EX-4.75 8 d1007473_ex4-75.htm LOAN AGREEMENT NO. 185/2008
Exhibit 4.75

Dated: 5 th March, 2008

EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A.
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JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED

| LOAN AGREEMENT NO. 185/2008 for a secured floating interest rate loan facility of up to US$50,000,000 |

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CLAUSE | HEADINGS | PAGE
1. | PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION | 1
2. | THE LOAN | 11
3. | INTEREST | 14
4. | REPAYMENT - PREPAYMENT | 17
5. | PAYMENTS, TAXES, LOAN ACCOUNT AND COMPUTATION | 21
6. | REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | 22
7. | CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | 28
8. | COVENANTS | 31
9. | EVENTS OF DEFAULT | 40
10. | INDEMNITIES - EXPENSES - FEES | 45
11. | SECURITY, APPLICATION, AND SET-OFF | 49
12. | UNLAWFULNESS, INCREASED COSTS | 53
13. | ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, LENDING BRANCH | 54
14. | MISCELLANEOUS | 55
15. | NOTICES AND OTHER MATTERS | 57
16. | APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION | 59

SCHEDULES

1. | FORM OF DRAWDOWN NOTICE | 54
2. | INSURANCES | 56
3. | FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE |

THIS AGREEMENT is dated the 5th day of March, 2008 made BETWEEN:

(1) | EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A., a Greek banking societe anonyme duly incorporated under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 11, Sofokleous Street, Athens, Greece, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its office at 114 Kolokotroni Street, Piraeus, Greece and includes its successors in title, as lender (the "Bank"); and

(2) | JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED, a company incorporated in the Republic of Liberia and having its registered office at 80, Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia and includes its successors in title, as borrower (hereinafter called the "Borrower");

AND IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1. | PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

1.1 | Amount and Purpose

This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon and subject to which the Bank agrees to make available to the Borrower a term loan facility of up to the lesser of (a) Dollars fifty million ($50,000,000) and (b) 68% of the Market Value of the Vessel, to be used for the purpose of financing up to 68% of the Market Value of the Vessel.

1.2 | Definitions

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires each term or expression defined in the recital of the parties and in this Clause shall have the meaning given to it in the recital of the parties, in this Clause:
"Accounting Period" means each consecutive period of twelve (12) months falling during the Security Period (ending on the last day in December of each year) for which the annual financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to sub-clause 8.1(a);
"Accounts Pledge Agreement" means an agreement to be entered into between the Borrower and the Bank for the creation of a pledge over the Earnings Account and the Retention Account in favour of the Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank as the same may from time to time be amended and/or supplemented;
"Advance" means each borrowing of a portion of the Commitment by the Borrower or (as the context may require) the principal amount of such borrowing;
"Agreed Rate" means a rate agreed between the Bank and the Borrower on the basis of which (instead of LIBO) the interest rate is determined pursuant to Clause 3.6;
"Approved Manager" means for the time being Top Tanker Management Inc., a company duly incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and having an office established in Greece (at 1, Vassilis Sofias Avenue & Megalou Alexandrou street, Maroussi, 151 24, Greece) pursuant to the Greek laws 378/68, 27/75 and 814/79 (as amended) or any other person appointed by the Borrower, with the prior written consent of the Bank (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) as the manager of the Vessel and includes its successors in title;
"Availability Period" means the period starting on the date hereof and ending on the 31st March, 2008 or until such later date as the Bank may agree in writing or on such earlier date (if any): (i) on which the whole Commitment has been advanced by the Bank to the Borrower, or (ii) on which the Commitment is reduced to zero pursuant to Clauses 3.6, 9.9, 12.1 or 12.2 or any other Clause of this Agreement;
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"Balloon Instalment" means the principal part of the Loan amounting to $12,900,000 (Dollars twelve million nine hundred thousand) which becomes due for repayment by the Borrower to the Bank on the Final Maturity Date pursuant to Clause 4.1;
"Bank" means the Bank as specified in the beginning of this Agreement and includes its successors in title and transferees;
"Banking Day" means any day on which banks and foreign exchange markets in New York, London, Pireaus and Athens and in each country or place in or at which an act is required to be done under this Agreement in accordance with the usual practice of the Bank, are open for the transaction of business of the nature contemplated in this Agreement;
"Borrowed Money" means Indebtedness incurred in respect of (i) money borrowed or raised, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture or similar instrument, (iii) acceptance of documentary credit facilities, (iv) deferred payments for assets or services acquired, (v) rental payments under leases (whether in respect of land, machinery, equipment or otherwise) entered into primarily as a method of raising finance or of financing the acquisition of the asset leased, (vi) guarantees, bonds, stand-by letters of credit or other instruments issued in connection with the performance of contracts and (vii) guarantees or other assurances against financial loss in respect of Indebtedness of any person falling within any of sub-paragraphs (i) to (vi) above;
"Borrower" means the Borrower as specified in the beginning of this Agreement;
"Break Costs" means all costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by the Bank in the circumstances contemplated by Clause 10.1, or as a result of it receiving any prepayment of all or any part of the Loan (whether pursuant to Clause 4 or otherwise), or any other payment under or in relation to the Security Documents on a day other than the due date for payment of the sum in question, and includes (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Loan, and any liabilities, expenses or losses incurred by the Bank in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any interest rate and/or currency swap, transaction or arrangement entered into by the Bank to hedge any exposure arising under this Agreement, or in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement or the Master Agreement;
"Charterparty" means a time or bareboat charterparty or contract of affreightment, agreement or related document in respect of the employment of the Vessel for a period for more than 12 months and at a daily rate and on conditions acceptable to the Bank to be made between the Borrower, as owner and any charterer on terms and conditions acceptable to the Bank (and shall include any addenda thereto);
"Charterparty Assignment" means the assignment of the Charterparty to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Bank and the acknowledgement of notice of the assignment in respect of the Charterparty to be given by a charterer, both in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank as the same may from time to time be amended and/or supplemented;
"Commitment" means the amount which the Bank has agreed to lend to the Borrower under Clause 2.1 as reduced pursuant to any relevant term of this Agreement;
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"Commitment Letter" means the Commitment Letter dated 2nd October, 2007 addressed by the Bank to the Corporate Guarantor and accepted by it on the 5th October, 2007 and shall include any amendments or addenda thereto;
"Confirmation" means a Confirmation exchanged, or deemed exchanged, between the Bank and the Borrower as contemplated by the Master Agreement;
"Corporate Guarantee" means an irrevocable and unconditional guarantee given or, as the context may require, to be given by the Corporate Guarantor in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank as a security for the Outstanding Indebtedness and any and all other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement;
"Corporate Guarantor" means Top Ships Inc., a company duly incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and listed and trading in the Nasdaq Global Select Market and/or any other person nominated by the Borrower and acceptable to the Bank which may give a Corporate Guarantee;
"Credit Support Document" means any document described as such in the Master Agreement and, where the context permits, any other document referred to in any Credit Support Document which has the effect of creating an Encumbrance in favour of the Bank;
"Credit Support Provider" means any person (other than the Borrower) described as such in the Master Agreement;
"Default" means any Event of Default or any event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction of any other condition (or any combination thereof) would constitute an Event of Default;
"Default Rate" means that rate of interest per annum which is determined in accordance with the provisions of Clause 3.4;
"DOC" means a document of compliance issued to an Operator in accordance with rule 13 of the ISM Code;
"Dollars" and "$" mean the lawful currency of the United States of America and in respect of all payments to be made under any of the Security Documents means funds which are for same day settlement in the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or such other U.S. dollar funds as may at the relevant time be customary for the settlement of international banking transactions denominated in Dollars);
"Drawdown Date" means the day, being a Banking Day, on which the Commitment is or, as the context may require, shall be advanced to the Borrower;
"Drawdown Notice" means a notice substantially in the terms of Schedule 1;
"Early Termination Date" has the meaning given to that expression in section 14 of the Master Agreement;
"Earnings" in relation to the Vessel, means all earnings of the Vessel, both present or future, including all freight, hire and passage moneys, compensation payable to the Owner in the event of requisition of the Vessel for hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys, contributions of any nature whatsoever in respect of general average, damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Vessel and any other earnings whatsoever due or to become due to the Owner in respect of the Vessel and all sums recoverable under the Insurances in respect of loss of Earnings and includes, if and whenever the Vessel is employed on terms whereby any and all such moneys as aforesaid are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing agreement which is attributable to the Vessel;
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"Earnings Account" means the account to be opened and maintained with the Lending Branch or with any other Branch of the Bank or with any other bank the Bank may designate to the Borrower at the discretion of the Bank, to which (inter alia) all Earnings of the Vessel are to be paid in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement;
"Encumbrance" means any mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating), pledge, lien, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, title retention, arrest, seizure, garnishee order (whether nisi or absolute) or any other order or judgement having similar effect or other encumbrance of any kind securing or any right conferring a priority of payment in respect of any obligation of any person;
"Environmental Affiliate" means any agent or employee of the Borrower or any other Relevant Party or any person having a contractual relationship with the Borrower or any other Relevant Party in connection with any Relevant Ship or her operation or the carriage of cargo thereon;
"Environmental Approval" means any consent, authorisation, licence or approval of any governmental or public body or authorities or courts applicable to any Relevant Ship or her operation or the carriage of cargo thereon and/or passengers therein and/or provisions of goods and/or services on or from the Relevant Ship required under any Environmental Law;
"Environmental Claim" means any and all enforcement, clean up, removal or other governmental or regulatory actions or orders instituted or completed pursuant to any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval together with claims made by any third party relating to damage, contribution, loss or injury, resulting from any actual or threatened emission, spill, release or discharge of a Material of Environmental Concern from any Relevant Ship;
"Environmental Laws" means all national, international and state laws, rules, regulations, treaties and conventions applicable to any Relevant Ship pertaining to the pollution or protection of human health or the environment including, without limitation, the carriage or Materials of Environmental Concern and actual or threatened emissions, spills, releases or discharges of Materials of Environmental Concern and actual or threatened emissions, spills, releases or discharges of Materials of Environmental Concern from any Relevant Ship;
"Event of Default" means any event or circumstance set out in Clause 9 or described as such in any other of the Security Documents;
"Expenses" means the aggregate at any relevant time (to the extent that the same have not been received or recovered by the Bank) of:

| (a) | all losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, damages and outgoings of whatever nature, (including, without limitation, Taxes, repair costs, registration fees and insurance premiums, crew wages, repatriation expenses and seamen's pension fund dues) suffered, incurred, charged to or paid or committed to be paid by the Bank in connection with the exercise of the powers referred to in or granted by any of the Security Documents or otherwise payable by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of any of the Security Documents;

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| (b) | the expenses referred to in Clause 10.2 (a) and (b); and

| (c) | interest on all such losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, damages and outgoings from, in the case of Expenses referred to in sub-paragraph (b) above, the date on which such Expenses were demanded by the Bank from the Borrower and in all other cases, the date on which the same were suffered, incurred or paid by the Bank until the date of receipt or recovery thereof (whether before or after judgement) at the Default Rate (as conclusively certified by the Bank);

"Final Maturity Date" means the date falling seven (7) years after the Drawdown Date;
"Flag State" means the Republic of Liberia or such other state or territory proposed in writing by the Borrower to the Bank and approved (at its sole discretion) by the Bank (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), as being the Flag State of the Vessel for the purposes of the Security Documents;
"General Assignment" means the assignment of the Earnings, Insurances and Requisition compensation collateral to the Mortgage executed or (as the context may require) to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Bank in form satisfactory to the Bank;
"Governmental Withholdings" means withholdings and any restrictions or conditions resulting in any charge whatsoever imposed, either now or hereafter, by any sovereign state or by any political sub-division or taxing authority of any sovereign state;
"Group" means together the Borrower, any Security Party and their Related Companies and "member of the Group" shall be construed accordingly;
"Indebtedness" means any obligation for the payment or repayment of money, whether as principal or as surety, whether present or future, actual or contingent;
"Insurances" includes 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 taken out or entered into in respect of the Vessel and her Earnings or otherwise howsoever in connection with the Vessel;
"Interest Payment Date" means in respect of the Loan or any part thereof in respect of which a separate Interest Period is fixed the last day of the relevant Interest Period and in case of any Interest Period longer than three (3) months the date(s) falling at successive three (3) monthly intervals during such longer Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period;
"Interest Period" means in relation to the Loan or any part thereof, each period for the calculation of interest in respect of the Loan or such part ascertained in accordance with Clauses 3.2 and 3.3;
"ISM Code" means in relation to its application to the Borrower, the Vessel and her operation:

| (a) | "The International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention", currently known or referred to as the "ISM Code", adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation by Resolution A. 741(18) on 4th November, 1993 and incorporated on 19th May, 1994 into chapter IX of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 (SOLAS 1974); and

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| (b) | all further resolutions, circulars, codes, guidelines, regulations and recommendations which are now or in the future issued by or on behalf of the International Maritime Organisation or any other entity with responsibility for implementing the ISM Code, including without limitation, the "Guidelines on implementation or administering of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by Administrations" produced by the International Maritime Organisation pursuant to Resolution A. 788(19) adopted on 25th November, 1995;

as the same may be amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time;
"ISM Code Documentation" includes:

| (a) | the DOC and SMC issued by a classification society in all respects acceptable to the Bank in its absolute discretion pursuant to the ISM Code in relation to the Vessel within the period specified by the ISM Code;

| (b) | all other documents and data which are relevant to the ISM SMS and its implementation and verification which the Bank may require by request; and

| (c) | any other documents which are prepared or which are otherwise relevant to establish and maintain the Vessel's or the Borrower's compliance with the ISM Code which the Bank may require by request;

"ISM SMS" means the safety management system which is required to be developed, implemented and maintained under the ISM Code;
"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Security Code of the International Maritime Organization and includes any amendments or extensions thereto and any regulation issued pursuant thereto;
"ISSC" means an International Ship Security Certificate issued in respect of the Vessel pursuant to the ISPS Code;
Branch by notice to the Borrowers;
"LIBOR" means in relation to a particular period the rate for deposits in Dollars equivalent to or comparable to the amount of the Loan (or the relevant part thereof) for a period equivalent to such period at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the second Banking Day before the first day of such period as displayed on Telerate page 3750 (British Bankers' Association Interest Settlement Rates) (or such other page as may replace such page 3750 on such system or on any other system of the information vendor for the time being designated by the British Bankers' Association to calculate BBA Interest Settlement Rate (as defined in the British Bankers' Recommended Terms and Conditions ("BBAIRS" terms) dated August, 1985)); and if on such date no such rate is so displayed, Libor for a period equivalent to such period shall be the rate per annum (rounded upward if necessary to five decimal place) at which the Bank is able in accordance with its usual practices to obtain deposits in Dollars for an amount approximately equivalent to or comparable with the amount to which Libor is to be determined at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the second Banking Day prior to the beginning of such period in the London Interbank Market for delivery on the first day of that period and for the number of days comprised therein;
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"Loan" means the aggregate principal amount borrowed by the Borrower in respect of the Commitment or (as the context may require) the principal amount thereof owing to the Bank under this Agreement at any relevant time;
"Lending Branch" means the office of the Bank appearing at the beginning of this Agreement or any other office of the Bank designated by the Bank as the Lending Branch by notice to the Borrower;
"Major Casualty Amount" means any casualty to the Vessel in respect whereof the claim or the aggregate of the claims against all insurers, before adjustment for any relevant franchise or deductible, exceeds five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) or the equivalent in any other currency;
"Management Agreement" means the agreement made between the Borrower and the Approved Manager providing (inter alia) for the Approved Manager to manage the Vessel;
"Manager's Undertaking" means a letter of undertaking and subordination to be executed by the Approved Manager, as manager, whereby the Approved Manager shall subordinate any and all claims it may have against the Borrower and/or the Vessel to the claims of the Bank hereunder and under the Security Documents ;
"Margin" means one point ten percent (1.10%) per annum;
"Market Value" means the market value of the Vessel as determined in accordance with Clause 8.6(b);
"Master Agreement" means the Master Agreement (on the 1992 ISDA (Multicurrency - Crossborder) form as modified (or any other form of master agreement relating to interest or currency exchange transactions)) made or to be made between the Bank and the Borrower, and includes the Schedule thereto and all transactions from time to time entered into and Confirmations from time to time exchanged under the Master Agreement and any amending, supplementing or replacement agreements made from time to time;
"Master Agreement Liabilities" means, at any relevant time, all liabilities actual or contingent, present or future, of the Borrower to the Bank under the Master Agreement;
"Material of Environmental Concern" means and includes pollutants, contaminants, toxic substances, oil as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and all hazardous substances as defined in the United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1988;
"MOA" means in relation to the Vessel, the Memorandum of Agreement dated 7th August, 2007 entered into between the Seller, as seller, and the Borrower, as buyer of the Vessel, in respect of the sale by such seller and the purchase by the Borrower of the Vessel and any and all addenda thereto;
"Month" means a period beginning in one calendar month and ending in the next calendar month on the day numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which it started provided that (i) if there is no such numerically corresponding day, it shall end on the last Banking Day in such next calendar month and (ii) if such numerically corresponding day is not a Banking Day, the period shall end on the next following Banking Day in the same calendar month but if there is no such Banking Day it shall end on the preceding Banking Day and "months" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly;
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"Mortgage" means the first preferred ship mortgage on the Vessel to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Bank in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank;
"Mortgaged Vessel(s)" means the Vessel and any vessel which is or remain mortgaged in favour of the Bank pursuant to this Agreement at any relevant time hereunder;
"Operator" means any 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;
"Outstanding Indebtedness" means the aggregate of (a) the Loan and interest accrued and accruing thereon, (b) the Expenses, (c) the Master Agreement Liabilities and all other sums of any nature (together with all interest on any of those sums) which from time to time may be payable by the Borrower to the Bank pursuant to the Security Documents, whether actually or contingently (d) any damages payable as a result of any breach by the Borrower of any of the Security Documents and (e) any damages or other sums payable as a result of any of the obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents being disclaimed by a liquidator or any other person, or, where the context permits, the amount thereof for the time being outstanding;
"Owner" means the Borrower;
"Permitted Encumbrance" means any Encumbrance in favour of the Bank created pursuant to the Security Documents and Permitted Liens;
"Permitted Lien" means any lien on the Vessel for master's, officers' or crew's wages outstanding in the ordinary course of trading, any lien for salvage and any ship repairer's or outfitter's possessory lien for a sum not (except with the prior written consent of the Bank) exceeding the Major Casualty Amount;
"Pledgors" means persons acceptable to the Bank who have executed or (as the context may require) shall execute the Shares Pledge Agreement;
"Registry" means the offices of such registrar, commissioner or representative of the Flag State who is duly authorised to register the Vessel, the Borrower's title to the Vessel and the Mortgage over the Vessel under the laws and flag of the Flag State;
"Related Company" means any company which is under the ultimate control, direct or indirect, of any individual who has ultimate control, whether alone or with others, of the Borrower or other entity of which such company is a Subsidiary and any Subsidiary of any such company or entity;
"Relevant Jurisdiction" means any jurisdiction in which or where any Security Party is incorporated, resident, domiciled, has a permanent establishment, carries on, or has a place of business or is otherwise effectively connected;
"Relevant Party" means the Borrower, the Borrower's Related Companies and any other Security Party and any Security Party's Related Companies;
"Relevant Ship" means the Vessel and any other vessel from time to time (whether before or after the date of this Agreement) owned, managed or crewed by, or chartered to, any Relevant Party;
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"Repayment Date" means each of the dates specified in Clause 4.1 on which the Repayment Instalments shall be payable by the Borrower to the Bank;
"Repayment Instalment" means each instalment of the Loan which becomes due for repayment by the Borrower to the Bank on a Repayment Date pursuant to Clause 4.1;
"Requisition Compensation" means all sums of money or other compensation from time to time payable by reason of requisition of the Vessel otherwise than by requisition for hire;
"Retention Account" means an account of the Borrower with the Lending Branch or any other branch of the Bank or any other bank as the Bank may at its discretion require;
"Security Documents" means this Agreement, the Master Agreement, the documents listed in Clause 11.1 and any and every other document as may have been or shall from time to time after the date of this Agreement be executed to guarantee and/or to secure the whole or any part of the Outstanding Indebtedness and/or any and all other obligations of the Borrower to the Bank pursuant to this Agreement (whether or not any such document also secures moneys from time to time owing pursuant to any other document or agreement);
"Security Party" means the Borrower, the Corporate Guarantor and any other person (other than the Bank) which is or may become a party to any of the Security Documents;
"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date hereof and terminating on the date upon which the Loan together with all interest thereon and all other moneys payable to the Bank under this Agreement and the other Security Documents has been repaid in full to the Bank;
"Security Requirement" means the amount in Dollars (as certified by the Bank, whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower) which is at any relevant time one hundred and twenty five per cent (125%) of the aggregate of (i) the Loan and (ii) the Swap Exposure;
"Security Value" means the amount in Dollars (as certified by the Bank whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower) which, at any relevant time is the aggregate of (a) the Market Value of the Mortgaged Vessel(s) as most recently determined in accordance with Clause 8.6 and (b) the market value of any additional security provided under Clause 8.6 (c) (if any);
"Seller" means Golden Steamship Co. S.A., of Panama;
"Shares Pledge Agreement" means the pledge agreement to be executed by the Pledgors in favour of the Bank whereby the Pledgors shall pledge all the issued share capital of the Borrower, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank as the same may from time to time be amended and/or supplemented;
"Swap Exposure" means, as at any relevant date, the amount certified by the Bank to the Borrower to be the aggregate net amount in Dollars which would be payable by the Borrower to the Bank under (and calculated in accordance with) Section 6(e) (Payments on Early Termination) of the Master Agreement if an Early Termination Date had occurred on the relevant date in relation to all continuing Transactions entered into between the Borrower and the Bank;
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"SMC" means a safety management certificate issued in respect of the Vessel in accordance with rule 13 of the ISM Code;
"Subsidiary" of a person means any company or entity directly or indirectly controlled by such person, and for this purpose "control" means either ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting share capital (or equivalent rights of ownership) of such company or entity or the power to direct its policies and management, whether by contract or otherwise;
"Taxes" includes all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees or charges of whatever nature together with interest thereon and penalties in respect thereof (except taxes concerning the Bank and imposed on the net income of the Bank) and "Taxation" shall be construed accordingly;
"Total Loss" in relation to the Vessel, means (a) actual, constructive, compromised or arranged total loss of the Vessel; or (b) requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition of the Vessel otherwise than by requisition for hire; or (c) hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, detention, arrest or confiscation of the Vessel by any government or by any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government, unless the Vessel is released and restored to the Borrower within thirty (30) days after the occurrence thereof;
"Transaction" means a Transaction entered into between the Bank and the Borrower pursuant to the Master Agreement for the express purpose of hedging all or part of the Borrower's interest rate risk pursuant to this Agreement;
"Vessel" means the Panamax m/v "EPSON TRADER" presently registered under the Panama flag and under dual registration under the Philippines flag purchased by the Borrower from the Seller pursuant to the MOA which upon delivery to the Borrower shall be registered in the ownership of the Borrower at the Registry under the laws and flag of the Flag State under the name "PEPITO".
1.3 Interpretation
In this Agreement:

| (a) | clause headings and the table of contents are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement;

| (b) | subject to any specific provision of this Agreement or of any assignment and/or participation or syndication agreement of any nature whatsoever, reference to each of the parties hereto and to the other Security Documents shall be deemed to be reference to and/or to include, as appropriate, their respective successors and permitted assigns;

| (c) | reference to a person shall be construed as including reference to an individual, firm, company, corporation, unincorporated body of persons or any State or any agency thereof;

| (d) | where the context so admits, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa;

| (e) | the words "including" and "in particular" shall not be construed as limiting the generality of any foregoing words;

| (f) | references to (or to any specified provisions of) this Agreement and all documents referred to in this Agreement shall be construed as references to this Agreement, that provision or that document as are in force for the time being and as are amended and/or supplemented from time to time;

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| (g) | reference to this Agreement includes all the terms of this Agreement and any Schedules, Annexes or Appendices to this Agreement, which form an integral part of same;

| (h) | reference to Clauses, sub-Clauses and Schedules are to Clauses, sub-Clauses and Schedules in this Agreement;

| (i) | reference to the opinion of the Bank or a determination or acceptance by the Bank or to documents, acts, or persons acceptable or satisfactory to the Bank or the like shall be construed as reference to opinion, determination, acceptance or satisfaction of the Bank at the sole discretion of the Bank and such opinion, determination, acceptance or satisfaction of the Bank shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower;

| (j) | references to a "regulation" include any present or future regulation, rule, directive, requirement, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any agency, authority, central bank or government department or any self regulatory or other national or supra-national authority;

| (k) | references to any person include such person's assignees and successors in title;

| (1) | references to a "guarantee" include references to an indemnity or other assurance against financial loss including, without limitation, an obligation to purchase assets or services as a consequence of a default by any other person to pay any Indebtedness and "guaranteed" shall be construed accordingly; and

| (m) | references to any enactment shall be deemed to include references to such enactment as re-enacted, amended or extended.

2. | THE LOAN

| 2.1 | Commitment to Lend

The Bank, relying upon (inter alia) each of the representations and warranties set forth in Clause 6 and in each of the other Security Documents, agrees to lend to the Borrower in one (1) advance and upon and subject to the terms of this Agreement, the amount specified in Clause 1.1 hereof.

2.2 | Drawdown Notice and Commitment to Borrow

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Commitment shall be advanced to the Borrower following receipt by the Bank from the Borrower of a Drawdown Notice not later than 10 a.m. (London time) on the second Banking Day before the date on which the drawdown is intended to be made. A Drawdown Notice shall be effective on actual receipt thereof by the Bank and, once given, shall, subject as provided in Clause 3.6, be irrevocable.

2.3 | Number of Advances Agreed

The Commitment shall be advanced to the Borrower in one advance.
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2.4 | Disbursement

Upon receipt of the Drawdown Notice complying with the terms of this Agreement the Bank shall, subject to the provisions of Clause 7, on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice, make the Commitment available to the Borrower.

2.5 | Application of Proceeds

Without prejudice to the Borrower's obligations under Clause 8.9, the Bank shall have no responsibility for the application of the proceeds of the Loan (or any part thereof) by the Borrower.

2.6 | Termination Date of the Commitment

Any part of the Commitment undrawn and uncancelled at the end of the Availability Period shall thereupon be automatically cancelled and the Bank shall have no further obligation to the Borrower in respect of such undrawn part.

2.7 | Evidence

It is hereby expressly agreed and admitted by the Borrower that abstracts or photocopies of the books of the Bank as well as statements of accounts or a certificate signed by an authorised officer of the Bank shall be conclusive binding and full evidence on the Borrower as to the existence and/or the amount of the at any time Outstanding Indebtedness, of any amount due under this Agreement, of the applicable interest rate or Default Rate or any other rate provided for or referred to in this Agreement, the Interest Period, the value of additional securities under Clause 8.6(c), the payment or non payment of any amount and/or the occurrence of any other Event of Default. Nevertheless, enforcement procedures or any other court or out-of-court procedure can be commenced by the Bank on the basis of the above mentioned means of evidence including written statements or certificates of the Bank.

2.8 | Cancellation

The Borrower may, cancel any undrawn part of the Commitment under this Agreement upon giving the Bank not less than five (5) Banking Days' notice in writing to that effect, provided that no Drawdown Notice has been given to the Bank under Clause 2.2 for the full amount of the Commitment or in respect of the portion thereof in respect of which cancellation is required by the Borrower. Any such notice of cancellation, once given, shall be irrevocable. Any amount cancelled may not be drawn. Notwithstanding any such cancellation pursuant to this Clause 2.8 the Borrower shall continue to be liable for any and all amounts due to the Bank under this Agreement including without limitation any amounts due to the Bank under Clause 10.

2.9 | Disbursement of the Loan to Seller's Bank

| (a) | Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Clause 2, in the event that the Commitment or any relevant part thereof (as the case may be) is required to be drawn down prior to the satisfaction of the requirements of Clause 7 and remitted to the Seller's Bank in accordance with Clause 3 of the MOA (the "Seller's Bank"), the Bank may in its absolute discretion agree to remit such amount to the Seller's Bank prior to the satisfaction of the requirements of Clause 7 expressly subject to the following conditions:

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| (i) | such amount is remitted to the Seller's Bank to be held by it in an account in the Bank's name (the "deposit account") and to the order of the Bank;

| (ii) | the principal amount (the "deposited amount") of such funds will only be released to the Seller upon the Seller's presentation to the Seller's Bank of a copy of the protocol of delivery and acceptance for the Vessel in the form agreed between the Seller and the Borrower and duly signed on behalf of the Seller and the Borrower and countersigned by the Bank's representative;

| (iii) | the deposited amount so released may be used only for payment to the account of the Seller with the Seller's Bank in satisfaction of the balance of the purchase price of the Vessel; and

| (iv) | in the event that none of the said amount so remitted is released in accordance with the Bank's instructions or any part thereof given in compliance with the conditions of sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above is not so released, the said amount so remitted and any interest earned, the Bank may, after expiry of five (5) days from the expected Delivery Date, instruct the Seller's Bank to pay the amount of the Loan and any earned interest to another account of the Bank and the Borrower shall be obliged to indemnify the Bank in accordance with Clause 10.1. Thereafter and subject to the receipt by the Bank of the amount of the Loan and any interest earned and prompt indemnification of the Bank by the Borrower in accordance with Clause 10.1, as and when any further Drawdown Notice is given by the Borrower) the provisions of this Clause shall apply again (mutatis mutandis).

| (b) | When either:

| (i) | the Commitment or any relevant part thereof (as the case may be) is disbursed (whether on the expected Delivery Date or thereafter) in accordance with Clause 2.9(a)(i) and (ii) or

| (ii) | the Bank withdraws the deposited amount under Clause 2.9(d),

the Borrower shall forthwith upon demand by the Bank pay to the Bank such amounts that may be certified by the Bank as being the amount required to indemnify the Bank in respect of the cost to the Bank of funding the deposited amount from the date of payment thereof to the Seller's Bank to the date of disbursement of the deposited amount to the Seller or the refund of the deposited amount to the Bank less the amount (if any) of the earned interest received by the Bank from the Seller's Bank. For this purpose, the cost of the Bank funding the deposited amount shall be deemed to be interest at a rate equal to the aggregate of (i) the applicable Margin and (ii) LIBOR for comparable deposits on a call (day to day) basis.

| (c) | The Bank shall have no liability to the Borrower if the Seller's Bank fails to carry out any instructions given to it by the Bank to disburse or refund the deposited amount.

| (d) | If, upon being instructed to do so by the Bank, the Seller's Bank fails either to apply the deposited amount in full in accordance with Clause 2.9 (a)(ii) or to refund the deposited amount in full in accordance with Clause 2.9(a)(iv):

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| (i) | the Bank shall cease to be obliged to make the Commitment or relevant part thereof (as the case may be) available unless and until the Seller's Bank carries out such instructions;

| (ii) | the continued failure of the Seller's Bank to do so for five Banking Days after the giving of such instruction shall be deemed to be an Event of Default for the purposes of this Agreement;

| (iii) | the Borrower shall indemnify the Bank on demand in respect to all loses certified by the Bank as suffered or incurred by the Bank as a consequence of the Seller's Bank failure to carry the Bank's instructions; and

| (iv) | without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower so to indemnify the Bank on demand, the Bank shall in good faith take reasonable and proper steps diligently to seek recovery of the deposited amount from the Seller's Bank (provided that prior to taking such action the Borrower shall have agreed to indemnify the Bank for all costs and expenses which may be incurred in seeking recovery of such amount, including, without limitation, all legal fees and disbursements reasonably and properly incurred) and if the Bank shall recover any part of the deposited amount (and provided that it has previously recovered full indemnification under Clause 2.9(d)(ii)) the Bank shall, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, pay to the Borrower the amount so recovered after subtracting any tax suffered or incurred thereon by the Bank.

| (e) | If, at the time prior to the deposit of funds by the Bank with the Seller's Bank, the Bank considers in its absolute discretion that the Seller's Bank may be or will be unable or unwilling for any reason (including, without limitation, by reason of the Seller's Bank's financial position or regulatory requirements applicable to the Seller's Bank) to take and fully apply such deposit in accordance with the requirements of this Clause 2.9, the Bank may in its absolute discretion decide not to make such deposit and this Agreement shall thereupon take effect as if this Clause 2.9 does not apply and the Commitment or relevant part thereof (as the case may be) shall, without prejudice to Clause 7, be made and disbursed in the manner set out in this Agreement.

2.9 | No security or lien from other person

The Borrower has not taken or received, and the Borrower undertakes that until all moneys, obligations and liabilities due, owing or incurred by the Borrower under this Agreement and the Security Documents have been paid in full, it will not take or receive, any security or lien from any other person liable or for any liability whatsoever.

3. | INTEREST

3.1 Normal Interest Rate
The Borrower shall pay interest on the Loan (or as the case may be, each portion thereof to which a different Interest Period relates) in respect of each Interest Period related thereto on each Interest Payment Date and in case of any Interest Period longer than three (3) months interest shall be payable quarterly in arrears and on the last day of such Interest Period. The interest rate for the calculation of interest shall be the rate per annum determined by the Bank to be the aggregate of (i) the Margin and (ii) LIBOR.
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3.2 Selection of Interest Period
The Borrower may by notice received by the Bank not later than 10 a.m. (London time) on the second Banking Day before the beginning of each Interest Period specify (subject to Clause 3.3 below) whether such Interest Period shall have a duration of three (3) or six (6) or up to twenty four (24) months (or such other period as may be requested by the Borrower subject to Bank's approval and market availability).
3.3 Duration of Interest Period
Every Interest Period shall, subject to market availability to be conclusively determined by the Bank, be of the duration specified by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 3.2 but so that:

| (a) | the initial Interest Period in respect of the Loan will commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period will commence forthwith upon the expiry of the previous Interest Period;

| (b) | if any Interest Period would otherwise overrun one or more Repayment Dates, then, in the case of the last Repayment Date, such Interest Period shall end on such Repayment Date, and in the case of any other Repayment Date or Dates the Loan shall be divided into parts so that there is one part equal to the amount of the Repayment Instalment due on each Repayment Date falling during that Interest Period and having an Interest Period ending on the relevant Repayment Date and another part equal to the amount of the balance of the Loan having an Interest Period determined in accordance with Clause 3.2 and the other provisions of this Clause 3.3 and the expression "Interest Period in respect of the Loan" when used in this Agreement refers to the Interest Period in respect of the balance of the Loan;

| (c) | if the Borrower fails to specify the duration of an Interest Period in accordance with the provisions of Clause 3.2 and this Clause 3.3, such Interest Period shall have a duration of three (3) months unless another period shall be agreed between the Bank and the Borrower provided always that such period shall comply with this Clause 3.3; and

| (d) | if the Bank determines that funds for the duration of an Interest Period specified by the Borrower in accordance with Clause 3.2 are not readily available, then that Interest Period shall have such duration as the Bank, in consultation with the Borrower, may determine.

3.4 Default Interest
If the Borrower fails to pay any sum (including, without limitation, any sum payable pursuant to this Clause 3.4) on its due date for payment under any of the Security Documents, the Borrower shall pay interest on such sum from the due date up to the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgement) at the rate determined by the Bank pursuant to this Clause 3.4. The period beginning on such due date and ending on such date of payment shall be divided into successive periods of not more than six (6) months as selected by the Bank each of which (other than the first, which shall commence on such due date) shall commence on the last day of the preceding such period. The rate of interest applicable to each such period shall be the aggregate (as determined by the Bank) of (i) two and a half per cent (2.5%), per annum, (ii) the Margin and (iii) the LIBOR. Such interest shall be due and payable on the last day of each such period as determined by the Bank and
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each such day shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be treated as an Interest Payment Date. In case that a payment is made in default for any amount, the Interest Periods will be determined by the Bank at its discretion including the amounts for which there is no default, even if the Bank has not (yet) exercised its rights pursuant to Clause 9.9(b) of this Agreement. If for the reasons specified in Clause 3.6, the Bank is unable to determine a rate in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Clause 3.4, interest on any sum not paid on its due date for payment shall be calculated at a rate determined by the Bank to be two and a half per cent (2.5%) per annum above the aggregate of the Margin and costs of funds to the Bank as conclusively determined by the Bank save for manifest error. Interest payable by the Borrower as aforesaid shall be compounded semi-annually (or if the period fixed by the Bank is longer, at the end of such longer period) and shall be payable on demand.
3.5 Notification of Interest and Interest Rate
The Bank shall notify the Borrower promptly of the duration of each Interest Period and of each rate of interest determined by it under this Clause 3 without prejudice to the right of the Bank to make determinations at its sole discretion. However, omission of the Bank to make such notification (without the application of the Borrower) will not constitute and will not be interpreted as if to constitute a breach of obligation of the Bank except in case of wilful misconduct.
3.6 Market disruption – Non Availability

| (a) | If and whenever, at any time prior to the commencement of any Interest Period, the Bank shall have determined (which determination shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive): (i) that adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR, during said Interest Period, or (ii) that deposits in Dollars are not available to the Bank in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business in sufficient amounts for any Interest Period or (iii) that by reason of circumstances affecting the London Interbank Market generally, it is impracticable for the Bank to advance the Commitment or fund or continue to fund the Loan during any Interest Period or (iv) that LIBOR for that Interest Period will not adequately reflect the cost of funding of the Loan for that Interest Period, the Bank shall forthwith give notice (a "Determination Notice") thereof to the Borrower. A Determination Notice shall contain particulars of the relevant circumstances giving rise to its issue. After the giving of any Determination Notice the undrawn amount of the Commitment shall not be borrowed until notice to the contrary is given to the Borrower by the Bank.

| (b) | During the period of ten (10) days after any Determination Notice has been given by the Bank under sub-Clause 3.6(a) the Bank and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith (but without incurring any legal obligations) with a view to arriving at an acceptable alternative basis (the "Substitute Basis"), for maintaining the Loan, failing which the Borrower shall promptly, on first demand or within the time limit which may be determined by the Bank, prepay the Loan together with accrued interest thereon to the date of prepayment (calculated at the rate or rates most lately applicable to the Loan) and all other sums payable by the Borrower under the Security Documents and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero. In such case the Borrower shall also reimburse to the Bank such amount as may be determined by the Bank to be necessary to compensate it for the increased cost (if any) of maintaining the Loan during the period of negotiation referred to in this Clause 3.6 until such prepayment. In case the Bank agrees

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|  | to a Substitute Basis for funding the Loan the Bank shall certify such Substitute Basis to the Borrower. The Substitute Basis may (without limitation) include alternative interest period(s), alternative currencies or alternative rates of interest but shall include the Margin above the cost of funds to the Bank. Each Substitute Basis so certified shall be binding upon the Borrower and shall take effect in accordance with its terms from the date specified in the Determination Notice until such time as the Bank notifies the Borrower that none of the circumstances specified in sub-Clause 3.6(a) continues to exist whereupon the normal interest rate fixing provisions of this Agreement shall apply.

3.7 Swap Transactions

| (a) | If, at any time during the Security Period, the Borrower wishes to enter into swap Transactions so as to (inter alia) hedge all or any part of its exposure under this Agreement to interest rate fluctuations, it shall advise the Bank in writing.

| (b) | Any such swap transaction shall be concluded with the Bank under the Master Agreement provided however that no such swap transaction shall be concluded unless the Bank first agrees to it in writing at its sole and absolute discretion. If and when any such swap transaction has been concluded, it shall constitute a Transaction, and the Borrower shall sign a Confirmation with the Bank.

4. REPAYMENT - PREPAYMENT
4.1 Repayment
The Borrower shall and it is expressly undertaken by the Borrower to repay the Loan by (a) fourteen (14) consecutive semi annual Repayment Instalments to be repaid on each of the Repayment Dates so that the first be repaid on the date falling six (6) months after the Drawdown Date and each of the subsequent ones consecutively falling due for payment on each of the dates falling six (6) months after the immediately preceding Repayment Date with the last of such Repayment Instalments falling due for payment on the Final Maturity Date and (ii) the Balloon Instalment payable together with the last Repayment Instalment on the Final Maturity Date; subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Repayment Instalments shall be in the following amounts:

| (i) | 1st to 4th (both inclusive) of such Repayment Instalments shall be in the amount of $3,337,500 (US Dollars three million three hundred thirty seven thousand five hundred) each and;

| (ii) | 5th to 14th (both inclusive) of such Repayment Instalments shall be in the amount of $2,375,000 (Dollars two million three hundred seventy five thousand) each;

Provided further that (a) in the event that the Commitment is not drawn down in full, the amount of the Balloon Instalment shall be reduced by the amount of the part of the Commitment not drawn and (b) on the Final Maturity Date the Borrower shall also pay to the Bank any and all other monies then due and payable under this Agreement and the other Security Documents, and (c) if any of the Repayment Instalments shall become due on a day which is not a Banking Day, the due date therefor shall be extended to the next succeeding Banking Day unless such Banking Day falls in the next calendar month, in which event such due date shall be the immediately preceding Banking Day.
4.2 Voluntary Prepayment
The Borrower shall have the right, upon giving the Bank not less than five (5) Banking Days' notice in writing, to prepay part or all of the Loan in each case together with all unpaid interest accrued thereon and all other sums of money whatsoever due and owing from the Borrower to the Bank hereunder or pursuant to the other Security Documents and all interest accrued thereon, provided that:
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| (a) | the giving of such notice by the Borrower will irrevocably commit the Borrower to prepay such amount as stated in such notice;

| (b) | such prepayment may take place only on the last day of an Interest Period in respect of the Loan provided however, that if the Borrower shall request consent to make such prepayment on another day and the Bank shall accede to such request (it being in the reasonable discretion of the Bank to decide whether or not to do so) the Borrower will pay in addition to the amount to be prepaid, any such sum as may be payable to the Bank pursuant to Clause 10.1;

| (c) | each partial prepayment shall be equal to Dollars one million ($1,000,000) or a whole multiple thereof or the balance of the Loan;

| (d) | any prepayment of less than the whole of the Loan will be applied towards pro rata satisfaction of the Balloon Instalment and the outstanding Repayment Instalments;

| (e) | every notice of prepayment shall be effective only on actual receipt (including by fax) by the Bank, shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to make such prepayment on the date specified;

| (f) | no amount prepaid may be re-borrowed; and

| (g) | the Borrower may not prepay the Loan or any part thereof save as expressly provided in this Agreement.

4.3 Compulsory Prepayment in case of Total Loss or sale of the Vessel

| (a) | On the Vessel becoming a Total Loss or suffering damage or being involved in an incident which in the reasonable opinion of the Bank may result in the Vessel being subsequently determined to be a Total Loss:

| (iii) | prior to the advancing of the Commitment, the obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment shall immediately cease and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero; or

| (ii) | in case the Commitment has been already advanced, the Borrower shall prepay the Outstanding Indebtedness the latest on the date falling one hundred and eighty (180) days after that on which the incident which in the reasonable opinion of the Bank may result in the Vessel being subsequently determined to be a Total Loss occurred or, if earlier, on the date upon which the insurance proceeds in respect of such Total Loss are or Requisition Compensation is received by the Borrower (or the Bank pursuant to the Security Documents).

For the purpose of this Agreement:

| (i) | 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;

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| (ii) | a constructive total loss shall be deemed to have occurred at the date and time notice of abandonment of the Vessel is given to the insurers of the Vessel for the time being (provided a claim for total loss is admitted by such insurers) or, if such insurers do not admit such a claim, at the date and time at which a total loss is subsequently adjudged by a competent court of law to have occurred;

| (iii) | a compromised or arranged total loss shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on which a binding agreement as to such compromised or arranged total loss has been entered into by the insurers of the Vessel;

| (iv) | requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition of the Vessel shall be deemed to have occurred on the date upon which the relevant requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition occurs; and

| (v) | hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, detention, arrest, or confiscation of the Vessel by any government or by any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of any government, which deprives the Borrower of the use of the Vessel for more than thirty (30) days shall be deemed to occur upon the expiry of the period of thirty (30) days after the date upon which the relevant hijacking, theft, condemnation, capture, seizure, detention, arrest or confiscation occurred.

| (b) | In case of sale or other disposal of the Vessel, immediately upon completion of such sale or other disposal, the Borrower shall prepay the Loan.

4.4 | Amounts payable on prepayment

Any prepayment of all or part of the Loan under this Agreement shall be made together with (a) accrued interest on the amount to be prepaid to the date of such prepayment (calculated, in the case of a prepayment pursuant to Clause 3.6 (b) at a rate equal to the aggregate of the Margin and the cost to the Bank of funding the Loan), (b) any additional amount payable under Clause 5 and (c) all other sums payable by the Borrower to the Bank under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents including, without limitation, any amounts payable under Clause 10 and (d) in relation to any prepayment made on a date other than an Interest Payment Date in respect of the whole of the Loan, it shall, in addition to the amount prepaid and accrued interest, pay to the Bank any amount which the Bank may certify is necessary to compensate the Bank for any Break Costs incurred by the Bank as a result of the making of the prepayment in question
4.5 Master Agreement, Repayments and Prepayments

| (a) | Pursuant to the Master Agreement, the Bank and the Borrower may during the Security Period enter, into one or more Transactions (pursuant to Clause 3.7), the terms and conditions of each of which shall be specified in a Confirmation sent by the Bank to the Borrower.

| (b) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Master Agreement to the contrary, in the case of a prepayment of all or part of the Loan (including, without limitation, upon a Total Loss or sale in accordance with clause 4.3), then subject to Clause 4.5(c) the Bank shall be entitled but not obliged (and, where relevant, may do so without the consent of the Borrower, where it would otherwise be required whether under the Master Agreement or otherwise) to amend, supplement, cancel, net out, terminate, liquidate, transfer or assign all or any part of the rights, benefits and

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|  | obligations created by any Transaction and/or the Master Agreement and/or to obtain or re establish any hedge or related trading position in any manner and with any person the Bank in its absolute discretion may determine and both the Bank's and the Borrower's continuing obligations under any Transaction and/or the Master Agreement shall, unless agreed otherwise by the Bank, be calculated so far as the Bank considers it practicable by reference to the amended repayment schedule for the Loan taking into account the fact that less than the full amount of the Loan remains outstanding.

| (c) | If less than the full amount of the Loan remains outstanding following a prepayment under this Agreement and the Bank in its absolute discretion agrees, following a written request of the Borrower, that the Borrower may be permitted to maintain all or part of a Transaction in an amount not wholly matched with or linked to all or part of the Loan, the Borrower shall within ten (10) days of being notified by the Bank of such requirement, provide the Bank with, or procure the provision to the Bank of, such additional security as shall in the opinion of the Bank be adequate to secure the performance of such Transaction, which additional security shall take such form, be constituted by such documentation and be entered into between such parties, as the Bank in its absolute discretion may approve or require, and each document comprising such additional security shall constitute a Credit Support Document.

| (d) | The Borrower shall on the first written demand of the Bank indemnify the Bank in respect of all losses, costs and expenses (including, but not limited to, legal costs and expenses) incurred or sustained by the Bank as a consequence of or in relation to the effecting of any matter or transactions referred to in this Clause 4.5.

| (e) | Notwithstanding any provision of the Master Agreement to the contrary, if for any reason, a Transaction has been entered into but no Advance is drawn down under this Agreement then, subject to clause 4.5(f) the Bank shall be entitled but not obliged (and, where relevant, may do so without the consent of the Borrower where it would otherwise be required whether under the Master Agreement or otherwise) to amend, supplement, cancel, net out, terminate, liquidate, transfer or assign all or any part of the rights, benefits and obligations created by such Transaction and/or the Master Agreement and/or to obtain or re-establish any hedge or related trading position in any manner and with any person the Bank in its absolute discretion may determine.

| (f) | If a Transaction has been entered into but no Advance is drawn down under this Agreement and the Bank in its absolute discretion agrees, following a written request of the Borrower, that the Borrower may be permitted to maintain all or part of a Transaction, the Borrower shall within ten (10) days of being notified by the Bank of such requirement, provide the Bank with, or procure the provision to the Bank of, such additional security as shall in the opinion of the Bank be adequate to secure the performance of such Transaction, which additional security shall take such form, be constituted by such documentation and be entered into between such parties, as the Bank in its absolute discretion may approve or require, and each document comprising such additional security shall constitute a Credit Support Document for the purposes of the Master Agreement and/or otherwise.

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| (g) | Without prejudice to or limitation of the obligations of the Borrower under clause 4.5(c), in the event that the Bank exercises any of its rights under clauses 4.5 (b), 4.5(c), 4.5(e) or 4.5(f) and such exercise results in all or part of a Transaction being terminated such termination shall be treated under the Master Agreement in the same manner as if it were a Terminated Transaction (as defined in section 14 of the Master Agreement) effected by the Bank after an Event of Default (as so defined in that section 14) by the Borrower and, accordingly, the Bank shall be permitted to recover from the Borrower a payment for early termination calculated in accordance with the provisions of section 6(e)(i) of the Master Agreement.

| (h) | No Transaction will be entered into without the specific consent of the Borrower.

5. PAYMENTS, TAXES, LOAN ACCOUNT AND COMPUTATION
5.1 Payments – No set-off or Counterclaims

| (a) | The Borrower acknowledges that in performing its obligations under this Agreement, the Bank will be incurring liabilities to third parties in relation to the funding of amounts to the Borrower, such liabilities matching the liabilities of the Borrower to the Bank and that it is reasonable for the Bank to be entitled to receive payments from the Borrower gross on the due date in order that the Bank is put in a position to perform its matching obligations to the relevant third parties. Accordingly, all payments to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents shall be made in full, without any set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and, subject as provided in Clause 5.3, free and clear of any deductions or withholdings or Governmental Withholdings whatsoever, in Dollars on the due date to the account of the Bank at such bank and in such place as the Bank may from time to time specify for that purpose, reference: "JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED - LOAN AGREEMENT", Provided however, that the Bank shall have the right to change the place of account for payment, upon eight (8) Banking Days' prior written notice to the Borrower.

| (b) | If at any time it shall become unlawful or impracticable for the Borrower to make payment under this Agreement to the relevant account or bank referred to in Clause 5.1(a), the Borrower may request and the Bank may agree to alternative arrangements for the payment of the amounts due by the Borrower to the Bank under this Agreement or the other Security Documents.

5.2 Payments on Banking Days
All payments due shall be made on a Banking Day. If the due date for payment falls on a day which is not a Banking Day, the payment or payments due shall be made on the next following Banking Day unless such Banking Day falls in the next calendar month in which case payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Banking Day.
5.3 Gross Up
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If at any time any law, regulation, regulatory requirement or requirement of any governmental authority, monetary agency, central bank or the like compels the Borrower to make payment subject to Governmental Withholdings, or any other deduction or withholding, the Borrower shall pay to the Bank such additional amounts as may be necessary to ensure that there will be received by the Bank a net amount equal to the full amount which would have been received had payment not been made subject to such Governmental Withholdings or other deduction or withholding. The Borrower shall indemnify the Bank against any losses or costs incurred by the Bank by reason of any failure of the Borrower to make any such deduction or withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due date for such payment. The Borrower shall, not later than thirty (30) days after each deduction, withholding or payment of any Governmental Withholdings, forward to the Bank official receipts and any other documentary receipts and any other documentary evidence reasonably required by the Bank in respect of the payment made or to be made of any deduction or withholding or Governmental Withholding. The obligations of the Borrower under this provision shall, subject to applicable law, remain in force notwithstanding the repayment of the Loan and the payment of all interest due thereon pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.
5.4 Certificates Conclusive
Any certificate or determination of the Bank as to any rate of interest, rate of exchange or any other amount pursuant to and for the purposes of any of the Security Documents shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower.
5.5 Computation
All interest and other payments payable by reference to a rate per annum under this Agreement shall accrue from day to day and be calculated on the basis of actual days elapsed and a 360 day year.
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

6.1 | The Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Bank that:

Continuing representations and warranties

| (a) | Due Incorporation/Valid Existence

the Borrower and each of the other corporate Security Parties is duly incorporated and validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective countries of incorporation as limited liability companies, and have power to own their respective property and assets, to carry on their respective business as the same are now being lawfully conducted and to purchase, own, finance and operate vessels, or, as the case may be, manage vessels, as well as to undertake the obligations which they have undertaken or shall undertake pursuant to the Security Documents;

| (b) | Due Corporate Authority

each of the Borrower and the other Security Parties has power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is a party and to borrow the Commitment and each of the other Security Parties has power to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is or is to be a party; all necessary corporate, shareholder and other action has been taken to authorise the execution, delivery and performance of the same and no limitation on the powers of the Borrower to borrow will be exceeded as a result of borrowing the Loan;
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| (c) | Litigation

no litigation, arbitration, tax claim or administrative proceeding involving a potential liability of the Borrower or any other Security Party is current or pending or (to its or its officers' knowledge) threatened against the Borrower or any other Security Party, which, if adversely determined, would have a materially adverse effect on the business assets or the financial condition of any of them;

| (d) | No conflict with other obligations

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

| (e) | Financial Condition

the financial condition of the Borrower and of the other Security Parties has not suffered any material deterioration since that condition was last disclosed to the Bank;

| (f) | No Immunity

neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party nor any of their respective assets are entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (which shall include, without limitation, suit, attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement);

| (g) | Shipping Company

each of the Borrower and the Approved Manager is a shipping company involved in the owning or, as the case may be, managing of ships engaged in international voyages and earning profits in free foreign currency;

| (h) | Licences/Authorisation

every consent, authorisation, license or approval of, or registration with or declaration to, governmental or public bodies or authorities or courts required by any Security Party to authorise, or required by any Security Party in connection with, the execution, delivery, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of each of the Security
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Documents or the performance by each Security Party of its obligations under the Security Documents has been obtained or made and is in full force and effect and there has been no default in the observance of any of the conditions or restrictions (if any) imposed in, or in connection with, any of the same so far as the Borrower is aware;

| (i) | Perfected Securities

when duly executed, the Security Documents will create a perfected security interest in favour of the Bank, with the intended priority, over the assets and revenues intended to be covered, valid and enforceable against the Borrower and the other Security Parties;

| (j) | No Notarisation/Filing/Recording

save for the registration of any mortgage in the Registry, it is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents that it or they or any other instrument be notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court, public office or elsewhere or that any stamp, registration or similar tax or charge be paid on or in relation to this Agreement or the other Security Documents;

| (k) | Validity and Binding effect

the Security Documents constitute (or upon their execution - and in the case of any mortgage upon its registration at the Registry - will constitute) valid and legally binding obligations of the relevant Security Parties enforceable against the Borrower and the other Security Parties in accordance with their respective terms and that there are no other agreements or arrangements which may adversely affect or conflict with the Security Documents or the security thereby created; and

| (l) | Valid Choice of Law

the choice of law agreed to govern this Agreement and/or any other Security Document and the submission to the jurisdiction of the courts agreed in each of the Security Documents are or will be, on execution of the respective Security Documents, valid and binding on the Borrower and any other Security Party which is or is to be a party thereto.

| (m) | Shareholdings

the Borrower's shares are legally and beneficially owned by the persons described to the Bank in the negotiation of this Agreement; and

| (n) | Money laundering - acting for own account

The Borrower confirms that, by entering into this Agreement and the other Security Documents, it is acting on its own behalf and for their own account and it is obtaining the Loan for their own account and the borrowing of the Commitment and the performance and discharge of the Borrower's obligations and liabilities under this Agreement and the other Security Documents to which each is or is to be a party and other arrangements effected or
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contemplated by this Agreement will not involve or lead to contravention of any law, official, requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure mplemented to combat "money laundering" as defined in Article 1 of the Directive (91/308/EEC) of the Council of the European Community or any Relevant Jurisdiction.

6.2 | The Borrower hereby further represents and warrants to the Bank that:

Initial representations and warranties
(a) Direct obligations - Pari Passu
the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement are direct, general and unconditional obligations of the Borrower and rank at least pari passu with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law;
(b) Information
all information, accounts, statements of financial position, exhibits and reports furnished by or on behalf of any Security Party to the Bank in connection with the negotiation and preparation of this Agreement and each of the other Security Documents are true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading, do not omit material facts and all reasonable enquiries have been made to verify the facts and statements contained therein; to the knowledge of the Directors/Officers of the Borrower, there are no other facts the omission of which would make any fact or statement therein misleading and, in the case of accounts and statements of financial position, they have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles which have been consistently applied;
(c) No Default
no Default has occurred and is continuing;
(d) No Taxes
no Taxes are imposed by deduction, withholding or otherwise on any payment to be made by any Security Party under this Agreement and/or any other of the Security Documents or are imposed on or by virtue of the execution or delivery of this Agreement and/or any other of the Security Documents or any document or instrument to be executed or delivered hereunder or thereunder. In case that any Tax exists now or will be imposed in the future, it will be borne by the Borrower;
(e) No Default under other Indebtedness
neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party is in Default under any agreement relating to Indebtedness to which it is a party or by which it may be bound;
(f) Ownership/Flag/Seaworthiness/Class/Insurance of the Vessel
the Vessel on the Drawdown Date will be:
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| (i) | in the absolute and free from Encumbrances (other than in favour of the Bank) ownership of the Borrower who will on and after the Drawdown Date be the sole legal and beneficial owner of the Vessel;

| (ii) | registered in the name of the Borrower through the Registry under the laws and flag of the Flag State;

| (iii) | operationally seaworthy and in every way fit for service;

| (iv) | classed with a classification society which is a member of IACS and which has been approved by the Bank in writing and such class will be free of all requirements and recommendations of such classification society;

| (v) | insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement;

| (vi) | managed by the Approved Manager; and

| (vii) | in full compliance with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code;

(g) No Charter
unless otherwise permitted in writing by the Bank the Vessel will not on or before the Drawdown Date be subject to any charter or contract nor to any agreement to enter into any charter or contract which, if entered into after the Drawdown Date would have required the consent of the Bank under any of the Security Documents and there will not on or before the Drawdown Date be any agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings of the Vessel may be shared with any other person;
(h) MOA Valid
the copy of the MOA to be delivered to the Bank shall be a true and complete copy of such document constituting valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto enforceable in accordance with its terms and no amendments thereto or variations thereof shall have been (or will be) agreed nor shall any action been taken by the parties thereto which would in any way render such document inoperative or unenforceable;
(i) No Rebates
there will be no commissions, rebates premiums or other payments by or to or on account of the Borrower, any other Security Party or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any other person in connection with the MOA other than as shall be disclosed to the Bank by the Borrowers in writing;
(h) No Encumbrances
neither the Vessel, nor its Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Insurances nor any other properties or rights which are, or are to be, the subject of any of the Security Documents nor any part thereof will, on the Drawdown Date, be subject to any Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances;
(i) Compliance with Environmental Laws and Approvals
except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrower in writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Bank:
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| (i) | the Borrower and its Related Companies have complied with the provisions of all Environmental Laws;

| (ii) | the Borrower and its Related Companies have obtained all Environmental Approvals and are in compliance with all such Environmental Approvals; and

| (iii) | neither the Borrower nor any of its Related Companies have received notice of any Environmental Claim that the Borrower or any of its Related Companies are not in compliance with any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval;

(j) No Environmental Claims

| (i) | except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrower in writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Bank:

| (aa) | there is no Environmental Claim pending or, to the best of the Borrower's knowledge and belief, threatened against the Borrower or the Vessel or the Borrower's Related Companies or any other Relevant Ship; and

| (bb) | there has been no emission, spill, release or discharge of a Material of Environmental Concern from the Vessel or any other Related Ship or any vessel owned by, managed or crewed by or chartered to the Borrower which could give rise to an Environmental Claim;

(k) Copies true and complete
the copies of the Bill of Sale, the MOA and the Management Agreement delivered or to be delivered to the Bank pursuant to clause 7 are, or will when delivered be, true and complete copies of such documents; such documents will when delivered constitute valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and there will have been no amendments or variations thereof or defaults thereunder;
(1) Application made for DOC and SMC
the Operator has applied for a DOC for itself and an SMC in respect of the Vessel and that neither the Borrower nor any Operator is aware of any reason why such application may be refused;
(m) Compliance with ISPS code
the Vessel and any Operator complies or will on the drawdown of the Commitment comply with the requirements of the ISPS Code.
(n) Acting for its own account
the Borrower by entering into this Agreement and the other Security Documents is acting on its own behalf and for its own account.
6.3 Representations Correct
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At the time of entering into this Agreement all above representations and warranties or any other information given by the Borrower and/or the Corporate Guarantor to the Bank are true and accurate.
6.4 Repetition of Representations and Warranties
The representations and warranties in this Clause 6 (except in relation to the representations and warranties in Clause 6.2) shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrower on the Drawdown Date and on each Interest Payment Date throughout the Security Period.
7. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
7.1 Conditions precedent to the execution of this Agreement
The Borrower shall provide the Bank prior to the execution of this Agreement the following documents and evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank:

| (a) | a duly certified true copy of the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws or the Memorandum and Articles of Association, or of any other constitutional documents, as the case may be, of each corporate Security Party;

| (b) | a recent certificate of incumbency of each corporate Security Party issued by the appropriate authority or, as appropriate, signed by the secretary or a director thereof, stating the officers and the directors of each of them and containing specimens of their respective signatures;

| (c) | minutes of separate meetings of the directors and shareholders of each corporate Security Party at which there was approved (inter alia) the entry into, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents executed or to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto to which the relevant corporate Security Party is or is to be a party;

| (d) | the original of any power(s) of attorney and any further evidence of the due authority of any person signing this Agreement, the other Security Documents, and any other documents executed or to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto on behalf of any corporate person;

| (e) | evidence that all necessary licences, consents, permits and authorisations (including exchange control ones) have been obtained by any Security Party for the execution, delivery, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence and the due performance of the respective obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement and the other Security Documents; and

| (f) | evidence that the drawdown fee and the commitment commission due under Clause 10.8 has been paid in full; and

| (g) | any other documents or recent certificates or other evidence which would be required by the Bank in relation to any corporate Security Party evidencing that the relevant Security Party has been properly established, continues to exist validly and to be in good standing; and

| (h) | a declaration of beneficial shareholding by the ultimate shareholders(s) of the Borrower and a declaration showing that up to 5% of the shareholding of the Corporate Guarantor is held by Mr.Evangelos Pistiolis and members of his family.

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7.2 Conditions concerning the Vessel
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment is subject to the further condition that the Bank shall have received prior to the drawdown or, where this is not possible, simultaneously with the drawdown of the Commitment:

| (a) | evidence that the Vessel will be duly registered in the ownership of the Borrower through the Registry at the port of the Vessel's port of registry under the laws and flag of the Flag State free from any Encumbrances save for those in favour of the Bank and otherwise as contemplated herein and free of any charter;

| (b) | evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank that the Vessel has been or will - on drawdown - be insured in accordance with the insurance requirements provided for in Schedule 2 this Agreement and the other Security Documents (including (a) a Mortgagee's Interest Insurance for an amount equal to 120% of the amount of the Loan (herein "MII") and (b) (in case that the Bank reasonably determines or in case that the Vessel is scheduled to operate worldwide which could include USA jurisdiction or the USA Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation or in waters with similar to the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 legislation), a Mortgagee's Interest Additional Perils (Pollution) insurance policy (herein "MAPI"), for an amount equal to 120% of the amount of the Loan, each of which the Bank may at any time effect on such terms and with such insurers as shall from time to time be determined by the Bank) to be followed by full copies of cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other contracts of insurance and irrevocable authority is hereby given to the Bank at any time at its discretion to obtain copies of the policies, certificates of entry or other contracts of insurance from the insurers and/or obtain any information in relation to the Insurances relating to the Vessel;

| (c) | certified true copy of the Management Agreement evidencing that the Vessel is managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Bank;

| (d) | evidence that the trading certificates of the Vessel are valid and in force;

| (e) | all necessary confirmations from the insurers of the Vessel that they will issue letters of undertaking and endorse notice of assignment and loss payable clauses on the Insurances, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank in its sole discretion and ( - in the event of fleet cover - accompanied by waivers for liens for unpaid premium of other vessels managed by the Approved Manager and which are not subject to any mortgage in favour of the Bank);

| (f) | each of the Security Documents (as set out in Clause 11.1) duly executed and where appropriate duly registered with the appropriate Registry;

| (g) | evidence that the Vessel is classed as specified in Clause 6.2(f)(iv) with Lloyds Register of Shipping, or to a similar standard with another classification society of like standing to be specifically approved by the Bank, and remains free from any and all recommendations, overdue notations or average damage affecting class;

| (h) | the Drawdown Notice in respect of the Commitment duly executed and issued;

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| (i) | copies of the DOC and SMC referred to in paragraph (a) in the definition of the ISM Code Documentation certified as true and in effect by the Borrower and the Approved Manager; and

| (j) | copies of such ISM Code Documentation as the Bank may by written notice to the Borrower have requested not later than two (2) days before the Drawdown Date certified as true and complete in all material respects by the Borrower and the Approved Manager;

| (k) | if the Bank so requires, a satisfactory to the Bank physical condition survey report on the Vessel together with a comprehensive record inspection from a surveyor appointed by the Bank, at the Borrower's expense; and

| (1) | valuation of the Vessel, at the Borrower's expense, as at a date determined by the Bank but in any event before the relevant drawdown, prepared on the basis specified in Clause 8.6(b) by major shipbrokers appointed and/or approved by the Bank in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank in its sole discretion;

7.3 Conditions concerning the purchase of the Vessel
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment any part thereof is subject to the further condition that the Bank shall have received prior to or simultaneously with the drawdown of the Commitment or the relevant part thereof:

| (b) | a copy of the MOA certified as true and complete by the legal counsel of the Borrower;

| (c) | evidence to the full satisfaction of the Bank, proving the Seller's title to the Vessel free of any Encumbrances, debts or claims of any nature whatsoever;

| (d) | duly certified copies of corporate documentation of the Seller - comparable at the discretion of the Bank to that provided in Clause 7.1 - proving the due incorporation and existence of the Seller and the due authorisation of the sale of the Vessel and the execution of all documents required in connection therewith;

| (e) | duly certified copy of the Bill of Sale, the protocol of delivery and acceptance of the Vessel as well as of all other Seller's documents; and

| (e) | evidence that the ten per cent (10%) deposit in respect of the Vessel and all other sums of money (other than the relevant Advance) required to be paid by the Borrower to the Seller pursuant to the MOA have been duly paid.

7.4 No change of circumstances
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment or any part thereof is subject to the further condition that at the time of the giving of the Drawdown Notice and on the Drawdown Date:

| (a) | the representations and warranties set out in Clause 6 and in each of the Security Documents are true and correct on and as of each such time as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such time;

| (b) | no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the drawdown; and

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| (c) | the Bank shall be satisfied that there has been no change in the ownership, management, operations and/or adverse change in the financial condition of any Security Party and the Group which (change) might, in the sole opinion of the Bank, be detrimental to the interests of the Bank.

7.5 General Conditions
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment or any part thereof is subject to the further condition that the Bank, prior to or simultaneously with the drawdown, shall have received:

| (a) | opinions from lawyers appointed by the Bank as to all the matters referred to in Clauses 6.1(a) and (b) and all such aspects of law as the Bank shall deem relevant to this Agreement and the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto and any further legal or other expert opinion as the Bank at its sole discretion may require;

| (b) | confirmation from any agents nominated in this Agreement and elsewhere in the other Security Documents for the acceptance of any notice or service of process, that they consent to such nomination; and

| (c) | a receipt in writing in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank including an acknowledgement and admission of the Borrower and/or any other Security Party to the effect that the Commitment or relevant part thereof (as the case may be) was drawn by the Borrower and a declaration by the Borrower that all conditions precedent have been fulfilled, that there is no Event of Default and that all the representations and warranties are true and correct.

7.7 Waiver of conditions precedent
The conditions specified in this Clause 7 are inserted solely for the benefit of the Bank and may be waived by the Bank in whole or in part and with or without conditions. Without prejudice to any of the other provisions of this Agreement, in the event that the Bank, in its sole and absolute discretion, makes the Commitment available to the Borrower prior to the satisfaction of all or any of the conditions referred to in Clause 7.1 and 7.2, the Borrower hereby covenants and undertakes to satisfy or procure the satisfaction of such condition or conditions within such period as the Bank may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree or specify in writing.
7.8 Further conditions precedent
The Bank may request and the Borrower shall within such period from the date of such request as shall be reasonably determined by the Bank, deliver to the Bank on such request further favourable certificates and/or opinions as to any or all of the matters which are the subject of Clauses 6, 7, 8 and 9.
8. COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby undertakes with the Bank that, from the date of this Agreement and as long as any moneys are due and/or owing and/or outstanding under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents, the Borrower will:
8.1 Information Covenants

| (a) | Annual financial Statements

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furnish the Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank, with (a) combined annual audited financial statements of the Group at latest within 180 days after the end of the financial year concerned, this obligation to commence with the financial year ending 31St December, 2008, prepared in accordance with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (herein "GAAP") which have been consistently applied and (b) company prepared semi-annual consolidated financial statements of the Group signed by the Chief Financial Officer of the Corporate Guarantor within 60 days from the end of the respective financial semester and, this obligation to commence with the financial year ending 315t December, 2007;

| (b) | Financial Information

provide the Bank annually and from time to time as the Bank may reasonably request and in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank with information on the consolidated financial condition, cash flow position, commitments and operations of the Guarantor including cash flow analysis and voyage accounts of any vessels owned by any such party with a breakdown of income and running expenses showing net trading profit, trade payables and trade receivables, such financial details to be certified by one of the directors of the relevant company as to their correctness; and

| (c) | Information on adverse change or Default

promptly inform the Bank of any occurrence which came to the knowledge of the Borrower which might adversely affect the ability of the Borrower or any other Security Party to perform its respective obligations under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents and of any Default forthwith upon becoming aware thereof and will from time to time, if so requested by the Bank, confirm to the Bank in writing that, save as otherwise stated in such confirmation, no Default has occurred and is continuing;

| (d) | Information on the employment of the Vessel

provide the Bank from time to time as the Bank may request with information on the employment of the Vessel and any Relevant Ship as well as on the terms and conditions of any charterparty, contract of affreightment, agreement or related document in respect of the employment of the Vessel and any Relevant Ship, such information to be certified by one of the directors of the Borrower as to their correctness;
8.2 Banking operations - Liquidity

| (a) | ensure that, all banking operations in connection with the Vessel are carried out through the Lending Branch;

| (b) | ensure that throughout the Security Period, the Borrower shall maintain in the Earnings Account average monthly balances of Dollars one million ($1,000,000);

8.3 Additional Financial Covenants
The Borrower shall ensure that, throughout the Security Period the financial condition of the Corporate Guarantor on a consolidated basis and as evidenced by the most recent financial statements produced in accordance with sub-clause 8.1(a), shall be such that:
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| (a) | ensure that, for the duration of the Security Period, the Leverage Ratio of the Corporate Guarantor will not at any time exceed 75%;

| (b) | ensure that, for the duration of the Security Period, the ratio of EBITDA over Net Interest Expenses is not lower than 2.5:1.0;

| (c) | ensure that, for the duration of the Security Period, the Corporate Liquidity of the Corporate Guarantor maintained with the Bank or financial institutions at any relevant time is of an amount not less than the aggregate of its next six (6) months overall senior debt servicing obligations;

| (d) | ensure that a compliance certificate for each financial year of the Corporate Guarantor, signed by its chief financial officer, is delivered to the Bank by the Corporate Guarantor within 60 days after the end of the respective financial semester, substantially in the form set out in Schedule 3, duly completed and supported by calculations setting out in reasonable detail the materials underling the statements made in such compliance certificate;

The expressions used in this Clause 8.2 shall be construed in accordance with law and accounting principles internationally accepted as used in the most recent financial statements produced in accordance with sub-clause 8.1(a), and for the purposes of this Agreement
"Leverage Ratio" means, in respect of each Accounting Period and on a consolidated basis of the Group, Total Liabilities divided by the Total Assets (adjusted to fair market values of the Vessels) during such period.
"Corporate Liquidity" in relation to the Corporate Guarantor means, in respect of an Accounting Period, the aggregate amount of cash deposits held in accounts of the Corporate Guarantor free from any encumbrances;
"EBITDA" means, in respect of an Accounting Period, the aggregate amount of consolidated pre-tax profits of the Group before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and regular drydock expenses;
"Interest Expenses" means, in respect of an Accounting Period, the aggregate of all interest incurred by any member of the Group (excluding any amounts owing by one member of the Group to another member of the Group) and any net amounts payable under interest rate hedge agreements;
"Total Assets" means, in respect of an Accounting Period, total assets of the Group as stated in the most recent financial statements produced in accordance with sub-clause 8.1(a); and
"Total Liabilities" means at any relevant time the total liabilities of the Group as stated in the most recent financial statements produced in accordance with sub-clause 8.1. (a).
8.4 No Further Financial Exposure
without the prior written consent of the Bank such consent not to be unreasonably withheld:
(a) No further Indebtedness
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incur no further Indebtedness nor authorise or accept any capital commitments (other than that normally associated with the day to day operations of the Vessel) nor enter into any agreement for payment on deferred terms or hire agreement;
(b) No Loans
not make any loans or advances to, or any investments or pay any interest thereon, in any person, firm, corporation, joint venture or other entity including (without limitation) any loan or advance to any officer, director, stockholder or employee directly;
(c) No Disposal of Assets/Dividends
not dispose of any assets and not declare or pay any dividends or other distribution upon any of the issued shares or otherwise dispose of any assets to any of the shareholders of the Borrower; and
(d) No Payments
except pursuant to this Agreement and the other Security Documents (or as expressly permitted by the same) not pay out any funds to any company or person except in connection with the administration of the Borrower, the operation, maintenance and/or repair of the Vessel;
(e) Control of the Corporate Guarantor
ensure that the Corporate Guarantor will not appoint without the Bank's written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) a CEO other than Mr. Evangelos Pistiolis who together with members of his family shall be among the largest shareholders thereof controlling no less than five per centum (5%) of the share capital of the Corporate Guarantor;
(f) Maintenance of the Business and Legal Structure of the Corporate Guarantor
ensure that the Corporate Guarantor shall continue to be a holding company of ocean-going vessels, listed and trading in the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange;
(g) Know your customer and money laundering compliance
provide the Bank with such documents and evidence as the Bank shall from time to time require, based on law and regulations applicable from time to time and the Bank's own internal guidelines applicable from time to time to identify the Borrowers and the other Security Parties, including the ultimate legal and beneficial owner or owners of such entities, and any other persons involved or affected by the transaction(s) contemplated by this Agreement; and
8.5 Maintenance of Business and legal Structure
(a) Maintenance of Business Structure
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not change the nature, organisation and conduct of its business as, owner of the Vessel or carry on any business other than the business carried on at the date hereof;
(b) Maintenance of Legal Structure
ensure that none of the documents defining the constitution of the Borrower and/or any corporate shareholder shall be altered in any manner whatsoever;
(c) Control
ensure that no change shall be made directly or indirectly in the ownership, beneficial ownership, control or management of the Borrower or any share therein or, of the Vessel;
(d) No merger
not merge or consolidate with any other company or person;
(e) Subsidiaries
not form or acquire any Subsidiaries; and
(f) Share capital and distribution
not purchase or otherwise acquire for value any shares of its capital or distribute any of its present or future assets, undertakings, rights or revenues to any of its shareholders;
8.6 Pari passu/Value of Security
(a) Pari passu
ensure that its obligations under this Agreement shall, without prejudice to the provisions of this Clause 8.6 at all times rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law and not by contract;
(b) Valuation of the Vessel
at any time (and at least once per year) that the Bank might consider to be (at the reasonable discretion of the Bank) necessary or useful and at the expense of the Borrower, have the Vessel valued in Dollars, without, unless required by the Bank, physical inspection and on the basis of sale for prompt delivery and free of Encumbrances for cash at arm's length on normal commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer without taking into account the benefit of any charterparty or other engagement concerning the Vessel ("the basis of valuation"), by a shipbroker appointed by the Bank for this purpose at the Bank's sole discretion;
(c) Vessel's Value to Debt Ratio-Additional Security
ensure and procure that the Security Value shall be in excess of the Security Requirement and if at any relevant time the Security Value is less than the Security Requirement, the Borrower shall within thirty (30) days of being advised by the Bank of such shortfall, either prepay or provide additional security in form and substance in all respects acceptable to the Bank in an amount at least equal to the amount of such shortfall. Such additional security shall be constituted by:
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| (i) | additional pledged cash deposits in favour of the Bank in an amount equal to such shortfall with a bank and in an account and manner to be determined by the Bank; and/or

| (ii) | any other security acceptable to the Bank to be provided in a manner determined by the Bank.

(d) The value of the Vessel shall be determined for the purpose of Clause 8.6(b) as provided in Clause 8.6(b) and shall be notified by the Bank to the Borrower and the valuation of such shipbroker shall constitute the value of the Vessel for the purposes of this Agreement and shall be binding upon the parties hereto. All costs in connection with such valuation and any valuation of any additional security provided pursuant to Clause 8.6(c) shall be borne by the Borrower. Any valuation referred to in Clause 8.6 to be addressed to the Bank.
Provided however that in the event that the Market Value of the Vessel (determined in accordance with Clause 8.6(b)) shall be less than the Security Requirement then the value of the Vessel shall be determined by three (3) shipbrokers appointed by the Bank for this purpose (one of which shall be the initial valuator) and in that case the mean of such three (3) valuations of such shipbrokers shall constitute the value of the Vessel for the purposes of this Agreement and shall be binding upon the parties hereto.
(e) Valuation of additional security
For the purpose of this Clause 8.6, the market value of any additional security provided or to be provided to the Bank shall be determined by the Bank in its absolute discretion without any necessity for the Bank assigning any reason thereto provided always that if the additional security is in the form of a collateral vessel such collateral vessel shall be valued in accordance with the provisions of Clause 8.6(b) or if the additional security is in form of a cash deposit full credit shall be given for such cash deposit on a Dollar for Dollar basis.
(f) Documents and evidence
In connection with any additional security provided in accordance with this Clause 8.6, the Bank shall be entitled to receive such evidence and documents as may in the Bank's reasonable opinion be appropriate and such favourable legal opinions as the Bank shall in its absolute discretion require.
8.7 Maintenance of Assets
(a) No Transfer of Assets
not convey, assign, transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of or deal with any of their real or personal property, assets or rights, whether present or future, without the prior written consent of the Bank; and
(b) No Encumbrance of Assets
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not allow any part of its undertaking, property, assets or rights, whether present or future, to be mortgaged, charged, pledged, used as a lien or otherwise encumbered without the prior written consent of the Bank; and

8.8 | Covenants Concerning the Vessel

(a) Ownership/Management/Control
ensure that the Vessel will be registered on the Drawdown Date under the laws of the Flag State and thereafter maintain her present ownership, management, control and beneficial ownership;
(b) Class
ensure that the Vessel will remain in class free of any and all recommendations, overdue notations or average damage affecting class and provide the Bank on demand with copies of all class and trading certificates of the Vessel;
(c) Insurances
ensure that all Insurances of the Vessel are maintained and comply with all insurance requirements specified in this Agreement and in case of failure to maintain the Vessel so insured authorise the Bank (and such authorisation is hereby expressly given to the Bank) to have the right but not the obligation to effect such Insurances on behalf of the Borrower (and in case that the Vessel remains in port for an extended period to effect port risks insurances at the cost of the Borrower which, if paid by the Bank, shall be Expenses);
(d) Transfer/Encumbrances
not without the prior written consent of the Bank sell or otherwise dispose of the Vessel or any share therein or create or agree to create or permit to subsist any Encumbrance over the Vessel (or any share or interest therein) other than Permitted Encumbrances;
(e) Not imperil Flag, Ownership, Insurances
ensure that the Vessel is maintained and trades in conformity with the laws of the Flag State, of its owning company or of the nationality of the officers of the Vessel, the requirements of the Insurances and nothing is done or permitted to be done which could endanger the flag of the Vessel or its unencumbered (other than Permitted Encumbrances) ownership or its Insurances;
(f) Mortgage Covenants
always comply with all the covenants provided for in the Mortgage and in any accompanying Deed of Covenant;
(g) Charter
not enter into a charterparty, contract of affreightment, agreement or related document in respect of the employment of the Vessel (i) on demise charterparty or (ii) without the prior written consent of the Bank, for a period for more than twelve (12) months or below the market rate prevailing at the time when the Vessel is fixed in or on terms which are not in accordance with the commercial practice prevailing at the relevant time;
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(h) Assignment of Earnings
not assign or agree to assign otherwise than to the Bank the Earnings or any part thereof; and
(i) Compliance with Environmental Laws
comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of any Relevant Party comply with, all Environmental Laws including without limitation, requirements relating to manning and establishment of financial responsibility and to obtain and comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of such Relevant Party obtain and comply with, all Environmental Approvals and to notify the Bank forthwith:

| (i) | of any Environmental Claim for an amount or amounts in aggregate exceeding $300,000 made against the Vessel, any Relevant Ship and/or her respective owner; and

| (ii) | upon becoming aware of any incident which may give rise to an Environmental Claim and to keep the Bank advised in writing of the Borrower's response to such Environmental Claim on such regular basis and in such detail as the Bank shall require;

8.9 Observance of Covenants
(a) Use of the Loan
use the Loan exclusively for the purpose specified in this Agreement;
(b) Compliance with Covenants
duly and punctually perform each of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it under this Agreement and the other Security Documents;
(c) Payment on Demand
pay to the Bank on demand any sum of money which is payable by the Borrower to the Bank under this Agreement but in respect of which it is not specified in any other Clause when it is due and payable; and
(d) Evidence of Compliance
upon request by the Bank from time to time provide such information and evidence to the Bank as the Bank would reasonably require to demonstrate compliance with the covenants and undertakings set forth in this Agreement and the other Security Documents;
8.10 Validity of Securities — Taxes etc.
(a) Validity
ensure and procure that all governmental or other consents required by law and/or any other steps required for the validity, enforceability and legality of this Agreement and the other Security Documents are maintained in full force and effect and/or appropriately taken;
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(b) Earnings
ensure and procure that, unless and until directed by the Bank otherwise (i) all the Earnings of the Vessel shall be paid to the Earnings Account and (ii) the persons from whom the Earnings are from time to time due are irrevocably instructed to pay them to such account in the name of the Borrower as shall be from time to time agreed by the Bank in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the relevant Security Documents;
(c) Taxes
pay all Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges when the same fall due, except to the extent that the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves have been set aside for their payment if such proceedings fail; and
(d) Additional Documents
from time to time and within ten (10) days after the Bank's request execute and deliver to the Bank or procure the execution and delivery to the Bank of all such documents as shall be deemed desirable at the reasonable discretion of the Bank for giving full effect to this Agreement, and for perfecting, protecting the value of or enforcing any rights or securities granted to the Bank under any one or more of this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto and in case that any conditions precedent (with the Bank's consent) have not been fulfilled prior to the Drawdown, such conditions shall be complied with within fourteen (14) days of Drawdown (unless the Bank agrees otherwise in writing) and failure to comply with this covenant shall be an Event of Default.
8.11 Covenants for the Security Parties
Ensure and procure that all other Security Parties and each of them duly and punctually comply, with the covenants in Clauses 8.1 to 8.10 which are applicable to them mutatis mutandis.
8.12 Compliance with the ISM Code
Procure that the Approved Manager and any Operator:

| (a) | will comply with and ensure that the Vessel and any Operator by no later than the Drawdown Date complies with the requirements of the ISM Code, including (but not limited to) the maintenance and renewal of valid certificates pursuant thereto throughout the Security Period;

| (b) | immediately inform the Bank if there is any threatened or actual withdrawal of the Borrower's, the Approved Manager's or an Operator's DOC or the SMC in respect of the Vessel; and

| (c) | promptly inform the Bank upon the issue to the Borrower, the Approved Manager or any Operator of a DOC and to the Vessel of an SMC or the receipt by the Borrower, the Approved Manager or any Operator of notification that its application for the same has been realised.

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8.13 ISPS Code Compliance
Procure that the Approved Manager or any Operator will:

| (a) | maintain at all times a valid and current ISSC respect of the Vessel;

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

9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
There shall be an Event of Default whenever an event described in Clauses 9.1 to 9.7 Occurs:
9.1 Non Performance of Obltgations

| (a) | the Borrower or any other Security Party fails to pay any sum due from the Borrower or, as the case may be such Security Party, under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents at the time, in the currency and in the manner stipulated herein and/or any of the other Security Documents, or, in the case of any sum payable on demand, within three (3) Banking Days of such demand; or

| (b) | the Borrower or any other Security Party fails to observe and perform any one or more of the covenants, terms or obligations contained in this Agreement and/or any other Security Document relating to the Insurances; or

| (c) | the Borrower or any other Security Party commits any breach of or omits to observe any of the covenants, terms, obligations or undertakings under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents (other than failure to pay any sum when due or to comply with any obligation concerning the Insurances) and, in respect of any such breach or omission which in the opinion of the Bank is capable of remedy, such action as the Bank may require shall not have been taken within seven (7) days of the Bank notifying the Borrower and/or the relevant Security Party of such required action to remedy the breach or omission; or

9.2 Events affecting the Security Parties

| (a) | any Security Party is adjudicated or found bankrupt or insolvent or any judgement or order is made by any competent court or resolution passed or petition (which is not in the reasonable opinion of the Bank frivolous and is not being contested in good faith by such Security Party) presented for the winding-up or dissolution of any Security Party or for the appointment of a liquidator, trustee, receiver, administrator or conservator of the whole or any part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party; or

| (b) | any Security Party becomes or is deemed to be insolvent or suspends payment of its debts or is (or is deemed to be) unable to or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due or proposes or enters into any composition, compromise or other arrangement for the benefit of its creditors generally or good faith proceedings are commenced in relation to any Security Party under any law, regulation or procedure relating to reconstruction or readjustment of debts; or

| (c) | an encumbrancer takes possession or a receiver or similar officer is appointed of the whole or any part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party or a distress, execution, sequestration or other process is levied or enforced upon or sued out against any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party and is not discharged within fifteen (15) days; or

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| (d) | all or a material part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party are seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under the authority of any government; or

| (e) | any event occurs or proceeding is taken with respect to any Security Party in any jurisdiction to which it is subject which has an effect equivalent or similar to any of the events mentioned in sub-Clauses 9.2(a) to 9.2(d); or

| (f) | any Security Party suspends or ceases or threatens to suspend or cease to carry on its business; or

| (g) | there occurs, in the reasonable opinion of the Bank, a material adverse change in the financial condition of any Security Party; or

| (h) | any other event occurs or circumstances arise which, in the reasonable opinion of the Bank, materially and adversely affects either (i) the ability of any Security Party to perform all or any of its obligations under or otherwise to comply with the terms of this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents, or (ii) the security created by this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents; or

| (i) | there is any material change in the beneficial ownership of the shares in the Borrower and/or in any other corporate Security Party; or

| (j) | a meeting is convened by any Security Party for the purpose of passing any resolution to purchase, reduce or redeem any of its share capital; or

| (k) | there is any material change in the beneficial ownership of the shares in any of the Borrower and/or in any other corporate Security Party, as a result of which Mr. Evangelos Pistiolis' and/or members of his family's controlling interest in the Corporate Guarantor shall be reduced to less than five per centum (5%) of the share capital of the Corporate Guarantor; or

9.3 Representations Incorrect
any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or in respect of any Security Party in or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents is or proves to have been incorrect in any material respect; or
9.4 Cross-default of the Borrower and the Group
any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other member of the Group is not paid when due or becomes due and payable, or any creditor of the Borrower or such member of the Group becomes entitled to declare any such Indebtedness due and payable prior to the date when it would otherwise have become due, or any guarantee or indemnity given or any obligation or covenant undertaken or agreement made by the Borrower any other member of the Group in respect of Indebtedness is not honoured when due; or
9.5 Events affecting the Security Documents
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| (a) | this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents shall at any time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise cease to remain in full force and effect, or if the validity or enforceability of any of the Security Documents shall at any time and for any reason be contested by any party thereto (other than the Bank), or if any such party shall deny that it has any, or any further, liability thereunder or it becomes impossible or unlawful for the Borrower to fulfil any of its covenants and obligations contained in this Agreement or any of the Security Documents or for the Bank to exercise the rights vested in it thereunder or otherwise; or

| (b) | any consent, authorisation, licence or approval of, or registration with or declaration to, governmental or public bodies or authorities or courts required by the Borrower to authorise or otherwise in connection with, the execution, delivery, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents or the performance by the Borrower of its obligations under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents is modified in a manner unacceptable to the Bank or is not granted or is revoked or terminated or expires and is not renewed or otherwise ceases to be in full force and effect; or

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

9.6 Events concerning the Security Parties

| (a) | any Security Party (other than the Borrower) fails to pay any sum due from it under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents when due, or, in the case of any sum payable on demand, within three (3) Banking Days of demand; or

| (b) | any Security Party (other than the Borrower) fails to observe and perform any one or more of the covenants, terms or obligations contained in this Agreement (including Schedule 2) and/or the other Security Documents relating to the Insurances; or

| (c) | any Security Party (other than the Borrower) commits any breach of or omits to observe any of the covenants, terms, obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents (other than failure to pay any sum when due or to observe or perform obligations relating to the Insurances) and, in respect of any such breach or omission which in the opinion of the Bank is capable of remedy, such action as the Bank may require shall not have been taken within seven (7) days of the Bank notifying the relevant Security Party, of such required action to remedy the breach or omission; or

| (d) | any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or in respect of any Security Party (other than the Borrower) in or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents is or proves to have been incorrect in any material respect; or

| (e) | any of the events referred to in Clauses 9.2 to 9.5 occurs (amended as appropriate) in relation to any Security Party (other than the Borrower); or

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9.7 Events concerning the Vessel

| (a) | the Vessel becomes a Total Loss or suffers damage or is involved in an incident which in the reasonable opinion of the Bank may result in the Vessel being subsequently determined to be a Total Loss and the insurance indemnity is not paid by the insurers to the Bank under the General Assignment within a period of one hundred fifty (150) days from the earlier of: (i) the date such Total Loss occurred and (ii) the date on which the incident which in the reasonable opinion of the Bank may result in the Vessel being subsequently determined to be a Total Toss has occurred; or

| (b) | the Vessel ceases to be managed by the Approved Manager (for any reason other than the reason of a Total Loss or sale of the Vessel) with the approval of the Bank, and the Borrower fails to appoint an Approved Manager within seven (7) days after the termination of the Management Agreement with the previous Approved Manager; or

| (c) | the Vessel is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any possessory lien or other claim and the Owner shall fail to procure the release of the Vessel within a period of seven (7) days thereafter; or

| (d) | the registration of the Vessel under the laws and flag of the Flag State is cancelled or terminated without the prior written consent of the Bank or, if the Vessel is only provisionally registered on the Drawdown Date and is not permanently registered under the laws and flag of the Flag State at least thirty (30) days prior to the deadline for completing such permanent registration;

| (e) | the Flag State of the Vessel becomes involved in hostilities or civil war or there is a seizure of power in such Flag State by unconstitutional means if, in any such case, such event could in the reasonable opinion of the Bank reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the security constituted by any of the Security Documents and alternative arrangements satisfactory to the Bank have not been made promptly upon the Bank's request; or

| (f) | the Borrower or any other person fails or omits to comply with any requirements of the protection and indemnity association or other insurer with which the Vessel is entered for insurance or insured against protection and indemnity risks (including oil pollution risks) to the effect that any cover (including, without limitation, any cover in respect of liability for Environmental Claims arising in jurisdiction where the Vessel operates or trades) is or may be liable to cancellation, qualification or exclusion at any time; or

| (g) | (without prejudice to the generality of sub-Clauses 9.1(b) and (c)) for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Clause 8.12 are not complied with and/or the Vessel ceases to comply with the ISM Code; or

| (h) | (without prejudice to the generality of sub-Clauses 9.1(b) and (c)) for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Clause 8.13 are not complied with and/or the Vessel ceases to comply with the ISPS Code; or

9.8 Environmental Events
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| (a) | any Relevant Party and/or the Approved Manager and/or any of their respective Environmental Affiliates fails to comply with any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval or the Vessel or any Relevant Ship is involved in any incident which gives rise or which may give rise to any Environmental Claim, if in any such case, such non compliance or incident or the consequences thereof could (in the reasonable opinion of the Bank) be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business assets, operations, property or financial condition of the Borrower or any other Security Party or on the security created by any of the Security Documents; or

| (b) | any Security Party or any other person fails or omits to comply with any requirements of the protection and indemnity association or other insurer with which the Vessel is entered for insurance or insured against protection and indemnity risks (including oil pollution risks) to the effect that any cover in relation to the Vessel (including without limitation, liability for Environmental Claims arising in jurisdictions where the Vessel operates or trades) is or may be liable to cancellation, qualification or exclusion at any time; or

9.9 Consequences of Default
The Bank may without prejudice to any other rights of the Bank (which will continue to be in force concurrently with the following), at any time after the happening of an Event of Default:

| (a) | by notice to the Borrower declare that the obligation of the Bank to make the Commitment available shall be terminated, whereupon the Commitment shall be reduced to zero forthwith; and/or

| (b) | by notice to the Borrower declare that the Loan and all interest and commitment commission accrued and all other sums payable under this Agreement and the other Security Documents have become due and payable, whereupon the same shall, immediately or in accordance with the terms of such notice, become due and payable without any further diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest or notice or any other procedure from the Bank which are expressly waived by the Borrower; and/or

| (c) | put into force and exercise all or any of the rights, powers and remedies possessed by it under this Agreement and/or under any other Security Document and/or as mortgagee of the Vessel, mortgagee, chargee or assignee or as the beneficiary of any other property right or any other security (as the case may be) over the assets charged or assigned to it under the Security Documents or otherwise (whether at law, by virtue of any of the Security Documents or otherwise).

9.10 Insolvency Events of Default
If an event occurs in respect of the Borrower or the other Security Parties of the type described in sub-Clauses 9.2(a) to (e) (except (i) in the case when a petition was presented or proceedings were commenced or a suit or writ were issued by a third party and the Borrower or the relevant Security Party is defending itself in bona fide and (ii) in the case that such events mentioned in Clause 9.2 relate to only a part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues which in the opinion of the Bank does not affect the ability of the Borrower or the relevant Security Party to perform its respective obligations under this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents) the obligation of the Bank to make the Commitment available shall
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terminate immediately upon receipt by the Bank of the relevant information (as such receipt shall be conclusively certified by a certificate of the Bank) and all amounts payable under sub-Clause 9.9(b) above shall become immediately due and payable without any notice or other formality which is hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
9.11 Proof of Default
It is agreed that (i) the non-payment of any sum of money in time will be proved conclusively by mere passage of time and (ii) the occurrence of this (non payment) shall be proved conclusively by a mere written statement of the Bank (save for manifest error).
9.12 Exclusion of Bank's liability
Neither the Bank nor any receiver or manager appointed by the Bank, shall have any liability to the Borrower or any other Security Party:

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

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

except that this does not exempt the Bank or a receiver or manager from liability for losses shown to have been caused by the wilful misconduct of the Bank's own officers and employees or (as the case may be) such receiver's or manager's own partners or employees.
10. INDEMNITIES - EXPENSES - FEES
10.1 Indemnity
The Borrower shall on demand (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrower to) indemnify the Bank, without prejudice to any of the other rights of the Bank under any of the Security Documents, against any loss or expense which the Bank shall certify as sustained or incurred as a consequence of:

| (a) | any default in payment by any of the Security Parties of any sum under any of the Security Documents when due;

| (b) | the occurrence of any Event of Default;

| (c) | any prepayment of the Loan or part thereof being made under Clauses 4.2(b) and 4.3, 8.6(c) or 12 or any other repayment of the Loan or part thereof being made otherwise than on an Interest Payment Date relating to the part of the Loan prepaid or repaid; or

| (d) | the Commitment not being advanced for any reason (excluding any default by the Bank) after the Drawdown Notice has been given,

including, in any such case, but not limited to, any loss or expense sustained or incurred in maintaining or funding the Loan or any part thereof or in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Loan or any part thereof.
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10.2 Expenses
The Borrower shall (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrower to) pay to the Bank on demand:

| (a) | Initial and Amendment expenses

all expenses (including legal, printing and out-of-pocket expenses) reasonably incurred by the Bank in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement and the other Security Documents and of any amendment or extension of or the granting of any waiver or consent under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents and/or in connection with any proposal by the Borrower to constitute additional security pursuant to sub-Clause 8.6(c), whether any such security shall in fact be constituted or not;

| (b) | Enforcement expenses

all expenses (including legal and out-of-pocket expenses) incurred by the Bank in contemplation of, or otherwise in connection with, the enforcement of, or preservation of any rights under, this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents, or otherwise in respect of the moneys owing under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents or the contemplation or preparation of the above, whether they have been effected or not;

| (c) | MII-MAPI costs

reimburse the Bank on demand for any and all costs incurred by the Bank (as conclusively certified by the Bank) in effecting and keeping effected (a) a Mortgagee's Interest Insurance for an amount equal to 120% of the amount of the Loan (herein "MII") and (b) (in case that the Bank reasonably determines or in case that the Vessel is scheduled to operate worldwide which could include USA jurisdiction or the USA Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other applicable legislation or in waters with similar to the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 legislation), a Mortgagee's Interest Additional Perils (Pollution) insurance policy (herein "MAPI"), each of which the Bank may at any time effect on such terms and with such insurers as shall from time to time be determined by the Bank,; and

| (d) | Other expenses

any and all other Expenses.
All expenses payable pursuant to this Clause 10.2 shall be paid together with value added tax (if any) thereon.
10.3 Stamp duty
The Borrower shall pay any and all stamp, registration and similar taxes or charges (including those payable by the Bank) imposed by governmental authorities in relation to this Agreement and any of the other Security Documents, and shall indemnify the Bank against any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from delay or omission on the part of the Borrower to pay such stamp taxes or charges.
10.4 Environmental Indemnity
The Borrower shall indemnify the Bank on demand and hold the Bank harmless from and against all costs, expenses, payments, charges, losses, demands, liabilities, actions, proceedings (whether civil or criminal) penalties, fines, damages, judgements, orders, sanctions or other outgoings of whatever nature which may be suffered, incurred or paid by, or made
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or asserted against the Bank at any time, whether before or after the repayment in full of principal and interest under this Agreement, relating to, or arising directly or indirectly in any manner or for any cause or reason out of an Environmental Claim made or asserted against the Bank.
10.5 Currencies
If any sum due from the Borrower under any of the Security Documents or any order or judgement given or made in relation hereto has to be converted from the currency (the "first currency") in which the same is payable under the relevant Security Document or under such order or judgement into another currency (the "second currency") for the purpose of (i) making or filing a claim or proof against the Borrower or any other Security Party, as the case may be or (ii) obtaining an order or judgement in any court or other tribunal or (iii) enforcing any order or judgement given or made in relation to any of the Security Documents, the Borrower shall (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrower to) indemnify and hold harmless the Bank from and against any loss suffered as a result of any difference between (a) the rate of exchange used for such purpose to convert the sum in question from the first currency into the second currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange at which the Bank may in the ordinary course of business purchase the first currency with the second currency upon receipt of a sum paid to it in satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any such order, judgement, claim or proof. The term "rate of exchange" includes any premium and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of the first currency with the second currency.
10.6 Maintenance of the Indemnities
The indemnities contained in this Clause 10 shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted to the Borrower or any other party from time to time and shall continue to be in full force and effect notwithstanding any payment in favour of the Bank and any sum due from the Borrower under this Clause 10 will be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgement being obtained for any other sums due under any one or more of this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto.
10.7 Communications Indemnity
It is hereby agreed in connection with communications that:

| (a) | Express authority is hereby given by the Borrower to the Bank to accept (at the sole discretion of the Bank) all tested or untested communications given by facsimile, telex, cable or otherwise, regarding any or all of the notices, requests, instructions or other communications under this Agreement, subject to any restrictions imposed by the Bank relating to such communications including, without limitation (if so required by the Bank), the obligation to confirm such communications by letter.

| (b) | The Borrower shall recognise any and all of the said notices, requests, instructions or other communications as legal, valid and binding, when these notices, requests, instructions or communications come from the telex and fax numbers mentioned in Clause 15.1 or any other telex or fax usually used by it or its managing company.

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| (c) | The Borrower hereby assumes full responsibility for the execution of the said notices, requests, instructions or communications by the Bank and promises and recognises that the Bank shall not be held responsible for any loss, liability or expense that may result from such notices, requests, instructions or other communications. It is hereby undertaken by the Borrower to indemnify in full the Bank from and against all actions, proceedings, damages, costs, claims, demands, expenses and any and all direct and/or indirect losses which the Bank may suffer, incur or sustain by reason of the Bank following such notices, requests, instructions or communications.

| (d) | With regard to notices, requests, instructions or communications issued by electronic and/or mechanical processes (e.g. by facsimile, telex), the risk of equipment malfunction, including, without limitation, paper shortage, transmission errors, omissions and distortions is assumed fully and accepted by the Borrower, save in case of Bank's gross misconduct.

| (e) | The risks of misunderstandings and errors resulting from notices, requests, instructions or communications being given as mentioned above, are for the Borrower and the Bank will be indemnified in full pursuant to this Clause save in case of Bank's gross misconduct.

| (f) | The Bank shall have the right to ask the Borrower to furnish any information the Bank may require to establish the authority of any person purporting to act on behalf of the Borrower for these notices, requests, instructions or communications but it is expressly agreed that there is no obligation for the Bank to do so. The Bank shall be fully protected in, and the Bank shall incur no liability to the Borrower for acting upon the said notices, requests, instructions or communications which were believed by the Bank in good faith to have been given by the Borrower or by any of its authorised representative(s).

| (g) | It is undertaken by the Borrower to safeguard the function and the security of the electronic and mechanical appliance(s) such as telex(es), fax(es) etc., as well as the code word list, if any, and to take adequate precautions to protect such code word list from loss and to prevent its terms becoming known to any persons not directly concerned with its use. The Borrower shall hold the Bank harmless and indemnified from all claims, losses, damages and expenses which the Bank may incur by reason of the failure of the Borrower to comply with the obligations under this Clause.

10.8 Arrangement Fee -Commitment Commission

| (a) | As an inducement for the Bank to enter into this Agreement the Borrower shall pay on the Drawdown Date an arrangement fee in the amount of Dollars one hundred seventy five thousand ($175,000); and

| (b) | The Borrower shall pay to the Bank in arrears on each of the dates falling at three monthly intervals after the date of acceptance of the Commitment Letter until the earlier of (a) the last day of the Availability Period (b) the Drawdown Date and (c) the date of cancellation of the Commitment in full by the Borrower (the "Commitment Commission Period") commitment commission at the rate of 0.35% per annum on the daily undrawn and uncancelled amount of the Commitment, computed from the date of acceptance of the Commitment Letter (in the case of the first payment of commission) and from the date of the preceding payment of commission (in the case of each subsequent payment) until the last day of the Commitment Commission Period.

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The arrangement fee and commitment commission referred to in this Clause 10.8 are not refundable and shall be payable by the Borrower to the Bank whether or not any part of the Commitment is ever advanced.
10.9 Central Bank or European Central Bank reserve requirements indemnity
The Borrower shall on demand promptly indemnify the Bank against any cost incurred or loss suffered by the Bank as a result of its complying with the minimum reserve requirements of the European Central Bank and/or with respect to maintaining required reserves with the relevant national Central Bank to the extent that such compliance relates to the Commitment or deposits obtained by it to fund the whole or part of the Loan and to the extent such cost or loss is not recoverable by the Bank under clause 12.2
11. SECURITY, APPLICATION, AND SET-OFF
11.1 Securities
As security for the due and punctual repayment of the Loan and payment of interest thereon as provided in this Agreement and of all other Outstanding Indebtedness, the Borrower shall ensure and procure that the following Security Documents are duly executed and, where required, registered in favour of the Bank in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank at the time specified herein or otherwise as required by the Bank and ensure that such security consists, on the Drawdown Date in respect of the Loan, of:

| (a) | the Mortgage duly registered over the Vessel through the Registry;

| (b) | the General Assignment;

| (c) | the Corporate Guarantee;

| (d) | the Accounts Pledge Agreement;

| (e) | the Shares Pledge Agreement;

| (f) | the Manager's Undertaking; and

| (g) | any Charterparty Assignment;

11.2 Maintenance of Securities
It is hereby undertaken by the Borrower that the Security Documents shall both at the date of execution and delivery thereof and so long as any moneys are owing and/or due under this Agreement or under the other Security Documents be valid and binding obligations of the respective Security Parties thereto and rights of the Bank enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and that they will, at the expense of the Borrower, execute, sign, perfect and do any and every such further assurance, document, act, omission or thing as in the opinion of the Bank may be necessary or desirable for perfecting the security contemplated or constituted by the Security Documents.
11.3 Application of funds
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All moneys received by the Bank under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents and expressed to be applicable in accordance with this Clause 11.3 shall be applied by the Bank in the following manner:

| (a) | Firstly in or towards payment of Expenses and all sums other than principal or interest which may be due to the Bank under this Agreement and the other Security Documents or any of them at the time of application;

| (b) | Secondly in or towards payment of any default interest;

| (c) | Thirdly in or towards payment of any arrears of interest (other than default interest) due in respect of the Loan or any part thereof;

| (d) | Fourthly in or towards repayment of the Loan whether the same is due and payable or not;

| (e) | Fifthly in or towards payment to the Bank for any loss suffered by reason of any such payment in respect of principal not being effected on an Interest Payment Date relating to the part of the Loan repaid;

| (f) | Sixthly in or towards payment of the Master Agreement Liabilities; and

| (g) | Seventhly the surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Borrower, or to whomsoever else shall be entitled to receive such surplus.

11.4 Set off
Express authority is hereby given by the Borrower to the Bank without prejudice to any of the rights of the Bank at law, contractually or otherwise, at any time after a Default has occurred and without notice to the Borrower:

| (a) | to apply any credit balance standing upon any account of the Borrower with any branch of the Bank and in whatever currency in or towards satisfaction of any sum due to the Bank from the Borrower under this Agreement, the Master Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents;

| (b) | in the name of the Borrower and/or the Bank to do all such acts and execute all such documents as may be necessary or expedient to effect such application; and

| (c) | to combine and/or consolidate all or any accounts in the name of the Borrower with the Bank.

| (d) | For all or any of the above purposes authority is hereby given to the Bank to purchase with the moneys standing to the credit of any such account or accounts such other currencies as may be necessary to effect such application. The Bank shall not be obliged to exercise any right given by this Clause.

| (e) | The rights conferred on the Bank by this Clause 11.4 shall be in addition to, and without prejudice to or limitation of, the rights of netting and set off conferred on the Bank by the Master Agreement. The Borrower acknowledges that the Bank shall be under no obligation to make any payment to the Borrower under or pursuant to the Master Agreement if, at the time that payment becomes due, there shall have occurred an Event of Default or Termination Event (as those terms are respectively defined in the Master Agreement).

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11.5 Earnings Account - Retention Account

| (a) | The Borrower shall procure that all moneys payable in respect of the Earnings of the Vessel shall be paid to the Earnings Account free from Encumbrances. Unless and until an Event of Default shall occur (whereupon the provisions of Clause 11.3 shall be applicable) no monies shall be withdrawn from the Earnings Account save as hereinafter provided:

| (i) | first: in payment of any and all sums whatsoever due and payable to the Bank hereunder (such sums to be paid in such order as the Bank may in its sole discretion elect);

| (ii) | second: during each month of the Security Period (but by no later than, in the case of the first such month, the date falling thirty (30) days after the Drawdown Date and, in the case of each subsequent month, the same date of that month), the Borrower shall cause to be transferred from the Earnings Account to the Retention Account of the aggregate amount of the Earnings of the Vessel received in the Earnings Account during the preceding month:

| aa) | one sixth (1/6th) of the amount of the Repayment Instalment specified in Clause 4.1 falling due for payment on the next following Repayment Date; and

| bb) | the relevant fraction of the amount of interest on the Loan falling due on the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement.

|  | The expression "relevant fraction" in relation to an amount of interest on the Loan falling due for payment means a fraction (which shall be notified by the Bank to the Borrower at the beginning of each Interest Period) where the numerator is always one and where the denominator shall always be three except in the case of an Interest Period of less than three months, in which case the denominator shall be the number of months comprised in such Interest Period; and

| (iii) | thirdly: any balance shall be released to the Borrower.

| (b) | If the aggregate amount of the Earnings of the Vessel received in the Earnings Account is insufficient in any month for the required transfer to be made from the Earnings Account to the Retention Account in accordance with Clause 11.5(a), the Borrower shall make up the amount of such insufficiency on demand from the Bank, but, without prejudice to its right to make such demand, the Bank may elect to make up the whole or any part of such insufficiency by increasing the amount of any transfer to be made in accordance with Clause 11.5(a)(ii) from the aggregate amount of such Earnings received in the next or subsequent months.

| (c) | Until the occurrence of an Event of Default (or an event which, with the giving of notice and/or lapse of time or other applicable condition, might constitute an Event of Default), the Bank shall on each Repayment Date and on each due date for the payment of interest under this Agreement apply in accordance with the provisions of Clause 11.5 (a) the relevant part of the balance then standing to the credit of the Retention Account as shall be required to make payment of the Repayment Instalment specified in Clause 4.1 then due under the terms of this Agreement or payment of interest then due under the terms of this Agreement and such transfer shall constitute a pro tanto satisfaction of the Borrower's obligations to pay such repayment instalment or interest (as the case may be) then due under this Agreement.

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| (d) | Any amounts for the time being standing to the credit of the Retention Account shall bear interest at the rate from time to time offered by the Bank to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and for periods similar to those for which such amounts are likely to remain standing to the credit of the Retention Account. Such interest shall, provided that the foregoing provisions of this Clause 11.5 shall have been complied with and provided that no Event of Default (or event which, with the giving of notice and/or lapse of time or other applicable condition, might constitute an Event of Default) shall have occurred, be released to the Borrower.

| (e) | Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the absolute obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest on and to repay the Loan as provided in Clauses 3 and 4 or shall constitute a manner or postponement thereof.

| (f) | The Borrower hereby irrevocably authorises the Bank to make from the Earnings Account any and all above payments and repayments as and when the same fall due or at any time thereafter.

| (g) | The Borrower will comply with any written requirement of the Bank from time to time as to the location or re-location of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account (or either of them) and will from time to time enter into such documentation as the Bank may require in order to create or maintain in favour of the Bank an Encumbrance in the Earnings Account and the Retention Account, all at cost and expense of the Borrowers.

| (h) | The Borrower hereby covenants with the Bank that the Earnings Account, the Retention Account and any moneys therein shall not be charged, assigned, transferred or pledged nor shall there be granted by the Borrower or suffered to arise any third party rights over or against the whole or any part of the Earnings Account other than in favour of the Bank.

| (i) | The Earnings Account shall be operated in accordance with the Bank's usual terms and conditions (full knowledge of which the Borrower hereby acknowledges) and subject to the Bank's usual charges levied on such accounts and/or transactions conducted on such accounts (as from time to time notified by the Bank to the Borrower).

| (j) | The Borrower hereby warrants that sufficient monies to meet the next Repayment Instalment plus interest thereon will be accumulated each and every month in the Retention Account.

| (k) | After the occurrence of an Event of Default the balance (if any) including any accrued interest standing to the credit of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of Clause 11.3.

| (1) | Upon payment in full of all principal, interest and all other amounts due to the Bank under the terms of this Agreement and the other Security Documents, any balance then standing to the credit of the Retention Account and/or the Earnings Account shall be released and paid to the Borrower or to whomsoever else may be entitled to receive such balance.

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12. UNLAWFULNESS, INCREASED COSTS
12.1 Unlawfulness
If any change in, or introduction of, any law, regulation or regulatory requirement or any request of any central bank, monetary, regulatory or other authority or any order of any court renders it unlawful or contrary to any such regulation, requirement, request or order for the Bank to advance the Commitment or to maintain or fund the Loan, notice shall be given promptly by the Bank to the Borrower whereupon the Commitment shall be reduced to zero and the Borrower shall be obliged to prepay the Loan in accordance with such notice, together with accrued interest thereon to the date of prepayment and all other sums payable by the Borrower under this Agreement.
In any such event the Borrower and the Bank shall (as per the provisions of sub-Clause 3.6) negotiate in good faith (but without incurring any legal obligations) with a view to agreeing the terms for making the Loan available from another jurisdiction or providing the Loan from alternative sources.
12.2 Change of circumstances
If any change in or in the interpretation of any applicable law or regulation, by any government or governmental authority or agency, makes it unlawful for the Bank to maintain or give effect to its obligations or to claim or receive any amount payable to the Bank under this Agreement, then the Bank may serve written notice on the Borrower declaring its obligations under this Agreement terminated in whole or in part, whereupon the same shall terminate forthwith and the Borrower will immediately repay the Loan and accrued interest to the date of prepayment together with all other Outstanding Indebtedness to the Bank pursuant to the terms of the notice.
12.3 Increased Cost
If, as a result of (a) any change in or in the interpretation of any law, regulation or official directive (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force of law, with which the Bank habitually complies) - including (without limitation) those relating to Taxation, capital adequacy, liquidity, reserve assets, cash ratio deposits and special deposits or those resulting from the implementation of any amendment of the "1988 Basle convergence agreement" or any amendatory or substitute agreement thereof- by any governmental authority in any country the laws or regulations of which are applicable on the Bank, or (b) compliance by the Bank with any request from any applicable fiscal or monetary authority (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force of law, with which the Bank habitually complies) or (c) any other set of circumstances affecting the Bank:

| (a) | the cost to the Bank of making the Commitment or any part thereof or maintaining or funding the Loan is increased or an additional cost on the Bank is imposed; and/or

| (b) | subject the Bank to Taxes or the basis of Taxation (other than Taxes or Taxation on the overall net income of the Bank) in respect of any payments to the Bank under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents is changed; and/or

| (c) | the amount payable or the effective return to the Bank under any of the Security Documents is reduced; and/or

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| (d) | the Bank's rate of return on its overall capital by reason of a change in the manner in which it is required to allocate capital resources to the Bank's obligations under any of the Security Document is reduced; and/or

| (e) | require the Bank to make a payment or forgo a return on or calculated by references to any amount received or receivable by it under any of the Security Documents is required; and/or

| (f) | require the Bank to incur or sustain a loss (including a loss of future potential profits) by reason of being obliged to deduct all or part of the Commitment or the Loan from its capital for regulatory purposes,

then and in each case (subject to Clause 12.6) the Borrower shall pay to the Bank, from time to time, upon demand, such additional moneys as shall indemnify the Bank for any increased or additional cost, reduction, payment, foregone return or loss whatsoever
12.4 Claim for increased cost
The Bank will promptly notify the Borrower of any intention to claim indemnification pursuant to Clause 12.3 and such notification will be a conclusive and full evidence binding on the Borrower as to the amount of any increased cost or reduction and the method of calculating the same and the Borrower shall be allowed to rebut such evidence by any means of evidence save for witness. A claim under Clause 12.3 may be made at any time and must be discharged by the Borrowers within fifteen (15) days of demand. It shall not be a defence to a claim by the Bank under this Clause 12.3 that any increased cost or reduction could have been avoided by the Bank. Any amount due from the Borrower under Clause 12.3 shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgement being obtained for any other sums due under or in respect of this Agreement.
12.5 Option to prepay
If any additional amounts are required to be paid by the Borrower to the Bank by virtue of Clause 12.3, the Borrower shall be entitled, on giving the Bank not less than fourteen (14) days prior notice in writing, to prepay the Loan and accrued interest thereon, together with all other Outstanding Indebtedness, on the next Repayment Date. Any such notice, once given, shall be irrevocable.
12.6 Exception
Nothing in Clause 12.3 shall entitle the Bank to receive any amount in respect of compensation for any such liability to Taxes, increased or additional cost, reduction, payment, foregone return or loss to the extent that the same is subject of an additional payment under Clause 5.3.
13. ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, LENDING BRANCH
13.1 Binding Effect
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Bank and the Borrower and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
13.2 No Assignment by the Borrower
The Borrower and any other parties to the Security Documents other than the Bank may not assign or transfer any of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or any documents executed pursuant to this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents.
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13.3 Assignment by the Bank
The Bank may at any time (following consultation with the Borrower and on prior thirty days notice being given to the Borrower and the other Security Parties but without the consent of the Borrower), assign, transfer, or offer participation to any other bank or financial institution, in whole or in part, or in any manner dispose of all or any of its rights and/or obligations arising or accruing under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or any documents executed pursuant to this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents. The expenses of any such assignment by the Bank shall be borne by the Bank.
13.4 Documentation
If the Bank assigns, transfers or in any other manner grants participation in respect of all or any part of its rights or benefits or transfers all or any of its obligations as provided in this Clause 13 the Borrower undertakes, immediately on being requested to do so by the Bank, to enter into and procure that each Security Party enters into such documents as may be necessary or desirable to transfer to the assignee, transferee or participant all or the relevant part of the interest of the Bank in the Security Documents and all relevant references in this Agreement to the Bank shall thereafter be construed as a reference to the Bank and/or assignee, transferee or participant of the Bank to the extent of their respective interests and, in the case of a transfer of all or part of the obligations of the Bank, the Borrower shall thereafter look only to the assignee, transferee or participant in respect of that proportion of the obligations of the Bank under this Agreement assumed by such assignee, transferee or participant. The Borrower hereby expressly consents to any subsequent transfer of the rights and obligations of the Bank and undertakes that it shall join in and execute such supplemental or substitute agreements as may be necessary to enable the Bank to assign and/or transfer and/or grant participation in respect of its rights and obligations to another branch or to one or more banks or financial institutions in a syndicate or otherwise.
13.5 Disclosure of information
The Bank may with the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) and the request for which shall be promptly responded to, disclose (on a confidential basis) to a prospective assignee, substitute or transferee or to any other person who may propose entering into contractual relations with the Bank in relation to this Agreement such information about the Borrower and the other Security Parties as the Bank shall consider appropriate.
13.6 Change of Lending Branch
The Bank shall be at liberty to transfer the Loan to any branch or branches, and upon notification of any such transfer, the word "Bank" in this Agreement and in the other Security Documents shall mean the Bank, acting through such branch or branches and the terms and provisions of this Agreement and of the other Security Documents shall be construed accordingly.
14. MISCELLANEOUS
14.1 Cumulative Remedies
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The rights and remedies of the Bank contained in this Agreement and the other Security Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of each other nor of any other rights or remedies conferred by law.
14.2 Waivers
No failure, delay or omission by the Bank to exercise any right, remedy or power vested in the Bank under this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents or by law shall impair such right or power, or be construed as a waiver of, or as an acquiescence in any default by the Borrower, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Bank of any power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other power, right or remedy. In the event of the Bank on any occasion agreeing to waive any such right, remedy or power, or consenting to any departure from the strict application of the provisions of this Agreement or of any other Security Document, such waiver shall not in any way prejudice or affect the powers conferred upon the Bank under this Agreement and the other Security Documents or the right of the Bank thereafter to act strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Security Documents. No modification or waiver by the Bank of any provision of this Agreement or of any of the other Security Documents nor any consent by the Bank to any departure therefrom by any Security Party shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and then shall only be effective in the specific case and for the specific purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on any such party in any such case shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
14.3 Integration of Terms
This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties and its provisions supersede the provisions of the Commitment Letter (save for the provisions thereof which relate to fees) any and all other prior correspondence and oral negotiation by the parties in respect of the matters regulated by this Agreement.
14.4 Amendments
This Agreement and any other Security Documents shall not be amended or varied in their respective terms by any oral agreement or representation or in any other manner other than by an instrument in writing of even date herewith or subsequent hereto executed by or on behalf of the parties hereto or thereto.
14.5 Invalidity of Terms
In the event of any provision contained in one or more of this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto being invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law in any jurisdiction whatsoever, such provision shall be ineffective as to that jurisdiction only without affecting the remaining provisions hereof or thereof. If, however, this event becomes known to the Bank prior to the drawdown of the Commitment or of any part thereof the Bank shall be entitled to refuse drawdown until this discrepancy is remedied. In case that the invalidity of a part results in the invalidity of the whole Agreement, it is hereby agreed that there will exist a separate obligation of the Borrower for the prompt payment to the Bank of all the Outstanding Indebtedness. Where, however, the provisions of any such applicable law may be waived, they are hereby waived by the parties hereto to the full extent permitted by the law to the intent that this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto shall be deemed to be valid binding and enforceable in accordance with their respective terms.
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14.6 Inconsistency of Terms
In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any other Security Document the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
14.7 Language and genuineness of documents

| (a) | Language

All certificates, instruments and other documents to be delivered under or supplied in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents shall be in the Greek or the English language or shall be accompanied by a certified Greek translation upon which the Bank shall be entitled to rely.

| (b) | Certification of documents

Any copies of documents delivered to the Bank shall be duly certified as true, complete and accurate copies by appropriate authorities or legal counsel practising in Greece or otherwise as will be acceptable to the Bank at the sole discretion of the Bank.

| (c) | Certification of signature

Signatures on Board or shareholder resolutions, Secretary's certificates and any other documents are, at the discretion of the Bank, to be verified for their genuineness by appropriate Consul or other competent authority.
14.8 Further assurances
The Borrower undertakes that the Security Documents shall both at the date of execution and delivery thereof and so long as any moneys are owing under any of the Security Documents be valid and binding obligations of the respective parties thereto and enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and that it will, at its expense, execute, sign, perfect and do, and will procure the execution, signing, perfecting and doing by each of the other Security Parties of, any and every such further assurance, document, act or thing as in the reasonable opinion of the Bank may be necessary or desirable for perfecting the security contemplated or constituted by the Security Documents.
14.9 Conflicts
In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any of the other Security Documents, and the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
15. NOTICES AND OTHER MATTERS
15.1 Notices
Every notice, request, demand or other communication under the Agreement or, unless otherwise provided therein, under any of the other Security Documents shall:

| (a) | be in writing delivered personally or be first-class prepaid letter (airmail if available), or shall be served through a process server or subject to Clause 10.7 by fax;

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| (b) | be deemed to have been received, subject as otherwise provided in this Agreement or the relevant Security Document, in the case of fax, at the time of dispatch as per transmission report (provided that if the date of despatch is not a business day in the country of the addressee it shall be deemed to have been received at the opening of business on the next such business day), and in the case of a letter when delivered or served personally or five (5) days after it has been put into the post; and

| (c) | be sent:

(i) if to be sent to the Borrower and any other Security Party, to:
c/o the Corporate Guarantor,
1, Vassilisis Sofias & Megalou Alexandrou street,
151 24 Marousi, Greece,
Fax No.:+30 210 614 1273
Attention: the Chief Financial Officer
(ii) in the case of the Bank at:
EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A.
Shipping Division,
114 Kolokotroni Street,
GR 185 35 Piraeus, Greece,
Fax No.: +30 210 4226779
Attention : The Manager
or to such other person, address or fax number as is notified by the relevant Security Party or the Bank (as the case may be) to the other parties to this Agreement and, in the case of any such change of address or fax number notified to the Bank, the same shall not become effective until notice of such change is actually received by the Bank and a copy of the notice of such change is signed by the Bank.
15.2 Confidentiality

| (a) | Each of the parties hereto agrees and undertakes to keep confidential any documentation and any confidential information concerning the business, affairs, directors or employees of the other which comes into its possession in connection with this Agreement and not to use any such documentation, information for any purpose other than for which it was provided.

| (b) | The Borrower acknowledges and accepts that the Bank may be required by law, regulation or regulatory requirement or any request of any central bank or any court order to disclose information and deliver documentation relating to the Borrower and the transactions and matters in relation to this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents to governmental or regulatory agencies and authorities.

| (c) | The Borrower acknowledges and accepts that in case of occurrence of any of the Events of Default the Bank may disclose information and deliver documentation relating to the Borrower and the transactions and matters in relation to this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents to third parties to the extent that this is necessary for the enforcement or the contemplation of enforcement of the Bank's rights or for any other purpose for which in the opinion of the Bank, such disclosure would be useful or appropriate for the interests of the Bank or otherwise and the Borrower expressly authorises any such disclosure and delivery.

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| (d) | The Borrower acknowledges and accepts that the Bank may be prohibited from disclosing information to the Borrower by reason of law or duties of confidentiality owed or to be owed to other persons.

| (e) | The Borrower shall be entitled to disclose information and deliver documentation relating to this Loan Agreement and the Security Documents to third parties including the Borrower's consultants and lawyers to the extent that it is necessary for the enforcement of the Borrower's rights or protection of Borrower's interests under the Loan Agreement.

15.13 Process of personal data
The Borrower hereby expressly gives its consent to the communication for process in the meaning of law 2472/97 by the Bank of its personal data contained in this Agreement, the Security Documents, in the Earnings Account and the Retention Account for onwards communication thereof to an inter-banking database record called "Teiresias" kept and solely used by banks and financial institutions. Each of the Borrowers is entitled at any relevant time throughout the Security Period to revoke its consent given hereunder by written notice addressed to the Bank and the Registrar of "Teiresias A.E." at 2, Alamanas street, 15125 Maroussi, Athens, Greece.
16. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
16.1 Law
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Hellenic Law and in particular with the provisions of (i) Act of the Monetary Committee under Serial No. 187/1978 (as amended), (ii) the provisions of L.D. dated 17.7/13.8.1923 on "Special Provisions on Societes Anonymes" and (iii) the special terms set out in the resolutions of the Bank of Greece or any other competent Authority. Moreover, the Borrower hereby acknowledges and declares that it is fully familiar with the General Transaction Terms of the Bank and it is hereby agreed that the said General Transaction Terms shall be deemed an integral part of this Agreement.
16.2 Submission to Jurisdiction

| (a) | For the exclusive benefit of the Bank, the Borrower hereby (i) irrevocably submits to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Piraeus in Greece and (ii) agrees that any summons, writ, judicial or extra-judicial notice, protest, payment order, order for payment, order for enforcement, announcement of claim or other legal process issued against it in Greece shall be served upon the Process Agent, who is hereby authorised to accept such service, which shall be deemed to be good service on the Borrower.

| (b) | The submission to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Piraeus shall not (and shall not be construed so as to) limit the right of the Bank to take proceedings against the Borrower in the courts of any other jurisdiction nor shall the taking of proceedings in any one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.

| (c) | The parties further agree that subject to sub-Clause 16.2(b) the Courts of Piraeus shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any claim which the Borrower may have against the Bank arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and the Borrower hereby waives any objections to proceedings with respect to this Agreement in such courts on the grounds of venue or inconvenient forum.

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16.3 Process Agent
Mr. George Economou an attorney-at-law whose present address is at 11 Kanari Street, Athens, Greece, is hereby appointed by the Borrower as agent to accept service (hereinafter "Process Agent") upon whom any judicial process in respect of proceedings in Greece may be served and any process notice, judicial or extra-judicial request, demand for payment, payment order, foreclosure proceedings, notarial announcement of claim, notice, request, demand or other communication under this Agreement or any of the Security Documents. In the event that the Process Agent (or any substitute process agent notified to the Bank in accordance with the foregoing) cannot be found at the address specified above (or, as the case may be, notified to the Bank), which will be conclusively proved by a deed of a process server to the effect that the Process Agent was not found at such address, any process notice, judicial or extra-judicial request, demand for payment, payment order, foreclosure proceedings, notarial announcement of claim or other communication to be sent to any Security Party may be validly notified in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Hellenic Code on Civil Procedure.

16.4 | In this Clause 16 "proceedings" means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure.

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SCHEDULE 1
FORM OF DRAWDOWN NOTICE
(referred to in Clause 2.2)
To: EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A.
144 Kolokotroni street.
GR 185.35 Piraeus
Greece
(the "Bank")
[ • ] March, 2008
Re: US$ 50,000,000 - Loan Agreement No. /2008 dated March, 2008 made between (A) JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED (the "Borrower") and (B) the Bank (the "Loan Agreement")
We refer to the Loan Agreement and hereby give you notice that we wish to draw the Commitment in the amount of US$50,000,000 (Dollars fifty million) on [•] March 2008. We select a first Interest Period in respect of the Loan of [ • ] months. The funds should be credited to ([ • ] [ • ] [name and number of account] [• ]) with [ • ]
We confirm that:

(a) | no event or circumstance has occurred and is continuing which constitutes a Default;

(b) | the representations and warranties contained in Clause 6 of the Loan Agreement and the representations and warranties contained in each of the other Security Documents are true and correct at the date hereof as if made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such date;

(c) | the borrowing to be effected by the drawing down of the Commitment will be within our corporate powers, has been validly authorised by appropriate corporate action and will not cause any limit on our borrowings (whether imposed by statute, regulation, agreement or otherwise) to be exceeded; and

(d) | to the best of our knowledge and belief there has been no material adverse change in our financial position or in the consolidated financial position of ourselves and the other Security Parties from that described by us to the Bank in the negotiation of the Loan Agreement.

Words and expressions defined in the Loan Agreement shall have the same meanings when used herein.

SIGNED by | )
Mr. | )
for and on behalf of | )
JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED | )
of Liberia | )
in the presence of: | )

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SCHEDULE 2
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
This Schedule is an integral part of the Agreement to which it is attached.
1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 | Words and expressions used in this Schedule shall have the meanings given thereto in the agreement to which this Schedule is attached and the following expressions shall have the meanings listed below:

"Approved Brokers" means such firm of insurance brokers, appointed by the Owner, as may from time to time be approved by the Bank in writing for the purposes of this Schedule;
"Excess risks" means the proportion (if any) of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges and under the ordinary collision clause not recoverable in consequence of the value at which a vessel is assessed for the purpose of such claims exceeding its insured value;
"Insurance Requirements" means all the terms and conditions in this Schedule or any other provision concerning Insurances in any other Clause of the agreement to which this Schedule is attached and all such terms and conditions are an integral part of the agreement to which they are attached;
"Insurances" in respect of a vessel means all policies and contracts of insurance (including, without limitation, all entries of such vessel in a protection and indemnity, war risks or other mutual insurance association) which are from time to time in place or taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner owning such vessel (whether in the sole name of its Owner or in the joint names of its Owner and the Bank) in respect of such vessel and its earnings or otherwise howsoever in connection with such vessel and all benefits of such policies and/or contracts (including all claims of whatsoever nature and return of premiums);
"Loss Payable Clauses" means the provisions regulating the manner of payment of sums receivable under the Insurances which are to be incorporated in the relevant insurance document, such Loss Payable Clauses to be in the forms set out in paragraph 4 of this Schedule, or such other form as the Bank may from time to time agree in writing;
"Owner" means the owner of a vessel which should be insured and be maintained insured pursuant to these Insurance Requirements in accordance with any agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached;
"Protection and Indemnity Risks" means the usual risks covered by an English protection and indemnity association including the proportion (if any) not recoverable in the case of collision under the ordinary collision clause; and
"War risks" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded from the standard form of English marine policy by the free of capture and seizure clause.
2. INSURANCES TO BE EFFECTED AND MAINTAINED

2.1 | The insurance which must be effected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of the agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached should be in the name of the Owner and as follows:

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| (a) | Hull and Machinery
|  | insurance against fire and usual marine risks on an agreed value basis, on a full cover/all risks basis according to English or American Hull Clauses with a reasonable deductible and upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank; and

| (b) | War Risks Insurance
|  | insurance against War risks according to the London Institute War Clauses, on an agreed value basis attaching also the so called war protection clauses. In this case crew war liabilities insurance shall also have to be effected separately; and

| (c) | Increased Value
|  | increased Value insurance (Total Loss only, including Excess Liabilities) as per the applicable English or American Institute Clauses (Disbursement/Increased Value/ Excess Liabilities) up to an amount not exceeding the Insurance Amount specified in Clause 3.3 below; and

| (d) | Protection and Indemnity
|  | insurance against protection and indemnity risks for the full value and tonnage of the vessel insured (as approved in writing by the Bank) according to the relevant rules and deductibles provided thereof for all risks including Pollution (and if the vessel is passenger ship including liability towards third parties which is not covered by the War Risk Insurance) insured by P+I Clubs, members of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations. If any risks are excluded or the deductibles as provided by the rules have been altered, the written consent of the Bank shall have to be previously required. In case that crew liabilities (including without limitation loss of life, injury or illness) have been entirely excluded from the association cover or insured on a deductible excess basis, (always subject to the prior written consent of the Bank) such liabilities shall have to be further insured separately with other underwriters acceptable to the Bank and upon such terms as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank; and

| (e) | FD & D Insurance
|  | (If so required by the Bank, at its absolute discretion, at any time throughout the Security Period) Freight, Demurrage and Defence insurance as per the terms and conditions of a mutual club or association acceptable to the Bank; and

| (f) | Pollution Liability Insurance
|  | an extra insurance in respect of excess Oil Pollution Liability (including -if the vessel insured is a tanker- the Civil Liability Convention certificate) including full cover of pollution risks for the amount up to the maximum commercially available limit and upon such terms as shall be commercially available and accepted by the Bank; and

| (g) | USA Pollution Risk Insurance
|  | (in case that the vessel is scheduled to operate within or nearby USA jurisdiction) to cover and keep such vessel covered with an extra insurance in respect of oil pollution liability for an amount and upon such terms as required by international and national law regulations and shall from time to time be required by the Bank; and

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| (h) | Mortgagee's Interest Insurance
|  | Mortgagee's Interest Insurance which shall be effected by the Bank in its name but at the expense of the Borrower and in an amount equal to 115% of the amount of the Loan including Mortgagee's asset protection (pollution) cover or other similar insurance in respect of any pollution claims against the Vessel under the so called "German wording" for 360 days or upon such terms as shall from time to time be determined by the Bank; and

| (i) | Other Insurance
|  | insurance in respect of such other matters of whatsoever nature and howsoever arising in respect of which the Bank would at any time require at its discretion the vessel to be insured.

3. | TERMS AND OBLIGATIONS FOR EFFECTING AND MAINTAINING INSURANCES

3.1 | The Insurances to be effected in such currency as the Bank may approve and through the Approved Brokers (other than the mortgagee's interest insurance which shall be effected through brokers nominated by the Bank) and with such insurance companies and/or underwriters as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank, provided however that the insurances against war risks, protection and indemnity, FD & D cover or other mutual insurance risks may be effected by the entry of the vessel with such war, protection and indemnity or other mutual insurance associations as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank.

3.2 | The Insurances to be effected and maintained free of cost and expense to the Bank and in the sole name of the Owner or, if so required by the Bank, in the joint names of the Owner and the Bank (but without liability on the part of the Bank for premiums or calls). All insurances to be in form and substance and under terms satisfactory to the Bank and with insurers acceptable to the Bank.

3.3 | Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Bank:

| (a) | The amount in respect of which the Insurances should be effected shall be an amount (Insurance Amount) which will be (aa) in respect of Hull and Machinery Insurance the greater of the market value of the vessel insured for the time being and 130% of an amount (the "Amount of Debt") equal to (i) the Loan if the agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached is a Loan Agreement or (ii) the Maximum Limit of the Facility if the agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached is an Overdraft Facility or a Facility for Issue of Guarantees or Letters of Credit; and (bb) in respect of Mortgagee's Interest Insurance 110% of the Amount of Debt.

| (b) | In case that the Amount of Debt is secured by more than one vessel the above percentages should be covered by the aggregate of the Insurances in respect of all such vessels.

| (c) | In case that the vessel insured secures by its Insurances Amounts of Debt under more than one agreement then the above percentages apply to the aggregate of all the Amounts of Debt under all the agreements.

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3.4 | Any person which is obliged under the agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached to effect and maintain the Insurances, it will be obliged and it hereby undertakes, jointly and severally with any other person having the same obligation to (and will ensure that the Owner, if it is a different person shall):

| (a) | procure and ensure that the Approved Brokers and/or the Club Managers, as the case may be, shall send to the Bank a letter of undertaking in respect of the Insurances in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank and Notice of Cancellation as per Clause 4(d) below. The Approved Brokers' Letter of Undertaking shall be compatible with the form recommended by Lloyd's Insurance Brokers Committee, or any subsequent LIBC form. Such brokers to further undertake to give immediate notice of any insurance being subject to the Condition Survey Warranty (J.H.II5) and/or Structural Conditions Warranty (J.H.722) and/or the Classification Clause (Hulls) 29/6/89, 30 days prior to the attachment date of any insurance bearing any of these warranties.

| (b) | (if any of the Insurances form part of a fleet cover), procure that the Approved Brokers shall undertake to the Bank that they shall neither set off against any claims in respect of the vessel insured any premiums due in respect of other vessels under such fleet cover or any premiums due for other insurances, nor cancel the insurance for reasons of non-payment of premiums for other vessels under such fleet cover or of premiums for such other insurances, and shall undertake to issue a separate policy in respect of the vessel insured if and when so requested by the Bank;

| (c) | punctually pay all premiums, calls, contributions or other sums payable in respect of all Insurances and produce all relevant receipts or other evidence of payment when so required by the Bank;

| (d) | at least fourteen (14) days before the Insurances expire, notify the Bank of the names of the brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations proposed to be employed by the Owner for the purposes of the renewal of such Insurances and of the amounts in which such Insurances are proposed to be renewed and the risks to be covered and, subject to compliance with any requirements of the Bank under the Insurance Requirements, procure that appropriate instructions for the renewal of such Insurances on the terms so specified are given to the Approved Brokers and/or to the approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations at least ten (10) days before the relevant Insurances expire, and that the Approved Brokers and/or the approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations will at least seven (7) days before such expiry (or within such shorter period as the Bank may from time to time agree) confirm in writing to the Bank as and when such renewals have been effected in accordance with the instructions so given;

| (e) | arrange for the execution and delivery of such guarantees or indemnities as may from time to time be required by any protection and indemnity or war risks association;

| (f) | deposit with the Approved Brokers (or procure the deposit of) all slips, cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other instruments of insurance from time to time issued and procure that the interest of the Bank shall be endorsed thereon by incorporation of the relevant Loss Payable Clause and by means of a notice of assignment (signed by the Owner) in the form set out in Paragraph 4 of this Schedule or in such other form as may from time to time be agreed in writing by the Bank, and that the Bank shall be furnished with pro forma copies thereof and a letter or letters of undertaking from the Approved Brokers in such form as shall from time to time be required by the Bank;

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| (g) | procure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations and/or Hull and Machinery and/or any other insurance company or underwriters in which the vessel insured is for the time being entered and/or insured shall endorse the relevant Loss Payable Clause on the relevant certificate of entry or policy and shall furnish the Bank with a copy of such certificate of entry or policy and a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as shall from time to time be required by the Bank;

| (h) | (if so requested by the Bank, but at the cost of the Owner) furnish the Bank from time to time with a detailed report signed by an independent firm of marine insurance brokers appointed by the Bank dealing with the Insurances maintained on the vessel insured and stating the opinion of such firm as to the adequacy thereof;

| (i) | do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Bank to collect or recover any moneys which shall at any time become due in respect of the Insurances;

| (j) | ensure that the vessel insured shall not be employed otherwise than in conformity with the terms of the Insurances (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;

| (k) | apply all sums receivable under the Insurances which are paid to the Owner in accordance with the Loss Payable Clauses in repairing all damage and/or in discharging the liability in respect of which such sums shall have been received; and

(1) | (in case that the vessel is scheduled to operate or operates within or nearby USA jurisdiction) make all the Protection & Indemnity Club US Voyage Quarterly Declarations for each quarter in time and send copies of same to the Bank.

(m) | Fleet Cover is permitted only subject to the prior written approval of the Bank, to the conditions set out in 3.4(b) above and the Bank's prior express written approval of fleet aggregate deductibles.

4. | LOSS PAYABLE CLAUSES AND CANCELLATION CLAUSE

The Loss Payable Clauses to be attached to the relevant Insurances should be substantially in the following form:
(A) Hull and Machinery (Marine and War Risks)
It is noted that by a Deed of General Assignment and a first priority statutory ____________ ship Mortgage and a Deed of covenant supplemental thereto, both dated ___________________, 2008 granted by ____________ of ____________ (the "Owner") in favour of EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A., acting through its office at 114 Kolokotroni Street, Piraeus, Greece (the "Mortgagee") all the Owner's rights, title and interest in and to all policies and contracts of insurance from time to time taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner including all claims of whatsoever nature and return or premia in respect of the ____________ flag m/v, "____________" and accordingly:
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| (a) | all claims hereunder in respect of an actual or constructive or compromised or arranged total loss, and all claims in respect of a major casualty (that is to say any casualty the claim in respect of which exceeds the Major Casualty Amount inclusive of any deductible shall be paid in full to the Mortgagee or to its order; and

| (b) | all other claims hereunder shall be paid in full to the Owner or to its order, unless and until the Mortgagee shall have notified the insurers hereunder to the contrary, whereupon all such claims shall be paid to the Mortgagee or to its order.

(B) Protection and Indemnity Risks
Payment of any recovery which ____________, of ____________ (the "Owner") is entitled to make out of the funds of the Association in respect of any liability, costs or expenses incurred by the Owner, shall be made to the Owner or to its order, unless and until the Association receives notice to the contrary from EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A., acting through its office at 114 Kolokotroni Street, Piraeus, Greece (the "Mortgagee") in which event all recoveries shall thereafter be paid to the Mortgagee or to its order; provided that no liability whatsoever shall attach to the Association, its managers or its agents for failure to comply with the latter obligation until the expiry of two clear business days from the receipt of such notice.

4.2 | Notice of Cancellation

The Owner to procure that Notice of Cancellation of Insurances be given to the Mortgagee along the following terms:
Notice of Cancellation of Insurances will be given to EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A., acting through its office at 114 Kolokotroni Street, Piraeus, Greece (the "Mortgagee") in any of the following cases:

| (a) | immediately of any material changes which are proposed to be made in the terms of the Insurances or if the insurers cease to be insurers for any purposes connected with the Insurances;

| (b) | not later than fourteen (14) days prior to the expiry of any of the Insurances if instructions have not been received for the renewal thereof and, in the event of instructions being received to renew, of the details thereof;

| (c) | immediately of any instructions or notices received by insurers with regard to the cancellation or invalidity of any of the Insurances aforesaid; and

| (d) | immediately if the insurers give notice of their intention to cancel the Insurances, provided that the insurers will not exercise any rights of cancellation by reason of unpaid premiums without giving the Bank fourteen (14) days, from the receipt of such notice in which to remit the sums due.

4.3 | Notice of Assignment

The Notice of Assignment shall be in the following form:
Form of Notice of Assignment — First Mortgage
(for attachment by way of endorsement to the Policy)
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____________, of ____________ (the "Owner") the owner of the m/v "____________" registered under ____________ flag, the ("Vessel") HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that by a Deed of General Assignment made the ___ day of ____________, 2008 and entered into by us with EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A., acting through its office at 114 Kolokotroni Street, Piraeus, Greece (the "Mortgagee") there has been assigned by us to the Mortgagee, as first Mortgagee and first assignee of the Vessel all rights, title and interest in and to all policies and contracts of insurance from time to time taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner, all insurances in respect thereof, including the insurances constituted by the Policy whereon this notice is endorsed and the Owner has authorised the Mortgage to have access and/or obtain any copies of the Policy(ies), certificate(s) of entry and/or other information from the insurers.
Dated ____________, 2008
For and on behalf of
The Owner
By: __________________
Attorney-in-fact
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SCHEDULE 3
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(referred to in Clause 8.2(d))
To: EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A.
From: TOP SHIPS INC. (the "Corporate Guarantor") and
(the "Borrower")
Dated: [•]
Re: US$50,000,000 - Loan Agreement dated [•] March, 2008 (the "Loan Agreement")
Terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall have the same meaning when used herein.
We [•] and [•], each being a director of the Corporate Guarantor, refer to Clause 8.2(iv) of the Loan Agreement and hereby certify that, as at [insert date of accounts] and on the date hereof;
1. Financial Covenants:

| (a) | the Corporate Guarantor's Corporate Leverage ratio in relation to financial period 31.01. [•] to 31.12. [•], during such period is [•];

| (b) | the Guarantor's minimum Corporate Liquidity is, in relation to the said financial period, in excess of USD [•] (say United States Dollars [•])

2. Default
[No Default has occurred and is continuing]
or
[The following Default has occurred and in continuing: [provide details of Default]. [The following steps are being taken to remedy it: [provide details of steps being taken to remedy Default]].
Signed: ________________________ Signed: ________________________
Director Director
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SIGNATURE PAGE
IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed on the date first above written.

SIGNED by | ) |
Mrs. Eirini Alexandropoulou | ) |
for and on behalf of | ) |
JAPAN I SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED | ) | /s/ Eirini Alexandropoulou
of Liberia, in the presence of: | ) | Attorney-in-Fact
/s/ Angela Arcadis |  |  |
Witness: |  |  |
Name: Angela Arcadis |  |  |
Address: 13, Defteras Merarchias Street |  |  |
Pireas, Greece |  |  |
Occupation: Attorney-at-law |  |  |

SIGNED by | ) |
Mr. Serafeim Kriempardis and | ) | /s/ Serafeim Kriempardis
Mrs. Christina Margelou | ) | Attorney-in-fact
for and on behalf of | ) |
EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A. | ) | /s/ Christina Margelou
in the presence of: | ) | Attorney-in-Fact
/s/ Angela Arcadis |  |  |
Witness: |  |  |
Name: Angela Arcadis |  |  |
Address: 13, Defteras Merarchias Street |  |  |
Pireas, Greece |  |
Occupation: Attorney-at-law |  |  |

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