Document:

Exhibit 10.81

Dated     11 June 2018

US$24,500,000

TERM LOAN FACILITY

LORD OCEAN NAVIGATION CO.

as Borrower

and

SEANERGY MARITIME HOLDINGS CORP.

as Guarantor

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Facility Agent

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 as Security Agent

FACILITY AGREEMENT

relating to

 the refinancing certain existing indebtedness

secured on m.v. "LORDSHIP"

Index

	
Clause

	 	
Page

	 	 	 
	
Section 1

	
Interpretation

	
2

	
1

	
Definitions and Interpretation

	
2

	
Section 2

	
The Facility

	
25

	
2

	
The Facility

	
25

	
3

	
Purpose

	
25

	
4

	
Conditions of Utilisation

	
26

	
Section 3

	
Utilisation

	
27

	
5

	
Utilisation

	
27

	
Section 4

	
Repayment, Prepayment, Cancellation and Put Option

	
29

	
6

	
Repayment

	
29

	
7

	
Prepayment and Cancellation

	
29

	
8

	
Put Option

	
31

	
Section 5

	
Costs of Utilisation

	
35

	
9

	
Interest

	
35

	
10

	
Interest Periods

	
35

	
11

	
Fees

	
36

	
Section 6

	
Additional Payment Obligations

	
37

	
12

	
Tax Gross Up and Indemnities

	
37

	
13

	
Increased Costs

	
41

	
14

	
Other Indemnities

	
43

	
15

	
Mitigation by the Finance Parties

	
46

	
16

	
Costs and Expenses

	
46

	
Section 7

	
Guarantee

	
48

	
17

	
Guarantee and Indemnity

	
48

	
Section 8

	
Representations, Undertakings and Events of Default

	
51

	
18

	
Representations

	
51

	
19

	
Information Undertakings

	
57

	
20

	
General Undertakings

	
61

	
21

	
Insurance Undertakings

	
68

	
22

	
Ship Undertakings

	
73

	
23

	
Valuations

	
79

	
24

	
Earnings Account and Application of Earnings

	
79

	
25

	
Events of Default

	
80

	
Section 9

	
Changes to Parties

	
86

	
26

	
Changes to the Lenders

	
86

	
27

	
Changes to the Transaction Obligors

	
91

	
Section 10

	
The Finance Parties

	
92

	
28

	
The Facility Agent

	
92

	
29

	
The Security Agent

	
103

	
30

	
Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties

	
118

	
31

	
Sharing among the Finance Parties

	
119

	
Section 11

	
Administration

	
121

	
32

	
Payment Mechanics

	
121

	
33

	
Set-Off

	
124

	
34

	
Bail-In

	
124

	
35

	
Notices

	
124

	
36

	
Calculations and Certificates

	
127

	
37

	
Partial Invalidity

	
127

	
38

	
Remedies and Waivers

	
127

	
39

	
Settlement or Discharge Conditional

	
127

	
40

	
Irrevocable Payment

	
127

	
41

	
Amendments and Waivers

	
128

	
42

	
Confidential Information

	
130

	
43

	
Confidentiality of Funding Rates

	
134

	
44

	
Counterparts

	
135

	
Section 12

	
Governing Law and Enforcement

	
136

	
45

	
Governing Law

	
136

	
46

	
Enforcement

	
136

	
47

	
Patriot Act Notice

	
136

Schedules

	
Schedule 1 The Parties

	
138

	
Part A The Obligors

	
138

	
Part B The Original Lenders

	
139

	
Part C The Servicing Parties

	
140

	
Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent

	
141

	
Part A Conditions precedent to Utilisation Request

	
141

	
Part B Conditions precedent to Utilisation

	
143

	
Schedule 3 Requests

	
145

	
Utilisation Request

	
145

	
Schedule 4 Form of Transfer Certificate

	
147

	
Schedule 5 Form of Assignment Agreement

	
149

	
Schedule 6 Repayment Schedule

	
152

	
Schedule 7 Timetables

	
153

Execution

	
Execution Pages

	
154

 

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made on     11 June 2018

PARTIES

	(1)	
LORD OCEAN NAVIGATION CO., a corporation incorporated in the Republic of Liberia whose registered office is at 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia as borrower (the "Borrower")

	(2)	
SEANERGY MARITIME HOLDINGS CORP., a corporation incorporated in the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, MH96960, Majuro, Marshall Islands as guarantor (the "Guarantor")

	(3)	
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Part B of Schedule 1 (The Parties) as lenders (the "Original Lenders")

	(4)	
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as agent of the other Finance Parties (the "Facility Agent")

	(5)	
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as security agent for the Secured Parties (the "Security Agent")

BACKGROUND

The Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower a senior secured term loan facility of US$24,500,000 for the purpose of refinancing part of the Existing Indebtedness in respect of the Ship.

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

SECTION 1

 INTERPRETATION

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DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

	1.1	
Definitions

In this Agreement:

"Account Bank" means Alpha Bank S.A. acting through its office at Piraeus, Greece or any replacement bank or other financial institution as may be approved by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Account Security" means a document creating Security over the Earnings Account in agreed form.

"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.

"Approved Brokers" means any firm or firms of insurance brokers approved in writing by the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Approved Classification" means I* Hull *Mach with the Approved Classification Society or the equivalent classification with another Approved Classification Society.

"Approved Classification Society" means Bureau Veritas or any other classification society approved in writing by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Approved Commercial Manager" means:

		(a)	
Fidelity Marine;

		(b)	
Seanergy Management; or

		(c)	
any other person approved in writing by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders as the commercial manager of the Ship.

"Approved Flag" means the flag of the Republic of Liberia or such other flag approved in writing by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Approved Manager" means the Approved Commercial Manager or the Approved Technical Manager.

"Approved Technical Manager" means V.Ships or any other person approved in writing by the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders as the technical manager of the Ship.

"Approved Valuer" means Clarksons Valuations Limited, Braemar ACM Valuations Limited, Simpson Spence & Young Valuations Services Ltd, Arrow Research Limited, Fearnleys Shipbrokers A/S (or any Affiliate of such person through which valuations are commonly

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issued) and any other firm or firms of independent sale and purchase shipbrokers approved in writing by the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Assignment Agreement" means an agreement substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Form of Assignment Agreement) or any other form agreed between the relevant assignor and assignee and the Facility Agent (acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders).

"Authorisation" means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation, legalisation or registration.

"Availability Period" means the period from and including the date of this Agreement to and including 30 June 2018.

"Available Commitment" means a Lender's Commitment minus:

		(a)	
the amount of its participation in the outstanding Loan; and

		(b)	
in relation to any proposed Utilisation, the amount of its participation in the Loan that is due to be made on or before the proposed Utilisation Date.

"Available Facility" means the aggregate for the time being of each Lender's Available Commitment.

"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.

"Bail-In Legislation" means:

		(a)	
in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time; and

		(b)	
in relation to any other state, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation.

"Business Day" means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, New York and Athens.

"Buyer" means an entity nominated by the Lenders as the purchaser of the Ship from the Borrower under the Sale Contract, which shall be beneficially owned by each Lender in a proportion equal to the proportion borne by its participation in the Loan to the aggregate principal amount of the Loan outstanding as at the date on which the Borrower validly exercises a Put Option and, in the case of the Year-5 Put Option, the Extension Option is not exercised.

"Charter" means any charter relating to the Ship, or other contract for its employment, whether or not already in existence.

"Charter Assignment" means the assignment creating Security over any Charter which is for a term which exceeds 13 months (including any optional extensions and any redelivery allowance) and any Charter Guarantee in agreed form.

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"Charter Guarantee" means any guarantee, bond, letter of credit or other instrument (whether or not already issued) supporting a Charter.

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

"Commercial Management Agreement" means the agreement entered into between the Borrower and the Approved Commercial Manager regarding the commercial management of the Ship.

"Commitment" means:

		(a)	
in relation to an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" in Part B of Schedule 1 (The Parties) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement; and

		(b)	
in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement,

to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.

"Confidential Information" means all information relating to any Transaction Obligor, the Finance Documents or the Facility of which a Finance Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Finance Party or which is received by a Finance Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Finance Party under, the Finance Documents or the Facility from either:

		(a)	
any Transaction Obligor or any of its advisers; or

		(b)	
another Finance Party, if the information was obtained by that Finance Party directly or indirectly from any Transaction Obligor 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:

		(i)	
information that:

		(A)	
is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by that Finance Party of Clause 42 (Confidential Information); or

		(B)	
is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any Transaction Obligor or any of its advisers; or

		(C)	
is known by that Finance Party before the date the information is disclosed to it in accordance with paragraphs (a) or (b) above or is lawfully obtained by that Finance Party after that date, from a source which is, as far as that Finance Party is aware, unconnected with a Transaction Obligor and which, in either case, as far as that Finance Party is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality; and

		(ii)	
any Funding Rate.

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"Confidentiality Undertaking" means a confidentiality undertaking in substantially the appropriate form recommended by the LMA from time to time or in any other form agreed between the Borrower and the Facility Agent.

"Corresponding Debt" means any amount, other than any Parallel Debt, which an Obligor owes to a Secured Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

"Deed of Release" means a deed releasing the Existing Security and the undertakings, obligations and liabilities (including any indemnities) of the Borrower in connection with the Existing Indebtedness in a form acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

"Default" means an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default.

"Delegate" means any delegate, agent, attorney or co-trustee appointed by the Security Agent.

"Dispute" has the meaning given to it in Clause 46.1 (Jurisdiction).

"Disruption Event" means either or both of:

		(a)	
a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Facility (or otherwise in order for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties or, if applicable, any Transaction Obligor; or

		(b)	
the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party or, if applicable, any Transaction Obligor preventing that, or any other, Party or, if applicable, any Transaction Obligor:

		(i)	
from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or

		(ii)	
from communicating with other Parties or, if applicable, any Transaction Obligor in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents,

and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party or, if applicable, any Transaction Obligor whose operations are disrupted.

"Document of Compliance" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.

"dollars" and "$" mean the lawful currency, for the time being, of the United States of America.

"Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the Borrower or the Security Agent and which arise out of or in connection with or relate to the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):

		(a)	
the following, save to the extent that any of them is, with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), pooled or shared with any other person:

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		(i)	
all freight, hire and passage moneys including, without limitation, all moneys payable under, arising out of or in connection with a Charter or a Charter Guarantee;

		(ii)	
the proceeds of the exercise of any lien on sub-freights;

		(iii)	
compensation payable to the Borrower or the Security Agent in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire or use;

		(iv)	
remuneration for salvage and towage services;

		(v)	
demurrage and detention moneys;

		(vi)	
without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (i) above, damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship;

		(vii)	
all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in relation to loss of hire;

		(viii)	
all monies which are at any time payable to the Borrower in relation to general average contribution; and

		(b)	
if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within sub-paragraphs (i) to (viii) of paragraph (a) above 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:

		(a)	
an account in the name of the Borrower with the Account Bank designated "Lord Ocean Navigation Co. – USD Earnings Account"; or

		(b)	
any other account in the name of the Borrower with the Account Bank which may, with the prior written consent of the Facility Agent, be opened in the place of the account referred to in paragraph (a) above, irrespective of the number or designation of such replacement account; or

		(c)	
any sub-account of any account referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above.

"EEA Member Country" means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

"Environmental Approval" means any present or future permit, ruling, variance or other Authorisation required under Environmental Laws.

"Environmental Claim" means any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority or any other person which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law and, for this purpose, "claim" includes a claim for damages, compensation, contribution, injury, fines, losses and penalties or any other payment of any kind, including in relation to clean-up and removal, whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain

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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, emission, spill or discharge of Environmentally Sensitive Material whether within a Ship or from a Ship into any other vessel or into or upon the air, sea, land or soils (including the seabed) or surface water; or

		(b)	
any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released, emitted, spilled or discharged into or upon the air, sea, land or soils (including the seabed) or surface water 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 any Transaction Obligor 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, emitted, spilled or discharged into or upon the air, sea, land or soils (including the seabed) or surface water otherwise than from the Ship and in connection with which the Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested and/or where any Transaction Obligor 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, other than in accordance with an Environmental Approval.

"Environmental Law" means any present or future law relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment, to conditions in the workplace, to the carriage, generation, handling, storage, use, release or spillage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material.

"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means and includes all contaminants, oil, oil products, toxic substances 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.

"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor thereto.

"ERISA Affiliate" means each person (and defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) which together with the Borrower would be deemed to be a "single employer" within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.

"Event of Default" means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 25 (Events of Default).

"Executive Order" means an executive order issued by the President of the United States of America.

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"Existing Facility Agreement" means the facility agreement dated 28 November 2016 and entered into between, amongst other, the Borrower and another entity as joint and several borrowers and the "Facility Agent" as such term is defined therein, to finance, among others, the acquisition of the Ship.

"Existing Indebtedness" means, at any date, any outstanding Financial Indebtedness on that date under or in connection with the Existing Facility Agreement.

"Existing Lender" has the meaning given to it in Clause 26.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders).

"Existing Security" means any Security created to secure the Existing Indebtedness.

"Extended Termination Date" means the date falling on the seventh anniversary of the Utilisation Date.

"Extension Option" has the meaning given to it in Clause 8.2 (Extension Option).

"Facility" means the term loan facility made available under this Agreement as described in Clause 2 (The Facility).

"Facility Office" means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than 5 Business Days' written notice) as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.

"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 US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.

"FATCA Application Date" means:

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

		(b)	
in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to "gross proceeds" from the disposition of property of a type that can produce interest from sources within the US), 1 January 2019; or

		(c)	
in relation to a "passthru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above, 1 January 2019,

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or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any change in FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

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

"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.

"FATCA FFI" means a foreign financial institution as defined in section 1471(d)(4) of the Code which, if any Finance Party is not a FATCA Exempt Party, could be required to make a FATCA Deduction.

"Fee Letter" means any letter or letters dated on or about the date of this Agreement between any of the Facility Agent and the Security Agent and any Obligor setting out any of the fees referred to in Clause 11 (Fees).

"Fidelity Marine" means Fidelity Marine Inc., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at the Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960 Marshall Islands.

"Finance Document" means:

		(a)	
this Agreement;

		(b)	
the Utilisation Request;

		(c)	
any Security Document;

		(d)	
any Fee Letter;

		(e)	
any other document which is executed for the purpose of establishing any priority or subordination arrangement in relation to the Secured Liabilities; or

		(f)	
any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Borrower.

"Finance Party" means the Facility Agent, the Security Agent or a Lender.

"Financial Indebtedness" means any indebtedness for or in relation to:

		(a)	
moneys borrowed;

		(b)	
any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility or dematerialised equivalent;

		(c)	
any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes, debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument;

		(d)	
the amount of any liability in relation to any lease or hire purchase contract which would, in accordance with GAAP, be treated as a balance sheet liability;

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		(e)	
receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis);

		(f)	
any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) of a type not referred to in any other paragraph of this definition having the commercial effect of a borrowing;

		(g)	
any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price (and, when calculating the value of any derivative transaction, only the marked to market value (or, if any actual amount is due as a result of the termination or close-out of that derivative transaction, that amount) shall be taken into account);

		(h)	
any counter-indemnity obligation in relation to a guarantee, indemnity, bond, standby or documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; and

		(i)	
the amount of any liability in relation to any guarantee or indemnity for any of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h) above.

"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the US including IFRS.

"General Assignment" means the general assignment creating Security over the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation in agreed form.

"Group" means the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries for the time being.

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

"IFRS" means international accounting standards within the meaning of the IAS Regulation 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.

"Indemnified Person" means:

		(a)	
for the purposes of Clause 14.2 (Other indemnities), each Finance Party, each Affiliate of a Finance Party and each officer or employee of a Finance Party or its Affiliate;

		(b)	
for the purposes of Clause 14.3 (Indemnity to the Facility Agent), the Facility Agent, each Affiliate of the Facility Agent and each director, officer and employee; and

		(c)	
for the purposes of Clause 14.4 (Indemnity to the Security Agent), the Security Agent and every Receiver and Delegate, each Affiliate of the Security Agent, Receiver and Delegate and each director, officer and employee.

"Initial Termination Date" means the date falling on the fifth anniversary of the Utilisation Date.

"Insurances" means, in relation to the Ship:

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

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

"Interest Payment Date" has the meaning given to it in Clause 9.2 (Payment of interest).

"Interest Rate" means, in relation to an Interest Period, the rate equal to the amount of interest payable in relation to that Interest Period expressed as a percentage of the opening balance of the Loan as at the first date of that Interest Period, in each case as specified in the Repayment Schedule.

"Interest Period" means, in relation to the Loan or any part of the Loan, each period determined in accordance with Clause 10 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with Clause 9.3 (Default interest).

"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ship and for Pollution Prevention (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code as adopted by the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Diplomatic Conference of December 2002, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

"ISSC" means an International Ship Security Certificate issued under the ISPS Code.

"Lender" means:

		(a)	
any Original Lender; and

		(b)	
any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders),

which in each case has not ceased to be a Party in accordance with this Agreement.

"LIBOR" means the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time for dollars and for a period equal to one month.

"LMA" means the Loan Market Association.

"Loan" means the loan to be made available under the Facility or the aggregate principal amount outstanding for the time being of the borrowings under the Facility and a "part of the Loan" means any part of the Loan as the context may require.

"Major Casualty" means any casualty to the Ship in relation to which the claim or the aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds $750,000 or the equivalent in any other currency.

"Majority Lenders" means:

		(a)	
if the Loan has not yet been advanced, a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than 662⁄3 per cent. of the Total Commitments; or

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		(b)	
at any other time, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loan aggregate more than 662⁄3 per cent. of the amount of the Loan then outstanding or, if the Loan has been repaid or prepaid in full, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loan immediately before repayment or prepayment in full aggregate more than 662⁄3 per cent. of the Loan immediately before such repayment.

"Management Agreement" means the Technical Management Agreement or the Commercial Management Agreement.

"Manager's Undertaking" means, in relation to an Approved Manager, a letter of undertaking from that Approved Manager subordinating the rights of that Approved Manager against the Ship and the Borrower to the rights of the Finance Parties in agreed form.

"Market Value" means, in relation to the Ship or any other vessel, at any date, an amount equal to the market value of the Ship or vessel shown by the average of two valuations at the cost of the Borrower each prepared:

		(a)	
as at a date not more than 30 days previously;

		(b)	
by an Approved Valuer (one of which is appointed by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the other which is appointed by the Borrower);

		(c)	
with or without physical inspection of the Ship or vessel (as the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) may require); and

		(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 Charter.

"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 any Obligor or Obligors as a whole; or

		(b)	
the ability of any Obligor to perform its obligations under any Finance Document; or

		(c)	
the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Security granted pursuant to any of, the Finance Documents or the rights or remedies of any Finance Party under any of the Finance Documents.

"Month" means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:

		(a)	
(subject to paragraph (c) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;

		(b)	
if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and

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		(c)	
if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end.

The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period.

"Mortgage" means the first priority or preferred (as applicable) ship mortgage on the Ship and, if applicable, the deed of covenant collateral thereto, in agreed form.

"New Lender" has the meaning given to it in Clause 26.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders).

"Obligor" means the Borrower or the Guarantor.

"OFAC" means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury.

"Original Jurisdiction" means, in relation to an Obligor, the jurisdiction under whose laws that Obligor is incorporated as at the date of this Agreement.

"Overseas Regulations" means the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/1801).

"Parallel Debt" means any amount which an Obligor owes to the Security Agent under Clause 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)) or under that clause as incorporated by reference or in full in any other Finance Document.

"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.

"Party" means a party to this Agreement.

"Perfection Requirements" means the making or procuring of filings, stampings, registrations, notarisations, endorsements, translations and/or notifications of any Finance Document (and/or any Security created under it) necessary for the validity, enforceability (as against the relevant Obligor or any relevant third party) and/or perfection of that Finance Document.

"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).

"Permitted Charter" means a Charter:

		(a)	
which is a time, voyage or consecutive voyage charter;

		(b)	
the duration of which does not exceed and is not capable of exceeding, by virtue of any optional extensions, 12 months plus a redelivery allowance of not more than 30 days;

		(c)	
which is entered into on bona fide arm's length terms at the time at which the Ship is fixed; and

		(d)	
in relation to which not more than two months' hire is payable in advance,

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and any other Charter which is approved in writing by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders.

"Permitted Financial Indebtedness" means:

		(a)	
any Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Finance Documents;

		(b)	
until the Utilisation Date, the Existing Indebtedness; and

		(c)	
any Financial Indebtedness that is subordinated to all Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Finance Documents in a manner satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

"Permitted Security" means:

		(a)	
Security created by the Finance Documents;

		(b)	
until the Utilisation Date, the Existing Security;

		(c)	
any netting or set-off arrangement entered into by any Transaction Obligor in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances;

		(d)	
liens for unpaid master's and crew's wages in accordance with first class ship ownership and management practice;

		(e)	
liens for salvage;

		(f)	
liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading;

		(g)	
any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course of the operation, repair or maintenance of the Ship and not as a result of any default or omission by the Borrower, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested in good faith by appropriate steps) and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 22.15 (Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.);

		(h)	
Security 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

		(i)	
any Security 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.

"Plan" means any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to Title IV of ERISA which is or was sponsored, maintained or contributed to by, or required to be contributed to by any Obligor or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates.

"Potential Event of Default" means any event or circumstance specified in Clause 25 (Events of Default) 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) be an Event of Default.

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"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.

"Protected Party" has the meaning given to it in Clause 12.1 (Definitions).

"Put Option" means the Year-5 Put Option or the Year-7 Put Option.

"Purchase Price" means:

		(a)	
in relation to the exercise of the Year-5 Put Option, the Year-5 Purchase Price; and

		(b)	
in relation to the exercise of the Year-7 Put Option, the Year-7 Purchase Price; and

"Quotation Day" means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined for the purposes of paragraph (d) of Clause 8.4 (Sale and delivery terms), two Business Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the London interbank market in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Facility Agent in accordance with market practice in the London interbank market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the London interbank market on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days).

"Receiver" means a receiver or receiver and manager or administrative receiver of the whole or any part of the Security Assets.

"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 Jurisdiction" means, in relation to a Transaction Obligor:

		(a)	
its Original Jurisdiction;

		(b)	
any jurisdiction where any asset subject to, or intended to be subject to, any of the Transaction Security created, or intended to be created, by it is situated;

		(c)	
any jurisdiction where it conducts its business; and

		(d)	
the jurisdiction whose laws govern the perfection of any of the Security Documents entered into by it.

"Repayment Date" means each date on which a Repayment Instalment is required to be paid under Clause 6.1 (Repayment of Loan).

"Repayment Instalment" has the meaning given to it in Clause 6.1 (Repayment of Loan).

"Repayment Schedule" means the loan amortisation schedule in respect of the Loan set out in Schedule 6 (Repayment Schedule).

"Repeating Representation" means each of the representations set out in Clause 18 (Representations) except Clause 18.10 (Insolvency), Clause 18.11 (No filing or stamp taxes), Clause 18.12 (Deduction of Tax), Clause 18.13 (No default), Clause 18.16 (Pari passu ranking),

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Clause 18.17 (No proceedings pending or threatened) and Clause 18.20 (No Charter) and any representation of any Transaction Obligor made in any other Finance Document that is expressed to be a "Repeating Representation" or is otherwise expressed to be repeated.

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

"Requisition" means:

		(a)	
any expropriation, confiscation, requisition (excluding a requisition for hire or use which does not involve a requisition for title) 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 (whether de jure or de facto) by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority; and

		(b)	
any capture or seizure of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) by any person whatsoever.

"Requisition Compensation" includes all compensation or other moneys payable to the Borrower by reason of any Requisition or any arrest or detention of the Ship in the exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim.

"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.

"Safety Management Certificate" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.

"Safety Management System" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.

"Sale Contract" means an agreement for the sale of the ship by the Borrower to the Buyer pursuant to the exercise of a Put Option in a form acceptable to the Lenders, including without limitation the terms set out in Clause 8.4 (Sale and delivery terms).

"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 European Union, the member states of the European Union, the United Nations or its Security Council or the United States of America regardless of whether the same is or is not binding on any Transaction Obligor;  or

		(b)	
otherwise imposed by any law or regulation binding on a Transaction Obligor or to which a Transaction Obligor is subject (which shall include without limitation, any extra-territorial sanctions imposed by law or regulation of the United States of America).

"Screen Rate" means the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for dollars for the relevant period displayed on page LIBOR01 of the Thomson Reuters screen (or any replacement Thomson 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

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of Thomson Reuters. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation between the Lenders and the Borrower.

"Seanergy Management" means Seanergy Management Corp., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at the Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960 Marshall Islands.

"Secured Liabilities" means all present and future obligations and liabilities, (whether actual or contingent and whether owed jointly or severally or in any other capacity whatsoever) of each Transaction Obligor to any Secured Party under or in connection with each Finance Document.

"Secured Party" means each Finance Party from time to time party to this Agreement, a Receiver or any Delegate.

"Security" means a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment, hypothecation or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having the effect of conferring security.

"Security Assets" means all of the assets of the Transaction Obligors which from time to time are, or are expressed to be, the subject of the Transaction Security.

"Security Document" means:

		(a)	
the Shares Security;

		(b)	
the Mortgage;

		(c)	
the General Assignment;

		(d)	
any Charter Assignment;

		(e)	
the Account Security;

		(f)	
any Manager's Undertaking;

		(g)	
any other document (whether or not it creates Security) which is executed as security for the Secured Liabilities; or

		(h)	
any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Borrower.

"Security Period" means the period starting on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date on which the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied that there is no outstanding Commitment in force and that the Secured Liabilities have been irrevocably and unconditionally paid and discharged in full.

"Security Property" means:

		(a)	
the Transaction Security expressed to be granted in favour of the Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties and all proceeds of that Transaction Security;

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		(b)	
all obligations expressed to be undertaken by a Transaction Obligor to pay amounts in relation to the Secured Liabilities to the Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties and secured by the Transaction Security together with all representations and warranties expressed to be given by a Transaction Obligor or any other person in favour of the Security Agent as trustee for the Secured Parties;

		(c)	
the Security Agent's interest in any turnover trust created under the Finance Documents;

		(d)	
any other amounts or property, whether rights, entitlements, choses in action or otherwise, actual or contingent, which the Security Agent is required by the terms of the Finance Documents to hold as trustee on trust for the Secured Parties,

except:

		(i)	
rights intended for the sole benefit of the Security Agent; and

		(ii)	
any moneys or other assets which the Security Agent has transferred to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or (being entitled to do so) has retained in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

"Servicing Party" means the Facility Agent or the Security Agent.

"Shareholder" means Emperor Holding Ltd., a corporation incorporated in the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, the Republic of the Marshall Islands;

"Shares Security" means a document to be executed by the Shareholder creating Security over the shares in the Borrower in agreed form.

"Ship" means the 2010-built Capesize bulk carrier type of vessel of approximately 179,000 deadweight, having IMO Number 9519066 and registered in the name of the Borrower under the Approved Flag with the name "LORDSHIP".

"Specified Time" means a day or time determined in accordance with Schedule 7 (Timetables).

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

"Tax" means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).

"Tax Credit" has the meaning given to it in Clause 12.1 (Definitions).

"Tax Deduction" has the meaning given to it in Clause 12.1 (Definitions).

"Tax Payment" has the meaning given to it in Clause 12.1 (Definitions).

"Technical Management Agreement" means the agreement entered into between the Borrower and the Approved Technical Manager regarding the technical management of the Ship.

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"Termination Date" means:

		(a)	
if the Extension Option is not exercised, the Initial Termination Date; and

		(b)	
if the Extension Option is exercised, the Extended Termination Date.

"Third Parties Act" has the meaning given to it in Clause 1.5 (Third party rights).

"Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments, being $24,500,000 at the date of this Agreement.

"Total Loss" means:

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

		(b)	
any Requisition of the Ship unless the Ship is returned to the full control of the Borrower within 90 days of such Requisition (or such later period agreed by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

"Total Loss Date" means, in relation to the Total Loss of the 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 earlier 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 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, the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Majority Lenders that the event constituting the total loss occurred.

"Transaction Document" means:

		(a)	
a Finance Document;

		(b)	
any Charter; or

		(c)	
any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent and the Borrower.

"Transaction Obligor" means an Obligor, the Shareholder, any Approved Manager (other than Fidelity Marine (for so long it is not a member of the Group) and V.Ships) or any other person (except a Finance Party) who executes a Transaction Document.

"Transaction Security" means the Security created or evidenced or expressed to be created or evidenced under the Security Documents.

"Transfer Certificate" means a certificate in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Facility Agent and the parties to such certificate.

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"Transfer Date" means, in relation to an assignment or a transfer, the later of:

		(a)	
the proposed Transfer Date specified in the relevant Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate; and

		(b)	
the date on which the Facility Agent executes the relevant Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate.

"UK Establishment" means a UK establishment as defined in the Overseas Regulations.

"Unpaid Sum" means any sum due and payable but unpaid by a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents.

"US" means the United States of America.

"US Tax Obligor" means:

		(a)	
a person which is resident for tax purposes in the US; or

		(b)	
a person some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the US for US federal income tax purposes.

"Utilisation" means the utilisation of the Facility.

"Utilisation Date" means the date of the Utilisation, being the date on which the Loan is to be advanced.

"Utilisation Request" means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3 (Requests).

"VAT" means:

		(a)	
any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and

		(b)	
any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraph (a) above, or imposed elsewhere.

"V. Ships" means V. Ships Limited, a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of Cyprus whose registered office is at Zenas Gunther, 16-18, Agia Triada, 3035 Limassol, Cyprus.

"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:

		(a)	
in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; and

		(b)	
in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation:

		(i)	
any powers under that Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial

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institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers; and

		(ii)	
any similar or analogous powers under that Bail-In Legislation.

"Year-5 Purchase Price" means $20,800,000.

"Year-5 Put Option" has the meaning given to it in Clause 8.1 (Year-5 Put Option).

"Year-7 Purchase Price" means $15,000,000.

"Year-7 Put Option" has the meaning given to it in Clause 8.3 (Year-7 Put Option).

"Year-7 Put Option Additional Conditions" means:

		(a)	
the completion of the third special survey and dry docking of the Ship upon the Ship reaching an age of 15 years;

		(b)	
the installation of a ballast water treatment system provided that such condition will not apply if (i) the laws and regulations providing for the installation of ballast water treatment systems on ocean-going vessels have been repealed or (ii) the entry into force of such laws and regulation has been postponed at the time of the exercise of the Year-7 Put Option until not earlier than the date falling 5 years after the Termination Date; and

		(c)	
the application of a minimum 60-months hull paint system on the Ship during such dry docking,

in each case to the satisfaction of the Facility Agent (acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders).

	1.2	
Construction

	(a)	
Unless a contrary indication appears, a reference in this Agreement to:

		(i)	
the "Account Bank", the "Facility Agent", any "Finance Party", any "Lender", any "Obligor", any "Party", any "Secured Party", the "Security Agent", any "Transaction Obligor" or any other person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees to, or of, its rights and/or obligations under the Finance Documents;

		(ii)	
"assets" includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;

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

		(iv)	
"document" includes a deed and also a letter, fax or telex;

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		(v)	
"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable Tax including VAT;

		(vi)	
a "Finance Document", a "Security Document" or "Transaction Document" or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document, Security Document or Transaction Document or other agreement or instrument as amended, novated, supplemented, extended or restated;

		(vii)	
a "group of Lenders" includes all the Lenders;

		(viii)	
"indebtedness" includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;

		(ix)	
"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 States of America, the United Nations or its Security Council;

		(x)	
"proceedings" means, in relation to any enforcement provision of a Finance Document, proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure;

		(xi)	
a "person" includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium, partnership or other entity (whether or not having separate legal personality);

		(xii)	
a "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;

		(xiii)	
a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;

		(xiv)	
a time of day is a reference to New York time unless specified to the contrary;

		(xv)	
any English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall, in respect of a jurisdiction other than England, be deemed to include that which most nearly approximates in that jurisdiction to the English legal term;

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

		(xvii)	
"including" and "in particular" (and other similar expressions) shall be construed as not limiting any general words or expressions in connection with which they are used.

	(b)	
The determination of the extent to which a rate is "for a period equal in length" to an Interest Period shall disregard any inconsistency arising from the last day of that Interest Period being determined pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

	(c)	
Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only and are not to be used for the purposes of construction or interpretation of the Finance Documents.

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	(d)	
Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under, or in connection with, any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement.

	(e)	
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.

	1.3	
Construction of insurance terms

In this Agreement:

"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 21 (Insurance Undertakings), approved in writing by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

"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.

"obligatory insurances" means all insurances effected, or which the Borrower is obliged to effect, under Clause 21 (Insurance Undertakings) or any other provision of this Agreement or of another Finance Document.

"policy" 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) (1/11/03), clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83) (1/11/95) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any equivalent provision.

"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).

	1.4	
Agreed forms of Finance Documents

References in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) to any Finance Document being in "agreed form" are to that Finance Document:

	(a)	
in a form attached to a certificate dated the same date as this Agreement (and signed by the Borrower and the Facility Agent); or

	(b)	
in any other form agreed in writing between the Borrower and the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders or, where Clause 41.2 (All Lender matters) applies, all the Lenders.

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	1.5	
Third party rights

	(a)	
Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document, a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the "Third Parties Act") to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.

	(b)	
Subject to Clause 41.3 (Other exceptions) but otherwise notwithstanding any term of any Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a Party is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time.

	(c)	
Any Receiver, Delegate, Affiliate or for the purpose of Clause 14.2 (Other indemnities), Clause 14.3 (Indemnity to the Facility Agent) and Clause 14.4 (Indemnity to the Security Agent), any Indemnified Person, or any other person described in paragraph (b) of Clause 28.10 (Exclusion of liability), or paragraph (b) of Clause 29.11 (Exclusion of liability) may, subject to this Clause 1.5 (Third party rights) and the Third Parties Act, rely on any Clause of this Agreement which expressly confers rights on it.

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SECTION 2

 THE FACILITY

	2	
THE FACILITY

	2.1	
The Facility

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the Borrower a senior dollar term loan facility in one advance in an aggregate amount not exceeding the Total Commitments.

	2.2	
Finance Parties' rights and obligations

	(a)	
The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several.  Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from a Transaction Obligor is a separate and independent debt in respect of which a Finance Party shall be entitled to enforce its rights in accordance with paragraph (c) below.  The rights of each Finance Party include any debt owing to that Finance Party under the Finance Documents and, for the avoidance of doubt, any part of the Loan or any other amount owed by a Transaction Obligor which relates to a Finance Party's participation in the Facility or its role under a Finance Document (including any such amount payable to the Facility Agent on its behalf) is a debt owing to that Finance Party by that Transaction Obligor.

	(c)	
A Finance Party may, except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

	3	
PURPOSE

	3.1	
Purpose

The Borrower shall apply all amounts borrowed by it under the Facility only for the purpose stated in the preamble (Background) to this Agreement.

	3.2	
Monitoring

No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.

	3.3	
Proceeds of Loan

No part of the proceeds of the Loan will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental 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 may be amended from time to time.

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	4	
CONDITIONS OF UTILISATION

	4.1	
Initial conditions precedent

The Borrower may not deliver the Utilisation Request unless the Facility Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part A of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	4.2	
Further conditions precedent

The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) if:

	(a)	
on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date and before the Loan is advanced:

		(i)	
no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan; and

		(ii)	
the Repeating Representations to be made by each Transaction Obligor are true;

	(b)	
the Facility Agent has received on or before the Utilisation Date, or the Majority Lenders are satisfied they will receive when the Loan is made available, all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part B of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	4.3	
Notification of satisfaction of conditions precedent

	(a)	
The Facility Agent shall send to the Lenders all of the conditions precedent referred to in Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) and Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) which it has received.

	(b)	
Each Lender shall promptly confirm to the Facility Agent in writing that it is satisfied as to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent referred to in Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) and Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent).

	(c)	
The Facility Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon receipt of those confirmations referred to in paragraph (b) above from all of the Lenders.

	(d)	
Other than to the extent that the Majority Lenders notify the Facility Agent in writing to the contrary before the Facility Agent gives the notification described in paragraph (c) above, the Lenders authorise (but do not require) the Facility Agent to give that notification.  The Facility Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever as a result of giving any such notification.

	4.4	
Waiver of conditions precedent

If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, permit the Loan to be borrowed before any of the conditions precedent referred to in Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) or Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) has been satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that that condition is satisfied within ten Business Days after the Utilisation Date or such later date as the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, may agree in writing with the Borrower.

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SECTION 3

 UTILISATION

	5	
UTILISATION

	5.1	
Delivery of Utilisation Request

	(a)	
The Borrower may utilise the Facility by delivery to the Facility Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than the Specified Time.

	(b)	
The Borrower may not deliver more than one Utilisation Request.

	5.2	
Completion of Utilisation Request

	(a)	
The Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

		(i)	
the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period;

		(ii)	
the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.3 (Currency and amount); and

		(iii)	
the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 10 (Interest Periods).

	(b)	
Only one advance may be requested in the Utilisation Request.

	5.3	
Currency and amount

	(a)	
The currency specified in the Utilisation Request must be dollars.

	(b)	
The amount of the Loan must be an amount which is not more $24,500,000.

	(c)	
The amount of the Loan must be an amount which is not more than the Available Facility.

	5.4	
Lenders' participation

	(a)	
If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender shall make its participation in the Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.

	(b)	
The amount of each Lender's participation in the Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the Available Facility immediately before advancing the Loan.

	(c)	
Subject to receiving a Utilisation Request, the Facility Agent shall notify each Lender of the amount of the Loan and the amount of its participation in the Loan by the Specified Time.

	5.5	
Cancellation of Commitments

The Commitments which are unutilised at the end of the Availability Period shall then be cancelled.

	5.6	
Retentions and payment to third parties

The Borrower irrevocably authorises the Facility Agent:

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	(a)	
to deduct from the proceeds of the Loan any fees then payable to the Finance Parties in accordance with Clause 11 (Fees), any solicitors fees and disbursements together with any applicable VAT and any other items listed as deductible items in the relevant Utilisation Request and to apply them in payment of the items to which they relate; and

	(b)	
on the Utilisation Date, to pay to, or for the account of, the Borrower the amounts which the Facility Agent receives from the Lenders in respect of the Loan.  That payment shall be made:

		(i)	
to the account which the Borrower specifies in the Utilisation Request; and

		(ii)	
in like funds as the Facility Agent received from the Lenders in respect of the Loan.

	5.7	
Disbursement of Loan to third party

Payment by the Facility Agent under Clause 5.6 (Retentions and payment to third parties) to a person other than the Borrower shall constitute the advance of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's participation in the Loan.

	5.8	
Prepositioning of funds

If, in respect of the Utilisation of the Loan, the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Lenders), at the request of the Borrower and on terms acceptable to all the Lenders and the Borrower, prepositions funds with any bank:

	(a)	
the Lenders shall, prior to any such pre-positioning of funds, provide an instruction letter to the Facility Agent in form and substance acceptable to the Facility Agent; and

	(b)	
any such pre-positioning of funds shall constitute the advance of the Loan and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's participation in the Loan; and

	(c)	
shall, without duplication, indemnify each Finance Party against any costs, loss or liability it may incur in connection with such arrangement.

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SECTION 4

 REPAYMENT, PREPAYMENT, CANCELLATION AND PUT OPTION

	6	
REPAYMENT

	6.1	
Repayment of Loan

	(a)	
The Borrower shall repay the Loan by:

		(i)	
20 or, if the Extension Option is exercised, 28 consecutive quarterly instalments, each in the amount specified in the Repayment Schedule (the "Instalments" and each an "Instalment"); and

		(ii)	
a balloon instalment in an amount equal to any part of the Loan remaining outstanding on the Termination Date (the "Balloon Instalment" and together with the Instalments, the "Repayment Instalments" and each a "Repayment Instalment").

	(b)	
Each Instalment shall be repaid on the date specified in respect of that Instalment in the Repayment Schedule and the Balloon Instalment shall be paid on the applicable Termination Date.

	6.2	
Termination Date

On the applicable Termination Date, the Borrower shall additionally pay to the Facility Agent for the account of the Finance Parties all other sums then accrued and owing under the Finance Documents.

	6.3	
Reborrowing

The Borrower may not re-borrow any part of the Facility which is repaid.

	7	
PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION

	7.1	
Illegality

If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender, or an Affiliate of a Lender, for that Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain its participation in the Loan:

	(a)	
that Lender shall promptly notify the Facility Agent upon becoming aware of that event;

	(b)	
upon the Facility Agent notifying the Borrower, the Available Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and

	(c)	
the Borrower shall prepay the Loan on the last day of the Interest Period for the Loan occurring after the Facility Agent has notified the Borrower or, if earlier, the date specified by that Lender in the notice delivered to the Facility Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law) and that Lender's corresponding Commitment shall be cancelled in the amount of the participation prepaid.

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	7.2	
Voluntary and automatic cancellation

The Borrower may, if it gives the Facility Agent not less than 10 Business Days' (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, cancel the whole of the Available Facility.

	7.3	
Voluntary prepayment of Loan

	(a)	
Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Borrower may, if it gives the Facility Agent not less than 10 Business Days' (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, prepay the whole (but not part) of the Loan.

	(b)	
The Loan may only be prepaid after the second anniversary of the Utilisation Date.

	7.4	
Mandatory prepayment on sale or Total Loss

If the Ship is sold or becomes a Total Loss, the Borrower shall repay the Loan together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents.  Such repayment shall be made:

	(a)	
in the case of a sale of the Ship, 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:

		(i)	
the date falling 180 days after the Total Loss Date; and

		(ii)	
the date of receipt by the Security Agent of the proceeds of insurance relating to such Total Loss.

	7.5	
Restrictions

	(a)	
Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this Clause 7 (Prepayment and Cancellation) shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment and, if relevant, the part of the Loan to be prepaid or cancelled.

	(b)	
Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and without premium or penalty.

	(c)	
The Borrower may not re-borrow any part of the Facility which is prepaid.

	(d)	
The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of the Loan or cancel all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement.

	(e)	
No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated.

	(f)	
If the Facility Agent receives a notice under this Clause 7 (Prepayment and Cancellation) it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to either the Borrower or the affected Lenders, as appropriate.

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	(g)	
If all or part of any Lender's participation in the Loan is repaid or prepaid, an amount of that Lender's Commitment (equal to the amount of the participation which is repaid or prepaid) will be deemed to be cancelled on the date of repayment or prepayment.

	8	
PUT OPTION

	8.1	
Year-5 Put Option

	(a)	
If no Default has occurred which is continuing, the Borrower shall have the right (the "Year-5 Put Option") to sell the Ship to the Lenders on the Initial Termination Date for the Year-5 Purchase Price, exercisable by giving written notice to the Facility Agent no later than the date falling four months prior to the Initial Termination Date.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall provide a copy of the notice referred to in paragraph (a) of this Clause 8.1 (Year-5 Put Option) to the Lenders within 1 Business Day after receipt of such notice.

	(c)	
If the Borrower exercises the Year-5 Put Option then, subject to the exercise of the Extension Option by the Lenders pursuant to Clause 8.2 (Extension Option), the Borrower shall sell, and the Lenders shall be obliged to procure that the Buyer will purchase, the Ship for a purchase price equal to the Year-5 Purchase Price in accordance with Clause 8.4 (Sale and delivery terms).

	8.2	
Extension Option

	(a)	
If the Borrower exercises the Year-5 Put Option, the Lenders shall have the right (the "Extension Option") to extend the Termination Date of the Loan to the Extended Termination Date, exercisable at their sole discretion by giving written notice to the Facility Agent no later than the date falling 30 days after receipt of the notice given by the Facility Agent to the Lenders under paragraph (b) of Clause 8.1 (Year-5 Put Option).

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall provide a copy of the notice referred to in paragraph (a) of this Clause 8.2 (Extension Option) to the Borrower within 1 Business Day after receipt of such notice.

	(c)	
If the Lenders exercise the Extension Option:

		(i)	
the Termination Date shall be extended to the Extended Termination Date;

		(ii)	
the exercise of the Year-5 Put Option by the Borrower shall be cancelled in its entirety and the Lenders shall not have an obligation to purchase the Ship; and

		(iii)	
the parties to this Agreement entering into such documentation amending and supplementing this Agreement and any other Finance Documents as may be required in relation to the exercise of the Extension Option to be in a form acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting at the instructions of the Majority Lenders) by no later than the Initial Termination Date and any other document as may be required by the Facility Agent (acting at the instructions of the Majority Lenders) to effect the same in a manner acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting at the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	8.3	
Year-7 Put Option

If no Default has occurred which is continuing the Borrower shall have the right (the "Year-7 Put Option") to sell the Ship to the Lenders on the Extended Termination Date for the Year-7

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Purchase Price, exercisable by the Borrower by giving written notice to the Facility Agent no later than the date falling four months prior to the Extended Termination Date.

	(a)	
The Facility Agent shall provide a copy of the notice referred to in paragraph (a) of this Clause 8.3 (Year-7 Put Option) to the Lenders within 1 Business Day after receipt of such notice.

	(b)	
If the Borrower exercises the Year-7 Put Option then the Borrower shall sell, and the Lenders shall be obliged to procure that the Buyer will purchase, the Ship for a purchase price equal to the applicable Year-7 Purchase Price in accordance with Clause 8.4 (Sale and delivery terms).

	8.4	
Sale and delivery terms

	(a)	
If the Borrower validly exercises a Put Option and, in the case of the Year-5 Put Option, the Extension Option is not exercised, the Borrower and the Buyer shall enter (and the Lenders shall procure that the Buyer enters) into a Sale Contract in the Norwegian Saleform 2012 for the sale by the Borrower, and the purchase by the Buyer, of the Ship for the applicable Purchase Price.

	(b)	
The Sale Contract shall include, without limitation, the following provisions:

		(i)	
the delivery of the Ship shall take place at a safe and ice-free berth or port and on a date to be specified by the Buyer (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, each acting reasonably) provided that (A) loading ports of cargo of the type transported by the Ship and (B) scrapping areas for vessels of the same type as the Ship, shall be deemed an acceptable place of delivery of the Ship for the purpose of paragraph (b)(i) of this Clause 8.4 (Sale and delivery terms);

		(ii)	
the Ship shall be free of any class recommendations or conditions;

		(iii)	
the value of any pumpable fuel and unbroached/bulk lube oils shall be paid by the Buyer to the Borrower at the time of delivery on the basis of their invoiced cost;

		(iv)	
the cargo holds of the Ship shall be clean;

		(v)	
the condition of the Ship shall be established by a joint survey, the costs of which shall be borne jointly by the Borrower and the Buyer;

		(vi)	
all trading and class certificates shall be valid for a period of not less than 6 months after the proposed delivery date;

		(vii)	
the Borrower shall guarantee that the Ship, at the time of delivery, is free from all charters, encumbrances, mortgages, maritime liens or other debts or liabilities whatsoever and if any claims have accrued prior to the time of delivery, the Borrower shall indemnify the Buyer against all consequences of such claims;

		(viii)	
any taxes, consular and other charges and expenses connected with the purchase of the Ship and its registration under the Buyer's flag and the closing of the Ship's current flag, shall be for the Borrower's account;

		(ix)	
all spares on board shall be included in the sale; and

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		(x)	
the Borrower shall furnish the Buyer with documentation reasonably requested by the Buyer including but not limited to:

		(A)	
evidence (in form and substance acceptable to the Buyer) of the authorisation and capacity for the Borrower to sell the Ship and enter into all documentation in connection with such sale including but not limited to resolutions of the shareholders of the Borrower, resolutions of the board of directors of the Borrower and any power of attorney under which the Borrower's representatives sign any of the delivery documents (in each case notarised and apostilled or legalised) and certified true copies of the certificate of incorporation and articles of association (or equivalent) of the Borrower;

		(B)	
documentation validly transferring title to the Ship to the Buyer (including, without limitation, two original bills of sale notarised and apostilled or legalised as necessary);

		(C)	
any documentation required for the registration of the Ship on the Buyer's chosen flag under the name of the Buyer;

		(D)	
evidence that the Ship is free from all registered encumbrances in form and substance acceptable to the Buyer;

		(E)	
documentation usually provided by a seller to a buyer in a second hand vessel sale and purchase transaction including but not limited to, undertakings to deliver a deletion certificate, copy of the closed CSR and commercial invoices for the Ship, bunkers and lubes remaining on board and all other monies due to the Borrower under the Sales Contract by the Buyer at delivery; and

		(F)	
all copies classification, technical and other documents in the possession of the Borrower in relation to the Ship.

		(xi)	
if an Event of Default occurs the Buyer shall be entitled (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) to terminate the Sale Contract;

	(c)	
The applicable Purchase Price shall be paid by the Buyer to the Borrower as follows:

		(i)	
the obligation of the Borrower to pay to the Lenders the Balloon Instalment and all other sums then accrued and owing by the Borrower under or in connection with the Finance Documents on the Termination Date shall be set off on the date of delivery of the Ship to the Buyer against the obligation of the Lenders to pay a part of the applicable Purchase Price in an equal amount; and

		(ii)	
any balance of the Purchase Price shall be paid by the Buyer to the Borrower on the date falling on the earlier of:

		(A)	
60 days after the date on which the Buyer has taken delivery of the Ship in accordance with the Sale Contract; and

		(B)	
the date on which the Buyer (after having taken delivery of the Ship in accordance with the Sale Contract) sells the Ship to any third party.

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	(d)	
If at the time of delivery of the Ship from the Borrower to the Buyer under the Sale Contract any part of the applicable Purchase Price remains outstanding (the "Outstanding Balance"):

		(i)	
the Buyer shall provide, or ensure that a third party provides, Security in favour of the Borrower, which:

		(A)	
has a net realisable value at least equal to the Outstanding Balance; and

		(B)	
is documented in such terms as the Borrower may reasonably approve or require at the expense of the Borrower and the Buyer in equal shares,

provided that a first priority or, as the case may be, preferred mortgage over the Ship for a secured amount at least equal to the Outstanding Balance shall be considered acceptable Security.

		(ii)	
a late payment fee shall accrue on the Outstanding Balance at a rate equal to:

		(A)	
1 month LIBOR; and

		(B)	
4.00 per cent. per annum,

which shall be payable by the Buyer to the Borrower together with the Outstanding Balance.

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SECTION 5

 COSTS OF UTILISATION

	9	
INTEREST

	9.1	
Calculation of interest

The rate of interest on the Loan or any part of the Loan for each Interest Period is the Interest Rate for that Interest Period.

	9.2	
Payment of interest

The Borrower shall pay accrued interest on the Loan for each Interest Period on the last day of that Interest Period (each an "Interest Payment Date") in the amount specified in the Repayment Schedule.

	9.3	
Default interest

	(a)	
If a Transaction Obligor fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the Unpaid Sum from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate which is 2 per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have been payable if the Unpaid Sum had, during the period of non-payment, constituted part of the Loan in the currency of the Unpaid Sum for successive Interest Periods, each having a duration as follows:

		(i)	
the first Interest Period for that Unpaid Sum shall have a duration equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan; and

		(ii)	
the rate of interest applying to that Unpaid Sum during that first Interest Period shall be 2 per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have applied if that Unpaid Sum had not become due.

Any interest accruing under this Clause 9.3 (Default interest) shall be immediately payable by the Obligor on demand by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	(b)	
Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an Unpaid Sum will be compounded with the Unpaid Sum at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that Unpaid Sum but will remain immediately due and payable.

	9.4	
Notification of rates of interest

The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.

	10	
INTEREST PERIODS

	10.1	
Duration of Interest Periods

	(a)	
The first Interest Period shall commence on the Utilisation Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.

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	(b)	
Each Interest Period shall be three Months.

	10.2	
Non-Business Days

If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

	11	
FEES

	11.1	
Agency fee

The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent (for its own account) non-refundable annual agency fee at the times and in the amount specified in a Fee Letter.

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SECTION 6

 ADDITIONAL PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS

	12	
TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES

	12.1	
Definitions

	(a)	
In this Agreement:

"Protected Party" means a Finance Party which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.

"Tax Credit" means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of any Tax.

"Tax Deduction" means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document, other than a FATCA Deduction.

"Tax Payment" means either the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party under Clause 12.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 12.3 (Tax indemnity).

	(b)	
Unless a contrary indication appears, in this Clause 12 (Tax Gross Up and Indemnities) reference to "determines" or "determined" means a determination made in the absolute discretion of the person making the determination.

	12.2	
Tax gross-up

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Facility Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the Facility Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Facility Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Borrower and that Obligor.

	(c)	
If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the amount of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.

	(d)	
If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law.

	(e)	
Within 30 days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax Deduction shall deliver to the Facility Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment evidence that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority.

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	12.3	
Tax indemnity

	(a)	
The Obligors shall (within five Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of a Protected Party or claiming on its own behalf) pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance Document.

	(b)	
Paragraph (a) above shall not apply:

		(i)	
with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:

		(A)	
under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or

		(B)	
under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party's Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction,

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Finance Party; or

		(ii)	
to the extent a loss, liability or cost:

		(A)	
is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 12.2 (Tax gross-up); or

		(B)	
relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party.

	(c)	
A Protected Party making, or intending to make, a claim under paragraph (a) above shall promptly notify the Facility Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall notify the Obligors.

	(d)	
A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from an Obligor under this Clause 12.3 (Tax indemnity), notify the Facility Agent.

	12.4	
Tax Credit

If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:

	(a)	
a Tax Credit is attributable to an increased payment of which that Tax Payment forms part, to that Tax Payment or to a Tax Deduction in consequence of which that Tax Payment was received; and

	(b)	
that Finance Party has obtained and utilised that Tax Credit,

the Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Obligor which that Finance Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Obligor.

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	12.5	
Stamp taxes

The Obligors shall pay and, within five Business Days of demand, indemnify each Secured Party against any cost, loss or liability which that Secured Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document.

	12.6	
VAT

	(a)	
All amounts expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any Party to a Finance Party which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes are deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is chargeable on that supply, and accordingly, subject to paragraph (b) below, if VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document and such Finance Party is required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, that Party must pay to such Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Finance Party must promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to that Party).

	(b)	
If VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party (the "Supplier") to any other Finance Party (the "Recipient") under a Finance Document, and any Party other than the Recipient (the "Relevant Party") is required by the terms of any Finance Document to pay an amount equal to the consideration for that supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse or indemnify the Recipient in respect of that consideration):

		(i)	
(where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must also pay to the Supplier (at the same time as paying that amount) an additional amount equal to the amount of the VAT.  The Recipient must (where this sub-paragraph (i) applies) promptly pay to the Relevant Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment the Recipient receives from the relevant tax authority which the Recipient reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and

		(ii)	
(where the Recipient is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must promptly, following demand from the Recipient, pay to the Recipient an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on that supply but only to the extent that the Recipient reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT.

	(c)	
Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse or indemnify a Finance Party for any cost or expense, that Party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Finance Party for the full amount of such cost or expense, including such part of it as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Finance Party reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.

	(d)	
Any reference in this Clause 12.6 (VAT) to any Party shall, at any time when that Party is treated as a member of a group or unity (or fiscal unity) for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the person who is treated at that time as making the supply, or (as appropriate) receiving the supply, under the grouping rules provided for in Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC (or as implemented by the relevant member state of the European Union) so that a reference to a Party shall be construed as a reference to that Party or the relevant group or unity (or fiscal unity) of which that Party is a member for VAT purposes at the relevant time or the relevant

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representative member (or representative or head) of that group or unity at the relevant time (as the case may be).

	(e)	
In relation to any supply made by a Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document, if reasonably requested by such Finance Party, that Party must promptly provide such Finance Party with details of that Party's VAT registration and such other information as is reasonably requested in connection with such Finance Party's VAT reporting requirements in relation to such supply.

	12.7	
FATCA Information

	(a)	
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten 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; and

		(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; and

		(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 sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.

	(c)	
Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything and sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (a) 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 sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii) of paragraph (a) 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.

	(e)	
If the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor, or the Facility Agent reasonably believes that its obligations under FATCA or any other applicable law or regulation require it, each Lender shall, within ten Business Days of:

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		(i)	
where the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor and the relevant Lender is an Original Lender, the date of this Agreement;

		(ii)	
where the Borrower is a US Tax Obligor on a Transfer Date and the relevant Lender is a New Lender, the relevant Transfer Date; or

		(iii)	
where the Borrower is not a US Tax Obligor, the date of a request from the Facility Agent,

supply to the Facility Agent:

		(iv)	
a withholding certificate on Form W-8, Form W-9 or any other relevant form; or

		(v)	
any withholding statement or other document, authorisation or waiver as the Facility Agent may require to certify or establish the status of such Lender under FATCA or that other law or regulation.

	(f)	
The Facility Agent shall provide any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver it receives from a Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) above to the Borrower.

	(g)	
If any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver provided to the Facility Agent by a Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) above is or becomes materially inaccurate or incomplete, that Lender shall promptly update it and provide such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver to the Facility Agent unless it is unlawful for that Lender to do so (in which case that Lender shall promptly notify the Facility Agent).  The Facility Agent shall provide any such updated withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver to the Borrower.

	(h)	
The Facility Agent may rely on any withholding certificate, withholding statement, document, authorisation or waiver it receives from a Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) or (g) above without further verification.  The Facility Agent shall not be liable for any action taken by it under or in connection with paragraphs (e), (f) or (g) above.

	12.8	
FATCA Deduction

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

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

	13	
INCREASED COSTS

	13.1	
Increased costs

	(a)	
Subject to Clause 13.3 (Exceptions), the Borrower shall, within five Business Days of a demand by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of a Lender or claiming on its own

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behalf), pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of:

		(i)	
the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation; or

		(ii)	
compliance with any law or regulation made,

in each case after the date of this Agreement; or

		(iii)	
the implementation, application of or compliance with Basel III or CRD IV or any law or regulation that implements or applies Basel III or CRD IV.

	(b)	
In this Agreement:

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

		(B)	
the rules for global systemically important banks contained in "Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement - Rules text" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011, as amended, supplemented or restated; and

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

		(ii)	
"CRD IV" means:

		(A)	
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending regulation (EU) No. 648/2012;

		(B)	
Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC; and

		(C)	
any other law or regulation which implements Basel III.

		(iii)	
"Increased Costs" means:

		(A)	
a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party's (or its Affiliate's) overall capital;

		(B)	
an additional or increased cost; or

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		(C)	
a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document,

which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document.

Notwithstanding anything above to the contrary, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and all requests, rules, guidelines and directives promulgated thereunder, are deemed to have been introduced or adopted after the date of this Agreement, regardless of the date enacted or adopted.

	13.2	
Increased cost claims

	(a)	
A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 13.1 (Increased costs) shall notify the Facility Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower.

	(b)	
Each Finance Party shall provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs.

	13.3	
Exceptions

Clause 13.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is:

	(a)	
attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an Obligor;

	(b)	
attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party;

	(c)	
compensated for by Clause 12.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have been compensated for under Clause 12.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so compensated solely because any of the exclusions in paragraph (b) of Clause 12.3 (Tax indemnity) applied); or

	(d)	
attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation.

	14	
OTHER INDEMNITIES

	14.1	
Currency indemnity

	(a)	
If any sum due from an Obligor under the Finance Documents (a "Sum"), or any order, judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the "First Currency") in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the "Second Currency") for the purpose of:

		(i)	
making or filing a claim or proof against that Obligor; or

		(ii)	
obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings,

that Obligor shall, as an independent obligation, on demand, indemnify each Secured Party to which that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising out of or as a result of the conversion including any discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or rates of exchange available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum.

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	(b)	
Each Obligor waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.

	14.2	
Other indemnities

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, indemnify each Secured Party against any cost, loss or liability incurred by it as a result of:

		(i)	
the occurrence of any Event of Default;

		(ii)	
a failure by a Transaction Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including without limitation, any cost, loss or liability arising as a result of Clause 31 (Sharing among the Finance Parties);

		(iii)	
funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in the Loan requested by the Borrower in the Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Secured Party alone); or

		(iv)	
the Loan (or part of the Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower.

	(b)	
Each Obligor shall, on demand, indemnify each Finance Party, each Indemnified Person, against any cost, loss or liability incurred by that Indemnified Person pursuant to or in connection with any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or regulatory enquiry, in connection with or arising out of the entry into and the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents, having the benefit of any Security constituted by the Finance Documents or which relates to the condition or operation of, or any incident occurring in relation to, the Ship unless such cost, loss or liability is caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of that Indemnified Person.

	(c)	
Without limiting, but subject to any limitations set out in paragraph (b) above, the indemnity in paragraph (b) above shall cover any cost, loss or liability incurred by each Indemnified Person in any jurisdiction:

		(i)	
arising or asserted under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, the ISM Code, any Environmental Law or any Sanctions; or

		(ii)	
in connection with any Environmental Claim.

	(d)	
Any Affiliate or any officer or employee of a Finance Party or of any of its Affiliates may rely on this Clause 14.2 (Other indemnities) subject to Clause 1.5 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.

	14.3	
Indemnity to the Facility Agent

Each Obligor shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, indemnify each Indemnified Person against:

	(a)	
any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent as a result of:

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		(i)	
investigating (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) any event which the Majority Lenders reasonably believe is a Default; or

		(ii)	
acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which the Majority Lenders reasonably believe to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; or

		(iii)	
instructing lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts as permitted under the Finance Documents or as may be required by the Majority Lenders; and

	(b)	
any cost, loss or liability incurred by any Indemnified Person (otherwise than by reason of that Indemnified Person's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) or, in the case of any cost, loss or liability pursuant to Clause 32.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.) notwithstanding that Indemnified Person's negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Facility Agent in acting as Facility Agent under the Finance Documents.

	14.4	
Indemnity to the Security Agent

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, indemnify each Indemnified Person against any cost, loss or liability incurred by any of them:

		(i)	
in relation to or as a result of:

		(A)	
any failure by the Borrower to comply with its obligations under Clause 16 (Costs and Expenses);

		(B)	
acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised;

		(C)	
the taking, holding, protection or enforcement of the Finance Documents and the Transaction Security;

		(D)	
the exercise of any of the rights, powers, discretions, authorities and remedies vested in that Indemnified Person by the Finance Documents or by law;

		(E)	
any default by any Transaction Obligor in the performance of any of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Finance Documents;

		(F)	
any action by any Transaction Obligor which vitiates, reduces the value of, or is otherwise prejudicial to, the Transaction Security; and

		(G)	
instructing lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts as permitted under the Finance Documents,

		(ii)	
acting as Security Agent, Receiver or Delegate under the Finance Documents or which otherwise relates to any of the Security Property or the performance of the terms of this Agreement or the other Finance Documents (otherwise, in each case, than by reason of the relevant Indemnified Person's gross negligence or wilful misconduct).

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	(b)	
The Security Agent and every Receiver and Delegate may, in priority to any payment to the Secured Parties, indemnify itself out of the Security Assets in respect of, and pay and retain, all sums necessary to give effect to the indemnity in this Clause 14.4 (Indemnity to the Security Agent) and shall have a lien on the Transaction Security and the proceeds of the enforcement of the Transaction Security for all monies payable to it.

	15	
MITIGATION BY THE FINANCE PARTIES

	15.1	
Mitigation

	(a)	
Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Borrower, take all reasonable but commercially prudent steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 7.1 (Illegality), Clause 12 (Tax Gross Up and Indemnities) or Clause 13 (Increased Costs) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office.

	(b)	
Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of any Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents.

	15.2	
Limitation of liability

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause 15.1 (Mitigation).

	(b)	
A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 15.1 (Mitigation) if either:

		(i)	
a Default has occurred and is continuing; or

		(ii)	
in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it.

	16	
COSTS AND EXPENSES

	16.1	
Transaction expenses

The Obligors shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, pay the Facility Agent and the Security Agent the amount of all documented costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by any Secured Party in connection with the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution, administration syndication and perfection of:

	(a)	
this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement or in a Security Document provided that any legal fees incurred in connection therewith by the Finance Parties until the Utilisation Date:

		(i)	
up to an aggregate amount equal to $100,000, shall be paid by the Lenders;

		(ii)	
in excess of an aggregate amount of $100,000, shall be split between the Borrower and the Lenders in equal share; and

	(b)	
any other Finance Documents executed after the date of this Agreement.

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	16.2	
Amendment costs

If:

	(a)	
a Transaction Obligor requests an amendment, waiver or consent; or

	(b)	
an amendment is required pursuant to Clause 32.9 (Change of currency); or

	(c)	
a Transaction Obligor requests, and the Security Agent agrees to (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), the release of all or any part of the Security Assets from the Transaction Security,

the Obligors shall, within 5 Business Days of demand, reimburse each of the Facility Agent and the Security Agent for the amount of all documented costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by each Secured Party in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement.

	16.3	
Enforcement and preservation costs

The Obligors shall, on demand, pay to each Secured Party the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by that Secured Party in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document or the Transaction Security and with any proceedings instituted by or against that Secured Party as a consequence of it entering into a Finance Document, taking or holding the Transaction Security, or enforcing those rights.

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SECTION 7

 GUARANTEE

	17	
GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY

	17.1	
Guarantee and indemnity

The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally:

	(a)	
guarantees to each Finance Party punctual performance by each Transaction Obligor other than the Guarantor of all such other Transaction Obligor's obligations under the Finance Documents;

	(b)	
undertakes with each Finance Party that whenever a Transaction Obligor other than the Guarantor does not pay any amount when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, the Guarantor shall immediately on demand pay that amount as if it were the principal obligor; and

	(c)	
agrees with each Finance Party that if any obligation guaranteed by it is or becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal, it will, as an independent and primary obligation, indemnify that Finance Party immediately on demand against any cost, loss or liability it incurs as a result of a Transaction Obligor other than the Guarantor not paying any amount which would, but for such unenforceability, invalidity or illegality, have been payable by it under any Finance Document on the date when it would have been due.  The amount payable by the Guarantor under this indemnity will not exceed the amount it would have had to pay under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) if the amount claimed had been recoverable on the basis of a guarantee.

	17.2	
Continuing guarantee

This guarantee is a continuing guarantee and will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable by any Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.

	17.3	
Reinstatement

If any discharge, release or arrangement (whether in respect of the obligations of any Transaction Obligor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is made by a Secured Party in whole or in part on the basis of any payment, security or other disposition which is avoided or must be restored in insolvency, liquidation, administration or otherwise, without limitation, then the liability of the Guarantor under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) will continue or be reinstated as if the discharge, release or arrangement had not occurred.

	17.4	
Waiver of defences

The obligations of the Guarantor under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) and in respect of any Transaction Security will not be affected or discharged by an act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this Clause 17.4 (Waiver of defences), would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) or in respect of any Transaction Security (without limitation and whether or not known to it or any Secured Party) including:

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	(a)	
any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any Transaction Obligor or other person;

	(b)	
the release of any other Transaction Obligor or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor of Transaction Obligor;

	(c)	
the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect or delay in perfecting, or refusal or neglect to take up or enforce, or delay in taking or enforcing any rights against, or security over assets of, any Transaction Obligor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security;

	(d)	
any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of a Transaction Obligor or any other person;

	(e)	
any amendment, novation, supplement, extension, restatement (however fundamental and whether or not more onerous) or replacement of any Finance Document or any other document or security including, without limitation, any change in the purpose of, any extension of or any increase in any facility or the addition of any new facility under any Finance Document or other document or security;

	(f)	
any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any Finance Document or any other document or security; or

	(g)	
any insolvency or similar proceedings.

	17.5	
Immediate recourse

The Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Secured Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person (including without limitation to commence any proceedings under any Finance Document or to enforce any Transaction Security) before claiming or commencing proceedings under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity).  This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Finance Document to the contrary.

	17.6	
Appropriations

Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Transaction Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been irrevocably paid in full, each Secured Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) may:

	(a)	
refrain from applying or enforcing any other moneys, security or rights held or received by that Secured Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) in respect of those amounts, or apply and enforce the same in such manner and order as it sees fit (whether against those amounts or otherwise) and the Guarantor shall not be entitled to the benefit of the same; and

	(b)	
hold any moneys received from the Guarantor or on account of the Guarantor's liability under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) in a suspense account bearing interest at a rate equal to the rate on which interest is accruing on the relevant Unpaid Sum under this Agreement.

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	17.7	
Deferral of Guarantor's rights

All rights which the Guarantor at any time has (whether in respect of this guarantee, a mortgage or any other transaction) against the Borrower, any other Transaction Obligor or their respective assets shall be fully subordinated to the rights of the Secured Parties under the Finance Documents and until the end of the Security Period and unless the Facility Agent otherwise directs (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), the Guarantor will not exercise any rights which it may have (whether in respect of any Finance Document to which it is a Party or any other transaction) by reason of performance by it of its obligations under the Finance Documents or by reason of any amount being payable, or liability arising, under this Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity):

	(a)	
to be indemnified by a Transaction Obligor;

	(b)	
to claim any contribution from any third party providing security for, or any other guarantor of, any Transaction Obligor's obligations under the Finance Documents;

	(c)	
to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights of the Secured Parties under the Finance Documents or of any other guarantee or security taken pursuant to, or in connection with, the Finance Documents by any Secured Party;

	(d)	
to bring legal or other proceedings for an order requiring any Transaction Obligor to make any payment, or perform any obligation, in respect of which the Guarantor has given a guarantee, undertaking or indemnity under Clause 17.1 (Guarantee and indemnity);

	(e)	
to exercise any right of set-off against any Transaction Obligor; and/or

	(f)	
to claim or prove as a creditor of any Transaction Obligor in competition with any Secured Party.

If the Guarantor receives any benefit, payment or distribution in relation to such rights it shall hold that benefit, payment or distribution to the extent necessary to enable all amounts which may be or become payable to the Secured Parties by the Transaction Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents to be repaid in full on trust for the Secured Parties and shall promptly pay or transfer the same to the Facility Agent or as the Facility Agent may direct (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) for application in accordance with Clause 32 (Payment Mechanics).

	17.8	
Additional security

This guarantee and any other Security given by the Guarantor is in addition to and is not in any way prejudiced by, and shall not prejudice, any other guarantee or Security or any other right of recourse now or subsequently held by any Secured Party or any right of set-off or netting or right to combine accounts in connection with the Finance Documents.

	17.9	
Applicability of provisions of Guarantee to other Security

Clauses 17.2 (Continuing guarantee), 17.3 (Reinstatement), 17.4 (Waiver of defences), 17.5 (Immediate recourse), 17.6 (Appropriations), 17.7 (Deferral of Guarantor's rights) and 17.8 (Additional security) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, to any Security which the Guarantor creates (whether at the time at which it signs this Agreement or at any later time) to secure the Secured Liabilities or any part of them.

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SECTION 8

 REPRESENTATIONS, UNDERTAKINGS AND EVENTS OF DEFAULT

	18	
REPRESENTATIONS

	18.1	
General

Each Obligor makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause 18 (Representations) to each Finance Party on the date of this Agreement.

	18.2	
Status

	(a)	
It is a corporation with limited liability, duly incorporated and validly existing in good standing under the law of its Original Jurisdiction.

	(b)	
It and each Transaction Obligor has the power to own its assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted.

	18.3	
Share capital and ownership

	(a)	
The Borrower is authorised to issue 500 registered shares with no par value, all of which shares have been issued and the direct legal title and beneficial ownership of all those shares is held, free of any Security or other claim, by the Shareholder.

	(b)	
The Guarantor is authorised to issue 525,000,000 registered shares consisting of 500,000,000 common shares of common stock with a par value of US$0.0001 each and 25,000,000 registered shares of preferred stock with a par value of US$0.0001 each, out of which 38,239,346 common stock and no preferred stock have been issued fully paid and 11,500,002 warrants are outstanding to purchase an aggregate of 12,065,000 commons stock.

	(c)	
The legal title to and beneficial interest in the share capital in the Borrower is held free of any Security or any other claim by the Guarantor.

	(d)	
None of the shares in the Borrower is subject to any option to purchase, pre-emption rights or similar rights.

	18.4	
Binding obligations

The obligations expressed to be assumed by it in each Transaction Document to which it is a party are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations.

	18.5	
Validity, effectiveness and ranking of Security

	(a)	
Each Finance Document to which it is a party does now or, as the case may be, will upon execution and delivery create, subject to the Perfection Requirements, the Security it purports to create over any assets to which such Security, by its terms, relates, and such Security will, when created or intended to be created, be valid and effective.

	(b)	
No third party has or will have any Security (except for Permitted Security) over any assets that are the subject of any Transaction Security granted by it.

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	(c)	
Subject to the Perfection Requirements, the Transaction Security granted by it to the Security Agent or any other Secured Party has or will when created or intended to be created have first ranking priority and is not subject to any prior ranking or pari passu ranking security.

	(d)	
No concurrence, consent or authorisation of any person is required for the creation of or otherwise in connection with any Transaction Security.

	18.6	
Non-conflict with other obligations

The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by, each Transaction Document to which it is a party do not and will not conflict with:

	(a)	
any law or regulation applicable to it;

	(b)	
the constitutional documents of any Transaction Obligor; or

	(c)	
any agreement or instrument binding upon it or constitute a default or termination event (however described) under any such agreement or instrument.

	18.7	
Power and authority

	(a)	
It has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary action to authorise:

		(i)	
its entry into, performance and delivery of, each Transaction Document to which it is or will be a party and the transactions contemplated by those Transaction Documents; and

		(ii)	
in the case of the Borrower, its continuing registration of the Ship under the Approved Flag.

	(b)	
No limit on its powers will be exceeded as a result of the borrowing, granting of security or giving of guarantees or indemnities contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

	18.8	
Validity and admissibility in evidence

All Authorisations required or desirable:

	(a)	
to enable it lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations in the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; and

	(b)	
to make the Transaction Documents to which it is a party admissible in evidence in its Relevant Jurisdictions,

have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect.

	18.9	
Governing law and enforcement

	(a)	
The choice of governing law of each Transaction Document to which it is a party will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdictions.

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	(b)	
Any judgment obtained in relation to a Transaction Document to which it is a party in the jurisdiction of the governing law of that Transaction Document will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdictions.

	18.10	
Insolvency

No:

	(a)	
corporate action, legal proceeding or other procedure or step described in paragraph (a) of Clause 25.8 (Insolvency proceedings); or

	(b)	
creditors' process described in Clause 25.9 (Creditors' process),

has been taken or, to its knowledge, threatened in relation to any Transaction; and none of the circumstances described in Clause 25.7 (Insolvency) applies to any Transaction Obligor.

	18.11	
No filing or stamp taxes

Under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdictions it is not necessary that the Finance Documents to which it is a party be registered, filed, recorded, notarised or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration, notarial or similar Taxes or fees be paid on or in relation to the Finance Documents to which it is a party or the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents except any filing, recording or enrolling or any tax or fee payable in relation to the Mortgage which is referred to in any legal opinion delivered pursuant to Clause 4 (Conditions of Utilisation) and which will be made or paid promptly after the date of the relevant Finance Document.

	18.12	
Deduction of Tax

It is not required to make any Tax Deduction from any payment it may make under any Finance Document to which it is a party.

	18.13	
No default

	(a)	
No Event of Default and, on the date of this Agreement and on the Utilisation Date, no Default is continuing or might reasonably be expected to result from the making of the Utilisation or the entry into, the performance of, or any transaction contemplated by, any Transaction Document.

	(b)	
No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default or a termination event (however described) under any other agreement or instrument which is binding on it (or any other Transaction Obligor) or to which its (or any Transaction Obligor's) assets are subject which might have a Material Adverse Effect.

	18.14	
No misleading information

	(a)	
Any factual information provided by any Transaction Obligor for the purposes of this Agreement was true and accurate in all material respects as at the date it was provided or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated.

	(b)	
The financial projections contained in any such information have been prepared on the basis of recent historical information and on the basis of reasonable assumptions.

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	(c)	
Nothing has occurred or been omitted from any such information and no information has been given or withheld that results in any such information being untrue or misleading in any material respect.

	18.15	
Financial Statements

	(a)	
Its Original Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

	(b)	
Its Original Financial Statements give a true and fair view of its financial condition as at the end of the relevant financial year and results of operations during the relevant financial year (consolidated in the case of the Guarantor).

	(c)	
There has been no material adverse change in its assets, business or financial condition (or the assets, business or consolidated financial condition of the Group, in the case of the Guarantor) since 8 May 2018.

	(d)	
Since the date of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 19.2 (Financial statements) there has been no material adverse change in its business, assets or financial condition (or the business or consolidated financial condition of the Group, in the case of the Guarantor).

	18.16	
Pari passu ranking

Its payment obligations 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.

	18.17	
No proceedings pending or threatened

	(a)	
No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations (including proceedings or investigations relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or of the ISPS Code) of or before any court, arbitral body or agency which, if adversely determined, might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect have (to the best of its knowledge and belief (having made due and careful enquiry)) been started or threatened against it or any other Transaction Obligor.

	(b)	
No judgment or order of a court, arbitral tribunal or other tribunal or any order or sanction of any governmental or other regulatory body which might reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect has (to the best of its knowledge and belief (having made due and careful enquiry)) been made against it or any other Transaction Obligor.

	18.18	
Valuations

	(a)	
All information supplied by it or on its behalf to an Approved Valuer for the purposes of a valuation delivered to the Facility Agent in accordance with this Agreement was true and accurate as at the date it was supplied or (if appropriate) as at the date (if any) at which it is stated to be given.

	(b)	
It has not omitted to supply any information to an Approved Valuer which, if disclosed, would adversely affect any valuation prepared by such Approved Valuer.

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	(c)	
There has been no change to the factual information provided pursuant to paragraph (a) above in relation to any valuation between the date such information was provided and the date of that valuation which, in either case, renders that information untrue or misleading in any material respect.

	18.19	
No breach of laws

	(a)	
It has not breached any law or regulation which breach has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	(b)	
No Transaction Obligor or any Affiliate thereof is in violation of and nor shall it violate any of the country or list based economic and trade sanctions administered and enforced by OFAC that are described or referenced at http://ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac or as otherwise published from time to time.

	18.20	
No Charter

Except as disclosed by the Borrower to the Facility Agent in writing on or before the date of this Agreement, the Ship is not subject to any Charter other than a Permitted Charter.

	18.21	
Compliance with Environmental Laws

All Environmental Laws relating to the ownership, operation and management of the Ship and the business of each Transaction Obligor (as now conducted and as reasonably anticipated to be conducted in the future) and the terms of all Environmental Approvals have been complied with.

	18.22	
No Environmental Claim

No Environmental Claim has been made or threatened against any Transaction Obligor or the Ship.

	18.23	
No Environmental Incident

No Environmental Incident has occurred and no person has claimed that an Environmental Incident has occurred.

	18.24	
ISM and ISPS Code compliance

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

	18.25	
Taxes paid

	(a)	
It is not materially overdue in the filing of any Tax returns and it is not overdue in the payment of any amount in respect of Tax.

	(b)	
No claims or investigations are being, or are reasonably likely to be, made or conducted against it with respect to Taxes.

	18.26	
Financial Indebtedness

The Borrower has no any Financial Indebtedness outstanding other than Permitted Financial Indebtedness.

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	18.27	
Overseas companies

No Obligor has delivered particulars, whether in its name stated in the Finance Documents or any other name, of any UK Establishment to the Registrar of Companies as required under the Overseas Regulations or, if it has so registered, it has provided to the Facility Agent sufficient details to enable an accurate search against it to be undertaken by the Lenders at the Companies Registry.

	18.28	
Good title to assets

It has good, valid and marketable title to, or valid leases or licences of, and all appropriate Authorisations to use, the assets necessary to carry on its business as presently conducted.

	18.29	
Ownership

	(a)	
The Borrower is the sole legal and beneficial owner of all rights and interests which any charter creates in favour of the Borrower.

	(b)	
The Borrower is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the Ship, the Earnings and the Insurances.

	(c)	
With effect on and from the date of its creation or intended creation, each Transaction Obligor will be the sole legal and beneficial owner of any asset that is the subject of any Transaction Security created or intended to be created by such Transaction Obligor.

	(d)	
The constitutional documents of each Transaction Obligor do not and could not restrict or inhibit any transfer of the shares of the Borrower on creation or enforcement of the security conferred by the Security Documents.

	18.30	
Centre of main interests and establishments

For the purposes of The Council of the European Union Regulation No. 1346/2000 on Insolvency Proceedings (the "Regulation"), its centre of main interest (as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Regulation) is situated in Greece and it has no "establishment" (as that term is used in Article 2(h) of the Regulation) in any other jurisdiction.

	18.31	
Place of business

No Obligor has a place of business in any country other than and its executive office functions are carried out, in the case of the Borrower and the Guarantor, at c/o 154 Vouliagmenis Avenue, 166 74 Glyfada, Athens, Greece.

	18.32	
No employee or pension arrangements

The Borrower does not have any employees or any liabilities under any pension scheme.

	18.33	
Sanctions

	(a)	
No Transaction Obligor:

		(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;

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		(iii)	
owns or controls a Prohibited Person; or

		(iv)	
has a Prohibited Person serving as a director, officer or, to the best of its knowledge, employee.

	(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.

	18.34	
US Tax Obligor

No Obligor is a US Tax Obligor.

	18.35	
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act

	(a)	
The Borrower is not engaged, nor will it engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

	(b)	
The Borrower is not, nor is it required to be, registered as an "investment company" under the United States of America Investment Company Act of 1940

	18.36	
Patriot Act

To the extent applicable the Borrower is in compliance with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States 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.

	18.37	
Repetition

The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by each Obligor by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing on the date of the Utilisation Request and the first day of each Interest Period.

	19	
INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS

	19.1	
General

The undertakings in this Clause 19 (Information Undertakings) remain in force throughout the Security Period unless the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders (or, where specified, all the Lenders), may otherwise permit.

	19.2	
Financial statements

The Obligors shall supply to the Facility Agent in sufficient copies for all the Lenders:

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	(a)	
if at any time the shares (or any part thereof) of the Guarantor cease to be quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange or any other internationally recognised stock exchange acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of all Lenders), as soon as they become available, but in any event within 180 days after the end of each financial year of the Guarantor the audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor for that financial year;

	(b)	
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each three-month period ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December of each of the financial years of the Guarantor, the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Group for that three-month period;

	(c)	
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 180 days after the end of each financial year of the Borrower the unaudited financial statements of the Borrower for that financial year;

	(d)	
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each three-month period ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December of each of the financial years of the Borrower:

		(i)	
the unaudited financial statements of the Borrower for that three-month period; and

		(ii)	
management accounts of the Borrower in a format approved by the Facility Agent which show the results of the operation of the Ship during the preceding that three-month period.

	19.3	
Requirements as to financial statements

	(a)	
Each set of financial statements delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 19.2 (Financial statements) shall be certified by an officer of that company as giving a true and fair view (if audited) or fairly representing (if unaudited) its financial condition and operations as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall procure that each set of financial statements of a Transaction Obligor delivered pursuant to Clause 19.2 (Financial statements) is prepared using GAAP, accounting practices and financial reference periods consistent with those applied in the preparation of the Original Financial Statements for that Obligor unless, in relation to any set of financial statements, it notifies the Facility Agent that there has been a change in GAAP, the accounting practices or reference periods and its auditors (or, if appropriate, the auditors of the Obligor) deliver to the Facility Agent:

		(i)	
a description of any change necessary for those financial statements to reflect the GAAP, accounting practices and reference periods upon which that Obligor's Original Financial Statements were prepared; and

		(ii)	
sufficient information, in form and substance as may be reasonably required by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, to make an accurate comparison between the financial position indicated in those financial statements and that Obligor's Original Financial Statements.

Any reference in this Agreement to those financial statements shall be construed as a reference to those financial statements as adjusted to reflect the basis upon which the Original Financial Statements were prepared.

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	19.4	
Information: miscellaneous

Each Obligor shall supply to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) (in sufficient copies for all the Lenders, if the Facility Agent so requests):

	(a)	
all documents dispatched by it to its shareholders (or any class of them) or its creditors generally at the same time as they are dispatched;

	(b)	
promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations (including proceedings or investigations relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or of the ISPS Code) which are current, threatened or pending against any Transaction Obligor, and which might, if adversely determined, have a Material Adverse Effect;

	(c)	
promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any judgment or order of a court, arbitral tribunal or other tribunal or any order or sanction of any governmental or other regulatory body which is made against any member of the Group and which might have a Material Adverse Effect;

	(d)	
promptly, its constitutional documents where these have been amended or varied;

	(e)	
promptly, such further information and/or documents regarding:

		(i)	
the Ship, goods transported on the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances;

		(ii)	
the Security Assets;

		(iii)	
compliance of the Obligors with the terms of the Finance Documents;

		(iv)	
the financial condition, business and operations of any Transaction Obligor,

as any Finance Party (through the Facility Agent) may reasonably request; and

	(f)	
promptly, such further information and/or documents as any Finance Party (through the Facility Agent) may reasonably request so as to enable such Finance Party to comply with any laws applicable to it or as may be required by any regulatory authority.

	19.5	
Notification of Default

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall notify the Facility Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence (unless that Obligor is aware that a notification has already been provided by another Obligor).

	(b)	
Promptly upon a request by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), the Borrower shall supply to the Facility Agent a certificate signed by a senior officer on its behalf certifying that no Default is continuing (or if a Default is continuing, specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).

	19.6	
Use of websites

	(a)	
Each Obligor may satisfy its obligation under the Finance Documents to which it is a party to deliver any information in relation to those Lenders (the "Website Lenders") which accept

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this method of communication by posting this information onto an electronic website designated by the Borrower and the Facility Agent (the "Designated Website") if:

		(i)	
the Facility Agent expressly agrees (after consultation with each of the Lenders) that it will accept communication of the information by this method;

		(ii)	
both the relevant Obligor and the Facility Agent are aware of the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website; and

		(iii)	
the information is in a format previously agreed between the relevant Obligor and the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders.

If any Lender (a "Paper Form Lender") does not agree to the delivery of information electronically then that Lender shall notify the Facility Agent and the Facility Agent shall notify the Obligors accordingly and each Obligor shall supply the information to the Facility Agent (in sufficient copies for each Paper Form Lender) in paper form.  In any event each Obligor shall supply the Facility Agent with at least one copy in paper form of any information required to be provided by it.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall supply each Website Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Obligors or any of them and the Facility Agent.

	(c)	
An Obligor shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Facility Agent if:

		(i)	
the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;

		(ii)	
the password specifications for the Designated Website change;

		(iii)	
any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto the Designated Website;

		(iv)	
any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or

		(v)	
if that Obligor becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.

If an Obligor notifies the Facility Agent under sub-paragraph (i) or (v) of paragraph (c) above, all information to be provided by the Obligors under this Agreement after the date of that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Facility Agent and each Website Lender is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.

	(d)	
Any Website Lender may request, through the Facility Agent, one paper copy of any information required to be provided under this Agreement which is posted onto the Designated Website.  The Obligors shall comply with any such request within 10 Business Days.

	19.7	
"Know your customer" checks

	(a)	
If:

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		(i)	
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;

		(ii)	
any change in the status of a Transaction Obligor (including, without limitation, a change of ownership of a Transaction Obligor) after the date of this Agreement; or

		(iii)	
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 a Finance Party (or, in the case of sub-paragraph (iii) above, 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, each Obligor shall promptly upon the request of any Finance Party supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by a Servicing Party (for itself or on behalf of any other Finance Party) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (iii) above, on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for such Finance Party or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (iii) above, 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, including Sanctions, pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents including without limitation obtaining, verifying and recording certain information and documentation that will allow the Facility Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Transaction Obligor in accordance with the requirements of the PATRIOT Act.

	(b)	
Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of a Servicing Party supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Servicing Party (for itself) in order for that Servicing Party 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.

	19.8	
Anti-money laundering

	(a)	
The Borrower shall promptly upon the request of a Servicing Party supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by a Servicing Party (for itself) in order for that Servicing Party to be satisfied it has complied with all necessary anti-money laundering laws.

	20	
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS

	20.1	
General

The undertakings in this Clause 20 (General Undertakings) remain in force on and from the date of this Agreement and throughout the Security Period except as the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders (or, where specified, all the Lenders) may otherwise permit.

	20.2	
Authorisations

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, promptly:

	(a)	
obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect; and

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	(b)	
supply certified copies to the Facility Agent of,

any Authorisation required under any law or regulation of a Relevant Jurisdiction or the state of the Approved Flag at any time of the Ship to enable it to:

		(i)	
perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;

		(ii)	
ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence in any Relevant Jurisdiction or in the state of the Approved Flag at any time of the Ship of any Transaction Document to which it is a party; and

		(iii)	
own and operate the Ship (in the case of the Borrower).

	20.3	
Corporate Existence

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will maintain its separate corporate existence, remain in goodstanding under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation and duly observe and conform to all requirements of any governmental authorities relating to the conduct of its business or to its properties or assets.

	20.4	
Compliance with laws

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, comply in all respects with all laws and regulations to which it may be subject if failure so to comply has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, including without limitation (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V) and any other enabling legislation or executive order thereto and (ii) the PATRIOT Act.

	20.5	
Environmental compliance

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will:

	(a)	
comply with all Environmental Laws;

	(b)	
obtain, maintain and ensure compliance with all requisite Environmental Approvals;

	(c)	
implement procedures to monitor compliance with and to prevent liability under any Environmental Law,

where failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	20.6	
Environmental Claims

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, promptly upon becoming aware of the same, inform the Facility Agent in writing of:

	(a)	
any Environmental Claim against any Transaction Obligor which is current, pending or threatened; and

	(b)	
any facts or circumstances which are reasonably likely to result in any Environmental Claim being commenced or threatened against any Transaction Obligor,

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where the claim, if determined against that Transaction Obligor, has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	20.7	
Taxation

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will pay and discharge all Taxes imposed upon it or its assets within the time period allowed without incurring penalties unless and only to the extent that:

		(i)	
such payment is being contested in good faith;

		(ii)	
adequate reserves are maintained for those Taxes and the costs required to contest them and both have been disclosed in its latest financial statements delivered to the Facility Agent under Clause 19.2 (Financial statements); and

		(iii)	
such payment can be lawfully withheld and failure to pay those Taxes does not have or is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	(b)	
No Obligor shall change its residence for Tax purposes.

	20.8	
Overseas companies

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, promptly inform the Facility Agent if it delivers to the Registrar particulars required under the Overseas Regulations of any UK Establishment and it shall comply with any directions given to it by the Facility Agent regarding the recording of any Transaction Security on the register which it is required to maintain under The Overseas Companies (Execution of Documents and Registration of Charges) Regulations 2009.

	20.9	
No change to centre of main interests

No Obligor shall change the location of its centre of main interest (as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Regulation) from that stated in relation to it in Clause 18.30 (Centre of main interests and establishments) and it will create no "establishment" (as that term is used in Article 2(h) of the Regulation) in any other jurisdiction.

	20.10	
Pari passu ranking

Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, ensure that at all times any unsecured and unsubordinated claims of a Finance Party against it under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors except those creditors whose claims are mandatorily preferred by laws of general application to companies.

	20.11	
Title

	(a)	
The Borrower shall hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in:

		(i)	
the Ship, the Earnings and the Insurances; and

		(ii)	
with effect on and from its creation or intended creation, any other assets the subject of any Transaction Security created or intended to be created by the Borrower.

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	(b)	
The Guarantor shall hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in with effect on and from its creation or intended creation, any assets the subject of any Transaction Security created or intended to be created by the Guarantor.

	20.12	
Negative pledge

	(a)	
No Obligor shall, and the Obligors shall procure that no other Transaction Obligor will, create or permit to subsist any Security over any of its assets which are, in the case of members of Transaction Obligors other than the Borrower, the subject of the Security created or intended to be created by the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall not:

		(i)	
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby they are or may be leased to or re-acquired by a Transaction Obligor or any other member of the Group;

		(ii)	
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms;

		(iii)	
enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or

		(iv)	
enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,

in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset.

	(c)	
Paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply to any Permitted Security.

	20.13	
Disposals

	(a)	
No Obligor shall, enter into a single transaction or a series of transactions (whether related or not) and whether voluntary or involuntary to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of:

		(i)	
in the case of the Borrower, any asset (including without limitation the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances); and

		(ii)	
in the case of the Guarantor, all or substantially all of its assets.

	(b)	
Paragraph (a) above does not apply to:

		(i)	
any Charter as all Charters are subject to Clause 22.15 (Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.); and

		(ii)	
a sale of the Ship after the second anniversary of the Utilisation Date provided that the Borrower complies with the prepayment obligations in Clause 7 (Prepayment and Cancellation).

	20.14	
Merger

No Obligor shall, and the Obligors shall procure that no other Transaction Obligor will, enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger, consolidation or corporate reconstruction other than an amalgamation, demerger, merger, consolidation or corporate reconstruction of the Guarantor under which the Guarantor is the surviving entity.

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	20.15	
Change of business

	(a)	
The Guarantor shall procure that no substantial change is made to the general nature of the business of the Guarantor from that carried on at the date of this Agreement of the holding of single purpose ship owning subsidiaries and arrangement of acquisition, financing and the operation of vessels on behalf of these single purpose ship owning subsidiaries.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall not engage in any business other than the ownership and operation of the Ship.

	20.16	
Financial Indebtedness

The Borrower shall not incur or permit to be outstanding any Financial Indebtedness except Permitted Financial Indebtedness.

	20.17	
Expenditure

The Borrower shall not incur any expenditure, except for expenditure reasonably incurred in the ordinary course of owning, operating, maintaining and repairing the Ship.

	20.18	
Share capital

The Borrower shall not:

	(a)	
purchase, cancel or redeem any of its share capital;

	(b)	
increase or reduce its authorised share capital;

	(c)	
issue any further shares except to the Guarantor and provided such new shares are made subject to the terms of the Shares Security immediately upon the issue of such new shares in a manner satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the terms of the Shares Security are complied with;

	(d)	
appoint any further director or officer of the Borrower (unless the provisions of the Shares Security are complied with).

	20.19	
Dividends and other distributions

No Obligor shall, following the occurrence of:

	(a)	
in the case of the Borrower, any Event of Default; and

	(b)	
in the case of the Guarantor, an Event of Default under Clause 25.2 (Non-payment), 25.6 (Cross Default), 25.7 (Insolvency), 25.8 (Insolvency Proceedings) or 25.10 (Ownership of the Obligors),

and whilst the same is continuing or where any of the following would result in the occurrence of an Event of Default:

		(i)	
declare, make or pay any dividend, charge, fee or other distribution (or interest on any unpaid dividend or other distribution) (whether in cash or in kind) on or in respect of its share capital (or any class of its share capital);

		(ii)	
repay or distribute any dividend or share premium reserve; or

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		(iii)	
redeem, repurchase, defease, retire or repay any of its share capital or resolve to do so.

	20.20	
Other transactions

The Borrower shall not:

	(a)	
be the creditor in respect of any loan or any form of credit to any person other than another Transaction Obligor and where such loan or form of credit is Permitted Financial Indebtedness;

	(b)	
give or allow to be outstanding any guarantee or indemnity to or for the benefit of any person in respect of any obligation of any other person or enter into any document under which the Borrower assumes any liability of any other person other than any guarantee or indemnity given

		(i)	
under the Finance Documents; or

		(ii)	
in the ordinary course of its business;

	(c)	
enter into any material agreement other than:

		(i)	
the Transaction Documents;

		(ii)	
any other agreement expressly allowed under any other term of this Agreement;

	(d)	
enter into any transaction 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; or

	(e)	
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.

	20.21	
Unlawfulness, invalidity and ranking; Security imperilled

No Obligor shall, and the Obligors shall procure that no other Transaction Obligor will, do (or fail to do) anything which is likely to:

	(a)	
make it unlawful for a Transaction Obligor to perform any of its obligations under the Transaction Documents;

	(b)	
cause any obligation of a Transaction Obligor under the Transaction Documents to cease to be legal, valid, binding or enforceable;

	(c)	
cause any Transaction Document to cease to be in full force and effect;

	(d)	
cause any Transaction Security to rank after, or lose its priority to, any other Security; and

	(e)	
imperil or jeopardise the Transaction Security.

	20.22	
No Subsidiaries

The Borrower shall not form or acquire any Subsidiaries.

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	20.23	
Employees and ERISA Compliance

The Borrower shall not employ any individual nor sponsor, maintain or become obligated to contribute to any Plan.  However, without prejudice to the foregoing, the Borrower shall provide prompt written notice to the Facility Agent in the event that the Borrower becomes aware that it has incurred or is reasonably likely to incur any liability with respect to any Plan, that, individually or in the aggregate with any other such liability, would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	20.24	
Books and records

The Borrower will keep proper books of record and account which will be accurate in all material respects and in which full, true and correct entries in accordance with GAAP will be made of all dealings or transactions in relation to its business and activities.

	20.25	
Further assurance

	(a)	
Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, promptly, and in any event within the time period specified by the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) do all such acts (including procuring or arranging any registration, notarisation or authentication or the giving of any notice) or execute or procure execution of all such documents (including assignments, transfers, mortgages, charges, notices, instructions, acknowledgments, proxies and powers of attorney), as the Security Agent may specify acting reasonably (and in such form as the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) may require in favour of the Security Agent or its nominee(s)):

		(i)	
to create, perfect, vest in favour of the Security Agent or protect the priority of the Security or any right of any kind created or intended to be created under or evidenced by the Finance Documents (which may include the execution of a mortgage, charge, assignment or other Security over all or any of the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Transaction Security) or for the exercise of any rights, powers and remedies of any of the Secured Parties provided by or pursuant to the Finance Documents or by law;

		(ii)	
to confer on the Security Agent or confer on the Secured Parties Security over any property and assets of that Transaction Obligor located in any jurisdiction equivalent or similar to the Security intended to be conferred by or pursuant to the Finance Documents;

		(iii)	
to facilitate or expedite the realisation and/or sale of, the transfer of title to or the grant of, any interest in or right relating to the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Transaction Security or to exercise any power specified in any Finance Document in respect of which the Security has become enforceable; and/or

		(iv)	
to enable or assist the Security Agent to enter into any transaction to commence, defend or conduct any proceedings and/or to take any other action relating to any item of the Security Property.

	(b)	
Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that each other Transaction Obligor will, take all such action as is available to it (including making all filings and registrations) as may be necessary for the purpose of the creation, perfection, protection or maintenance of any Security

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conferred or intended to be conferred on the Security Agent or the Secured Parties by or pursuant to the Finance Documents.

	(c)	
At the same time as an Obligor delivers to the Security Agent any document executed by itself or another Transaction Obligor pursuant to this Clause 20.25 (Further assurance), that Obligor shall deliver, or shall procure that such other Transaction Obligor will deliver, to the Security Agent reasonable evidence that that Obligor's or Transaction Obligor's execution of such document has been duly authorised by it.

	21	
INSURANCE UNDERTAKINGS

	21.1	
General

The undertakings in this Clause 21 (Insurance Undertakings) remain in force on and from the Utilisation Date and throughout the rest of the Security Period except as the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders (or, where specified, all the Lenders) may otherwise permit.

	21.2	
Maintenance of obligatory insurances

The Borrower shall keep the Ship insured at its expense against:

	(d)	
fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and excess risks);

	(a)	
war risks (including the London Blocking and Trapping addendum or its equivalent);

	(b)	
protection and indemnity risks (including liability for oil pollution for an amount of no less than $1,000,000,000 and excess war risk P&I cover) on standard Club Rules, covered by a Protection and Indemnity association which is a member of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations (or, if the International Group ceases to exist, any other leading protection and indemnity association or other leading provider of protection and indemnity insurance) (including, without limitation, the proportion (if any) of any collision liability not covered under the terms of the hull cover); and

	(c)	
any other risks against which the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders considers, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, it would be reasonable for the Borrower to insure and which are specified by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) by notice to the Borrower.

	21.3	
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)	
120 per cent. of the Loan; and

		(ii)	
the Market Value of the Ship;

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	(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 (such amount currently being $1,000,000,000);

	(d)	
in the case of 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.

	21.4	
Further protections for the Finance Parties

In addition to the terms set out in Clause 21.3 (Terms of obligatory insurances), the Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances shall:

	(a)	
subject always to paragraph (b), name the Borrower as the sole named insured unless the interest of every other named insured 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 insured has undertaken in writing to the Security Agent (in such form as it requires acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) that any deductible shall be apportioned between the Borrower and every other named insured 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 Agent to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances;

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

	(c)	
name the Security Agent as loss payee with such directions for payment as the Facility Agent may specify (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders);

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

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

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

	21.5	
Renewal of obligatory insurances

The Borrower shall:

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

		(i)	
notify the Facility Agent of the Approved Brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with which the Borrower proposes to renew that obligatory insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and

		(ii)	
obtain the Facility Agents' approval (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) to the matters referred to in sub-paragraph (i) above;

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

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

	21.6	
Copies of policies; letters of undertaking

The Borrower shall ensure that the Approved Brokers provide the Security Agent with:

	(a)	
pro forma copies of all policies relating to the obligatory insurances which they are to effect or renew; and

	(b)	
a letter or letters or undertaking in a form required by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and including undertakings by the Approved Brokers that:

		(i)	
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 21.4 (Further protections for the Finance Parties);

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

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

		(iv)	
they will, if they have not received notice of renewal instructions from the Borrower or its agents, notify the Security Agent not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances;

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		(v)	
if they receive instructions to renew the obligatory insurances, they will promptly notify the Facility Agent of the terms of the instructions;

		(vi)	
they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of the 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

		(vii)	
they will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of the Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Facility Agent.

	21.7	
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 provide the Security Agent 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 Facility Agent acting on the instructions of Majority Lenders; 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.

	21.8	
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.

	21.9	
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 Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	21.10	
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.

	21.11	
Compliance with terms of insurances

	(a)	
The Borrower shall not 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.

	(b)	
Without limiting paragraph (a) above, the Borrower shall:

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		(i)	
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 sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (b) of Clause 21.6 (Copies of policies; letters of undertaking)) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Facility Agent has not given its prior approval (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders);

		(ii)	
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;

		(iii)	
make (and promptly supply copies to the Facility Agent 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

		(iv)	
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.

	21.12	
Alteration to terms of insurances

The Borrower shall not make or agree to any alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance or waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance.

	21.13	
Settlement of claims

The Borrower shall:

	(a)	
not settle, compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty; and

	(b)	
do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Agent to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances.

	21.14	
Provision of copies of communications

The Borrower shall provide the Security Agent, at the time of each such communication, with copies of all written communications other than (unless specifically required by the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders)) communications of an entirely routine nature between the 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)	
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) above relating wholly or partly to the effecting or maintenance of the obligatory insurances.

	21.15	
Provision of information

The Borrower shall promptly provide the Facility Agent (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Facility Agent (or any such designated person) requests (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) 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 21.16 (Mortgagee's interest and additional perils insurances) or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any such insurances,

and the Borrower shall, forthwith upon demand, indemnify the Facility Agent in respect of all fees and other expenses incurred by or for the account of the Facility Agent in connection with any such report as is referred to in paragraph (a) above once in each 12-months period (starting on the Utilisation Date) and at any time when an Event of Default has occurred.

	21.16	
Mortgagee's interest and additional perils insurances

	(a)	
The Security Agent 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 of up to 120 per cent. of the Loan, on such terms, through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Security Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders may from time to time consider appropriate.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall upon demand fully indemnify the Security Agent in respect of all premiums and other expenses which are incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any insurance referred to in paragraph (a) above or dealing with, or considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance.

	22	
SHIP UNDERTAKINGS

	22.1	
General

The undertakings in this Clause 22 (Ship Undertakings) remain in force on and from the Utilisation Date and throughout the rest of the Security Period except as the Facility Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders (or, where specified, all the Lenders) may otherwise permit (which authorisation no Lender shall unreasonably withhold in relation to paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e) of 22.15 (Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.)).

	22.2	
Ship's names and registration

The Borrower shall:

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	(a)	
keep the Ship registered in its name under the Approved Flag from time to time at its port of registration;

	(b)	
not do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be suspended, cancelled or imperilled;

	(c)	
not enter into any dual flagging arrangement in respect of the Ship;

	(d)	
not change the name of the Ship,

provided that any change of flag of the Ship shall be subject to:

		(i)	
the Ship remaining subject to Security securing the Secured Liabilities created by a first priority or preferred ship mortgage on the Ship and, if appropriate, a first priority deed of covenant collateral to that mortgage (or equivalent first priority Security) on substantially the same terms as the Mortgage and on such other terms and in such other form as the Facility Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, shall approve or require; and

		(ii)	
the execution of such other documentation amending and supplementing the Finance Documents as the Facility Agent, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, shall approve or require.

	22.3	
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; and

	(b)	
so as to maintain the Approved Classification free of overdue recommendations and conditions with the Approved Classification Society.

	22.4	
Modifications

The Borrower shall not make any modification or repairs to, or replacement of, the Ship or equipment installed on it which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of the Ship or materially reduce its value.

	22.5	
Removal and installation of parts

	(a)	
Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Borrower shall not remove any material part of the Ship, or any item of equipment installed on the Ship unless:

		(i)	
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;

		(ii)	
the replacement part or item is free from any Security in favour of any person other than the Security Agent; and

		(iii)	
the replacement part or item becomes, on installation on the Ship, the property of the Borrower and subject to the security constituted by the Mortgage.

	(b)	
The Borrower may install equipment owned by a third party if the equipment can be removed without any risk of damage to the Ship.

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	22.6	
Surveys

The Borrower shall submit the Ship regularly to all periodic or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes and, if so required by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, provide the Facility Agent, with copies of all survey reports.

	22.7	
Inspection

The Borrower shall permit the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) (acting through surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship at all reasonable times and upon reasonable notice and without interfering with that Ship's normal course of trading to inspect its condition or to satisfy themselves about proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections. The Borrower will be liable for the costs of the inspection for the Ship owned by it once in each 12-month period (starting on the Utilisation Date) and at any time when an Event of Default has occurred.

	22.8	
Prevention of and release from arrest

	(a)	
The Borrower shall promptly discharge:

		(i)	
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;

		(ii)	
all Taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances; and

		(iii)	
all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances.

	(b)	
The Borrower shall immediately upon receiving notice of the arrest of the Ship or of its detention in exercise or purported exercise of any lien or claim, take all steps necessary to procure its release by providing bail or otherwise as the circumstances may require.

	22.9	
Compliance with laws etc.

The Borrower shall:

	(a)	
comply, or procure compliance with all laws or regulations:

		(i)	
relating to its business generally; and

		(ii)	
relating to the Ship, its ownership, employment, operation, management and registration,

including, but not limited to, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws, all Sanctions and the laws of the Approved Flag;

	(b)	
obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect any Environmental Approvals; and

	(c)	
without limiting paragraph (a) above, not employ the Ship nor allow its employment, operation or management in any manner contrary to any law or regulation including but not

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limited to the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and all Sanctions (or which would be contrary to Sanctions if Sanctions were binding on each Transaction Obligor).

	22.10	
ISPS Code

Without limiting paragraph (a) of Clause 22.9 (Compliance with laws etc.), the Borrower 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 an ISSC for the Ship; and

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

	22.11	
Sanctions and Ship trading

Without limiting Clause 22.9 (Compliance with laws etc.), the Borrower shall procure:

	(a)	
that the Ship shall not be used by or for the benefit of a Prohibited Person;

	(b)	
that the Ship shall not be used in trading in any manner contrary to Sanctions (or which could be contrary to Sanctions if Sanctions were binding on each Obligor);

	(c)	
that the Ship shall not be traded in any manner which would trigger the operation of any sanctions limitation or exclusion clause (or similar) in the Insurances; and

	(d)	
that each charterparty in respect of the Ship shall contain, for the benefit of the Borrower, language which gives effect to the provisions of paragraph (c) of Clause 22.9 (Compliance with laws etc.) as regards Sanctions and of this Clause 22.11 (Sanctions and Ship trading) and which permits refusal of employment or voyage orders if compliance would result in a breach of Sanctions (or which would result in a breach of Sanctions if Sanctions were binding on each Obligor).

	22.12	
Trading in war zones

	(a)	
In the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), the Borrower shall not cause or permit the Ship 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:

	(b)	
the prior written consent of the Security Agent acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders has been given; and

	(c)	
the Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Security Agent acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders may require.

	22.13	
Provision of information

Without prejudice to Clause 19.4 (Information: miscellaneous) the Borrower shall promptly provide the Facility Agent with any information which it requests (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) regarding:

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

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	(b)	
the Earnings and payments and amounts due to its master and crew;

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

	(d)	
any towages and salvages; and

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

and, upon the Facility Agent's request (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), promptly provide copies of any current Charter relating to the Ship, of any current guarantee of any such Charter, the Ship's Safety Management Certificate and any relevant Document of Compliance.

	22.14	
Notification of certain events

The Borrower shall immediately notify the Facility Agent by fax or, subject to Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication), by electronic mail, confirmed forthwith by letter, of:

	(a)	
any casualty to the Ship 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 requisition of the Ship for hire;

	(d)	
any requirement or recommendation made in relation to the Ship by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with;

	(e)	
any arrest or detention of the Ship or any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on the Ship or the Earnings;

	(f)	
any intended dry docking of the Ship;

	(g)	
any Environmental Claim made against the Borrower or in connection with the Ship, or any Environmental Incident;

	(h)	
any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against the Borrower, an Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship; or

	(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 Facility Agent advised in writing on a regular basis and in such detail as the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall require as to the Borrower's, any such Approved Manager's or any other person's response to any of those events or matters.

	22.15	
Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.

The Borrower shall not:

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

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	(b)	
enter into any time, voyage or consecutive voyage charter in respect of the Ship other than a Permitted Charter;

	(c)	
terminate or material amend or supplement a Management Agreement;

	(d)	
appoint a manager of the Ship other than an Approved Commercial Manager or an Approved Technical Manager or agree to any alteration to the terms of an 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 it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed $1,500,000 (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and in terms satisfactory to it (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent which is acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Ship or the Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason provided that this paragraph (f) of Clause 22.15 (Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers, etc.) will not apply in connection with the retrofitting of the Ship for the purpose of installing scrubbers or any other exhaust gas cleaning system subject to the Borrower providing to the Facility Agent no less than 5 Business Days prior notice.

	22.16	
Notice of Mortgage

The Borrower shall keep the Mortgage registered against the Ship as a valid first priority or preferred mortgage (as applicable), carry on board the Ship a certified copy of the Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the master's cabin of the Ship a framed printed notice stating that the Ship is mortgaged by the Borrower to the Security Agent.

	22.17	
Sharing of Earnings

The Borrower shall not enter into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings other than for the purposes of this Agreement.

	22.18	
Charter assignment

Provided that all approvals necessary under Clause 22.15 (Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.) have been previously obtained, the Borrower shall:

	(a)	
provide promptly to the Facility Agent a true and complete copy of any Charter exceeding 6 months (including all amendments) and all other documents related thereto for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed 12 months; and

	(b)	
in respect of any Charter for a term which (excluding any optional extensions and any redelivery allowance) exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed 12 months, execute and deliver to the Facility Agent a Charter Assignment together with each of the documents required to be delivered pursuant to such Charter Assignment (each in the agreed form).

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	22.19	
Notification of compliance

The Borrower shall promptly provide the Facility Agent from time to time with evidence (in such form as the Facility Agent requires) (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) that it is complying with this Clause 22 (Ship Undertakings).

	23	
VALUATIONS

	23.1	
Valuations binding

Any valuation under this Clause 23 (Valuations) shall be binding and conclusive as regards the Borrower.

	23.2	
Provision of information

	(a)	
The Borrower shall promptly provide the Facility Agent and any shipbroker acting under this Clause 23 (Valuation) with any information which the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) or the shipbroker may request for the purposes of the valuation.

	(b)	
If the Borrower fails to provide the information referred to in paragraph (a) above by the date specified in the request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which the shipbroker or the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) considers prudent.

	23.3	
Provision of valuations

	(a)	
The Facility Agent shall, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders, obtain two valuations of the Ship, each from an Approved Valuer selected by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), to enable the Lenders to determine the Market Value of the Ship for the purposes of paragraph (b) of Clause 21.3 (Terms of obligatory insurances).

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall obtain at the Borrower's expense the valuations referred to in paragraph (a) of this Clause 23.3 (Provision of valuations):

		(i)	
once in each 12-month period (starting on the Utilisation Date); and

		(ii)	
at any time whilst an Event of Default has occurred which is continuing.

	24	
EARNINGS ACCOUNT AND APPLICATION OF EARNINGS

	24.1	
Earnings Account

The Borrower may not, without the prior consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), maintain any bank account other than the Earnings Account.

	24.2	
Payment of Earnings

The Borrower shall ensure that, subject only to the provisions of the General Assignment, all the Earnings are paid in to the Earnings Account.

	24.3	
Application of Earnings

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The Borrower shall transfer from the Earnings Account to the Facility Agent:

	(a)	
on each Repayment Date, the amount of the Repayment Instalment then due on that Repayment Date; and

	(b)	
on the last day of each Interest Period, the amount of interest then due on that date; and

	(c)	
on any day on which an amount is otherwise due from the Borrower under a Finance Document, an amount necessary to meet that due amount,

and the Borrower irrevocably authorizes the Facility Agent to apply the transferred amounts in payment of the relevant Repayment Instalment, interest amount or other amount due.

Any balance on the Earnings Account after the application of the transferred amounts shall be available to the Borrower, unless there is an Event of Default which is continuing or unless an Event of Default would result from the withdrawal of any such balance (or any part thereof) from the Earnings Account.

	24.4	
Shortfall in Earnings

If the credit balance on the Earnings Accounts is insufficient for the required amount to be transferred under Clause 24.3 (Application of Earnings), the Borrower shall make up the amount of the insufficiency.

	24.5	
Application of funds

Until an Event of Default occurs, the Facility Agent shall on each Repayment Date and on each Interest Payment Date distribute to the Finance Parties in accordance with Clause 32.2 (Distributions by the Facility Agent) so much of the then balance on the Earnings Account as equals:

	(a)	
the Repayment Instalment due on that Repayment Date;

	(b)	
the amount of interest payable on that Interest Payment Date; and

	(c)	
the amount of any fee specified in a Fee Letter on its relevant due date,

in discharge of the Borrower's liability for that Repayment Instalment, that interest or that fee.

	24.6	
Location of Earnings Account

The Borrower shall promptly:

	(a)	
comply with any requirement of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) as to the location or relocation of the Earnings Account; and

	(b)	
execute any documents which the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) specifies to create or maintain in favour of the Security Agent, Security over (and/or rights of set-off, consolidation or other rights in relation to) the Earnings Account.

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	25	
EVENTS OF DEFAULT

	25.1	
General

Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause 25 (Events of Default) is an Event of Default except for Clause 25.19 (Acceleration) and Clause 25.20 (Enforcement of security).

	25.2	
Non-payment

A Transaction Obligor does not pay on the due date any amount payable pursuant to a Finance Document at the place at and in the currency in which it is expressed to be payable unless:

	(a)	
its failure to pay is caused by:

		(i)	
administrative or technical error; or

		(ii)	
a Disruption Event; and

	(b)	
payment is made within 3 Business Days of its due date.

	25.3	
Specific obligations

A breach occurs of Clause 4.3(b) (Waiver of conditions precedent), Clause 20.11 (Title), Clause 20.12 (Negative pledge), Clause 20.21 (Unlawfulness, invalidity and ranking; Security imperilled), Clause 21.2 (Maintenance of obligatory insurances), Clause 21.3 (Terms of obligatory insurances), Clause 21.5 (Renewal of obligatory insurances) or Clause 22.11 (Sanctions and Ship Trading).

	25.4	
Other obligations

	(a)	
A Transaction Obligor does not comply with any provision of the Finance Documents (other than those referred to in Clause 25.2 (Non-payment) and Clause 25.3 (Specific obligations)).

	(b)	
No Event of Default under paragraph (a) above will occur if the failure to comply is capable of remedy and is remedied within 10 Business Days of the Facility Agent giving notice to the Borrower or (if earlier) any Transaction Obligor becoming aware of the failure to comply.

	25.5	
Misrepresentation

Any representation or statement made or deemed to be made by a Transaction Obligor in the Finance Documents or any other document delivered by or on behalf of any Transaction Obligor under or in connection with any Finance Document is or proves to have been materially incorrect or misleading when made or deemed to be made.

	25.6	
Cross default

	(a)	
Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is not paid when due nor within any originally applicable grace period.

	(b)	
Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).

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	(c)	
Any commitment for any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is cancelled or suspended by a creditor of any Obligor as a result of an event of default (however described).

	(d)	
Any creditor of any Obligor becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).

	(e)	
No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 25.6 (Cross default) in respect of the Guarantor if the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness or commitment for Financial Indebtedness falling within paragraphs (a) to (d) above is less than $5,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency) in aggregate.

	25.7	
Insolvency

	(a)	
A Transaction Obligor:

		(i)	
is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due;

		(ii)	
is deemed to, or is declared to, be unable to pay its debts under applicable law;

		(iii)	
suspends or threatens to suspend making payments on any of its debts; or

		(iv)	
obtains or receives a deferral or suspension of payments, a rescheduling or re-organisation of debt (or certain debt) or an arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of creditors or of any class of them in respect of such deferral, suspension, rescheduling or re-organisation, strictly by court order or by the filing of documents with a court.

	(b)	
A moratorium is officially declared in respect of any indebtedness of any Transaction Obligor.

Provided however that:

		(A)	
should a Transaction Obligor, by any reason, including without limitation, any actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences negotiations with one or more of its creditors (including any Finance Party in its capacity as such) with a view to rescheduling, deferring, re-organising or suspending, any of its indebtedness, the existence of such negotiations or the entry, as a result of such negotiations, into any agreement or contract with one or more creditors (including any Finance Party in its capacity as such) setting out the terms of any such rescheduling, deferral, reorganisation or suspension of its indebtedness, shall not in itself constitute an Event of Default; and

		(B)	
no Event of Default will occur under this Clause 25.7 (Insolvency) if any of the events described in paragraphs (a)-(b) above occurs in respect of an Approved Manager which is a member of the Group and the Borrower replaces such Approved Manager by another Approved Manager and delivers to the Facility Agent (in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Lenders) the documents referred to at paragraph 4.3 of Part B (Conditions Precedent to Utilisation) of Schedule 2 within 7 Business Days from the date of such occurrence.

	25.8	
Insolvency proceedings

	(a)	
Any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in relation to:

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		(i)	
the suspension of payments, winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of any Transaction Obligor;

		(ii)	
a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any creditor of any Transaction Obligor;

		(iii)	
the appointment of a liquidator (other than in respect of a solvent liquidation of a member of the Group which is not a Transaction Obligor), receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, compulsory manager or other similar officer in respect of any Transaction Obligor or any of its assets; or

		(iv)	
enforcement of any Security over any assets of any Transaction Obligor,

or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction.

	(b)	
Paragraph (a) above shall not apply to any winding-up petition which is frivolous or vexatious and is discharged, stayed or dismissed within 14 days of commencement.

	(c)	
No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 25.8 (Insolvency proceedings) if any of the events described in paragraph (a) above occurs in respect of an Approved Manager which is a member of the Group and the Borrower replaces such Approved Manager by another Approved Manager and delivers to the Facility Agent (in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Lenders) the documents referred to at paragraph 3.3 of Part B (Conditions Precedent to Utilisation) of Schedule 2 within 7 Business Days from the date of such occurrence.

	25.9	
Creditors' process

Any expropriation, attachment, sequestration, distress or execution (or any analogous process in any jurisdiction) affects any asset or assets of a Transaction Obligor (other than an arrest or detention of the Ship referred to in Clause 25.14 (Arrest)) and is not discharged within 20 days (or such later period agreed by the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders in their absolute discretion).

	25.10	
Ownership of the Obligors

	(a)	
The Borrower is not or ceases to be a 100 per cent. directly or indirectly owned Subsidiary of the Guarantor.

	(b)	
Any person or group of persons acting in concert (other than those disclosed to the Facility Agent as part of the "Know your customer" checks) gains control of the Guarantor.

	(c)	
For the purpose of paragraph (b) above "control" means:

		(i)	
the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, partnership units, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:

		(A)	
cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent. of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of the Corporate Guarantor; or

		(B)	
appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors or other equivalent officers of the Corporate Guarantor; or

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		(C)	
give directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Corporate Guarantor with which the directors or other equivalent officers of the Corporate Guarantor are obliged to comply; and/or

		(ii)	
the holding beneficially of more than 50 per cent. of the issued shares of the Corporate Guarantor (excluding any part of that issued shares that carries no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits or capital).

	(d)	
For the purpose of paragraph (b) above "acting in concert" means a group of persons who, pursuant to an agreement or understanding (whether formal or informal), actively co-operate, through the acquisition directly or indirectly of shares in the Guarantor by any of them, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or consolidate control of the Guarantor.

	25.11	
Unlawfulness, invalidity and ranking

	(a)	
It is or becomes unlawful for a Transaction Obligor to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
Any obligation of a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents is not or ceases to be legal, valid, binding or enforceable if that cessation individually or together with any other cessations materially or adversely affects the interests of the Secured Parties under the Finance Documents.

	(c)	
Any Finance Document ceases to be in full force and effect or to be continuing or is or purports to be determined or any Transaction Security is alleged by a party to it (other than a Finance Party) to be ineffective.

	(d)	
Any Transaction Security proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, any other Security.

	25.12	
Security imperilled

Any Security created or intended to be created by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) has notified the relevant Transaction Obligor in writing of such matter and the relevant matter has not been remedied within 4 Business Days of the relevant Transaction Obligor being so notified.

	25.13	
Cessation of business

Any Obligor suspends or ceases to carry on (or threatens to suspend or cease to carry on) all or a material part of its business.

	25.14	
Arrest

Any arrest of the Ship or its detention in the exercise or the purported exercise of any lien or claim unless it is redelivered to the full control of the Borrower within 25 days of such arrest or detention.

	25.15	
Expropriation

The authority or ability of a Obligor to conduct its business is limited or wholly or substantially curtailed by any seizure, expropriation, nationalisation, intervention, restriction or other action by or on behalf of any governmental, regulatory or other authority or other

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person in relation to any Obligor or any of its assets, unless such Transaction Obligor upon receiving notice of such event procures the release of the relevant assets and such assets are redelivered to the full control of that Transaction Obligor within 21 days of such event, other than:

	(a)	
an arrest or detention of the Ship referred to in Clause 25.14 (Arrest); or

	(b)	
any Requisition.

	25.16	
Repudiation and rescission of agreements

A Transaction Obligor (or any other relevant party) rescinds or purports to rescind or repudiates or purports to repudiate a Transaction Document or any of the Transaction Security or evidences an intention to rescind or repudiate a Transaction Document or any Transaction Security.

	25.17	
Litigation

Any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations of, or before, any court, arbitral body or agency are started or threatened, or any judgment or order of a court, arbitral body or agency is made, in relation to any of the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated in any of the Transaction Documents or against any Transaction Obligor or its assets which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Event of Default will occur under this clause in respect of the Guarantor if the monetary value of the subject matter of such litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations is assessable and the combined value thereof does not exceed $5,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency) in aggregate.

	25.18	
Material adverse change

Any event or circumstance occurs which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

	25.19	
Acceleration

On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default the Facility Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower:

	(a)	
cancel the Total Commitments, whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled;

	(b)	
declare that all or part of the Loan, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, whereupon it shall become immediately due and payable;

	(c)	
declare that all or part of the Loan be payable on demand, whereupon it shall immediately become payable on demand by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; and/or

	(d)	
exercise or direct the Security Agent to exercise any or all of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under the Finance Documents,

and the Facility Agent may serve notices under paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above simultaneously or on different dates and the Security Agent may take any action referred to

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in Clause 25.20 (Enforcement of security) if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of any of such notice.

	25.20	
Enforcement of security

On and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default the Security Agent may, and shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, take any action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under Clause 25.19 (Acceleration), the Security Agent is entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law or regulation.

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SECTION 9

 CHANGES TO PARTIES

	26	
CHANGES TO THE LENDERS

	26.1	
Assignments and transfers by the Lenders

Subject to this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), a Lender (the "Existing Lender") may without the consent of any Obligor:

	(a)	
assign any of its rights; or

	(b)	
transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations,

under the Finance Documents to another bank or financial institution or to 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 (the "New Lender").

	26.2	
Conditions of assignment or transfer

	(a)	
An Existing Lender shall give to the Obligors no less than 30-days' notice prior to effecting an assignment or transfer unless the assignment or transfer is made at a time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

	(b)	
An assignment will only be effective on:

		(i)	
receipt by the Facility Agent (whether in the Assignment Agreement or otherwise) of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent) that the New Lender will assume the same obligations to the other Secured Parties as it would have been under if it were an Original Lender; and

		(ii)	
performance by the Facility Agent of all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to such assignment to a New Lender, the completion of which the Facility Agent shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender and the New Lender.

	(c)	
Each Obligor on behalf of itself and each Transaction Obligor agrees that all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Existing Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents are assigned to the New Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Existing Lender's title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any other Transaction Obligor had against the Existing Lender.

	(d)	
A transfer will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) is complied with.

	(e)	
If:

		(i)	
a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and

		(ii)	
as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, a Transaction Obligor would be obliged to make a payment to the New

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Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office under Clause 12 (Tax Gross Up and Indemnities) or under that clause as incorporated by reference or in full in any other Finance Document or Clause 13 (Increased Costs),

then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only entitled to receive payment under those Clauses to the same extent as the Existing Lender or Lender acting through its previous Facility Office would have been if the assignment, transfer or change had not occurred.  This paragraph (e) shall not apply in respect of an assignment or transfer made in the ordinary course of the primary syndication of the Facility.

	(f)	
Each New Lender, by executing the relevant Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement, confirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Facility Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the transfer or assignment becomes effective in accordance with this Agreement and that it is bound by that decision to the same extent as the Existing Lender would have been had it remained a Lender.

	26.3	
Assignment or transfer fee

The New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or transfer takes effect, pay to the Facility Agent (for its own account) a fee of $3,500.

	26.4	
Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders

	(a)	
Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

		(i)	
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Transaction Documents, the Transaction Security or any other documents;

		(ii)	
the financial condition of any Transaction Obligor;

		(iii)	
the performance and observance by any Transaction Obligor of its obligations under the Transaction Documents or any other documents; or

		(iv)	
the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Transaction Document or any other document,

and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.

	(b)	
Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties and the Secured Parties that it:

		(i)	
has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Transaction Obligor and its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender or any other Finance Party in connection with any Transaction Document or the Transaction Security; and

		(ii)	
will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Transaction Obligor and its related entities throughout the Security Period.

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	(c)	
Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to:

		(i)	
accept a re-transfer or re-assignment from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders); or

		(ii)	
support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Transaction Obligor of its obligations under the Transaction Documents or otherwise.

	26.5	
Procedure for transfer

	(a)	
Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer), a transfer is effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Facility Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender.  The Facility Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Transfer Certificate appearing on its face to comply with this Agreement and delivered in accordance with this Agreement, execute that Transfer Certificate.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied in its sole discretion that 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 such New Lender.

	(c)	
Subject to Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), on the Transfer Date:

		(i)	
to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security, each of the Transaction Obligors and the Existing Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security and their respective rights against one another under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security shall be cancelled (being the "Discharged Rights and Obligations");

		(ii)	
each of the Transaction Obligors and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as that Transaction Obligor and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of that Transaction Obligor and the Existing Lender;

		(iii)	
the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, the New Lender and other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves and in respect of the Transaction Security as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Facility Agent, the Security Agent and the Existing Lenders shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and

		(iv)	
the New Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender".

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	26.6	
Procedure for assignment

	(a)	
Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) an assignment may be effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Facility Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Assignment Agreement delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender.  The Facility Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Assignment Agreement appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Assignment Agreement.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Assignment Agreement delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied in its sole discretion it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assignment to such New Lender.

	(c)	
Subject to Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), on the Transfer Date:

		(i)	
the Existing Lender will assign absolutely to the New Lender its rights under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security expressed to be the subject of the assignment in the Assignment Agreement;

		(ii)	
the Existing Lender will be released from the obligations (the "Relevant Obligations") expressed to be the subject of the release in the Assignment Agreement (and any corresponding obligations by which it is bound in respect of the Transaction Security); and

		(iii)	
the New Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender" and will be bound by obligations equivalent to the Relevant Obligations.

	(d)	
Lenders may utilise procedures other than those set out in this Clause 26.6 (Procedure for assignment) to assign their rights under the Finance Documents (but not, without the consent of the relevant Transaction Obligor or unless in accordance with Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer), to obtain a release by that Transaction Obligor from the obligations owed to that Transaction Obligor by the Lenders nor the assumption of equivalent obligations by a New Lender) provided that they comply with the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer).

	26.7	
Copy of Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement to Borrower

The Facility Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate or an Assignment Agreement, send to the Borrower a copy of that Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement.

	26.8	
Security over Lenders' rights

In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from any Transaction Obligor, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create Security 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 to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and

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	(b)	
any charge, assignment or other Security 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 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 for a Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or

		(ii)	
require any payments to be made by a Transaction Obligor other than or in excess of, 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.

	26.9	
Pro rata interest settlement

	(a)	
If the Facility Agent has notified the Lenders that it is able to distribute interest payments on a "pro rata basis" to Existing Lenders and New Lenders then (in respect of any transfer pursuant to Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) or any assignment pursuant to Clause 26.6 (Procedure for assignment) the Transfer Date of which, in each case, is after the date of such notification and is not on the last day of an Interest Period):

		(i)	
any interest or fees in respect of the relevant participation which are expressed to accrue by reference to the lapse of time shall continue to accrue in favour of the Existing Lender up to but excluding the Transfer Date ("Accrued Amounts") and shall become due and payable to the Existing Lender (without further interest accruing on them) on the last day of the current Interest Period (or, if the Interest Period is longer than six Months, on the next of the dates which falls at six Monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest Period); and

		(ii)	
The rights assigned or transferred by the Existing Lender will not include the right to the Accrued Amounts, so that, for the avoidance of doubt:

		(A)	
when the Accrued Amounts become payable, those Accrued Amounts will be payable to the Existing Lender; and

		(B)	
the amount payable to the New Lender on that date will be the amount which would, but for the application of this Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), have been payable to it on that date, but after deduction of the Accrued Amounts.

	(b)	
In this Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement) references to "Interest Period" shall be construed to include a reference to any other period for accrual of fees.

	(c)	
An Existing Lender which retains the right to the Accrued Amounts pursuant to this Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement) but which does not have a Commitment shall be deemed not to be a Lender for the purposes of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve any request for a consent, waiver, amendment or other vote of Lenders under the Finance Documents.

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	27	
CHANGES TO THE TRANSACTION OBLIGORS

	27.1	
Assignment or transfer by Transaction Obligors

No Transaction Obligor may assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents.

	27.2	
Release of security

	(a)	
If a disposal of any asset subject to security created by a Security Document is made in the following circumstances:

		(i)	
the disposal is permitted by the terms of any Finance Document;

		(ii)	
the Majority Lenders agree to the disposal;

		(iii)	
the disposal is being made at the request of the Security Agent in circumstances where any security created by the Security Documents has become enforceable; or

		(iv)	
the disposal is being effected by enforcement of a Security Document,

the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall release the asset(s) being disposed of from any security over those assets created by a Security Document.  However, the proceeds of any disposal (or an amount corresponding to them) must be applied in accordance with the requirements of the Finance Documents (if any).

	(b)	
Without prejudice to paragraph (a) of this Clause 27.2 (Release of security), at the end of the Security Period (or upon the Total Loss or sale of the Ship and payment of all amounts due by the Borrower under Clause 7.4 (Mandatory prepayment on sale or Total Loss)), the Security Agent shall release the Transaction Security.

	(c)	
If the Security Agent (acting on the instructions of the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied that a release is allowed under this Clause 27.2 (Release of security) (at the request and expense of the Borrower) each Finance Party must enter into any document and do all such other things which are reasonably required to achieve that release.  Each other Finance Party irrevocably authorises the Security Agent to enter into any such document.  Any release will not affect the obligations of any other Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents.

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SECTION 10

 THE FINANCE PARTIES

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THE FACILITY AGENT

	28.1	
Appointment of the Facility Agent

	(a)	
Each of the Lenders appoints the Facility Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
Each of the Lenders authorises the Facility Agent to perform the duties, obligations and responsibilities and to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Facility Agent under, or in connection with, the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.

	28.2	
Instructions

	(a)	
The Facility Agent shall:

		(i)	
unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Facility Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by:

		(A)	
all Lenders if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is an all Lender decision; and

		(B)	
in all other cases, the Majority Lenders; and

		(ii)	
not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) (A) in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) above (or, if this Agreement stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties, in accordance with instructions given to it by that Finance Party or group of Finance Parties) or (B) in its capacity as Facility Agent under the Transaction Documents.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or, if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties, from that Finance Party or group of Finance Parties) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion and the Facility Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives any such instructions or clarification that it has requested.

	(c)	
Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties under the relevant Finance Document and unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Facility Agent by the Majority Lenders shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all Finance Parties.

	(d)	
Without prejudice to paragraph (a)(ii) above, paragraph (a)(i) above shall not apply:

		(i)	
where a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document;

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		(ii)	
where a Finance Document requires the Facility Agent to act in a specified manner or to take a specified action;

		(iii)	
in respect of any provision which protects the Facility Agent's own position in its personal capacity as opposed to its role of Facility Agent for the relevant Finance Parties.

	(e)	
If giving effect to instructions given by the Majority Lenders would in the Facility Agent's opinion have an effect equivalent to an amendment or waiver referred to in Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers), the Facility Agent shall not act in accordance with those instructions unless consent to it so acting is obtained from each Party (other than the Facility Agent) whose consent would have been required in respect of that amendment or waiver.

	(f)	
In exercising any discretion to exercise a right, power or authority under the Finance Documents where it has not received any instructions as to the exercise of that discretion the Facility Agent shall do so having regard to the interests of all the Finance Parties.

	(g)	
The Facility Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of any Finance Party or group of Finance Parties until it has received any indemnification and/or security that it may in its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any cost, loss or liability (together with any applicable VAT) which it may incur in complying with those instructions.

	(h)	
Without prejudice to the remainder of this Clause 28.2 (Instructions), in the absence of instructions, the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to take any action  (or refrain from taking action) even if it considers acting or not acting to be in the best interests of the Finance Parties. The Facility Agent may act (or refrain from acting) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Finance Parties.

	(i)	
The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Finance Party (without first obtaining that Finance Party's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document. This paragraph (i) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of the Transaction Security or Security Documents.

	28.3	
Duties of the Facility Agent

	(a)	
The Facility Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.

	(b)	
Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Facility Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document or notice which is delivered to the Facility Agent for that Party by any other Party.

	(c)	
Without prejudice to Clause 26.7 (Copy of Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement to Borrower), paragraph (b) above shall not apply to any Transfer Certificate or any Assignment Agreement.

	(d)	
Notwithstanding anything set out in a Transaction Document, the Facility Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.

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	(e)	
If the Facility Agent receives notice from a Party referring to any Finance Document, describing a circumstance and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties but shall not have any duty to verify whether the circumstance described has actually occurred or whether it constitutes a Default.

	(f)	
If the Facility Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest or any fee payable to a Finance Party under this Agreement, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.

	(g)	
The Facility Agent shall provide to the Borrower within 5 Business Days of a request by the Borrower (but no more frequently than once per calendar quarter), a list (which may be in electronic form) setting out the names of the Lenders as at that Business Day, their respective Commitments, the address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention any communication is to be made) of each Lender for any communication to be made or document to be delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents, the electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by electronic mail or other electronic means to and by each Lender to whom any communication under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by that means and the account details of each Lender for any payment to be distributed by the Facility Agent to that Lender under the Finance Documents.

	(h)	
The Facility Agent shall have only those duties, obligations and responsibilities expressly specified in the Finance Documents to which it is expressed to be a party (and no others shall be implied).

	28.4	
No fiduciary duties

	(a)	
Nothing in any Finance Document constitutes the Facility Agent as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall not be bound to account to other Finance Party for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.

	28.5	
Application of receipts

Except as expressly stated to the contrary in any Finance Document, any moneys which the Facility Agent receives or recovers in its capacity as Facility Agent shall be applied by the Facility Agent in accordance with Clause 32.5 (Application of receipts; partial payments).

	28.6	
Business with the Group

The Facility Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with, any member of the Group.

	28.7	
Rights and discretions

	(a)	
The Facility Agent may:

		(i)	
rely on any representation, communication, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised;

		(ii)	
assume that:

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		(A)	
any instructions received by it from the Majority Lenders, any Finance Parties or any group of Finance Parties are duly given in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents; and

		(B)	
unless it has received notice of revocation, that those instructions have not been revoked; and

		(iii)	
rely on a certificate from any person:

		(A)	
as to any matter of fact or circumstance which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of that person; or

		(B)	
to the effect that such person approves of any particular dealing, transaction, step, action or thing,

as sufficient evidence that that is the case and, in the case of paragraph (A) above, may assume the truth and accuracy of that certificate.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Finance Parties) that:

		(i)	
no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under Clause 25.2 (Non-payment));

		(ii)	
any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or any group of Finance Parties has not been exercised; and

		(iii)	
any notice or request made by the Borrower (other than the Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of all the Transaction Obligors.

	(c)	
The Facility Agent may engage and pay for (at the Borrower's expense) the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts.

	(d)	
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c) above or paragraph (e) below, the Facility Agent may at any time engage and pay for (at the Borrower's expense) the services of any lawyers to act as independent counsel to the Facility Agent (and so separate from any lawyers instructed by the Lenders) if the Facility Agent in its reasonable opinion deems this to be desirable.

	(e)	
The Facility Agent may rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts (whether obtained by the Facility Agent or by any other Party) and shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of its so relying.

	(f)	
The Facility Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents and the Security Property through its officers, employees and agents and shall not:

		(i)	
be liable for any error of judgment made by any such person; or

		(ii)	
be bound to supervise, or be in any way responsible for any loss incurred by reason of misconduct, omission or default on the part of any such person,

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unless such error or such loss was directly caused by the Facility Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

	(g)	
Unless a Finance Document expressly provides otherwise the Facility Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as agent under the Finance Documents.

	(h)	
Without prejudice to Clause 28.4 (No fiduciary duties), the Facility Agent is not obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might, in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.

	(i)	
Notwithstanding any provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Facility Agent is not obliged to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties, obligations or responsibilities or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or security for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

	28.8	
Responsibility for documentation

The Facility Agent is not responsible or liable for:

	(a)	
the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, a Transaction Obligor or any other person in, or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; or

	(b)	
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document or the Security Property or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the Security Property; or

	(c)	
any determination as to whether any information provided or to be provided to any Finance Party or Secured Party is non-public information the use of which may be regulated or prohibited by applicable law or regulation relating to insider dealing or otherwise.

	28.9	
No duty to monitor

The Facility Agent shall not be bound to enquire:

	(a)	
whether or not any Default has occurred;

	(b)	
as to the performance, default or any breach by any Transaction Obligor of its obligations under any Transaction Document; or

	(c)	
whether any other event specified in any Transaction Document has occurred.

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	28.10	
Exclusion of liability

	(a)	
Without limiting paragraph (b) below (and without prejudice to paragraph (e) of Clause 32.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.) or any other provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the liability of the Facility Agent), the Facility Agent will not be liable for:

		(i)	
any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value, or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of taking or not taking any action under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct;

		(ii)	
exercising, or not exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion given to it by, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the Security Property or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the Security Property; or

		(iii)	
any shortfall which arises on the enforcement or realisation of the Security Property; or

		(iv)	
without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (i) to (iii) above, any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever (including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) arising as a result of:

		(A)	
any act, event or circumstance not reasonably within its control; or

		(B)	
the general risks of investment in, or the holding of assets in, any jurisdiction,

including (in each case and without limitation) such damages, costs, losses, diminution in value or liability arising as a result of nationalisation, expropriation or other governmental actions; any regulation, currency restriction, devaluation or fluctuation; market conditions affecting the execution or settlement of transactions or the value of assets (including any Disruption Event); breakdown, failure or malfunction of any third party transport, telecommunications, computer services or systems; natural disasters or acts of God; war, terrorism, insurrection or revolution; or strikes or industrial action.

	(b)	
No Party other than the Facility Agent may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Facility Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Transaction Document or any Security Property and any officer, employee or agent of the Facility Agent may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.5 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.

	(c)	
The Facility Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Facility Agent if the Facility Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Facility Agent for that purpose.

	(d)	
Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Facility Agent to carry out:

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		(i)	
any "know your customer" or other checks in relation to any person; or

		(ii)	
any check on the extent to which any transaction contemplated by this Agreement might be unlawful for any Finance Party,

on behalf of any Finance Party and each Finance Party confirms to the Facility Agent that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Facility Agent.

	(e)	
Without prejudice to any provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the Facility Agent's liability, any liability of the Facility Agent arising under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property shall be limited to the amount of actual loss which has been finally judicially determined to have been suffered (as determined by reference to the date of default of the Facility Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of such default) but without reference to any special conditions or circumstances known to the Facility Agent at any time which increase the amount of that loss. In no event shall the Facility Agent be liable for any loss of profits, goodwill, reputation, business opportunity or anticipated saving, or for special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, whether or not the Facility Agent has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.

	28.11	
Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent

	(a)	
Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify the Facility Agent, within three Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability incurred by the Facility Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Facility Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) (or, in the case of any cost, loss or liability pursuant to Clause 32.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.) notwithstanding the Facility Agent's negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Facility Agent) in acting as Facility Agent under the Finance Documents (unless the Facility Agent has been reimbursed by a Transaction Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document).

	(b)	
Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Borrower shall immediately on demand reimburse any Lender for any payment that Lender makes to the Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above.

	(c)	
Paragraph (b) above shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payment in respect of which a Lender claims reimbursement relates to a liability of the Facility Agent to an Obligor.

	28.12	
Resignation of the Facility Agent

	(a)	
The Facility Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower.

	(b)	
Alternatively, the Facility Agent may resign by giving 30 days' notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders may appoint a successor Facility Agent.

	(c)	
If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Facility Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above within 20 days after notice of resignation was given, the retiring Facility Agent may appoint a successor Facility Agent.

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	(d)	
The retiring Facility Agent shall, at the Borrower's cost, make available to the successor Facility Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Facility Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Facility Agent under the Finance Documents. The Borrower shall indemnify the retiring Facility Agent prior to it being required to undertake any actions referred to in this sub-paragraph for the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) to be properly incurred by it in making available such documents and records and providing such assistance.

	(e)	
All Parties shall consult, co-operate and use commercially reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Facility Agent and the retiring Facility Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.

	(f)	
Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Facility Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under paragraph (d) above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of Clause 14.3 (Indemnity to the Facility Agent) and this Clause 28 (The Facility Agent ) and any other provisions of a Finance Document which are expressed to limit or exclude its liability (or to indemnify it) in acting as Facility Agent.  Any fees for the account of the retiring Facility Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date).  Any successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.

	(g)	
The Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Facility Agent, require it to resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above.  In this event, the Facility Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above but the cost referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be for the account of the Borrower.

	(h)	
The consent of the Borrower (or any other Transaction Obligor) is not required for an assignment or transfer of rights and/or obligations by the Facility Agent in accordance with this Agreement.

	(i)	
The Facility Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Facility Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) above) if on or after the date which is three months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents, either:

		(i)	
the Facility Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 12.7 (FATCA Information) and a Lender reasonably believes that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;

		(ii)	
the information supplied by the Facility Agent pursuant to Clause 12.7 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or

		(iii)	
the Facility Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the Facility Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;

and (in each case) a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Facility Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party, and that Lender, by notice to the Facility Agent, requires it to resign.

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	28.13	
Confidentiality

	(a)	
In acting as Facility Agent for the Finance Parties, the Facility Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.

	(b)	
If information is received by a division or department of the Facility Agent other than the division or department responsible for complying with the obligations assumed by it under the Finance Documents, that information may be treated as confidential to that division or department, and the Facility Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it nor shall it be obliged to disclose such information to any Party.

	(c)	
Without prejudice to Clause 28.4 (No fiduciary duties), the Facility Agent is not obliged to disclose to any other person (i) any confidential information or (ii) any other information if the disclosure would, or might in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty.

	28.14	
Relationship with the other Finance Parties

	(a)	
Subject to Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement), the Facility Agent may treat a person shown in its records as Lender at the opening of business (in the place of the Facility Agent's principal office as notified to the Finance Parties from time to time) as a Lender acting through its Facility Office.

		(i)	
entitled to or liable for any payment due under any Finance Document on that day; and

		(ii)	
entitled to receive and act upon any notice, request, document or communication or make any decision or determination under any Finance Document made or delivered on that day,

unless it has received not less than five Business Days' prior written notice from that Lender to the contrary in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

	(b)	
Each Finance Party shall supply the Facility Agent with any information that the Security Agent may reasonably specify (through the Facility Agent) as being necessary or desirable to enable the Security Agent to perform its functions as Security Agent.  Each Finance Party shall deal with the Security Agent exclusively through the Facility Agent and shall not deal directly with the Security Agent and any reference to any instructions being given by or sought from any Finance Party or group of Finance Parties to or by the Security Agent in this Agreement must be given or sought through the Facility Agent.

	(c)	
Any Lender may by notice to the Facility Agent appoint a person to receive on its behalf all notices, communications, information and documents to be made or despatched to that Lender under the Finance Documents.  Such notice shall contain the address, fax number and (where communication by electronic mail or other electronic means is permitted under Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication)) electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the transmission of information by that means (and, in each case, the department or officer, if any, for whose attention communication is to be made) and be treated as a notification of a substitute address, fax number, electronic mail address (or such other information), department and officer by that Lender for the purposes of Clause 35.2 (Addresses) and sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication) and the Facility Agent shall be entitled to treat such person as the person

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entitled to receive all such notices, communications, information and documents as though that person were that Lender.

	28.15	
Credit appraisal by the Finance Parties

Without affecting the responsibility of any Transaction Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Transaction Document, each Finance Party confirms to the Facility Agent that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document including but not limited to:

	(a)	
the financial condition, status and nature of each Transaction Obligor;

	(b)	
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document, the Security Property and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property;

	(c)	
whether that Finance Party has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the Security Property, the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property;

	(d)	
the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information provided by the Facility Agent, any Party or by any other person under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; and

	(e)	
the right or title of any person in or to or the value or sufficiency of any part of the Security Assets, the priority of any of the Transaction Security or the existence of any Security affecting the Security Assets.

	28.16	
Facility Agent's management time

If a Potential Event of Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any amount payable to the Facility Agent under Clause 14.3 (Indemnity to the Facility Agent), Clause 16 (Costs and Expenses) and Clause 28.11 (Lenders' indemnity to the Facility Agent) shall include the cost of utilising the Facility Agent's management time or other resources and will be calculated on the basis of such reasonable daily or hourly rates as the Facility Agent may notify to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties, and is in addition to any fee paid or payable to the Facility Agent under Clause 11 (Fees). The Facility Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable notify the Borrower in writing of any extraordinary management time which the Facility Agent is envisaging to spend and will deliver a budget to the Borrower in respect of such extraordinary management time.

	28.17	
Deduction from amounts payable by the Facility Agent

If any Party owes an amount to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents, the Facility Agent may, after giving notice to that Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party which the Facility Agent would otherwise be obliged to make

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under the Finance Documents and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed.  For the purposes of the Finance Documents that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted.

	28.18	
Reliance and engagement letters

Each Secured Party confirms that the Facility Agent has authority to accept on its behalf (and ratifies the acceptance on its behalf of any letters or reports already accepted by the Facility Agent) the terms of any reliance letter or engagement letters or any reports or letters provided by accountants, auditors or providers of due diligence reports in connection with the Finance Documents or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents and to bind it in respect of those, reports or letters and to sign such letters on its behalf and further confirms that it accepts the terms and qualifications set out in such letters.

	28.19	
Full freedom to enter into transactions

Without prejudice to Clause 28.6 (Business with the Group) or any other provision of a Finance Document and notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the contrary, the Facility Agent shall be absolutely entitled:

	(a)	
to enter into and arrange banking, derivative, investment and/or other transactions of every kind with or affecting any Transaction Obligor or any person who is party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document (including, but not limited to, any interest or currency swap or other transaction, whether related to this Agreement or not, and acting as syndicate agent and/or security agent for, and/or participating in, other facilities to such Transaction Obligor or any person who is party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document);

	(b)	
to deal in and enter into and arrange transactions relating to:

		(i)	
any securities issued or to be issued by any Transaction Obligor or any other person; or

		(ii)	
any options or other derivatives in connection with such securities; and

	(c)	
to provide advice or other services to the Borrower or any person who is a party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document,

and, in particular, the Facility Agent shall be absolutely entitled, in proposing, evaluating, negotiating, entering into and arranging all such transactions and in connection with all other matters covered by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, to use (subject only to insider dealing legislation) any information or opportunity, howsoever acquired by it, to pursue its own interests exclusively, to refrain from disclosing such dealings, transactions or other matters or any information acquired in connection with them and to retain for its sole benefit all profits and benefits derived from the dealings transactions or other matters.

	28.20	
Majority Lenders' Instructions

	(a)	
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Transaction Documents, the Parties acknowledge that where any provision in a Transaction Document refers to the Facility Agent being obliged to or entitled to take any specified action, exercise any discretion, make any determination, give any consent or waiver, or act in a certain way in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, it shall or may (as the case may be) take such specified action, exercise such discretion, make such determination, give any consent in accordance with the instructions or directions of the

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Majority Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) and in doing so shall be deemed to have acted reasonably.

	(b)	
Any instructions given by the Majority Lenders or the Lenders shall be in writing and any instructions by the Majority Lenders on matters which do not require the consent or instructions of all the Lenders as specified in this Agreement shall be binding on all the Lenders.

	(c)	
The Facility Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders or the Lenders (as the case may be) until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may incur in complying with the instructions.

	(d)	
In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to take action.

	(e)	
The Facility Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Finance Party (without first obtaining the relevant Finance Party's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Transaction Document.

	29	
THE SECURITY AGENT

	29.1	
Trust

	(a)	
The Security Agent declares that it holds the Security Property on trust for the Secured Parties on the terms contained in this Agreement and shall deal with the Security Property in accordance with this Clause 29 (The Security Agent) and the other provisions of the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
Each other Finance Party authorises the Security Agent to perform the duties, obligations and responsibilities and to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Security Agent under, or in connection with, the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.

	29.2	
Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)

	(a)	
Each Obligor irrevocably and unconditionally undertakes to pay to the Security Agent its Parallel Debt which shall be amounts equal to, and in the currency or currencies of, its Corresponding Debt.

	(b)	
The Parallel Debt of an Obligor:

		(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 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)), the Security Agent:

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

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

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		(iii)	
shall have the independent and separate right to demand payment of each 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 an Obligor shall be:

		(i)	
decreased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has been irrevocably and unconditionally paid or discharged; and

		(ii)	
increased to the extent that its Corresponding Debt has increased,

and the Corresponding Debt of an Obligor shall be:

		(A)	
decreased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has been irrevocably and unconditionally paid or discharged; and

		(B)	
increased to the extent that its Parallel Debt has increased,

in each case provided that the Parallel Debt of an Obligor shall never exceed its Corresponding Debt.

	(e)	
All amounts received or recovered by the Security Agent in connection with this Clause 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)) to the extent permitted by applicable law, shall be applied in accordance with Clause 32.5 (Application of receipts; partial payments).

	(f)	
This Clause 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, to each Finance Document.

	29.3	
Enforcement through Security Agent only

The Secured Parties shall not have any independent power to enforce, or have recourse to, any of the Transaction Security or to exercise any right, power, authority or discretion arising under the Security Documents except through the Security Agent.

	29.4	
Instructions

	(a)	
The Security Agent shall:

		(i)	
unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Security Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by:

		(A)	
all Lenders (or the Facility Agent on their behalf) if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is an all Lender decision; and

		(B)	
in all other cases, the Majority Lenders (or the Facility Agent on their behalf); and

		(ii)	
not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) (A) in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) above (or if this Agreement stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties, in accordance

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with instructions given to it by that Finance Party or group of Finance Parties) or (B) in its capacity as Security Agent under the Transaction Documents.

	(b)	
The Security Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or the Facility Agent on their behalf) (or, if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties, from that Finance Party or group of Finance Parties) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion and the Security Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives any such instructions or clarification that it has requested.

	(c)	
Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Finance Party or group of Finance Parties under the relevant Finance Document and unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Security Agent by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all Finance Parties.

	(d)	
Without prejudice to paragraph (a)(ii) above, paragraph (a)(i) above shall not apply:

		(i)	
in respect of any provision which protects the Security Agent's own position in its personal capacity as opposed to its role of Security Agent for the relevant Secured Parties.

		(ii)	
in respect of the exercise of the Security Agent's discretion to exercise a right, power or authority under any of:

		(A)	
Clause 29.28 (Application of receipts);

		(B)	
Clause 29.29 (Permitted Deductions); and

		(C)	
Clause 29.30 (Prospective liabilities).

	(e)	
If giving effect to instructions given by the Majority Lenders would in the Security Agent's opinion have an effect equivalent to an amendment or waiver referred to in Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers), the Security Agent shall not act in accordance with those instructions unless consent to it so acting is obtained from each Party (other than the Security Agent) whose consent would have been required in respect of that amendment or waiver.

	(f)	
In exercising any discretion to exercise a right, power or authority under the Finance Documents where either:

		(i)	
it has not received any instructions as to the exercise of that discretion; or

		(ii)	
the exercise of that discretion is subject to sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (d) above,

the Security Agent shall do so having regard to the interests of all the Secured Parties.

	(g)	
The Security Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of any Finance Party or group of Finance Parties until it has received any indemnification and/or security that it may in its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any

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cost, loss or liability (together with any applicable VAT) which it may incur in complying with those instructions.

	(h)	
Without prejudice to the remainder of this Clause 29.4 (Instructions), in the absence of instructions, the Security Agent may (but shall not be obliged to) take such action in the exercise of its powers and duties under the Finance Documents as it considers in its discretion to be appropriate.

	(i)	
The Security Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Finance Party (without first obtaining that Finance Party's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document.  This paragraph (i) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of the Transaction Security or Security Documents.

	29.5	
Duties of the Security Agent

	(a)	
The Security Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.

	(b)	
The Security Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Security Agent for that Party by any other Party.

	(c)	
Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Security Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.

	(d)	
If the Security Agent receives notice from a Party referring to any Finance Document, describing a circumstance and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties but shall not have any duty to verify whether the circumstances described has actually occurred or whether it constitutes a Default.

	(e)	
The Security Agent shall have only those duties, obligations and responsibilities expressly specified in the Finance Documents to which it is expressed to be a party (and no others shall be implied).

	29.6	
No fiduciary duties

	(a)	
Nothing in any Finance Document constitutes the Security Agent as an agent, trustee or fiduciary of any Transaction Obligor or any other person.

	(b)	
The Security Agent shall not be bound to account to any other Secured Party for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.

	29.7	
Business with the Group

The Security Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with, any member of the Group.

	29.8	
Rights and discretions

	(a)	
The Security Agent may:

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		(i)	
rely on any representation, communication, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised;

		(ii)	
assume that:

		(A)	
any instructions received by it from the Majority Lenders, any Finance Parties or any group of Finance Parties are duly given in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents;

		(B)	
unless it has received notice of revocation, that those instructions have not been revoked; and

		(C)	
if it receives any instructions to act in relation to the Transaction Security, that all applicable conditions under the Finance Documents for so acting have been satisfied; and

		(iii)	
rely on a certificate from any person:

		(A)	
as to any matter of fact or circumstance which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of that person; or

		(B)	
to the effect that such person approves of any particular dealing, transaction, step, action or thing,

as sufficient evidence that that is the case and, in the case of paragraph (A) above, may assume the truth and accuracy of that certificate.

	(b)	
The Security Agent shall be entitled to carry out all dealings with the other Finance Parties through the Facility Agent and may give to the Facility Agent any notice or other communication required to be given by the Security Agent to any Finance Party.

	(c)	
The Security Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as security agent for the Secured Parties) that:

		(i)	
no Default has occurred;

		(ii)	
any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or any group of Finance Parties has not been exercised; and

		(iii)	
any notice or request made by the Borrower (other than the Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of all the Transaction Obligors.

	(d)	
The Security Agent may engage and pay for (at the Borrower's cost) the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts.

	(e)	
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c) above or paragraph (f) below, the Security Agent may at any time engage and pay for (at the Borrower's cost) for the services of any lawyers to act as independent counsel to the Security Agent (and so separate from any lawyers instructed by the Facility Agent or the Lenders) if the Security Agent in its reasonable opinion deems this to be desirable.

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	(f)	
The Security Agent may rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts (whether obtained by the Security Agent or by any other Party) and shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of its so relying.

	(g)	
The Security Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents and the Security Property through its officers, employees and agents and shall not:

		(i)	
be liable for any error of judgment made by any such person; or

		(ii)	
be bound to supervise, or be in any way responsible for any loss incurred by reason of misconduct, omission or default on the part of any such person,

unless such error or such loss was directly caused by the Security Agent's gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

	(h)	
Unless a Finance Document expressly provides otherwise the Security Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as security agent under the Finance Documents.

	(i)	
Without prejudice to Clause 29.6 (No fiduciary duties) and notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Security Agent is not obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might, in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.

	(j)	
Notwithstanding any provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Security Agent is not obliged to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties, obligations or responsibilities or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or security for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

	29.9	
Responsibility for documentation

None of the Security Agent, any Receiver or Delegate is responsible or liable for:

	(a)	
the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, a Transaction Obligor or any other person in, or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document;

	(b)	
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document or the Security Property or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the Security Property; or

	(c)	
any determination as to whether any information provided or to be provided to any Secured Party is non-public information the use of which may be regulated or prohibited by applicable law or regulation relating to insider dealing or otherwise.

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	29.10	
No duty to monitor

The Security Agent shall not be bound to enquire:

	(a)	
whether or not any Default has occurred;

	(b)	
as to the performance, default or any breach by any Transaction Obligor of its obligations under any Transaction Document; or

	(c)	
whether any other event specified in any Transaction Document has occurred.

	29.11	
Exclusion of liability

	(a)	
Without limiting paragraph (b) below (and without prejudice to any other provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the liability of the Security Agent or any Receiver or Delegate), none of the Security Agent nor any Receiver or Delegate will be liable for:

		(i)	
any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value, or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of taking or not taking any action under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct;

		(ii)	
exercising, or not exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion given to it by, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the Security Property or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Transaction Document or the Security Property; or

		(iii)	
any shortfall which arises on the enforcement or realisation of the Security Property; or

		(iv)	
without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraphs (i)  to  (iii) above, any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever (including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) arising as a result of:

		(A)	
any act, event or circumstance not reasonably within its control; or

		(B)	
the general risks of investment in, or the holding of assets in, any jurisdiction,

including (in each case and without limitation) such damages, costs, losses, diminution in value or liability arising as a result of nationalisation, expropriation or other governmental actions; any regulation, currency restriction, devaluation or fluctuation; market conditions affecting the execution or settlement of transactions or the value of assets (including any Disruption Event); breakdown, failure or malfunction of any third party transport, telecommunications, computer services or systems; natural disasters or acts of God; war, terrorism, insurrection or revolution; or strikes or industrial action.

	(b)	
No Party other than the Security Agent, that Receiver or that Delegate (as applicable) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Security Agent, a Receiver or a Delegate in respect of any claim it might have against the Security Agent, a Receiver or a Delegate or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in

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relation to any Transaction Document or any Security Property and any officer, employee or agent of the Security Agent, a Receiver or a Delegate may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.5 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Act.

	(c)	
The Security Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Security Agent if the Security Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Security Agent for that purpose.

	(d)	
Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Security Agent to carry out:

		(i)	
any "know your customer" or other checks in relation to any person; or

		(ii)	
any check on the extent to which any transaction contemplated by this Agreement might be unlawful for any Finance Party,

on behalf of any Finance Party and each Finance Party confirms to the Security Agent that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Security Agent.

	(e)	
Without prejudice to any provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the liability of the Security Agent or any Receiver or Delegate, any liability of the Security Agent or any Receiver or Delegate arising under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property shall be limited to the amount of actual loss which has been finally judicially determined to have been suffered (as determined by reference to the date of default of the Security Agent. Receiver or Delegate or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of such default) but without reference to any special conditions or circumstances known to the Security Agent, any Receiver or Delegate at any time which increase the amount of that loss. In no event shall the Security Agent, any Receiver or Delegate be liable for any loss of profits, goodwill, reputation, business opportunity or anticipated saving, or for special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, whether or not the Security Agent, the Receiver or Delegate has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.

	29.12	
Lenders' indemnity to the Security Agent

	(a)	
Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify the Security Agent and every Receiver and every Delegate, within three Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability incurred by any of them (otherwise than by reason of the Security Agent's, Receiver's or Delegate's gross negligence or wilful misconduct) in acting as Security Agent, Receiver or Delegate under the Finance Documents (unless the Security Agent, Receiver or Delegate has been reimbursed by a Transaction Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document).

	(b)	
Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Borrower shall immediately on demand reimburse any Lender for any payment that Lender makes to the Security Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above.

	(c)	
Paragraph (b) above shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payment in respect of which a Lender claims reimbursement relates to a liability of the Security Agent to an Obligor.

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	29.13	
Resignation of the Security Agent

	(a)	
The Security Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower.

	(b)	
Alternatively, the Security Agent may resign by giving 30 days' notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders may appoint a successor Security Agent.

	(c)	
If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Security Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above within 20 days after notice of resignation was given, the retiring Security Agent may appoint a successor Security Agent.

	(d)	
The retiring Security Agent shall, at the Borrower's cost, make available to the successor Security Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Security Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Security Agent under the Finance Documents. The Borrower shall indemnify the retiring Security Agent prior to it being required to undertake any actions referred to in this sub-paragraph for the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) to be properly incurred by it in making available such documents and records and providing such assistance.

	(e)	
The Security Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon:

		(i)	
the appointment of a successor; and

		(ii)	
the transfer, by way of a document expressed as a deed, of all the Security Property to that successor.

	(f)	
Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Security Agent shall be discharged, by way of a document executed as a deed, from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under paragraph (b) of Clause 29.25 (Winding up of trust) and paragraph (d) above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of Clause 14.4 (Indemnity to the Security Agent) and this Clause 29 (The Security Agent) and any other provisions of a Finance Document which are expressed to limit or exclude its liability (or to indemnify it) in acting as Security Agent.  Any fees for the account of the retiring Security Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date).  Any successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.

	(g)	
The Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Security Agent, require it to resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above.  In this event, the Security Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above but the cost referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be for the account of the Borrower.

	(h)	
The consent of the Borrower (or any other Transaction Obligor) is not required for an assignment or transfer of rights and/or obligations by the Security Agent.

	29.14	
Confidentiality

	(a)	
In acting as Security Agent for the Finance Parties, the Security Agent shall be regarded as acting through its trustee division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.

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	(b)	
If information is received by a division or department of the Security Agent other than the division or department responsible for complying with the obligations assumed by it under the Finance Documents, that information may be treated as confidential to that division or department, and the Security Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it nor shall it be obliged to disclose such information to any Party.

	(c)	
Without prejudice to Clause 29.6 (No fiduciary duties) and notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Security Agent is not obliged to disclose to any other person (i) any confidential information or (ii) any other information if the disclosure would, or might in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty.

	29.15	
Credit appraisal by the Finance Parties

Without affecting the responsibility of any Transaction Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Transaction Document, each Finance Party confirms to the Security Agent that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document including but not limited to:

	(a)	
the financial condition, status and nature of each Transaction Obligor;

	(b)	
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Transaction Document, the Security Property and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property;

	(c)	
whether that Finance Party has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the Security Property, the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document or the Security Property;

	(d)	
the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information provided by the Security Agent, any Party or by any other person under, or in connection with, any Transaction Document, the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Transaction Document; and

	(e)	
the right or title of any person in or to or the value or sufficiency of any part of the Security Assets, the priority of any of the Transaction Security or the existence of any Security affecting the Security Assets.

	29.16	
Security Agent's management time

	(a)	
If a Potential Event of Default or an Event of Default has occurred which is continuing, any amount payable to the Security Agent under Clause 14.4 (Indemnity to the Security Agent), Clause 16 (Costs and Expenses) and Clause 29.12 (Lenders' indemnity to the Security Agent) shall include the cost of utilising the Security Agent's management time or other resources and will be calculated on the basis of such reasonable daily or hourly rates as the Security Agent may notify to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties, and is in addition to any fee paid or payable to the Security Agent under Clause 11 (Fees). The Security Agent shall as soon

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as reasonably practicable notify the Borrower in writing of any extraordinary management time which the Security Agent is envisaging to spend and will deliver a budget to the Borrower in respect of such extraordinary management time.

	(b)	
Without prejudice to paragraph (a) above, in the event of:

		(i)	
a Default;

		(ii)	
the Security Agent being requested by a Transaction Obligor or the Majority Lenders to undertake duties which the Security Agent and the Borrower agree to be of an exceptional nature or outside the scope of the normal duties of the Security Agent under the Finance Documents; or

		(iii)	
the Security Agent and the Borrower agreeing that it is otherwise appropriate in the circumstances,

the Borrower shall pay to the Security Agent any additional remuneration (together with any applicable VAT) that may be agreed between them or determined pursuant to paragraph (c) below.

	(c)	
If the Security Agent and the Borrower fail to agree upon the nature of the duties, or upon the additional remuneration referred to in paragraph (b) above or whether additional remuneration is appropriate in the circumstances, any dispute shall be determined by an investment bank (acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator) selected by the Security Agent and approved by the Borrower or, failing approval, nominated (on the application of the Security Agent) by the President for the time being of the Law Society of England and Wales (the costs of the nomination and of the investment bank being payable by the Borrower) and the determination of any investment bank shall be final and binding upon the Parties.

	29.17	
Reliance and engagement letters

Each Secured Party confirms that the Security Agent has authority to accept on its behalf (and ratifies the acceptance on its behalf of any letters or reports already accepted by the Security Agent) the terms of any reliance letter or engagement letters or any reports or letters provided by accountants, auditors or providers of due diligence reports in connection with the Finance Documents or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents and to bind it in respect of those, reports or letters and to sign such letters on its behalf and further confirms that it accepts the terms and qualifications set out in such letters.

	29.18	
No responsibility to perfect Transaction Security

The Security Agent shall not be liable for any failure to:

	(a)	
require the deposit with it of any deed or document certifying, representing or constituting the title of any Transaction Obligor to any of the Security Assets;

	(b)	
obtain any licence, consent or other authority for the execution, delivery, legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of any Finance Document or the Transaction Security;

	(c)	
register, file or record or otherwise protect any of the Transaction Security (or the priority of any of the Transaction Security) under any law or regulation or to give notice to any person of the execution of any Finance Document or of the Transaction Security;

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	(d)	
take, or to require any Transaction Obligor to take, any step to perfect its title to any of the Security Assets or to render the Transaction Security effective or to secure the creation of any ancillary Security under any law or regulation; or

	(e)	
require any further assurance in relation to any Security Document.

	29.19	
Insurance by Security Agent

	(a)	
The Security Agent shall not be obliged:

		(i)	
to insure any of the Security Assets;

		(ii)	
to require any other person to maintain any insurance; or

		(iii)	
to verify any obligation to arrange or maintain insurance contained in any Finance Document,

and the Security Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person as a result of the lack of, or inadequacy of, any such insurance.

	(b)	
Where the Security Agent is named on any insurance policy as an insured party, it shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person as a result of its failure to notify the insurers of any material fact relating to the risk assumed by such insurers or any other information of any kind.

	29.20	
Custodians and nominees

The Security Agent may appoint and pay any person to act as a custodian or nominee on any terms in relation to any asset of the trust as the Security Agent may determine, including for the purpose of depositing with a custodian this Agreement or any document relating to the trust created under this Agreement and the Security Agent shall not be responsible for any loss, liability, expense, demand, cost, claim or proceedings incurred by reason of the misconduct, omission or default on the part of any person appointed by it under this Agreement or be bound to supervise the proceedings or acts of any person.

	29.21	
Delegation by the Security Agent

	(a)	
Each of the Security Agent, any Receiver and any Delegate may, at any time, delegate by power of attorney or otherwise to any person for any period, all or any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it in its capacity as such.

	(b)	
That delegation may be made upon any terms and conditions (including the power to sub delegate) and subject to any restrictions that the Security Agent, that Receiver or that Delegate (as the case may be) may, in its discretion, think fit in the interests of the Secured Parties.

	(c)	
No Security Agent, Receiver or Delegate shall be bound to supervise, or be in any way responsible for any damages, costs or losses incurred by reason of any misconduct, omission or default on the part of any such delegate or sub delegate.

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	29.22	
Additional Security Agents

	(a)	
The Security Agent may at any time appoint (and subsequently remove) any person to act as a separate trustee or as a co-trustee jointly with it:

		(i)	
if it considers that appointment to be in the interests of the Secured Parties; or

		(ii)	
for the purposes of conforming to any legal requirement, restriction or condition which the Security Agent deems to be relevant; or

		(iii)	
for obtaining or enforcing any judgment in any jurisdiction,

and the Security Agent shall give prior notice to the Borrower and the Finance Parties of that appointment.

	(b)	
Any person so appointed shall have the rights, powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those given to the Security Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents) and the duties, obligations and responsibilities that are given or imposed by the instrument of appointment.

	(c)	
The remuneration that the Security Agent may pay to that person, and any costs and expenses (together with any applicable VAT) incurred by that person in performing its functions pursuant to that appointment shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be treated as costs and expenses incurred by the Security Agent.

	29.23	
Acceptance of title

The Security Agent shall be entitled to accept without enquiry, and shall not be obliged to investigate, any right and title that any Transaction Obligor may have to any of the Security Assets and shall not be liable for or bound to require any Transaction Obligor to remedy any defect in its right or title.

	29.24	
Releases

Upon a disposal of any of the Security Assets pursuant to the enforcement of the Transaction Security by a Receiver, a Delegate or the Security Agent, the Security Agent is irrevocably authorised (at the cost of the Obligors and without any consent, sanction, authority or further confirmation from any other Secured Party) to release, without recourse or warranty, that property from the Transaction Security and to execute any release of the Transaction Security or other claim over that asset and to issue any certificates of non-crystallisation of floating charges that may be required or desirable.

	29.25	
Winding up of trust

If the Security Agent, with the approval of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) determines (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) that:

	(a)	
all of the Secured Liabilities and all other obligations secured by the Security Documents have been fully and finally discharged; and

	(b)	
no Secured Party is under any commitment, obligation or liability (actual or contingent) to make advances or provide other financial accommodation to any Transaction Obligor pursuant to the Finance Documents,

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then

		(i)	
the trusts set out in this Agreement shall be wound up and the Security Agent shall release, without recourse or warranty, all of the Transaction Security and the rights of the Security Agent under each of the Security Documents; and

		(ii)	
any Security Agent which has resigned pursuant to Clause 29.13 (Resignation of the Security Agent) shall release, without recourse or warranty, all of its rights under each Security Document.

	29.26	
Powers supplemental to Trustee Acts

The rights, powers, authorities and discretions given to the Security Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be supplemental to the Trustee Act 1925 and the Trustee Act 2000 and in addition to any which may be vested in the Security Agent by law or regulation or otherwise.

	29.27	
Disapplication of Trustee Acts

Section 1 of the Trustee Act 2000 shall not apply to the duties of the Security Agent in relation to the trusts constituted by this Agreement and the other Finance Documents.  Where there are any inconsistencies between (i) the Trustee Acts 1925 and 2000 and (ii) the provisions of this Agreement and any other Finance Document, the provisions of this Agreement and any other Finance Document shall, to the extent permitted by law and regulation, prevail and, in the case of any inconsistency with the Trustee Act 2000, the provisions of this Agreement and any other Finance Document shall constitute a restriction or exclusion for the purposes of the Trustee Act 2000.

	29.28	
Application of receipts

All amounts from time to time received or recovered by the Security Agent pursuant to the terms of any Finance Document, under Clause 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent))  or in connection with the realisation or enforcement of all or any part of the Security Property (for the purposes of this Clause 29 (The Security Agent), the "Recoveries") shall be held by the Security Agent on trust to apply them at any time as the Security Agent (in its discretion) sees fit, to the extent permitted by applicable law (and subject to the remaining provisions of this Clause 29 (The Security Agent)), in the following order of priority:

	(a)	
in discharging any sums owing to the Security Agent (in its capacity as such) other than pursuant to Clause 29.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Agent)) or any Receiver or Delegate;

	(b)	
in payment or distribution to the Facility Agent, on its behalf and on behalf of the other Secured Parties, for application towards the discharge of all sums due and payable by any Transaction Obligor under any of the Finance Documents in accordance with Clause 32.5 (Application of receipts; partial payments);

	(c)	
if none of the Transaction Obligors is under any further actual or contingent liability under any Finance Document, in payment or distribution to any person to whom the Security Agent is obliged to pay or distribute in priority to any Transaction Obligor; and

	(d)	
the balance, if any, in payment or distribution to the relevant Transaction Obligor.

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	29.29	
Permitted Deductions

The Security Agent may, in its discretion:

	(a)	
set aside by way of reserve amounts required to meet, and to make and pay, any deductions and withholdings (on account of Taxes or otherwise) which it is or may be required by any applicable law to make from any distribution or payment made by it under this Agreement; and

	(b)	
pay all Taxes which may be assessed against it in respect of any of the Security Property, or as a consequence of performing its duties, or by virtue of its capacity as Security Agent under any of the Finance Documents or otherwise (other than in connection with its remuneration for performing its duties under this Agreement).

	29.30	
Prospective liabilities

Following enforcement of any of the Transaction Security, the Security Agent may, in its discretion, or at the request of the Facility Agent, hold any Recoveries in a suspense or impersonal account(s) in the name of the Security Agent with such financial institution (including itself) and for so long as the Security Agent shall think fit for later payment to the Facility Agent for application in accordance with Clause 29.28 (Application of receipts) in respect of:

	(a)	
any sum to the Security Agent, any Receiver or any Delegate; and

	(b)	
any part of the Secured Liabilities,

that the Security Agent or, in the case of paragraph (b) only, the Facility Agent, reasonably considers, in each case, might become due or owing at any time in the future.

	29.31	
Currency conversion

	(a)	
For the purpose of, or pending the discharge of, any of the Secured Liabilities the Security Agent may convert any moneys received or recovered by the Security Agent from one currency to another, at a market rate of exchange.

	(b)	
The obligations of any Transaction Obligor to pay in the due currency shall only be satisfied to the extent of the amount of the due currency purchased after deducting the costs of conversion.

	29.32	
Good discharge

	(a)	
Any payment to be made in respect of the Secured Liabilities by the Security Agent may be made to the Facility Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties and any payment made in that way shall be a good discharge, to the extent of that payment, by the Security Agent.

	(b)	
The Security Agent is under no obligation to make the payments to the Facility Agent under paragraph (a) above in the same currency as that in which the obligations and liabilities owing to the relevant Finance Party are denominated.

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	29.33	
Amounts received by Obligors

If any of the Obligors receives or recovers any amount which, under the terms of any of the Finance Documents, should have been paid to the Security Agent, that Obligor will hold the amount received or recovered on trust for the Security Agent and promptly pay that amount to the Security Agent for application in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

	29.34	
Full freedom to enter into transactions

Without prejudice to Clause 29.7 (Business with the Group) or any other provision of a Finance Document and notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the contrary, the Security Agent shall be absolutely entitled:

	(a)	
to enter into and arrange banking, derivative, investment and/or other transactions of every kind with or affecting any Transaction Obligor or any person who is party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document (including, but not limited to, any interest or currency swap or other transaction, whether related to this Agreement or not, and acting as syndicate agent and/or security agent for, and/or participating in, other facilities to such Transaction Obligor or any person who is party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document);

	(b)	
to deal in and enter into and arrange transactions relating to:

		(i)	
any securities issued or to be issued by any Transaction Obligor or any other person; or

		(ii)	
any options or other derivatives in connection with such securities; and

	(c)	
to provide advice or other services to the Borrower or any person who is a party to, or referred to in, a Finance Document,

and, in particular, the Security Agent shall be absolutely entitled, in proposing, evaluating, negotiating, entering into and arranging all such transactions and in connection with all other matters covered by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, to use (subject only to insider dealing legislation) any information or opportunity, howsoever acquired by it, to pursue its own interests exclusively, to refrain from disclosing such dealings, transactions or other matters or any information acquired in connection with them and to retain for its sole benefit all profits and benefits derived from the dealings transactions or other matters.

	29.35	
Majority Lenders' Instructions

	(e)	
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Transaction Documents, the Parties acknowledge that where any provision in Transaction Document refers to the Security Agent being obliged to or entitled to take any specified action, exercise any discretion, make any determination, give any consent or waiver, or act in a certain way in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, it shall or may (as the case may be) take such specified action, exercise such discretion, make such determination, give any consent in accordance with the instructions or directions of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) and in doing so shall be deemed to have acted reasonably.

	(f)	
Any instructions given by the Majority Lenders shall be in writing and be binding on all the Lenders.

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	(g)	
The Security Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Facility Agent until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may incur in complying with the instructions.

	(h)	
In the absence of instructions from the Facility Agent, the Security Agent shall not be obliged to take any action.

The Security Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Finance Party (without first obtaining the relevant Finance Party's consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Security Document.  Subject to the terms of the Transaction Documents, this paragraph (d) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to the perfection preservation or protection of rights under the Security Documents or enforcement of the Transaction Security or any Security Documents.

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CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES

No provision of this Agreement will:

	(a)	
interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;

	(b)	
oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or

	(c)	
oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.

	31	
SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES

	31.1	
Payments to Finance Parties

If a Finance Party (a "Recovering Finance Party") receives or recovers any amount from a Transaction Obligor other than in accordance with Clause 32 (Payment Mechanics) (a "Recovered Amount") and applies that amount to a payment due to it under the Finance Documents then:

	(a)	
the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery, to the Facility Agent;

	(b)	
the Facility Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Facility Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 32 (Payment Mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Facility Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and

	(c)	
the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent an amount (the "Sharing Payment") equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Facility Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 32.5 (Application of receipts; partial payments).

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	31.2	
Redistribution of payments

The Facility Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the relevant Transaction Obligor and distribute it among the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) (the "Sharing Finance Parties") in accordance with Clause 32.5 (Application of receipts; partial payments) towards the obligations of that Transaction Obligor to the Sharing Finance Parties.

	31.3	
Recovering Finance Party's rights

On a distribution by the Facility Agent under Clause 31.2 (Redistribution of payments) of a payment received by a Recovering Finance Party from a Transaction Obligor, as between the relevant Transaction Obligor and the Recovering Finance Party, an amount of the Recovered Amount equal to the Sharing Payment will be treated as not having been paid by that Transaction Obligor.

	31.4	
Reversal of redistribution

If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:

	(a)	
each Sharing Finance Party shall, upon request of the Facility Agent, pay to the Facility Agent for the account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay) (the "Redistributed Amount"); and

	(b)	
as between the relevant Transaction Obligor and each relevant Sharing Finance Party, an amount equal to the relevant Redistributed Amount will be treated as not having been paid by that Transaction Obligor.

	31.5	
Exceptions

	(a)	
This Clause 31 (Sharing among the Finance Parties) shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this Clause, have a valid and enforceable claim against the relevant Transaction Obligor.

	(b)	
A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:

		(i)	
it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and

		(ii)	
that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.

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SECTION 11

 ADMINISTRATION

	32	
PAYMENT MECHANICS

	32.1	
Payments to the Facility Agent

	(a)	
On each date on which a Transaction Obligor or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document, that Transaction Obligor or Lender shall make an amount equal to such payment available to the Facility Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Facility Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment.

	(b)	
Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal financial centre in such Participating Member State or London, as specified by the Facility Agent) and with such bank as the Facility Agent, in each case, specifies.

	32.2	
Distributions by the Facility Agent

Each payment received by the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to Clause 32.3 (Distributions to a Transaction Obligor) and Clause 32.4 (Clawback and pre-funding) be made available by the Facility Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the Facility Agent by not less than five Business Days' notice with a bank specified by that Party in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal financial centre in such Participating Member State or London, as specified by that Party or, in the case of the Loan, to such account of such person as may be specified by the Borrower in the Utilisation Request.

	32.3	
Distributions to a Transaction Obligor

The Facility Agent may (with the consent of the Transaction Obligor or in accordance with Clause 33 (Set-Off)) apply any amount received by it for that Transaction Obligor in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from that Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents or in or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.

	32.4	
Clawback and pre-funding

	(a)	
Where a sum is to be paid to the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Facility Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum.

	(b)	
If the Facility Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Facility Agent had not actually received that amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by the Facility Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Facility Agent together with interest on that amount from

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the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Facility Agent, calculated by the Facility Agent to reflect its cost of funds.

	32.5	
Application of receipts; partial payments

	(a)	
If the Facility Agent or the Security Agent (as applicable) receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents, the Facility Agent or the Security Agent (as applicable) shall apply that payment towards the obligations of that Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents in the following order:

		(i)	
first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of, and any other amounts owing to, the Facility Agent, the Security Agent, any Receiver or any Delegate under the Finance Documents;

		(ii)	
secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest and fees due but unpaid to the Lenders under this Agreement;

		(iii)	
thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid to the Lenders under this Agreement; and

		(iv)	
fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due to any Finance Party but unpaid under the Finance Documents.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary, or instruct the Security Agent to vary (as applicable) the order set out in sub-paragraphs (ii) to (iv) of paragraph (a) above.

	(c)	
Paragraphs (a) and (b) above will override any appropriation made by a Transaction Obligor.

	32.6	
No set-off by Transaction Obligors

All payments to be made by a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.

	32.7	
Business Days

	(a)	
Any payment under the Finance Documents which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

	(b)	
During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or an Unpaid Sum under this Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due date.

	32.8	
Currency of account

	(a)	
Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) below, dollars is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from a Transaction Obligor under any Finance Document.

	(b)	
Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.

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	(c)	
Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than dollars shall be paid in that other currency.

	32.9	
Change of currency

	(a)	
Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or currency unit are at the same time recognised by the central bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:

		(i)	
any reference in the Finance Documents to, and any obligations arising under the Finance Documents in, the currency of that country shall be translated into, or paid in, the currency or currency unit of that country designated by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) (after consultation with the Borrower); and

		(ii)	
any translation from one currency or currency unit to another shall be at the official rate of exchange recognised by the central bank for the conversion of that currency or currency unit into the other, rounded up or down by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	(b)	
If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders and after consultation with the Borrower) specifies (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally accepted conventions and market practice in the London interbank market and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.

	32.10	
Currency Conversion

	(a)	
For the purpose of, or pending any payment to be made by any Servicing Party under any Finance Document, such Servicing Party may convert any moneys received or recovered by it from one currency to another, at a market rate of exchange.

	(b)	
The obligations of any Transaction Obligor to pay in the due currency shall only be satisfied to the extent of the amount of the due currency purchased after deducting the costs of conversion.

	32.11	
Disruption to Payment Systems etc.

If either the Facility Agent determines (in its discretion) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Facility Agent is notified by the Borrower that a Disruption Event has occurred:

	(a)	
the Facility Agent may, and shall if requested to do so by the Borrower, consult with the Borrower with a view to agreeing with the Borrower such changes to the operation or administration of the Facility as the Facility Agent may deem necessary in the circumstances;

	(b)	
the Facility Agent shall not be obliged to consult with the Borrower in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances and, in any event, shall have no obligation to agree to such changes;

	(c)	
the Facility Agent may consult with the Finance Parties in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above but shall not be obliged to do so if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;

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	(d)	
any such changes agreed upon by the Facility Agent and the Borrower shall (whether or not it is finally determined that a Disruption Event has occurred) be binding upon the Parties and any Transaction Obligors as an amendment to (or, as the case may be, waiver of) the terms of the Finance Documents notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers);

	(e)	
the Facility Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever (including, without limitation for negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Facility Agent) arising as a result of its taking, or failing to take, any actions pursuant to or in connection with this Clause 32.11 (Disruption to Payment Systems etc.); and

	(f)	
the Facility Agent shall notify the Finance Parties of all changes agreed pursuant to paragraph (d) above.

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SET-OFF

A Finance Party may at any time after an Event of Default has occurred and whilst the same is continuing but without any prior notice set off any matured obligation due from a Transaction Obligor under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance Party) against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to that Transaction Obligor, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation.  If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.

	34	
BAIL-IN

Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the parties to a Finance Document, each Party acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any party to a Finance Document under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject to Bail-In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the effect of:

	(a)	
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):

		(i)	
a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability;

		(ii)	
a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and

		(iii)	
a cancellation of any such liability; and

	(b)	
a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.

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	35	
NOTICES

	35.1	
Communications in writing

Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax, letter or, subject to Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication), by electronic mail.

	35.2	
Addresses

The address, fax number and electronic mail address (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents are:

	(a)	
in the case of the Borrower, that specified in Schedule 1 (The Parties);

	(b)	
in the case of each Lender or any other Obligor, that specified in Schedule 1 (The Parties) or, if it becomes a Party after the date of this Agreement, that notified in writing to the Facility Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a Party;

	(c)	
in the case of the Facility Agent, that specified in Schedule 1 (The Parties); and

	(d)	
in the case of the Security Agent, that specified in Schedule 1 (The Parties),

or any substitute address, fax number or department or officer as the Party may notify to the Facility Agent (or the Facility Agent may notify to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Facility Agent) by not less than five Business Days' notice.

	35.3	
Delivery

	(a)	
Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the Finance Documents will only be effective:

		(i)	
if by way of fax, when received in legible form;

		(ii)	
if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five Business Days after being deposited in the post postage prepaid in an envelope addressed to it at that address; or

		(iii)	
if by way of electronic mail, in accordance with Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication),

and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under Clause 35.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.

	(b)	
Any communication or document to be made or delivered to a Servicing Party will be effective only when actually received by that Servicing Party and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer of that Servicing Party specified in Schedule 1 (The Parties) (or any substitute department or officer as that Servicing Party shall specify for this purpose).

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	(c)	
All notices from or to a Transaction Obligor shall be sent through the Facility Agent unless otherwise specified in any Finance Document.

	(d)	
Any communication or document made or delivered to the Borrower in accordance with this Clause will be deemed to have been made or delivered to each of the Transaction Obligors.

	(e)	
Any communication or document which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraphs (a) to (d) above, after 5.00 p.m. in the place of receipt shall be deemed only to become effective on the following day.

	35.4	
Notification of address and fax number

Promptly upon receipt of notification of an address and fax number or change of address or fax number pursuant to Clause 35.2 (Addresses) or changing its own address or fax number, the Facility Agent shall notify the other Parties.

	35.5	
Electronic communication

	(a)	
Any communication to be made between any two Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means (including, without limitation, by way of posting to a secure website) if those two Parties:

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

		(ii)	
notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them by not less than five Business Days' notice.

	(b)	
Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above to be made between an Obligor and a Finance Party may only be made in that way to the extent that those two Parties agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication.

	(c)	
Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above made between any two Parties will be effective only when actually received (or made available) in readable form and in the case of any electronic communication made by a Party to the Facility Agent or the Security Agent only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Facility Agent or the Security Agent shall specify for this purpose.

	(d)	
Any electronic communication which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraph (c) above, after 5.00 p.m. in the place in which the Party to whom the relevant communication is sent or made available has its address for the purpose of this Agreement shall be deemed only to become effective on the following day.

	(e)	
Any reference in a Finance Document to a communication being sent or received shall be construed to include that communication being made available in accordance with this Clause 35.5 (Electronic communication).

	35.6	
English language

	(a)	
Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English.

	(b)	
All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be:

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		(i)	
in English; or

		(ii)	
if not in English, and if so required by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), accompanied by a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document.

	36	
CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES

	36.1	
Accounts

In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document, the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence of the matters to which they relate.

	36.2	
Certificates and determinations

Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance Document is, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive evidence of the matters to which it relates.

	36.3	
Day count convention

Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360 days or, in any case where the practice in the London interbank market differs, in accordance with that market practice.

	37	
PARTIAL INVALIDITY

If, at any time, any provision of a Finance Document is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions under the law of that jurisdiction nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.

	38	
REMEDIES AND WAIVERS

No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Secured Party, any right or remedy under a Finance Document shall operate as a waiver of any such right or remedy or constitute an election to affirm any Finance Document.  No election to affirm any Finance Document on the part of a Secured Party shall be effective unless it is in writing.  No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy shall prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy.  The rights and remedies provided in each Finance Document are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

	39	
SETTLEMENT OR DISCHARGE CONDITIONAL

Any settlement or discharge under any Finance Document between any Finance Party and any Transaction Obligor shall be conditional upon no security or payment to any Finance Party by any Transaction Obligor or any other person being set aside, adjusted or ordered to be repaid, whether under any insolvency law or otherwise.

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	40	
IRREVOCABLE PAYMENT

If the Facility Agent considers that an amount paid or discharged by, or on behalf of, a Transaction Obligor or by any other person in purported payment or discharge of an obligation of that Transaction Obligor to a Secured Party under the Finance Documents is capable of being avoided or otherwise set aside on the liquidation or administration of that Transaction Obligor or otherwise, then that amount shall not be considered to have been unconditionally and irrevocably paid or discharged for the purposes of the Finance Documents.

	41	
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

	41.1	
Required consents

	(a)	
Subject to Clause 41.2 (All Lender matters) and Clause 41.3 (Other exceptions) any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and, in the case of an amendment, the Obligors and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Parties.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers).

	(c)	
Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 28.7 (Rights and discretions), the Facility Agent may at the Borrower's cost engage and rely on the services of lawyers in determining the consent level required for and effecting any amendment, waiver or consent under this Agreement.

	(d)	
Paragraph (c) of Clause 26.9 (Pro rata interest settlement) shall apply to this Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers).

	41.2	
All Lender matters

Subject to Clause 41.4 (Replacement of Screen Rate), an amendment of or waiver or consent in relation to any term of any Finance Document that has the effect of changing or which relates to:

	(a)	
the definition of "Majority Lenders" in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);

	(b)	
a postponement to or extension of the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;

	(c)	
a reduction in the Margin or the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fees or commission payable;

	(d)	
a change in currency of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;

	(e)	
an increase in any Commitment or the Total Commitments, an extension of any Availability Period or any requirement that a cancellation of Commitments reduces the Commitments rateably under the Facility;

	(f)	
a change to any Transaction Obligor other than in accordance with Clause 27 (Changes to the Transaction Obligors);

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	(g)	
any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders;

	(h)	
this Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers);

	(i)	
any change to the preamble (Background), Clause 2 (The Facility), Clause 3 (Purpose), Clause 5 (Utilisation), Clause 7.4 (Mandatory prepayment on sale or Total Loss), Clause 9 (Interest), Clause 24 (Earnings Account and Application of Earnings), Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders), Clause 31 (Sharing among the Finance Parties), Clause 45 (Governing Law) or Clause 46 (Enforcement);

	(j)	
any release of, or material variation to, any Transaction Security, guarantee, indemnity or subordination arrangement set out in a Finance Document (except in the case of a release of Transaction Security as it relates to the disposal of an asset which is the subject of the Transaction Security and where such disposal is expressly permitted by the Majority Lenders or otherwise under a Finance Document);

	(k)	
(other than as expressly permitted by the provisions of any Finance Document) the nature or scope of:

		(i)	
the guarantee and indemnity granted under Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity);

		(ii)	
the Security Assets; or

		(iii)	
the manner in which the proceeds of enforcement of the Transaction Security are distributed,

(except in the case of sub-paragraphs (ii) and (iii) above, insofar as it relates to a sale or disposal of an asset which is the subject of the Transaction Security where such sale or disposal is expressly permitted under this Agreement or any other Finance Document);

	(l)	
the release of the guarantee and indemnity granted under Clause 17 (Guarantee and Indemnity) or of any Transaction Security unless permitted under this Agreement or any other Finance Document or relating to a sale or disposal of an asset which is the subject of the Transaction Security where such sale or disposal is expressly permitted under this Agreement or any other Finance Document,

shall not be made, or given, without the prior consent of all the Lenders.

	41.3	
Other exceptions

An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of a Servicing Party (in its capacity as such) may not be effected without the consent of that Servicing Party.

	41.4	
Replacement of Screen Rate

	(a)	
Subject to Clause 41.3 (Other exceptions), if the Screen Rate is not available for dollars, any amendment or waiver which relates to providing for another benchmark rate to apply in relation to dollars, in place of that Screen Rate (or which relates to aligning any provision of a Finance Document to the use of that benchmark rate) may be made with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower.

	(b)	
If any Lender fails to respond to a request for an amendment or waiver described in paragraph (a) above within 5 Business Days (unless the Borrower and the Facility Agent

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(acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) agree to a longer time period in relation to any request) of that request being made:

		(i)	
its Commitment shall not be included for the purpose of calculating the Total Commitments when ascertaining whether any relevant percentage of Total Commitments has been obtained to approve that request; and

		(ii)	
its status as a Lender shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve that request.

	41.5	
Obligor Intent

Without prejudice to the generality of Clauses 1.2 (Construction) and 17.4 (Waiver of defences), each Obligor expressly confirms that it intends that any guarantee contained in this Agreement or any other Finance Document and any Security created by any Finance Document shall extend from time to time to any (however fundamental) variation, increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Finance Documents and/or any facility or amount made available under any of the Finance Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any of the following:  business acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing.

	42	
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

	42.1	
Confidentiality

Each Finance Party agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 42.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) and Clause 42.3 (Disclosure to numbering service providers) 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.

	42.2	
Disclosure of Confidential Information

Any Finance Party may disclose:

	(a)	
to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives such Confidential Information as that Finance Party 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;

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	(b)	
to any person:

		(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 or which succeeds (or which may potentially succeed) it as Facility Agent or Security Agent and, in each case, 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 one or more Transaction Obligors and to any of that person's Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;

		(iii)	
appointed by any Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf (including, without limitation, any person appointed under paragraph (c) of Clause 28.14 (Relationship with the other Finance Parties));

		(iv)	
who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above;

		(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 information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitrations, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes;

		(vii)	
to whom or for whose benefit that Finance Party charges, assigns or otherwise creates Security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 26.8 (Security over Lenders' rights);

		(viii)	
who is a Party, a Transaction Obligor or any related entity of a Transaction Obligor;

		(ix)	
as a result of the registration of any Finance Document as contemplated by any Finance Document or any legal opinion obtained in connection with any Finance Document; or

		(x)	
with the consent of the Borrower;

in each case, such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if:

		(A)	
in relation to sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking except that there shall be no requirement for a Confidentiality Undertaking if the recipient is a professional adviser and is

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subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information;

		(B)	
in relation to sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information they receive and is informed that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information;

		(C)	
in relation to sub-paragraphs (v), (vi) and (vii) of paragraph (b) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of that Finance Party, it is not practicable so to do in the circumstances;

	(c)	
to any person appointed by that Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (b) above 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) if the service provider to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered in to a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Borrower and the relevant Finance Party; and

	(d)	
to any rating agency (including its professional 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 and/or the Transaction Obligors if the rating agency to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information.

	42.3	
Disclosure to numbering service providers

	(a)	
Any Finance Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider appointed by that Finance Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Transaction Obligors the following information:

		(i)	
names of Transaction Obligors;

		(ii)	
country of domicile of Transaction Obligors;

		(iii)	
place of incorporation of Transaction Obligors;

		(iv)	
date of this Agreement;

		(v)	
Clause 45 (Governing Law);

		(vi)	
the name of the Facility Agent;

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		(vii)	
date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement;

		(viii)	
amount of Total Commitments;

		(ix)	
currency of the Facility;

		(x)	
type of Facility;

		(xi)	
ranking of Facility;

		(xii)	
Termination Date for Facility;

		(xiii)	
changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i) to (xii) above; and

		(xiv)	
such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Borrower,

to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.

	(b)	
The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Facility and/or one or more Transaction Obligors by a numbering service provider and the information associated with each such number may be disclosed to users of its services in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that numbering service provider.

	(c)	
Each Obligor represents, on behalf of itself and the other Transaction Obligors, that none of the information set out in sub-paragraphs (i) to (xiv) of paragraph (a) above is, nor will at any time be, unpublished price-sensitive information.

	42.4	
Entire agreement

This Clause 42 (Confidential Information) constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in relation to the obligations of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.

	42.5	
Inside information

Each of the Finance Parties acknowledges 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 each of the Finance Parties undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.

	42.6	
Notification of disclosure

Each of the Finance Parties agrees (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Borrower:

	(a)	
of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (b) of Clause 42.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) except

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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 42 (Confidential Information).

	42.7	
Continuing obligations

The obligations in this Clause 42 (Confidential Information) are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on each Finance Party for a period of 12 months from the earlier of:

	(a)	
the date on which all amounts payable by the Obligors under or in connection with this Agreement have been paid in full and all Commitments have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and

	(b)	
the date on which such Finance Party otherwise ceases to be a Finance Party.

	43	
CONFIDENTIALITY OF FUNDING RATES

	43.1	
Confidentiality and disclosure

	(a)	
The Facility Agent and each Obligor agree to keep each Funding Rate confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by paragraphs (b) and (c) below.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent may disclose:

		(i)	
any Funding Rate to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 9.4 (Notification of rates of interest); and

		(ii)	
any Funding Rate to any person appointed by it to provide administration services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents to the extent necessary to enable such service provider to provide those services if the service provider to whom that information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for Use With Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Facility Agent and the relevant Lender.

	(c)	
The Facility Agent may disclose any Funding Rate, and each Obligor may disclose any Funding Rate, to:

		(i)	
any of its Affiliates and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives if any person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given pursuant to this sub-paragraph (i) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it 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 that Funding Rate or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to it;

		(ii)	
any person 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 if the person to whom that Funding Rate

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is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Facility Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;

		(iii)	
any person 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 if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Facility Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances; and

		(iv)	
any person with the consent of the relevant Lender.

	43.2	
Related obligations

	(a)	
The Facility Agent and each Obligor acknowledge that each Funding Rate is or may be price sensitive information and that its use may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the Facility Agent and each Obligor undertake not to use any Funding Rate for any unlawful purpose.

	(b)	
The Facility Agent and each Obligor agree (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the relevant Lender:

		(i)	
of the circumstances of any disclosure made pursuant to sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of Clause 43.1 (Confidentiality and disclosure) 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

		(ii)	
upon becoming aware that any information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 43 (Confidentiality of Funding Rates).

	43.3	
No Event of Default

No Event of Default will occur under Clause 25.4 (Other obligations) by reason only of an Obligor's failure to comply with this Clause 43 (Confidentiality of Funding Rates).

	44	
COUNTERPARTS

Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.

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SECTION 12

 GOVERNING LAW AND ENFORCEMENT

	45	
GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

	46	
ENFORCEMENT

	46.1	
Jurisdiction

	(a)	
Unless specifically provided in another Finance Document in relation to that Finance Document, the courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with any Finance Document (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of any Finance Document or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with any Finance Document) (a "Dispute").

	(b)	
The Obligors accept that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Obligor will argue to the contrary.

	(c)	
This Clause 46.1 (Jurisdiction) is for the benefit of the Secured Parties only.  As a result, no Secured Party shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction.  To the extent allowed by law, the Secured Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

	46.2	
Service of process

	(a)	
Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, each Obligor (other than an Obligor incorporated in England and Wales):

		(i)	
irrevocably appoints Messrs E. J. C. Album Solicitors, presently of Landmark House, 190 Willifield Way, London NW11 6YA, England (attention: Mr Edward Album, tel: +44 208 455 7653, fax: +44 208 457 5558 and email: ejca@mitgr.com) as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document; and

		(ii)	
agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the relevant Obligor of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

	(b)	
If any person appointed as an agent for service of process is unable for any reason to act as agent for service of process, the Borrower (on behalf of all the Obligors) must immediately (and in any event within 5 days of such event taking place) appoint another agent on terms acceptable to the Facility Agent.  Failing this, the Facility Agent may appoint another agent for this purpose.

	47	
PATRIOT ACT NOTICE

	47.1	
PATRIOT Act Notice

Each of the Facility Agent and the Lenders hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act and the policies and practices of the Facility Agent and each

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Lender, the Facility Agent and each of the Lenders is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies each Transaction Obligor, which information includes the name and address of each Transaction Obligor and such other information that will allow the Facility Agent and each of the Lenders to identify each Transaction Obligor in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

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SCHEDULE 1

 THE PARTIES

PART A

 THE OBLIGORS

	
Name of Borrower

	
Place of Incorporation

	
Registration number (or equivalent, if any)

	
Address for Communication

 

	
Lord Ocean

Navigation Co.

	
The Republic of Liberia

	
C-118943

	
154 Vouliagmenis Avenue, 166 74 Glyfada, Athens Greece

  

	
Name of Guarantor

	
Place of Incorporation

	
Registration number (or equivalent, if any)

	
Address for Communication

 

	
Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.

	
The Republic of the Marshall Islands

	
27721

	
154 Vouliagmenis Avenue, 166 74 Glyfada, Athens Greece

	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 

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PART B

 THE ORIGINAL LENDERS

	
Name of Original Lender

	
Commitment

	
Address for Communication

 

	
EnTrustPermal ICAV, for and on behalf of Blue Ocean Fund

	
$9,869,240

	
EnTrustPermal ICAV

c/o EnTrust Partners LLC

375 Park Avenue

 New York, NY 10152

 

Facsimile: +1 212 888 0751

 

Email: sengh@entrustpermal.com /odonnerstein@entrustpermal.com/ bkahne@entrustpermal.com

Attention: Svein Engh / Omer Donnerstein / Bruce Kahne

 

	
Blue Ocean Onshore Fund LP

	
$10,464,794

	
Blue Ocean Onshore Fund LP

c/o EnTrust Partners LLC

375 Park Avenue

 New York, NY 10152

Facsimile: +1 212 888 0751

Email: sengh@entrustpermal.com /odonnerstein@entrustpermal.com/ bkahne@entrustpermal.com

 

Attention: Svein Engh / Omer Donnerstein / Bruce Kahne

	
Blue Ocean Investments SPC, for and on behalf of Segregated Portfolio One

	
$4,165,966

	
Blue Ocean Investments SPC

c/o EnTrust Partners LLC

375 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10152

 

Facsimile: +1 212 888 0751

 

Email: sengh@entrustpermal.com /odonnerstein@entrustpermal.com/ bkahne@entrustpermal.com

Attention: Svein Engh / Omer Donnerstein / Bruce Kahne

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PART C

 THE SERVICING PARTIES

	
Name of Facility Agent

	
Address for Communication

 

	
Wilmington Trust, National Association

	
1100 North Market Street,

Wilmington, DE 19890

 

Attn: Jennifer Anderson

 

Fax: 302-636-4145

 

	 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	
Name of Security Agent

	
Address for Communication

 

	
Wilmington Trust, National Association

	
1100 North Market Street,

Wilmington, DE 19890

 

Attn: Jennifer Anderson

 

Fax: 302-636-4145

 

	 	 
	 	 

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SCHEDULE 2

 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

PART A

 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO UTILISATION REQUEST

	1	
Obligors

	1.1	
A copy of the constitutional documents of each Transaction Obligor.

	1.2	
A copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each Transaction Obligor:

	(a)	
approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party;

	(b)	
authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and

	(c)	
authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices (including, if relevant, the Utilisation Request) to be signed and/or despatched by it under, or in connection with, the Finance Documents to which it is a party.

	1.3	
An original of the power of attorney of any Transaction Obligor authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party.

	1.4	
A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution referred to in paragraph 1.2 above.

	1.5	
A copy of a resolution signed by the Shareholder as the holder of all the issued share capital in the Borrower, approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party.

	1.6	
A certificate of each Transaction Obligor (signed by an officer) confirming that borrowing or guaranteeing, as appropriate, the Total Commitments would not cause any borrowing, guaranteeing or similar limit binding on that Transaction Obligor to be exceeded.

	1.7	
A certificate of each Transaction Obligor that is incorporated outside the UK (signed by an officer) certifying either that (i) it has not delivered particulars of any UK Establishment to the Registrar of Companies as required under the Overseas Regulations or (ii) it has a UK Establishment and specifying the name and registered number under which it is registered with the Registrar of Companies.

	1.8	
A certificate of an officer of the relevant Transaction Obligor certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Part A of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement.

	2	
Legal opinions

	2.1	
A legal opinion of Watson Farley & Williams, legal advisers to the Facility Agent and the Security Agent in England, substantially in the form distributed to the Original Lenders before signing this Agreement.

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	2.2	
If a Transaction Obligor is incorporated in a jurisdiction other than England and Wales, a legal opinion of the legal advisers to the Facility Agent and the Security Agent in the relevant jurisdiction, substantially in the form distributed to the Original Lenders before signing this Agreement.

	3	
Other documents and evidence

	3.1	
Evidence that any process agent referred to in Clause 46.2 (Service of process) has accepted its appointment.

	3.2	
A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Facility Agent considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Transaction Document.

	3.3	
Evidence that the Earnings Account has been opened with the Account Bank.

	3.4	
Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower pursuant to Clause 11 (Fees) and Clause 16 (Costs and Expenses) have been paid or will be paid by the Utilisation Date.

	3.5	
Such evidence as the Facility Agent may require for the Finance Parties to be able to satisfy each of their "know your customer" or similar identification procedures in relation to the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents.

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PART B

 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO UTILISATION

	1	
Borrower

A certificate of an authorised signatory of the Borrower certifying that each copy document which it is required to provide under this Part B of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at the Utilisation Date.

	2	
Release of Existing Security

An original of the Deed of Release and of each document to be delivered under or pursuant to it, together with evidence satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) of its due execution by the parties to it.

	3	
Finance Documents

	3.1	
A duly executed original of any Finance Document not otherwise referred to in this Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent).

	3.2	
A duly executed original of any other document required to be delivered by each Finance Document if not otherwise referred to this Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent).

	4	
Ship and other security

	4.1	
A duly executed original of the Account Security, the Shares Security, the Mortgage, the General Assignment and any Charter Assignment and of each document to be delivered under or pursuant to each of them together with documentary evidence that the Mortgage has been duly registered or recorded (as applicable) as a valid first preferred or priority (as applicable) ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction of the Approved Flag.

	4.2	
Documentary evidence that the Ship:

	(a)	
is definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Borrower under the Approved Flag.

	(b)	
is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Borrower save as contemplated by the Finance Documents;

	(c)	
maintains the Approved Classification with the Approved Classification Society free of all overdue recommendations and conditions of the Approved Classification Society; and

	(d)	
is insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements in this Agreement in respect of insurances have been complied with.

	4.3	
Documents establishing that the Ship will, as from the Utilisation Date, be managed commercially by the Approved Commercial Manager and managed technically by the Approved Technical Manager on terms acceptable to the Facility Agent acting with the authorisation of all of the Lenders, together with:

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	(a)	
a Manager's Undertaking for each of the Approved Technical Manager and the Approved Commercial Manager; and

	(b)	
copies of the Approved Technical Manager's Document of Compliance and of the Ship's Safety Management Certificate (together with any other details of the applicable Safety Management System which the Facility Agent requires (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders)) and of any other documents required under the ISM Code and the ISPS Code in relation to the Ship including without limitation an ISSC.

	4.4	
An opinion from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) on such matters relating to the Insurances as the Facility Agent may require (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

	5	
Legal opinions

Legal opinions of the legal advisers to the Facility Agent and the Security Agent in the jurisdiction of the Approved Flag of the Ship, Marshall Islands and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Facility Agent may require.

	6	
Other documents and evidence

	6.1	
Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower pursuant to Clause 11 (Fees) and Clause 16 (Costs and Expenses) have been paid or will be paid by the Utilisation Date.

148

SCHEDULE 3

 REQUESTS

UTILISATION REQUEST

	From:	
Lord Ocean Navigation Co.

[●]

	To:	
Wilmington Trust, National Association

[●]

Dated: [●] June 2018

Dear Sirs

Lord Ocean Navigation Co. – $24,500,000 Facility Agreement dated [●] June 2018 (the "Agreement")

	1	
We refer to the Agreement.  This is the Utilisation Request.  Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a different meaning in this Utilisation Request.

	2	
We wish to borrow the Loan on the following terms:

		Proposed Utilisation Date:	
[●] June 2018 (or, if that is not a Business Day, the next Business Day)

		Amount:	
[$24,500,000] or, if less, the Available Facility

	3	
[You are authorised and requested to deduct from the Loan prior to funds being remitted the following amounts set out against the following items:

		Fees payable on the Utilisation date pursuant to Clause 11 (Fees)	
$[●]

		Net proceeds of Loan	
$[[●]]]

	4	
[We request that funds are prepositioned with [include details of relevant bank] in accordance with Clause 5.8 (Prepositioning of Funds).]

	5	
We hereby agree and acknowledge that the Facility Agent shall make payments strictly on the basis of the information set forth in this Utilisation Request hereto even if such information is incorrect.  In the event that any of such information is incorrect, we agree that the Facility Agent shall not have any liability with respect thereto.

	6	
We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) and Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) of the Agreement as they relate to the Loan is satisfied on the date of this Utilisation Request.

	7	
The net proceeds of the Loan should be credited to [●].

	8	
This Utilisation Request is irrevocable.

149

Yours faithfully

____________________

[●]

authorised signatory for

LORD OCEAN NAVIGATION CO.

150

SCHEDULE 4

 FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

	To:	
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION as Facility Agent

	From:	
[The Existing Lender] (the "Existing Lender") and [The New Lender] (the "New Lender")

Dated: [●]

Dear Sirs

Lord Ocean Navigation Co. – $24,500,000 Facility Agreement dated [●] June 2018 (the "Agreement")

	1	
We refer to the Agreement.  This is a Transfer Certificate.  Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Transfer Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Transfer Certificate.

	2	
We refer to Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) of the Agreement:

	(a)	
The Existing Lender and the New Lender agree to the Existing Lender transferring to the New Lender by novation all of the Existing Lender's rights and obligations under the Agreement and the other Finance Documents which relate to that portion of the Existing Lender's Commitment and participation in the Loan under the Agreement as specified in the Schedule in accordance with Clause 26.5 (Procedure for transfer) of the Agreement.

	(b)	
The proposed Transfer Date is [●].

	(c)	
The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of Clause 35.2 (Addresses) of the Agreement are set out in the Schedule.

	3	
The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in paragraph (c) of Clause 26.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) of the Agreement.

	4	
This Transfer Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Transfer Certificate.

	5	
This Transfer Certificate and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

	6	
This Transfer Certificate has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Transfer Certificate.

Note: The execution of this Transfer Certificate may not transfer a proportionate share of the Existing Lender's interest in the Transaction Security in all jurisdictions.  It is the responsibility of the New Lender to ascertain whether any other documents or other formalities are required to

151

perfect a transfer of such a share in the Existing Lender's Transaction Security in any jurisdiction and, if so, to arrange for execution of those documents and completion of those formalities.

152

THE SCHEDULE

Commitment/rights and obligations to be transferred

[insert relevant details]

[Facility Office address, fax number and attention details

for notices and account details for payments.]

	[Existing Lender]	
[New Lender]

	By: [●]	
By: [●]

This Transfer Certificate is accepted by the Facility Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [●].

[Facility Agent]

By: [●]

153

SCHEDULE 5

 FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

	To:	
Wilmington Trust, National Association as Facility Agent and Lord Ocean Navigation Co. as Borrower, for and on behalf of each Transaction Obligor

	From:	
[the Existing Lender] (the "Existing Lender") and [the New Lender] (the "New Lender")

Dated: [●]

Dear Sirs

Lord Ocean Navigation Co. - $24,500,000 Facility Agreement dated [●] June 2018 (the "Agreement")

	1	
We refer to the Agreement.  This is an Assignment Agreement.  Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Assignment Agreement unless given a different meaning in this Assignment Agreement.

	2	
We refer to Clause 26.6 (Procedure for assignment):

	(a)	
The Existing Lender assigns absolutely to the New Lender all the rights of the Existing Lender under the Agreement, the other Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security which correspond to that portion of the Existing Lender's Commitment and participations in the Loan under the Agreement as specified in the Schedule.

	(b)	
The Existing Lender is released from all the obligations of the Existing Lender which correspond to that portion of the Existing Lender's Commitments and participations in the Loan under the Agreement specified in the Schedule.

	(c)	
The New Lender becomes a Party as a Lender and is bound by obligations equivalent to those from which the Existing Lender is released under paragraph (b) above.

	(d)	
All rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Existing Lender has under or by virtue of the Finance Documents are assigned to the New Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Existing Lender's title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any other Transaction Obligor had against the Existing Lender.

	3	
The proposed Transfer Date is [●].

	4	
On the Transfer Date the New Lender becomes Party to the Finance Documents as a Lender.

	5	
The Facility Office and address, fax, number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of Clause 35.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule.

	6	
The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in paragraph (c) of Clause 26.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders).

	7	
This Assignment Agreement acts as notice to the Facility Agent (on behalf of each Finance Party) and, upon delivery in accordance with Clause 26.7 (Copy of Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement to Borrower), to the Borrower (on behalf of each Transaction Obligor) of the assignment referred to in this Assignment Agreement.

154

	8	
This Assignment Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Assignment Agreement.

	9	
This Assignment Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

	10	
This Assignment Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Assignment Agreement.

Note: The execution of this Assignment Agreement may not transfer a proportionate share of the Existing Lender's interest in the Transaction Security in all jurisdictions.  It is the responsibility of the New Lender to ascertain whether any other documents or other formalities are required to perfect a transfer of such a share in the Existing Lender's Transaction Security in any jurisdiction and, if so, to arrange for execution of those documents and completion of those formalities.

155

THE SCHEDULE

Commitment rights and obligations to be transferred by assignment, release and accession

[insert relevant details]

[Facility office address, fax number and attention details for notices

 and account details for payments]

	[Existing Lender]	
[New Lender]

	By: [●]	
By: [●]

This Assignment Agreement is accepted by the Facility Agent and the Transfer Date is confirmed as [●].

Signature of this Assignment Agreement by the Facility Agent constitutes confirmation by the Facility Agent of receipt of notice of the assignment referred to herein, which notice the Facility Agent receives on behalf of each Finance Party.

[Facility Agent]

By:

156

SCHEDULE 6

 REPAYMENT SCHEDULE

	
Date

	
Opening Balance

	
Amortization

	
Closing Balance

	
Interest

	
13/06/2018

	 	 	
24,500,000

	 
	
13/09/2018

	
24,500,000

	
200,000

	
24,300,000

	
876,400

	
13/12/2018

	
24,300,000

	
200,000

	
24,100,000

	
864,700

	
13/03/2019

	
24,100,000

	
200,000

	
23,900,000

	
853,000

	
13/06/2019

	
23,900,000

	
200,000

	
23,700,000

	
876,400

	
13/09/2019

	
23,700,000

	
200,000

	
23,500,000

	
876,400

	
13/12/2019

	
23,500,000

	
200,000

	
23,300,000

	
864,700

	
13/03/2020

	
23,300,000

	
200,000

	
23,100,000

	
864,700

	
13/06/2020

	
23,100,000

	
200,000

	
22,900,000

	
876,400

	
13/09/2020

	
22,900,000

	
600,000

	
22,300,000

	
476,400

	
13/12/2020

	
22,300,000

	
700,000

	
21,600,000

	
364,700

	
13/03/2021

	
21,600,000

	
700,000

	
20,900,000

	
353,000

	
13/06/2021

	
20,900,000

	
700,000

	
20,200,000

	
376,400

	
13/09/2021

	
20,200,000

	
600,000

	
19,600,000

	
476,400

	
13/12/2021

	
19,600,000

	
700,000

	
18,900,000

	
364,700

	
13/03/2022

	
18,900,000

	
600,000

	
18,300,000

	
453,000

	
13/06/2022

	
18,300,000

	
700,000

	
17,600,000

	
376,400

	
13/09/2022

	
17,600,000

	
600,000

	
17,000,000

	
476,400

	
13/12/2022

	
17,000,000

	
500,000

	
16,500,000

	
564,700

	
13/03/2023

	
16,500,000

	
500,000

	
16,000,000

	
553,000

	
13/06/2023

	
16,000,000

	
700,000

	
15,300,000

	
376,400

	
13/09/2023

	
15,300,000

	
700,000

	
14,600,000

	
376,400

	
13/12/2023

	
14,600,000

	
700,000

	
13,900,000

	
364,700

	
13/03/2024

	
13,900,000

	
700,000

	
13,200,000

	
364,700

	
13/06/2024

	
13,200,000

	
700,000

	
12,500,000

	
376,400

	
13/09/2024

	
12,500,000

	
700,000

	
11,800,000

	
376,400

	
13/12/2024

	
11,800,000

	
800,000

	
11,000,000

	
264,700

	
13/03/2025

	
11,000,000

	
700,000

	
10,300,000

	
353,000

	
13/06/2025

	
10,300,000

	
800,000

	
9,500,000

	
276,400

	
Totals

	 	
15,000,000

	 	
14,916,900

157

SCHEDULE 7

 TIMETABLES

	
Delivery of a duly completed Utilisation Request (Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request))

	
Two Business Days before the intended Utilisation Date (Clause 5.1 (Delivery of a Utilisation Request))

 

	
Facility Agent notifies the Lenders of the Loan in accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation)

	
One Business Day before the intended Utilisation Date.

 

	
LIBOR is fixed

	
Quotation Day as of 11:00 am London time

	 	 

158

EXECUTION PAGES

BORROWER

	
SIGNED by Stavros Gyftakis

	
)

	 /s/ Stavros Gyftakis
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
LORD OCEAN NAVIGATION CO.

	
)

	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	/s/ Theodora Mitropetrou 
	
Witness' name: Theodora Mitropetrou

	
)

	 
	
Witness' address: illegible

	
)

	 

GUARANTOR

	
SIGNED by Stavros Gyftakis

	
)

	 /s/ Stavros Gyftakis
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
SEANERGY MARITIME HOLDINGS CORP.

	
)

	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 /s/ Theodora Mitropetrou
	
Witness' name: Theodora Mitropetrou

	
)

	 
	
Witness' address: illegible

	
)

	 

ORIGINAL LENDERS

	
SIGNED by Bruce Kahne

	
)

	 /s/ Bruce Kahne 
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 General Counsel/CCO
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
ENTRUSTPERMAL ICAV

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
BLUE OCEAN FUND

	 	 
	
By:  EnTrustPermal Partners Offshore LP

	 	 
	
as its Investment Advisor

	 	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 /s/ illegible
	
Witness' name:

	
)

	 375 Park Avenue
	
Witness' address:

	
)

	NY, NY 10152 

159

	
SIGNED by Bruce Kahne

	
)

	/s/ Bruce Kahne 
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 General Counsel/CCO
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
BLUE OCEAN ONSHORE FUND LP

	
)

	 
	
By:  EnTrust Partners LLC

	 	 
	
as its General Partner

	 	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' name:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' address:

	
)

	 

	
SIGNED by Bruce Kahne

	
)

	 /s/ Bruce Kahne
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 General Counsel/CCO
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
BLUE OCEAN INVESTMENTS SPC

	
)

	 
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
SEGREGATED PORTFOLIO ONE

	
)

	 
	
By: EnTrustPermal Partners Offshore LP

	
)

	 
	
as its Investment Advisor

	
)

	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 /s/ illegible
	
Witness' name:

	
)

	 375 Park Avenue
	
Witness' address:

	
)

	 NY, NY 10152

FACILITY AGENT

	
SIGNED by J. Anderson

	
)

	 /s/ J. Anderson
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 Vice President
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
WILMINGTON TRUST,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

	
)

)

	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 /s/ Alisha M. Ciendaniel
	
Witness' name: Alisha M. Ciendaniel

	
)

	 1100 North Market Street
	
Witness' address:

	
)

	 Wilmington, DE 19890

160

SECURITY AGENT

	
SIGNED by J. Anderson

	
)

	 /s/ J. Anderson
	
duly authorised

	
)

	 Vice President
	
for and on behalf of

	
)

	 
	
WILMINGTON TRUST,

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

	
)

)

	 
	
in the presence of:

	
)

	 
	
Witness' signature:

	
)

	 /s/ Alisha M. Ciendaniel
	
Witness' name: Alisha M. Ciendaniel

	
)

	 1100 North Market Street
	
Witness' address:

	
)

	 Wilmington, DE 19890

161Exhibit 10.82
	 	 	 
	
1. Shipbroker

N/A

	
BIMCO STANDARD BAREBOAT CHARTER

CODE NAME: "BARECON 2001"

	

PART I

	 	
2. Place and date

Shanghai, China

                          2018

	
3. Owners/Place of business (Cl. 1)

Hanchen Limited, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and having its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960

	
4. Bareboat Charterer/Place of Business (Cl. 1)

Knight Ocean Navigation Co., a corporation organised and existing under the laws of the Republic Liberia and having its registered address at 80 Broad Street Monrovia, the Republic of Liberia

	
5. Vessel's name, call sign and flag (Cl. 1 and 3)

 

Name: Knightship

Call sign: D5MN5

Flag State: Liberia

 

	
6. Type of Vessel

Bulk Carrier

	
7. GT/NT

93,186/59,500

	
8. When/Where built

2010/Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

	
9. Total DWT (abt.) in metric tons on summer freeboard

N/A

	
10. Classification Society (Cl. 3)

Bureau Veritas

	
11. Date of last special survey by the Vessel's classification society

N/A

	
12. Further particulars of Vessel (also indicate minimum number of months' validity of class certificates agreed acc. to Cl. 3)

Length: 284.220 m

Breadth: 45.000 m

Depth: 24.700 m

	
13. Port or Place of delivery (Cl. 3)

See Clause 35

	
14. Time for delivery (Cl. 4)

See Clause 35

	
15. Cancelling date (Cl. 5)

See Clause 35

	
16. Port or Place of redelivery (Cl. 15)

See Clause 46.2

	
17. No. of months' validity of trading and class certificates upon

           redelivery (Cl. 15)

See Clause 46.2

	
18. Running days' notice if other than stated in Cl. 4

N/A

	
19. Frequency of dry-docking (Cl. 10(g))

As required by classification society

	
20. Trading Limits (Cl 6)

World Wide, always within Institute Warranty Limits and not to any zone after it has been declared a war zone by any government or the Vessel's war risk insurer.

	
21. Charter period (Cl. 2)

See Clause 36

	
22. Charter hire (Cl. 11)

See Clause 38

	
23. New class and other safety requirements (state percentage of Vessel's insurance value acc. to Box 29)(Cl. 10(a)(ii))

N/A

	
24. Rate of interest payable acc. to Cl. 11(f) and, if applicable, acc. to          PART IV

See Clauses 38.8

	
25. Currency and method of payment (Cl. 11)

See Clause 38.5

(continued)          "BARECON 2001" STANDARD BAREBOAT CHARTERPART I

	
26. Place of payment; also state beneficiary and bank account (Cl. 11)

See Clause 38

	
27. Bank guarantee/bond (sum and place)(Cl. 24)(optional)

N/A

	
28. Mortgage(s), if any (state whether 12(a) or (b) applies; if 12(b) applies state date of Financial Instrument and name of Mortgagee(s)/Place of business)(Cl. 12)

See Clause 39

	
29. Insurance (hull and machinery and war risks)(state value acc. to Cl. 13(f) or, if applicable, acc. to Cl. 14(k))(also state if Cl. 14 applies)

See Clause 43

	
30. Additional insurance cover, if any, for Owners' account limited to (Cl. 13(b) or, if applicable, Cl. 14(g))

N/A

	
31. Additional insurance cover, if any, for Charterers' account limited to (Cl. 13(b) or, if applicable, Cl. 14(g))

See Clause 43

	
32. Latent defects (only to be filled in if period other than stated in Cl. 3)

N/A

	
33. Brokerage commission and to whom payable (Cl. 27)

N/A

	
34. Grace period (state number of clear banking dates)(Cl. 28)

See Additional Clauses

	
35. Dispute Resolution (state 30(a), 30(b) or 30(c); if 30(c) agreed Place of Arbitration must be stated (Cl. 30)

See Clause 50

	
36. War cancellation (indicate countries agreed)(Cl. 26(f))

See Additional Clause 51.11

	
37. New building Vessel (indicate with "yes" or "no" whether PART III applies)(optional)

No

	
38. Name and place of Builders (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

N/A

	
39. Vessel's Yard Building No. (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

N/A

	
40. Date of Building Contract (only to be filled in if PART III applies)

N/A

	
41. Liquidated damages and costs shall accrue to (state party acc. to Cl. 1)

	
N/A

	 
	
42. Hire/Purchase agreement (indicate with "yes" or "no" whether PART IV applies)(optional)

No.

	
43. Bareboat Charter Registry (indicate "yes" or "no" whether PART V applies)(optional)

No.

	
44. Flag and Country of the Bareboat Charter Registry (only to be filled in if PART V applies)

N/A

	
45. Country of the Underlying Registry (only to be filled in if PART V applies)

N/A

	
46. Number of additional clauses covering special provisions, if agreed

32-50

	
 

PREAMBLE - It is mutually agreed that this Contract shall be performed subject to the conditions contained in this Charter which shall Include PART I

and PART II. In the event of a conflict of conditions, the provisions of PART I shall prevail over those of PART II to the extent of such conflict but no further. It Is further mutually agreed that PART III and/or PART IV and/or PART V shall only apply and only form part of this Charter If expressly agreed and stated in Boxes 37, 42 and 43. If PART III and/or PART IV and/or PART V apply, it Is further agreed that In the event of a conflict of conditions,

 the provisions of PART l and PART II shall prevail over those of PART III and/or PART IV and/or PART V to the extent of such conflict but no further.

 

	
Signature (Owners)

For and on behalf of

Hanchen Limited

 

/s/ Zhou Qi                     

Name: Zhou Qi

Title: Director

	
Signature (Charterers)

For and on behalf of

Knight Ocean Navigation Co.

 

/s/ Stavros Gyftadis                                 

Name: Stavros Gyftadis

Title: Director

PART II

 "BARECON 2001" Standard Bareboat Charter

	1.	
Definitions

In this Charter, the following terms shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

"The Owners" shall mean the party identified in Box 3; "The Charterers" shall mean the party identified in Box 4;

"The Vessel" shall mean the vessel named in Box 5 and with particulars as stated in Boxes 6 to 12.

"Financial Instrument" means the mortgage, deed of covenant or other such financial security instrument as annexed to this Charter and stated in Box 28.

	2.	
Charter Period

In consideration of the hire detailed in Box 22, the Owners have agreed to let and the Charterers have agreed to hire the Vessel for the period stated in Box 21 ("The Charter Period"),

	3.	
Delivery-See Clause 35

(not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

(a)          The Owners shall before and at the time of delivery exercise due diligence to make the Vessel seaworthy

and in every respect ready in hull, machinery and equipment for service under this Charter,

The Vessel shall be delivered by the Owners and taken over by the Charterers at the port or place indicated in Box 13 in such ready safe berth as the Charterers may direct.

(b)          The Vessel shall be properly documented on delivery in accordance with the laws of the flag State indicated in Box 5 and the requirements of the classification society stated in Box 10.  The Vessel upon delivery shall have her survey cycles up to date and trading and class certificates valid for at least the number of months agreed in Box 12.

(c)          The delivery of the Vessel by the Owners and the taking over of the Vessel by the charterers shall constitute a full performance by the Owners of all the Owner's obligations under this Clause 3, and thereafter the Charterers shall not be entitled to make or assert any claim against the Owners on account of any conditions, representations or warranties expressed or implied with respect to the Vessel but the Owners shall be liable for the cost of but not the time for repairs or renewals occasioned by latent defects in the Vessel, her machinery or appurtenances, existing at the time of delivery under this Charter, provided such defects have manifested themselves within twelve (12) months after delivery unless otherwise provided in Box 32.

	4.	
Time for Delivery

(not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

The Vessel shall not be delivered before the date indicated in Box 14 without the Charterers' consent and the Owners shall exercise due diligence to deliver the Vessel not later than the date indicated in Box 15.

Unless otherwise agreed in Box 18, the Owners shall give the Charterers not less than thirty (30) running days' preliminary and not less than fourteen (14) running days' definite notice of the date on which the Vessel is expected to be ready for delivery.  See Clause 35.

The Owners shall keep the Charterers closely advised of possible changes in the Vessel's position.

	5.	
Canceling

(not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37) See Clause 33

(a)          Should the Vessel not be delivered latest by the canceling date indicated in Box 15, the Charterers shall have the option of canceling this Charter by giving the Owners notice of cancellation within thirty six (36) running hours after the cancelling date stated in Box 15, failing which this Charter shall remain in full force and effect.

(b)          If it appears that the Vessel will be delayed beyond the cancelling date, the Owners may, as soon as they are in a position to state with reasonable certainty the day on which the Vessel should be ready, give notice thereof to the Charterers asking whether they will exercise their option of cancelling, and the option must then be declared within one hundred and sixty eight (168) running hours of the receipt by the Charterers of such notice or within thirty six (36) running hours after the cancelling date, whichever is earlier.  If the Charterers do not then exercise their option of cancelling, the seventh day after the readiness date stated in the Owner's notice shall be substituted for cancelling date indicated in Box 15 for the purpose of this Clause 5.

(c)          Cancellation under this Clause 5 shall be without prejudice to any claim the Charterers may otherwise have on the Owners under this Charter.

	6.	
Trading Restrictions

The Vessel shall be employed in lawful trades for the carriage of suitable lawful merchandise within the trading limits indicated in Box 20.

The Charterers undertake not to employ the Vessel or suffer the Vessel to be employed otherwise than in conformity with the terms of the contracts of the insurance (including any warranties expressed or implied therein) without first obtaining the consent of the insurers to such employment and complying with such requirements as to extra premium or otherwise as the insurers may prescribe.

The Charterers also undertake not to employ the Vessel or suffer her employment in any trade or business which is forbidden by the law of any country to which the Vessel may sail or is otherwise illicit or in carrying illicit or prohibited goods or in any manner whatsoever which may render her liable to condemnation, destruction, seizure or confiscation.

Notwithstanding any other provisions contained in this Charter it is agreed that nuclear fuels or radioactive products or waste are specifically excluded from the cargo permitted to be loaded or carried under this Charter.  This exclusion does not apply to radio-isotopes used or intended to be used for any industrial, commercial, agricultural, medical or scientific purposes provided the Owners' prior approval has been obtained o loading thereof.

	7.	
Surveys on Delivery and Redelivery

(not applicable when Part III applies, as indicated in Box 37)

The Owners and Charterers shall each appoint surveyors for the purpose of determining and agreeing in writing the condition of the Vessel and the quantities of bunkers, lubricating oil, water and unbroached provisions, paint oils, ropes and other consumable provisions at the time of delivery and redelivery hereunder.  The Owners shall bear all expenses of the On hire Survey including loss of time, if any, at the daily equivalent to the rate of hire or pro rata thereof.

	8.	
Inspection See Clause 42.1.14

The Owners shall have the right at any time after giving reasonable notice to the Charterers to inspect or survey the Vessel or instruct a duly authorized surveyor to carry out such survey on their behalf.

(a)          To ascertain the condition of the Vessel and satisfy themselves that the Vessel is being properly repaired and maintained.  The costs and fees for such inspection or survey shall be paid by the Charterers Owners unless the Vessel is found to require repairs or maintenance in order to achieve the condition so provided;

(b)          In dry-dock if the Charterers have not dry-docked her in accordance with Clause 10(g).  The costs and fees for such inspection or survey shall be paid by the Charterers; and

(c)          for any other commercial reason they consider necessary (provided it does not unduly interfere with the commercial operation of the Vessel).  The costs

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and fees for such inspection and survey shall be paid by the CharterersOwners.

All time used in respect of inspection, survey or repairs shall be for the Charterers' account and form part of the Charter Period.

The Charterers shall also permit the Owners to inspect the Vessel's log books whenever requested and shall whenever required by the Owners furnish them with full information regarding any casualties or other accident or damage to the Vessel.

	9.	
Inventories, Oil and Stores

A complete inventory of the Vessel's entire equipment, outfit including spare parts, appliances and of all consumable stores on board the Vessel shall be made by the Charterers in conjunction with the Owners on delivery and again on redelivery of the Vessel.  The Charterers and the Owners, respectively, shall at the time of delivery and redelivery take over and pay for all bunkers, lubricating oil, unbroached provisions, paints, ropes and other consumable stores free of charge. The Charterers shall ensure that all spare parts listed in the inventory and used during the Charter Period are replaced at their expense prior to redelivery of the Vessel.

	10.	
Maintenance and Operation

		(a)	(i)	Maintenance and Repairs –

During the Charter Period the Vessel shall be in the full possession and at the absolute disposal for all purposes of the Charterers and under their complete control in every respect.  The Charterers shall maintain the Vessel, her machinery, boilers, appurtenances and spare parts in a good state of repair, in efficient operating condition and in accordance with good commercial maintenance practice and, except as provided for in Clause 14(l), if applicable, at their own expense they shall at all times keep the Vessel's Class fully up to date with the Classification Society indicated in Box 10 and maintain all other necessary certificates in force at all times.

		(ii)	
New Class and Other Safety Requirements

In the event of any improvement, structural changes or new equipment becoming necessary for the continued operation of the Vessel by reason of new class requirements or by compulsory legislation then the time and costs for compliance shall be for the sole account of the Charterers.  costing (excluding the Charterers' loss of time) more than the percentage stated in Box 23, or if Box 23 is left blank, 5 per cent. of the Vessel's insurance value as stated in Box 29, then the extent, if any, to which the rate of hire shall be varied and the ratio in which the cost of compliance shall be shared between the parties concerned in order to achieve a reasonable distribution thereof as between the Owners and the Charterers having regard, inter alia, to the length of the period remaining under this Charter shall, in the absence of agreement, be referred to the dispute resolution method agreed in Clause 30.

		(iii)	
Financial Security

The Charterers shall maintain financial security or responsibility in respect of third party liabilities as required by any government, including federal, state or municipal or other division or authority thereof, to enable the Vessel, without penalty or charge, lawfully to enter, remain at, or leave any port, place, territorial or contiguous waters of any country, state or municipality in performance of this Charter without any delay.  This obligation shall apply whether or not such requirements have been lawfully imposed by such government or division or authority thereof.

The Charterers shall make and maintain all arrangements by bond or otherwise as may be necessary to satisfy such requirements at the Charterers' sole expense and the Charterers shall indemnify the Owners against all consequences whatsoever (including loss of time) for any failure or inability to do so.

(b)  Operation of the Vessel

The Charterers shall at their own expense and by their own procurement man, victual, navigate, operate, supply, fuel and, whenever required, repair the Vessel during the Charter Period and they shall pay all charges and expenses of every kind and nature whatsoever incidental to their use and operation of the vessel under this Charter, including annual flag State fees and any foreign general municipality and/or state taxes. The Master, officers and his crew of the Vessel shall be the servants of the Charterers for all purposes whatsoever, even if for any reason appointed by the Owners.

Charterers shall comply with the regulations regarding officers and crew in force in the country of the Vessel's flag or any other applicable law.

(c)  The Charterers shall keep the Owners and the mortgagee(s) advised of the intended employment, planned dry-docking and major repairs of the Vessel, as reasonably required.

(d)  Flag and Name of Vessel

During the Charter Period, the Charterers shall have the liberty to paint the Vessel in their own colours, install and display their funnel insignia and fly their own house flag. The Charterers also have the liberty, with the Owners' consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, to change the flag and/or the name of the Vessel during the Charter Period.  Painting and re-painting, installment and re-installment, registration and re-registration, if required by the Owners, shall be at the Charterers' costs, expense and time unless requested by the Owners.

(e)  Changes to the Vessel

Subject to Clause 10(a)(ii), the Charterers shall make no structural changes in the Vessel or changes in the machinery, boilers, appurtenances or spare parts thereof without in each instance first securing the Owners' approval thereof.  If the Owners so agree, the Charterers shall, if the Owners so require, restore the Vessel to its former condition before the termination of this Charter.

(f)  Use of the Vessel's Outfit, Equipment and Appliances

The Charterers shall have the use of all outfit, equipment, and appliances on board the Vessel at the time of delivery, provided the same or their substantial equivalent shall be returned to the Owners on redelivery in the same good order and condition as when received, ordinary wear and tear expected. The Charterers shall from time to time during the Charter Period replace such items of equipment as shall be so damaged or worn as to be unfit for use. The Charterers are to procure that all repairs to or replacement of any damaged, worn or lost parts or equipment be effected in such manner (both as regards workmanship and quality of materials) as not to diminish the value of the Vessel.  The Charterers have the right to fit additional equipment at their expense and risk but the Charteres shall remove such equipment at the end of the period if requested by the Owner.  Any equipment including radio equipment on hire on the Vessel at time of delivery shall be kept and maintained by the Charters and the chart Charterers shall assume the obligations and liabilities of the Owners under any lease contracts in connection therewith, and shall reimburse the Owners for all expenses incurred in connection therewith, also for any new equipment required in order to comply with radio regulations.

(g)  Periodical Dry-Docking

The Charters shall dry-dock the Vessel and clean and paint her underwater parts whenever the same may be necessary, but not less than once during the period stated in Box 19 or, if Box 19 has been left blank, every sixty (60) calendar months after

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delivery or such other period as may be required by the Classification Society or flag State.

	11.	
Hire (See also Clause 38)

(a)  The Charterers shall pay hire due to the Owners punctually in accordance with the terms of this Charter in respect of which time shall be of the essence

(b)  The Charterers shall pay to the Owners for the hire of the Vessel a lump sum in the amount indicated in Box 22 which shall be payable not later than every thirty (30) running days in advance, the first lump sum being payable on the date and hour of the Vessel's delivery to the Charterers. Hire shall be paid continuously throughout the Charger Period.

(c)  Payment of hire shall be made in cash without discount in the currency and in the manner indicated in Box 25 and at the place mentioned in Box 26.

(d)  Final payments of hire, if for less than thirty (30) running days, shall be calculated proportionally according to the number of days and hours remaining before redelivery and advance payment to be affected accordingly.

(e)  Should the Vessel be lost or missing, hire shall cease from the date and time when she was lost or last heard of. The date upon which the Vessel is to be treated as lost or missing shall be ten (10) days after the Vessel was last reported or when the Vessel is posted as missing by Lloyd's, whichever occurs first. Any hire paid in advance to be adjusted accordingly.

(f)  Any delay in payment of higher shall entitle the Owners to interest at the rate her and him as agreed in Box 24. If Box 24 has not been filled in, the three months into the bank offered rate in London (LIBOR or is successor) for the currency stated in Box 25, as quoted by the British Bankers' Association (BBA) on the date when the hire felt due, increased by 2 percent, shall apply

(g)  Payments of interest do under subclause 11(f) shall be made within seven (7) running days of the date of the Owners invoice specifying the amount payable or, in the absence of an invoice, at the time of the next hire payment date

	12.	
Mortgage See Clause 39

(only to apply if Box 28 has been appropriately filled in)

*(a)  The Owners warrant that they have not effected any mortgage(s) of the Vessel and that they shall not effect any mortgage(s) without the prior consent of the Charterers, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

*(b)  The Vessel chartered under this Charter is financed by a mortgage according to the Financial Instrument The Charterers undertake to comply, and provide such information and documents to enable the Owners to comply, with all such instructions or directions in regard to the employment, insurances, operation, repairs and maintenance of the Vessel as laid down in the Financial Instrument or as may be directed from time to time during the currency of the Charter by the mortgagee(s) in conformity with the Financial Instrument.  The Charterers confirm that, for this purpose, they have acquainted themselves with all relevant terms, conditions and provisions of the Financial Instrument and agree to acknowledge this in writing in any form that may be required by the mortgagee(s).  The Owners warrant that they have not effected any mortgage(s) other than stated in Box 28 and that they shall not agree to any amendment of the mortgage(s) referred to in Box 28 or effect any other mortgage(s) without the prior consent of the Charterers, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

*(Optional, Clauses 12(a) and 12(b) are alternatives; indicate alternative agreed in Box 28)

	13.	
Insurance and Repairs  (See also Clause 43)

(a)  During the Charter Period the Vessel shall be kept insured by the Charterers at their expense against hull and machinery, war and Protection and Indemnity risks (and any risks against which it is compulsory to insure for the operation of the Vessel, including but not limited to maintaining financial security in accordance with sub-clause 10(a)(iii) in such form as the Owners shall in writing approve, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.  Such insurances shall be arranged by the Charterers to protect the interests of both the Owners and the Charterers and the mortgagee(s) (if any), and the Charterers shall be at liberty to protect under such insurances the interests of any managers they may appoint.  Insurance policies shall cover the Owners and the Charterers according to their respective interests.  Subject to the provisions of the Financial Instruments, if any, and the approval of the Owners and the insurers, the Charterers shall effect all insured repairs and shall undertake settlement and reimbursement from the insurers of all costs in connection with such repairs as well as insured charges, expenses and liabilities to the extent of coverage under the insurances herein provided for.

The Charterers also to remain responsible for and to effect repairs and settlement of costs and expenses incurred thereby in respect of all other repairs not covered by the insurances and/or not exceeding any possible franchise(s) or deductibles provided for in the insurances.

All time used for repairs under the provisions of sub-clause 13(a) and for repairs of latent defects according to Clause 3(c) above, including any deviation, shall be the Charterers' account.

(b) If the conditions of the above insurances permit additional insurance to be placed by the parties, such cover shall be limited to the amount for each party set out in Box 30 and Box 31, respectively.  The Owners or the Charterers as the case may be shall immediately furnish the other party Owners with particulars of any additional insurance effected, including copies of any cover notes or policies and the written consent of the insurers of any such required insurance in any case where the consent of such insurers are necessary.

(c) The Charterers shall upon the request of the Owners, provide information and promptly execute such documents as may be required to enable the Owners to comply with the insurance provisions of the Financial Instrument.

(d) Subject to the provisions of the Financial Instruments, if any, should the Vessel become an actual, constructive, compromised or agreed total loss under the insurances required under sub-clause 13(a), all insurance payments for such loss shall be paid to the Owners who shall distribute the moneys between the Owners and the Charterers according to their respective interests.  The Charterers undertake to notify the Owners and the mortgagee(s), if any, of any occurrences in consequence of which the Vessel is likely to become a total loss as defined in this Clause.

(e) The Owners shall upon the request of the Charterers, promptly execute such documents as may be required to enable the Charterers to abandon the Vessel to insurers and claim a constructive total loss.

(f) For the purpose of insurance coverage against hull and machinery and war risks under the provisions of sub-clause 13(a), the value of the Vessel is the sum indicated in Box 29.

	14.	
Insurance, Repairs and Classification

(Optional, only to apply of expressly agreed and stated in Box 29, in which event Clause 13 shall be

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considered deleted.)

(a)  During the Charter Period the Vessel shall be kept insured by the Owners at their expense against hull and machinery and war risks under the form of policy or policies attached hereto.  The Owners and/or insurers shall not have any right of recovery or subrogation against the Charterers on account of loss of or any damage to the Vessel or her machinery or appurtenances covered by such insurance, or on account of payments made to discharge claims against or liabilities of the Vessel or the Owners covered by such insurance.  Insurance policies shall cover the Owners and the Charterers according to their respective interests.

(b)  During the Charter Period the Vessel shall be kept insured by the Charterers at their expense against Protection and Indemnity risks (and any risks against which it is compulsory to insure for the operation of the Vessel, including maintaining financial security in accordance with sub-clause 10(a)(iii)) in such form as the Owners shall in writing approve which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(c)  In the event that any act or negligence of the Charterers shall vitiate any of the insurance herein provided, the Charterers shall pay to the Owners all losses and indemnify the Owners against all claims and demands which would otherwise have been covered by such insurance.

(d)  The Charterers shall, subject to the approval of the Owners or Owners' Underwriters, effect all insured repairs, and the Charterers shall undertake settlement of all miscellaneous expenses in connection with such repairs as well as all insured charges, expenses and liabilities to the extent of coverage under the insurances provided for under the provisions of sub-clause 14(a).  The Charterers to be secured reimbursement through the Owners' Underwriters for such expenditures upon presentation of accounts.

(e)  The Charterers to remain responsible for and to effect repairs and settlement of costs and expenses incurred thereby in respect of all other repairs not covered by the insurances and/or not exceeding any possible franchise(s) or deductibles provided for in the insurances.

(f)  All time used for repairs under the provisions of sub-clause 14(d) and 14(e) and for repairs of latent defects according to Clause 3 above, including any deviation, shall be for the Charterers' account and shall form part of the Charter Period

The Owners shall not be responsible for any expenses as are incident to the use and operation of the Vessel for such time as may be required to make such repairs.

(g)  If the conditions of the above insurances permit additional insurance to be placed by the parties such cover shall be limited to the amount for each party set out in Box 30 and Box 31, respectively.  The Owners or the Charterers as the case may be shall immediately furnish the other party with particulars of any additional insurance effected, including copies of any cover notes or policies and the written consent of the insurers of any such required insurance in any case where the consent of such insurers is necessary.

(h)  Should the Vessel become an actual, constructive, compromised or agreed total loss under the insurances required under subclause 14(a), all insurance payments for such loss shall be paid to the Owners, who shall distribute the moneys between themselves and the Charterers according to their respective interests.

(i)  If the Vessel becomes an actual, constructive, compromised or agreed total loss under the insurances arranged by the Owners in accordance with sub-clause 14(a), this Charter shall terminate as of the date of such loss.

(j)  The Charterers shall upon the request of the Owners, promptly execute such documents as may be required to enable the Owners to abandon the Vessel to the insurers and claim a constructive total loss.

(k)  For the purpose of insurance coverage against hull and machinery and war risks under the provisions of sub-clause 14(a), the value of the Vessel is the sum indicated in Box 29.

(l)  Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause 10(a), it is agreed that under the provisions of Clause 14, if applicable, the Owners shall keep the Vessel's Class fully up to date with the Classification Society indicated in Box 10 and maintain all other necessary certificates in force at all times.

	15.	
Redelivery (See also Clause 46)

At the expiration of the Charter Period the Vessel shall be redelivered by the Charterers to the Owners at a safe and ice-free port or place as indicated in Box 16, in such ready safe berth as the Owners may direct.  The Charterers shall give the Owners not less than thirty (30) running days' preliminary notice of expected date, range of ports or redelivery or port or place of redelivery and not less than fourteen (14) running days' definite notice of expected date and port or place of redelivery.  Any changes thereafter in the Vessel's position shall be notified immediately to the Owners.

The Charterers warrant that they will not permit the Vessel to commence a voyage (including any preceding ballast voyage) which cannot reasonably be expected to be completed in time to allow redelivery of the Vessel within the Charter Period.  Notwithstanding the above, should the Charterers fail to redeliver the Vessel within the Charter Period, the Charterers shall pay the daily equivalent to the rate of hire stated in Box 22 plus 10 per cent. or to the market rate, whichever is higher, for the number of days by which the Charter Period is exceeded.  All other terms, conditions and provisions of this Charter shall continue to apply.

Subject to the provisions of Clause 10, the Vessel shall be redelivered to the Owners in the same or as good structure, state, condition and class as that in which she was delivered, fair wear and tear not affecting class excepted.

The Vessel upon redelivery shall have her survey cycles up to date and trading and class certificates valid for at least the number of months agreed in Box 17.

	16.	
Non-Lien

The Charterers will not suffer, nor permit to be continued, any lien or encumbrance incurred by them or their agents, which might have priority over the title and interest of the Owners in the Vessel.  The Charterers further agree to fasten to the Vessel in a conspicuous place and to keep so fastened during the Charter Period a notice reading as follows:

"This Vessel is the property of (name of Owners).  It is under charter to (name of Charterers) and by the terms of the Charter Party neither the Charterers nor the Master have any right, power or authority to create, incur or permit to be imposed on the Vessel any lien whatsoever."

	17.	
Indemnity (See also Clause 40)

(a)  The Charterers shall indemnify the Owners against any loss, damage or expense incurred by the Owners arising out of or in relation to the operation of the Vessel by the Charterers, and against any lien of whatsoever nature arising out of an event occurring during the Charter Period.  If the Vessel be arrested or otherwise detained by reason of claims or liens arising out of her operation hereunder by the Charterers, the Charterers shall at their own expense take all reasonable steps to secure that within a reasonable time the Vessel is released, including the provision of bail.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Charterers agree to indemnify the Owners against all consequences or liabilities arising from the Master, officers or agents signing Bills of Lading

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or other documents.

(b)  If the Vessel be arrested or otherwise detained by reason of a claim or claims against the Owners, the Owners shall at their own expense take all reasonable steps to secure that within a reasonable time the Vessel is released, including the provision of bail.

In such circumstances the Owners shall indemnify the Charterers against any loss, damage or expense incurred by the Charterers (including hire paid under this Charter) as a direct consequence of such arrest or detention.

	18.	
Lien

The Owners to have a lien upon all cargoes, sub-hires and sub-freights belonging or due to the Charterers or any sub-charterers and any Bill of Lading freight for all claims under this Charter, and the Charterers to have a lien on the Vessel for all moneys paid in advance and not earned.

	19.	
Salvage

All salvage and towage performed by the Vessel shall be for the Charterers' benefit and the cost of repairing damage occasioned thereby shall be borne by the Charterers.

	20.	
Wreck Removal

In the event of the Vessel becoming a wreck or obstruction to navigation the Charterers shall indemnify the Owners against any sums whatsoever which the Owners shall become liable to pay and shall pay in consequence of the Vessel becoming a wreck or obstruction to navigation.

	21.	
General Average

The Owners shall not contribute to General Average.

	22.	
Assignment, Sub-Charter and Sale

(a)  The Charterers shall not assign this Charter nor sub-charter the Vessel on a bareboat basis except with the prior consent in writing of the Owners, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, and subject to such terms and conditions as the Owners shall approve.

(b)  The Owners shall not sell the Vessel during the currency of this Charter except with the prior written consent of the Charterers, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, and subject to the buyer accepting an assignment of this Charter.

23.          Contracts of Carriage

*(a)  The Charterers are to procure that all documents issued during the Charter Period evidencing the terms and conditions agreed in respect of carriage of goods shall contain a paramount clause incorporating any legislation relating to carrier's liability for cargo compulsory applicable in the trade; if no such legislation exists, the documents shall incorporate the Hague-Visby Rules.  The documents shall also contain the New Jason Clause and the Both-to-Blame Collision Clause.

*(b)  The Charterers are to procure that all passenger tickets issued during the Charter Period for the carriage of passengers and their luggage under this Charter shall contain a paramount clause incorporating any legislation relating to carrier's liability for passengers and their luggage compulsorily applicable in the trade; if no such legislation exists, the passenger tickets shall incorporate the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974, and any protocol thereto.

*Delete as applicable.

24.          Bank Guarantee

(Optional, only to apply if Box 27 filled in)

The Charterers undertake to furnish, before delivery of the Vessel, a first class bank guarantee or bond in the sum and at the place indicated in Box 27 as guarantee for full performance of their obligations under this Charter.

25.          Requisition/Acquisition

(a) In the event of the Requisition for Hire of the Vessel by any governmental or other competent authority (hereinafter referred to as "Requisition for Hire") irrespective of the date during the Charter Period when "Requisition for Hire" may occur and irrespective of the length thereof and whether or not it be for an indefinite or a limited period of time, and irrespective of whether it may or will remain in force for the remainder of the Charter Period, this Charter shall not be deemed thereby or thereupon to be frustrated or otherwise terminated and the Charterers shall continue to pay the stipulated hire in the manner provided by this Charter until the time when the Charter would have terminated pursuant to any of the provisions hereof always provided however that if all hire has been paid by the Charterers hereunder then in the event of "Requisition for Hire" any Requisition Hire or compensation Is received or receivable by the Owners, the same shall be payable to the Charterers during the remainder of the Charter Period or the period of the "Requisition for Hire" whichever be the shorter.

(b)  In the event of the Owners being deprived of their ownership in the Vessels by any Compulsory Acquisition of the Vessel or requisition for title by any governmental or other competent authority (hereinafter referred to as "Compulsory Acquisition"), then, irrespective of the date during the Charter Period when "Compulsory Acquisition" may occur, this Charter shall be deemed terminated as of the date such "Compulsory Acquisition". In such event Charter Hire to be considered as earned and to be paid up to the date and time of such "Compulsory Acquisition".

26.          War

(a)  Subject to the provisions of the Financial instruments (if any) (and without prejudice to Clauses 35,2(c) and (d)), Ffor the purpose of this Clause tie words "War Risks" shall include any war (whether actual or threatened). act of war. civil war, hostilities, revolution, rebellion, civil commotion, warlike operations, the laying of mines (whether actual or reported). acts of piracy, acts of terrorists, acts of hostility or malicious damage, blockades (whether imposed against all vessels or imposed selectively against vessels of certain flags or ownership, or against certain cargoes or crews, or otherwise, however), by any person, body, terrorist or political group, or the Government of any state whatsoever, which may be dangerous or are likely to be or to become dangerous to the Vessel, her cargo, crew or other persons on board the Vessel.

b)  The Vessel, unless the written consent of the Owners be first obtained and the Charterers have arranged for requisition insurance in respect of the Vessel (and the same has been assigned to the Owners or at their direction), shall not continue to or go through any port, place, area or zone (whether of land or sea), or any waterway or canal, where it reasonably appears that the Vessel, her cargo, crew or other persons on board the Vessel, in the reasonable judgement of the Owners, may be, or are likely to be, exposed to War Risks (except in case of exposure only to acts of piracy, when the prior written consent of the Owners Is not required provided the aforesaid insurances and assignments are in place). Should the Vessel be within any such place as aforesaid, which only becomes dangerous, or is reasonably likely to be or to become dangerous, after her entry into it, the Owners shall have the right to require the Vessel to leave such area.

(c)  The Vessel shall not load contraband cargo, or to pass through any blockade, whether such blockade be imposed on all vessels, or is imposed selectively in any way whatsoever against vessels of certain flags or ownership, or against certain cargoes or crews or otherwise howsoever, or to proceed to an area where she shall be subject, or is likely to be subject to a belligerent's right of search and/or confiscation.

(d)  If the insurers of the war risks insurance, when Clause 14 is applicable, should require payment of premiums and/or calls because, pursuant to the Charterers' orders, the Vessel is within, or is due to enter and remain within any area or areas which

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are specified by such insurers as being subject to additional premiums because of War Risks, then such premiums and/or calls shall be reimbursed by the Charterers to the Owners at the same time as the next payment of hire is due.

(e)  The Charterers shall have the liberty:

(i)  to comply with all orders, directions, recommendations or advice as to departure, arrival, routes, sailing in convoy, ports of call, stoppages, destinations, discharge of cargo, delivery, or in any other way whatsoever, which are given by the Government of the Nation under whose flag the Vessel sails, or any other Government, body or group whatsoever acting with the power to compel compliance with their orders or directions,

(ii)  to comply with the orders, directions or recommendations of any war risks underwriters who have the authority to give the same under the terms of the war risks insurance;

(iii) to comply with the terms of any resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations, any directives of the European Community, the effective orders of any other Supranational body which has the right to issue and give the same, and with national laws aimed at enforcing the same to which the Owners are subject, and to obey the orders and directions of those who are charged with their enforcement.

(f)  In the event of outbreak of war (whether there be a declaration of war or not) (i) between any two or more of the following countries; the United States of America; Russia; the United Kingdom; France; and the People's Republic of China, (ii) between any two or more of the countries stated in Box 26, both the Owners and the Charterers shall have the right to cancel this Charter, whereupon the Charterers shall redeliver the Vessel to the Owners in accordance with Clause 15, if the Vessel has cargo on board after discharge thereof at destination, or if debarred under this Clause from reaching or entering it at a near, open and safe port as directed by the Owners, or if the Vessel has no cargo on board, at the port at which the Vessel then is or if at sea at a near, open and safe port as directed by the Owners.  In all cases hire shall continue to be paid in accordance with Clause 11 and except as aforesaid all other provisions of this Charter shall apply until redelivery.

27.          Commission

The Owners to pay a commission at the rate indicated in Box 33 to the Brokers named in Box 33 on any hire paid under the Charter.  If no rate is indicated in Box 33, the commission to be paid by the Owners shall cover the actual expenses of the Brokers and a reasonable fee for their work.

If the full hire is not paid owing to breach of the Charter by either of the parties the party liable therefor shall indemnify the Brokers against their loss of commission.  Should the parties agree to cancel the Charter, the Owners shall indemnify the Brokers against any loss of commission but in such case the commission shall not exceed the brokerage on one year's hire.

28.          Termination (See also Clause 44)

(a)  Charterers Default

The Owners shall be entitled to withdraw the Vessel from the service of the Charterers and terminate the Charter with immediate effect by written notice to the Charterers if:

(i)  the Charterers fail to pay hire in accordance with Clause 11.  However, where there is a failure to make punctual payment of hire due to oversight, negligence, errors or omissions on the part of the Charterers or their bankers, the Owners shall give the Charterers written notice of the number of clear banking days stated in Box 34 (as recognised at the agreed place of payment) in which to rectify the failure, and when so rectified within such number of days following the Owners' notice, the payment shall stand as regular and punctual.  Failure by the Charterers to pay hire within the number of days stated in Box 34 of their receiving the Owners' notice as provided herein, shall entitle the Owners to withdraw the Vessel from the service of the Charterers and terminate the Charter without further notice;

(ii)  the Charterers fail to comply with the requirements of

(1)  Clause 6 (Trading Restrictions)

(2)  Clause 13(a) (Insurance and Repairs)

provided that the Owners shall have the option, by written notice to the Charterers, to give the Charterers a specified number of days grace within which to rectify the failure without prejudice to the Owners' right to withdraw and terminate under this Clause if the Charterers fail to comply with such notice;

(iii)  the Charterers fail to rectify any failure to comply with the requirements of sub-clause 10(a)(i) (Maintenance and Repairs) as soon as practically possible after the Owners have requested them in writing so to do and in any event so that the Vessel's insurance cover is not prejudiced.

(b)  Owners Default

If the Owners shall by any act or omission be in breach of their obligations under this Charter to the extent that the Charterers are deprived of the use of the Vessel and such breach continues for a period of fourteen (14) running days after written notice thereof has been given by the Charterers to the Owners, the Charterers shall be entitled to terminate this Charter with immediate effect by written notice to the Owners.

(c)  Loss of Vessel (See Clause 43)

This Charter shall be deemed to be terminated if the Vessel becomes a total loss or is declared as a constructive or compromised or arranged total loss. For the purpose of this sub-clause, the Vessel shall not be deemed to be lost unless she has either become an actual total loss or agreement has been reached with her underwriters in respect of her constructive, compromised or arranged total loss or if such agreement with her underwriters is not reached it is adjudged by a competent tribunal that a constructive loss of the Vessel

has occurred.

(d)  Either party shall be entitled to terminate this Charter with immediate effect by written notice to the other party in the event of an order being made or resolution passed for the winding up, dissolution, liquidation or bankruptcy of the other party (otherwise than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation) or if a receiver is appointed, or if it suspends payment, ceases to carry on business or makes any special arrangement or composition with its creditors.

(e)  The termination of this Charter shall be without prejudice to all rights accrued due between the parties prior to the date of termination and to any claim that either party might have.

29.          Repossession See Clause 46

In the event of the termination of this Charter in accordance with the applicable provisions of Clause 28, the Owners shall have the right to repossess the Vessel from the Charterers at her current or next port of call, or at a port or place convenient to them without hindrance or interference by the Charterers, courts or local authorities. Pending physical repossession of the Vessel in accordance with this Clause 29, the Charterers shall hold the Vessel as gratuitous bailee only to the Owners.  The Owners shall arrange for an authorised representative to

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board the Vessel as soon as reasonably practicable following the termination of the Charter.  The Vessel shall be deemed to be repossessed by the Owners from the Charterers upon the boarding of the Vessel by the Owners' representative.  All arrangements and expenses relating to the settling of wages, disembarkation and repatriation of the Charterers' Master, officers and crew shall be the sole responsibility of the Charterers.

30.          Dispute Resolution – see Clause 50

*(a) This Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Contract shall be referred to arbitration in London in accordance with the Arbitration Act 1996 or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof save to the extent necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Clause.  The arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) Terms current at the time when the arbitration proceedings are commenced.  The reference shall be to three arbitrators. A party wishing to refer a dispute to arbitration shall appoint its arbitrator and send notice of such appointment in writing to the other party requiring the other party to appoint its own arbitrator within 14 calendar days of that notice and stating that it will appoint its arbitrator as sole arbitrator unless the other party appoints its own arbitrator and gives notice that it has done so within the 14 days specified. If the other party does not appoint its own arbitrator and give notice that it has done so within the 14 days specified, the party referring a dispute to arbitration may, without the requirement of any further prior notice to the other party, appoint its arbitrator as sole arbitrator end shall advise the other party accordingly. The award of a sole arbitrator shall be binding on both parties as if he had been appointed by agreement.

Nothing herein shall prevent the parties agreeing in writing to vary these provisions to provide for the appointment of a sole arbitrator.  In cases where neither the claim nor any counterclaim exceeds the sum of US$50,000 (or such other sum as the parties may agree) the arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the LMAA Small Claims Procedure current at the time when the arbitration proceedings are commenced.

	*)	
(b)  This Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Title 9 of the United States Code and the Maritime Law of the United States and any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Contract shall be referred to three persons at New York, one to be appointed by each of the parties hereto, and the third by the two so chosen; their decision or that of any two of them shall be final, and for the purposes of enforcing any award, judgement may be entered on an award by any court of competent jurisdiction.  The proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the rules of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, Inc.

In cases where neither the claim nor any counterclaim exceeds the sum of US$50,000 (or such other sum as the parties may agree) the arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with the Shortened Arbitration Procedure of the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, Inc. current at the time when the arbitration proceedings are commenced.

	*)	
(c)  This Contract shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the place mutually agreed by the parties and any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Contract shall be referred to arbitration at a mutually agreed place, subject to the procedures applicable there.

(d)  Notwithstanding (a), (b) or (c) above, the parties may agree at any time to refer to mediation any difference and/or dispute arising out of or in connection with this Contract.

In the case of a dispute in respect of which arbitration has been commenced under (a), (b) or (c) above, the following shall apply:-

(i)          Either party may at any time and from time to time elect to refer the dispute or part of the dispute to mediation by service on the other party of a written notice (the "Mediation Notice") calling on the other party to agree to mediation.

(ii)          The other party shall thereupon with 14 calendar days of receipt of the Mediation Notice confirm that they agree to mediation, in which case the parties shall thereafter agree a mediator within a further 14 calendar days, falling which on the application of either party a mediator will be appointed promptly by the Arbitration Tribunal ("the Tribunal") or such person as the Tribunal may designate for that purpose.  The mediation shall be conducted in such place and in accordance with such procedure and on such terms as the parties may agree or, in the event of disagreement, as may be set by the mediator.

(iii)          If the other party does not agree to mediate, that fact may be brought to the attention of the Tribunal and may be taken into account by the Tribunal when allocating the costs of the arbitration as between the parties.

(iv)          The mediation shall not affect the right of either party to seek such relief or take such steps as it considers necessary to protect its interest.

(v)          Either party may advise the Tribunal that they have agreed to mediation.  The arbitration procedure shall continue during the conduct of the mediation but the Tribunal may take the mediation timetable into account when setting the timetable for steps in the arbitration.

(vi)          Unless otherwise agreed or specified in the mediation terms, each party shall bear its own costs incurred in the mediation and parties shall share equally the mediator's costs and expenses.

(vii)          The mediation process shall be without prejudice and confidential and no information or documents disclosed during it shall be revealed to the Tribunal except to the extent that they are disclosable under the law and procedure governing the arbitration.

(Note:  The parties should be aware that the mediation process may not necessarily interrupt time limits.)

	(e)	
If Box 35 in Part I is not appropriately filled in, sub-clause 30(a) of this Clause shall apply.  Sub-clause 30(d) shall apply in all cases.,

*Sub-clauses 30(a), 30(b) and 30(c) are alternatives; indicate alternative agreed in Box 35.

31.          Notices

(a)  Any notice to be given by either party to the other party shall be in writing and may be sent by fax, telex, registered or recorded mail or by personal service.

(b)  The address of the Parties for service of such communication shall be as stated in Clause 48Boxes 3 and 4 respectively.

	
 

	
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OPTIONAL

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PROVISIONS TO APPLY FOR NEWBUILDING VESSELS ONLY

(Optional, only to apply if expressly agreed and stated in Box 37)

1.          Specifications and Building Contract

(a)  The Vessel shall be constructed in accordance with the Building Contract (hereafter called "the Building Contract") as annexed to this Charter, made between the Builders and the Owners and in accordance with the specifications and plans annexed thereto, such Building Contract, specifications and plans annexed thereto, such Building Contract, specifications and plans having been counter-signed as approved by the Charterers.

(b)  No change shall be made in the Building Contract or in the specifications or plans of the Vessel as approved by the Charterers as aforesaid, without the Charterers' consent.

(c)  The Charterers shall have the right to send their representative of the Builders' Yard to inspect the Vessel during the course of her construction to satisfy themselves that constructions is in accordance with such approved specifications and plans as referred to under sub-clause (a) of this Clause.

(d)  The Vessel shall be built in accordance with the Building Contract and shall be of the description set out therein.  Subject to the provisions of sub-clause 2(c)(ii) hereunder, the Charterers shall be bound to accept the Vessel from the Owners, completed and constructed in accordance with the Building Contract, on the date of delivery by the Builders.  The Charterers undertake that having accepted the Vessel they will not thereafter raise any claims against the Owners in respect of the Vessel's performance or specification or defects, if any.  Nevertheless, in respect of any repairs, replacement or defects which appear within the first 12 months from delivery by the Builders, the Owners shall endeavor to compel the Builders to repair, replace or remedy any defects or to recover from the Builders any expenditure incurred in carrying out such repairs, replacements or remedies.  However, the Owners' liability to the Charterers shall be limited to the extent the Owners have a valid clause of the Building Contract (a copy whereof has been supplied to the Charterers).  The Charterers shall be bound to accept such sums as the Owners are reasonably able to recover under this Clause and shall make no further claim on the Owners for the difference between the amount(s) so recovered and the actual expenditure on repairs, replacement or remedying defects or for any loss of time incurred.

Any liquidated damages for physical defects or deficiencies shall accrue to the account of the party stated in Box 41(a) or if not filled in shall be shared equally between the parties.  The costs of pursuing a claim or claims against the Builders under this Clause (including any liability to the Builders) shall be borne by the party stated in Box 41(b) or if not filled in shall be shared equally between the parties.

2.          Time and Place of Delivery

(a)  Subject to the Vessel having completed her acceptance trials including trials of cargo equipment in accordance with the Building Contract and specifications to the satisfaction of the Charterers, the Owners shall give and the Charterers shall take delivery of the Vessel afloat when ready for delivery and properly documented at the Builders' Yard or some other safe and readily accessible dock, wharf or place as may be agreed between the hereto and the Builders.  Under the Building Contract the Builders have estimated that the Vessel will be ready for delivery to the Owners as therein provided but the delivery date for the purpose of this Charter shall be the date when the Vessel is in fact ready for delivery by the Builders after completion of trials whether that be before or after as indicated in the Building Contract.  The Charterers shall not be entitled to refuse acceptance of delivery of the Vessel and upon and after such acceptance, subject to Clause 1(d), the Charterers shall not be entitled to make any claim against the Owners in respect of any conditions, representations or warranties, whether express or implied, as to the seaworthiness of the Vessel or in respect of delay in delivery.

(b)  If for any reason other than a default by the Owners under the Building Contract, the Builders become entitled under the that Contract not to deliver the Vessel to the Owners, the Owners shall upon giving to the Charterers written notice of Builders becoming so entitled, be excused from giving delivery of the Vessel to the Charterers and upon receipt of such notice by the Charterers this Charter shall cease to have effect.

(c)  If for any reason the Owners become entitled under the Building Contract to reject the Vessel the Owners shall, before exercising such right or rejection, consult the Charterers and thereupon

(i) if the Charterers do not wish to take delivery of the Vessel they shall inform the Owners within seven (7) running days by notice in writing and upon receipt by the Owners of such notice this Charter shall cease to have effect; or

(ii) if the Charterers wish to take delivery of the Vessel they may by notice in writing within seven (7) running days require the Owners to negotiate with the Builders as to the terms on which delivery should be taken and/or refrain from exercising their right to rejection and upon receipt of such notice the Owners shall commence such negotiations and/or take delivery of the Vessel from the Builders and deliver her to the Charterers;

(iii) in no circumstances shall the Charterers be entitled to reject the Vessel unless the Owners are able to reject the Vessel from the Builders;

(iv) if this Charter terminates under sub-clause (b) or (c) of this Clause, the Owners shall thereafter not be liable to the Charterers for any claim under or arising out of this Charter or its termination.

(d)  Any liquidated damaged for delay in delivery under the Building Contract and any costs incurred in pursuing a claim therefor shall accrue to the account of the party stated in Box 41(c) or if not filled between the parties.

3.          Guarantee Works

If not otherwise agreed, the Owners authorise the Charterers to arrange for the guarantee works to be performed in accordance with the building contract terms, and hire to continue during the period of guarantee works.  The Charterers have to advise the Owners about the performance to the extent the Owners may request.

		
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4.          Name of Vessel

The name of the Vessel shall be mutually agreed between the Owners and the Charterers and the Vessel shall be painted in the colours, display the funnel insignia and fly the house flag as required by the Charterers.

5.          Survey on Redelivery

The Owners and the Charterers shall appoint surveyors for the purpose of determining and agreeing in writing the condition of the Vessel at the time of re-delivery.

Without prejudice to Clause 15 (Part II), the Charterers shall bear all survey expenses and all other costs, if any, including the cost of docking and undocking, if required, as well as all repair costs incurred.  The Charterers shall also bear all loss of time spent in connection with any docking and undocking as well as repairs, which shall be paid at the rate of hire per day or pro rata.

		
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HIRE/PURCHASE AGREEMENT

(Optional, only to apply if expressly agreed and stated in Box 42)

On expiration of this Charter and provided the Charterers have fulfilled their obligations according to Part I and II as well as Part II, if applicable, it is agreed, that on payment of the final payment of hire as per Clause 11 the Charterers have purchased the Vessel with everything belonging to her and the Vessel is fully paid for.

In the following paragraphs the Owners are referred to as the Sellers and the Charterers as the Buyers.

The Vessel shall be delivered by the Sellers and taken over by the Buyers on expiration of the Charter.

The Sellers guarantee that the Vessel, at the time of delivery, is free from all encumbrances and maritime liens or any debts whatsoever other than those arising from anything done or not done by the Buyers or any existing mortgage agreed not to be paid off by the time of delivery.  Should any claims, which have been incurred prior to the time of delivery be made against the Vessel, the Sellers hereby undertake to indemnify the Buyers against all consequences of such claims to the extent it can be proved that the Sellers are responsible for such claims.  Any taxes, notarial, consular and other charges and expenses connected with the purchase and registration under Buyers' flag, shall be for Buyers' account.  Any taxes, consular and other charges and expenses connected with closing of the Sellers' register, shall be for Sellers' account.

In exchange for payment of the last month's hire instalment the Sellers shall furnish the Buyers with a Bill of Sale duly attested and legalized, together with a certificate setting out the registered encumbrances, if any.  On delivery of the Vessel the Sellers shall provide for deletion of the Vessel from the Ship's Register and deliver a certificate of deletion to the Buyers.

The Sellers shall, at the time of delivery, hand to the Buyers all classification certificates (for hull, engines, anchors, chains, etc.) as well as all plans which may be in Sellers' possession.

The Wireless Installation and Nautical Instruments, unless on hire, shall be included in the sale without any extra payment.

The Vessel with everything belonging to her shall be at Sellers' risk and expense until she is delivered to the Buyers, subject to the conditions of this Contract and the Vessel with everything belonging to her shall be delivered and taken over as she is at the time of delivery, after which the Sellers shall have no responsibility for possible faults or deficiencies of any description.

The Buyers undertake to pay for the repatriation of the Master, officers and other personnel if appointed by the Sellers to the port where the Vessel entered the Bareboat Charter as per Clause 3 (Part II) or to pay the equivalent cost for their journey to any other place.

		
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  OPTIONAL

PART

PROVISIONS TO APPLY FOR VESSELS REGISTERED IN A BAREBOAT CHARTER REGISTRY

(Optional, only to apply if expressly agreed and stated in Box 43)

1.          Definitions

For the purpose of this PART V, the following terms shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

"The Bareboat Charter Registry" shall mean the registry of the State whose flag the Vessel will fly and in which the Charterers are registered as the bareboat charterers during the period of the Bareboat Charter.

"The Underlying Registry" shall mean the registry of the State in which the Owners of the Vessel are registered as Owners and to which jurisdiction and control of the Vessel will revert upon termination of the Bareboat Charter Registration.

2.          Mortgage

The Vessel chartered under this Charter is financed by a mortgage and the provisions of Clause 12(b) (Part II) shall apply.

3.          Termination of Charter by Default

If the Vessel chartered under this Charter is registered in a Bareboat Charter Registry as stated in Box 44, and if the Owners shall default in the payment of any amounts due under the mortgage(s) specified in Box 28, the Charterers shall, if so required by the mortgagee, direct the Owners to re-register the Vessel in the Underlying Registry as shown in Box 45.

In the event of the Vessel being deleted from the Bareboat Charter Registry as stated in Box 44, due to a default by the Owners in the payment of any amounts due under the mortgage(s), the Charterers shall have the right to terminate this Charter forthwith and without prejudice to any other claim they may have against the Owners under this Charter.

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CONTENTS

	
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Effectiveness and Cancelling

	
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Conditions Precedent and Subsequent

	
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Delivery of the Vessel

	
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Charter Period

	
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Fee and Deposit

	
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Charterhire

	
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Owner's Right of Sale and Mortgage

	
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Indemnity

	
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Representations and Warranties

	
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Undertakings

	
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Insurances, Total Loss

	
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Termination Events

	
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Purchase Option and Purchase Obligation

	
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Communications

	
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Fixed Charterhire Payment Table

	
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Form of Acceptance Certificate

	
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ADDITIONAL CLAUSES

to the Bareboat Charter dated this _____________ day of _______________

between

Hanchen Limited

and

Knight Ocean Navigation Co.

One (1) 179,000 DWT Bulk Carrier

Named "Knightship"

(the "Vessel")

32          Definitions

	32.1	
In this Charter, unless the context otherwise requires:-

"Account Bank" means Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Alpha Bank or any other bank or financial institution as may be designated by the Charterer with the prior written consent of the Owner (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) as the account bank for the purposes of this Charter.

"Account Pledge" means the deed of pledge over the Charterer Account and all amounts from time to time standing to the credit to the Charterer Account from the Charterer in favour of the Owner.

"Approved Manager" means, in relation to the Vessel:

		(a)	
V. Ships Limited, a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of Cyprus whose registered office is at Zenas Gunther, 16-18, Agia Triada, 3035 Limassol, Cyprus, as technical manager; or

		(b)	
Fidelity Marine Inc., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at the Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960 Marshall Islands, as commercial manager; or

		(c)	
any other ship management company which the Owners may approve in writing (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

"Approved Valuers" means each of (a) Arrow, (b) Braemar Seascope, (c) Clarksons, (d) Simpsons, Spencer and Young and any other reputable and independent ship brokers that may be appointed by the Charterer, with the prior written consent of the Owner (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

"Balloon Payment" means the amount not exceeding United States Dollars Five Million Two Hundred Ninety Nine Thousand (US$5,299,000) which, unless otherwise stipulated herein, shall be paid by the Charterer on the Expiry Date.

"Break Costs" means all documented costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by the Owner as a result of the receipt by the Owner of any payment under or in relation to the Transaction Documents on a day other than the due date for payment of the sum in question (including any break cost (however such term or its equivalent may be described under the Finance Documents) incurred by the Owner under the Finance Documents).

"Business Day" means (a) in relation to a day on which payment is to be made in U.S. dollars, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in Shanghai, Greece, Germany, New York and Hong Kong; (b) in relation to the definition of Quotation Day and to a day on which LIBOR is to be determined, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks and the relevant financial market are open for general business in London; and (c) in relation to any other day, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in Shanghai, Greece, Germany, New York and Hong Kong.

"Chargor" means Emperor Holding Ltd., a company organised and existing under the laws of Republic of the Marshall Islands, having its registered office at The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro MH96960, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

"Charter Period" means the period of time of chartering of the Vessel under this Charter, being ninety six (96) months commencing from the Delivery Date unless otherwise terminated in accordance with the terms hereof.

"Charterer Account" means the interest-bearing account denominated in US$ opened or to be opened in the name of the Charterer with the Account Bank which includes any sub-accounts or replacement or time deposit thereof and any other account designated in writing by the Owner and the Charterer to be a Charterer Account for the purposes of this Charter.

"Charterer's Deposit" means the deposit retained by the Charterer pursuant to Clause 42.1.16(c).

"Charterhire" means such Charterhire of the Vessel payable on such Payment Date in accordance with Clause 38.2.

"Charterhire Principal" means the amount being the lower of (a) United States Dollars Nineteen Million Eight Hundred Seventy Five Thousand (US$19,875,000) and (b) 75% of the Market Value at Delivery of the Vessel, or the principal amount outstanding for the time being as may be reduced any downwards adjustment of the Purchase Price in accordance with Clauses 38.1.3 or by any payment of any Fixed Charterhire and any prepayment in accordance with Clause 38.6, as the case may be.

"Delivery" means the delivery of the Vessel from the Charterer (as seller) to the Owner (as buyer) under the MOA and concurrently from the Owner to the Charterer

under this Charter, both as evidenced by execution of the respective Protocols of Delivery and Acceptance.

"Delivery Date" means the actual date on which Delivery occurs, which must be a Business Day.

"Deposit" means the deposit payable by the Charterer to the Owner pursuant to Clause 37.2.

"Earnings" means, in relation to the Vessel, all moneys whatsoever from time to time due or payable to the Charterer during the Security Period arising out of the use or operation of the Vessel including (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) all freight, hire and passage moneys, income arising under pooling arrangements, compensation payable to the Charterer in the event of requisition of the Vessel for hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys, contributions in general average, and damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment or use of the Vessel.

"Encumbrance" means any mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating), pledge, lien, hypothecation, assignment, trust arrangement, security interest or other encumbrance of any kind in each case, securing or conferring any priority of payment in respect of any obligation of any person and includes any right granted by a transaction which, in legal terms, is not the granting of security but which has an economic or financial effect similar to the granting of security in each case under any applicable law.

"Environmental Affiliate" means any agent or employee of the Charterer or the Operator or any person having a contractual relationship with the Charterer or the Operator in connection with the Vessel or its operation or the carriage of cargo thereon and/or the provision of goods and/or services on or from the Vessel.

"Environmental Approvals" means all authorisations, consents, licences, permits, exemptions or other approvals whatsoever required by the Charterer or the Operator under applicable Environmental Laws.

"Environmental Claim" means (a) any claim by, or directive from, any applicable Government Entity alleging breach of, or non-compliance with, any Environmental Laws or Environmental Approvals or otherwise howsoever relating to or arising out of an Environmental Incident or (b) any claim by any other third party howsoever relating to or arising out of an Environmental Incident (and, in each such case, "claim" shall include a claim for damages and/or direction for and/or enforcement relating to clean-up costs, removal, compliance, remedial action or otherwise) or (c) any Proceedings arising from any of the foregoing.

"Environmental Incident" means, regardless of cause, (a) any actual discharge or release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from the Vessel; (b) any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is discharged or released from a vessel other than the Vessel which involves collision between the Vessel and such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, where the Vessel and/or the Owner and/or the Charterer and/or the Operator are actually, contingently or allegedly at fault or otherwise howsoever liable (in whole or in part)

or (c) any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is discharged or released from a vessel other than the Vessel and where the Vessel is actually or potentially liable to be arrested as a result and/or where the Owner, the Charterer and/or the Operator are actually, contingently or allegedly at fault or otherwise howsoever liable.

"Environmental Laws" means all laws, regulations, conventions and agreements whatsoever having the force of law applicable to the Owner, the Charterer, the Operator or the Vessel and relating to pollution or protection of the environment (including, without limitation, the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and any comparable laws of the individual States of the United States of America).

"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means oil, oil products or any other products or substance which are polluting, toxic or hazardous or any substance the release of which into the environment is howsoever regulated, prohibited or penalised by or pursuant to any Environmental Laws.

"Expiry Date" means the date falling ninety six (96) months from the Delivery Date.

"Finance Document" means any facility agreement, security document, fee letter and any other document designated as such by the Finance Parties and the Owner and which have been or may be (as the case may be) entered into between the Finance Parties and the Owner for the purpose of financing any part of the Owner's acquisition costs of the Vessel.

"Finance Party" means any bank or financial institution which is or will be party to a Finance Document (other than the Owner and other entities which may have agreed or be intended as debtors and/or obligors thereunder) and "Finance Parties" means two or more of them.

"Financial Indebtedness" means any obligation for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent, in respect of:

		(a)	
moneys borrowed;

		(b)	
any acceptance credit;

		(c)	
any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or similar instrument;

		(d)	
any finance or capital lease;

		(e)	
receivables sold or discounted (other than on a non-recourse basis);

		(f)	
deferred payments for assets or services;

		(g)	
any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any rate or price (and, when calculating the value of any derivative transaction, only the marked to market value shall be taken into account);

		(h)	
any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) having the commercial effect of a borrowing according to the relevant account principles;

		(i)	
any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, indemnity, bond, standby or documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; and

		(j)	
the amount of any liability in respect of any guarantee or indemnity for any of the items referred to in (a) to (i) above.

"Flag State" means the Republic of Liberia or such other state as the Charterer shall nominate and is approved by the Owner in writing.

"Fixed Charterhire" means subject to Clause 38.2 (Charterhire), the thirty two (32) consecutive equal quarterly instalments each in an amount of United States Dollars Four Hundred Fifty Five Thousand Five Hundred (US$455,500) as set out in Schedule 1 (Fixed Charterhire Payment Table), or such other amount being 1/32 of the Charterhire Principal less the Balloon Payment as at the Owner's Funding Date and payable on the Payment Date.

"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in:

		(a)	
with respect to the Charterer, the Republic of Liberia; and

		(b)	
with respect to the Guarantor, Republic of the Marshall Islands.

"General Assignment" means the general assignment dated the same date of this Charter in respect of assignment of, amongst other things, the Earnings, the Insurances and any Sub-Charter of the Vessel executed or to be executed by the Charterer in favour of the Owner.

"Guarantee" means the guarantee executed or to be executed by the Guarantor in favour of the Owner.

"Guarantor" means Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp., a corporation organised and existing under the laws of Republic of the Marshall Islands, having its registered office at The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands MH96960.

"Group" means the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries.

"Group Member" means any member of the Group.

"Handling Fee" means the non-refundable handling fee payable by the Charterer to the Owner pursuant to Clause 37.1.

"Hire Calculation Period" means,

		(a)	
in relation to the Pre-delivery Charterhire, the period of time commencing from the Owner's Funding Date and ending on the date immediately preceding the Delivery Date; and

		(b)	
in relation to the Charterhire, during the Charter Period, each period for the calculation of the Charterhire, the first such period commencing on the Delivery Date and terminating on the date falling three months from the Delivery Date, and thereafter, each successive period of three months commencing immediately after the last date of the then current Hire

Calculation Period, except that the final Hire Calculation Period shall end on the last day of the Charter Period.

"Hong Kong" means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China.

"Insurances" means all policies and contracts of insurance (which expression includes all entries of the Vessel in a protection and indemnity or war risks association) which are from time to time during the Security Period in place or taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner and/or the Charterer (whether in the sole name of either of the Owner or the Charterer or in the joint names of the Mortgagee, the Owner and the Charterer or otherwise) in respect of the Vessel and her Earnings or otherwise howsoever in connection with the Vessel and all benefits thereof (including claims of whatsoever nature and return of premiums).

"Interest Rate" means the aggregate annual rate of the Margin and three (3) months LIBOR.

"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation Assembly as Resolutions A.741(18) (as amended by MSC 104 (73)) and A.913(22) (superseding Resolution A.788 (19)), 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.

"LIBOR" means either:-

		(a)	
the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for Dollars for the period of three months displayed on pages LIBOR01 of the Reuters screen (or any replacement Reuters page which displays that rate); or

		(b)	
if, on the Quotation Date, no such rate is available, the arithmetic mean of rates (rounded up to five (5) decimal places) quoted by leading banks in the London interbank market,

as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for deposits in Dollars in an amount comparable to the Charterhire Principal for a period of three months and, if any such rate is below zero, Libor shall be deemed to be zero.

"Major Casualty Amount" means United Stated Dollars One Million Five Hundred Thousand (US$1,500,000) or the equivalent in any other currency or currencies.

"Management Agreement" means, in relation to the Vessel, the technical and/or commercial ship management agreement executed or to be executed (as the case may be) between the Approved Manager and the Charterer.

"Manager's Undertaking" means the deed of undertaking executed or to be executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Owner.

"Margin" means four per cent (4.0%) per annum.

"Market Value" means the market value of the Vessel (in US$) as determined at any such time as the Owner may request by means of a valuation made by an Approved Valuer; the valuation shall be made on charter-free basis and between a willing buyer and a willing seller and at the expense of the Charterer provided that such valuation is made once a year or in the event of Charterer's default.

"MARPOL" means the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time).

"MOA" means the memorandum of agreement made by and between the Charterer as seller and the Owner as buyer, including all appendices, addenda, supplements and modifications thereto, for the sale and purchase of the Vessel.

"Operator" means the technical manager and/or any other person who is from time to time during the Security Period concerned in the operation of the Vessel and falls within the definition of "Company" set out in rule 1.1.2 of the ISM Code.

"Original Financial Statements" means:

		(a)	
in relation to the Charterer, its audited financial statements for the financial year ended 2017; and

		(b)	
in relation to the Guarantor, its audited consolidated financial statements for the financial year ended 2017, 2016 and 2015.

"Owner Account" means the interest-bearing account denominated in US$ opened or to be opened in the name of the Owner which includes any sub-accounts or replacement or time deposit thereof and any other account designated in writing by the Owner to be an Owner Account for the purposes of this Charter.

"Owner's Funding Date" means the date on which the Owner (as buyer) makes payment to the Charterer (as seller) in accordance with the terms of the MOA.

"Payment Date" means each of the dates falling at intervals of three (3) months from the Delivery Date for the duration of the Charter Period and in no event shall the final Payment Date be later than Expiry Date.

"Permitted Maritime Liens" means, in relation to the Vessel:

		(a)	
unless a Termination Event has occurred and is continuing, any ship repairer's or outfitter's possessory lien for an amount not exceeding the Major Casualty Amount;

		(b)	
liens for unpaid but not overdue master's and crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice;

		(c)	
liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading;

		(d)	
any lien for salvage;

		(e)	
any other liens arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of her trading (other than for master's, officer's or crew's wages outstanding); and

		(f)	
any lien created by or on the instructions or with the prior written consent of the Owner.

"PRC" means the People's Republic of China.

"Pre-delivery Charterhire" means the interest accrued on the Charterhire Principal as of the Owner's Funding Date and calculated for the actual number of days during the Hire Calculation Period and on the basis of a year of three hundred sixty (360) days at the applicable Interest Rate.

"Proceedings" means any litigation, arbitration or legal action or judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative proceedings whatsoever arising or instigated by anyone in any court, tribunal or public office wheresoever (including, without limitation, any action for provisional or permanent attachment of anything or for injunctive remedies or interim relief and any action instigated on an ex parte basis).

"Purchase Obligation Price" means an aggregate amount equal to:

		(a)	
the Balloon Payment;

		(b)	
all unpaid sums due and payable together with interest accrued thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9; and

		(c)	
any other amount then due and payable but unpaid by a Security Party to the Owner under the Transaction Documents.

"Purchase Option" means the option to purchase the Vessel at the relevant Purchase Option Price which the Charterer may exercise in accordance with Clause 45 (Purchase Option and Purchase Obligation).

"Purchase Option Date" means any date falling as from the second (2nd) anniversary of the Delivery Date but prior to the Expiry Date.

"Purchase Option Price" means:

		(a)	
if the Purchase Option Date falls on a Payment Date, an aggregate amount equal to:

		(i)	
the Charterhire Principal payable on that Payment Date;

		(ii)	
an early termination fee in an amount equal to two per cent (2%) of the amount of the Charterhire Principle payable in accordance with paragraph (i) above;

		(iii)	
all unpaid sums due and payable together with interest accrued thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9; and

		(iv)	
any other amount then due and payable but unpaid by a Security Party to the Owner under the Transaction Documents; and

		(b)	
if the Purchase Option Date falls on a day other than a Payment Date, an aggregate amount equal to:

		(i)	
the Charterhire Principal payable on the most recent Payment Date immediately preceding that Purchase Option Date;

		(ii)	
an early termination fee in an amount equal to two per cent (2%) of the amount of the Charterhire Principle payable in accordance with paragraph (i) above;

		(iii)	
all unpaid sums due and payable together with interest accrued thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9;

		(iv)	
Break Costs (if any); and

		(v)	
any other amount then due and payable but unpaid by a Security Party to the Owner under the Transaction Documents.

"Purchase Price" means the purchase price of the Vessel provided for under the MOA, being United States Dollars Twenty Six Million Five Hundred Thousand (US$26,500,000).

"Quotation Date" means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined, five (5) Business Days before the first day of that period unless market practice differs in the London Interbank Market in which case the Quotation Date will be determined by the Owner 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 1 day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days).

"Requisition" means the requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition, requisition, appropriation, expropriation, deprivation, forfeiture or confiscation howsoever for any reason of the Vessel by any government entity or other competent authority, whether de jure or de facto, but shall exclude requisition for use or hire not involving requisition of title.

"Restricted Party" means a person or entity that is (a) listed on, or owned or controlled by a person listed on, or acting on behalf of a person listed on, any Sanctions List; (b) a national of, located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or (directly or indirectly) controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person located in or organised under (i) Iraq or Iran or (ii) the laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions; or (c) otherwise a target of Sanctions ("target of Sanctions" signifying a person with whom a US person or other national of Sanctions Authority would be prohibited or restricted by law from engaging in trade, business or other activities).

"Sanctions" means the economic sanction laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by: (a) the United States government; (b) the United Nations; (c) the European Union or its Member States; (d) the United Kingdom; or (e) 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 United States Department of State and Her Majesty's Treasury ("HMT"); (together, the "Sanctions Authorities").

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

"Security" means a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment, hypothecation or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having the effect of conferring security.

"Security Documents" means collectively:

		(a)	
the Account Pledge;

		(b)	
the General Assignment;

		(c)	
the Guarantee;

		(d)	
the Share Charge;

		(e)	
the Manager's Undertaking; and

		(f)	
any other documents as may have been or shall from time to time after the date of this Charter be executed to guarantee and/or to govern and/or secure all or any part of the obligations from time to time owing by any Security Party pursuant to the Transaction Documents (whether or not any such document also secures payment of moneys from time to time owing pursuant to any other document(s) or agreement(s))

and "Security Document" means any of them.

"Security Parties" means the Charterer, the Guarantor, the Chargor and for so long as such Approved Manager is a Group Member, any Approved Manager and any other person (other than the Owner) who, as a surety or mortgagor, or as a party to any subordination or priorities arrangement, or in any similar capacity, executes a Transaction Document, and "Security Party" means any of them.

"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of this Charter and continuing for so long as any moneys are owing actually or contingently under the Transaction Documents and so long as any Charterhire Principal or other amounts remain outstanding.

"Share Charge" means the charge over the shares of the Charterer executed or (as the case may be) to be executed by the Chargor in favour of the Owner.

"Sub-Charter" means, in relation to the Vessel, any present and future time charterparty or contract of affreightment entered into between the Charterer as disponent owner and any Sub-Charterer in accordance with Clause 42.1.16.

"Sub-Charterer" means, in relation to the Vessel, any present and future sub-charterer proposed by the Charterer which are or will be parties to the relevant Sub-Charter.

"Subsidiary" means in relation to any company or corporation, a company or corporation:

		(a)	
which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by the first mentioned company or corporation;

		(b)	
more than half the issued equity/share capital of which is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly by the first mentioned company or corporation; or

		(c)	
which is a Subsidiary of another Subsidiary of the first mentioned company or corporation,

and for this purpose, a company or corporation shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other company or corporation is able to direct its affairs and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body.

"Termination Date" means the date on which this Charter or the Charter Period is to terminate or, as the context may require, terminates.

"Termination Event" means any event or circumstance specified in Clause 44.1.

"Termination Sum" means the Owner's estimated amount of its losses as a result of the early termination of this Charter which is to be calculated as being the aggregate of:

		(a)	
the Pre-delivery Charterhire;

		(b)	
the Charterhire Principal payable on the Termination Date if the Termination Date falls on a Payment Date or, as the case may be, the Charterhire Principal payable on the most recent Payment Date immediately preceding the Termination Date if the Termination Date falls on a day other than a Payment Date;

		(c)	
a termination fee in an amount equal to two per cent (2%) of the amount of the Charterhire Principle payable in accordance with paragraph (b) above;

		(d)	
all unpaid balance of the Handling Fee (irrespective of whether such unpaid balance has become due and payable in accordance with Clause 37.1);

		(e)	
any and all losses, liabilities, costs and expenses incurred or suffered by the Owner and the Finance Parties as a result of the early termination of this Charter (including any Break Costs and other costs, losses, liabilities and expenses incurred or suffered by the Owner and/or any Finance Parties under the Finance Documents as a result of the early termination of this Charter);

		(f)	
any other unpaid sums due and payable but unpaid by any Security Party under the Transaction Documents together with interest accrued thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9 from the due date for payment thereof up to and including the date of receipt by the Owner of the Termination Sum; and

		(g)	
all liabilities, costs and expenses howsoever incurred in recovering possession of, and in repositioning, berthing, insuring and maintaining the Vessel for carrying out any works or modifications required to cause the Vessel to conform with the provisions of Clause 46.2.

"Total Loss" means:

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

		(b)	
the Requisition for title of the Vessel; or

		(c)	
the hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of the Vessel (other than Requisition) by any government entity, or by persons allegedly acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government entity, unless the Vessel is released and restored to the Owner within six (6) months after such an incident or such other shorter period of time as the Owner may decide in its sole discretion.

"Total Loss Date" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Clause 43.3.1.

"Transaction Documents" means, together, this Charter, the MOA, the Security Documents, any Sub-Charter and such other documents as maybe designated as agreed by the Owner and the Charterer from time to time.

"Upfront Charterhire" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Clause 38.1.

"US$" or "Dollars" means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.

"Value Maintenance Ratio" has the meaning ascribed thereto in Clause 42.4.

"Variable Charterhire" means the interest:

		(a)	
in respect of the first Payment Date, accrued on the Charterhire Principal as of the Delivery Date; and

		(b)	
in respect of each following Payment Date, accrued on the Charterhire Principal as of the immediately preceding Payment Date,

and calculated for the actual number of days during the Hire Calculation Period ending on the relevant Payment Date and on the basis of a year of three hundred sixty (360) days at the applicable Interest Rate.

"Vessel" means the 179,000 dwt bulk carrier named "Knightship" with IMO number 9507893 which upon her delivery under the MOA will be registered in the name of the Owner as legal owner under the law and flag of the Flag State including all component parts or accessories of the Vessel, all substitutions of, additions to, replacements or renewals of, any of these component parts or accessories from time to time made in accordance with this Charter, and any of these component parts or

accessories which, having been removed from the Vessel, remain the property of the Owner pursuant to this Charter.

	32.2	
The headings in this Charter shall not affect the interpretation of the terms of this Charter.

	33	
Effectiveness and Cancelling

	33.1	
The effectiveness of this Charter shall be subject to the Owner's receiving, contemporaneously with the execution of this Charter, the originals of the following duly executed documents:

		(a)	
the MOA; and

		(b)	
the Security Documents.

	33.2	
Notwithstanding any provision of Clause 33.1, Clause 37.1 and Clause 38.9 shall take effect upon the execution of this Charter.

	33.3	
Unless otherwise agreed by the parties hereto, in the event that the MOA is cancelled, terminated or rescinded for any reason whatsoever prior to the Delivery Date or in the event that the Charterer fails to deliver the Vessel to the Owner in accordance with the terms of the MOA on or before the Delivery Date:

		33.3.1	
this Charter shall be deemed to be cancelled forthwith (the "Cancellation") and the Owner shall be released from any and all obligations, liabilities and responsibilities whatsoever hereunder; and

		33.3.2	
the Charterer shall forthwith pay to the Owner the aggregate of the following amounts:

		(a)	
any and all documented costs and expenses incurred by the Owner as a result of its entering into of the Transaction Documents;

		(b)	
the unpaid balance of the Handling Fee (irrespective of whether such unpaid balance has become due and payable in accordance with Clause 37.1);

		(c)	
any and all costs and damages incurred by the Owner as a result of the Cancelation; and

		(d)	
all other amounts due and payable but unpaid by the Charterer under this Charter together with interest accruing thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9 up to and including the date of Cancelation.

	34	
Conditions Precedent and Subsequent

	34.1	
The Owner will not be obliged to make any payment in accordance with the terms and conditions of the MOA unless the Owner, prior to the Owner's Funding Date, has received all of the documents and other evidences listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner.

	34.2	
The Owner will not be obliged to charter the Vessel to the Charterer in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Charter unless the Owner, on or before the Delivery Date, has received all of the documents and other evidences listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner.

	34.3	
The Charterer undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the Owner within two (2) weeks after the Delivery Date the additional documents and other evidence listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Subsequent).

	34.4	
The Owner will only be obliged to charter the Vessel to the Charterer in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Charter if on the Delivery Date:-

		34.4.1	
no Termination Event has occurred and is continuing, and no other event has occurred, which with the giving of notice and/or lapse of time would, if not remedied, constitute a Termination Event; and

		34.4.2	
each of the representations and warranties contained in Clause 41 is true and correct in all material aspects by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing.

	34.5	
The conditions precedent set out in Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Subsequent) and this Clause 34 are for the sole benefit of the Owner and may be waived by the Owner in whole or in part, with or without conditions, on or before the Delivery Date without prejudicing the right of the Owner to require fulfilment of such conditions in whole or in part at any time thereafter.

	35	
Delivery of the Vessel

	35.1	
The Owner's obligations to deliver the Vessel to the Charterer under this Charter are conditional upon:

		35.1.1	
delivery of the Vessel by the Charterer (as seller) to the Owner (as buyer) pursuant to the terms of the MOA; and

		35.1.2	
the Owner, pursuant to the terms of the MOA, obtaining full title to the Vessel under the MOA.

The Owner may in its discretion deliver the Vessel to the Charterer under this Charter notwithstanding that one or more of the conditions precedent set out in Clause 34.2 or Clause 34.4 have not been satisfied by the Delivery Date, in which event the Charterer shall procure the satisfaction of the relevant conditions precedent within fourteen (14) days thereafter or such longer period as the Owner in its absolute discretion shall agree in writing.

	35.2	
Upon the delivery of the Vessel by the Charterer (as seller) to the Owner (as buyer) pursuant to the terms of the MOA, the Vessel shall be deemed to have been simultaneously delivered to and accepted (without reservation) by the Charterer, irrespective of whether or not the Charterer shall become and be entitled to the possession and use of the Vessel. The Charterer shall not be entitled for any reason whatsoever to refuse to accept delivery of the Vessel under this Charter once title to the Vessel has passed to the Owner in accordance with the terms of the MOA.

	35.3	
The date of delivery for the purpose of this Charter shall be the date when the Vessel is actually delivered by the Charterer (as seller) to the Owner (as buyer) pursuant to the MOA. The Owner shall be under no responsibility for any losses or damage as a result of any delay in delivery of the Vessel to the Charterer for whatsoever reason.

	35.4	
Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 35.2, the Owner and the Charterer shall on the Delivery Date sign an Acceptance Certificate in the form attached hereto as Schedule 3 (Form of Acceptance Certificate) evidencing delivery of the Vessel hereunder and delivery of which will constitute:

		35.4.1	
irrevocable, final and conclusive acceptance of the Vessel by the Charterer for the purposes of this Charter;

		35.4.2	
irrevocable, final and conclusive evidence that, for the purposes of the obligations and liabilities of the Owner hereunder or in connection herewith, the Vessel is at the time of delivery to the Charterer seaworthy, in accordance with the provisions of this Charter, in good working order and repair and without defect or inherent vice whether or not discoverable by the Charterer and free and clear of all Encumbrances and debts of whatsoever nature; and

		35.4.3	
irrevocable, final and conclusive evidence that the Vessel is satisfactory in all respects and complies with the requirements of this Charter.

The survey referred to in clause 7 of Part 2 of this Charter shall be solely for the purposes of ascertaining the condition of the Vessel, the quantities of bunkers and lubricating oil, water, paints, oils, ropes and other consumable stores on the Vessel at the time of Delivery hereunder and shall not give rise to any right of the Charterer to refuse to accept the Vessel. The costs, expenses, liability and time incurred as a result of conducting such survey shall be borne solely by the Charterer.

	35.5	
The Charterer hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Owner makes no condition, term, representation or warranty, express or implied (and whether statutory or otherwise) as to the Owner's title to the Vessel or as to the seaworthiness, merchantability, condition, design, operation, performance, capacity or fitness for use or as to the eligibility of the Vessel for any particular trade or operation or any other condition, term, representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, with respect to the Vessel.

	35.6	
Following delivery under this Charter, the Vessel will be in every respect at the sole risk of the Charterer who will bear all risk of loss, theft, damage or destruction to the Vessel from any cause whatsoever.

	35.7	
The Charterer hereby waives all of its rights in respect of any condition, term, representation or warranty express or implied (and whether statutory or otherwise) on the part of the Owner and all of its claims against the Owner howsoever and whatsoever that may arise in respect of the Vessel or the Owner's title thereto, or all of its rights therein or arising out of the operation of the Vessel or the chartering thereof under this Charter (including in respect of the seaworthiness or otherwise of the Vessel).

	35.8	
The Charterer agrees that the Owner shall be under no liability to supply any replacement vessel or any piece or part thereof during any period when the Vessel is unusable and shall not be liable to the Charterer or any other person as a result of the Vessel being unusable.

	35.9	
Bunkers and luboils

		35.9.1	
At delivery the Charterer shall take over all bunkers, lubricating oil, hydraulic oil, greases, water and unbroached stores and provisions in the Vessel without cost assuming that these have remained the property of the Charterer (as seller) under the MOA.

		35.9.2	
To the extent that Clause 46.2 applies, at redelivery the Owner shall take over all bunkers, unused lubricating oil, hydraulic oil, greases, water and unbroached provisions and other consumable stores in the said Vessel without cost.

	36	
Charter Period

	36.1	
The Owner agrees to let and the Charterer agrees to hire the Vessel on the terms and conditions of this Charter for the Charter Period.

	36.2	
The Owner hereby covenants and undertakes that unless a Termination Event or a Total Loss has occurred, or that this Charter is terminated by the Charterer in accordance with Clause 45.1, neither the Charterer nor any permitted Sub-Charterer shall be disturbed or interfered with in its quiet and peaceful use, possession and enjoyment of the Vessel (except as otherwise expressly provided for herein).

	37	
Fee and Deposit

	37.1	
The Charterer shall, within five (5) days after execution of this Charter and in any event prior to the Owner's Funding Date, pay to the Owner a non-refundable handling fee in an amount of United States Dollars Three Hundred Ninety Seven Thousand Five Hundred (US$397,500) (the "Handling Fee").

	37.2	
The Charterer shall, on or prior to the Delivery Date, pay to the Owner a deposit in an amount not less than United States Dollars One Million Three Hundred Twenty Five Thousand (US$1,325,000) (the "Deposit", which shall include any additional payment of deposit from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof) to secure the due observance and performance by the Charterer of its obligations and undertakings herein contained.

The Owner will deduct an amount in Dollars equal to the Deposit from the Balance when remitting the funds under the MOA. The Deposit shall be deemed as having been paid by the Charterer after the Balance has been paid to the Charterer (as seller) pursuant to the terms of the MOA.

	37.3	
Notwithstanding the above and without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of the Owner hereunder, the Owner shall have the right to utilise the Deposit to set off against any part of the Balloon Payment or the Termination Sum when the same becomes due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Charter after deducting any penalty or default fine or liquidated damage under the Transaction Documents owed by the Charterer.

	37.4	
The Deposit shall be retained by the Owner throughout the Security Period free of any interest to the Charterer and shall be refunded wholly or partly (in the event of any forfeiture in accordance with Clause 37.3 above) by the Owner to the Charterer within five (5) Business Days after the expiration or termination of this Charter provided that all amounts due and payable to the Owner under this Charter have been fully received by the Owner and all other obligations and liabilities of the Charterer hereunder have been fully performed and discharged. Notwithstanding the above, the Owner shall have the right to apply the Deposit to set off against an equivalent amount of the Purchase Option Price or the Purchase Obligation Price or the Termination Sum when the same becomes due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Charter.

	38	
Charterhire

	38.1	
Upfront Charterhire Payment

		38.1.1	
The Charterer shall, on or prior to the Delivery Date, pay to the Owner an upfront Charterhire payment (the "Upfront Charterhire") in an amount being the difference between the Purchase Price and the Charterhire Principal as at the Delivery Date.

		38.1.2	
The Owner and the Charterer agree that upon the delivery of the Vessel by the Charterer to the Owner pursuant to the terms of the MOA, the Upfront Charterhire shall be treated as having been fully paid by the Charterer to the Owner under this Clause 38.1.

		38.1.3	
In the event that the Market Value is less than US$26,500,000 according to the valuation carried out in accordance with this Charter before the Delivery Date, the Charterhire Principal shall be adjusted downwards on a pro-rata basis.

	38.2	
Pre-delivery Charterhire

The Charterer shall, on the first Payment Date, pay to the Owner the Pre-delivery Charterhire.

	38.3	
Charterhire

The Charterer shall, on each Payment Date throughout the Charter Period, pay to the Owner the Charterhire in the aggregate amount of:

		38.3.1	
the Fixed Charterhire;

		38.3.2	
the Variable Charterhire; and

		38.3.3	
the Balloon Payment (applicable on the Expiry Date).

In the event that the Charterhire Principal is reduced under Clause 38.1, the Fixed Charterhire shall be adjusted accordingly and the Owner and the Charterer shall agree a substitute Fixed Charterhire Payment Table to replace the one set out in Schedule 1 (Fixed Charterhire Payment Table).

	38.4	
If a Market Disruption Event occurs in relation to any Pre-delivery Charterhire or Charterhire for any Hire Calculation Period, then the Interest Rate for the relevant Hire Calculation Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of:

		38.4.1	
the Margin; and

		38.4.2	
the rate notified to the Charterer by the Owner as soon as practicable and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Hire Calculation Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to the Owner of funding the Charterhire Principal from whatever comparable source it may select.

In this Charter, "Market Disruption Event" means:

		38.4.3	
at or about noon (London time) on the Quotation Day for the relevant Hire Calculation Period the relevant rate on pages LIBOR01 of the Reuters screen is not available and none or only one of leading banks in the London interbank market supplies a rate to the Owner to determine LIBOR for dollars for the relevant Hire Calculation Period; or

		38.4.4	
before close of business in Shanghai on the Quotation Date for the relevant Hire Calculation Period, the Charterer receives notification from the Owner that the cost to the Owner of funding the Charterhire Principal from whatever source it may reasonably select would be in excess of LIBOR;

	38.5	
The Vessel shall not at any time be deemed off-hire and the Charterer's obligation to pay all Pre-delivery Charterhire and Charterhire and other amounts payable under this Charter shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and shall not be affected by any circumstances of any nature whatsoever and whether or not similar to any of the matters set out in paragraphs (a) to (e) below, including, without limitation:

		38.5.1	
any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defence or other right which the Charterer may have against the Owner or any other person for any reason whatsoever;

		38.5.2	
the unavailability of the Vessel for any reason, including (but not limited to) any invalidity or other defect in the title, the seaworthiness, condition, design, operation, performance, capacity, merchantability, or fitness for use or eligibility of the Vessel for any particular trade or operation or for documentation under the laws of any country or any damage to the Vessel;

		38.5.3	
any incapacity, disability, or defect in powers of the Charterer, or any irregular exercise thereof by, or lack of authority of, any person purporting to act on behalf of the Charterer;

		38.5.4	
the hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, arrest, detention, confiscation or as more specifically set out in Clause 47.3, Total Loss of the Vessel; or

		38.5.5	
any failure or delay on the part of the Owner whether with or without fault on its part, in performing or complying with any of the terms or covenants hereunder; or

		38.5.6	
any other causes which, but for this provision, might operate to exonerate the Charterer from liability, whether in whole or in part, under this Charter.

	38.6	
Unless otherwise agreed by the Owner in writing or such prepayment is made in accordance with Clause 42.4.2, the Charterer shall have the right to prepay any part of Charterhire Principal on any Payment Date after the second (2nd) anniversary of the Delivery Date. In the event the Charterer prepays any part of the Charterhire Principal, the Charterer shall:

		38.6.1	
serve the Owner at least twenty (20) Business Days' prior written notice, specifying the proposed date and amount for prepayment (the "Prepayment Sum"), which shall be an amount in multiples of United States Dollars One Million only (US$1,000,000); and

		38.6.2	
the Prepayment Sum shall be in a minimum amount of United States Dollars One Million only (US$1,000,000); and

		38.6.3	
pay to the Owner a prepayment fee in an amount equal to two per cent (2%) of the Prepayment Sum.

In the event that the Charterer makes any prepayment in accordance with this Clause 38.6, the Prepayment Sum shall be deducted from the remaining Charterhire Principal and the Owner and the Charterer shall agree on a substitute Fixed Charterhire Payment Table to replace the one set out in Schedule 1 (Fixed Charterhire Payment Table).

For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 38.6 does not apply to the prepayment by the Charterer of the whole Charterhire Principal then outstanding. In the event that the Charterer prepays the whole Charterhire Principal then outstanding, it shall be deemed that the Charterer elects to exercise its option to early terminate this Charter; in such case, Clauses 45.1 (not this Clause 38.6) shall be applicable.

	38.7	
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Charter, all payments by the Charterer hereunder (whether by way of hire or otherwise) shall be made:-

		38.7.1	
in case of Charterhire, not later than (subject to 38.7.3 below) the relevant Payment Date;

		38.7.2	
in Dollars in immediately available funds for same day value to the Owner Account which shall be duly established on or before the date of this Charter or to such other bank account as may from time to time be notified by the Owner to the Charterer by not less than three (3) Business Days' prior written notice; and

		38.7.3	
if any day for the making of any payment hereunder is not a Business Day, the due date for the relevant payment shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.

	38.8	
All payments under this Charter shall be made without any set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future income, freight, stamp and other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees, charges, restrictions or conditions of any nature (collectively "Taxes"). If the Charterer is so required to make any withholding or deduction from

any such payment, the sum due from the Charterer in respect of such payment will be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after making such withholding or deduction, the Owner receives a net sum equal to the amount which they would have received had no such withholding or deduction been required to be made. The Charterer shall promptly deliver to the Owner any receipts, certificates or other proof evidencing the amounts, if any, paid or payable in respect of any such withholding or deduction as aforesaid.

	38.9	
In the event of failure by the Charterer to pay on the due date for payment thereof, or in the case of the sum payable on demand, the date of demand therefor, any hire or other amount payable by it under this Charter, the Charterer shall pay to the Owner on demand default interest on such hire or such other amount from the due date to the date of actual payment (both before and after any relevant judgment or winding up of the Charterer) at the rate of zero point zero five per cent (0.05%) per day. Any interest payable under this Charter shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the actual number of days and shall be payable on demand.

	38.10	
Time of payment of the all Pre-delivery Charterhire and Charterhire and other sum payable under this Charter shall be of the essence of this Charter.

	39	
Owner's Right of Sale and Mortgage

	39.1	
At any time during the Charter Period, if the Owner wishes to transfer the title of the Vessel to a third party, the Owner shall discuss with the Charterer and obtain Charterer's prior consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. In the event that the Owner transfers the title of the Vessel to a third party, the Owner shall ensure that the subsequent owner of the Vessel shall enter into a bareboat charter with the Charterer on identical terms of this Charter with logical factual amendments. Any costs or expenses whatsoever arising in relation to the sale of the Vessel by the Owner shall be borne by the Owner.

	39.2	
The Charterer hereby agrees and undertakes to enter into any such customary documents as the Owner shall reasonably require in order to complete or perfect the transfer of the title of the Vessel (with the benefit and burden of this Charter) pursuant to Clause 39.1.

	39.3	
At all times during the term of this Charter, the Owner shall have the right to create a mortgage or as the case may be, mortgages, over the Vessel in favour of any bank or financial institution (the "Mortgagee") and to assign all the rights, title, interests and benefit in and to this Charter and/or all or any Security under the Transaction Documents to the Mortgagee as security for any loan or other facilities for the purpose of financing the acquisition of the Vessel or re-financing of the Vessel. In the event that the Vessel is transferred by the Owner to the Charterer or its nominee in accordance with Clause 45.1 or Clause 45.2 or Clause 46.7, as the case may be, the Owner shall ensure that the mortgage(s) created pursuant to this Clause 39.3 be fully discharged. The Owner undertakes and agrees to use its best efforts to procure from its Mortgagee a fully executed quiet enjoyment letter.

	39.4	
The Charterer agrees with the Owner to acknowledge and agree to be bound by, and to ensure that any Sub-Charterer acknowledges and agrees to be bound by, the notice of any assignment of this Charter executed in favour of the Mortgagee in the manner as required by the Mortgagee.

	40	
Indemnity

	40.1	
The Charterer agrees at all times during this Charter to indemnify and keep indemnified the Owner against:-

		(a)	
all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Owner as a result of its entering into of the Transaction Documents, including without limitation the costs, expenses, fees, attorney fees, charges for legal services, registration of relevant charges, perfection of any securities and others of whatsoever nature arising out of or in connection with this Charter;

		(b)	
all costs and expenses incurred, including attorney fees, in connection with any Transaction Document or the Vessel, and any costs, charges, or expenses which the Charterer have agreed to pay under this Charter and which shall be claimed or assessed against or paid by the Owner and the Charterer shall bear the cost of registration (the title/ownership registration and bareboat/demise charter registration) of the Vessel with such vessel registry of a Flag State;

		(c)	
any Taxes (as defined in Clause 38.8) imposed on, or suffered by, the Owner;

		(d)	
all losses, costs, charges, expenses, fees, attorney fees, payments, liabilities, penalties, fines, damages or other sanctions of a monetary nature (collectively, "Losses") suffered or incurred by the Owner and arising directly or indirectly in any manner out of the design, manufacture, delivery, non-delivery, purchase, importation, registration, ownership, chartering, sub-chartering, possession, control, use, operation, condition, maintenance, repair, replacement, refurbishment, modification, overhaul, insurance, sale or other disposal, return or storage of or loss of or damage to the Vessel or otherwise in connection with the Vessel (whether or not in the control or possession of the Charterer) including but not limited to those Losses described in Clause 46.4 and including any and all claims in tort or in contract by a Sub-Charterer of the Vessel from the Charterer or by the holders of any Bills of Lading issued by the Charterer;

		(e)	
all Losses suffered or incurred by the Owner which result directly or indirectly from claims which may at any time be made on the ground that any design, article or material of or in the Vessel or the operation or use thereof constitutes or is alleged to constitute an infringement of patent or copyright or registered design or other intellectual property right or any other right whatsoever;

		(f)	
all Losses suffered or incurred by the Owner in preventing or attempting to prevent the arrest, confiscation, seizure, taking in execution, impounding, forfeiture or detention of the Vessel caused by the Charterer, or in securing the release of the Vessel therefrom;

		(g)	
all Losses suffered or incurred by the Owner with respect to or as a direct result of the presence, escape, seepage, spillage, leaking, discharge or migration from the Vessel of oil or any other hazardous substance, including without limitation, any claims asserted or arising under the US Oil Pollution

Act of 1990 (as same may be amended and/or re-enacted from time to time hereafter) or similar legislation, regardless of whether or not caused by or within the control of the Charterer; and

		(h)	
any Losses incurred or suffered by the Owner in liquidating, employing or prepaying funds acquired or borrowed to purchase or finance or refinance the Vessel (including any costs incurred in unwinding any associated interest rate or currency swaps or currency futures) following any default in payment hereunder or the occurrence of any Termination Event.

	40.2	
If, under any applicable law, whether as a result of judgment against the Charterer or the liquidation of the Charterer or for any other reason, any payment to be made by the Charterer under or in connection with this Charter is made or is recovered in a currency other than the currency (the "currency of obligation") in which it is payable pursuant to this Charter then, to the extent that the payment (when converted into the currency of obligation at the rate of exchange on the date for the determination of liabilities permitted by the applicable law) falls short of the amount unpaid under this Charter, the Charterer shall as a separate and independent obligation, fully indemnify the Owner against the amount of the shortfall; and for the purposes of this sub-clause "rate of exchange' means the best rate at which the Owner is able on the relevant date to purchase the currency of obligation with the other currency.

	40.3	
The indemnities contained in this Clause 40, and each other indemnity contained in this Charter, shall survive any termination or other ending of this Charter and any breach by, or repudiation or alleged repudiation by, the Charterer or the Owner of this Charter.

	40.4	
All moneys payable by the Charterer under this Clause 40 shall be paid on demand but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of the Owner's demand.

	41	
Representations and Warranties

	41.1	
The Charterer acknowledges that the Owner has entered into this Charter in full reliance on representations by the Charterer in the following terms, and the Charterer now warrants to the Owner that the following statements are, at the date hereof, and on the Delivery Date will be, true and accurate:-

		41.1.1	
each Security Party is a limited liability company or as the case may be, corporation, duly incorporated in good standing and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation;

		41.1.2	
each Security Party has the power to conduct its business as it is now carried on, to own or hold under lease its assets, to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Transaction Document to which such Security Party is a party, and all necessary corporate, shareholder's and other actions have been taken to authorise the execution, delivery and performance of such documents;

		41.1.3	
each of the Transaction Documents to which a Security Party is a party constitutes the valid and legally binding and enforceable obligations of such

Security Party ranking at least pari passu with all other of its unsecured obligations and liabilities (actual or contingent) other than any such preferred by law;

		41.1.4	
the entry into and performance by each Security Party of the Transaction Document to which such Security Party is a party does not, and will not during the Security Period, violate in any respect (i) any existing law or regulation of any governmental or official authority or body, or (ii) the constitutional documents of this Security Party, or (iii) any agreement, contract or other undertaking to which this Security Party is a party or which is binding on this Security Party or any of its assets;

		41.1.5	
all consents, licences, approvals and authorisations required in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of the Transaction Documents have been obtained and are, or will prior to the Delivery Date be, in full force and effect;

		41.1.6	
Governing law and enforcement:

		(a)	
the choices of (x) German law to govern the Account Pledge and (y) English law to govern the other Transaction Documents to which each Security Party is a party will, in each case, be recognised and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and

		(b)	
any arbitration award obtained in Hong Kong in relation to this Charter and other Transaction Documents to which each Security Party is a party will be recognised and enforced in its jurisdiction of incorporation;

		41.1.7	
no Security Party is required under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation to make any deduction for or on account of tax from any payment it may make under each Transaction Document to which such Security Party is a party;

		41.1.8	
under the laws of the jurisdiction of incorporation of each Security Party it is not necessary that any Transaction Document to which such Security Party is a party be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration or similar tax be paid on or in relation to the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents;

		41.1.9	
no litigation, arbitration or administrative proceeding is taking place against any Security Party or against any of the assets of any Security Party which is likely to be adversely determined and, if adversely determined, would have a material adverse effect on such Security Party's ability to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;

		41.1.10	
(i) no Termination Event, and no event which with the giving of notice and/or lapse of time and/or relevant determination would constitute a Termination Event, has occurred and is continuing; and (ii) no other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default under any other agreement or instrument which is binding on any Security Party or any of

such Security Party's subsidiaries or to which such Security Party's (or any of such Security Party's subsidiaries') assets are subject and which might have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or creditworthiness of any Security Party;

		41.1.11	
any information, exhibits and reports furnished by the Charterer to the Owner are true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading, do not omit material facts and there are no other facts the omission of which would make any fact or statement therein misleading;

		41.1.12	
none of the Security Parties nor any of its assets has any right to immunity from set-off, legal proceedings, attachment prior to judgment, other attachment or execution of judgment on the grounds of sovereign immunity or otherwise;

		41.1.13	
each Security Party has complied with all Tax laws and regulations applicable to it and its business and there are no tax claims commenced or threatened to commence against any Security Party;

		41.1.14	
none of the Security Parties is insolvent or in liquidation or administration or subject to any other formal or informal insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of any Security Party or all or any part of its assets;

		41.1.15	
the Charterer has not undertaken any business other than in the ordinary course of its business of owning, operating, pooling and chartering the Vessel or as otherwise disclosed to the Owner on or prior to the date of this Charter;

		41.1.16	
the Charterer is wholly owned directly or indirectly by the Guarantor unless otherwise permitted by the Owner (such permission not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);

		41.1.17	
there will not be any agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings may be shared howsoever with any other person;

		41.1.18	
none of the Earnings, Insurances or compensation for Requisition or the Charterer Account nor any other properties or rights which are, or are to be, the subject of any of the Transaction Documents nor any part thereof will be subject to any Encumbrances except under the Transaction Documents; and

41.1.19 Financial statements: in relation to the Original Financial Statements:

		(a)	
the Original Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with the relevant GAAP consistently applied;

		(b)	
the Original Financial Statements fairly represent the financial condition of the Charterer and the Guarantor as at the end of the relevant financial year and operations during the relevant financial year; and

		(c)	
there has been no material adverse change in the business or financial condition of the Charterer or the Guarantor since the date on which the relevant Original Financial Statements were drawn up;

		41.1.20	
Sanctions

		(a)	
none of the Security Parties nor any of their respective subsidiaries, nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates or representatives (each a "Person") is a Restricted Party or an individual or entity currently the subject of any Sanctions, nor is any Security Party, any of their respective subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions.

		(b)	
each Security Party has conducted and does conduct its business in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing and there has been and there is no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving it with respect to any applicable laws and regulations relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing and no such actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or contemplated against it.

	41.2	
Environmental matters

The Charterer makes the representations and warranties set out in this Clause to the Owner on the date of this Charter and except as may have already been disclosed by the Charterer in writing to, and acknowledged by, the Owner:

		41.2.1	
the Charterer and the Operator and their respective Environmental Affiliates have each complied with the provisions of all Environmental Laws in relation to the Vessel;

		41.2.2	
the Charterer and the Operator and their respective Environmental Affiliates have each obtained all Environmental Approvals in relation to the Vessel and are in compliance with all such Environmental Approvals;

		41.2.3	
no Environmental Claim has been made or threatened or pending against the Charterer, the Operator or, to the best of their knowledge and belief (having made due enquiry), any of their respective Environmental Affiliates in respect of an amount exceeding United States Dollars Five Hundred Thousand (US$500,000); and

		41.2.4	
there has been no Environmental Incident which has resulted in a claim in respect of an amount exceeding United States Dollars Five Hundred Thousand (US$500,000).

	41.3	
Other than Clauses 41.1.7 and 41.1.8, the representations and warranties contained in Clause 41.1 and 41.2 shall be deemed to be repeated by the Charterer on each day from the date of this Charter during the Security Period as if made with

reference to the facts and circumstances existing on such date, and the rights of the Owner in respect thereof shall survive delivery of the Vessel hereunder.

	42	
Undertakings

	42.1	
The Charterer hereby undertakes to the Owner that it will comply in full and procure compliance (where applicable) with the following undertakings throughout the Security Period unless otherwise permitted by the Owner:

		42.1.1	
each Security Party will maintain its corporate existence as a body corporate duly organised and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation;

		42.1.2	
each Security Party will pay all Taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to, such Security Party or its business;

		42.1.3	
the Charterer will not conduct any business or activity other than the chartering, pooling and operation of vessels and other ancillary activities;

		42.1.4	
except for the Financial Indebtedness under this Charter, the Charterer will not incur or agree to incur or issue any Financial Indebtedness, nor make any commitments, other than those occurring in the ordinary course of trading the vessels or in the ordinary course of running their business;

		42.1.5	
any member's advances and all intercompany loans from time to time granted by any other member of the Group to the Charterer (i) are and shall be subordinated in all respects to all amounts owing and which may in future become owing by the Charterer under the Transaction Documents; (ii) are and shall remain unsecured by any Encumbrance over the whole or any part of the assets of the Charterer; and (iii) are not and shall not be capable of becoming subject to any right of set-off or counterclaim;

		42.1.6	
except for (i) the Permitted Maritime Liens and (ii) the Security in favour of the Owner or otherwise with the prior written consent of the Owner, the Charterer will not create or permit to subsist any Security or other third party rights over any of its present or future assets or undertakings, nor dispose of any those assets or of all or part of that undertaking;

		42.1.7	
without limiting the generality of paragraph (f) above, the Charterer shall ensure that the Vessel shall be free and clear of all Security other than those (i) arising under the operation of law, or (ii) created by or on the instructions of the Owner, or (iii) under the Finance Documents;

		42.1.8	
the Guarantor remains at all times as the ultimate majority legal and beneficial shareholder controlling directly or indirectly of no less than one hundred per cent (100%) of the shares of and voting rights in the Charterer;

		42.1.9	
the Charterer will supply and procure that the Guarantor (each of the Charterer and the Guarantor, a "Notifying Party") or cause to be supplied to the Owner:

		(a)	
as soon as the same become available but in any event within one hundred and eighty (180) days after the end of each of its financial years, the audited, consolidated annual financial statements of each Notifying Party for that financial year; and

		(b)	
as soon as the same become available but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each of its financial quarters, the unaudited quarterly financial statements of each Notifying Party for that financial quarter;

Each set of financial statements provided to the Owner in accordance with the above paragraph shall be:

		(a)	
certified by a director or the chief financial officer of the relevant Notifying Party as fairly representing its financial condition as at the date at which those financial statements were drawn up; and

		(b)	
prepared using the relevant GAAP;

		42.1.10	
the Charterer will provide to the Owner as per Owner's request (acting reasonably):

		(a)	
promptly upon request by the Owner, copies of all class records, class certificates and survey reports and copies of all management reports, in a form and substance acceptable to the Owner;

		(b)	
promptly upon request by the Owner, all such information regarding the Vessel, compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and Annex VI (Regulation for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) to MARPOL, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001;

		(c)	
promptly upon request by the Owner, a written report on the condition of the Vessel prepared by or on behalf of the Charterer in a form acceptable to the Owner; and

		(d)	
promptly upon request by the Owner, such further information in the possession or control of the Charterer and/or any other Security Party with respect to the financial condition and operations of the Charterer and/or such Security Party.

The Charterer further represents and warrants to the Owner that any and all documents, certificates, statement or other information furnished to the Owner by or on behalf of the Charterer in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including but without limitation to, financial information) does not contain any untrue statement of a fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein not misleading.

		42.1.11	
the Charterer will, at all times, in respect of the Vessel:

		(a)	
on the Delivery Date, by way of title and/or demise charter registration with the name of the Owner as the owner, register

(and maintain the registration of) the Vessel under the flag of the Flag State. The Charterer hereby undertakes that if such Flag State becomes involved in hostilities or civil war or there is a seizure of power by unconstitutional means or there is an adverse change in the legal or tax system in such Flag State or such other reason which in the opinion of the Owner might be expected to imperil the Vessel or the title or ownership of the Vessel, the Owner shall, at any time during the Charter Period, be entitled to transfer the flag of the Vessel from the Flag State at the time to such other registry as the Owner may select. All costs and expenses arising in connection with the title registration and/or demise charter registration of the Vessel shall be borne by the Charterer;

		(b)	
ensure that the Vessel is classified and maintained in the highest class (free of outstanding recommendations or conditions of class on the Delivery Date) or such other class as the Owner may, at the request of the Charterer, agree in writing (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), with the classification society indicated in Box 10 of Part I of this Charter (or with such other classification society as shall be acceptable to the Owner and any mortgagee) (the "Classification Society"), and comply with the rules and regulations of the Classification Society;

		(c)	
ensure compliance with all applicable environmental laws and all other laws and regulations relating to the Vessel and the operation and management thereof, and take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the Operator, the crews, employees, agents or representatives of the Charterer at all times comply with such environmental laws and other applicable laws;

		(d)	
ensure that the Vessel is in possession of a valid Safety Management Certificate, a valid International Ship Security Certificate and an International Air Pollution Prevention Certificate and in all respects in compliance with all applicable international conventions, codes and regulations, including without limitation the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) 1974 (as adopted, amended or replaced from time to time), the ISM Code and the ISPS Code, and ensure such compliance by the Operator and that the Operator shall be in possession of a Document of Compliance appropriate for the Vessel and Annex VI (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships) to MARPOL and a certificate issued pursuant to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001;

		(e)	
make such quarterly voyage declarations as may be required in accordance with all applicable insurance conditions especially in order to maintain insurance cover for trading in and to the United States of America and the Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the US Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (as may be amended and/or re-enacted from time to time hereafter));

		(f)	
obtain in a timely manner, if the Vessel at any time shall call on any US port, in accordance with the regulations of the US Oil Pollution Act 1999 (as may be amended and/or re-enacted from time to time) and in line with the requirements of the US Coast Guard, a Certificate of Financial Responsibility (C.O.F.R), a copy of which shall promptly be provided to the Owner;

		(g)	
assure its performance of the obligations under any Sub-Charter;

		42.1.12	
the Charterer will obtain and promptly renew from time to time and, whenever so required, promptly furnish certified copies to the Owner of all such authorisations, approvals, consents and licences as may be required under any applicable law or regulation to enable the Security Party to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or required for the validity or enforceability of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and the Security Party shall in all material respects comply with the terms of the same;

		42.1.13	
the Charterer will notify the Owner in writing of any Termination Event or any event or circumstances of which they are aware and which, with the giving of notice and/or lapse of time or other applicable condition, may constitute a Termination Event;

		42.1.14	
the Charterer will permit the Owner to inspect or survey the Vessel or instruct a duly authorised surveyor to carry out such survey on its behalf in order to ascertain the condition of the Vessel and to inspect copies of the Vessel's logs and records certified as true by the Vessel's master at any reasonable time or times upon giving a written notice to the Charterer; provided that the Owner shall not prevent, hinder or delay the normal operation of the Vessel. The Charterer shall bear the cost of such inspections including without limitation the fees of any surveyor once a year for any inspections carried out by the Owner or at any time when a Termination Event occurs. The Charterer shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections and give the Owner reasonable advance notice of any intended dry-docking of the Vessel;

		42.1.15	
Sanctions

		(a)	
none of the Security Parties or any of their Subsidiaries will directly or indirectly (A) use the proceeds of the transaction contemplated by the Transaction Documents, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person (aa) to fund any activities of or business with any Person the subject of Sanctions or any Restricted Party or (bb) to fund any activities or business in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, (B) permit the use or operation of the Vessel in any country or territory that at such time is the subject of Sanctions or (C) conduct any business activity with any Restricted Party or in any other manner that will result in any Person, any Finance Party or any other person participating in the transaction (whether as underwriter,

advisor, investor or otherwise) being in violation of any Sanctions or becoming a Restricted Party;

		(b)	
the processing of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents by any Security Party will not breach any Sanctions or any laws and regulations relating to counter-terrorism financing or economic and trade sanctions applicable to it. The Charterer undertakes to comply in all respects with all applicable laws and regulations relating to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing;

		(c)	
none of the Security Parties will permit the use or operation of the Vessel in any country or territory that at such time is the subject of Sanctions;

		42.1.16	
Sub-Charter

		(a)	
a time charter or a contract of affreightment in form and substance satisfactory to the Owner shall be entered into between the Charterer as disponent owner and a Sub-Charterer prior to the Delivery Date. If the Charterer will sub-let the Vessel by time charter, (A) the term of such time charter shall not be less than twenty (24) months or (B) the initial term of such time charter shall not be less than twelve (12) months which may be extended by twelve (12) months by virtue of Charterer's option contained in such time charter;

		(b)	
the rate of the hire payable under a Sub-Charter shall be an amount not less than one hundred ten per cent (110%) of the aggregate of the Charterhire payable on a Payment Date and all operating expenses of the Vessel; and

		(c)	
if the Charterer fails to enter into a Sub-Charter in accordance with paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, the Charterer shall, on or prior to the Delivery Date, provide a cash deposit in an amount not less than United States Dollars One Million Three Hundred Twenty Five Thousand (US$1,325,000)]. Such deposit shall be retained by the Charterer in the Charterer Account or Alpha Bank and provided no Termination Event or Total Loss has occurred, shall be released to the Charterer after the second (2nd) anniversary of the Delivery Date or if earlier, a Sub-Charter in form and substance acceptable to the Owner is available.

	42.2	
The Charterer undertakes and agrees that throughout the Security Period it will not, without prior written approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of the Owner:-

		42.2.1	
repudiate or terminate any Sub-Charter or the Management Agreement (unless a replacement has been agreed by the Approved Manager) or amend or vary the terms of, or permit or suffer any amendment or variation of the terms of any Sub-Charter or the Management Agreement;

		42.2.2	
enter into any charter or other contract for the employment of the Vessel for a term which exceeds or which by virtue of any optional extensions contained in it might exceed 12 months' duration (other than a Sub-Charter);

		42.2.3	
sell, transfer, assign, create security or option over, pledge, abandon, lend or otherwise dispose of or cease to exercise direct control over its present or future undertakings, assets, rights or revenues (otherwise than by security, transfers, sales or disposals for full consideration in the ordinary course of business as a ship owner, operator and manager) whether by one or a series of transactions related or not;

		42.2.4	
merge or consolidate with any other person or enter into any form of amalgamation, reconstruction or reorganisation;

		42.2.5	
make any substantial change to the general nature of its business from that carried on at the date of this Charter;

		42.2.6	
cease or threaten to cease, to carry on all or any, in the reasonable opinion of the Owner, material part of its business;

		42.2.7	
permit any change in the composition of its board of directors from that existing on the date of this Charter;

		42.2.8	
make any change in the legal or beneficial ownership of the Charterer; or

		42.2.9	
appoint a ship manager other than the Approved Manager or manage the Vessel itself.

	42.3	
In the event not due to the fault of the Owner the Vessel is arrested or detained at any time in any jurisdiction by any person having or purporting to have a claim against or any interest in the Vessel or the bunker of the Vessel, the Charterer shall within 60 days of such arrest or detention resolve such arrest or detention by way of provision of guarantee or security for costs (whether by the Charterer or its protection and indemnity association or otherwise) or by such other means necessary to ensure the Vessel is released from such arrest or detention and available for operation. If the Charterer fails to procure the release of the Vessel within 60 days (or such longer period as the Owner shall agree in the light of all the circumstances), without prejudice to the Owner's right under Clause 44.1.9, the Owner and the Charterer are obliged to enter into immediate discussion to evaluate the situation, and the Owner may, and shall be entitled to, request the Charterer to provide such deposit or security as the Owner deems sufficient to guarantee or secure the release of the Vessel from such arrest or detention.

	42.4	
In the event that during the Charter Period, the Market Value of the Vessel is less than 120% of the then current Charterhire Principal minus the amount of the Deposit held by the Owner and the Charterer's Deposit maintained by the Charterer at relevant time (the "Value Maintenance Ratio"), the Charterer shall, not later than ten (10) Business Days from the demand by the Owner, either:-

		42.4.1	
provide a cash deposit or such other additional security which, in the opinion of the Owner has a market value sufficient to enable compliance with the

Value Maintenance Ratio (and is documented with satisfactory documentation to be prepared at the cost of the Charterer upon such terms as the Owner may approve); or

		42.4.2	
prepay such part of the Charterhire Principal,

to enable the compliance of the Value Maintenance Ratio, failure of which constitutes a Termination Event under Clause 44.1; any bank charge and/or break cost payable to the Mortgagee shall be for the Charterer's account.

	42.5	
In the event that the Charterer prepays the Outstanding Charterhire Principal in accordance with Clause 42.4, such prepayment of the Outstanding Charterhire Principal shall be applied in the order of maturity of the Fixed Charterhire set out in Schedule 1 (Fixed Charterhire Payment Table).

	43	
Insurances, Total Loss

	43.1	
The Charterer undertakes to the Owner that throughout the Charter Period:-

		43.1.1	
all insurances to be effected by the Charterer pursuant to Box 29 and Box 31 (if any) of Part I and clause 13 of Part 2 of this Charter shall be effected and maintained by the Charterer;

		(a)	
in the joint names of the Mortgagee (if any), the Owner and the Charterer (or as the Owner and the Charterer may otherwise agree);

		(b)	
in an amount of marine and war risks cover set out in Clause 43.2 (or such other amount as the Owner and the Charterer may agree with from time to time);

		(c)	
that the protection and indemnity risks include (A) FD&D cover, and (B) in the case of oil pollution liability risks, cover for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover available from time to time under the basic P&I Club entry policy and the coverage amount shall not be less than US$1,000,000,000;

		(d)	
upon such terms and by policies and/or entries in such forms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Owner; and

		(e)	
through such brokers (the "approved brokers") and with such insurance companies, underwriters, war risks and protection and indemnity associations (the "approved insurers") as shall, in each case, from time to time be approved in writing by the Owner;

		43.1.2	
all such insurances shall be renewed by the Charterer at least seven (7) days before the relevant policies or contracts expire and the approved brokers and/or the approved insurers shall promptly confirm in writing to the Owner as and when each of such renewals is effected and, in the event of any renewal not being effected by the Charterer as aforesaid, shall notify the Owner forthwith;

		43.1.3	
if any of the Insurances form part of a fleet cover, to obtain insurers' agreement not to cancel the insurances for reason of non-payment of premiums for other vessels under such fleet cover or of premiums for such other insurances, and, only to the extent allowed under the relevant terms of the Insurances, to obtain insurers' undertaking to the Owner that it shall neither set-off against any claims in respect of the Vessel any premiums due in respect of other vessels under such fleet cover or any premiums due for other insurances;

		43.1.4	
the Charterer shall pay punctually all premiums, calls, contributions or other sums payable in respect of all such insurances and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Owner;

		43.1.5	
if and when so required by the Mortgagee, the Charterer shall pay the Mortgagee direct or reimburse the Owner (in case the Owner pays) the cost (as conclusively certified by the Mortgagee) of (A) a mortgagee's interest insurance on the Vessel in an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the Charterhire Principal or such lesser amount as may be approved by the Mortgagee; and (B) a mortgagee's interest insurance - additional perils (pollution) on the Vessel in an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the Charterhire Principal or such lesser amount as may be approved by the Mortgagee, and in each case, upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Mortgagee;

		43.1.6	
if and when so required by the Owner, the Charterer shall pay the Owner the cost (as conclusively certified by the Owner) of Innocent Shipowner's Interest Insurance on the Vessel in an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the Charterhire Principal or such lesser amount as may be approved by the Owner; and (B) an Innocent Shipowner's Interest insurance - additional perils (pollution) on the Vessel in an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the Charterhire Principal or such lesser amount as may be approved by the Owner, and in each case, upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Owner;

		43.1.7	
loss of hire in such amounts and upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Owner as may be required by the Mortgagee;

		43.1.8	
if and when so required by the Owner from time to time, the Charterer shall pay the Owner the cost (as conclusively certified by the Owner) of any other insurances (including without limitation, Kidnap and Ransom Insurance and additional war risk insurances), as may be recommended by the firm of insurance broker or the firm of insurance consultant who will issue the insurance report to the Owner, in such amounts and upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Owner;

		43.1.9	
the Charterer shall arrange for the execution of such guarantees as may from time to time be required by any protection and indemnity or war risks association;

		43.1.10	
the Charterer shall ensure that the policies and/or entries in respect of the insurances against marine and war risks are, in each case, endorsed with the interest of the Owner to the effect that:

		(a)	
payment of a claim for a Total Loss of the Vessel will be made to the Owner;

		(b)	
payment of a claim in respect of any one casualty where the aggregate claim against all insurers does not exceed the Major Casualty Amount, subject to the provision hereto, be made to the Charterer who shall apply the same to make good the loss and fully repair all damage and otherwise maintaining the Vessel in accordance with its obligations hereunder provided however that all such sums shall be payable as aforesaid only until such time as the Owner may otherwise direct to the contrary following a Termination Event whereupon all such sums shall be paid to the Owner or to any Mortgagee in its capacity as the Owner's assignee;

		(c)	
payment of a claim in respect of any one casualty where the aggregate claim against all insurers exceeds the Major Casualty Amount prior to adjustment for any franchise or deductible under the terms of the relevant policy shall be payable directly to the Owner unless the Owner has, by prior written consent, agreed for such claim to be paid to the Charterer as and when the Vessel is restored to her former state and condition and the liability in respect of which the insurance loss is payable is discharged, and provided that the insurers may with such consent make payment on account of repairs in the course of being effected.

		43.1.11	
the Charterer shall ensure that the entries in respect of protection and indemnity risks provide for moneys payable thereunder to be paid (unless and until the Owner shall, following the occurrence of any Termination Event, direct that they shall be paid to the Owner) either:

		(a)	
to the person who incurred the liability in respect of which the relevant money was paid; or

		(b)	
to the Charterer in reimbursement for any payment properly made by the Charterer to a third party;

		43.1.12	
the Charterer shall ensure that duplicates of all cover notes, policies and certificates of entry are furnished to the Owner for its approval and custody. The Charterer shall procure that the relevant approved brokers or the approved insurers give to the Owner such information as to the Insurances taken out or being or to be taken out in compliance with the Charterer's obligations under the foregoing provisions or as to any other matter which may be relevant to the Insurances as the Owner may request.;

		43.1.13	
the Charterer shall ensure that the interest of the Owner as owner of the Vessel and/or any assignee of the Owner in respect of Owner's interest in the insurances shall be recorded on all policies and shall be confirmed to the

Owner in conformity with applicable market practice and with the requirements of the Owner;

		43.1.14	
the Charterer shall not do any act or permit or suffer any act to be done whereby any insurance required as aforesaid shall or may be suspended, impaired or become defective;

		43.1.15	
at the cost of the Charterer, the Charterer shall furnish the Owner prior to the Delivery Date and at any time when there is any change to the form of any policy issued in respect of the Vessel, a report signed by an independent firm of marine insurance brokers or an independent firm of international reputable insurance consultant appointed by the Charterer and acceptable to the Owner dealing with the Insurances maintained on the Vessel and stating the opinion of such firm as to the adequacy thereof;

		43.1.16	
the Charterer shall do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Owner to collect or recover any moneys which shall at any time become due to them in respect of the Insurances;

		43.1.17	
the Charterer shall not employ the Vessel or suffer the Vessel to be employed otherwise than in conformity with the terms of the instruments of insurance aforesaid (and in particular the ones covering war risks) (including any warranties express or implied therein), without first obtaining the consent of the insurers to such employment and complying with such requirements as to extra premium or otherwise as the insurers may prescribe;

		43.1.18	
the Charterers shall not settle, compromise or abandon any claim under or in connection with any of the Insurances (other than a claim of less than the Major Casualty Amount arising other than from a Total Loss) without the prior written consent of the Owner;

		43.1.19	
the Charterer shall apply all such sums received in respect of the Insurances in accordance with the terms of Clause 43.1 for the purpose of making good the loss and fully repairing all damage in respect whereof the insurance moneys shall have been received; and

		43.1.20	
the Charterer shall not make any alteration to any of the insurances referred to in this Clause 43 without prior written approval by the Owner and shall not make, do, consent or agree to any act or omission which might render any such instrument of insurance invalid or unenforceable or render any sum payable thereunder repayable in whole or in part,

Provided always that the Owner shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 43.1 from time to time in order to take account of significant changes in circumstances arising as a result of any amendment to the existing laws of, or adoption of new laws by, any relevant jurisdiction after the date of this Charter (such changes in circumstances to include, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance and/or protection and indemnity coverage). The Owner may notify the Charterer in writing from time to time of any proposed modification to the requirements of this Clause 43.1 which they reasonably deem appropriate as a result

of such amendment to the existing laws of, or adoption of new laws by, that jurisdiction. Such modification shall take effect on and from the date it is notified in writing to the Charterer as an amendment to this Clause 43.1 and shall bind the Charterer accordingly.

	43.2	
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Charter, the Vessel shall be kept insured throughout the Charter Period in respect of marine and war risks on hull and machinery basis (as opposed to increased value or total loss only basis) for an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the then current Charterhire Principal.

	43.3	
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Charter, if the Vessel shall become a Total Loss:

		43.3.1	
the Charterhire shall continue to be payable from the date of occurrence of the Total Loss as set out in Clause 43.4 (the "Total Loss Date") until all sums due under 43.3.2 below have been paid in full;

		43.3.2	
the Charterer shall within 30 days from the Total Loss Date and no later than the actual date the insurance proceeds are received from the relevant insurer as a result of such Total Loss, whichever occurs earlier, pay to the Owner the amount equal to the Termination Sum and any other amount due and payable by the Charterer hereunder;

		43.3.3	
the Charter Period will end and the obligation of the Charterer to pay Charterhire shall cease on the date on which all sums due under 43.3.2 above have been received by the Owner.

Any insurance proceeds received by the Owner in respect of the Total Loss shall be paid to the Owner and shall be applied towards settlement of any outstanding Termination Sum or any other amount due and payable to the Owner under this Charter. Any surplus (if any) remaining thereafter shall be returned to the Charterer.

	43.4	
For the purposes of this Charter:

		43.4.1	
an actual Total Loss of the Vessel shall be deemed to have occurred at the actual date and time the Vessel was lost but, in the event of the date of the loss being unknown, then the actual total loss shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on which the Vessel was last reported;

		43.4.2	
a constructive Total Loss shall be deemed to have occurred at the date and time when a notice of abandonment of the Vessel is given to the insurers of the Vessel for the time being (hereinafter called the "Insurers") (provided a claim for such constructive Total Loss is admitted by the Insurers) or, if the Insurers do not admit such a claim, at the date and time at which a constructive Total Loss is subsequently adjudged by a competent court of law or arbitration tribunal to have occurred; and either the Owner or the Charterer shall have the right to determine whether or not a case has arisen for the giving of notice of abandonment and the Charterer is hereby irrevocably authorised by the Owner to give the same if it so determines. Each of the Owner and the Charterer, upon the request of the other, shall promptly execute such documents as may be required to enable the other to

abandon the Vessel and claim a constructive Total Loss and shall give all possible assistance in pursuing the said claim;

		43.4.3	
a compromised, agreed or arranged Total Loss shall be deemed to have occurred on the effective date of the relevant compromise, agreement or arrangement; and

		43.4.4	
a Total Loss (i) as the result of capture, taking, arrest, seizure, restraint, molestation, detention, confiscation or expropriation occurring under the conditions of the "War Risks" policy of the Vessel or (ii) as a result of Requisition, shall be deemed to have occurred at the expiry of one (1) month after the date the assured has given notice of abandonment to the insurers.

	43.5	
BIMCO Piracy Clause 2009 as amended

		43.5.1	
The Vessel shall not be obliged to proceed or required to continue to or through, any port, place, area or zone, or any waterway or canal (hereinafter "Area") which, in the reasonable judgement of the master and/or the Owner, is dangerous to the Vessel, her cargo, crew or other persons on board the Vessel due to any actual, threatened or reported acts of piracy and/or violent robbery and/or capture/seizure (hereinafter "Piracy"), whether such risk existed at the time of entering into this Charter or occurred thereafter. Should the Vessel be within any such place as aforesaid which only becomes dangerous, or is likely to be or to become dangerous, after her entry into it, she shall be at liberty to leave it. Notwithstanding to the above, the Charterer may request the Vessel to proceed or require the Vessel to continue to or through the Area, provided that the Vessel is carrying sufficient armed guard or under any other circumstances each to the satisfactory to the Owner during the whole navigation within the Area at the sole risks and costs of the Charterer. The charterer shall indemnify and hold the Owner harmless in respect of any loss, damage, expense or liability incurred arising out of or in relation to this clause.

		43.5.2	
If in accordance with 43.5.1 the Owner decides that the Vessel shall not proceed or continue to or through the Area they must immediately inform the Charterer;

		43.5.3	
If the Owner consents or if the Vessel proceeds to or through an Area exposed to the risk of Piracy the Charterer shall:

		(a)	
take reasonable preventative measures to protect the Vessel including but not limited to re-routeing within the Area, proceeding in convoy, using escorts, avoiding day or night navigation, adjusting speed or course, or engaging security personnel or equipment on or about the Vessel;

		(b)	
comply with the orders, directions or recommendations of any underwriters who have the authority to give the same under the terms of the insurance;

		(c)	
comply with all orders, directions, recommendations or advice given by the Government of the Nation under whose flag the Vessel sails, or other Government to whose laws the Owner is subject, or any other Government, body or group, including military authorities, whatsoever acting with the power to compel compliance with their orders or directions; and

		(d)	
comply with the terms of any resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations, the effective orders of any other Supranational body which has the right to issue and give the same, and with national laws aimed at enforcing the same to which the Owner is subject, and to obey the orders and directions of those who are charged with their enforcement;

and the Charterer shall indemnify the Owner for any claims from holders of Bills of Lading or third parties caused by the Vessel proceeding as aforesaid, save to the extent that such claims are covered by additional insurance as provided in paragraph (d)(ii).

		43.5.4	
Costs

		(a)	
If the Vessel proceeds to or through an Area where due to risk of Piracy additional costs will be incurred including but not limited to additional personnel and preventative measures to avoid Piracy, such costs shall be for the Charterer's account. Any time lost waiting for convoys, following recommended routeing, timing, or reducing speed or taking measures to minimise risk, shall be for the Charterer's account and the Vessel shall remain on hire;

		(b)	
If the underwriters of the Insurances require additional premiums or additional insurance cover is necessary because the Vessel proceeds to or through an Area exposed to risk of Piracy, then Charterer shall pay such additional Insurance costs and evidence of payment shall be provided to the Owner;

		(c)	
All payments arising under paragraph (d) shall be settled by the Charterer and evidence of payment shall be provided to the Owner.

		(d)	
If the Vessel is attacked by pirates, any time lost shall be for the account of the Charterer and the Vessel shall remain on hire.

		(e)	
If the Vessel is seized by pirates, the Charterer shall keep the Owner closely informed of the efforts made to have the Vessel released.

	43.6	
War Risks

		43.6.1	
The Vessel shall not be required, without the prior consent of the Owner, to enter any port, place, or zone that is involved in a state of war, warlike operations, or hostilities, civil war, civil strife, rebellion, or piracy, whether there be a declaration of war or not, where it might reasonably be expected to be subject to capture, seizure or arrest, or to a hostile act by a

belligerent power (the term "power" meaning any de jure or de facto authority or any other purported governmental organization maintaining naval, military or air forces).

		43.6.2	
If such consent is given by the Owner, the Charterer shall pay any additional cost of insuring the Vessel against hull war risks in an amount not less than one hundred twenty per cent (120%) of the Charterhire Principal or the insured value under its ordinary hull policy. In addition, the Owner may, in its sole discretion, purchase war risk insurance on ancillary risks such as loss of hire, freight disbursements, total loss, kidnap or ransom etc., if it carries such insurance for ordinary marine hazards. The additional costs of such ancillary insurances shall be for Charterer's account. If such insurance is not obtainable commercially or through a government program, the Vessel shall not be required to enter or remain at any such port, place, or zone.

	44	
Termination Events

	44.1	
Each of the following events shall be a "Termination Event" for the purposes of this Charter:-

		44.1.1	
any Pre-delivery Charterhire or Charterhire or the Deposit or the Handling Fee or any other sum payable by a Security Party under a Transaction Document to which it is a party is not paid when due or, if payable on demand, within five (5) Business Days following the date of demand therefor; or

		44.1.2	
a Security Party fails to observe or perform any of its other obligations under a Transaction Document to which it is a party and/or the Insurances; or

		44.1.3	
any representation or warranty of a Security Party in connection with a Transaction Document or in any document or certificate furnished to the Owner in connection herewith or therewith is untrue, inaccurate or misleading in any material respect, when made or deemed made; or

		44.1.4	
a petition shall be presented or an order is made or an effective resolution is passed for the administration or winding-up or bankruptcy, as the case may be, of any Security Party or an administrator or other receiver is appointed in respect of the whole or any substantial part of the property, undertaking or assets of any Security Party or an administrator of any Security Party is appointed or anything analogous to any of the foregoing occurs under the laws of the place of incorporation of such Security Party. However, in the case of a petition no Termination Event shall occur if such petition is frivolous and such petition or order is defended in good faith and appropriate steps and is withdrawn within a period of 2 months; or

		44.1.5	
any Security Party stops payments generally or ceases to carry on or suspends all or a substantial part of its business or is unable to pay its debts, or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts, as they become due or shall otherwise become or be adjudicated insolvent; or

		44.1.6	
without the prior consent of the Owner (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), there occurs a change in the ownership of the Charterer; or

		44.1.7	
without the prior consent of the Owner, the Charterer ceases to be 100% directly or indirectly and beneficially owned by the Guarantor; or

		44.1.8	
a Security Party ceases or threatens to cease, to carry on all or, in the opinion of the Owner, any material part of its business; or

		44.1.9	
the Vessel is arrested or detained (other than for reasons solely attributable to the Owner) and is not discharged in accordance with Clause 42.3 within 60 days after such arrest or detention (or such longer period as the Owner shall agree in the light of all the circumstances); or

		44.1.10	
any declared default arises in respect of any financial or other obligation from time to time entered into or assumed by any Security Party, in the case of the Guarantor, provided that such default is of an amount in excess of United States Dollars Five Million (US$5,000,000); or

		44.1.11	
any event or series of events occurs which, in the reasonable opinion of the Owner, may have a material adverse effect on the ability of a Security Party's to comply with its obligations under any Transaction Document to which it is a party; or

		44.1.12	
any declaration of bankruptcy or any statement to the effect that a Security Party's is insolvent is made by such Security Party, by a legal representative of such Security Party or, in any proceedings, by a lawyer or auditors who are acting on behalf of such Security Party as having been duly authorised by such Security Party to do so; or

		44.1.13	
a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver or similar officer is appointed over the whole or any material part of the assets, rights or revenues of a Security Party or, if the whole or a substantial part of the assets of a Security Party shall be seized or sequestrated by any governmental or other public authority or, if a Security Party shall be restrained from using the whole or a substantial part of its assets in its business; or

		44.1.14	
any Management Agreement is repudiated, terminated or cancelled without consent of the Owner or it becomes unlawful for the Approved Manager to perform its obligations under a Transaction Document to which it is a party, or the Approved Manager is in material breach of its obligations under the Manager's Undertaking and (i) within a period of 14 Business Days after service of notice on it by the Owner (with copy to the Charterer) requiring it to remedy the breach, the Approved Manager has not cured its default or (ii) within a period of 14 Business Days after service of notice on the Charterer by the Owner requiring it to change the Approved Manager, the Charterer has failed to do so; or

		44.1.15	
any of the Transaction Documents shall at any time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise cease to remain in full force and effect; or

		44.1.16	
any consent, authorisation, licence or approval necessary for a Transaction Document to be or remain the valid and legally binding obligations of a Security Party, or to enable a Security Party to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder, is adversely modified or is not granted or is revoked, suspended, withdrawn or terminated or expires and is not renewed; or

		44.1.17	
it becomes impossible or unlawful at any relevant time for any Security Party to enter into or be party to a Transaction Document, or to fulfil any of the covenants and obligations expressed to be assumed by it in any of the Transaction Documents or for the Owner to exercise the rights or any of them vested in it under any of the Transaction Documents and unless not permitted by relevant applicable laws, within a period of 10 Business Days after service of notice on it by the Owner (with copy to the Charterer) requiring it to remedy the breach, the relevant Security Party has not cured its default ; or

		44.1.18	
a Security Party repudiates any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or does or causes or permits to be done any act or thing evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party; or

		44.1.19	
the Charterer or, as the context may require, any other person fails to obtain and/or maintain the Insurances for the Vessel or if any insurer in respect of such Insurances cancels the Insurances or disclaims liability by reason, in either case, of mis-statement in any proposal for the Insurances or for any other failure or default on the part of the Charterer or any other person or the Charterer commit any breach of or omits to observe any of the obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under Clause 43; or

		44.1.20	
the occurrence of any other event or circumstances which, pursuant to the terms hereof or at law, entitles the Owner to terminate this Charter.

	44.2	
The occurrence of a Termination Event shall entitle the Owner by notice to the Charterer to terminate this Charter forthwith and recover any and all amounts due and payable hereunder and/or resulting from such termination in the manner as set out in Clause 46.

	44.3	
The Owner shall not be under any liability whatsoever to the Charterer for loss or damage whatsoever occasioned by the Charterer for the termination of this Charter pursuant to Clause 44.2, and the Charterer shall indemnify the Owner on demand for any and all liabilities, losses, costs and expenses incurred by the Owner pursuant to this Clause or otherwise resulting from the occurrence of a Termination Event.

	45	
Purchase Option and Purchase Obligation

	45.1	
Purchase Option

If no Termination Event or Total Loss has occurred, the Charterer shall have the right to purchase the Vessel on a Purchase Option Date subject to the following:

		45.1.1	
the Purchase Option shall be exercisable by irrevocable written notice to the Owner given not later than twenty (20) Business Days prior to the Purchase Option Date; and

		45.1.2	
the Charterer shall pay to the Owner on the relevant Purchase Option Date the corresponding Purchase Option Price.

	45.2	
Purchase Obligation

If no Total Loss has occurred, the Charterer shall be obliged to purchase the Vessel on the Expiry Date by payment of the Purchase Obligation Price.

	45.3	
Purchase of Vessel by Charterer

		45.3.1	
Immediately upon receipt by the Owner of the Purchase Option Price or the Purchase Obligation Price, as the case may be, the Owner shall:

		(a)	
procure the release of the mortgage and any other Security over the Vessel created by the Owner; and

		(b)	
transfer title to the Vessel to either Charterer or its nominee.

		45.3.2	
The Vessel shall be sold or transferred by the Owner to the Charterer on the following terms:

		(a)	
the sale will be on an "as is, where is" basis;

		(b)	
the Owner shall pass to either Charterer such title to the Vessel as the Owner has acquired pursuant to the MOA, free of any Encumbrances created by the Owner;

		(c)	
the sale shall exclude all liability of the Owner except for the warranty given by the Owner in paragraph (b) above;

		(d)	
if the Vessel is, at the date of sale, subject to any requisition for hire, the sale will be subject to such requisition; and

		(e)	
all costs, expenses, Taxes and any payment of a similar nature arising in connection with the sale of the Vessel by the Owner shall be for the account of the Charterer.

	46	
Owner's Rights on Termination

	46.1	
At any time after a Termination Event, the Owner may, by notice in writing to the Charterer immediately, or on such date as the Owner shall specify, terminate this Charter, whereupon the Vessel shall no longer be in the possession of the Charterer and the Owner shall be entitled (but not bound) to retake possession of the Vessel. The Charterer shall redeliver the Vessel to the Owner pursuant to Clause 46.2.

	46.2	
The Charterer shall redeliver the Vessel to the Owner in accordance with the notice issued by and from the Owner pursuant to Clause 46.1 and:

		46.2.1	
at the nearest available port practicable for redelivery or at such other port as the Owner may specify;

		46.2.2	
with her class maintained without any conditions or recommendation; 46.2.3 free of average damage affecting the Vessel's class;

		46.2.4	
with all the Vessel's classification, trading, national and international certificates that the Vessel had when she was delivered by the Owner to the Charterer under this Charter, valid and un-extended without conditions or recommendation and falling due for a minimum of one (1) months from the time of redelivery;

		46.2.5	
in the same or as good structure, state, condition and class as that in which she was deemed to be delivered under clause 2 of Part 2 of this Charter, fair wear and tear not affecting class excepted;

		46.2.6	
with all such spare parts and other equipment she had at the time of delivery under this Charter; and

		46.2.7	
with all information generated during the Charter Period in respect of the operation, navigation and the physical condition of the Vessel, whether or not such information is contained in the Charterer's equipment, computer or property.

	46.3	
The Owner may, at its entire discretion, demand that the Charterer pay to the Owner on the Termination Date or such later date as the Owner shall specify (and without prejudice to any other rights, claims or remedies which the Owner may have) the Termination Sum.

	46.4	
The Charterer shall pay or reimburse to the Owner on demand all Losses suffered by the Owner in connection with such termination including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, all liabilities, costs and expenses so incurred in recovering possession of, and in moving, storing, insuring and maintaining, the Vessel and in carrying out any works or modifications required to cause the Vessel to conform with the provisions of Clause 46.2 together with interest thereon pursuant to Clause 38.9 from the date on which the relevant Loss was suffered by the Owner until the date of payment or reimbursement thereof (both before and after any relevant judgment or winding up of the Charterer) pursuant to this Clause 46.

	46.5	
Any amount due to the Owner under this Clause 46 shall bear interest pursuant to Clause 38.9 (before and after any relevant judgment or any winding-up of the Charterer) from the Termination Date to the date of the Owner's actual receipt thereof.

	46.6	
Notwithstanding the termination of this Charter pursuant to Clause 44.2, the Charterer shall irrevocably and unconditionally continue to comply with its obligations under this Charter until the Vessel is redelivered to the Owner in accordance with Clause 46.2.

	46.7	
Upon the receipt of full amount of the Termination Sum and all other sum payable by the Charterer to the Owner hereunder, the Owner shall discharge the mortgage as may be created over the Vessel pursuant to Clause 39.3, and, transfer to the Charterer or its nominee all of the Owner's rights, title and interests in the Vessel on "as is-where is" basis. The Charterer shall not be entitled for any reason whatsoever

to claim against the Owner for any losses, or any loss of profit resulting directly or indirectly from any defect or alleged defect in the Vessel. All registration, legal or other expenses whatsoever incurred in respect of the transfer of the title in the Vessel from the Owner to the Charterer or its nominee shall be paid by the Charterer not later than three (3) Business Days before the expected date of transfer.

	46.8	
In the event that the Charterer fails to meet in full the Owner's demand for payment pursuant to this Clause 46:

		46.8.1	
the Owner may, at its option, sell the Vessel free of any charter, lease or other engagement concerning the Vessel for such price and on such terms and conditions as it may, in its absolute discretion, think fit.

		46.8.2	
the gross proceeds of the sale of the Vessel shall deduct an amount equal to the aggregate of the expenses, disbursements, taxes, costs and losses whatsoever as may have been incurred by the Owner in respect of the sale of the Vessel (the "Net Sale Proceeds").

		46.8.3	
an amount equal to the Termination Sum shall be deducted from the Net Sale Proceeds. If the Net Sale Proceeds are insufficient to satisfy all amounts due and payable from the Charterer to the Owner hereunder, the Charterer shall pay the outstanding balance to the Owner. If there is any amount remaining from the Net Sale Proceeds after the deduction of all the amounts due and payable by the Charterer to the Owner hereunder, the Owner shall pay the difference to the Charterer.

		46.8.4	
notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in the foregoing, the Owner may, at its option, retain the Vessel and have the Vessel valued in Dollars by two Approved Valuers, one appointed by the Owner and the other one appointed by the Charterer, and the average value of the two valuations quoted by such two Approved Valuers shall apply. The Owner may offset against such value all costs incidental to such valuation of the Vessel. If the value of the Vessel is less than the Termination Sum, the Charterer shall immediately pay the difference to the Owner upon demand by the Owner. If the value of the Vessel is higher than the Termination Sum, the Owner shall pay the difference to the Charterer.

	47	
Assignment and Set-Off

	47.1	
This Charter shall be binding upon and enure for the benefit of the Charterer and the Owner and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

	47.2	
The Charterer shall not be entitled to assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Charter, unless with the prior written consent of the Owner.

	47.3	
In addition to the right of the Owner to assign under Clause 39.3, the Owner may at any time assign or transfer any or all of its rights and/or obligations under this Charter to any person.

	47.4	
Without prejudice to any right of set-off, combination of accounts, lien or other rights to which the Owner is at any time entitled whether by operation of law or contract or otherwise, the Owner may (but shall not be obliged to) set off against any obligation

of the Charterer due and payable by it hereunder without prior notice any moneys held by the Owner for the account of the Charterer at any office of the Owner anywhere and in any currency. The Owner may effect such currency exchanges as are appropriate to implement such set-off.

	48	
Communications

	48.1	
Except as otherwise provided for in this Charter, all notices or other communications under or in respect of this Charter to either party hereto shall be in writing and shall be made or given to such party at the address or facsimile number or email appearing below (or at such other address or facsimile number or email as such party may hereafter specify for such purposes to the other by notice in writing):-

		48.1.1	
In the case of the Owner:

	
Address:

	
18/F, CATIC Tower, 212 Jiang Ning Road, Shanghai, PRC

	
Telephone No.:

	
(86)-21-2226 2623

	
Fax No.:

	
(86)-21-5289 5389

	
Email:

	
zhangqiang@chinaleasing.net

		48.1.2	
In the case of the Charterer

	
Address:

	
154 Vouliagmenis Avenue, 16674 Glyfada, Greece

	
Telephone No.:

	
+30 210 891 3520

	
Fax No.:

	
+30 210 963 8404

	
Email:

	
sgyftakis@seanergy.gr

A written notice includes a notice by facsimile or Email.  A notice or other communication received on a non-working day or after business hours in the place of receipt shall be deemed to be served on the next following working day in such place. Subject always to the foregoing sentence, any communication by personal delivery or letter shall be deemed to be received upon receipt by the addressee and any communication by facsimile or Email shall be deemed to be received upon appropriate acknowledgement by the addressee's receiving equipment.

	48.2	
All communications and documents delivered pursuant to or otherwise relating to this Charter shall be either in English or accompanied by a certified English translation.

	49	
Counterparts

This Charter may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Charter.

	50	
Law and Jurisdiction

	50.1	
Governing law

This Charter and any non-contractual obligations arising from or in connection with it are in all respects governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with English law.

	
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	50.2	
Arbitration

		50.2.1	
Any dispute, controversy, difference or claim arising out of or relating to this Charter, including the existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination thereof or any dispute regarding non-contractual obligations arising out of or relating to it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules in force when the notice of arbitration is submitted.

		50.2.2	
The law of this arbitration clause shall be Hong Kong law.

		50.2.3	
The seat of arbitration shall be Hong Kong. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties hereto (collectively, the "Parties" and each, a "Party"), the arbitration tribunal shall consist of three arbitrators and each Party shall appoint an arbitrator and the two arbitrators so appointed shall select a third arbitrator as the presiding arbitrator.

		50.2.4	
The language of the arbitration shall be English.

		50.2.5	
The award of the arbitrators shall be final and enforceable and each Party agrees not to contest or seek relief from the award in the courts of any jurisdiction without prejudice to the right of any Party to seek enforcement of any award in the courts of any jurisdiction.

		50.2.6	
The arbitration tribunal constituted under this Charter may consolidate two or more arbitrations hereunder if the arbitration proceedings raise common questions of law or fact.

Schedule 1

Fixed Charterhire Payment Table

	
Payment No.

	
Fixed Charterhire (US$)

	
Charterhire Principle (US$)

	
Owner's Funding Date

	 	
$19,875,000.00

	
Delivery Date

	 	
$19,875,000.00

	
1

	
$455,500.00

	
$19,419,500.00

	
2

	
$455,500.00

	
$18,964,000.00

	
3

	
$455,500.00

	
$18,508,500.00

	
4

	
$455,500.00

	
$18,053,000.00

	
5

	
$455,500.00

	
$17,597,500.00

	
6

	
$455,500.00

	
$17,142,000.00

	
7

	
$455,500.00

	
$16,686,500.00

	
8

	
$455,500.00

	
$16,231,000.00

	
9

	
$455,500.00

	
$15,775,500.00

	
10

	
$455,500.00

	
$15,320,000.00

	
11

	
$455,500.00

	
$14,864,500.00

	
12

	
$455,500.00

	
$14,409,000.00

	
13

	
$455,500.00

	
$13,953,500.00

	
14

	
$455,500.00

	
$13,498,000.00

	
15

	
$455,500.00

	
$13,042,500.00

	
16

	
$455,500.00

	
$12,587,000.00

	
17

	
$455,500.00

	
$12,131,500.00

	
18

	
$455,500.00

	
$11,676,000.00

	
19

	
$455,500.00

	
$11,220,500.00

	
20

	
$455,500.00

	
$10,765,000.00

	
21

	
$455,500.00

	
$10,309,500.00

	
22

	
$455,500.00

	
$9,854,000.00

	
23

	
$455,500.00

	
$9,398,500.00

	
24

	
$455,500.00

	
$8,943,000.00

	
25

	
$455,500.00

	
$8,487,500.00

	
26

	
$455,500.00

	
$8,032,000.00

	
27

	
$455,500.00

	
$7,576,500.00

	
28

	
$455,500.00

	
$7,121,000.00

	
29

	
$455,500.00

	
$6,665,500.00

	
30

	
$455,500.00

	
$6,210,000.00

	
31

	
$455,500.00

	
$5,754,500.00

	
32

(Balloon Payment)

	
$455,500.00

	
$5,299,000.00

Schedule 2

Conditions Precedent and Subsequent

Part 1

	1	
Security Parties

		1.1	
A copy of the constitutional documents of each Security Party and the Approved Manager.

		1.2	
A copy of a resolution of the board of directors and a copy of a resolution of shareholder(s) of each Security Party and the Approved Manager:

		1.2.1	
approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it executes, delivers and performs the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;

1.2.2 authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Transaction Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and

		1.2.3	
authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

		1.3	
A specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolution referred to in 1.2 above.

		1.4	
A certificate of a director or officer of each Security Party and the Approved Manager confirming that guaranteeing or granting of security would not cause any guaranteeing, granting of security or similar limit binding on it to be exceeded.

		1.5	
A certificate of an authorised signatory of each Security Party and the Approved Manager certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Part 1 of Schedule 2 is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Charter.

		1.6	
If applicable, the original attorney of each of the Security Parties and the Approved Manager under which the relevant Transaction Documents to which it is or is to become a party are to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party and the Approved Manager.

		1.7	
A certificate of good standing in respect of each Security Party and the Approved Manager (if such a certificate can be obtained).

	2	
Transaction Documents

		2.1	
Duly executed originals of:-

		2.1.1	
this Charter;

		2.1.2	
the MOA;

		2.1.3	
the Account Pledge;

		2.1.4	
the General Assignment;

		2.1.5	
the Guarantee;

		2.1.6	
the Share Charge;

		2.1.7	
the Manager's Undertaking; and

		2.1.8	
any other Security Documents,

together with all notices to be given or exchanged pursuant to the relevant Transaction Documents.

	3	
Other documents and evidence

		3.1	
Evidence that the Charterer Account has been opened with the Account Bank.

		3.2	
Evidence that the Handling Fee which is due and payable having been received by the Owner.

		3.3	
A copy, certified as a true copy by a director of the Charterer, of the Management Agreement.

		3.4	
The Original Financial Statements of the Charterer and the Guarantor.

		3.5	
A copy of the invoice from the Charterer (as seller) in respect of the Purchase Price of the Vessel under the MOA.

		3.6	
Evidence that the Vessel is, or immediately following the Delivery Date will be, insured in accordance with the provisions of this Charter and that all requirements of Clause 43 of this Charter in respect of such Insurances have been complied with.

		3.7	
If required by the Owner, an inspection report of the Vessel with respect to the condition of the Vessel satisfactory in all aspects to the Owner.

		3.8	
A valuation report dated not more than ninety (90) days prior to the Delivery Date issued by an Approved Valuer.

		3.9	
An agreed form legal opinion in relation to English law from Stephenson Harwood.

		3.10	
An agreed form legal opinion in relation to German law from Ehlermann Rindfleisch Gadow.

		3.11	
An agreed form legal opinion in relation to Marshall Islands law from Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez LLP.

		3.12	
An agreed form legal opinion in relation to Liberian law from Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez LLP.

		3.13	
An agreed form legal opinion in relation to Cypriot law from Montanios & Montanios LLC.

Part 2

	1	
Other documents and evidence

		1.1	
Evidence that the Vessel has been duly delivered by the Charterer (as seller) to the Owner (as buyer) under the MOA free from any Encumbrances), including but not limited to copies of:

		1.1.1	
Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance; and

		1.1.2	
Bill of Sale,

each in a form acceptable to the Owner, and signed by the duly authorised signatory (or signatories) of the relevant parties.

		1.2	
Evidence that the Vessel has been delivered to, and accepted by the Charterer under this Charter.

		1.3	
If applicable, evidence that the Vessel has been delivered to, and accepted by the Sub-Charterer under Sub-Charter.

		1.4	
Evidence that the Vessel is registered in the name of the Owner as legal owner under the laws and flag of the Flag State free from any Encumbrances.

		1.5	
If applicable, a copy, certified as a true copy by a director of the Charterer, of the Sub-Charter.

		1.6	
Evidence that the Upfront Charterhire or the Deposit which is due and payable having been received by the Owner.

		1.7	
If required by the Owner or the Mortgagee, a satisfactory opinion from an insurance consultant approved by the Owner on the insurances effected or to be effected on the Vessel pursuant to the provisions of this Charter.

		1.8	
Documents that the Owner may reasonably require.

		1.9	
Documents that the Mortgagee may reasonably require.

Part 3

	1	
Relevant documents and evidence

		1.1	
Notices of assignment and/or charge under the relevant Transaction Documents have been served on the relevant parties and the acknowledgement of such notices and/or undertaking has been duly executed or the execution of which has been confirmed by the relevant parties.

		1.2	
Letters of undertaking in respect of the Insurances as required by the Security Documents together with copies of the relevant policies or cover notes or entry certificates duly endorsed with the interest of the Owner.

		1.3	
Acknowledgements of all notices of assignment and/or charge given pursuant to any Transaction Documents have been received by the Owner.

		1.4	
Evidence that the Vessel is classified and maintained in the highest class (free of outstanding recommendations or conditions of class) with the Classification Society.

		1.5	
A copy of the following Vessel documents:

		1.5.1	
the Vessel's current Safety Construction, Safety Equipment, Safety Radio and Load Line Certificates;

		1.5.2	
the Vessel's current SMC;

		1.5.3	
the ISM Company's current DOC in respect of the Vessel;

		1.5.4	
the Vessel's current ISSC;

		1.5.5	
the Vessel's current IAPPC; and

		1.5.6	
the Vessel's current Tonnage Certificate.

		1.6	
A legal opinion in relation to English law from Stephenson Harwood.

		1.7	
A legal opinion in relation to in relation to German law from Ehlermann Rindfleisch Gadow.

		1.8	
A legal opinion in relation to Marshall Islands law from Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez LLP.

		1.9	
A legal opinion in relation to Liberian law from Poles, Tublin, Stratakis & Gonzalez LLP.

		1.10	
A legal opinion in relation to Cypriot law from Montanios & Montanios LLC.

Schedule 3

Form of Acceptance Certificate

m.v. "[•]" (IMO No.: (●], the "Vessel") was delivered to and accepted by (●] as Charterer of the Vessel, pursuant to the Bareboat Charter dated (●] and made with (●] as Owner of the Vessel, at (●] hours ((●] Time) on (●] at (●]. The Charter Period as defined under the Bareboat Charter shall be deemed to have commenced at the relevant time of this date.

	
for and on behalf of

	 	
for and on behalf of

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	
Name:

	 	
Name:

	 	 	 
	
Title:

	 	
Title:

SIGNATURE PAGE

ADDITIONAL CLAUSES

TO BAREBOAT CHARTER FOR "KNIGHTSHIP"

	
The Owner

	 	
The Charterer

	 	 	 
	
Hanchen Limited

	 	
Knight Ocean Navigation Co.

	 	 	 
	
by:

	 	
by:

	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 /s/ Zhou Qi	 	 /s/ Stavros Gyftakis
	
Name: Zhou Qi

	 	
Name: Stavros Gyftakis 

	 	 	 
	
Title: Director

	 	
Title: Director

	 	 	 
	
Date: 28 June 2018

	 	
Date: 28 June 2018

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