shall result in the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) being taken to have varied, waived, suspended or limited, or being precluded (permanently or temporarily) from enforcing, relying on or exercising:

		(a)	a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or

		(b)	an Event of Default; or

		(c)	a breach by a Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or

		(d)	any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law,

and there shall not be implied into any Finance Document any term or condition requiring any such provision to be enforced, or such right or remedy to be exercised, within a certain or reasonable time.

	28.	NOTICES

	28.1	General

Unless otherwise specifically provided, any notice under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be given by letter or fax and references in the Finance Documents to written notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed accordingly.

	28.2	Addresses for communications

A notice by letter or fax shall be sent:

	 	
(a)

	
to the Borrowers:

	
c/o Approved Manager

Pendelis Street

175 64 Paleo Faliro

Athens

Greece

 

Fax No: +30 210 9470101

 

	 
	 	
(b)

	
to a Lender:

	
At the address below its name in Schedule 1 or (as the case may require) in the relevant Transfer Certificate.

 

	 	
(c)

	
to the Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee:

	
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Coolsingel

AE Rotterdam

The Netherlands

 

Attn: Loans Administration/Transportation

 Fax No: +31 10 401 5323

 

	 
	 	
(d)

	
to the Swap Bank:

	
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

c/o Markets Documentation Unit

Gustav Mahlerlaan 10

 

NL-1082PP Amsterdam

 The Netherlands

mdu@nl.abnamro.com

Fax No: +31 10 459 0538

 

	 

or to such other address as the relevant party may notify the Agent or, if the relevant party is the Agent or the Security Trustee, the Borrowers, the Lenders, the Arranger, the Swap Bank and the Security Parties.

 

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	28.3	Effective date of notices

Subject to Clauses 28.4 and 28.5:

		(a)	a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered; and

		(b)	a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed.

	28.4	Service outside business hours

However, if under Clause 28.3 a notice would be deemed to be served:

		(a)	on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or

		(b)	on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time,

the notice shall (subject to Clause 28.5) be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at 9 a.m. on the next day which is such a business day.

	28.5	Illegible notices

Clauses 28.3 and 28.4 do not apply if the recipient of a notice notifies the sender within 1 hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that the notice has been received in a form which is illegible in a material respect.

	28.6	Valid notices

A notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall not be invalid by reason that its contents or the manner of serving it do not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if:

		(a)	the failure to serve it in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may be, has not caused any party to suffer any significant loss or prejudice; or

		(b)	in the case of incorrect and/or incomplete contents, it should have been reasonably clear to the party on which the notice was served what the correct or missing particulars should have been.

	28.7	Electronic communication

Any communication to be made between the Agent and a Lender or Swap Bank or the Agent and the Borrowers under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Creditor Party or the Borrowers:

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		(a)	agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication;

		(b)	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

		(c)	notify each other of any change to their respective addresses or any other such information supplied to them.

Any electronic communication made between the Agent and a Lender or the Swap Bank or the Borrowers will be effective only when actually received in readable form and, in the case of any electronic communication made by a Creditor Party or the Borrowers to the Agent, only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.

	28.8	English language

Any notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall be in English.

	28.9	Meaning of "notice"

In this Clause 28, "notice" includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction, waiver or other communication.

	29.	JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY

	29.1	General

All liabilities and obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement shall, whether expressed to be so or not, be several and, if and to the extent consistent with Clause 29.2, joint.

	29.2	No impairment of Borrower's obligations

The liabilities and obligations of a Borrower shall not be impaired by:

		(a)	this Agreement being or later becoming void, unenforceable or illegal as regards any other Borrower;

		(b)	any Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee entering into any rescheduling, refinancing or other arrangement of any kind with any other Borrower;

		(c)	any Lender, the Swap Bank or the Security Trustee releasing any other Borrower or any Security Interest created by a Finance Document; or

		(d)	any combination of the foregoing.

	29.3	Principal debtors

Each Borrower declares that it is and will, throughout the Security Period, remain a principal debtor for all amounts owing under this Agreement and the Finance Documents and no Borrower shall in any circumstances be construed to be a surety for the obligations of any other Borrower under this Agreement.

	29.4	Subordination

Subject to Clause 29.5, during the Security Period, no Borrower shall:

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		(a)	claim any amount which may be due to it from any other Borrower whether in respect of a payment made, or matter arising out of, this Agreement or any Finance Document, or any matter unconnected with this Agreement or any Finance Document; or

		(b)	take or enforce any form of security from any other Borrower for such an amount, or in any other way seek to have recourse in respect of such an amount against any asset of any other Borrower; or

		(c)	set off such an amount against any sum due from it to any other Borrower; or

		(d)	prove or claim for such an amount in any liquidation, administration, arrangement or similar procedure involving any other Borrower or other Security Party; or

		(e)	exercise or assert any combination of the foregoing.

	29.5	Borrower's required action

If during the Security Period, the Agent, by notice to a Borrower, requires it to take any action referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) of Clause 29.4, in relation to any other Borrower, that Borrower shall take that action as soon as practicable after receiving the Agent's notice.

	30.	SUPPLEMENTAL

	30.1	Rights cumulative, non-exclusive

The rights and remedies which the Finance Documents give to each Creditor Party are:

		(a)	cumulative;

		(b)	may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and

		(c)	shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law.

	30.2	Severability of provisions

If any provision of a Finance Document is or subsequently becomes void, unenforceable or illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance Document.

	30.3	Counterparts

A Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts.

	30.4	Third party rights

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.

	30.5	PATRIOT Act Notice

Each of the Agent and the Lenders hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act and the policies and practices of the Agent and each Lender, the Agent and each of the Lenders is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies any Borrower and any Security Party, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and each Security Party and such other information that will allow the Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Borrower and each Security Party in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.

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	31.	CONFIDENTIALITY

	31.1	Confidential Information

The Creditor Parties agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 31.2, and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.

	31.2	Disclosure of Confidential Information

The Creditor Parties may disclose:

		(a)	to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives such Confidential Information as the Creditor Parties shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information;

		(b)	to any person (if that person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and undertakes in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party and/or make use of it in case the dealings contemplated below are not concluded):

		(i)	to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents and to any of that person's Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;

		(ii)	with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or any Borrower and/or any Security Party and to any of that person's Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;

		(iii)	appointed by the Creditor Parties or by a person to whom paragraphs (i) or (ii) applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf;

		(iv)	who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in paragraphs (i) or (ii);

		(v)	to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation;

		(vi)	to whom or for whose benefit a Creditor Parties charges, assigns or otherwise creates security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.17;

		(vii)	to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes;

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		(viii)	to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes;

		(ix)	to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any insurance to be effected by a Creditor Party in relation to or in connection with any Finance Document;

		(x)	who is a party to this Agreement; or

		(xi)	with the consent of the Borrowers,

in each case, such Confidential Information as the Creditor Parties shall consider appropriate;

		(c)	to any person appointed by a Creditor Party by a person to whom paragraphs (b)(i) or (b)(ii) of Clause 31.2 applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents including without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph (c) provided always that such person will undertake in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party;

		(d)	to any rating agency (including its profession advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the Finance Documents, the Borrowers and/or the Security Parties provided always that such rating agency will undertake in writing not to disclose such Confidential Information to any third party.

	31.3	Entire agreement

This Clause 31 constitutes the entire agreement between the parties to this Agreement in relation to the obligations of the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.

	31.4	Inside Information

The Creditor Parties acknowledge that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the Creditor Parties undertake not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.

	31.5	Notification of disclosure

The Creditor Parties agree (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Borrowers and the Security Parties:

		(a)	of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 31.2 except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and

		(b)	upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 31.

	31.6	Continuing obligations

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The obligations of this Clause 31 are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on the Creditor Parties for a period of twelve months from the earlier of:

		(a)	the date on which all amounts payable by the Borrowers and the Security Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been paid in full and all obligations of the Creditor Parties have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and

		(b)	the date on which a Creditor Party otherwise ceases to be a party to this Agreement.

	32.	LAW AND JURISDICTION

	32.1	English law

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.

	32.2	Exclusive English jurisdiction

Subject to Clause 32.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.

	32.3	Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of Creditor Parties

Clause 32.2 is for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties, each of which reserves the rights:

		(a)	to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and

		(b)	to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing proceedings in England.

No Borrower shall commence any proceedings in any country other than England in relation to a Dispute.

	32.4	Process agent

Each Borrower irrevocably appoints Nicolaou & Co (for the attention of Antonis Nicolaou) at its registered office for the time being, presently at 25 Heath Drive, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 1EN, England, to act as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings in the English courts which are connected with a Dispute.

	32.5	Creditor Party rights unaffected

Nothing in this Clause 32 shall exclude or limit any right which any Creditor Party may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the recognition or enforcement of a judgment or any similar or related matter in any jurisdiction.

	32.6	Meaning of "proceedings" and "Dispute"

In this Clause 32, "proceedings" means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure and a "Dispute" means any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement) or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.

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THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

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SCHEDULE 1

LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS

	
Lender

 

	
Lending Office

 

	
Commitment

 (US Dollars)

 

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
c/o Loans Administration —

Transportation Clients

93 Coolsingel

3012 AE Rotterdam

The Netherlands

	
53,000,000

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SCHEDULE 2

DRAWDOWN NOTICE

	To:	ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

93 Coolsingel

AE Rotterdam

 The Netherlands

Attention: [Loans Administration]

[·] 2015

DRAWDOWN NOTICE

	1	We refer to the loan agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated [0] March 2015 and made between ourselves, as joint and several Borrowers, the Lenders referred to therein, and yourselves as Agent, Arranger, Security Trustee and Swap Bank in connection with a term loan facility of up to us$53,000,000. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice.

	2	We request to borrow as follows:

	(a)	Amount of Loan: US$[53,000,000];

	(b)	Drawdown Date: [·] 2015;

	(c)	Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [·] months; and

	(d)	Payment instructions: account in our name and numbered [·] with [·] of [·].

	3	We represent and warrant that:

	(a)	the representations and warranties in Clause 10 of the Loan Agreement would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this notice with reference to the circumstances now existing; and

	(b)	no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the Loan.

	4	This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.

	5	[We authorise you to deduct the arrangement fee, being in the amount of $[·], and the accrued commitment fee, being in the amount of $[·], each referred to in Clause 20.1 of the Loan Agreement, from the Loan.]

[Name of Signatory]

for and on behalf of

TUVALU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

JABAT SHIPPING COMPANY INC. and

BIKINI SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

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SCHEDULE 3

CONDITION PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS

PART A

The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(a) required before the service of the Drawdown Notice.

	1	A duly executed original of this Agreement and each Finance Document (and of each document required to be delivered by each Finance Document) other than those referred to in Part B.

	2	Copies of the certificate of incorporation and constitutional documents of each Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor and any other Security Party.

	3	Copies of resolutions of the shareholders and directors of each Borrower and each Security Party (other than the Corporate Guarantor) authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents to which that Borrower or that Security Party is a party and, in the case of a Borrower, authorising named officers to give the Drawdown Notice and other notices under this Agreement.

	4	Copies of resolutions of the executive committee of the Corporate Guarantor authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents to which it is a party.

	5	The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document is executed on behalf of a Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any other Security Party.

	6	Copies of all consents which any Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor or any Security Party requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document.

	7	Copy of the Initial Charter and of all documents signed or issued by Borrower C and the Initial Charterer (or either of them) under or in connection with it.

	8	The originals of any mandates or other documents required by the Agent in connection with the opening or operation of the Earnings Accounts.

	9	Such documents and other evidence in such form as is requested by the Agent in order for the Lenders to comply with all necessary "know your customer" or "client acceptance" or other similar identification procedures (including, but not limited to, specimen signatures of all the directors and other officers of each Borrower and each Security Party) in relation to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.

	10	Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 31 has accepted its appointment.

	11	Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the laws of Marshall Islands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require.

	12	If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent.

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PART B

The following are the documents referred to in Clause 9.1(b) required before the Drawdown Date. In Part B of this Schedule 3, the following definitions have the following meanings:

	(a)	"Relevant Borrower" means the Borrower which is the owner of the Relevant Ship; and

	(b)	"Relevant Ship" means the Ship which is to be financed by using the proceeds of the Loan being drawn on the Drawdown Date.

	1	A duly executed original of the Mortgage and the General Assignment relating to the Relevant Ship and, in the case of Ship C, the Initial Charter Assignment (and of each document to be delivered under each of them).

	2	Documentary evidence that:

	(a)	the Relevant Ship is definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Relevant Borrower under an Approved Flag;

	(b)	the Relevant Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Relevant Borrower save as contemplated by the Finance Documents;

	(c)	the Relevant Ship maintains the highest class with a classification society which is a member of IACS and acceptable to the Agent free of all overdue recommendations and conditions ;

	(d)	the Mortgage relating to the Relevant Ship has been duly registered or recorded against the Relevant Ship as a valid first preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the applicable Approved Flag State; and

	(e)	the Relevant Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with.

	3	Documents establishing that the Relevant Ship will, as from the Drawdown Date, be managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Agent, together with:

	(a)	the Approved Manager's Undertaking in respect of the Relevant Ship duly signed by the Approved Manager; and

	(b)	copies of the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance and of the Relevant Ship's Safety Management Certificate (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Agent requires), the ISSC and the IAPPC.

	4	Evidence satisfactory to the Agent that each Borrower has opened and maintains its Earnings Account.

	5	A valuation of the Relevant Ship and, if required by the Agent pursuant to the proviso to Clause 15.3, one additional valuation of the Relevant Ship, prepared, in each case, by an Approved Broker, complying with the requirements of Clause 15.3 and dated no earlier than 15 days prior to the Drawdown Date, with the Initial Market Value being determined in accordance with the provisions of Clause 15.3.

	6	Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning the laws of Marshall Islands, the applicable Approved Flag State and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require.

	7	At the cost of the Borrowers, a favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Relevant Ship as the Agent may require.

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	8	Evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the Minimum Liquidity Amount is standing to the credit of the Earnings Account in respect of the Relevant Ship pursuant to Clause 11.17.

	9	If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Agent.

Each of the documents specified in paragraphs 2, 3, 5 and 7 of Part A and every other copy document delivered under this Schedule shall be certified as a true and up to date copy by a director or the secretary (or equivalent officer) of each Borrower.

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SCHEDULE 4

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

The Transferor and the Transferee accept exclusive responsibility for ensuring that this Certificate and the transaction to which it relates comply with all legal and regulatory requirements applicable to them respectively.

	To:	ABN AMRO Bank N.V. for itself and for and on behalf of the Borrower, [each Security Party], the Security Trustee, each Lender and the Swap Bank, as defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below.

[·] 2015

	1	This Certificate relates to a Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated [·] March 2015 and made between (1) Tuvalu Shipping Company Inc., Jabat Shipping Company Inc. and Bikini Shipping Company Inc. as joint and several borrowers (the "Borrowers"), (2) the banks and financial institutions named in Schedule 1 thereto as Lenders, (3) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as Agent, (4) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as Arranger, (5) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as Security Trustee and (6) ABN AMRO Bank N.V. as Swap Bank for a loan facility of up to US$53,000,000.

	2	In this Certificate, terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meanings when used in this Certificate and:

"Relevant Parties" means the Agent, the Borrower, [each Security Party,] the Security Trustee, each Lender and the Swap Bank;

"Transferor" means [full name] of [lending office]; and

"Transferee" means [full name] of [lending office].

	3	The effective date of this Certificate is [·], Provided that this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the Agent on or before that date.

	4	[The Transferor assigns to the Transferee absolutely all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor has as Lender under or by virtue of the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document (other than the Master Agreement) in relation to [·] per cent. of its Contribution, which percentage represents $[·].]

	5	[By virtue of this Certificate and Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement, the Transferor is discharged [entirely from its Commitment which amounts to $[·] [from [·] per cent. of its Commitment, which percentage represents $[G]] and the Transferee acquires a Commitment of $[·].]

	6	The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the Relevant Parties that the Transferee will observe and perform all the obligations under the Finance Documents (other than the Master Agreement) which Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect.

	7	The Agent, at the request of the Transferee (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the Agent itself and for and on behalf of every other Relevant Party, this Certificate as a Transfer Certificate taking effect in accordance with Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement.

	8	The Transferor:

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	(a)	warrants to the Transferee and each Relevant Party that:

		(i)	the Transferor has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which are required in connection with this transaction; and

		(ii)	this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferor;

(b)            warrants to the Transferee that the Transferor is absolutely entitled, free of encumbrances, to all the rights and interests covered by the assignment in paragraph 4 above; and

(c)            undertakes with the Transferee that the Transferor will, at its own expense, execute any documents which the Transferee reasonably requests for perfecting in any relevant jurisdiction the Transferee's title under this Certificate or for a similar purpose.

	9	The Transferee:

	(a)	confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement and each of the other Finance Documents;

	(b)	agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either the Transferor, the Agent, the Arranger, the Security Trustee, any Lender or the Swap Bank in the event that:

		(i)	any of the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective;

		(ii)	any Borrower or any Security Party fails to observe or perform its obligations, or to discharge its liabilities, under any of the Finance Documents; and

		(iii)	it proves impossible to realise any asset covered by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document, or the proceeds of such assets are insufficient to discharge the liabilities of the Borrowers or any Security Party under any of the Finance Documents;

	(c)	agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Agent, the Arranger, the Security Trustee, any Lender or the Swap Bank in the event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or ineffective;

	(d)	warrants to the Transferor and each Relevant Party that:

		(i)	it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and

		(ii)	this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferee; and

(e)            confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out below regarding the Transferee.

	10	The Transferor and the Transferee each undertake with the Agent, the Arranger and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the Agent and/or the Arranger and/or the Security Trustee in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense (including all legal expenses) which they or any of them may incur in connection with this Certificate or any matter arising out of it, except such as are shown to have been mainly and directly caused by the gross and culpable negligence or dishonesty of the Agent's, the Arranger's or the Security Trustee's own officers or employees.

	11	The Transferee shall repay to the Transferor on demand so much of any sum paid by the Transferor under paragraph 10 as exceeds one-half of the amount demanded by the Agent, the Arranger or the Security Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not reasonably foreseeable at the date of this Certificate; but nothing in this

 

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		paragraph shall affect the liability of each of the Transferor and the Transferee to the Agent, the Arranger or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it.

	
[Name of Transferor]

	 	
[Name of Transferee]

	
By:

	 	
By:

	
Date:

	 	
Date:

Agent

Signed for itself and for and on behalf of itself

 as Agent and for every other Relevant Party

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

By:

Date:

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Administrative Details of Transferee

Name of Transferee:

Lending Office:

Contact Person

 (Loan Administration Department):

Telephone:

Fax:

Contact Person

 (Credit Administration Department):

Telephone:

Fax:

Account for payments:

	Note:	This Transfer Certificate alone may not be sufficient to transfer a proportionate share of the Transferor's interest in the security constituted by the Finance Documents in the Transferor's or Transferee's jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of each Lender to ascertain whether any other documents are required for this purpose.

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SCHEDULE 5

DESIGNATION NOTICE

	To:	ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

93 Coolsingel

AE Rotterdam

The Netherlands

as Agent

 Attention: Loans Administration

[·] 2015

Dear Sirs

Loan Agreement dated [·] March 2015 (the "Loan Agreement") made between (i) Tuvalu Shipping Company Inc., Jabat Shipping Company Inc. and Bikini Shipping Company Inc. as joint and several Borrowers, (ii) the Lenders, (iii) the Swap Bank and (iv) yourselves as Agent, Arranger and Security Trustee.

We refer to:

	1	the Loan Agreement;

	2	the Master Agreement dated as of [·] 2015 made between ourselves and the Swap Bank; and

	3	a Confirmation delivered pursuant to the said Master Agreement dated [·] and addressed by the Swap Bank to us.

In accordance with the terms of the Loan Agreement, we hereby give you notice of the said Confirmation and hereby confirm that the Transaction evidenced by it will be designated as a "Designated Transaction" for the purposes of the Loan Agreement and the Finance Documents.

Yours faithfully,

-------------------------------------------------------

 for and on behalf of

TUVALU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

JABAT SHIPPING COMPANY INC. and

 BIKINI SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

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EXECUTION PAGES

	
THE BORROWERS

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Ioannis Zafirakis

	
IOANNIS ZAFIRAKIS

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
TUVALU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Ioannis Zafirakis

	
IOANNIS ZAFIRAKIS

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
JABAT SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	 
	
Andreas Nicolaos Michalopoulos

	
)

	
/s/ Andreas Michalopoulos

	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
BIKINI SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Solicitor

	 	 	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
1767 4 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	
THE LENDERS

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
Nadine Akleh

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	
THE AGENT AGENT

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
Nadine Akleh

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	
)

	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

 

 

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THE ARRANGER

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
Nadine Akleh

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	
THE SECURITY TRUSTEE

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
Nadine Akleh

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

	 	 	 
	
THE ARRANGER

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
Nadine Akleh

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	
Vassiliki Georgopoulos

	
ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

	
)

	
Solicitor

	
in the presence of:

	
)

	
Watson Farley & Williams

	 	 	
348 Syngrou Avenue

	 	 	
176 74 Kallithea

	 	 	
Athens-Greece

 

91Exhibit 4.21

Dated 29 April 2015

LELU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

 as Borrower

and

DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S (DANMARKS SKIBSKREDIT A/S)

 as Lender

LOAN AGREEMENT

relating to a term loan facility of up to US$30,000,000 to finance

 part of the acquisition cost of a Capesize bulk carrier named "SANTA BARBARA"

	 	
Index

	 
	
Clause

	 	
Page

	 	 	 
	
1

	
Interpretation

	
1

	
2

	
Facility

	
13

	
3

	
Drawdown

	
13

	
4

	
Interest

	
14

	
5

	
Interest Periods

	
15

	
6

	
Default Interest

	
16

	
7

	
Repayment and Prepayment

	
17

	
8

	
Conditions Precedent

	
18

	
9

	
Representations and warranties

	
19

	
10

	
General  Undertakings

	
22

	
11

	
Corporate  Undertakings

	
26

	
12

	
Insurance

	
27

	
13

	
Ship Covenants

	
32

	
14

	
Security Cover

	
36

	
15

	
Payments and calculations

	
38

	
16

	
Application of receipts

	
39

	
17

	
Events of Default

	
40

	
18

	
Fees and Expenses

	
44

	
19

	
Indemnities

	
45

	
20

	
No set-off or tax deduction

	
47

	
21

	
Illegality, etc

	
48

	
22

	
Increased costs

	
49

	
23

	
Set-off

	
50

	
24

	
Transfers and Changes in Lending Office

	
51

	
25

	
Variations and Waivers

	
52

	
26

	
Notices

	
53

	
27

	
Supplemental

	
54

	
28

	
Law and Jurisdiction

	
55

	
Schedule 1 Drawdown Notice

	
57

	
Schedule 2  Condition Precedent Documents

	
58

	
Execution Page

	
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THIS AGREEMENT is made on 29 April 2015

BETWEEN

	(1)	LELU SHIPPING COMPANY INC., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island,MH96960, Majuro, Marshall Islands as borrower (the "Borrower"); and

	(2)	DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S (DANMARKS SKIBSKREDIT A/S), acting through its office at Sankt-Annae Plads 3, DK-1250 Copenhagen K, Denmark as lender (the "Lender").

BACKGROUND

The Lender has agreed to make available to the Borrower, in one advance, a term loan facility of up US$30,000,000 for the purpose of financing part of the acquisition cost of a Capesize bulk carrier named "SANTA BARBARA".

IT IS AGREED as follows:

	1	INTERPRETATION

	1.1	Definitions

Subject to Clause 1.5, in this Agreement:

"Agreed Form" means in relation to any document, that document in the form approved in writing by the Lender or as otherwise approved in accordance with any other approval procedure specified in any relevant provision of any Finance Document;

"Approved Broker" means H. Clarkson & Company Limited, Simpson Spence & Young (London) Ltd., Arrow Sale & Purchase (UK) Limited, Breamar Seascape Limited, Fearnleys AS, R.S. Platou Shipbrokers AS, or any other any reputable sale and purchase broker approved by the Lender;

"Approved Charter" means any time charterparty in respect of such ship of a duration (including any options) of more than 12 months entered into by that Borrower and a charterer;

"Approved Charterparty Assignment" means, in respect of the Approved Charter, a specific deed of assignment of the rights of the Borrower executed or to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Lender in the Agreed Form;

"Approved Flag" means the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands or any other flag the Lender may, in its sole and absolute discretion, approve as the flag on which the Ship may be registered;

"Approved Flag State" means the Republic of the Marshall Islands or any other country in which the Lender may, in its sole and absolute discretion, approve as the flag on which the Ship may be registered;

"Approved Manager" means, Diana Shipping Services S.A., a company incorporated and existing under the laws of Panama having its registered office at Edificio Universal, Piso 12, Avenida Federico Boyd, Panama, Republic of Panama and maintaining an office at 16 Pendelis Street, 175 64, Palaio Faliro, Greece or or any other company which the Lender may approve from time to time as the technical and/or commercial manager of that Ship;

"Approved Manager's Undertaking" means a letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Lender, agreeing certain matters in

relation to the Approved Manager and subordinating its rights against the Ship and the Borrower to the rights of the Lender under the Finance Documents, in the Agreed Form;

"Availability Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on:

		(a)	1 June 2015 (or such later date as the Lender may agree with the Borrower); or

		(b)	if earlier, the date on which the Lender's obligations to advance the Loan is cancelled or terminated;

"Borrower" means Lelu Shipping Company Inc., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands;

"Business Day" means a day on which banks are open in London, Athens, Piraeus and Copenhagen and in respect of a day on which a payment is required to be made under a Finance Document, also in New York City;

"CISADA" means the United States Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 as it applies to non-US persons;

"Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986;

"Commitment" means $30,000,000 as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this Agreement;

"Contractual Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 19.4;

"Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America;

"Drawdown Date" means the date requested by the Borrower for the Loan to be advanced, or (as the context requires) the date on which the Loan is actually advanced;

"Drawdown Notice" means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 1(or in any other form which the Lender approves or reasonably requires);

"Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the Borrower or the Lender and which arise out of the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):

		(a)	except to the extent that they fall within paragraph (b):

		(i)	all freight, hire and passage moneys;

		(ii)	compensation payable to the Borrower or the Lender in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire;

		(iii)	remuneration for salvage and towage services;

		(iv)	demurrage and detention moneys;

		(v)	
damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship; and

		(vi)	all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire; and

 

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		(b)	if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a)(i) to (vi) are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship;

"Environmental Claim" means:

		(a)	any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law; or

		(b)	any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental Incident,

and "claim" means a claim for damages, compensation, fines, penalties or any other payment of any kind, whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action, including the arrest or attachment of any asset;

"Environmental Incident" means:

		(a)	any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from the Ship; or

		(b)	any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than the Ship and which involves a collision between the Ship and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which the Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or the Ship and/or the Borrower and/or any operator or manager of the Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; or

		(c)	any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from the Ship and in connection with which the Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where the Borrower and/or any operator or manager of the Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action;

"Environmental law" means any law relating to pollution or protection of the environment, to the carriage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material;

"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means oil, oil products and any other substance (including any chemical, gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous;

"Event of Default" means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 17.1;

"FATCA" means:

		(a)	sections 1471to 1474 of the code or any associated regulations;

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

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

"FATCA Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA;

"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction;

"Finance Documents" means:

		(a)	this Agreement;

		(b)	the Guarantee;

		(c)	the Mortgage;

		(d)	the General Assignment;

		(e)	any Approved Charterparty Assignment;

		(f)	the Approved Manager's Undertaking; and

		(g)	any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Approved Manager, any other Security Party or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lender under this Agreement or any of the other documents referred to in this definition,

and, in the singular, means any of them;

"Financial Indebtedness" means, in relation to a person (the "debtor"), a liability of the debtor:

		(a)	for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor;

		(b)	under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor;

		(c)	under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility or dematerialised equivalent made available to the debtor;

		(d)	under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money by the debtor;

		(e)	under any foreign exchange transaction, any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; or

		(f)	under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within (a) to (e) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person;

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"Fleet Vessels" means all of the vessels (including, but not limited to, the Ship) from time to time wholly owned by members of the Group (each a "Fleet Vessel");

"GAAP" means the generally accepted accounting principles from time to time in effect in the United States of America;

"General Assignment" means a first priority general assignment given by the Borrower of the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in respect of the Ship executed or to be executed by the Borrower and the Lender in the Agreed Form;

"Group" means the Guarantor and all its subsidiaries (including, but not limited to, the Borrower) from time to time during the Security Period and "member of the Group" shall be construed accordingly;

"Guarantee" means the guarantee of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to be executed by the Guarantor in the Agreed Form;

"Guarantor" means Diana Shipping Inc., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, MH96960, Majuro, Marshall Islands;

"lACS"  means the International Association of Classification Societies;

"Initial Market Value" means the Market Value thereof determined in accordance with the valuation to be provided to the Lender pursuant to paragraph 5, Part B of Schedule 2;

"Insurances" means:

		(a)	all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries of the Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, effected in respect of the Ship, its Earnings or otherwise in relation to it whether before, on or after the date of this Agreement; and

		(b)	all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium and any rights in respect of any claim whether or not the relevant policy, contract of insurance or entry has expired on or before the date of this Agreement;

"Interest Period" means a period determined in accordance with Clause 5;

"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time (and the terms "safety management system", "Safety Management Certificate" and "Document of Compliance" have the same meanings as are given to them in the ISM Code);

"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time);

"ISSC" means a valid and current International Ship Security Certificate issued under the ISPS Code;

"Lender" means Danish Ship Finance A/S (Danmarks Skibskredit A/S), acting through its office at Sankt-Annae Plads 3, DK-1250 Copenhagen K, Denmark or its successor or assign;

"LIBOR" means, in relation to any period:

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		(a)	the Screen Rate;

		(b)	if no rate is quoted on the applicable Screen Rate for that period, the rate which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

		(i)	the rate quoted on the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the applicable period of the relevant part of the Loan; and

		(ii)	the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the applicable period of that part of the Loan; or

		(c)	if no rate is quoted on the applicable Screen Rate, the arithmetic mean of rates per annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Lender by 2 leading banks in the London Interbank Market at the Lender's request at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for that period for a period equal to that period and for delivery on the first Business Day of it; and

if any such rate is below zero, LIBOR will be deemed to be zero;

"Loan" means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under this Agreement;

"Major Casualty" means any casualty to the Ship in respect of which the claim or the aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds $1,000,000 or the equivalent in any other currency;

"Mandatory Cost" means, in relation to the Loan, the cost calculated as a percentage rate per annum incurred by the Lender as a result of compliance with the requirements of the European Central Bank (or any other authority which replaces all or any of its functions), as may be determined by the Lender and notified from time to time to the Borrower and, if requested by the Borrower, such cost to be certified by the Lender;

"Margin" means 2.15 per cent. per annum;

"Market Value" means the market value of the Ship determined in accordance with Clause 14.3;

"Material Adverse Change" means the occurrence or development of any event or circumstance which, in the opinion of the Lender, has or could have a material adverse effect on:

		(a)	the Borrower's or any Security Party's:

		(i)	financial position, profitability or state of affairs;

		(ii)	ability to perform their respective obligations under the Finance Documents to which they are each a party;

		(iii)	ability to discharge their respective liabilities under the Finance Documents as they fall due; or

		(b)	the validity or enforceability of any of the Finance Documents;

"Maturity Date" means the date falling on the earlier of (i) the seventh anniversary of the Drawdown Date and (ii) 1 June 2022;

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"Mortgage" means the first preferred or, as the case may be, priority ship mortgage (and, if applicable, collateral deed of covenant) in respect of the Ship under the relevant Approved Flag to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Lender in the Agreed Form;

"Negotiation Period" has the meaning given in Clause 4.6;

"Obligors" means, together, the Borrower and the Corporate Guarantor and, in the singular, means either of them;

"Palios Family" means, together, each of the following:

		(a)	Mr. Simeon Palios;

		(b)	all the lineal descendants in direct line of Mr. Palios;

		(c)	a husband or wife or widower or widow of any of the above persons;

		(d)	the estates, trusts or legal representatives of which any of the above persons are the beneficiaries; and

		(e)	each company legally or beneficially owned or (as the case may be) controlled by one or more of the persons or entities which would fall within paragraphs (a) to (d) of this definition,

and each one of the above shall be referred to as "a member of the Palios Family";

"Party" means a party to this Agreement;

"Payment Currency" has the meaning given in Clause 19.4;

"Permitted Security Interests" means:

		(a)	Security Interests created by the Finance Documents;

		(b)	liens for unpaid master's and crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice;

		(c)	liens for salvage;

		(d)	liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months' prepaid hire under any charter in relation to the Ship not prohibited by this Agreement;

		(e)	liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course of the operation, repair or maintenance of the Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the Borrower in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 13.13(f);

		(f)	any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any proceedings or arbitration as security for costs and expenses where the Borrower is actively prosecuting or defending such proceedings or arbitration in good faith; and

		(g)	Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment or in respect of taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made;

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"Pertinent Document" means:

		(a)	any Finance Document;

		(b)	any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 12 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;

		(c)	any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document; and

		(d)	any document which has been or is at any time sent by or to the Lender in contemplation of or in connection with any Finance Document or any policy, contract or document falling within paragraphs (b) or (c);

"Pertinent Jurisdiction", in relation to a company, means:

		(a)	England and Wales;

		(b)	the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed;

		(c)	a country in which the company has the centre of its main interests or in which the company's central management and control is or has recently been exercised;

		(d)	a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax;

		(e)	a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which the company maintains a branch or a permanent place of business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and

		(f)	a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company, whether as main or territorial or ancillary proceedings, or which would have such jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c);

"Pertinent Matter" means:

		(a)	any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or connection with a Pertinent Document; or

		(b)	any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a);

and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of this Agreement or on or at any time after that signing;

"Potential Event of Default" means any event or circumstance specified in Clause 17 which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) constitute an Event of Default;

"Prohibited Person" means any person {whether designated by name or by reason of being included in a class of persons) against whom Sanctions are directed;

"Quotation Date" means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined under any provision of a Finance Document, the day which is 2 Business Days

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before the first day of that period, unless market practice differs in the London Interbank Market for a currency, in which case the Quotation Date will be determined by the Lender 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 Date will be the last of those days);

"Relevant Person" has the meaning given in Clause 17.7;

"Repayment Date" means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 7;

"Repayment Instalment" has the meaning given to it in Clause 7.l(a);

"Requisition Compensation" includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph {b) of the definition of "Total Loss";

"Sanctions" means any sanctions, embargoes, freezing provisions, prohibitions or other restrictions relating to trading, doing business, investment, exporting, financing or making assets available (or other activities similar to or connected with any of the foregoing):

		(a)	imposed by law or regulation of the United Kingdom, the Council of the European Union, the United Nations or its Security Council or the United States of America (including as imposed by CISADA); or

		(b)	otherwise imposed by any law or regulation,

by which the Borrower is bound or to which it is subject or, as regards a regulation, compliance with which is reasonable in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower

"Screen Rate" means the London interbank offered rate administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for Dollars for the relevant period displayed on pages LIBOR0l or LIBOR02 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. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Lender may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower;

"Secured Liabilities" means all liabilities which the Borrower, the Security Parties or any of them have, at the date of this Agreement or at any later time or times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country;

"Security Interest" means:

		(a)	a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind;

		(b)	the security rights of a plaintiff under an action in rem; and

		(c)	any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the position in which B would have been had he held a security interest over an asset of A; but this paragraph (c) does not apply to a right of set off or combination of accounts conferred by the standard terms of business of a bank or financial institution;

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"Security Party" means the Guarantor, the Approved Manager, any person (except the Lender) who, as a surety or mortgagor, as a party to any subordination or priorities arrangement, or in any similar capacity, executes a document falling within the last paragraph of the definition of "Finance Documents";

"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date on which the Lender notifies the Borrower and the Security Parties that:

		(a)	all amounts which have become due for payment by each of the Borrower or any Security Party under the Finance Documents have been paid;

		(b)	no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any Finance Document;

		(c)	neither the Borrower nor any Security Party has any future or contingent liability under Clause 18, 19 or 20 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; and

		(d)	the Lender does not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible future bankruptcy of the Borrower or a Security Party or in any present or possible future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document;

"Ship" means the 2015-built Capesize bulk carrier of 179,426 deadweight tonnage with IMO number 9675951 constructed by Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, Qindao, the People's Republic of China and registered in the ownership of the Borrower under an Approved Flag with the name "SANTA BARBARA";

"SMC" means, in relation to the Ship, a safety management certificate issued in respect of that Ship in accordance with the ISM Code;

"Total Loss" means:

		(a)	actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship;

		(b)	any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority (excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding 1year without any right to an extension) unless it is within 1month redelivered to the full control of the Borrower;

		(c)	any condemnation of the Ship by any tribunal or by any person or person claiming to be a tribunal; and

		(d)	any arrest, capture, seizure or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless she is within 1month redelivered to the full control of the Borrower; and

"Total Loss Date" means:

		(a)	in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of;

		(b)	in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earliest of:

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		(i)	the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and

		(ii)	the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Borrower owning the Ship with the Ship's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat the Ship as a total loss; and

		(c)	in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Lender that the event constituting the total loss occurred; and

"4.29.15 DANISH SHIP FINANCE" means the United States of America.

	1.2	Construction of certain terms

In this Agreement:

"administration notice" means a notice appointing an administrator, a notice of intended appointment and any other notice which is required by law (generally or in the case concerned) to be filed with the court or given to a person prior to, or in connection with, the appointment of an administrator;

"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 12, approved in writing by the Lender;

"asset" includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment;

"company" includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association; "consent"  includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration, notarisation and legalisation;

"contingent liability" means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or the amount of which remains unascertained;

"document" includes a deed; also a letter or fax;

"excess risks" means the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies in respect of the Ship in consequence of its insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims;

"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable value added or other tax;

"law" includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, any treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or its Security Council;

"legal or administrative action" means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory action or investigation;

"liability" includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise;

"months" shall be construed in accordance with Clause 1.3;

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"obligatory insurances" means all insurances effected, or which the Borrower owning the Ship is obliged to effect, under Clause 12 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;

"parent company" has the meaning given in Clause 1.4;

"person" includes any company; any state, political sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority; and any international organisation;

"policy", in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms;

"protection and indemnity risks" means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed and/or represented in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of clause 6 of the International Hull Clauses {1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses {Hulls) {1/11/95) or clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses {Hulls) {1/10/83) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause {1/10/71) or any equivalent provision;

"regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline whether or not having the force of law of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;

"subsidiary" has the meaning given in Clause 1.4;

"successor" includes any person who is entitled (by assignment, novation, merger or otherwise) to any other person's rights under this Agreement or any other Finance Document (or any interest in those rights) or who, as administrator, liquidator or otherwise, is entitled to exercise those rights; and in particular references to a successor include a person to whom those rights (or any interest in those rights) are transferred or pass as a result of a merger, division, reconstruction or other reorganisation of it or any other person;

"tax" includes any present or future tax, duty, impost, levy or charge of any kind which is imposed by any state, any political sub-division of a state or any local or municipal authority (including any such imposed in connection with exchange controls), and any connected penalty, interest or fine; and

"war risks" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded by clause 29 of the International Hull Clauses {1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 24 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) {1/11/95) or clause 23 of the Institute Time Clauses {Hulls) {1/10/83) or any equivalent provision.

	1.3	Meaning of "month"

A period of one or more "months" ends on the day in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("the numerically corresponding day"), but:

		(a)	on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or

		(b)	on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of the period has no numerically corresponding day

and "month" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly.

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	1.4	Meaning of "subsidiary"

A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:

		(a)	a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P; or

		(b)	P has direct or indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attaching to the issued shares of S; or

		(c)	P has the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S; or

		(d)	P otherwise has the direct or indirect power to ensure that the affairs of S are conducted in accordance with the wishes of P

and any company of which Sis a subsidiary is a parent company of S.

	1.5	General lnterpretation

In this Agreement:

		(a)	references to, or to a prov1s1on of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise;

		(b)	references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or otherwise;

		(c)	words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa; and

		(d)	Clauses 1.1to 1.5 apply unless the contrary intention appears.

	1.6	Headings

In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all clause, sub- clause and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.

	2	FACILITY

	2.1	Amount of facility

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lender shall make available to the Borrower a loan facility of up to $30,000,000.

	2.2	Purpose of the Loan

The Borrower undertakes with the Lender to use the Loan only for the purpose of financing part of the acquisition cost of the Ship.

	3	DRAWDOWN

	3.1	Request for the Loan

Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may request the Loan to be advanced by ensuring that the Lender receives a completed Drawdown Notice not later than 11.00 a.m. (Copenhagen time) 3 Business Days prior to the intended Drawdown Date.

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	3.2	Availability

The conditions referred to in Clause 3.1 are that :

	(a)	the Drawdown Date has to be a Business Day during the Availability Period; and

	(b)	the Loan shall not exceed the amount of $30,000,000 .

	3.3	Drawdown Notice irrevocable

The Drawdown Notice must be signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower; and once served, the Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Lender.

	3.4	Disbursement of the Loan

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Lender shall on the Drawdown Date advance the Loan to the Borrower; and payment to the Borrower shall be made to the account which the Borrower specifies in the Drawdown Notice.

	3.5	Disbursement of Loan to third party

The payment by the Lender under Clause 3.4 shall constitute the borrowing of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to the Lender in an amount equal to the Loan.

	4	INTEREST

	4.1	Payment of normal interest

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on the Loan in respect of each Interest Period applicable to it shall be paid by the Borrower on the last day of that Interest Period.

	4.2	Normal rate of interest

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the rate of interest on the Loan in respect of an Interest Period shall be the aggregate of (i) the Margin, (ii) the Mandatory Cost (if applicable) and (iii) LIBOR for that Interest Period.

	4.3	Payment of accrued interest

In the case of an Interest Period longer than 3 months, accrued interest shall be paid every 3 months during that Interest Period and on the last day of that Interest Period.

	4.4	Notification of market disruption

The Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower if for any reason the Lender is unable to obtain Dollars in the London Interbank Market in order to fund the Loan (or any part of it) during any Interest Period, stating the circumstances which have caused such notice to be given.

	4.5	Suspension of drawdown

If the Lender's notice under Clause 4.4 is served before the Loan is advanced, the Lender's obligation to advance the Loan shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Lender's notice continue.

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	4.6	Negotiation of alternative rate of interest

If the Lender's notice under Clause 4.4 is served after the Loan is made available, the Borrower and the Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, within the 30 days after the date on which the Lender serves its notice under Clause 4.4 (the "Negotiation Period"), an alternative interest rate or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for the Lender to fund or continue to fund the Loan during the Interest Period concerned.

	4.7	Application of agreed alternative rate of interest

Any alternative interest rate or an alternative basis which is agreed during the Negotiation Period shall take effect in accordance with the terms agreed.

	4.8	Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement

If an alternative interest rate or alternative basis is not agreed within the Negotiation Period, and the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the Negotiation Period, then the Lender shall set an interest period and interest rate representing the cost of funding of the Lender in Dollars or in any available currency of the Loan plus (i) the Margin and (ii) any Mandatory Cost (if applicable); and the procedure provided for by this Clause 4.8 shall be repeated if the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the interest period so set by the Lender.

	4.9	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrower does not agree with an interest rate set by the Lender under Clause 4.8, the Borrower may give the Lender not less than 15 Business Days' notice of their intention to prepay at the end of the interest period set by the Lender.

	4.10	Prepayment

A notice under Clause 4.9 shall be irrevocable; and on the last Business Day of the interest period set by the Lender, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan, together with accrued interest thereon (and any other amount payable under Clause 19 or otherwise) at the applicable rate plus the Margin and the Mandatory Cost (if applicable) and, if the prepayment or repayment is not made on the last day of the interest period set by the Lender, any sums payable under Clause 19.1(b).

	4.11	Application of prepayment

The provisions of Clause 7 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.

	5	INTEREST PERIODS

	5.1	Commencement of Interest Periods

The first Interest Period shall commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period which has to be on 1st or 15th of the relevant month (adjusted to coincide with Clause 7.2).

5.2            Duration of normal Interest Periods

Subject to Clauses 5.3 and 5.4, each Interest Period shall be:

	(a)	3 months; or

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	(b)	such other period as the Lender may agree with the Borrower and notified by the Borrower to the Lender not later than 11.00 am (Copenhagen time) 2 Business Days before the commencement of the Interest Period.

	5.3	Duration of Interest Periods for Repayment Instalments

In respect of an amount due to be repaid under Clause 7 on a particular Repayment Date, an Interest Period shall end on that Repayment Date.

	5.4	Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected

If, after the Borrower has selected (pursuant to Clause 5.2) and the Lender has agreed an Interest Period longer than 3 months, the Lender notifies the Borrower by 11.00 a.m. (Copenhagen time) on the first Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period that it is not satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the London Interbank Market when the Interest Period commences, the Interest Period shall be of 3 months.

	6	DEFAULT INTEREST

	6.1	Payment of default interest on overdue amounts

The Borrower shall pay interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 6 on any amount payable by the Borrower under any Finance Document which the Lender or other designated payee does not receive on or before the relevant date, that is:

	(a)	the date on which the Finance Documents provide that such amount is due for payment; or

	(b)	if a Finance Document provides that such amount is payable on demand, the date on which the demand is served; or

	(c)	if such amount has become immediately due and payable under Clause 17.4, the date on which it became immediately due and payable.

	6.2	Default rate of interest

Interest shall accrue on an overdue amount from (and including) the relevant date on which that amount became due until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Lender to be 2 per cent. above:

	(a)	in the case of an overdue amount of principal, the higher of the rates set out at Clauses 6.3(a) and 6.3(b); or

	(b)	in the case of any other overdue amount, the rate set out at Clause 6.3(b) .

	6.3	Calculation of default rate of interest

The rates referred to in Clause 6.2 are:

	(a)	the rate applicable to the overdue principal amount immediately prior to the relevant date on which that amount became due (but only for any unexpired part of any then current Interest Period applicable to it);

	(b)	the aggregate of (i) the Margin and (ii) any Mandatory Cost (if applicable) plus, in respect of successive periods of any duration (including at call) up to 3 months which the Lender may select from time to time:

		(i)	LIBOR; or

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		 (ii)	if the Lender determines that Dollar deposits for any such period are not being made available to it by leading banks in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business, a rate from time to time determined by the Lender by reference to the cost of funds to it from such other sources as the Lender may from time to time determine.

	6.4	Notification of interest periods and default rates

The Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of each interest rate determined by it under Clause 6.3 and of each period selected by it for the purposes of paragraph (b) of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply that the Borrower is liable to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the Lender's notification.

	6.5	Payment of accrued default interest

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, any interest due under this Clause shall be paid on the last day of the period by reference to which it was determined.

	6.6	Compounding of default interest

Any such interest which is not paid at the end of the period by reference to which it was determined shall thereupon be compounded.

	7	REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT

	7.1	Amount of repayment instalments

The Borrower shall repay the Loan as follows:

	(a)	by 28 equal consecutive quarterly repayment instalments in the amount of $500,000 each (the "Repayment Instalments" and each a "Repayment Instalment"); and

	(b)	a balloon payment in the amount of $16,000,000.

	7.2	Repayment Dates. Subject to the proviso below, the first Repayment Instalment of the Loan shall be repaid on the date falling 3 months after the Drawdown Date relative thereto and the last Repayment Instalment together with the balloon instalment on the Maturity Date Provided that the Lender may, on the first Repayment Date change the Repayment Dates so that thereafter they shall fall on either the 1st or the 15th (as the Lender may decide and notify in writing to the Borrower) of the relevant month to coincide with the interest payments to be made pursuant to Clause 5.1.

	7.3	Maturity Date

On the Maturity Date, the Borrower shall additionally pay to the Lender all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.

	7.4	Voluntary prepayment

Subject to the following conditions, the Borrower may prepay the whole or any part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.

	7.5	Conditions for voluntary prepayment

The conditions referred to in Clause 7.4 are that :

	(a)	a partial prepayment shall be in an amount not less than $500,000 or a higher integral multiple thereof;

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	 (b)	the Lender has received from the Borrower at least 5 Business Days' prior written notice specifying the amount to be prepaid and the date on which the prepayment is to be made; and

	(c)	the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Lender that any consent required by the Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment has been obtained and remains in force, and that any official regulation relevant to this Agreement which affects the Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with.

	7.6	Effect of notice of prepayment

A prepayment notice may not be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Lender and the amount specified in the prepayment notice shall become due and payable by the Borrower on the date for prepayment specified in the prepayment notice.

	7.7	Mandatory prepayment

The Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the whole of the Loan if the Ship is sold or becomes a Total Loss:

	(a)	in the case of a sale, on or before the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of the Ship to the buyer; or

	(b)	in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling 150 days after the Total Loss Date and the date of receipt by the Lender of the proceeds of insurance relating to such Total Loss.

	7.8	Amounts payable on prepayment

A prepayment shall be made together with accrued interest (and any other amount payable under Clause 19 or otherwise) in respect of the amount prepaid and, if the prepayment is not made on the last day of an Interest Period together with any sums payable under Clause 19.1(b) but without premium or penalty.

	7.9	Application of partial prepayment

Each partial prepayment shall be applied pro rata first against the outstanding Repayment Instalments and thereafter against the balloon instalment.

	7.10	No reborrowing

No amount prepaid may be reborrowed .

	7.11	Cancellation of Commitment

Any portion of the Loan which has not been borrowed by the last day of the Availability Period shall automatically be cancelled.

	8	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

	8.1	Documents, fees and no default

The Lender's obligation to advance the Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent:

	(a)	that, on or before the date of this Agreement, the Lender receives (i) the documents described in Part A of Schedule 2 in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender and its lawyers and (ii) payment of 50 per cent. of the upfront fee referred to in Clause 18.1;

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	 (b)	that on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice, the Lender receives the documents described in Part B of Schedule 2 in form and substance satisfactory to it and its lawyers;

	(c)	that, on or before the Drawdown Date the Lender receives payment of the remaining 50 per cent. of the upfront fee referred to in Clause 18.1 and has received payment of the expenses referred to in Clause 18.2;

	(d)	that both at the date of the Drawdown Notice and at the Drawdown Date:

		(i)	no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or would result from the borrowing of the Loan;

		(ii)	the representations and warranties in Clause 9.1 and those of the Borrower or any Security Party which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be true and not misleading if repeated on each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing;

		(iii)	none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 4.4 has occurred and is continuing; and

		(iv)	there has been no material adverse change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of the Borrower, the Guarantor or any other Security Party in the light of which the Lender considers that there is a significant risk that the Borrower, the Guarantor or any other Security Party is, or will later become, unable to discharge its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party as they fall due;

	(e)	that, if the ratio set out in Clause 14.1 were applied immediately following the advance of the Loan, the Borrower would not be obliged to provide additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause; and

	(f)	that the Lender has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance Documents which the Lender may request by notice to the Borrower prior to the Drawdown Date.

	8.2	Waiver of conditions precedent

If the Lender, at its discretion, permits the Loan to be borrowed before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 8.1 are satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that those conditions are satisfied within 5 Business Days after the Drawdown Date applicable to the Loan (or such longer period as the Lender may specify).

	9	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

	9.1	General

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lender as follows .

	9.2	Status

The Borrower is duly incorporated and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

	9.3	Share capital and ownership

The Borrower has an authorised share capital of five hundred (500) registered shares with par value of $0,01 each and the legal title and beneficial ownership of all those shares is held, free of any Security Interest or other claim, by the Guarantor.

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	9.4	Corporate power

The Borrower has the corporate capacity and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents necessary for it:

	(a)	to register the Ship in its name under an Approved Flag;

	(b)	to execute the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party; and

	(c)	to borrow the Loan under this Agreement and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which it is a party.

	9.5	Consents in force

All the consents referred to in Clause 9.4 remain in force and nothing has occurred which makes any of them liable to revocation.

	9.6	Legal validity; effective Security Interests

Each of the Finance Documents, to which the Borrower is a party, do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and, where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):

	(a)	constitute the Borrower's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and

	(b)	create legal, valid and binding Security Interests enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their terms, relate,

subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors' rights generally.

	9.7	No third party Security Interests

Without limiting the generality of Clause 9.6, at the time of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document:

	(a)	the Borrower will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and

	(b)	no third party will have any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to any asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms, relates.

	9.8	No conflicts

The execution by the Borrower of each Finance Document to which it is a party and the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan (or any part thereof), and the Borrower's compliance with each Finance Document to which it is a party, will not involve or lead to a contravention of:

	(a)	any law or regulation; or

	(b)	the constitutional documents of the Borrower; or

	(c)	any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on the Borrower or any of its assets.

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	9.9	No withholding taxes

All payments which the Borrower is liable to make under the Finance Documents may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction ..

	9.10	No default

No Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred.

	9.11	Information

All information which has been provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Security Party to the Lender in connection with any Finance Document and satisfied the requirements of Clause 10.5; all audited and unaudited accounts which have been so provided satisfied the requirements of Clause 10.7; and there has been no Material Adverse Change in the financial position or state of affairs of the Borrower or the Guarantor from that disclosed in the latest of those accounts.

	9.12	No litigation

No legal or administrative action involving the Borrower (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code) has been commenced or taken or, to the Borrower's knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken.

	9.13	Solvency

Neither is the Borrower insolvent nor in voluntary arrangement, liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of the Borrower or all or any part of its assets (and, for the purposes of this Clause 9.13, the Borrower will be deemed insolvent if it is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of s.123 of the Insolvency Act 1986).

	9.14	Compliance with certain undertakings

At the date of this Agreement, the Borrower is in compliance with Clauses 10.2, 10.4, 10.9 and 10.13.

	9.15	Taxes paid

The Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to the Borrower, its business or the Ship.

	9.16	ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance

All requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they relate to the Borrower, the Approved Manager and the Ship have been complied with.

	9.17	No money laundering

Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 2.2, in relation to the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan, the performance and discharge of its obligations and liabilities under the Finance Documents, and the transactions and other arrangements effected or contemplated by the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party, the Borrower confirms (i) that it is acting for its own account, (ii) that it will use the proceeds of the Loan for its own benefit, under its full responsibility and exclusively for the purposes specified in this Agreement and (iii) that the foregoing will not involve or lead to contravention of any

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law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat "money laundering" (as defined in Article 1of the Directive (91/308/EEC) of the Council of the European Communities).

	9.18	Sanctions

	(a)	The Borrower nor any Security Party:

		(i)	is a Prohibited Person;

		(ii)	is owned or controlled by or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or for the benefit of, a Prohibited Person; or

		(iii)	owns or controls a Prohibited Person.

	(b)	No proceeds of the Loan shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person nor shall they be otherwise directly or indirectly, applied in a manner or for a purpose prohibited by Sanctions.

	9.19	Repetition of representations and warranties

The representations and warranties set out in this Clause 9 would be true and not misleading if repeated on the first day of each Interest Period.

	9.20	No immunity

Neither the Borrower nor any of its assets are entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (which shall include, without limitation, suit, attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement).

	10	GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS

	10.1	General

The Borrower undertakes with the Lender to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 10 at all times during the Security Period, except as the Lender may otherwise permit.

	10.2	Title; negative pledge and pari passu ranking

The Borrower will :

	(a)	hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in the Ship, the Insurances and Earnings, free from all Security Interests and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance Documents and the effect of assignments contained in the Finance Documents and except for Permitted Security Interests; and

	(b)	not create or permit to arise any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) over any other asset, present or future; and

	(c)	procure that its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party do and will rank at least pari passu with all of its other present and future unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatory preferred by law.

	10.3	No disposal of assets

The Borrower will not transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of:

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	 (a)	all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not; or

	(b)	any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation,

but paragraph (a) does not apply to any charter of the Ship as to which Clauses 13.12 and 13.13 apply.

	10.4	No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred

The Borrower will not incur any liability or obligation except:

	(a)	liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party; and

	(b)	liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of owning, operating and chartering the Ship.

	10.5	Information provided to be accurate

All financial and other information which is provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document or any Approved Charter will be true and not misleading and will not omit any material fact or consideration.

	10.6	Provision of financial statements

The Borrower will send or procure there are sent to the Lender:

	(a)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of each financial year of the Guarantor (commencing with the financial year that ended on 31 December 2014), the audited annual consolidated statements of the Group;

	(b)	as soon as possible, but in no event later than 90 days after each six-month period ending on 30 June and 31 December in each financial year of the Guarantor (commencing with the six- month period ending 30 June 2015), the semi-annual consolidated unaudited statements of the Group (in the form in which they are published in the relevant press release) for such period certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor; and

	(c)	promptly upon request by the Lender, such further information about the financial condition, commitments, budgets, fleet list, fleet employment status and operations of the Corporate Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower) as the Lender may reasonably require.

	10.7	Form of financial statements

All accounts (audited and unaudited) delivered under Clause 10.6 will:

	(a)	be prepared in accordance with all applicable laws and GAAP consistently applied;

	(b)	give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Group, at the date of those accounts and of its profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and

	(c)	fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Group.

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	10.8	Shareholder and creditor notices

The Borrower will send the Lender, at the same time as they are despatched, copies of all communications which are despatched to the Borrower's shareholders or creditors or any class of them.

	10.9	Consents

The Borrower will maintain in force and promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Lender of, all consents required:

	(a)	for the Borrower to perform its obligations under any Finance Document and any Approved Charter to which it is a party;

	(b)	for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document and any Approved Charter to which it is a party;

	(c)	for the Borrower to own and operate and continue to own and operate the Ship; and

	(d)	(without prejudice to its other obligations under the Finance Documents), for the Borrower to comply in all respects, with all laws and regulations to which it may be subject including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws and all intellectual property laws,

and the Borrower will comply with the terms of all such consents.

	10.10	Maintenance of Security Interests

The Borrower will:

	(a)	at its own cost, do all that is necessary to ensure that any Finance Document to which it is a party validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to create; and

	(b)	without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or authority in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which may be or become necessary or desirable for any Finance Document to be valid, enforceable or has admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates.

	10.11	Notification of litigation

The Borrower will provide the Lender with details of any legal or administrative action involving the Borrower, any Security Party, the Group, the Approved Manager, the Ship, the Earnings or its Insurances as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes apparent to the Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any Finance Document.

	10.12	Principal place of business

The Borrower will not:

	(a)	change its place of business; and

	(b)	establish, nor do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in England or the United States.

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	10.13	Confirmation of no default

The Borrower will, within 2 Business Days after service by the Lender of a written request, serve on the Lender a notice which is signed by an authorised director of the Borrower and which:

	(a)	states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred; or

	(b)	states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given.

The Lender may serve requests under this Clause 10.13 from time to time; this Clause 10.13 does not affect the Borrower's obligations under Clause 10.14.

	10.14	Notification of default

The Borrower will notify the Lender as soon as it becomes aware of:

	(a)	the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or

	(b)	any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred

and will keep the Lender fully up-to-date with all developments.

	10.15	Provision of further information

The Borrower will, as soon as practicable after receiving the request, provide the Lender with any additional financial or other information relating:

	(a)	to the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Approved Manager, the Ship, its Earnings or its Insurances and any Approved Charter, each other member of the Group and any other Fleet Vessel as the Lender may require; or

	(b)	to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document which may be requested by the Lender at any time.

	10.16	"Know your customer" checks

If:

	(a)	any law or regulation and/or the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation;

	(b)	any change in the status of the Borrower or any Security Party after the date of this Agreement;

	(c)	a proposed assignment or transfer by the Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,

obliges the Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender) to comply with "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Lender or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (c), any prospective new Lender to carry

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out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.

	10.17	Provision of copies and translation of documents

If the Lender so requires, the Borrower will supply the Lender with a certified English translation in respect of any of those documents referred to above, such translation to be prepared by a translator approved by the Lender.

	10.18	Ownership

The Borrower shall procure that there is no change in the legal ownership of its shares throughout the Security Period.

	10.19	Material Adverse Change

There has been no Material Adverse Change since 27 February 2015.

	11	CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS

	11.1	General

The Borrower also undertakes with the Lender to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 11 at all times during the Security Period except as the Lender may otherwise permit.

	11.2	Maintenance of status

The Borrower will maintain its separate corporate existence and remain in good standing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

	11.3	Negative undertakings

The Borrower will not:

	(a)	carry on any business other than the ownership, chartering and operation of the Ship; or

	(b)	pay any dividend or make any other form of distribution or effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital if an Event of Default has occurred or could result from the payment of such dividend or the making of any other form of distribution; or

	(c)	effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital;

	(d)	provide any form of credit or financial assistance to :

		(i)	a person who is directly or indirectly interested in the Borrower's share or loan capital; or

		(ii)	any company in or with which such a person is directly or indirectly interested or connected

or enter into any transaction with or involving such a person or company on terms which are, in any respect, less favourable to the Borrower than those which it could obtain in a bargain made at arms' length;

	(e)	open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with any bank acceptable to the Lender for the purposes of the Finance Documents;

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	(f)	issue, allot or grant any person a right to any shares in its capital or repurchase or reduce its issued share capital;

	(g)	acquire any shares or other securities other than US or UK Treasury bills and certificates of deposit issued by major North American or European banks, or enter into any transaction in a derivative;

	(h)	enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation; or

	(i)	agree to purchase any vessel other than the Ship.

	12	INSURANCE

	12.1	General

The Borrower also undertakes with the Lender to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 12 at all times during the Security Period except as the Lender may otherwise permit.

	12.2	Maintenance of obligatory insurances

The Borrower shall keep the Ship insured at the expense of such Borrower against:

	(a)	fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and excess risks);

	(b)	war risks;

	(c)	protection and indemnity risks; and

	(d)	any other risks against which the Lender considers, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, it would in the opinion of the Lender be reasonable for the Borrower to insure (including, without limitation, those required by any public body, classification society having authority on the Borrower or the Ship) and which are specified by the Lender by notice to the Borrower.

	12.3	Terms of obligatory insurances

The Borrower shall effect such insurances:

	(a)	in Dollars;

	(b)	in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, in an amount on an agreed value basis at least the greater of (i) an amount equal to 120 per cent. of the Loan and (ii) the Market Value of the Ship (and in the case of hull and machinery risks (excluding any excess cover/increased value/hull interest) in an amount of at least equal to 80 per cent. of the Market Value of the Ship); and

	(c)	in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection and indemnity club entry and in the international marine insurance market (currently $1,000,000,000);

	(d)	in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the Ship's full value and tonnage;

	(e)	on approved terms; and

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	(f)	through approved brokers and with approved insurance companies and/or underwriters or, in the case of war risks and protection and indemnity risks, in approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations .

	12.4	Further protections for the Lender

In addition to the terms set out in Clause 12.3, the Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances shall:

	(a)	subject always to paragraph (b), name the Borrower as the sole named assured unless the interest of every other named assured is limited:

		(i)	in respect of any obligatory insurances for hull and machinery and war risks;

		(A)	to any provable out-of-pocket expenses that it has incurred and which form part of any recoverable claim on underwriters; and

		(B)	to any third party liability claims where cover for such claims is provided by the policy (and then only in respect of discharge of any claims made against it); and

		(ii)	in respect of any obligatory insurances for protection and indemnity risks, to any recoveries it is entitled to make by way of reimbursement following discharge of any third party liability claims made specifically against it

and every other named assured has undertaken in writing to the Lender (in such form as it requires) that any deductible shall be apportioned between the Borrower and every other named assured in proportion to the gross claims made or paid by each of them and that it shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Lender to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances;

	(b)	in the case of any obligatory insurances against any risks other that protection and indemnity risks, and whenever the Lender requires name (or be amended to name) the Lender as additional named assured for its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with full waiver of rights of subrogation against the Lender, but without the Lender thereby being liable to pay (but having the right to pay) premiums, calls or other assessments in respect of such insurance;

	(c)	name the Lender as loss payee with such directions for payment as the Lender may specify;

	(d)	provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Lender shall be made without set-off, counterclaim or deductions or condition whatsoever;

	(e)	provide that obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances which may be carried by the Lender; and

	(f)	provide that the Lender may make proof of loss if the Borrower fails to do so.

	12.5	Renewal of obligatory insurances

The Borrower shall:

	(a)	at least 21 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance:

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		 (i)	notify the Lender of the brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom the Borrower proposes to renew that obligatory insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and

		(ii)	obtain the Lender's approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i);

	(b)	at least 14 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Lender's approval pursuant to paragraph (a); and

	(c)	procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall promptly after the renewal notify the Lender in writing of the terms and conditions of the renewal.

	12.6	Copies of policies; letters of undertaking

The Borrower shall ensure that all approved brokers provide the Lender with pro forma copies of all policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they are to effect or renew and of a letter or letters or undertaking in a form required by the Lender and including undertakings by the approved brokers that:

	(a)	they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 12.4;

	(b)	they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Lender in accordance with the said loss payable clause;

	(c)	they will advise the Lender immediately of any material change to the terms of the obligatory insurances;

	(d)	they will notify the Lender, not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice of renewal instructions from the Borrower or its agents and, in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Lender of the terms of the instructions; and

	(e)	they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship owned by the Borrower under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of that Ship or otherwise, they waive any lien on the policies, or any sums received under them, which they might have in respect of such premiums or other amounts, and they will not cancel such obligatory insurances by reason of non-payment of such premiums or other amounts, and will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of that Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Lender.

	12.7	Copies of certificates of entry

The Borrower shall ensure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship is entered provides the Lender with:

	(a)	a certified copy of the certificate of entry for the Ship;

	(b)	a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Lender; and

	(c)	a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant certifying authority in relation to the Ship.

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	12.8	Deposit of original policies

The Borrower shall ensure that all policies relating to obligatory insurances are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.

	12.9	Payment of premiums

The Borrower shall punctually pay all premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Lender.

	12.10	Guarantees

The Borrower shall ensure that any guarantees required by a protection and indemnity or war risks association are promptly issued and remain in full force and effect.

	12.11	Restrictions on employment

The Borrower shall not employ the Ship, nor shall permit the Ship to be employed, outside the cover provided by any obligatory insurance.

	12.12	Compliance with terms of insurances

The Borrower shall not do and shall not omit to do (nor permit to be done or not to be done) any act or thing which would or might render any obligatory insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum payable thereunder repayable in whole or in part; and, in particular:

	(a)	it shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and (without limiting the obligation contained in Clause 12.6) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Lender has not given its prior approval;

	(b)	it shall not make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or manager or operator of the Ship approved by the underwriters of the obligatory insurances;

	(c)	it shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Lender of) all quarterly or other voyage declarations which may be required by the protection and indemnity risks association in which the Ship is entered to maintain cover for trading to the United States of America and Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation); and

	(d)	it shall not employ the Ship, nor allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory insurances, without first obtaining the consent of the insurers and complying with any requirements (as to extra premium or otherwise) which the insurers specify.

	12.13	Alteration to terms of insurances

The Borrower shall neither make nor agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance nor waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance.

	12.14	Settlement of claims

The Borrower shall not settle, compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty, and shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Lender to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances.

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	12.15	Provision of copies of communications

The Borrower shall provide the Lender, at the time of each such communication, with copies of all written communications between the Borrower and:

	(a)	the approved brokers; and

	(b)	the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and

	(c)	the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to:

		(i)	the Borrower's obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums or calls; and

		(ii)	any credit arrangements made between the Borrower and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances.

	12.16	Provision of information

In addition, the Borrower shall promptly provide the Lender (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Lender (or any such designated person) requests for the purpose of:

	(a)	obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be effected; and/or

	(b)	effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 12.17 below or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances

and the Borrower shall, forthwith upon demand, indemnify the Lender in respect of all fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Lender in connection with any such report as is referred to in paragraph (a).

	12.17	Mortgagee's interest, additional perils insurance

The Lender shall be entitled from time to time to effect, maintain and renew a mortgagee's interest marine insurance and a mortgagee's interest additional perils insurance each in an amount equal to at least 110 per cent. of the Loan, on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Lender may from time to time consider appropriate and the Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Lender in respect of all premiums and other expenses which may be incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurance or dealing with, or considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance. The Borrower acknowledges that the Lender may provide information to third parties in connection with the effectiveness, maintenance or renewal of the insurances referred to in this Clause 12.17 including, but not limited to, the name of the Ship, the IMO number and any other information in relation to the Secured Liabilities.

	12.18	Review of insurance requirements

The Lender shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 12 from time to time, in order to take account of any changes in circumstances after the date of this Agreement which are, in the opinion of the Lender significant and capable of affecting the Borrower or the Ship and its insurance (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which the Borrower may be subject) and may appoint insurance consultants in relation to this review at the cost of the Borrower.

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	12.19	Modification of insurance requirements

The Lender shall notify the Borrower of any proposed modification under Clause 12.18 to the requirements of this Clause 12 which the Lender, may consider appropriate in the circumstances and, after consultation with the Borrower, such modification shall take effect on and from the date it is notified in writing to the Borrower as an amendment to this Clause 12 and shall bind the Borrower accordingly.

	12.20	Compliance with mortgagee's instructions

The Lender shall be entitled (without prejudice to or limitation of any other rights which it may have or acquire under any Finance Document) to require the Ship to remain at any safe port or to proceed to and remain at any safe port designated by the Lender until the Borrower implements any amendments to the terms of the obligatory insurances and any operational changes required as a result of a notice served under Clause 12.19.

	13	SHIP COVENANTS

	13.1	General

The Borrower also undertakes with the Lender to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 13 at all times during the Security Period in respect of the Ship except as the Lender may otherwise permit.

	13.2	Ship's name and registration

The Borrower shall:

	(a)	keep the Ship registered in its name under an Approved Flag;

	(b)	not do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be cancelled or imperilled; and

	(c)	not change the name or port of registry of its Ship without the prior written consent of the Lender.

	13.3	Repair and classification

The Borrower shall keep the Ship in a good and safe condition and state of repair:

	(a)	consistent with first-class ship ownership and management practice;

	(b)	so as to maintain with the highest classification available for vessels of the same age, type and specification as the Ship free of overdue recommendations and conditions with a classification society which is acceptable to the Lender; and

	(c)	so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the applicable Approved Flag State or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to which that Ship may trade from time to time, including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code.

	13.4	Classification society undertaking

The Borrower shall instruct the classification society referred to in Clause 13.3:

	(a)	to send to the Lender, following receipt of a written request from the Lender, certified true copies of all original class records and any other related records held by the classification society in relation to the Ship;

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	(b)	to allow the Lender (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of the Borrower and the Ship at the offices of the classification society and to take copies of them;

	(c)	to notify the Lender immediately in writing if the classification society:

		(i)	receives notification from the Borrower or any other person that the relevant Ship's classification society is to be changed; or

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

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

		(i)	to confirm that the Borrower 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 the Borrower is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Lender in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances of such default, the consequences of such default, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society.

	13.5	Modification

The Borrower shall not make any modification or repairs to, or replacement of, the Ship or equipment installed on the Ship which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of the Ship or reduce its value.

	13.6	Removal of parts

The Borrower shall not remove any material part of the Ship, or any item of equipment installed on the Ship, unless the part or item so removed is forthwith replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item removed, is free from any Security Interest or any right in favour of any person other than the Lender and becomes on installation on the relevant Ship the property of the Borrower and subject to the security constituted by the relevant Mortgage Provided that the Borrower may install equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to the Ship.

	13.7	Surveys

The Borrower shall submit the Ship regularly to all periodical or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes and, if so required by the Lender provide the Lender, with copies of all survey reports.

	13.8	Inspection

The Borrower shall, at its expense, permit the Lender (by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship at all reasonable times to inspect its condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections Provided that the Borrower shall be liable to pay the costs and expenses for no more than one such inspection in any calendar year so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing in which case the Lender may (by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) board that Ship and carry out such inspections at all times it deems fit.

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	13.9	Prevention of and release from arrest

The Borrower shall promptly discharge:

	(a)	all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances;

	(b)	all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances; and

	(c)	all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances,

and, forthwith upon receiving notice of the arrest of the Ship, or of its detention in exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim, the Borrower shall procure its release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.

	13.10	Compliance with laws etc.

The Borrower shall:

	(a)	comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of the Borrower;

	(b)	not employ the Ship nor allow its employment in any manner contrary to any law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code;

	(c)	in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit it to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship's war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Lender has been given and the Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Lender may require; and

	(d)	comply with all applicable regulations (in the United States of America and, where relevant, elsewhere) with respect to maintenance of its Certificate of Financial Responsibility and other certificates of third party liability insurance so as to enable its Ship to trade fully at all times.

	13.11	Provision of information

The Borrower shall promptly provide the Lender with any information which it requests regarding:

	(a)	the Ship, its employment, position and engagements;

	(b)	the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the Ship's master and crew;

	(c)	any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the trading, chartering, operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship and any payments made in respect of the Ship;

	(d)	any towages and salvages; and

	(e)	the Borrower's, the Approved Manager's or the Ship's compliance with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code,

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and, upon the Lender's request, provide copies of any current charter relating to the Ship, of any current charter guarantee, the SMC and copies of the Borrower's or the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance.

	13.12	Notification of certain events

The Borrower shall immediately notify the Lender by fax, confirmed forthwith by letter, of:

	(a)	any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty;

	(b)	any occurrence as a result of which the Ship has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss;

	(c)	any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with;

	(d)	any arrest or detention of the Ship, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on the Ship or the Earnings or any requisition of the Ship for hire;

	(e)	any intended dry docking of the Ship;

	(f)	any Environmental Claim made against the Borrower or in connection with the Ship, or any Environmental Incident;

	(g)	any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against the Borrower, the Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship; or

	(h)	the Borrower's entry into an Approved Charter;

	(i)	any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with,

and the Borrower shall keep the Lender advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Lender shall require of the Borrower's, the Approved Manager's or any other person's response to any of those events or matters.

	13.13	Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc

The Borrower shall not:

	(a)	let the Ship on demise charter or enter into any time or consecutive voyage charter for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed, 36 months;

	(b)	enter into any charter in relation to the Ship under which more than 2 months' hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance;

	(c)	charter the Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm's length terms at the time when the Ship is fixed;

	(d)	appoint a manager of the Ship other than an Approved Manager or an affiliate of the Approved Manager or agree to any alteration to the terms of the Approved Manager's appointment;

	(e)	de-activate or lay up the Ship; or

	(f)	put the Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon her in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed US$1,000,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Lender and in terms satisfactory to it a

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written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Ship or its Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason.

	13.14	Notice of Mortgage

The Borrower shall keep the Mortgage registered against its Ship as a valid first priority mortgage, carry on board its Ship a certified copy of the relevant Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the Master's cabin of its Ship a framed printed notice stating that that Ship is mortgaged by the Borrower to the Lender.

	13.15	Sharing of Earnings

The Borrower shall not:

	(a)	enter into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings; and

	(b)	enter into any agreement or arrangement for the postponement of any date on which any Earnings are due, the reduction of the amount of any Earnings or otherwise for the release or adverse alteration of any right of the Borrower to the Earnings; or

	(c)	enter into any agreement or arrangement for the release, or adverse alteration to, any guarantee or Security Interest relating to any Earnings.

	13.16	ISPS Code

The Borrower shall comply with the ISPS Code and in particular, without limitation, shall:

	(a)	procure that the Ship and the company responsible for the Ship's compliance with the ISPS Code comply with the ISPS Code; and

	(b)	maintain for the Ship an ISSC; and

	(c)	notify the Lender immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC in respect of any Ship.

	13.17	Charter Assignment

If the Borrower enters into an Approved Charter, the Borrower shall, at the request of the Lender, execute in favour of the Lender an Approved Charterparty Assignment and shall:

	(a)	serve notice of the Approved Charterparty Assignment on the charterer and procure that the charterer acknowledges such notice in such form as the Lender may approve or require; and

	(b)	deliver to the Lender such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 2, Part A as the Lender may require.

	14	SECURITY COVER

	14.1	Minimum required security cover

Clause 14.2 applies if the Lender notifies the Borrower that:

	(a)	the Market Value of the Ship; plus

	(b)	the net realisable value of any additional security previously provided under this Clause 14 is below 125 per cent. of the Loan.

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	14.2	Provision of additional security; prepayment

If the Lender serves a notice on the Borrower under Clause 14.1, the Borrower shall prepay (in accordance with Clause 7) such part (at least) of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall on or before the date falling 1 month after the date on which the Lender's notice is served under Clause 14.1 (the "Prepayment Date"), unless at least 10 Business Days before the Prepayment Date it has provided or ensured that a Security Party or a third party has provided, additional security which, in the opinion of the Lender, has a net realisable value at least equal to the shortfall and which has been documented in such terms as the Lender may approve or require.

	14.3	Valuation of Ship

The Market Value of the Ship (or any other Fleet Vessel) at any date during the Security Period is that shown by a valuation to be prepared:

	(a)	as at a date not more than 14 days previously;

	(b)	by an Approved Broker appointed by the Borrower and approved by and addressed to the Lender;

	(c)	with or without physical inspection of the Ship (as the Lender may require);

	(d)	on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm's length commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer, free of any existing charter or other contract of  employment;

	(e)	after deducting the estimated amount of the usual and reasonable expenses which would be incurred in connection with the sale,

Provided that if the Lender serves a notice on the Borrower under Clause 14.1, each of the Lender and the Borrower shall have the right to appoint (at the Borrower's expense) another Approved Broker to provide additional valuations of the Ship (addressed to the Lender and prepared in accordance with the terms of this Agreement) and the Market Value of the Ship shall be the arithmetic average of all three valuations.

	14.4	Value of additional vessel security

The net realisable value of any additional security which is provided under Clause 14.2 and which consists of a Security Interest over a vessel shall be that shown by a valuation complying with the requirements of Clause 14.3.

	14.5	Valuations binding

Any valuation under Clause 14.2, 14.3 or 14.4 shall be binding and conclusive as regards the Borrower, as shall be any valuation which the Lender makes of any additional security which does not consist of or include a Security Interest.

	14.6	Provision of information

The Borrower shall promptly provide the Lender and any Approved Shipbroker or expert acting under Clause 14.3 or 14.4 with any information which the Lender or the Approved Shipbroker or expert may request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrower fails to provide the information by the date specified in the request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which the shipbroker or the Lender (or the expert appointed by it) considers prudent.

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	14.7	Payment of valuation expenses

Without prejudice to the generality of the Borrower's obligations under Clauses 18.2, 18.3 and 19.3, the Borrower shall, on demand, pay the Lender the amount of the fees and expenses of any Approved Shipbroker or expert instructed by the Lender under this Clause for up to one valuation annually and a Illegal and other reasonable expenses incurred by the Lender in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause 14 Provided that other than the cost of the fees and expenses in respect of the valuations obtained prior to the Drawdown Date, the Borrower shall not be obliged to pay any fees and expenses in respect of more than one valuations in any calendar year unless an Event of Default has occurred or there is a breach of the security cover provisions in Clause 14.1 in which case the Borrower shall bear the cost of all valuations while such circumstances are in existence.

	14.8	Frequency of Valuations

The Lender shall obtain valuations of the Ship under this Clause 14 for the purpose of determining the Initial Market Value of the Ship and the Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Lender may commission valuations in accordance with Clause 14.3 in respect of the Ship at such times as the Lender shall deem necessary.

	14.9	Application of prepayment

Clause 7 shall apply in relation to any prepayment pursuant to Clause 14.2.

	15	PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS

	15.1	Currency and method of payments

All payments to be made by the Borrower to the Lender under a Finance Document shall be made to the Lender:

	(a)	by not later than 12.00 p.m. (New York City time) on the due date;

	(b)	in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other manner as the Lender shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement); and

	(c)	to the account of the Lender at Nordea Bank Finland pic, New York Branch (SWIFT: NDEAUS3N-ABA/Routing # 026010786 (Account No 7443423001), or to such other account with such other bank as the Lender may from time to time notify to the Borrower.

	15.2	Payment on non-Business Day

If any payment by the Borrower under a Finance Document would otherwise fall due on a day which is not a Business Day:

	(a)	the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or

	(b)	if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day,

and interest shall be payable during any extension under paragraph (a) at the rate payable on the original due date.

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	15.3	Basis for calculation of periodic payments

All interest and commitment fee and any other payments under any Finance Document which are of an annual or periodic nature shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360 day year.

	15.4	Lender accounts

The Lender shall maintain an account showing the amounts advanced by the Lender and all other sums owing to the Lender from the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrower and any Security Party.

	15.5	Accounts prima facie evidence

If the account maintained under Clause 15.4 shows an amount to be owing by the Borrower or a Security Party to the Lender, that account shall be prima facie evidence that that amount is owing to the Lender.

	16	APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS

	16.1	Normal order of application

Except as any Finance Document may otherwise provide, any sums which are received or recovered by the Lender under or by virtue of any Finance Document shall be applied:

	(a)	FIRST: in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Lender under the Finance Documents;

	(b)	SECONDLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest or commission due but unpaid under this Agreement;

	(c)	THIRDLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement;

	(d)	FOURTHLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any other amounts due but unpaid under any Finance Documents;

	(e)	FIFTHLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Lender, by notice to the Borrower and the Security Parties, states in its opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the provisions of this Clause; and

	(f)	SIXTHLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrower or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it.

	16.2	Variation of order of application

The Lender may, by notice to the Borrower and the Security Parties, provide for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 16.1 either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.

	16.3	Notice of variation of order of application

The Lender may give notices under Clause 16.2 from time to time; and such a notice may be stated to apply not only to sums which may be received or recovered in the future, but also

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to any sum which has been received or recovered on or after the third Business Day before the date on which the notice is served.

	16.4	Appropriation rights overridden

This Clause 16 and any notice which the Lender gives under Clause 16.2 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by the Borrower or any Security Party.

	17	EVENTS OF DEFAULT

	17.1	Events of Default

An Event of Default occurs if:

	(a)	the Borrower or any Security Party fails to pay when due or (if so payable) on demand any sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document; or

	(b)	any breach occurs of Clause 8.2, 9.3, 10.2, 10.3, 10,9, 11.2, 11.3, 12.2, 12.3, 13.2, 13.3, 13.9, 13.10, 13.12, 13.3, 14.2 or clause 12.3 {Financial Covenants) of the Guarantee; or

	(c)	any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraph (a) or (b)) if, in the opinion of the Lender, such default is capable of remedy and such default continues unremedied 10 days after written notice from the Lender requesting action to remedy the same; or

	(d)	(subject to any applicable grace period specified in any Finance Document) any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraph (a), (b) or (c)); or

	(e)	any representation, warranty or statement made or repeated by, or by an officer of, the Borrower or a Security Party in a Finance Document or in the Drawdown Notice or any other notice or document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading when it is made or repeated; or

	(f)	any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person (exceeding, in the case of the Guarantor, $10,000,000 and in the case of the Borrower and any other Relevant Person, $500,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) in aggregate):

		(i)	any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is not paid when due or, if so payable, on demand; or

		(ii)	any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date as a consequence of any event of default; or

		(iii)	a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes capable of being terminated as a consequence of any termination event; or

		(iv)	any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes capable of being required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of default; or

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		(v)	any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of a Relevant Person becomes enforceable; or

	(g)	any of the following occurs in relation to a Relevant Person:

		(i)	a Relevant Person becomes, in the opinion of the Lender, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or

		(ii)	any assets of a Relevant Person are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress, or any form of freezing order, in respect of a sum of, or sums aggregating $500,000 or more or the equivalent in another currency;

		(iii)	any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of a Relevant Person; or

		(iv)	an administrator is appointed (whether by the court or otherwise) in respect of a Relevant Person; or

		(v)	any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that a Relevant Person is insolvent or likely to become insolvent is made by a Relevant Person or by the directors of a Relevant Person or, in any proceedings, by a lawyer acting for a Relevant Person; or

		(vi)	a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of a Relevant Person, a winding up order is made in relation to a Relevant Person or a winding up resolution is passed by a Relevant Person; or

		(vii)	a resolution is passed, an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by (aa) a Relevant Person,(bb) the members or directors of a Relevant Person,(cc) a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person, or (dd) a government minister or public or regulatory authority of a Pertinent Jurisdiction for or with a view to the winding up of that or another Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of that or another Relevant Person, or that or another Relevant Person ceasing or suspending business operations or payments to creditors, save that this paragraph does not apply to a fully solvent winding up of a Relevant Person other than the Borrower and/or the Guarantor which is, or is to be, effected for the purposes of an amalgamation or reconstruction previously approved by the Lender and effected not later than 3 months after the commencement of the winding up; or

		(viii)	an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by a creditor of a Relevant Person (other than a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Relevant Person) for the winding up of a Relevant Person or the appointment of a provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of a Relevant Person in any Pertinent Jurisdiction, unless the proposed winding up, appointment of a provisional liquidator or administration is being contested in good faith, on substantial grounds and not with a view to some other insolvency law procedure being implemented instead and either (aa) the application or petition is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of being made or presented, or (bb) within 30 days of the administration notice being given or filed, or the other relevant steps being taken, other action is taken which will ensure that there will be no administration and (in both cases (aa) or (bb)) the Relevant Person will continue to carry on business in the ordinary way and without being the subject of any actual, interim or pending insolvency law procedure; or

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		(ix)	a Relevant Person or its directors take any steps (whether by making or presenting an application or petition to a court, or submitting or presenting a document setting out a proposal or proposed terms, or otherwise) with a view to obtaining, in relation to that or another Relevant Person, any form of moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of debt (or certain debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of creditors or of any class of them or any such moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by court order, by the filing of documents with a court, by means of a contract or in any other way at all; or

		(x)	any meeting of the members or directors, or of any committee of the board or senior management, of a Relevant Person is held or summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of a type described in paragraphs (iv) to (ix) or a step preparatory to such action, or (with or without such a meeting) the members, directors or such a committee resolve or agree that such an action or step should be taken or should be taken if certain conditions materialise or fail to materialise; or

		(xi)	in a Pertinent Jurisdiction other than England, any event occurs, any proceedings are opened or commenced or any step is taken which, in the opinion of the Lender is similar to any of the foregoing; or

	(h)	the Borrower or any Security Party ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Lender, is material in the context of this Agreement; or

	(i)	it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible :

		(i)	for the Borrower or any Security Party to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Lender considers material under a Finance Document; or

		(ii)	for the Lender to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a Finance Document; or

	(j)	any consent necessary to enable the Borrower to own, operate or charter the Ship or to enable the Borrower or any Security Party to comply with any provision which the Lender considers material of a Finance Document to which it is a party is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or

	(k)	it appears to the Lender that, without its prior written consent, a change has occurred or probably has occurred after the date of this Agreement in the direct shareholders or the legal ownership of any of the shares in the Borrower or the Approved Manager or in the control of the voting rights attaching to any of those shares; or

	(l)	any members of the Palios Family (either directly and/or indirectly through companies beneficially owned by any members of the Palios Family and/or trusts of foundations of which any member of the Palios Family are beneficiaries ceases to own and control in aggregate at least 10 per cent. of the issued common stock of the Corporate Guarantor; or

	(m)	Mr. Simeon Palios ceases to hold directorship position in the Guarantor and active role in the decision making in respect of the Guarantor; or

	(n)	without the prior consent of the Lender, the shares of the Guarantor cease to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange; or

	(o)	any provision which the Lender considers material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable, or a Security Interest created by a Finance

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Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another Security Interest or any other third party claim or interest; or

	(p)	the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or

	(q)	an event of default occurs under any credit agreement entered or to be entered into between the Guarantor (or any of its subsidiaries (direct or indirect), affiliate or co- subsidiary thereof) as borrower and the Lender as lender;

	(r)	any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation:

		(i)	a material adverse change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of any Relevant Person; or

		(ii)	any accident or other event involving the Ship or another vessel owned, chartered or operated by a Relevant Person;

in the light of which the Lender considers that there is a significant risk that the Borrower or the Guarantor is, or will later become, unable to discharge its or their liabilities under the Finance Documents as they fall due.

	17.2	Actions following an Event of Default

On, or at any time after, the occurrence of an Event of Default the Lender may:

	(a)	serve on the Borrower a notice stating that all or part of the Commitment and of the other obligations of the Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement are cancelled; and/or

	(b)	serve on the Borrower a notice stating that all or part of the Loan, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due and payable or are due and payable on demand; and/or

	(c)	take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (a) or (b), the Lender is entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law.

	17.3	Termination of Commitment

On the service of a notice under Clause 17.2(a) the Commitment and all the obligations of the Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement shall be cancelled.

	17.4	Acceleration of Loan

On the service of a notice under Clause 17.2(b) all or, as the case may be, the part of the Loan specified in the notice together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrower or any Security Party under this Agreement and every other Finance Document shall become immediately due and payable or, as the case may be, payable on demand.

	17.5	Multiple notices; action without notice

The Lender may serve notices under Clauses 17.2(a) or 17.2(b) simultaneously or on different dates and it may take any action referred to in Clause 17.2 if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such notices.

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	17.6	Exclusion of Lender liability

Neither the Lender nor any receiver or manager appointed by the Lender, shall have any liability to the Borrower or a Security Party:

	(a)	for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest; or

	(b)	as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in the value of such an asset

except that this does not exempt the Lender or a receiver or manager from liability for losses shown to have been caused directly and mainly by the dishonesty or the wilful misconduct of the Lender's own officers and employees or (as the case may be) such receiver's or manager's own partners or employees.

	17.7	Relevant Persons

In this Clause 17 a "Relevant Person" means the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Approved Manager or any other Security Party, and any other member of the Group.

	17.8	Interpretation

In Clause 17.1(f) references to an event of default or a termination event include any event, howsoever described, which is similar to an event of default in a facility agreement or a termination event in a finance lease; and in Clause 17.1(g) "petition" includes an application.

	18	FEES AND EXPENSES

	18.1	Upfront fee

The Borrower shall pay to the Lender a non-refundable upfront fee of $225,000 (representing 0.75 per cent. of the maximum amount of the Commitment) as follows:

	(a)	50 per cent. on the date of this Agreement; and

	(b)	50 per cent. on the Drawdown Date.

	18.2	Costs of negotiation, preparation etc.

The Borrower shall pay to the Lender on its demand the amount of all expenses incurred by the Lender in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document or with any transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document.

	18.3	Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc.

The Borrower shall pay to the Lender, on the Lender's demand, the amount of all expenses incurred by the Lender in connection with:

	(a)	any amendment or supplement to a Finance Document, or any proposal for such an amendment to be made;

	(b)	any consent or waiver by the Lender concerned under or in connection with a Finance Document, or any request for such a consent or waiver;

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	 (c)	the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 14 or any other matter relating to such security;

	(d)	where the Lender, in its absolute opinion, considers that there has been a material change to the insurances in respect of the Ship, the review of the Insurances pursuant to Clause 12.18; or

	(e)	any step taken by the Lender with a view to the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose.

There shall be recoverable under paragraph (e) the full amount of all legal expenses, whether or not such as would be allowed under rules of court or any taxation or other procedure carried out under such rules.

	18.4	Documentary taxes

The Borrower shall promptly pay any tax payable on or by reference to any Finance Document, and shall, on the Lender's demand, fully indemnify the Lender against any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrower to pay such a tax.

	18.5	Certification of amounts

A notice which is signed by 2 officers of the Lender, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to the Lender under this Clause 18 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.

	19	INDEMNITIES

	19.1	Indemnities regarding borrowing and reduction of Loan

The Borrower shall fully indemnify the Lender on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are made or brought against or incurred by the Lender, as a result of or in connection with:

	(a)	the Loan not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender;

	(b)	the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period;

	(c)	any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrower to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document, on the due date or, if so payable, on demand (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the Borrower on the amount concerned under Clause 6);

	(d)	the occurrence and/or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 17,

and in respect of any tax (other than tax on its overall net income or a FATCA Deduction) for which the Lender is liable in connection with any amount paid or payable to the Lender (whether for its own account or otherwise) under any Finance Document.

	19.2	Breakage costs

Without limiting its generality, Clause 19.1 covers any claim, expense, liability or loss, including a loss of a prospective profit, incurred by the Lender in liquidating or employing

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deposits from third parties acquired or arranged to fund or maintain all or any part of the Loan and/or any overdue amount (or an aggregate amount which includes the Loan or any overdue amount).

	19.3	Miscellaneous indemnities

The Borrower shall fully indemnify the Lender on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which may be made or brought against or incurred by the Lender, in any country, as a result of or in connection with:

	(a)	any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Lender or by any receiver appointed under a Finance Document;

	(b)	any other Pertinent Matter,

other than claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are shown to have been directly and mainly caused by the dishonesty or wilful misconduct of the officers or employees of the Lender.

Without prejudice to its generality, this Clause 19.3 covers any claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code or any Environmental Law or any Sanctions.

	19.4	Currency indemnity

If any sum due from the Borrower or any Security Party to the Lender under a Finance Document or under any order or judgment relating to a Finance Document has to be converted from the currency in which the Finance Document provided for the sum to be paid (the "Contractual Currency") into another currency (the "Payment Currency") for the purpose of:

	(a)	making or lodging any claim or proof against the Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or

	(b)	obtaining an order or judgment from any court or other tribunal; or

	(c)	enforcing any such order or judgment,

the Borrower shall indemnify the Lender against the loss arising when the amount of the payment actually received by the Lender is converted at the available rate of exchange into the Contractual Currency.

In this Clause 19.4, the "available rate of exchange" means the rate at which the Lender is able at the opening of business (London time) on the Business Day after it receives the sum concerned to purchase the Contractual Currency with the Payment Currency.

This Clause 19.4 creates a separate liability of the Borrower which is distinct from its other liabilities under the Finance Documents and which shall not be merged in any judgment or order relating to those other liabilities.

	19.5	Certification of amounts

A notice which is signed by 2 officers of the Lender, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to the Lender under this Clause 19 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.

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	19.6	Environmental Indemnity

Without prejudice to its generality, Clause 19.3 covers any claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, taxes, losses or expenses of every kind which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, pollution or the protection of the environment, the ISM Code or the ISPS Code.

	20	NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION

	20.1	No deductions

All amounts due from the Borrower under a Finance Document shall be paid:

	(a)	without any form of set-off, cross-claim or condition; and

	(b)	free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which the Borrower is required by law to make.

	20.2	Grossing-up for taxes

If the Borrower is required by law to make a tax deduction from any payment:

	(a)	the Borrower shall notify the Lender as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement;

	(b)	the Borrower shall pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises;

	(c)	the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that the Lender receives and retains (free from any liability relating to the tax deduction) a net amount which, after the tax deduction, is equal to the full amount which it would otherwise have received.

	20.3	Evidence of payment of taxes

Within one month after making any tax deduction, the Borrower concerned shall deliver to the Lender documentary evidence satisfactory to the Lender that the tax had been paid to the appropriate taxation authority.

	20.4	Exclusion of tax on overall net income

In this Clause 20.4, "tax deduction" means any deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax except tax on the Lender's overall net income, other than a FATCA Deduction.

	20.5	FATCA Information

	(a)	Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within 10 Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:

		(i)	confirm to that other Party whether it is:

		(A)	a FATCA Exempt Party; or

		(B)	not a FATCA Exempt Party;

		(ii)	supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA;

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		(iii)	supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with any other law, regulation, or exchange of information regime.

	(b)	If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) 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, or that a form provided pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) above has ceased to be accurate or valid, that Party shall notify that other Party or provide a revised form reasonably promptly.

	(c)	Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige Lender to do anything, and paragraph (a)(iii) above shall not oblige any other Party to do anything, which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:

		(i)	any law or regulation;

		(ii)	any fiduciary duty; or

		(iii)	any duty of confidentiality.

	(d)	If a Party fails to confirm whether or not it is a FATCA Exempt Party or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments under them) as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party until such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.

	20.6	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.

	21	ILLEGALITY, ETC.

	21.1	Illegality

This Clause 21 applies if the Lender notifies the Borrower that it has become, or will with effect from a specified date, become:

	(a)	unlawful or prohibited as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or will be interpreted or applied; or

	(b)	contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation,

for the Lender to maintain or give effect to any of its obligations under this Agreement in the manner contemplated by this Agreement.

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	21.2	Notification and effect of illegality

On the Lender notifying the Borrower under Clause 21.1, the Commitment shall terminate; and thereupon or, if later, on the date specified in the Lender's notice under Clause 21.1 as the date on which the notified event would become effective the Borrower shall prepay the Loan in full in accordance with Clause 7.

	21.3	Mitigation

If circumstances arise which would result in a notification under Clause 21.1 then, without in any way limiting the rights of the Lender under Clause 21.2, the Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to transfer its obligations, liabilities and rights under this Agreement and the Finance Documents to another office or financial institution not affected by the circumstances but the Lender shall not be under any obligation to take any such action if, in its opinion, to do would or might:

	(a)	have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition; or

	(b)	involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation; or

	(c)	involve it in any expense (unless indemnified to its satisfaction) or tax disadvantage .

	22	INCREASED COSTS

	22.1	Increased costs

This Clause 22 applies if the Lender notifies the Borrower that it considers that as a result of:

	(a)	the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law, or a regulation or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in which a law is interpreted or applied (disregarding any effect which relates to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on the Lender's overall net income); or

	(b)	the effect of complying with any regulation (including any which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in which the Lender allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement or

	(c)	the implementation or application of or compliance with the "Basel Ill, a global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems", "Basel Ill: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010 ("Basel III") or any other law or regulation which implements Basel Ill (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator or the Lender or a parent company or affiliate of it),

the Lender (or a parent company of it) has incurred or will incur an "increased cost".

In this Clause 22 "increased cost" means:

		(i)	an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement of funding or maintaining the Loan or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of the Loan or other unpaid sums;

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		 (ii)	a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Lender under this Agreement, or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the Lender, or on its capital;

		(iii)	an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Loan or (as the case may require) the proportion of that cost attributable to the Loan; or

		(iv)	a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Lender under this Agreement;

but not (aa) an item attributable to a change in the rate of tax on the overall net income of the Lender (or a parent company of it) or (bb) an item covered by the indemnity for tax in Clause 19.1or by Clause 20 or a FATCA Deduction.

For the purposes of this Clause 22.1 the Lender may in good faith allocate or spread costs and/or losses among its assets and liabilities (or any class of its assets and liabilities) on such basis as it considers appropriate.

	22.2	Payment of increased costs

The Borrower shall pay to the Lender, on its demand, for the account of the Lender the amounts which the Lender from time to time notifies the Borrower that it has specified to be necessary to compensate it for the increased cost.

	22.3	Notice of prepayment

If the Borrower is not willing to continue to compensate the Lender for the increased cost under Clause 22.3, the Borrower may give the Lender not less than 10 Business Days' notice of its intention to prepay the Loan at the end of an Interest Period.

	22.4	Prepayment; termination of Commitment

A notice under Clause 22.3 shall be irrevocable; and on the date specified in its notice of intended prepayment, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalties) the Loan together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin.

	22.5	Application of prepayment

Clause 7 shall apply in relation to the prepayment.

	23	SET-OFF

	23.1	Application of credit balances

The Lender may without prior notice:

	(a)	apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of the Borrower at any office in any country of the Lender, in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from the Borrower to the Lender under any of the Finance Documents; and

	(b)	for that purpose:

		(i)	break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Borrower;

		(ii)	convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars;

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		(iii)	enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Lender considers appropriate.

	23.2	Existing rights unaffected

The Lender shall not be obliged to exercise any of its rights under Clause 23.1; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set-off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which the Lender is entitled (whether under the general law or any document).

	23.3	No Security Interest

This Clause 23 gives the Lender a contractual right of set-off only, and does not create any equitable charge or other Security Interest over any credit balance of the Borrower.

	24	TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICE

	24.1	Transfer by Borrower

The Borrower may not, without the prior consent of the Lender:

	(a)	transfer any of its respective rights, liabilities or obligations under any Finance Document; or

	(b)	enter into any merger, de-merger or other reorganisation, or carry out any other act, as a result of which any of, their rights or liabilities would vest in, or pass to, another person.

	24.2	Assignment by Lender

The Lender may assign all or any of the rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which it has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents with the consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Borrower will be deemed to have given its consent 5 Business Days after the Lender has requested it unless such consent is expressly refused by the Borrower within that time Provided that the consent of the Borrower or any Security party will not be required under this Clause 24.2 in the following cases:

	(a)	if such assignment is to a subsidiary or any other company or financial institution which is in the same ultimate ownership or control as the Lender;

	(b)	if the transfer is imposed or required by central bank;

	(c)	if the transfer is to a first-class bank or financial institution; or

	(d)	following the occurrence of an Event of Default.

	24.3	Rights of assignee

In respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document, or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with a Finance Document, a direct or indirect assignee of any of the Lender's rights or interests under or by virtue of the Finance Documents shall be entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by that assignee as a result of the breach or misrepresentation irrespective of whether the Lender would have incurred a loss of that kind or amount.

	24.4	Sub-participation; subrogation assignment

The Lender may sub-participate all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents without the consent of, or any notice to, the

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Borrower; and the Lender may assign, in any manner and terms agreed by it, all or any part of those rights to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them.

	24.5	Disclosure of information

The Lender may disclose to a potential assignee or sub-participant any information which the Lender has received in relation to the Borrower, any Security Party or their affairs under or in connection with any Finance Document, unless the information is clearly of a confidential nature.

	24.6	Change of lending office

The Lender may change its lending office by giving notice to the Borrower and the change shall become effective on the later of:

	(a)	the date on which the Borrower receive the notice; and

	(b)	the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect .

	24.7	Security over Lender's rights

In addition to the other rights provided to the Lender under this Clause 24, the Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from the Borrower or any Security Party, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of the Lender including, without limitation:

		(a)	any charge, assignment or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and

		(b)	if the Lender is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by the Lender as security for those obligations or securities

except that no such charge, assignment or Security Interest shall:

		(i)	release the Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or

		(ii)	require any payments to be made by the Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the Lender under the Finance Documents.

	25	VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS

	25.1	Variations, waivers etc. by Lender

Subject to Clause 25.2, a document shall be effective to vary, waive, suspend or limit any provision of a Finance Document, or the Lender's rights or remedies under such a provision or the general law, only if the document is signed, or specifically agreed to by fax, by the Borrower and the Lender and, if the document relates to a Finance Document to which a Security Party is party, by that Security Party.

	25.2	Exclusion of other or implied variations

Except for a document which satisfies the requirements of Clause 25.1, no document, and no act, course of conduct, failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence on the part of the

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Lender (or any person acting on its behalf) shall result in the Lender (or any person acting on its behalf) being taken to have varied, waived, suspended or limited, or being precluded (permanently or temporarily) from enforcing, relying on or exercising:

	(a)	a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or

	(b)	an Event of Default; or

	(c)	a breach by the Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or

	(d)	any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law,

and there shall not be implied into any Finance Document any term or condition requiring any such provision to be enforced, or such right or remedy to be exercised, within a certain or reasonable time .

	26	NOTICES

	26.1	General

Unless otherwise specifically provided, any notice under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be given by letter or fax; and references in the Finance Documents to written notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed accordingly.

	26.2	Addresses for communications

A notice by letter or fax shall be sent:

	
(a)

	
to the Borrower :

	
c/o Approved Manager

16 Pendelis Street

175 64 Paleo Faliro

Athens

 Greece

	 	 	 
	 	 	
Attn: Chief Financial Officer

	 	 	 
	 	 	
Fax No: +30 210 9470101

	 	 	 
	
(b)

	
to the Lender :

	
Danish Ship Finance A/S (Danmarks Skibskredit A/S)

Sankt-Annae Plads 3

DK-1250 Copenhagen K

 Denmark

	 	 	 
	 	 	
Attn: Customer Relations

	 	 	 
	 	 	
Fax No: +(45) 33 33 9666

or to such other address as the relevant party may notify the Lender.

	26.3	Effective date of notices

Subject to Clauses 26.4 and 26.5:

	(a)	a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered; and

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	(b)	a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed.

	26.4	Service outside business hours

However, if under Clause 26.3 a notice would be deemed to be served:

	(a)	on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or

	(b)	on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time,

the notice shall (subject to Clause 26.5) be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at 9 a.m. on the next day which is such a business day.

	26.5	Illegible notices

Clauses 26.3 and 26.4 do not apply if the recipient of a notice notifies the sender within 1 hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that the notice has been received in a form which is illegible in a material respect.

	26.6	Valid notices

A notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall not be invalid by reason that its contents or the manner of serving it do not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if:

	(a)	the failure to serve it in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may be, has not caused any party to suffer any significant loss or prejudice; or

	(b)	in the case of incorrect and/or incomplete contents, it should have been reasonably clear to the party on which the notice was served what the correct or missing particulars should have been.

	26.7	English language

Any notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall be in English.

	26.8	Meaning of "notice"

In this Clause 26, "notice" includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction, waiver or other communication.

	27	SUPPLEMENTAL

	27.1	Rights cumulative, non-exclusive

The rights and remedies which the Finance Documents give to the Lender are:

	(a)	cumulative;

	(b)	may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and

	(c)	shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law.

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	27.2	Severability of provisions

If any provision of a Finance Document is or subsequently becomes void, unenforceable or illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance Document.

	27.3	Counterparts

A Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts .

	27.4	Third party rights

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.

	28	LAW AND JURISDICTION

	28.1	English law

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.

	28.2	Exclusive English jurisdiction

Subject to Clause 28.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any Dispute.

	28.3	Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Lender

Clause 28.2 is for the exclusive benefit of the Lender, which reserves the rights:

	(a)	to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and

	(b)	to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing proceedings in England.

The Borrower shall not commence any proceedings in any country other than England in relation to a Dispute.

	28.4	Process agent

The Borrower irrevocably appoints Nicolaou & Co (for the attention of Antonis Nicolaou) at its registered office for the time being, presently at 25 Heath Drive, Potters Bar, Herts, EN6 lEN, England, to act as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings in the English courts which are connected with a Dispute.

	28.5	Lender's rights unaffected

Nothing in this Clause 28 shall exclude or limit any right which the Lender may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the recognition or enforcement of a judgment or any similar or related matter in any jurisdiction.

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	28.6	Meaning of "proceedings"

In this Clause 28, "proceedings" means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure and a "Dispute" means any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement) or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.

THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

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SCHEDULE 1

 DRAWDOWN NOTICE

	
To:

	
Danish Ship Finance A/S

(Danmarks Skibskredit A/S)

Sankt Annae Plads 3

DK-1250 Copenhagen K

 Denmark

	 	 
	 	
Attention: Loans Administration

April 2015

	1	We refer to the loan agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated [·] April 2015 and made between ourselves, as Borrower, and yourselves, as Lender, in connection with a loan facility of US$30,000,000. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice.

	2	We request to borrow the Loan as follows:

	(a)	Amount: US$30,000,000;

	(b)	Drawdown Date: [·] April 2015;

	(c)	Duration of the first Interest Period shall be 3 months;

	(d)	Payment instructions: account in [·].

	3	We represent and warrant that:

	(a)	the representations and warranties in Clause 9 of the Loan Agreement would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this notice with reference to the circumstances now existing;

	(b)	no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the Loan.

	4	This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Lender.

	5	[We authorise you to deduct the second instalment of the upfront fee referred to in Clause 18.1from the amount of the Loan.]

	 	
[Name of Signatory]

	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	
Authorised Signatory

	 
	 	
for and on behalf of

	 
	 	
LELU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

	 
	 	 	 

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SCHEDULE 2

CONDITION PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS

PART A

The following are the documents referred to in Clause 8.1(a).

	1	A duly executed original of this Agreement and each Finance Document (and of each document required to be delivered by each Finance Document) other than those referred to in Part B of this Schedule 2.

	2	Copies of the certificate of incorporation and constitutional documents of the Borrower, the Guarantor and Approved Manager and up to date original goodstanding certificates in respect of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Approved Manager.

	3	Copies of resolutions of the directors of the Borrower and each Security Party authorising the execution of the Finance Documents to which each is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, authorising named signatories to give the Drawdown Notice and other notices under this Agreement.

	4	Copies of the resolutions of the executive committee of the Guarantor authorising the execution of the Finance Documents to which it is party.

	5	The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document is to be executed on behalf of the Borrower or the Guarantor .

	6	Documentary evidence showing that the Borrower is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Guarantor.

	7	All documentation required by the Lender in relation to the Borrower and any Security Party pursuant to the Lender's "know your customer" requirements including, without limitation:

	(a)	passports or any other documentation acceptable to the Lender of the persons signing this Agreement and any Finance Document on behalf of the Borrower or a Security Party; and

	(b)	any other documentation and information as the Lender may deem necessary and/or advisable in order to comply with any law and/or regulation regarding money laundering and/or the financing of terrorist activities.

	8	Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 28 has accepted its appointment.

	9	If the Lender so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Lender.

	10	Copy of the memorandum of agreement dated 8 December 2014 and made between the Borrower as buyer and Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co. KG, Lubeck, Germany as seller in relation to the acquisition of the Ship.

	11	Copy of the Ship's main particulars.

	12	A favourable legal opm1on from lawyers appointed by the Lender on such matters concerning the laws of the Marshall Islands, England and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Lender may require.

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	13	The financial statements of the Corporate Guarantor as described in clause 10.6 and 10.7 of the Loan Agreement.

	14	Any other documents that the Lender may reasonably require in respect of the Borrower and any Security Party.

PART B

The following are the documents referred to in Clause 8.1(b) required before the Drawdown Date.

	1	A duly executed original of the Mortgage, the General Assignment and any Approved Charterparty Assignment (and of each document to be delivered by each of them including, without limitation, any notice of assignment and loss payable clause) in respect of the Ship.

	2	Documentary evidence that :

	(a)	the Ship is definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Borrower under an Approved Flag;

	(b)	the Ship is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Borrower save as contemplated by the Finance Documents;

	(c)	the Ship maintains +100Al Bulk Carrier, CSR, BC-A, Grab (25), (Hold Nos. 2+4+6+8 may be empty), ESP, ShipRight (ACS (B) CM) *IWS, Ll, ECO (IHM), + LMC, UMS with Lloyd's Register free of all recommendations and conditions of such classification society;

	(d)	the Mortgage has been duly registered against the Ship in accordance with the laws and requirements of the applicable Approved Flag State; and

	(e)	the Ship is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with.

	3	Documents establishing that the Ship will, as from the Drawdown Date, be managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Lender, together with:

	(a)	a letter of undertaking executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Lender in the terms required by the Lender agreeing certain matters in relation to the management of the Ship and subordinating the rights of the Approved Manager against the Ship and the Borrower to the rights of the Lender under the Finance Documents; and

	(b)	copies of the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance and of the Ship's SMC and ISSC (together with any other details of the applicable safety management system which the Lender requires).

	4	Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Lender on such matters concerning the laws of the Marshall Islands, the applicable Approved Flag State, England and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Lender may require.

	5	A valuation of the Ship (at the cost of the Borrower), addressed to the Lender, stated to be for the purpose of this Agreement and otherwise prepared in accordance with Clause 14.3.

	6	If the Ship is subject to an Approved Charter, a copy of the Approved Charter duly executed by the parties thereto.

	7	A favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Lender on such matters relating to the insurances for the Ship as the Lender may require.

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	8	Copies of the certificates in respect of International Ship and Port Facility Security Code {ISPS) and the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation) {ISM), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation.

	9	A copy of the certificate of insurance or other financial security in respect of civil liability for bunker oil pollution damage issued by the relevant certifying authority in relation to the Ship.

	10	Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 28 has accepted its appointment.

	11	Any other documents as the Lender may reasonably require in respect of the Borrower and any Security Party.

	12	If the Lender so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Lender .

Each of the documents specified in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 10 and 11 of Part A and every other copy document delivered under this Schedule shall be certified as a true, complete and up to date copy by a director or the secretary (or equivalent officer) of the Borrower or a lawyer.

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BORROWER

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by Andreas Nikolaos Michalopoulos

	
)

	
/s/ Andreas Nikolaos Michalopoulos

	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
LELU SHIPPING COMPANY INC.

	
)

	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	
/s/ VASSILIKI GEORGOPOULOS

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	
VASSILIKI GEORGOPOULOS

	 	 	
SOLICITOR

	 	 	
WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS

	 	 	
48 SYNGROU AVENUE

	 	 	
176 74 KALLITHEA

	 	 	
ATHENS·— GREECE

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	
LENDER

	 	 
	 	 	 
	
SIGNED by Nadine Akleh

	
)

	
/s/ Nadine Akleh

	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S

	
)

	 
	
(DANMARKS SKIBSKREDIT A/S)

	
)

	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	
Witness to all

	
)

	 
	
the above signatures

	
)

	 
	 	 	 
	
Name:

	 	 
	
Address :

	 	
/s/ VASSILIKI GEORGOPOULOS

	 	 	 
	 	 	
VASSILIKI GEORGOPOULOS

	 	 	
SOLICITOR

	 	 	
WATSON FARLEY & WILLIAMS

	 	 	
48 SYNGROU AVENUE

	 	 	
176 74 KALLITHEA

	 	 	
ATHENS·— GREECE

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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