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REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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OR
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended
December
31, 2018
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OR
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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For the transition period from _____________ to _______________________________
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OR
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SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of event requiring this shell company report
Commission file number
001-38502
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EURODRY LTD.
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(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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(Translation of Registrant's name into English)
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Marshall Islands
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(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
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4 Messogiou & Evropis Street, 151 24 Maroussi Greece
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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Tasos Aslidis, Tel: (908) 301-9091,
info@eurodry.gr
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EuroDry Ltd. c/o Tasos Aslidis,
11 Canterbury Lane, Watchung, NJ 07069
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(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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1
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PART I
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2
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Item 1.
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Identity of Directors, Senior Management and Advisers
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2
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Item 2.
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Offer Statistics and Expected Timetable
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2
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Item 3.
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Key Information
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2
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Item 4.
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Information on the Company
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37
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Item 4A.
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Unresolved Staff Comments
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54
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Item 5.
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Operating and Financial Review and Prospects
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54
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Item 6.
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Directors, Senior Management and Employees
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65
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Item 7.
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Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions
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70
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Item 8.
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Financial Information
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73
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Item 9.
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The Offer and Listing
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74
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Item 10.
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Additional Information
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74
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Item 11.
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Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
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86
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Item 12.
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Description of Securities Other than Equity Securities
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87
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PART II
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87
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Item 13.
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Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies
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87
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Item 14.
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Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds
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87
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Item 15.
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Controls and Procedures
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88
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Item 16A.
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Audit Committee Financial Expert
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89
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Item 16B.
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Code of Ethics
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89
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Item 16C.
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Principal Accountant Fees and Services
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89
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Item 16D.
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Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees
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89
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Item 16E.
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Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
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89
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Item 16F.
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Change in Registrant's Certifying Accountant
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89
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Item 16G.
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Corporate Governance
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89
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Item 16H.
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Mine Safety Disclosure
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90
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PART III
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90
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Item 17.
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Financial Statements
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90
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Item 18.
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Financial Statements
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90
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Item 19.
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Exhibits
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90
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our future operating or financial results;
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future, pending or recent acquisitions, joint ventures, business strategy, areas of possible expansion, and expected capital spending or operating expenses;
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drybulk industry trends, including charter rates and factors affecting vessel supply and demand;
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our financial condition and liquidity, including our ability to obtain additional financing in the future to fund capital expenditures, acquisitions and other
general corporate activities;
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availability of crew, number of off-hire days, drydocking requirements and insurance costs;
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our expectations about the availability of vessels to purchase or the useful lives of our vessels;
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our expectations relating to dividend payments and our ability to make such payments;
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our ability to leverage to our advantage our manager's relationships and reputations in the drybulk shipping industry;
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changes in seaborne and other transportation patterns;
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changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities;
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potential liability from future litigation;
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global and regional political conditions;
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acts of terrorism and other hostilities, including piracy; and
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other factors discussed in the section titled "Risk Factors."
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A. |
Selected Financial Data
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EuroDry Ltd. – Summary of Selected Historical Financials
(in U.S. Dollars except for the Fleet Data and number of shares)
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Statement of Operations Data
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Time charter revenue
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8,331,821
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16,985,607
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25,934,204
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Voyage charter revenue
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-
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3,294,608
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-
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Commissions
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(452,868
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)
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(1,122,196
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(1,411,333
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)
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Net revenue
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7,878,953
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19,158,019
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24,522,871
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Voyage expenses
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(82,627
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)
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(2,396,318
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)
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(410,676
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)
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Vessel operating expenses
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(4,308,418
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)
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(6,892,388
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)
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(9,183,152
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)
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Dry-docking expenses
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-
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(127,509
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)
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(1,465,079
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)
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Vessel depreciation
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(3,828,634
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)
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(4,786,272
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)
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(5,422,155
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)
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Related party management fees
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(780,135
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(1,409,716
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)
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(1,701,340
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)
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Loss on termination and impairment of shipbuilding contracts
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(7,050,179
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)
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-
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-
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Other general and administrative expenses
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(798,828
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)
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(917,160
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)
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(2,346,502
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)
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Operating (loss) / income
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(8,969,868
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)
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2,628,656
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3,993,967
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Interest and other financing costs
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(1,161,169
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)
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(1,817,574
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)
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(2,913,141
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)
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Gain on derivatives, net
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-
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49,167
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13,786
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Other (expenses) / income
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(10,316
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)
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(10,548
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)
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25,123
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Net (loss) / income
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(10,141,353
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)
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849,701
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1,119,735
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Dividends to Series B preferred shares
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-
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-
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(565,229
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)
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Net (loss) / income attributable to common shareholders
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(10,141,353
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)
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849,701
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554,506
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(Loss) / earnings per share attributable to common shareholders, basic and diluted
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(6.21
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)
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0.38
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0.25
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Preferred stock dividends declared
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-
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-
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565,229
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Preferred dividends declared per preferred share
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-
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-
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28.83
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Weighted average number of shares outstanding during period, basic and diluted
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1,633,141
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2,213,505
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2,232,821
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EuroDry Ltd. – Summary of Selected Historical Financials (continued)
As of December 31,
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Balance Sheet Data
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Current assets
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2,819,911
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7,620,376
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14,465,269
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Vessels, net
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64,439,364
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81,979,636
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110,637,462
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Deferred assets and other long term assets
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19,430,520
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7,852,664
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2,605,030
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Total assets
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86,689,795
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97,452,676
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127,707,761
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Current liabilities including current portion of long term debt
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2,124,590
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9,641,000
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8,983,748
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Long term debt, including current portion
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29,513,283
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38,331,302
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63,358,755
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Total liabilities
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55,592,898
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64,590,553
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65,411,848
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Preferred shares
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-
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-
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18,757,358
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Former Parent Company investment
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41,603,370
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42,518,895
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-
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Common shares outstanding
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-
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-
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2,279,920
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Share capital
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-
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-
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22,799
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Total shareholders' equity
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31,096,897
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32,862,123
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43,538,555
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Cash Flow Data
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Year Ended December 31,
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Net cash provided by operating activities
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4,255,829
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2,910,287
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3,970,170
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Net cash used in investing activities
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(24,243,012
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)
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(9,635,504
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)
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(29,045,685
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)
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Net cash provided by financing activities
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20,472,737
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9,283,359
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27,928,885
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Fleet Data
(1)
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Number of vessels
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2.85
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4.94
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5.74
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Calendar days
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1,043
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1,802
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2,096
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Available days
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1,043
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1,802
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2,052
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Voyage days
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1,043
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1,781
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2,045
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Utilization Rate (percent)
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100.0
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%
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98.8
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%
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99.7
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%
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(In U.S. dollars per day per vessel)
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Average TCE rate
(2)
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7,909
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10,042
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12,481
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Vessel Operating Expenses
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4,131
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3,825
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4,381
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Management Fees
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748
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782
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812
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G&A Expenses
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766
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509
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1,120
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Total Operating Expenses excluding drydocking expenses
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5,645
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5,116
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6,313
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Drydocking expenses
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-
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71
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699
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B. |
Capitalization and Indebtedness
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C. |
Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds
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D. |
Risk Factors
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·
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supply of, and demand for, drybulk commodities;
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·
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changes in the exploration or production of energy resources and commodities, and the resulting changes in the international pattern of
trade;
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global and regional economic and political conditions, including armed conflicts and terrorist activities;
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embargoes and strikes;
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the location of regional and global exploration, production and manufacturing facilities;
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availability of credit to finance international trade;
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the location of consuming regions for energy resources and commodities;
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the distance drybulk commodities are to be moved by sea;
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environmental and other regulatory developments;
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currency exchange rates;
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changes in global production and manufacturing distribution patterns of finished goods that utilize drybulk commodities;
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changes in seaborne and other transportation patterns; and
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weather and other natural phenomena.
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the number of newbuilding deliveries;
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the scrapping rate of older vessels;
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the price of steel and other materials;
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port and canal congestion;
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changes in environmental and other regulations that may limit the useful life of vessels;
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vessel casualties;
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the number of vessels that are out of service; and
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changes in global commodity production.
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general economic and market conditions affecting the shipping industry in general;
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supply of drybulk vessels, including newbuildings;
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demand for drybulk vessels;
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types and sizes of vessels;
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scrap values;
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other modes of transportation;
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cost of newbuildings;
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technological advances;
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new regulatory requirements from governments or self-regulated organizations;
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competition from other shipping companies; and
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prevailing level of charter rates.
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incur additional indebtedness;
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create liens on our assets;
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sell capital stock of our subsidiaries;
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make investments;
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engage in mergers or acquisitions;
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pay dividends;
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make capital expenditures;
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change the management of our vessels or terminate or materially amend the management agreement relating to each vessel; and
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sell our vessels.
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work stoppages or other hostilities, political or economic disturbances that disrupt the operations of the shipyard;
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quality or engineering problems;
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bankruptcy or other financial crisis of the shipyard;
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a backlog of orders at the shipyard;
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disputes between us and the shipyard regarding contractual obligations;
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weather interference or catastrophic events, such as major earthquakes or fires;
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our requests for changes to the original vessel specifications or disputes with the shipyard; or
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shortages of or delays in the receipt of necessary construction materials, such as steel, or equipment, such as main engines, electricity generators and
propellers.
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marine disaster;
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piracy;
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environmental accidents;
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grounding, fire, explosions and collisions;
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cargo and property losses or damage;
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business interruptions caused by mechanical failure, human error, war, terrorism, political action in various countries, labor strikes
or adverse weather conditions; and
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work stoppages or other labor problems with crew members serving on our vessels including crew strikes and/or boycotts.
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actual or anticipated fluctuations in quarterly and annual variations in our results of operations;
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changes in market valuations or sales or earnings estimates or publication of research reports by analysts;
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changes in earnings estimates or shortfalls in our operating results from levels forecasted by securities analysts;
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speculation in the press or investment community about our business or the shipping industry;
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changes in market valuations of similar companies and stock market price and volume fluctuations generally;
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payment of dividends;
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strategic actions by us or our competitors such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances or restructurings;
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changes in government and other regulatory developments;
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additions or departures of key personnel;
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general market conditions and the state of the securities markets; and
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domestic and international economic, market and currency factors unrelated to our performance.
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A. |
History and Development of the Company
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B. |
Business Overview
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(*) |
TC denotes time charter. All dates listed are the earliest redelivery dates under each TC.
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(**) |
Denotes the Baltic Panamax Index; The Average BPI 4TC is an index based on four time charter routes.
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·
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reports by industry analysts and data providers that focus on our industry and related dynamics affecting vessel values;
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news and industry reports of similar vessel sales;
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news and industry reports of sales of vessels that are not similar to our vessels where we have made certain adjustments in an attempt
to derive information that can be used as part of our estimates;
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·
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approximate market values for our vessels or similar vessels that we have received from shipbrokers, whether solicited or unsolicited,
or that shipbrokers have generally disseminated;
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offers that we may have received from potential purchasers of our vessels; and
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·
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vessel sale prices and values of which we are aware through both formal and informal communications with shipowners, shipbrokers,
industry analysts and various other shipping industry participants and observers.
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Name
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Capacity
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Purchase Date
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Carrying Value as of December 31, 2017
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Carrying Value as of December 31,
2018
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Dry Bulk Vessels
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(dwt)
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(million USD)
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(million USD)
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PANTELIS
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74,020
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Jul-2009
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$13.88
(1)
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$12.26
(2)
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EIRINI P
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76,466
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May-2014
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$16.84
(1)
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$15.59
(2)
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XENIA
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82,000
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Feb-2016
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$29.73
(1)
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$28.59
(2)
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TASOS
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75,100
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Jan-2017
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$4.29
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$4.07
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ALEXANDROS P.
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63,500
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Jan-2017
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$17.24
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$16.65
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EKATERINI
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82,000
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May-2018
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-
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$23.34
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STARLIGHT
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75,845
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Nov-2018
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-
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$10.14
(2)
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Total Dry Bulk Vessels
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528,931
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$81.98
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$110.64
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Experienced Management Team
. Our management team has
significant experience in all aspects of commercial, technical, operational and financial areas of our business. Aristides J. Pittas, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, holds a dual graduate degree in Naval Architecture and
Marine Engineering and Ocean Systems Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in various technical, shipyard and ship management capacities and since 1991 has focused on the ownership and operation of
vessels carrying dry cargoes. Dr. Anastasios Aslidis, our Chief Financial Officer, holds a Ph.D. in Ocean Systems Management also from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has over 20 years of experience, primarily as a partner at
a Boston based international consulting firm focusing on investment and risk management in the maritime industry.
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Cost Efficient Vessel Operations
. We believe that
because of the efficiencies afforded to us through Eurobulk, the strength of our management team and the quality of our fleet, we are, and will continue to be, a reliable, low cost vessel operator, without compromising our high
standards of performance, reliability and safety. Our total vessel operating expenses, including management fees and general and administrative expenses but excluding drydocking expenses were $6,313 per day for the year ended December
31, 2018. Our technical and operating expertise allows us to efficiently manage and transport a wide range of cargoes with a flexible trade route profile, which helps reduce ballast time between voyages and minimize off-hire days. Our
professional, well-trained masters, officers and on board crews further help us to control costs and ensure consistent vessel operating performance. We actively manage our fleet and strive to maximize utilization and minimize
maintenance expenditures for operational and commercial utilization. For the year ended December 31, 2018, our operational fleet utilization was 99.7%, from 98.8% in 2017, while our commercial utilization rate was at 100% for both
years. Our total fleet utilization rate in 2018 was 99.7%.
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Strong Relationships with Customers and Financial
Institutions
. We believe ourselves, Eurobulk, Eurobulk FE and the Pittas family to have developed strong industry relationships and to have gained acceptance with charterers, lenders and insurers because of long-standing
reputation for safe and reliable service and financial responsibility through various shipping cycles. Through Eurobulk and Eurobulk FE, we offer reliable service and cargo carrying flexibility that enables us to attract customers and
obtain repeat business. We also believe that the established customer base and reputation of ourselves, Eurobulk, Eurobulk FE and the Pittas family help us to secure favorable employment for our vessels with well-known charterers.
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Renew and Expand our Fleet
. We expect to grow our
fleet in a disciplined manner through timely and selective acquisitions of quality vessels. We perform in-depth technical review and financial analysis of each potential acquisition and only purchase vessels as market opportunities
present themselves. We focus on purchasing well-maintained secondhand vessels, newbuildings or newbuilding resales based on the evaluation of each investment option at the time it is made. In March 2017, we signed an addendum to our
newbuilding contract with Jiangsu Tianyuan Marine Import & Export Co., Ltd., and Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. to proceed with the construction of an 82,000 DWT bulk
carrier, which was delivered on May 7, 2018. In December 2018, we acquired another second hand Panamax drybulk carrier.
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|
· |
Maintain Balanced Employment
. We intend to employ our
fleet on either longer term time charters, i.e. charters with duration of more than a year, or shorter term time/spot charters. We seek longer term time charter employment to obtain adequate cash flow to cover as much as possible of our
fleet's recurring costs, consisting of vessel operating expenses, management fees, general and administrative expenses, interest expense and drydocking costs for the upcoming 12-month period. We also may use FFAs – as a substitute for
time charter employment – to partly provide coverage for our drybulk vessels in order to increase the predictability of our revenues. We look to deploy the remainder of our fleet on spot charters, shipping pools or contracts of
affreightment depending on our view of the direction of the markets and other tactical or strategic considerations. When we expect charter rates to improve we try to increase the percentage of our fleet employed in shorter term
contracts (allowing us to take advantage of higher rates in the future), while when we expect the market to weaken we try to increase the percentage of our fleet employed in longer term contracts (allowing us to take advantage of higher
current rates). We believe this balanced employment
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|
· |
Optimize Use of Financial Leverage
. We intend to use
bank debt to partly fund our vessel acquisitions and increase financial returns for our shareholders. We actively assess the level of debt we incur in light of our ability to repay that debt based on the level of cash flow generated
from our balanced chartering strategy and efficient operating cost structure. Our debt repayment schedule as of December 31, 2018 calls for a reduction of more than 11% of our debt by the end of 2019 and an additional reduction of about
11% by the end of 2020 for a total of 22% reduction over the next two years, excluding any new debt that we assumed or may assume. As our debt is being repaid we expect that our ability to raise or borrow additional funds more cheaply
in order to grow our fleet and generate better returns for our shareholders will increase.
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|
(i)
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injury to, destruction or loss of, or loss of use of, natural resources and related assessment costs;
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|
(ii)
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injury to, or economic losses resulting from, the destruction of real and personal property;
|
|
(iii)
|
loss of subsistence use of natural resources that are injured, destroyed or lost;
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|
(iv)
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net loss of taxes, royalties, rents, fees or net profit revenues resulting from injury, destruction or loss of real or personal
property, or natural resources;
|
|
(v)
|
lost profits or impairment of earning capacity due to injury, destruction or loss of real or personal property or natural
resources; and
|
|
(vi)
|
net cost of increased or additional public services necessitated by removal activities following a discharge of oil, such as
protection from fire, safety or health hazards, and loss of subsistence use of natural resources.
|
C. |
Organizational structure
|
D. |
Property, plants and equipment
|
|
· |
the effective fleet utilization rate;
|
|
· |
estimated scrap values;
|
|
· |
future drydocking costs; and
|
|
· |
probabilities of sale for each vessel.
|
Vessel
|
Charter Rate as of 12/31/2018
|
Remaining
Months Chartered
|
Remaining Life (years)
|
Rate Year 1 (2019)
|
Rate Year 2 (2020)
|
Rate Year 3+ (2021+)
|
Breakeven Rate (USD/day)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Eirini P*
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
12,318
|
12,318
|
20,374
|
11,887
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Xenia
|
14,100
|
13
|
22
|
12,436
|
12,436
|
20,569
|
9,647
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Pantelis
|
9,050
|
1
|
6
|
11,962
|
11,962
|
19,786
|
12,123
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Starlight
|
9,000
|
6
|
10
|
12,318
|
12,318
|
20,734
|
9,973
|
|
· |
exemption from the auditor attestation requirement in the assessment of the emerging growth company's internal controls over financial reporting under Section
404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
|
|
· |
exemption from new or revised financial accounting standards applicable to public companies until such standards are also applicable to private companies; and
|
|
· |
exemption from compliance with any new requirements adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or the PCAOB, requiring mandatory audit firm
rotation or a supplement to the auditor's report in which the auditor would be required to provide additional information about the audit and financial statements.
|
B. |
Liquidity and Capital Resources
|
C. |
Research and development, patents and licenses, etc.
|
D. |
Trend information
|
E. |
Off-balance Sheet Arrangements
|
F. |
Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations
|
In U.S. dollars (US$)
|
Total
|
Less Than One Year
|
One to
Three Years |
Three to Five Years
|
More Than Five Years
|
Bank debt
|
63,885,000
|
7,071,444
|
20,267,778
|
26,245,778
|
10,300,000
|
Interest Payments (1)
|
13,252,003
|
3,522,869
|
5,655,263
|
2,966,176
|
1,107,695
|
Vessel Management fees (2)
|
9,170,464
|
2,006,926
|
4,135,070
|
3,028,468
|
-
|
Other Management fees (3)
|
5,711,761
|
1,250,000
|
2,575,500
|
1,886,261
|
-
|
Total
|
92,019,228
|
13,851,239
|
32,633,611
|
34,126,683
|
11,407,695
|
A. |
Directors and Senior Management
|
Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Aristides J. Pittas
|
59
|
Chairman, President and CEO; Class A Director
|
Dr. Anastasios Aslidis
|
59
|
CFO and Treasurer; Class A Director
|
Aristides P. Pittas
|
67
|
Vice Chairman; Class A Director
|
Stephania Karmiri
|
51
|
Secretary
|
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos
|
58
|
Class B Director
|
George Taniskidis
|
58
|
Class C Director
|
Apostolos Tamvakakis
|
61
|
Class C Director
|
Christian Donohue
|
51
|
Series B Director
|
B. |
Compensation
|
|
· |
We are not required under Marshall Islands law to maintain a Board of Directors with a majority of independent directors, and we may not be able to maintain a
Board of Directors with a majority of independent directors in the future.
|
|
· |
In lieu of a compensation committee comprised of independent directors, our Board of Directors will be responsible for establishing the executive officers'
compensation and benefits. Under Marshall Islands law, compensation of the executive officers is not required to be determined by an independent committee.
|
|
· |
In lieu of a nomination committee comprised of independent directors, our Board of Directors will be responsible for identifying and recommending potential
candidates to become board members and recommending directors for appointment to board committees. Shareholders may also identify and recommend potential candidates to become candidates to become board members in writing. No formal
written charter has been prepared or adopted because this process is outlined in our bylaws.
|
|
· |
In lieu of obtaining an independent review of related party transactions for conflicts of interests, consistent with Marshall Islands law requirements, a
related party transaction will be permitted if: (i) the material facts as to his or her relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors in
good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, or, if the votes of the disinterested directors are insufficient to constitute an act of the Board of Directors as
defined in Section 55 of the Marshall Islands Business Corporations Act, by unanimous vote of the disinterested directors; or (ii) the material facts as to his relationship or interest are disclosed and the shareholders are entitled to
vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by a simple majority vote of the shareholders; or (iii) the contract or transaction is fair as to the Company as of the time it is authorized, approved
or ratified, by the Board of Directors, a committee thereof or the shareholders. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee which
authorizes the contract or transaction.
|
|
· |
As a foreign private issuer, we are not required to solicit proxies or provide proxy statements to Nasdaq pursuant to Nasdaq corporate governance rules or
Marshall Islands law. Consistent with Marshall Islands law, we will notify our shareholders of meetings between 15 and 60 days before the meeting. This notification will contain, among other things, information regarding business to be
transacted at the meeting. In addition, our bylaws provide that shareholders must give us advance notice to properly introduce any business at a meeting of the shareholders. Our bylaws also provide that shareholders may designate in
writing a proxy to act on their behalf.
|
|
· |
In lieu of holding regular meetings at which only independent directors are present, our entire Board of Directors, a majority of whom are independent, will
hold regular meetings as is consistent with the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
|
|
· |
The Board of Directors adopted a new Equity Incentive Plan in May 2018. Shareholder approval was not necessary since Marshall Islands law permits the Board
of Directors to take such actions.
|
|
· |
As a foreign private issuer, we are not required to obtain shareholder approval if any of our directors, officers, or 5% or greater shareholders has a 5% or
greater interest (or such persons collectively have a 10% or greater interest), directly or indirectly, in the company, or assets to be acquired, or in the consideration to be paid in the transaction(s) and the present or potential
issuance of common stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable for common stock, could result in an increase in outstanding common stock or voting power of 5% or more.
|
|
· |
In lieu of obtaining shareholder approval prior to the issuance of designated securities, the Company will comply with provisions of the Marshall Islands
Business Corporations Act, providing that the Board of Directors approves share issuances.
|
A. |
Major Stockholders
|
Name of Beneficial Owner (1)
|
Number of Shares of Voting Common Stock Beneficially Owned
|
Percent of Voting of Common Stock (13)
|
Number of Shares of Voting Series B Preferred Stock Beneficially Owned (14)
|
Percent of Voting of Series B Preferred Shares (14)
|
Number of Shares of Voting Common Stock Beneficially Owned Upon Conversion; 50% Voting Before Conversion
|
Percent of Total Voting Securities
|
||||||||||||||||||
Dry Friends Investment Company Inc(2)
|
868,181
|
38.1
|
%
|
-
|
-
|
506,669
|
29.9
|
%
|
||||||||||||||||
Tennenbaum Opportunities Fund VI, LLC (3, 4)
|
58,320
|
2.6
|
%
|
16,031
|
81.4
|
%
|
-
|
19.5
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||
Tennenbaum Opportunities Partners V, LLC (3, 4)
|
121,680
|
5.3
|
%
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
4.2
|
%
|
||||||||||||||||
Family United Navigation Co
|
310,644
|
13.6
|
%
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
10.7
|
%
|
||||||||||||||||
Preferred Friends Investment Company Inc(4)
|
-
|
-
|
3,655
|
18.6
|
%
|
115,518
|
4.0
|
%
|
||||||||||||||||
Aristides J Pittas(5)
|
19,614
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
George Taniskidis(6)
|
831
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos(7)
|
9,682
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Aristides P Pittas(8)
|
3,019
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Anastasios Aslidis(9)
|
17,572
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Apostolos Tamvakakis(10)
|
1,598
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Christian Donohue
|
-
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Stephania Karmiri(11)
|
-
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
Symeon Pariaros(12)
|
11,013
|
*
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
*
|
||||||||||||||||||
All directors and officers and 5% owners as a group
|
1,422,154
|
62.4
|
%
|
19,686
|
100
|
%
|
622,187
|
70.4
|
%
|
(1) |
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the Rule 13d-3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and generally includes voting or
investment power with respect to securities. Except as subject to community property laws, where applicable, the person named above has sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock shown as beneficially
owned by him/her.
|
(2) |
Represents 868,181 shares of common stock held of record by Dry Friends. A majority of the shareholders of Dry Friends are members of the Pittas family.
Investment power and voting control by Dry Friends resides in its Board of Directors which consists of five directors, a majority of whom are members of the Pittas family. Actions by Dry Friends may be taken by a majority of the members
on its Board of Directors.
|
(3) |
Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC serves as investment advisor to, inter alia, Tennenbaum Opportunities Partners V, LP and Tennenbaum Opportunities Fund VI,
LLC, which are the registered holders of the Common Shares and Series B Preferred Shares of EuroDry Ltd. beneficially owned by Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC is indirectly controlled by BlackRock,
Inc., which may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of shares beneficially owned by Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. The address of Tennenbaum Opportunities Partners V, LP, Tennenbaum Opportunities Fund V, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital
Partners, LLC is 2951 28th Street, Suite 1000, Santa Monica, CA 90405. The address of BlackRock, Inc. is 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055. Tennenbaum Opportunities Partners V, LP and Tennenbaum Opportunities Fund VI, LLC
currently hold (a) 180,000 shares of common stock and (b) Series B Preferred Shares that are convertible into 506,669 shares of common stock.
|
(4) |
Common shares are issuable upon conversion of Series B Preferred Shares (or any convertible notes into which the Series B Preferred Shares may convert) owned
by this shareholder (based on the current conversion ratio).
|
(5) |
Does not include 82,105 shares of common stock held of record by Dry Friends, by virtue of ownership interest in Dry Friends by Mr. Pittas. Mr. Pittas
disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest. Does not include 1,041 Series B Preferred Shares held of record by Preferred Friends Investment Company Inc., by virtue of ownership interest in Preferred
Friends Investment Company Inc. by Mr. Pittas. Mr. Pittas disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest. Includes 2,228 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 2,785 shares of common stock vesting on November 16,
2019 and 2,785 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(6) |
Does not include 3,986 shares held of record by Dry Friends, by virtue of Mr. Taniskidis' ownership in Dry Friends. Mr. Taniskidis disclaims beneficial
ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest. Does not include 96 Series B Preferred Shares held of record by Preferred Friends Investment Company Inc., by virtue of ownership interest in Preferred Friends Investment Company
Inc. by Mr. Taniskidis and members of his family. Mr. Taniskidis disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest. Includes 237 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 297 shares of common stock vesting on November
16, 2019 and 297 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(7) |
Includes 237 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 297 shares of common stock vesting on November 16, 2019 and 297 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(8) |
Does not include 290,011 shares of common stock held of record by Dry Friends and Family United Navigation Co., by virtue of ownership interest in Dry Friends
and Family United Navigation Co. of Mr. Pittas and members of his family. Mr. Pittas disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest. Does not include 24 shares of Series B Preferred stock held of record by
Preferred Friends Investment Company Inc., by virtue of ownership interest in Preferred Friends Investment Company Inc.by Mr. Pittas and members of his family. Mr. Pittas disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his
pecuniary interest. Includes 608 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 760 shares of common stock vesting on November 16, 2019 and 760 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(9) |
Includes 1,512 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 1,890 shares of common stock vesting on November 16, 2019 and 1,890 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(10) |
Includes 237 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 297 shares of common stock vesting on November 16, 2019 and 297 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(11) |
Does not include 109 shares of common stock held of records by Dry Friends, by virtue of Mrs. Karmiri's ownership in Dry Friends. Mrs. Karmiri disclaims
beneficial ownership except to the extent of her pecuniary interest.
|
(12) |
Includes 237 shares vesting on July 1, 2019, 297 shares of common stock vesting on November 16, 2019 and 297 shares vesting on November 16, 2020.
|
(13) |
Voting stock includes 35,117 unvested shares for a total of 2,279,920 issued and outstanding shares of the Company as of April 22, 2019.
|
B. |
Related Party Transactions
|
C. |
Interests of Experts and Counsel
|
A. |
Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information
|
B. |
Significant Changes
|
A. |
Offer and Listing Details
|
B. |
Plan of Distribution
|
C. |
Markets
|
D. |
Selling Shareholders
|
E. |
Dilution
|
F. |
Expenses of the Issue
|
A. |
Share Capital
|
B. |
Memorandum and Articles of Association
|
C. |
Material Contracts
|
D. |
Exchange Controls
|
E. |
Taxation
|
|
· |
we are organized in a foreign country, or our country of organization, that grants an "equivalent exemption" to corporations organized in the United States;
and
|
|
· |
more than 50% of the value of our stock is owned, directly or indirectly, by "qualified shareholders," individuals who are "residents" of our country of
organization or of another foreign country that grants an "equivalent exemption" to corporations organized in the United States, which we refer to as the "50% Ownership Test," or
|
|
· |
our stock is "primarily and regularly traded on an established securities market" in our country of organization, in another country that grants an
"equivalent exemption" to United States corporations, or in the United States, which we refer to as the "Publicly-Traded Test."
|
|
· |
We have, or are considered to have, a fixed place of business in the United States involved in the earning of shipping income; and
|
|
· |
substantially all of our U.S.-source shipping income is attributable to regularly scheduled transportation, such as the operation of a vessel that follows a
published schedule with repeated sailings at regular intervals between the same points for voyages that begin or end in the United States.
|
|
· |
at least 75% of our gross income for such taxable year consists of passive income (e.g., dividends, interest, capital gains and rents derived other than in
the active conduct of a rental business); or
|
|
· |
at least 50% of the average value of our assets during such taxable year produce, or are held for the production of, passive income, which we refer to as
"passive assets".
|
|
· |
such gain is effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder's conduct of a trade or business in the United States, if the Non-U.S. Holder is entitled to the
benefits of a United States income tax treaty with respect to that gain, that gain is taxable only if it is attributable to a permanent establishment maintained by the Non-U.S. Holder in the United States; or
|
|
· |
the Non-U.S. Holder is an individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year of disposition and other conditions are
met.
|
|
· |
fails to provide an accurate taxpayer identification number;
|
|
· |
is notified by the IRS that he failed to report all interest or dividends required to be shown on your United States federal income tax returns; or
|
|
· |
in certain circumstances, fails to comply with applicable certification requirements.
|
F. |
Dividends and paying agents
|
G. |
Statement by experts
|
H. |
Documents on display
|
I. |
Subsidiary Information
|
Year Ended December 31,
|
Amount in $ (loans)
|
Amount in $ (swap)
|
||||||
2019
|
601,788
|
(100,000
|
)
|
|||||
2020
|
532,649
|
(100,000
|
)
|
|||||
2021
|
455,835
|
(100,000
|
)
|
|||||
2022
|
332,600
|
(82,055
|
)
|
|||||
2023 and thereafter
|
367,411
|
(27,945
|
)
|
2017
(dollars in thousands) |
2018
(dollars in thousands) |
|||||||
Audit Fees
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
193
|
||||
Audit related fees
|
|
|
||||||
Tax fees
|
|
|
||||||
All other fees / expenses
|
-
|
|
||||||
Total
|
$
|
0
|
$
|
193
|
1.1
|
||
1.2
|
||
2.1
|
||
2,2
|
||
2.3
|
||
2.4
|
||
2.5
|
||
4.1
|
||
4.2
|
||
4.3
|
||
4.4
|
||
4.5
|
||
4.6
|
||
4.7
|
||
4.8
|
||
4.9
|
||
4.10
|
||
4.11
|
||
4.12
|
||
4.13
|
||
4.14
|
||
4.15
|
||
4.16
|
4.17
|
||
4.18
|
||
4.19
|
||
4.20
|
||
4.21
|
||
4.22
|
||
4.23
|
||
4.24
|
||
4.25
|
||
4.26
|
||
4.27
|
||
4.28
|
||
8.1
|
||
12.1
|
||
12.2
|
||
13.1
|
||
13.2
|
||
101.INS*
|
XBRL Instance Document
|
|
101.SCH*
|
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
|
|
101.CAL*
|
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
|
|
101.DEF*
|
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
|
|
101.LAB*
|
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
|
|
101.PRE*
|
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
|
* |
Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of
Sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.
|
EURODRY LTD.
(Registrant) |
|||
By:
|
/s/ Aristides J. Pittas
|
||
Aristides J. Pittas
|
|||
Chairman, President and CEO
|
|||
Date: April 30, 2019
|
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
|
|
F-2
|
|
|
|
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2017 and 2018
|
|
F-3
|
|
|
|
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018
|
|
F-5
|
|
|
|
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018
|
|
F-6
|
|
|
|
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018
|
|
F-7
|
|
|
|
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
|
|
F-9
|
|
|
Notes
|
|
|
December 31,
2017 |
|
|
December 31,
2018 |
|
|||
Assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,257,058
|
|
|
|
4,375,972
|
|
Restricted cash
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
|
894,499
|
|
|
|
828,955
|
|
Trade accounts receivable, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
593,787
|
|
|
|
2,236,210
|
|
Other receivables
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
644,062
|
|
|
|
341,952
|
|
Prepaid expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
72,520
|
|
|
|
147,789
|
|
Due from related companies
|
|
|
7
|
|
|
|
3,706,259
|
|
|
|
5,967,444
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
3
|
|
|
|
452,191
|
|
|
|
566,947
|
|
Total current assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,620,376
|
|
|
|
14,465,269
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vessels, net
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
81,979,636
|
|
|
|
110,637,462
|
|
Advances for vessel under construction
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
5,051,211
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Restricted cash
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
|
2,750,000
|
|
|
|
2,550,000
|
|
Derivatives
|
|
|
14
|
|
|
|
51,453
|
|
|
|
55,030
|
|
Total assets
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
97,452,676
|
|
|
|
127,707,761
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liabilities, mezzanine equity and shareholders’ equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term bank loans, current portion
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
|
7,967,267
|
|
|
|
6,930,655
|
|
Trade accounts payable
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
346,968
|
|
|
|
690,653
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
6
|
|
|
|
1,037,027
|
|
|
|
1,166,209
|
|
Deferred revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
289,738
|
|
|
|
196,231
|
|
Total current liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,641,000
|
|
|
|
8,983,748
|
|
|
|
Notes
|
|
|
December 31,
2017
|
|
|
December 31,
2018
|
|
|||
Long-term liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term bank loans, net of current portion
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
|
30,364,035
|
|
|
|
56,428,100
|
|
Due to former Parent Company
|
|
|
7
|
|
|
|
24,585,518
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Total long-term liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
54,949,553
|
|
|
|
56,428,100
|
|
Total liabilities
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
64,590,553
|
|
|
|
65,411,848
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commitments and contingencies
|
|
|
10
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mezzanine Equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred shares (par value $0.01, 20,000,000 shares authorized, 0 and 19,608 issued and outstanding, respectively)
|
|
|
15
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
18,757,358
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shareholders’ equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common stock (par value $0.03, 200,000,000 shares authorized, 0 and 2,279,920 issued and outstanding)
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
22,799
|
|
|
Former Parent Company investment
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
42,518,895
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional paid-in capital
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
52,618,022
|
|
Accumulated deficit
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,656,772
|
)
|
|
|
(9,102,266
|
)
|
Total shareholders’ equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
32,862,123
|
|
|
|
43,538,555
|
|
Total liabilities, mezzanine equity and shareholders’ equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
97,452,676
|
|
|
|
127,707,761
|
|
|
|
Notes
|
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017
|
|
|
2018
|
|
||||
Revenues
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Time charter revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,331,821
|
|
|
|
16,985,607
|
|
|
|
25,934,204
|
|
Voyage charter revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
3,294,608
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Commissions (including, $104,148, $253,503 and $324,178, respectively, to related party)
|
|
|
7
|
|
|
|
(452,868
|
)
|
|
|
(1,122,196
|
)
|
|
|
(1,411,333
|
)
|
Net revenue
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,878,953
|
|
|
|
19,158,019
|
|
|
|
24,522,871
|
|
Operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Voyage expenses
|
|
|
13
|
|
|
|
82,627
|
|
|
|
2,396,318
|
|
|
|
410,676
|
|
Vessel operating expenses (including, $57,316, $102,131 and $115,026, respectively, to related party)
|
|
|
7, 13
|
|
|
|
4,308,418
|
|
|
|
6,892,388
|
|
|
|
9,183,152
|
|
Dry-docking expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
127,509
|
|
|
|
1,465,079
|
|
Vessel depreciation
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
|
3,828,634
|
|
|
|
4,786,272
|
|
|
|
5,422,155
|
|
Related party management fees
|
|
|
7
|
|
|
|
780,135
|
|
|
|
1,409,716
|
|
|
|
1,701,340
|
|
Other general and administrative expenses (including $520,626, $693,524 and $731,456, respectively, to related party)
|
|
|
7, 11
|
|
|
|
798,828
|
|
|
|
917,160
|
|
|
|
2,346,502
|
|
Loss on termination and impairment of shipbuilding contracts
|
|
|
4
|
|
|
|
7,050,179
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Total operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16,848,821
|
|
|
|
16,529,363
|
|
|
|
20,528,904
|
|
Operating (loss) / income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(8,969,868
|
)
|
|
|
2,628,656
|
|
|
|
3,993,967
|
|
Other income / (expenses)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest and other financing costs
|
|
|
8
|
|
|
|
(1,161,169
|
)
|
|
|
(1,817,574
|
)
|
|
|
(2,913,141
|
)
|
Gain on derivatives, net
|
|
|
14
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
49,167
|
|
|
|
13,786
|
|
Interest income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
53
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
14,083
|
|
Foreign exchange gain / (loss)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,369
|
)
|
|
|
(10,548
|
)
|
|
|
11,040
|
|
Other expenses, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,171,485
|
)
|
|
|
(1,778,955
|
)
|
|
|
(2,874,232
|
)
|
Net (loss) / income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
|
|
849,701
|
|
|
|
1,119,735
|
|
Dividends to Series B preferred shares
|
|
|
15
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(565,229
|
)
|
Net (loss) / income attributable to common shareholders
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
|
|
849,701
|
|
|
|
554,506
|
|
(Loss) / Earnings per share attributable to common shareholders - basic and diluted
|
|
|
12
|
|
|
|
(6.21
|
)
|
|
|
0.38
|
|
|
|
0.25
|
|
Weighted average number of shares outstanding during the year, basic and diluted
|
|
|
12
|
|
|
|
1,633,141
|
|
|
|
2,213,505
|
|
|
|
2,232,821
|
|
|
Number
of Shares Outstanding |
Common Stock
Amount |
Additional Paid - in
Capital |
Accumulated Deficit
|
Former Parent Company investment
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||||
Balance January 1, 2016
|
(365,120
|
)
|
32,779,443
|
32,414,323
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Net increase in former Parent Company investment
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
8,823,927
|
8,823,927
|
||||||||||||||||||
Net loss
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
-
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||
Balance December 31, 2016
|
(10,506,473
|
)
|
41,603,370
|
31,096,897
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Net increase in former Parent Company investment
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
915,525
|
915,525
|
||||||||||||||||||
Net income
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
849,701
|
-
|
849,701
|
||||||||||||||||||
Balance December 31, 2017
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
(9,656,772
|
)
|
42,518,895
|
32,862,123
|
|||||||||||||||||
Net increase in former Parent Company investment
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
9,984,409
|
9,984,409
|
||||||||||||||||||
Capitalization at spin-off, including issuance of common stock
|
2,254,830
|
22,548
|
52,480,756
|
-
|
(52,503,304
|
)
|
-
|
|||||||||||||||||
Net income
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
1,119,735
|
-
|
1,119,735
|
||||||||||||||||||
Dividends to Series B preferred shares
|
(565,229
|
)
|
(565,229
|
)
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance of restricted shares for stock incentive award and share-based compensation
|
25,090
|
251
|
137,266
|
-
|
-
|
137,517
|
||||||||||||||||||
Balance December 31, 2018
|
2,279,920
|
22,799
|
52,618,022
|
(9,102,266
|
)
|
-
|
43,538,555
|
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017
|
|
|
2018
|
|
|||
Cash flows from operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net (loss) / income
|
|
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
|
|
849,701
|
|
|
|
1,119,735
|
|
Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) / income to net cash (used in)/ provided by operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation of vessels
|
|
|
3,828,634
|
|
|
|
4,786,272
|
|
|
|
5,422,155
|
|
Amortization and write off of deferred charges
|
|
|
471,443
|
|
|
|
209,231
|
|
|
|
396,925
|
|
Share-based compensation
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
137,517
|
|
Provision for doubtful debts
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
167,019
|
|
Loss on termination and impairment of shipbuilding contracts
|
|
|
7,050,179
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Unrealized gain on derivatives
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(51,453
|
)
|
|
|
(3,577
|
)
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Increase) / decrease in:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade accounts receivable
|
|
|
(241,359
|
)
|
|
|
44,436
|
|
|
|
(1,809,442
|
)
|
Prepaid expenses
|
|
|
469
|
|
|
|
(29,368
|
)
|
|
|
(75,269
|
)
|
Other receivables
|
|
|
(17,835
|
)
|
|
|
(527,943
|
)
|
|
|
302,110
|
|
Inventories
|
|
|
(99,499
|
)
|
|
|
(184,071
|
)
|
|
|
(114,756
|
)
|
Due from related companies
|
|
|
2,564,940
|
|
|
|
(3,045,377
|
)
|
|
|
(1,968,521
|
)
|
Increase / (decrease) in:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade accounts payable
|
|
|
128,508
|
|
|
|
37,630
|
|
|
|
360,599
|
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
645,680
|
|
|
|
612,037
|
|
|
|
129,182
|
|
Deferred revenues
|
|
|
66,022
|
|
|
|
209,192
|
|
|
|
(93,507
|
)
|
Net cash provided by operating activities
|
|
|
4,255,829
|
|
|
|
2,910,287
|
|
|
|
3,970,170
|
|
Cash flows from investing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for vessels under construction, capitalized expenses and vessel acquisition
|
|
|
(24,243,012
|
)
|
|
|
(9,635,504
|
)
|
|
|
(29,045,685
|
)
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
|
|
(24,243,012
|
)
|
|
|
(9,635,504
|
)
|
|
|
(29,045,685
|
)
|
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017
|
|
|
2018
|
|
|||
Cash flows from financing activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in former Parent Company investment
|
|
|
8,823,927
|
|
|
|
915,525
|
|
|
|
3,298,356
|
|
Loan arrangement fees paid
|
|
|
(529,810
|
)
|
|
|
(42,125
|
)
|
|
|
(432,200
|
)
|
Proceeds from long-term bank loans
|
|
|
13,800,000
|
|
|
|
10,862,500
|
|
|
|
48,400,000
|
|
Repayment of long-term bank loans
|
|
|
(2,347,000
|
)
|
|
|
(1,813,229
|
)
|
|
|
(23,337,271
|
)
|
Due to former Parent Company
|
|
|
725,620
|
|
|
|
(639,312
|
)
|
|
|
-
|
|
Net cash provided by financing activities
|
|
|
20,472,737
|
|
|
|
9,283,359
|
|
|
|
27,928,885
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
|
|
|
485,554
|
|
|
|
2,558,142
|
|
|
|
2,853,370
|
|
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at beginning of year
|
|
|
1,857,861
|
|
|
|
2,343,415
|
|
|
|
4,901,557
|
|
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of year
|
|
|
2,343,415
|
|
|
|
4,901,557
|
|
|
|
7,754,927
|
|
Cash Breakdown
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
591,108
|
|
|
|
1,257,058
|
|
|
|
4,375,972
|
|
Restricted cash, current
|
|
|
502,307
|
|
|
|
894,499
|
|
|
|
828,955
|
|
Restricted cash, long term
|
|
|
1,250,000
|
|
|
|
2,750,000
|
|
|
|
2,550,000
|
|
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash shown in the statement of cash flows
|
|
|
2,343,415
|
|
|
|
4,901,557
|
|
|
|
7,754,927
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Supplemental cash flow information
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized expenses
|
|
|
488,764
|
|
|
|
1,462,852
|
|
|
|
2,220,713
|
|
Financing, and investing activities fees:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loan arrangement fees accrued
|
|
|
38,400
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Payment-in-kind dividends
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
565,229
|
|
Capital expenditures included in liabilities
|
|
|
75,962
|
|
|
|
64,476
|
|
|
|
47,562
|
|
Preferred shares distributed to EuroDry
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
18,192,129
|
|
Prior year contributions from the former Parent Company recognized in paid-in capital
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
5,490,106
|
|
Due to former Parent Company amount allocated to Due from related companies balance
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
903,283
|
|
· |
Pantelis Shipping Corp., incorporated in Republic of Liberia on December 4, 2009, owner of the Liberian flag 74,020 DWT bulk carrier M/V “Pantelis” which
was built in 2000 and acquired on July 23, 2009.
|
· |
Eirini Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of Liberia on February 2, 2014, owner of the Liberian flag 76,466 DWT bulk carrier M/V “Eirini P” which
was built in 2004 and acquired on May 26, 2014.
|
· |
Ultra One Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of Liberia on November 21, 2013, owner of Liberian flag 63,500 DWT bulk carrier M/V “Alexandros P.”
(ex- Hull DY 160). M/V “Alexandros P” was built and delivered on January 16, 2017.
|
· |
Ultra Two Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of Liberia on November 21, 2013, entered on November 29, 2013, into a shipbuilding contract with
Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Sumec Marine Co., Ltd., for the construction of a 63,500 DWT bulk carrier (Hull No. DY161). The shipbuilding contract was cancelled on September 2, 2016 due to excessive construction delays.
Ultra Two Shipping Ltd has no assets and operations as of December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
|
· |
Kamsarmax One Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands on April 4, 2014, owner of the Marshall Islands flag 82,000 DWT bulk
carrier M/V “Xenia”. M/V “Xenia” was built and delivered on February 25, 2016.
|
· |
Kamsarmax Two Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands on April 4, 2014, entered on April 4, 2014, into a shipbuilding contract
with Jiangsu Tianyuan Marine Import & Export Co., Ltd., and Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., for the construction of an eco-design fuel efficient 82,000 DWT bulk carrier
(Hull No. YZJ2013-1153). In July 2016, Kamsarmax Two Shipping Ltd. signed an amended agreement which provided it with an option to terminate the contract by December 31, 2016 (subsequently, extended to March 31, 2017) without any
additional cost. In March 2017, the Company decided not to exercise the option to terminate the contract but to proceed with the construction of Hull No. YZJ2013-1153 (named “Ekaterini”) which was delivered on May 7, 2018.
|
· |
Areti Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands on November 15, 2016, owner of the Cypriot flag 75,100 DWT bulk carrier M/V
“Tasos” which was built in 2000 and acquired on January 9, 2017.
|
· |
Light Shipping Ltd., incorporated in the Republic of Marshall Islands on November 6, 2018, owner of the Cypriot flag 75,845 DWT bulk carrier M/V “Starlight”
which was built in 2004 and acquired on November 30, 2018.
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
|||||||||||
Charterer
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
|||||||||
A/S Klaveness Chartering
|
52
|
%
|
26
|
%
|
32
|
%
|
||||||
Amaggi Europe B.V.
|
-
|
17
|
%
|
11
|
%
|
|||||||
Dampskibsselskabet Norden A/S
|
26
|
%
|
18
|
%
|
-
|
|||||||
China National Chartering (Hong Kong) Co., Limited
|
-
|
13
|
%
|
-
|
||||||||
Quadra Commodities S.A.
|
13
|
%
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
December 31,
2017
|
|
|
December 31,
2018
|
|
||
Lubricants
|
|
|
418,650
|
|
|
|
533,300
|
|
Victualing
|
|
|
33,541
|
|
|
|
33,647
|
|
Total
|
|
|
452,191
|
|
|
|
566,947
|
|
|
|
Costs
|
|
|
Balance, January 1, 2017
|
|
|
17,753,737
|
|
Advances for vessels under construction
|
|
|
5,784,204
|
|
Vessel acquisition deposit
|
|
|
3,824,668
|
|
Delivery of M/V “Alexandros P”
|
|
|
(17,807,934
|
)
|
Delivery of M/V “Tasos”
|
|
|
(4,503,464
|
)
|
Balance, December 31, 2017
|
|
|
5,051,211
|
|
Advances for vessel under construction
|
|
|
18,818,171
|
|
Delivery of M/V “Ekaterini”
|
|
|
(23,869,382
|
)
|
Balance, December 31, 2018
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
Costs
|
|
|
Accumulated
Depreciation |
|
|
Net Book
Value |
|
|||
Balance, January 1, 2017
|
|
|
80,712,825
|
|
|
|
(16,273,461
|
)
|
|
|
64,439,364
|
|
- Delivery of M/V “Alexandros P”
|
|
|
17,807,934
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
17,807,934
|
|
- Delivery of M/V “Tasos”
|
|
|
4,503,464
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
4,503,464
|
|
- Capitalized expenses
|
|
|
15,146
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
15,146
|
|
- Depreciation for the year
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(4,786,272
|
)
|
|
|
(4,786,272
|
)
|
Balance, December 31, 2017
|
|
|
103,039,369
|
|
|
|
(21,059,733
|
)
|
|
|
81,979,636
|
|
- Delivery of M/V “Ekaterini”
|
|
|
23,869,382
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
23,869,382
|
|
- Delivery of M/V “Starlight”
|
|
|
10,210,599
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
10,210,599
|
|
- Depreciation for the year
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(5,422,155
|
)
|
|
|
(5,422,155
|
)
|
Balance, December 31, 2018
|
|
|
137,119,350
|
|
|
|
(26,481,888
|
)
|
|
|
110,637,462
|
|
|
|
December 31, 2017
|
|
|
December 31, 2018
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
Accrued payroll expenses
|
|
|
118,644
|
|
|
|
74,169
|
|
Accrued interest expense
|
|
|
398,934
|
|
|
|
694,437
|
|
Accrued general and administrative expenses
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
114,432
|
|
Accrued commissions
|
|
|
69,631
|
|
|
|
15,039
|
|
Other accrued expenses
|
|
|
449,818
|
|
|
|
268,132
|
|
Total
|
|
|
1,037,027
|
|
|
|
1,166,209
|
|
Borrower
|
|
|
|
December 31,
2017 |
|
|
December 31,
2018 |
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
Pantelis Shipping Corp.
|
|
(a)
|
|
|
4,440,000
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Eirini Shipping Ltd. / Areti Shipping Ltd.
|
|
(b)
|
|
|
11,600,000
|
|
|
|
4,820,000
|
|
Kamsarmax One Shipping Ltd.
|
|
(c)
|
|
|
12,399,000
|
|
|
|
11,465,000
|
|
Ultra One Shipping Ltd.
|
|
(d), (e)
|
|
|
10,383,271
|
|
|
|
15,000,000
|
|
Kamsarmax Two Shipping Ltd
|
|
(f)
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
17,600,000
|
|
Light Shipping Ltd. / Areti Shipping Ltd. / Pantelis Shipping Corp.
|
|
(g)
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
15,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
38,822,271
|
|
|
|
63,885,000
|
|
Less: Current portion
|
|
|
|
|
(8,162,972
|
)
|
|
|
(7,071,444
|
)
|
Long-term portion
|
|
|
|
|
(30,659,299
|
)
|
|
|
(56,813,556
|
)
|
Deferred charges, current portion
|
|
|
|
|
195,705
|
|
|
|
140,789
|
|
Deferred charges, long-term portion
|
|
|
|
|
295,264
|
|
|
|
385,456
|
|
Long-term bank loans, current portion net of deferred charges
|
|
|
|
|
7,967,267
|
|
|
|
6,930,655
|
|
Long-term bank loans, long-term portion net of deferred charges
|
|
|
|
|
30,364,035
|
|
|
|
56,428,100
|
|
To December 31:
|
|
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
7,071,444
|
|
2020
|
|
|
6,908,889
|
|
2021
|
|
|
13,358,889
|
|
2022
|
|
|
5,626,778
|
|
2023
|
|
|
20,619,000
|
|
Thereafter
|
|
|
10,300,000
|
|
Total
|
|
|
63,885,000
|
|
(a)
|
This loan is a $13,000,000 loan drawn by Pantelis Shipping Corp. on December 15, 2009. The loan was payable in 32 consecutive
quarterly instalments, four in the amount of $500,000 and twenty-eight in the amount of $280,000, with a $3,160,000 balloon payment to be paid together with the final instalment in September 2017. The loan bore interest at LIBOR plus a
margin of 2.70%. The loan was secured with the following: (i) first priority mortgage over M/V “Pantelis”, (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Pantelis”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of Euroseas Ltd. (replaced by
EuroDry Ltd. following the Spin-off) and (iv) a minimum cash balance equal to an amount of no less than $300,000 in an account maintained by Pantelis Shipping Corp. maintained with HSBC Bank Plc.
On September 30, 2016, the Company signed a Supplemental Agreement with HSBC Bank PLC to defer the six remaining consecutive
quarterly instalments of $280,000 each (being $1,680,000 in aggregate) until (a) 29 September 2017 (being the initial final repayment date together with the balloon payment of $3,160,000 in one bullet payment of $4,840,000) or (b) to
extend the final repayment date of the deferred amount and the balloon payment until 29 December 2018 if Euroseas agreed with the current lender of M/V “Evridiki G” (being Credit Agricole) or any other bank the extension of the repayment
date of her balloon instalment at least until her current charter matures in the first quarter of 2018, which was finally agreed. In this case, the outstanding amount of $4,840,000 would be paid in four quarterly instalments, the first
two instalments of $280,000 each, the third instalment in the amount of $560,000 and the fourth instalment of $3,720,000 comprised by $560,000 and the balloon payment. The first instalment was paid in March 2018 and the following
instalments at quarterly intervals thereafter and the last one in December 2018. The asset coverage ratio was reduced from 130% to 75% until December 31, 2017. A cash sweep mechanism was put in place until the entire deferred amount is
repaid. A cash collateral amount of $300,000 (corresponding to the minimum cash balance requirement) was pledged in the cash collateral account of the owner of M/V “Eirini P”/M/V “Tasos” or of Euroseas as corporate guarantor. A prepayment
of $0.4 million was also made within 2017 and a prepayment of $1.0 million was made in 2018 for the loan of Pantelis Shipping Corp. These prepayments were deducted from balloon repayment of the said loan based on the agreement between
Euroseas and HSBC Bank Plc. The loan was fully repaid and refinanced by the National Bank of Greece,
as explained in note (g) below,
in November 2018.
|
(b)
|
This loan is a $15,300,000
loan drawn by Eirini Shipping Ltd. and Eleni Shipping Ltd. jointly, (“Eirini Loan”), on June 25, 2014. The parties agreed in principle on September 30, 2016 to replace one of the underlying collaterals of the Eirini Loan (M/V “Eleni P”)
with a similar vessel, which in December 2016, was approved to be M/V “Tasos” (owned by Areti Shipping Ltd.). The loan was payable in 20 equal consecutive quarterly instalments of $350,000 each, with an $8.3 million balloon payment to
be paid together with the final instalment in June 2019. The loan bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin of 3.75%. The loan was secured with the following: (i) first priority mortgage over M/V “Eirini P.” and M/V “Tasos.”, (ii) first
assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Eirini P.” and M/V “Tasos”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of Euroseas Ltd. (replaced by EuroDry Ltd. following the Spin-off).
On September 30, 2016, the
Company signed a Supplemental Agreement with HSBC Bank PLC. The outstanding balance of the “Eirini Loan” of $12,850,000 prior to the closing of the Supplemental Agreement was reduced to $11,600,000 via prepayment using the cash
collateral of $1,250,000 (which was effected after the signing of the Supplemental Agreement). In addition, seven principal instalments of $350,000 each, from June 2016 to December 2017 were deferred. Repayment of the loan resumed in
March 2018 and the outstanding balance of $11,600,000 will be repaid in two quarterly instalments of $350,000 each, four of $725,000 each plus a balloon payment of $8,000,000 due in May 2019. The asset coverage ratio was reduced from
130% to 75% until December 31, 2017. A cash sweep mechanism was put in place until the entire deferred amount is repaid. A cash collateral amount of $600,000 (corresponding to the minimum cash balance requirement) is to be pledged in
the cash collateral account of M/V “Eirini P” / M/V “Tasos”. For the avoidance of doubt the aforementioned cash collateral is in addition to the cash collateral required to be maintained in the cash collateral account pursuant to the
loan agreement of Pantelis Shipping Corp. M/V “Eleni P” was sold on January 26, 2017 and the proceeds from the sale were contributed to the Company by Euroseas during 2017 and were used to partly pay for the acquisition of M/V “Tasos”.
HSBC Bank Plc. agreed to the sale of M/V “Eleni P” and the substitution of such vessel with M/V “Tasos” as collateral for the loan. A prepayment of $0.45 million was also made within 2018, which was deducted from the balloon repayment
of the said loan based on the agreement between Euroseas and HSBC Bank Plc. The loan was partly repaid in December 2018 through the refinancing by the National Bank of Greece as explained in note (g) below. The only vessel remaining in
the facility is Eirini P whilst there are two quarterly principal payments of $405,000 each due in 2019 and a balloon amount of $4,010,000 million due on May 26, 2019 to be paid together with the last instalment. The Security Cover
ratio for this facility stands at 130%. In April 2019, the Company entered into a term sheet with HSBC Bank PLC to refinance the specific loan, as explained in Note 17.
|
|
(c)
|
On February 17, 2016, the Company signed a term loan facility with Nord LB and, on February 25, 2016, a loan of $13,800,000 was
drawn by Kamsarmax One Shipping Ltd. to partly finance the pre-delivery installment of M/V “Xenia”. The loan is to be repaid in fourteen consecutive equal semi-annual installments of $467,000 plus a balloon amount of $7,262,000. The loan
bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin of 2.95%. The loan is secured with (i) first priority mortgage over M/V “Xenia”, (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Xenia”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of Euroseas Ltd (replaced
by EuroDry Ltd. following the Spin-off)
and other covenants and guarantees similar to the rest of the loans of the Company.
|
(d)
|
On March 20, 2015, the
Company signed a term loan facility with HSH Nordbank AG of up to the lesser of $19.00 million or 62.5% of the market value of Hull No. DY160 (named Alexandros P) upon its delivery to partly finance the construction cost. A commitment
fee of 0.9% per annum was payable until the loan was drawn. On April 28, 2016 and on October 27, 2016, the Company signed supplemental loan agreements to the term loan facility signed on March 20, 2015 extending the allowed drawdown
period until October 31, 2016 and subsequently until January 31, 2017 to account for delays in the construction of the Hull No. DY160, and reducing the maximum loan amount to 55% of the market value of the vessel at delivery. On January
25, 2017 the Company drew $10,862,500 from HSH Nordbank AG, to partly finance the pre-delivery installment of M/V “Alexandros P”. The loan is payable in thirteen equal consecutive quarterly instalments of $159,743 each commencing from
April 2017, with a balloon payment of $8,785,841 to be paid together with the last instalment in April 2020. The loan bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin of 3.00%. The loan is secured with (i) first priority mortgage over M/V
“Alexandros P.”, (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Alexandros P.”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of Euroseas Ltd (replaced by EuroDry Ltd. following the Spin-off) and other covenants and guarantees similar to the
rest of the loans of the Company. This loan was fully refinanced in October 2018 by Eurobank as explained in note (e) below.
|
|
(e)
|
On October 1, 2018, the Company signed a term loan facility with Eurobank Ergasias S.A. (EFG) of up to $15.00 million or the 60% of
the market value of
M/V “Alexandros P.”
, for the purpose of refinancing the outstanding loan facility of
HSH Nordbank AG and providing working capital. The new facility was drawn in October 2018.
The loan is payable in twenty-eight
consecutive equal quarterly instalments of $235,000 each, followed by a balloon payment of $8,420,000 to be paid together with the last instalment in October 2025. The loan bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin of 3.25%. The loan is
secured with (i)
first priority mortgage over M/V “Alexandros P.”, (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Alexandros
P.”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of EuroDry Ltd and other covenants and guarantees similar to the rest of the loans of the Company. The Security Cover ratio for this facility stands at 120%. The Company paid loan arrangement fees of
$135,000 for this loan.
|
|
(f)
|
On April 27, 2018, the
Company signed a term loan facility with HSBC Bank plc. of $18.4 million drawn by Kamsarmax Two Shipping Ltd. to finance 70% of the construction cost but no more than 70% of the market value of M/V “Ekaterini”, subject to the existence
of a time charter at the time of drawdown, for a minimum period of 24 months approved by the lender. The loan is payable in twenty consecutive quarterly instalments commencing from July 2018, eight in the amount of $400,000 and twelve
in the amount of $325,000, with a $11,300,000 balloon payment to be paid together with the last instalment in April 2023. The interest rate margin is 2.80% over LIBOR. The loan will be secured with (i) first priority mortgage over M/V
“Ekaterini”, (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Ekaterini” and (iii) other covenants and guarantees similar to the remaining loans of the Company. The Security Cover ratio for this facility stands at 130%. The
Company paid loan arrangement fees of $147,200 for this loan.
|
(g)
|
On November 27, 2018, the Company signed a term loan facility with the National Bank of Greece S.A. (NBG) and a loan of $15,000,000
was drawn by Light Shipping Ltd., Areti Shipping Ltd. and Pantelis Shipping Corp. for the purpose of refinancing the existing loans with HSBC Bank PLC regarding M/V “Pantelis” and M/V “Tasos” and financing part of the acquisition cost of
M/V “Starlight”. The loan is payable in twelve consecutive equal quarterly installments of $700,000, commencing from February 2019, plus a balloon amount of $6,600,000 to be paid together with the last instalment in November 2021. The
margin of the loan is 3.25% above LIBOR. The loan is secured with (i) first priority mortgages over M/V “Starlight”, M/V “Pantelis” and M/V “Tasos” (ii) first assignment of earnings and insurance of M/V “Starlight”, M/V “Pantelis” and M/V
“Tasos”, (iii) a corporate guarantee of EuroDry Ltd and other covenants and guarantees similar to remaining loans of the Company.
The
Security Cover ratio for this facility stands at 125%.
The Company paid loan arrangement fees of $150,000 for this loan.
|
(a)
|
As of December 31, 2017, Areti Shipping Ltd. had a dispute with Windrose SPS Shipping and Trading (“Windrose”), a charterer,
regarding Windrose’s failure to pay the balance of the charter fee of $52,019 in relation to charter party agreement dated January 20, 2017. Additionally, Areti Shipping Ltd. paid an amount of $115,000 to a bunker supplier for portion of
the total claim of $179,281, after facing an arrest of M/V “Tasos” in Brazil. The Company took the case to London arbitration and obtained an award of approximately $215,000. The Company has hired Swiss lawyers in order to proceed with
the recovery of the funds in Switzerland where Windrose is based. In February 2018 Windrose was declared bankrupt and a liquidator was appointed by the Swiss Court. According to the Swiss Law, Areti Shipping Ltd. through their lawyers had
to seek recovery of the claim from the Directors of Windrose, who may be personally liable for company’s debts. In May 2018 in view of the uncertain recovery prospects our Freight Demurrage and Defence club has withdrawn its support on
the case. In view of high costs, the management has decided to abstain from any action against Windrose directors. Further, Areti Shipping Ltd. has filed their claim with the liquidator; however, the amounts recoverable will be small, if
any. In view of the above, the management decided to take a provision of the full amount of $167,019.
|
a)
|
On November 3, 2016 an award of 82,080 non-vested restricted shares, was made to 19 key persons of which 50% vested on November 1,
2017 and 50% vested on November 1, 2018; awards to officers and directors amounted to 48,048 shares and the remaining 34,032 shares were awarded to employees of Eurobulk.
|
|
b)
|
On November 2, 2017 an award of 100,270 non-vested restricted shares, was made to 18 key persons of which 50% vested on July 1,
2018 and 50% will vest on July 1, 2019; awards to officers and directors amounted to 57,700 shares and the remaining 42,570 shares were awarded to employees of Eurobulk.
|
Non-vested Shares
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
Weighted-Average Grant-Date Fair Value
|
|
||
Non-vested on May 31, 2018
|
|
|
28,072
|
|
|
|
8.30
|
|
Granted
|
|
|
25,090
|
|
|
|
10.14
|
|
Vested
|
|
|
(18,045
|
)
|
|
|
(8.30
|
)
|
Forfeited
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
Non-vested on December 31, 2018
|
|
|
35,117
|
|
|
|
9.61
|
|
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017
|
|
|
2018
|
|
|||
Income:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net (loss) / income
|
|
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
|
|
849,701
|
|
|
|
1,119,735
|
|
Dividends to Series B preferred shares
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
(565,229
|
)
|
Net (loss) / income attributable to common shareholders
|
|
|
(10,141,353
|
)
|
|
|
849,701
|
|
|
|
554,506
|
|
Basic and diluted earnings per share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted average common shares - outstanding
|
|
|
1,633,141
|
|
|
|
2,213,505
|
|
|
|
2,232,821
|
|
Basic and diluted (loss) / earnings per share
|
|
|
(6.21
|
)
|
|
|
0.38
|
|
|
|
0.25
|
|
|
|
Year ended December 31,
|
|
|||||||||
|
|
2016
|
|
|
2017
|
|
|
2018
|
|
|||
Voyage expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Port charges and canal dues
|
|
|
34,850
|
|
|
|
578,468
|
|
|
|
260,139
|
|
Bunkers
|
|
|
47,777
|
|
|
|
1,817,850
|
|
|
|
150,537
|
|
Total
|
|
|
82,627
|
|
|
|
2,396,318
|
|
|
|
410,676
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vessel operating expenses
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crew wages and related costs
|
|
|
2,621,166
|
|
|
|
4,616,900
|
|
|
|
5,532,463
|
|
Insurance
|
|
|
399,371
|
|
|
|
609,354
|
|
|
|
682,991
|
|
Repairs and maintenance
|
|
|
109,399
|
|
|
|
181,174
|
|
|
|
407,324
|
|
Lubricants
|
|
|
421,406
|
|
|
|
379,853
|
|
|
|
520,452
|
|
Spares and consumable stores
|
|
|
480,209
|
|
|
|
706,855
|
|
|
|
1,404,080
|
|
Professional and legal fees
|
|
|
97,584
|
|
|
|
186,306
|
|
|
|
257,250
|
|
Other
|
|
|
179,283
|
|
|
|
211,946
|
|
|
|
378,592
|
|
Total
|
|
|
4,308,418
|
|
|
|
6,892,388
|
|
|
|
9,183,152
|
|
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
|
|
Balance Sheet Location
|
|
December 31, 2017
|
|
|
December 31, 2018
|
|
||
FFA contract
|
|
Long-term assets– Derivatives
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
49,350
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest rate swap contracts
|
|
Long-term assets – Derivatives
|
|
|
51,453
|
|
|
|
5,680
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total derivative assets
|
|
|
|
|
51,453
|
|
|
|
55,030
|
|
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments
|
|
Location of gain (loss) recognized
|
|
Year Ended December 31, 2017
|
|
|
Year Ended December 31, 2018
|
|
||
Interest rate swap contracts– Unrealized gain / (loss)
|
|
Gain on derivatives, net
|
|
|
51,453
|
|
|
|
(45,773
|
)
|
Interest rate swap contracts - Realized (loss) / gain
|
|
Gain on derivatives, net
|
|
|
(2,286
|
)
|
|
|
10,209
|
|
FFA contract – Fair value
|
|
Gain on derivatives, net
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
49,350
|
|
Total net gain on derivatives
|
|
|
|
|
49,167
|
|
|
|
13,786
|
|
|
|
Number
of Shares |
|
|
Preferred Shares
Amount |
|
|
Dividends paid-in-kind
|
|
|
Total
|
|
||||
Issued, May 30, 2018
|
|
|
19,042
|
|
|
|
18,192,129
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
18,192,129
|
|
Dividends declared
|
|
|
566
|
|
|
|
-
|
|
|
|
565,229
|
|
|
|
565,229
|
|
Balance, December 31, 2018
|
|
|
19,608
|
|
|
|
18,192,129
|
|
|
|
565,229
|
|
|
|
18,757,358
|
|
|
Fair Value Measurement as of December 31, 2018
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Total
|
(Level 1)
|
(Level 2)
|
(Level 3)
|
||||||||||||
Assets
|
||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swap contracts, current and long term portion
|
$
|
5,680
|
-
|
$
|
5,680
|
-
|
||||||||||
FFA contract, long term portion
|
$
|
49,350
|
$
|
49,350
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fair Value Measurement as of December 31, 2017
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Total
|
(Level 1)
|
(Level 2)
|
(Level 3)
|
||||||||||||
Assets
|
||||||||||||||||
Interest rate swap contracts, current and long term portion
|
$
|
51,453
|
-
|
$
|
51,453
|
-
|
LOAN AGREEMENT (NO. 161
)
IN RESPECT OF A TERM LOAN
OF UP TO US$15,000,000
|
CLAUSE
|
PAGE
|
|
1.
|
PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
|
1
|
2.
|
FACILITY
|
18
|
3.
|
POSITION OF THE LENDERS
|
18
|
4.
|
DRAWDOWN
|
19
|
5.
|
INTEREST
|
20
|
6.
|
INTEREST PERIODS
|
22
|
7.
|
DEFAULT INTEREST
|
22
|
8.
|
REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT
|
23
|
9.
|
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
|
25
|
10.
|
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
|
26
|
11.
|
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
|
28
|
12.
|
CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS
|
32
|
13.
|
INSURANCE
|
33
|
14.
|
SHIP' COVENANTS
|
38
|
15.
|
SECURITY COVER
|
42
|
16.
|
PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS
|
44
|
17.
|
APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS
|
46
|
18.
|
APPLICATION OF EARNINGS
|
47
|
19.
|
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
|
48
|
20.
|
FEES AND EXPENSES
|
53
|
21.
|
INDEMNITIES
|
54
|
22.
|
NO SET-OFF OR TAX REDUCTION
|
57
|
23.
|
ILLEGALITY, ETC
|
58
|
24.
|
INCREASED COSTS
|
59
|
25.
|
SET-OFF
|
61
|
26.
|
TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICES
|
61
|
27.
|
VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS
|
66
|
28.
|
NOTICES
|
67
|
29.
|
SUPPLEMENTAL
|
69
|
30.
|
LAW AND JURISDICTION
|
70
|
SCHEDULE I
|
71
|
SCHEDULE II
|
72
|
SCHEDULE III
|
73
|
SCHEDULE IV
|
76
|
SCHEDULE V
|
80
|
(1) |
ULTRA ONE SHIPPING LTD
, being a company incorporated in
accordance with the laws of the Republic of Liberia whose registered office is situated at 80, Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia (the "Borrower");
|
(2) |
THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
listed in Schedule
1, as lenders (the "
Lenders
");
|
(3) |
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
, a banking societé anonyme duly
incorporated under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 8, Othonos Street, Athens, Greece, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its office at 83, Akti Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece, as arranger (the "
Arranger
");
|
(4) |
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
, a banking societé anonyme duly
incorporated under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 8, Othonos Street, Athens, Greece, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its office at 83, Akti Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece, as account bank (the "
Account Bank
");
|
(5) |
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
, a banking societé anonyme duly
incorporated under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 8, Othonos Street, Athens, Greece, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its office at 83, Akti Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece, as agent (the "
Agent
"); and
|
(6) |
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
, a banking societé anonyme duly
incorporated under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 8, Othonos Street, Athens, Greece, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its office at 83, Akti Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece, as security trustee (the
"
Security
Trustee
").
|
1. |
PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
|
1.1 |
Purpose
|
1.2 |
Definitions.
Subject to Clause 1.5, in this Agreement:
|
|
(a) |
the Latest Permissible Drawdown Date or such later date as the Lenders may agree with the Borrower; or
|
|
(b) |
if earlier, the date on which the Total Commitments are fully borrowed, cancelled or terminated;
|
|
(a) |
all freight, hire and passage moneys, compensation payable to the owner of the Ship or (as the case may be) to the Security Trustee pursuant to the Assignment
in connection with the Ship in the event of requisition of the Ship for hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys and damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any
charterparty or other contract for the employment of the Ship;
|
|
(b) |
all moneys which are at any time payable under Insurances in respect of loss of earnings;
|
|
(c) |
contributions of any nature whatsoever in respect of general average; and
|
|
(d) |
if and whenever the Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above are pooled or shared with any other person, that
proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to the Ship;
|
|
(d) |
any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which
relates to any Environmental Law; or
|
|
(e) |
any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental Incident,
|
|
(a) |
any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from the Ship; or
|
|
(b) |
any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than the Ship and which involves a collision between the Ship and
such other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which the Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or the Ship or the owner of the
Ship and/or any operator or manager is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; or
|
|
(c) |
any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from the Ship and in connection with which the Ship is actually or
potentially liable to be arrested and/or where the owner of the Ship and/or any operator or manager of the Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action;
|
|
(a) |
sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance;
|
|
(b) |
any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any
other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of paragraph (a) above; or
|
|
(c) |
any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or
taxation authority in any other jurisdiction;
|
|
(a) |
in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from
sources within the US), 1 January 2014;
|
|
(b) |
in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(ii) of the Code (which relates to "gross proceeds" from the disposition of property of
a type that can produce interest from sources within the US), 1 January 2019; or
|
|
(c) |
in relation to a "passthru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b) above, 1 January 2019,
|
|
(a) |
this Agreement;
|
|
(b) |
the Drawdown Notice;
|
|
(c) |
the Agency and Trust Deed;
|
|
(d) |
the Guarantee;
|
|
(e) |
the Mortgage;
|
|
(f) |
the Assignment;
|
|
(g) |
the Accounts Pledges;
|
|
(h) |
the Approved Manager's Undertaking;
|
|
(i) |
the Guarantor's Undertaking-Assignment; and
|
|
(j) |
any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by the Borrower or any other person as security for, or to
establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the documents referred to in this definition;
|
|
(a) |
for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor;
|
|
(b) |
under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor;
|
|
(c) |
under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility made available to the debtor;
|
|
(d) |
under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money
by the debtor;
|
|
(e) |
under any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the agreement under which any such
transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; or
|
|
(f) |
under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within (a) to (e)
if the references to the debtor referred to the other person;
|
|
(a) |
all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries of the Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, which are effected in respect
of the Ship; and
|
|
(b) |
all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the
|
|
(a) |
a bank or financial institution listed in Schedule 1 and acting through its branch indicated in Schedule 1 (or through another branch notified to the Borrower
under Clause 26.14), its successor or assign, unless it has delivered a Transfer Certificate or Certificates covering the entire amounts of its Commitment and its Contribution; and
|
|
(b) |
the holder for the time being of a valid Transfer Certificate;
|
|
(a) |
the London interbank offered rate administrated by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or if ICE Benchmark Administration Limited ceases to act in the role
of administrating and publishing LIBOR rates, the equivalent rate published by a subsequently appointed administrator of LIBOR) for United States Dollars for the relevant period displayed on the appropriate page of the Reuters screen at
or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for such period (and if the agreed page is replaced or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the appropriate rate after
consultation with the Borrower); or
|
|
(b) |
if on such date no such rate is displayed, the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded upwards to the nearest 1/16th of one per cent) quoted to the Agent as the
rate for deposits of United States Dollars in an amount comparable to the amount in relation to which LIBOR is to be determined and for a period equivalent to the relevant period offered by
|
|
(a) |
before the Loan has been made, Lenders whose Commitments are equal to or greater than 66 ⅔ per cent. of the Total Commitments; and
|
|
(b) |
after the Loan has been made, Lenders whose Contributions are equal to or greater than 66 ⅔ per cent. of the Loan;
|
|
(a) |
Security Interests created by the Finance Documents;
|
|
(b) |
liens for unpaid crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice;
|
|
(c) |
liens for salvage;
|
|
(d) |
liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months' prepaid hire under any charter in relation to the Ship not prohibited by this Agreement;
|
|
(e) |
liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary course
of the operation, repair or maintenance of the Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the owner of the Ship in good faith by appropriate steps) and
subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 14.12(h);
|
|
(f) |
any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any action of the court or tribunal before whom such action is brought as security for
costs and expenses where the Borrower is prosecuting or defending such action in good faith by appropriate steps; and
|
|
(g) |
Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment other than taxes being contested in good faith by
appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made;
|
|
(a) |
England and Wales;
|
|
(b) |
the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed;
|
|
(c) |
a country in which the company's central management and control is or has recently been exercised;
|
|
(d) |
a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax;
|
|
(e) |
a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which
the company maintains a permanent place of business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and
|
|
(f) |
a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company or which would have such
jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c) above;
|
|
(a) |
that is listed on, owned or controlled by a person listed on, or acting on behalf of a person listed on, any Sanctions List; or
|
|
(b) |
is located, organised or resident in a Sanctioned Country; or
|
|
(c) |
otherwise a target of Sanctions (being a person with whom a US person or other national of a Sanctions Authority would be prohibited or restricted by law from
engaging in trade, business or other activities or against whom Sanctions are otherwise directed);
|
|
(a) |
the United States government;
|
|
(b) |
the United Nations;
|
|
(c) |
the European Union or any of its Member States, including without limitation, the United Kingdom;
|
|
(d) |
any country to which the Borrower, or any other member of the Group is bound; or
|
|
(e) |
the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing, including without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US
Department of Treasury (
OFAC
), the United States Department of State and Her Majesty's Treasury (
HMT
) (together
Sanctions Authorities
);
|
|
(a) |
a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind;
|
|
(b) |
the rights of the plaintiff under an action
in rem
in
which the vessel concerned has been arrested or a writ has been issued or similar step taken; and
|
|
(c) |
any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the
position in which B would have been had he held a
|
|
(a) |
actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship;
|
|
(b) |
any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of the Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than her proper value, a nominal
consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority, excluding a requisition for hire unless
she is within 40 days redelivered to the full control of the Ship's owner;
|
|
(c) |
any arrest, capture, seizure or detention of the Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless she is within 40 days redelivered to the full control of the
Ship's owner;
|
|
(a) |
in the case of an actual loss of the Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when the Ship was last heard of;
|
|
(b) |
in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Ship, the earliest of:
|
|
(i) |
the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and
|
|
(ii) |
the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the owner of the Ship, with the Ship's insurers in
|
|
(c) |
in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Agent that the event constituting the total loss
occurred;
|
|
(a) |
a Party which is resident for tax purposes in the United States of America; or
|
|
(b) |
a Party some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the United States for US Federal income tax purposes.
|
1.3 |
Construction of certain terms
. In this Agreement:
|
1.4 |
Meaning of
“
month
”
.
A period of one or more "months" ends on the day in the
relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("
the numerically
corresponding day
"), but:
|
(a) |
on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business
Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or
|
(b) |
on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of
the period has no numerically corresponding day;
|
1.5 |
Meaning of
“
subsidiary
”
.
A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:
|
(a) |
a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly
owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P; or
|
(b) |
P has direct or indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attached to the issued shares of S; or
|
(c) |
P has the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S; or
|
(d) |
P otherwise has the direct or indirect power to ensure that the affairs of S are conducted in accordance with the wishes of P;
|
1.6 |
General Interpretation.
|
(a) |
In this Agreement:
|
|
(i) |
references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this
Agreement or otherwise;
|
|
(ii) |
references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or
otherwise; and
|
|
(iii) |
words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa.
|
(b) |
Clauses 1.1 to 1.4 and paragraph (a) of this Clause 1.5 apply unless the contrary intention appears.
|
(c) |
References in Clause 1.1 to a document being in the form of a particular Appendix include references to that form with any modifications to that form
|
(d) |
The clause headings shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
|
1.7 |
Event of Default.
A Potential Event of Default and/or
an Event of Default) are "
continuing
" if either of them has not been remedied or waived.
|
2. |
FACILITY
|
2.1 |
Amount of facility.
Subject to the satisfaction of all
conditions precedent and in reliance on the representations and warranties made in or in accordance with them and furthermore subject to Capital Control Approval and the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders shall make
available to the Borrower in one advance the principal amount of up to US$ 15,000,000.
|
2.2 |
Lenders' participations in Loan.
Subject to the other
provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in the Loan in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.
|
2.3 |
Purpose of Loan.
The Borrower undertakes with each
Creditor Party to use the Loan only for the purpose stated in the preamble to this Agreement.
|
3. |
POSITION OF THE LENDERS
|
3.1 |
Interests of Lenders several.
The rights of the
Lenders under this Agreement (but without prejudice to the provisions of this Agreement relating to or requiring action by the Majority Lenders) are several; accordingly each Lender shall have the right to protect and enforce its rights
arising out of this Agreement and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender and/or any other Creditor Party to be joined as an additional party in any proceedings for this purpose.
|
3.2 |
Independent action by a Lender.
None of the Lenders
shall enforce, exercise any rights, remedies or powers or grant any consents or releases under or pursuant to, or otherwise have a direct recourse to the security and/or guarantees constituted by any of the Finance Documents without the
prior written consent of the Majority Lenders but, provided such consent has been obtained, it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceedings for this purpose.
|
3.3 |
Obligations of Lenders several.
The obligations of the
Lenders under this Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement to which it is a party shall not result in:
|
(a) |
the obligations of the other Lenders being increased; nor
|
(b) |
the Borrower, any Security Party, any other Lender being discharged (in whole or in part) from its obligations under any Finance Document,
|
3.4 |
Parties bound by certain actions of Majority Lenders.
Every Lender and any other Creditor Party, the Borrower and each Security Party shall be bound by:
|
(a) |
any determination made, or action taken, by the Majority Lenders under any provision of a Finance Document;
|
(b) |
any instruction or authorisation given by the Majority Lenders to the Agent or the Security Trustee under or in connection with any Finance Document;
|
3.5 |
Reliance on action of Agent.
The Borrower and each
Security Party shall be entitled to assume that the Majority Lenders have duly given any instruction or authorisation which, under any provision of a Finance Document, is required in relation to any action which the Agent has taken or
is about to take.
|
3.6 |
Construction.
In Clauses 3.4 and 3.5 references to
action taken include (without limitation) the granting of any waiver or consent, an approval of any document and an agreement to any matter.
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4. |
DRAWDOWN
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4.1 |
Request for Loan.
Subject to the following conditions,
the Borrower may request the Loan to be advanced by ensuring that the Agent receives the Drawdown Notice not later than 10.00 a.m. (London time) 3 Business Days prior to the intended Drawdown Date.
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4.2 |
Availability.
The conditions referred to in Clause 4.1
are that:
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(a) |
the Drawdown Date has to be a Business Day up to and including the Latest Permissible Drawdown Date;
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(b) |
the amount of the Loan shall not exceed the lesser of (i) US$15,000,000 and (ii) 60% of the market value of the Ship as at the Drawdown Date; and
|
(c) |
the Borrower has complied with the provisions of Clause 9.1 with respect to the Loan.
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4.3 |
Notification to Lenders of receipt of the Drawdown Notice.
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received the Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:
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(a) |
the amount of the Loan and the Drawdown Date;
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(b) |
the amount of that Lender's participation in the Loan; and
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(c) |
the duration of the first Interest Period.
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4.4 |
Drawdown Notice irrevocable.
The Drawdown Notice must
be signed by a director or other authorised person of the Borrower; and once served, the Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Agent, acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders.
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4.5 |
Lenders to make available Contributions.
Subject to
the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall, on and with value on the Drawdown Date, make available to the Agent for the account of the Borrower the amount due from that Lender on the Drawdown Date under Clause 2.2.
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4.6 |
Disbursement of Loan.
Subject to the provisions of
this Agreement, the Agent shall on the Drawdown Date pay to the Borrower the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.5; and that payment to the Borrower shall be made:
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(a) |
to the account which the Borrower specify in the Drawdown Notice; and
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(b) |
in the same funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders.
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4.7 |
Disbursement of Loan to third party.
The relevant
payment by the Agent under Clause 4.6 shall constitute the advancement of the Loan and the Borrower shall thereupon become indebted, as principal and direct obligors, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's Contribution.
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5. |
INTEREST
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5.1 |
Payment of normal interest.
Subject to the provisions
of this Agreement, interest on the Loan in respect of each Interest Period shall be paid by the Borrower on the last day of that Interest Period.
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5.2 |
Normal rate of interest.
Subject to the provisions of
this Agreement, the rate of interest on the Loan in respect of an Interest Period shall be the aggregate of the Margin and LIBOR for that Interest Period.
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5.3 |
Payment of accrued interest.
In the case of an
Interest Period longer than 3 months, accrued interest shall be paid every 3 months during that Interest Period and on the last day of that Interest Period.
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5.4 |
Notification of Interest Periods and rates of normal interest. The Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of:
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(a) |
each rate of interest; and
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(b) |
the duration of each Interest Period;
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5.5 |
Market disruption.
The following provisions of this
Clause 5 apply if:
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(a) |
at least one Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, Lenders having Contributions together amounting to more than 40 per cent. of the Loan (or,
if the Loan has not been advanced, Commitments amounting to more than 40 per cent. of the Total Commitments) notify the Agent that LIBOR fixed by the Agent would not accurately reflect the cost to those Lenders of funding their
respective Contributions (or any part of them) during the Interest Period in the London Interbank Dollar Market at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period (provided
always that any such notifications by any such Lenders shall be duly substantiated); or
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(b) |
at least one Business Day before the start of an Interest Period, the Agent is notified by a Lender (the "
Affected Lender
") that for any reason it is unable to obtain Dollars in the London Interbank Market in order to fund its Contribution (or any part of it) during the Interest Period.
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5.6 |
Notification of market disruption.
The Agent shall
promptly notify the Borrower and each of the Lenders stating the circumstances falling within Clause 5.5 which have caused its notice to be given.
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5.7 |
Suspension of drawdown.
If the Agent's notice under
Clause 5.6 is served before the Loan is advanced:
|
(a) |
in a case falling within paragraph (a) of Clause 5.5, the Lenders' obligations to advance the Loan;
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(b) |
in a case falling within paragraph (b) of Clause 5.5, the Affected Lender's obligation to participate in the Loan;
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5.8 |
Negotiation of alternative rate of interest.
If the
Agent's notice under Clause 5.6 is served after the Loan is advanced, the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, within the 30 Business Days after the
date on which the Agent serves its notice under Clause 5.6 (the "
Negotiation Period
"), an alternative interest rate or (as the case
may be) an alternative basis for the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender to fund or continue to fund their or its Contribution during the Interest Period concerned.
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5.9 |
Application of agreed alternative rate of interest.
Any alternative interest rate or an alternative basis which is agreed during the Negotiation Period shall take effect in accordance with the terms agreed.
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5.10 |
Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement.
If an alternative interest rate or alternative basis is not agreed within the Negotiation Period, and the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the Negotiation Period, then the Agent shall, with the agreement of each
Lender or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender, set an interest period and interest rate representing the cost of funding of the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender in Dollars or in any available currency of their or
its Contribution plus the Margin; and the procedure provided for by this Clause 5.10 shall be repeated if the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the interest period so set by the Agent.
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5.11 |
Notice of prepayment.
If the Borrower does not agree
with an interest rate set by the Agent under Clause 5.10, the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 15 Business Days' notice of its intention to prepay the Loan at the end of the interest period set by the Agent.
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5.12 |
Prepayment
;
termination of Commitments.
A notice under Clause 5.11 shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders or (as the case may require) the Affected Lender of
the Borrower's notice of intended prepayment; and:
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(a) |
on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Total Commitments or (as the case may require) the Commitment of the Affected Lender shall be
cancelled; and
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(b) |
on the last Business Day of the interest period set by the Agent, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Loan or, as the case may be, the
Affected Lender's Contribution, together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin.
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5.13 |
Application of prepayment.
The provisions of Clause 8
shall apply in relation to the prepayment.
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6. |
INTEREST PERIODS
|
6.1 |
Commencement of Interest Periods.
The initial Interest
Period shall commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period;
|
6.2 |
Duration of normal Interest Periods.
Subject to
Clauses 6.3 and 6.4, each Interest Period shall be:
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(a) |
3 or 6 months as notified by the Borrower to the Agent not later than 11.00 am (London time) 3 Business Days before the commencement of the initial Interest
Period; or
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(b) |
3 months, if the Borrower fails to notify the Agent by the time specified in paragraph (a); or
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(c) |
such other period as the Agent may, with the Majority Lenders' authority, agree with the Borrower.
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6.3 |
Duration of Interest Periods for repayment instalments.
In
respect of an amount due to be repaid under Clause 8 on a particular Repayment Date, an Interest Period shall end on that Repayment Date. No Interest Period shall extend beyond the final Repayment Date.
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6.4 |
Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period
selected.
If, after the Borrower has selected and the Lenders have agreed to an Interest Period, any Lender notifies the Agent by 10:00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day before the commencement of the Interest
Period that it is not satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the London Interbank Market when the Interest Period commences, then that Interest Period shall have such
duration as the Agent after having consulted with the Borrower may determine.
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7. |
DEFAULT INTEREST
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7.1 |
Payment of default interest on overdue amounts.
The
Borrower shall pay interest in accordance with the following provisions of this Clause 7 on any amount payable by the Borrower under any Finance Document which the Agent, the Security Trustee or any other Creditor Party does not receive
on or before the relevant due date for payment thereunder, that is:
|
(a) |
the date on which such Finance Documents provide that such amount is due for payment; or
|
(b) |
if a Finance Document provides that such amount is payable on demand, three (3) days following the date on which the demand is served; or
|
(c) |
if such amount has become immediately due and payable under Clause 19.4, the date on which it became immediately due and payable.
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7.2 |
Default rate of interest and its calculation.
Interest
shall accrue on an overdue amount from (and including) the relevant date until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be two point fifty per cent (2.50%) per annum
above the Margin plus, in respect of successive periods of any duration (including at call) up to 3 months which the Agent may select from time to time:
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|
(i) |
LIBOR; or
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|
(ii) |
if the Agent determines that Dollar deposits for any such period are not being made available to a Lender or (as the case may be) Lenders by leading banks in
the London Interbank Market in the ordinary course of business, a rate from time to time determined by the Agent by reference to the cost of funds to the Agent from such other sources as the Agent may from time to time determine.
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7.3 |
Notification of interest periods and default rates.
The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Borrower of each interest rate determined by the Agent under Clause 7.2 and of each period selected by the Agent for the purposes of that Clause; but this shall not be taken to imply
that the Borrower is liable to pay such interest only with effect from the date of the Agent's notification.
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7.4 |
Payment of accrued default interest.
Subject to the
other provisions of this Agreement, any interest due under this Clause shall be paid on the last day of the period by reference to which it was determined; and the payment shall be made to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Party
to which the overdue amount is due.
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7.5 |
Compounding of default interest.
Any such interest
which is not paid at the end of the period by reference to which it was determined shall thereupon be compounded.
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8. |
REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT
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8.1 |
Amount of repayment instalments.
The Borrower shall
repay the Loan by twenty eight (28) consecutive equal quarterly instalments, each of which shall be in the amount of two hundred and thirty five thousand Dollars (US$235,000) followed by a balloon payment of eight million four hundred
twenty thousand Dollars (US$8,420,000).
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8.2 |
Repayment Dates.
The first instalment shall be repaid
on the date falling three (3) months after the Drawdown Date and in any case not later than 25 January 2019, each subsequent instalment shall be repaid at three monthly intervals thereafter and the balloon payment shall be repaid
concurrently with the twenty eighth and final repayment instalment, which shall be repaid on the final Repayment Date being the date falling on the earlier of (i) the seventh annual anniversary of the Drawdown Date and (ii) the Final
Maturity Date.
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8.3 |
Final Repayment Date.
On the final Repayment Date, the
Borrower shall additionally pay to the Lenders all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.
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8.4 |
Voluntary prepayment.
Subject to the following
conditions, the Borrower may prepay the whole or part of the Loan on the last day of an Interest Period.
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8.5 |
Conditions for voluntary prepayment.
The conditions
referred to in Clause 8.4 are that:
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(a) |
a partial prepayment shall be in the minimum amount of United States Dollars One Hundred Thousand (US$100,000) or a multiple thereof;
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(b) |
the Agent has received from the Borrower at least ten (10) Business Days prior written confirmative and irrevocable notice specifying the amount to be prepaid
and the date on which the prepayment is to be made (such date shall be the last day of an Interest Period); and
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(c) |
the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Agent that any consent required by the Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment
has been obtained and remains in force, and that any requirement relevant to this Agreement which affects the Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with.
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8.6 |
Effect of notice of prepayment.
A prepayment notice
may not be withdrawn or amended without the consent of the Agent, given with the authority of the Majority Lenders, and the amount specified in the prepayment notice shall become due and payable by the Borrower on the date for
prepayment specified in the prepayment notice.
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8.7 |
Notification of notice of prepayment.
The Agent shall
notify the Lenders promptly upon receiving a prepayment notice, and shall provide any Lender which so requests with a copy of any document delivered by the Borrower under Clause 8.5(c).
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8.8 |
Mandatory prepayment.
The Borrower shall, within one
hundred eighty (180) days of the Ship becoming a Total Loss or such other later day as may be agreed in writing by the Lender, or upon the Ship being sold, with the prior written consent of the Lender, fully prepay the Loan together
with accrued interest to the date of prepayment and all other sums payable by the Borrower to the Lender pursuant to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents (and if the Commitment or any portion thereof has not been drawn yet, it
shall be reduced to zero).
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8.9 |
Amounts payable on prepayment.
A prepayment shall be
made together with accrued interest (and any other amount payable under Clause 21 below or otherwise) in respect of the Loan and, if the prepayment is not made on the last day of an Interest Period, together with any sums payable under
Clause 21.2 but without premium or penalty).
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8.10 |
Application of partial prepayment.
Each partial
prepayment shall be applied against the repayment instalments specified in Clause 8.1 (including the balloon payment) in inverse order of maturity starting from the balloon payment.
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8.11 |
No reborrowing
. No amount prepaid or repaid may be
re-borrowed.
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9. |
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
|
9.1 |
Documents, fees and no default.
Each Lender's
obligation to contribute to the Loan is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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(a) |
that, on or before the date of signing of this Agreement, the Agent receives the documents described in Part A of Schedule 3 in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent and its lawyers;
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(b) |
that, on or before the date of drawdown of the Loan, the Lender receives the documents described in Part B in Schedule 3 in form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent and its lawyers;
|
(c) |
that, on or before the service of the Drawdown Notice, the Agent receives the relevant fees payable pursuant to Clause 20.1 and has received payment of the
expenses referred to in Clause 20.2;
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(d) |
that at the date of the Drawdown Notice, at the Drawdown Date on the first day of each Interest Period and on the date of each Compliance Certificate:
|
|
(i) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the borrowing of the Loan;
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|
(ii) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 10 and those of the Borrower or any Security Party which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be true
and not misleading in any material respect if repeated on each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing;
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(iii) |
none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 5.5 has occurred and is continuing;
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|
(iv) |
there has not been a Material Adverse Change in the financial positon or state of affairs of the Borrower and/or the Group from that disclosed to the Agent
prior to the date of this Agreement;
|
(e) |
that, if the ratio set out in Clause 15.1 were applied immediately following the advancement of the Loan, the Borrower would not be obliged to provide
additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause; and
|
(f) |
that the Agent has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance
Documents which the Agent (acting reasonably) may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, request by notice to the Borrower prior to the Drawdown Date.
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9.2 |
Waiver of conditions precedent.
If the Majority
Lenders, at their discretion, permit the Loan to be advanced before certain of the conditions referred to in
|
10. |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
|
10.1 |
General.
The Borrower represents and warrants to each
Creditor Party as follows:
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10.2 |
Status.
The Borrower is duly incorporated and validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its country of incorporation; neither the Borrower nor any Security Party is a FATCA FFI or a US Tax Obligor.
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10.3 |
Share capital and ownership.
The Borrower is
incorporated in Liberia and has an authorised share capital divided into 500 registered shares; the legal title and ownership of all those shares is held, free of any Security Interest or other claim, by the Guarantor.
|
10.4 |
Corporate power.
The Borrower has the corporate
capacity, and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents necessary for it:
|
(a) |
to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party; and
|
(b) |
to borrow under this Agreement and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a Party.
|
10.5 |
Consents in force.
All the consents referred to in
Clause 10.4 remain in force and nothing has occurred which makes any of them liable to revocation.
|
10.6 |
Legal validity
;
effective Security Interests.
The Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party, do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and,
where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):
|
(a) |
constitute that Borrower's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and
|
(b) |
create legal, valid and binding Security Interests enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their terms,
relate, subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors' rights generally.
|
10.7 |
No third party Security Interests.
Without limiting
the generality of Clause 10.6, at the time of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document:
|
(a) |
the Borrower will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and
|
(b) |
no third party will have any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to any
asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms, relates.
|
10.8 |
No conflicts.
The execution by the Borrower of each
Finance Document to which it is a party, and the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan, and its
|
(a) |
any law or regulation in any Pertinent Jurisdiction; or
|
(b) |
the constitutional documents of the Borrower; or
|
(c) |
any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on the Borrower or any of its assets, and will not have a Material Adverse Effect.
|
10.9 |
No withholding taxes.
All payments which the Borrower
is liable to make under the Finance Documents to which it is a party may be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any Pertinent Jurisdiction.
|
10.10 |
No default.
No Event of Default or Potential Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing.
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10.11 |
Information.
All information which has been provided
in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Security Party to any Creditor Party in connection with any Finance Document satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.6; all audited and consolidated accounts which have been so provided
satisfied the requirements of Clause 11.7; and there has been no Material Adverse Change in the financial position or state of affairs of the Borrower from that disclosed in the latest of those accounts which constitutes a Material
Adverse Effect.
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10.12 |
No litigation.
No legal or administrative action
involving the Borrower or any Security Party (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code) has been commenced or taken or, to the Borrower's knowledge, is likely to be commenced or taken
which, in either case and if determined adversely, would be likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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10.13 |
Compliance with certain undertakings.
At the date of
this Agreement, the Borrower is in compliance with Clauses 11.2, 11.5, 11.9, 11.11 and 11.17.
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10.14 |
Taxes paid.
The Borrower has paid all taxes applicable
to, or imposed on or in relation to it and its business.
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10.15 |
ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance.
All requirements of
the ISM Code and the ISPS Code as they relate to the Borrower, the Approved Manager and the Ship have been complied with.
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10.16 |
No Money Laundering.
Without prejudice to the
generality of Clause 2.3, in relation to the borrowing by the Borrower of the Loan, the performance and discharge of its obligations and liabilities under the Finance Documents, and the transactions and other arrangements effected or
contemplated by the Finance Documents to which the Borrower is a party, the Borrower confirms that (i) it is acting for its own account, (ii) that it will use the proceeds of the Loan for its own benefit, under its full responsibility
and exclusively for the purposes specified in this Agreement and (iii) that the foregoing will not involve or lead to contravention of any law, official requirements or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat "money
laundering"
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10.17 |
Patriot Act.
To the extent applicable to the
Borrower, the Borrower is in compliance with (i) the Trading with the Enemy Act, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R., Subtitle B, Chapter V) and any other enabling
legislation or executive order relating thereto and (ii) the PATRIOT Act. No part of the proceeds of the Loan will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any government official or employee, political party, official of a
political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of 1977, as amended.
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11. |
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
|
11.1 |
General.
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor
Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 11 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authority of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit.
|
11.2 |
Title; negative pledge; pari passu.
The Borrower will:
|
(a) |
ensure that the Ship will maintain her present ownership, management, control and ultimate beneficial ownership and the Borrower will hold the legal title to,
and own the entire beneficial interest in the Ship's Insurances and Earnings, free from all Security Interests and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance Documents and except for Permitted
Security Interests. For the avoidance of doubt the Lenders consent and agree to any changes relating to the shareholders of the Guarantor's trading shares in the normal course of business and confirm that such changes do not violate the
terms of this Agreement;
|
(b) |
not create or permit to arise any Security Interest (except for Permitted Security Interests) over any of its asset, present or future; and
|
(c) |
procure that its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party to will rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future
unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law.
|
11.3 |
No disposal of assets.
The Borrower will not (without
the prior written consent of the Agent, acting with authority from the Majority Lenders) transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of:
|
(a) |
all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not; or
|
(b) |
any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation.
|
11.4 |
No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred.
The Borrower will not incur any liability or obligation except (i) liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party and (ii) liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of its business of
operating and chartering the Ship.
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11.5 |
Information provided to be accurate.
All financial and
other information which is provided in writing by or on behalf of the Borrower under or in connection with any Finance Document will be true and not misleading in any material respect and will not omit any material fact or
consideration.
|
11.6 |
Provision of financial statements.
The Borrower will:
|
(a) |
procure that the Guarantor furnishes the Agent, with annual, audited and consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor within 180 days after the end of
the financial year concerned, and prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, such obligation commencing from 1
st
January 2018 or latest from 31
st
May 2018 (being the date of the Guarantor's spin out);
|
(b) |
send to the Agent, together with the Accounting Information referred to in paragraph (a) above, a Compliance Certificate; and
|
(c) |
provide the Agent from time to time as the Agent may reasonably request and in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent with any information on the
financial condition, commitments, business and operations of the Borrower and any other Security Party.
|
11.7 |
Form of financial statements.
All financial statements
delivered under Clause 11.6 will:
|
(a) |
give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Guarantor, or as the case may be, of the Borrower at the date of those accounts and of the profit for
the period to which those accounts relate; and
|
(b) |
fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Guarantor, or as the case may be, of the Borrower for the period to which those accounts
relate,
|
11.8 |
Consents.
The Borrower will maintain in force and
promptly obtain or renew, and will promptly send certified copies to the Agent of, all consents required:
|
(a) |
for the Borrower and any Security Party to perform their respective obligations under each of the Finance Documents to which each of them is a party;
|
(b) |
for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document to which the Borrower and any Security Party are party,
|
11.9 |
Maintenance of Security Interests. The Borrower will:
|
(a) |
at their own cost, do all that they reasonably can to ensure that any Finance Document validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it
purports to create; and
|
(b) |
without limiting the generality of paragraph (a) above, at their own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or
authority in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give
|
11.10 |
Notification of litigation.
The Borrower will provide
the Agent with details of any legal or administrative action involving the Borrower, the Approved Manager and any other Security Party or the Ship, her Earnings or her Insurances as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes
apparent to the Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered as having a material adverse effect on the business, assets or financial condition of the
Borrower or as affecting the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document.
|
11.11 |
Principal place of business.
The Borrower will not
establish, or do anything as a result of which it would be deemed to have, a place of business in the United Kingdom or the United States of America.
|
11.12 |
Confirmation of no default.
The Borrower will, not
more than once per quarter and within 2 Business Days after service by the Agent of a written request, serve on the Agent a notice which is signed by at least one (1) director of the Borrower and which:
|
(a) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred; or
|
(b) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given.
|
11.13 |
Notification of default.
The Borrower will notify the
Agent as soon as the Borrower becomes aware of:
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(a) |
the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default which is continuing; or
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(b) |
any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred,
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11.14 |
Provision of further information.
The Borrower will
inform the Agent of all major financial developments in the Borrower and the Guarantor such as new loans, refinancing/restructuring of existing loans, new acquisitions and sales, contracts for term employment of the Ship and furthermore
will, as soon as practicable after receiving the request, provide the Agent with any additional financial or other information relating to:
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(a) |
the Borrower, the Ship, her Insurances or her Earnings; or
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(b) |
any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document,
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11.15 |
Provision of customer information.
The Borrower will
produce such documents and evidence as the Lenders shall from time to time require, based on applicable laws and regulations from time to time and the Lenders'
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11.16 |
Ownership.
The Borrower or, as the case may be, any
other corporate Security Party shall ensure that, throughout the Security Period without the prior written consent of the Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, there shall be no change in the Directors and Officers in the
Borrower and in the Chief Executive Officer(s) of the Guarantor and moreover the Borrower shall ensure that no change shall be made directly or indirectly in the ownership of the Borrower, the beneficial ownership of the Guarantor, or
the control of the Borrower without the prior written consent of the Agent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. For the avoidance of doubt the Lenders consent and agree to any changes relating to the Guarantor's trading shares in
the normal course of business and confirm that such changes do not violate the terms of this Agreement.
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11.17 |
Sanctions
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(a) |
no member of the Group, no Security Party nor any of their subsidiaries, nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees (nor, to the knowledge of
such Security Party, any of their affiliates, agents or representatives):
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|
(i) |
is a Restricted Party;
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(ii) |
is owned or controlled by or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or for the benefit of, a Restricted Party, and none of such persons owns or controls a
Restricted Party;
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|
(iii) |
owns or controls a Restricted Party; or
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(iv) |
has received notice of or is aware of or is subject to any claim,proceedings, formal notice or investigation with respect to Sanctions;
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(b) |
no proceeds of the Loan or any part thereof shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person to fund
any trade, business or other activities involving or for the benefit of a Restricted Party or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is a Sanctioned Country nor shall they be otherwise directly or indirectly,
applied in a manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Security Party or for any purpose prohibited by Sanctions;
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(c) |
no Security Party nor any of their subsidiaries, nor any of their respective directors, officers, employees (nor, to the knowledge of such Security Party, any
of their affiliates, agents or representatives) has taken any action resulting in a violation by such persons of Sanctions or which constitutes or would constitute any such violation by the Borrower or any Security Party.
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11.18 |
Provision of copies and translation of documents.
The
Borrower will supply the Agent with a sufficient number of copies of the documents referred to above to provide 1 copy for each Creditor Party.
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12. |
CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS
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12.1 |
General.
The Borrower also undertakes with each
Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 12 at all times during the Security Period except as the Agent may, with the authority of the Majority Lenders, otherwise permit.
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12.2 |
Maintenance of status.
The Borrower will maintain its
separate corporate existence and remain in good standing under the laws of its incorporation.
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12.3 |
Negative undertakings.
The Borrower will not:
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(a) |
carry on any type of business other than the ownership, chartering and operation of the Ship in accordance with its constitutional documents;
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(b) |
make any form of distribution (other than payment of a dividend pursuant to Clause 12.4) or effect any form of redemption, purchase, reduction or return of
share capital or issue, allot or grant any person a right to any shares in its capital; or
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(c) |
without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), which consent and instructions will not be unreasonably
be withheld, incur any debt or provide any form of credit or issue any guarantee to any person, except in the ordinary course of business; or
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(d) |
without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), open or maintain any account with any bank or financial
institution except accounts with the Account Bank for the purposes of the Finance Documents and accounts notified to the Agent prior to the date of this Agreement; or
|
(e) |
acquire any shares or other securities other than US or UK Treasury bills and certificates of deposit issued by major North American or European banks, or
enter into any transaction in a derivative; or
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(f) |
enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation, or change its name; or
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(g) |
purchase any further assets (other than the Ship owned by the Borrower), either directly or indirectly (through subsidiaries); or
|
(h) |
without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders), which consent and instructions will not be unreasonably
be withheld, incur any other Financial Indebtedness. Any shareholder loans, inter company loans, affiliate loans and third party loans to the Borrower shall be fully subordinated to the rights of the Creditor Parties under the Loan
Agreement and the Finance Documents, on terms satisfactory to the Agent in its sole discretion.
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12.4 |
Dividends.
The Borrower may declare or pay any
dividends or other distribution as long as no Event of Default has occurred which is continuing and such declaration of payment would not result to an Event of Default.
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12.5 |
Liquidity.
The Borrower will ensure that throughout
the Security Period the Borrower or any other entity acceptable to the Lender maintains with the Lenders or the Agent or the Account Bank the Minimum Liquidity
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12.6 |
Debt to equity ratio.
The Borrower will
ensure that the Guarantor's total debt net of cash will not exceed 75% of the total market value of its assets.
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12.7 |
Minimum Net Worth.
The Borrower will ensure
that
the Guarantor's minimum Net
Worth
listed in Nasdaq will be United States Dollars fifteen million (USD15,000,000).
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12.8 |
Compliance Check.
On each Compliance Date, compliance
with the undertakings contained in Clause 15.1 shall be determined by reference to the Accounting Information for the twelve month period in each Financial Year of the Borrower (commencing with the twelve month period commencing on 1
January 2018 or latest on 31
st
May 2018 (being the date of the Guarantor's spin out)) delivered to the Agent pursuant to the Agreement. At the same time as it delivers that Accounting Information, the Borrower shall deliver
to the Agent a Compliance Certificate signed by a director of the Borrower. If, prior to the delivery of a Compliance Certificate, the Borrower becomes aware that such undertakings will not be complied with, the Borrower shall
immediately notify the Agent thereof.
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12.9 |
Application of FATCA
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13. |
INSURANCE
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13.1 |
General.
The Borrower undertakes with each Creditor
Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 13 at all times during the Security Period, except as the Agent may (with the authority of the Majority Lenders), otherwise permit.
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13.2 |
Maintenance of obligatory insurances.
The Borrower
shall keep the Ship insured at the expense of the Borrower against:
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(a) |
fire and usual marine risks (including hull and machinery and excess risks);
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(b) |
war risks (including war protection and indemnity liabilities, terrorism, piracy and confiscation); and
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(c) |
protection and indemnity risks (including cover for oil pollution liability risks); and
|
(d) |
loss of hire; and
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(e) |
any other risks against which the Majority Lenders consider, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, it would in
the opinion of the Majority Lenders be reasonable for the Borrower to insure and which are specified by the Security Trustee by notice to the Borrower.
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13.3 |
Terms of obligatory insurances.
The Borrower shall
effect such insurances:
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(a) |
in Dollars;
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(b) |
in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, in an amount on an agreed value basis at least the greater of (i) 120% of the amount of the Loan and
(ii) the Market Value of the Ship;
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(c) |
in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection
and indemnity club entry (with the international group of protection and indemnity clubs) and the international marine insurance market (currently US$1,000,000,000);
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(d) |
in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full value and tonnage of the Ship;
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(e) |
on approved terms; and
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(f) |
through approved brokers and with approved insurance companies and/or underwriters and/or war risks associations, and protection and indemnity risks shall be
placed with a member of the International Group of P&I Clubs.
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13.4 |
Further protections for the Creditor Parties.
In
addition to the terms set out in Clause 13.3, the Borrower shall procure that the obligatory insurances shall:
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(a) |
be in the name of the Borrower or whenever the Security Trustee so requires, name (or be amended to name) the Security Trustee as additional named assured for
its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with full waiver of rights of subrogation against the Security Trustee, but without the Security Trustee thereby being liable to pay (but having the right to pay) premiums,
calls or other assessments in respect of such insurance;
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(b) |
procure that the insurers shall note the Security Trustee's interest and endorse the relevant notices of assignment and Loss Payable Clause on the relevant
certificates of entry or policies and shall furnish the Security Trustee with a copy of such certificates of entry or policies;
|
(c) |
use their best endeavors to provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Security Trustee shall be made
without set‑off, counterclaim or deductions or condition whatsoever;
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(d) |
provide that following an Event of Default which is continuing the Security Trustee may make proof of loss if the Borrower fails to do so.
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13.5 |
Renewal of obligatory insurances
. The Borrower shall:
|
(a) |
at least 21 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance:
|
|
(i) |
notify the Security Trustee of the brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom the Borrower
proposes to renew that insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and
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|
(ii) |
in case of any material change in insurance cover, obtain the Majority Lenders' approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i) above;
|
(b) |
at least 14 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew the insurance; and
|
(c) |
procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall before the expiry
of the current insurances notify the Security Trustee in writing of the terms and conditions of the renewal.
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13.6 |
Copies of policies
;
letters of undertaking.
The Borrower shall ensure that all approved brokers provide the Security Trustee with copies of all policies relating to the obligatory
insurances which they effect or renew and of a letter or letters or undertaking in a form required by the Security Trustee and including undertakings by the approved brokers that:
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(a) |
they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 13.4;
|
(b) |
they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Security Trustee in accordance with the said loss payable clause;
|
(c) |
they will advise the Security Trustee immediately of any material change to the terms of the obligatory insurances;
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(d) |
they will notify the Security Trustee, not less than 7 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice
of renewal instructions from the Borrower or its agents and, in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Security Trustee of the terms of the instructions; and
|
(e) |
if the insurances form part of a fleet cover, they will not set off any claims on the Ship against premiums due for other vessels under the fleet cover or
against premiums due for other insurances; neither will they cancel the insurance cover of the Ship for reason of non-payment of such premiums; and they will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of the Ship forthwith
upon being so requested by the Security Trustee.
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13.7 |
Copies of certificates of entry.
The Borrower shall
ensure that, from any protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations in which the Ship is entered, the Security Trustee is provided with:
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(a) |
a certified copy of the certificate of entry for the Ship;
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(b) |
a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Security Trustee; and
|
(c) |
a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant
certifying authority in relation to the Ship.
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13.8 |
Deposit of original policies.
The Borrower shall
ensure that all policies relating to obligatory insurances are deposited with the approved brokers through which the insurances are effected or renewed.
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13.9 |
Payment of premiums.
The Borrower shall punctually pay
all premiums or other sums payable in respect of the obligatory insurances and produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Security Trustee.
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13.10 |
Guarantees.
The Borrower shall ensure that any
guarantees required by a protection and indemnity or war risks association are promptly issued and remain in full force and effect.
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13.11 |
Restrictions on employment.
The Borrower shall not
employ the Ship owned by it, nor permit it to be employed, outside the cover provided by any obligatory insurances.
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13.12 |
Compliance with terms of insurances.
The Borrower
shall not do or omit to do (or permit to be done or not to be done) any act or thing which would or might render any obligatory insurance invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable or render any sum payable thereunder repayable in whole
or in part; and, in particular:
|
(a) |
the Borrower shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and
(without limiting the obligation contained in Clause 13.7(c) above) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Security Trustee has not given its prior approval;
|
(b) |
the Borrower shall not make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or manager or operator of the Ship approved by the
underwriters of the obligatory insurances; and
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(c) |
the Borrower shall not employ the Ship, nor allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory insurances,
without first obtaining the consent of the insurers and complying with any requirements (as to extra premium or otherwise) which the insurers specify.
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13.13 |
Alteration to terms of insurances.
The Borrower shall
neither make or agree to any material alteration to the terms of any obligatory insurance or waive any right relating to any obligatory insurance without the prior written consent of the Security Trustee (not to be unreasonably
withheld).
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13.14 |
Settlement of claims.
The Borrower shall not settle,
compromise or abandon any claim under any obligatory insurance for Total Loss or for a Major Casualty without the prior written consent of the Security Trustee (which consent will not be unreasonably withheld), and shall do all things
necessary and provide all documents, evidence and information to enable the Security Trustee to collect or recover any moneys which at any time become payable in respect of the obligatory insurances in accordance with the Finance
Documents.
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13.15 |
Provision of copies of communications.
The Borrower
shall, if required by the Security Trustee, provide the Security Trustee, at the time of each such communication, copies of all material written communications between the Borrower and:
|
(a) |
the approved brokers; and
|
(b) |
the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and
|
(c) |
the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to:
|
|
(i) |
the Borrower's obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional premiums
or calls; and
|
|
(ii) |
any credit arrangements made between the Borrower and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above relating wholly or partly to the effecting
or maintenance of the obligatory insurances .
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13.16 |
Provision of information.
In addition, the Borrower
shall promptly provide the Security Trustee (or any persons which it may designate) with any information which the Security Trustee (or any such designated person) reasonably requests for the purpose of:
|
(a) |
obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be
effected; and/or
|
(b) |
effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 13.17 below or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any
such insurances,
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13.17 |
Mortgagee's interest, additional perils.
The Agent
shall be entitled from time to time to effect, maintain and renew a mortgagee's interest additional perils pollution insurance and a mortgagees' interest insurance in an amount equal to 110% of the Loan and otherwise on such terms,
through such insurers and generally in such manner as the Lenders may from time to time consider appropriate and the Borrower shall upon demand against appropriate vouchers/invoices fully indemnify the Lenders in respect of all premiums
and other expenses which are incurred in connection with or with a view to effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurance or dealing with, or considering, any matter arising out of any such insurance.
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13.18 |
Review of insurance requirements.
The Majority Lenders
shall be entitled to review the requirements of this Clause 13 from time to time in order to take account of any changes in circumstances after the date of this Agreement which are, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders,
significant and capable of affecting the Borrower or the Ship and her insurance (including, without limitation, changes in the availability or the cost of insurance coverage or the risks to which the Borrower may be subject), and, prior
to the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, may appoint insurance
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13.19 |
Modification of insurance requirements.
The Security
Trustee shall notify the Borrower of any proposed modification under Clause 13.18 to the requirements of this Clause 13 which the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) consider appropriate in the circumstances.
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13.20 |
Compliance with instructions.
The Security Trustee
shall be entitled but will not be bound to (without prejudice to or limitation of any other rights which it may have or acquire under any Finance Document) to effect the insurances of the Ship in the amount and in terms acceptable to
the Security Trustee from time to time at the cost and on behalf of the Borrower.
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14. |
SHIP'S COVENANTS
|
14.1 |
General.
The Borrower also undertakes with each
Creditor Party to comply with the following provisions of this Clause 14 at all times during the Security Period, except as the Agent (with the authority of the Majority Lenders) may otherwise permit.
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14.2 |
Ship's name and registration.
The Borrower shall keep
the Ship registered in its name under the Approved Flag; shall not do or allow to be done anything as a result of which such registration might be cancelled or imperilled; and shall not change the name or port of registry or flag of the
Ship without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders), such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
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14.3 |
Repair and classification.
The Borrower shall keep the
Ship in a good and safe condition and state of repair:
|
(a) |
consistent with first‑class ship ownership and management practice;
|
(b) |
so as to maintain the Ship with the highest classification available for vessels of the same age, type and specification as the Ship with Lloyd's Register of
Shipping (or such other first class classification society being a member of IACS and as may be approved by the Security Trustee), free of overdue recommendations and conditions affecting the Ship's class; and
|
(c) |
so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered at ports in the Approved Flag State or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction
to which the Ship may trade from time to time, including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code.
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14.4 |
Modification.
The Borrower shall not make any
modification or repairs to, or replacement of, the Ship or equipment installed on her which would or might materially alter the structure, type or performance characteristics of the Ship or materially reduce her value.
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14.5 |
Removal of parts.
The Borrower shall not remove any
material part of the Ship, or any item of equipment installed on, the Ship unless the part or item so removed is forthwith replaced by a suitable part or item which is in the same condition as or better condition than the part or item
removed, is free from any Security Interest or any right in favour of any person other than the Lenders and becomes on installation on the Ship the property of the Borrower
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14.6 |
Surveys.
The Borrower shall submit the Ship regularly
to all periodical or other surveys which may be required for classification purposes, at the cost and expense of the Borrower. The Agent shall have the right to request one or more technical survey reports of the Ship by surveyors
appointed to by the Agent at the cost of the Borrower, provided that the frequency of such reports shall be limited to one per year (unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing).
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14.7 |
Inspection.
The Borrower shall permit the Security
Trustee (by surveyors or other persons appointed by it for that purpose) to board the Ship at all reasonable times, but without interference to the Ship's trading and operations, to inspect her condition or to satisfy themselves about
proposed or executed repairs and shall afford all proper facilities for such inspections. Provided that the Ship is found to be in satisfactory condition, the cost of such inspections shall be borne by the Borrower not more than once
per year.
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14.8 |
Prevention of and release from arrest.
Unless
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, the Borrower shall promptly discharge:
|
(a) |
all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship, her Earnings or her Insurances; and
|
(b) |
all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship, her Earnings or her Insurances;
|
14.9 |
Compliance with laws etc. The Borrower shall:
|
(a) |
comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship owned by it, its
ownership, operation and management or to the business of the Borrower (including, without limitation, the obtaining of all relevant certificates of financial responsibility and any other matters required for entering United States
territorial waters or calling at any United States Port);
|
(b) |
comply (and procure that each Security Party and each Affiliate of any of them shall comply) in all aspects with all Sanctions;
|
(c) |
not employ the Ship nor allow her employment in any manner contrary to any Sanctions;
|
(d) |
in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit the Ship to enter or trade to any zone which is
declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship's war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders has been given and the Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified
insurance cover which the Majority Lenders may require.
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14.10 |
Provision of information.
The Borrower shall promptly
provide the Security Trustee with any information which the Majority Lenders reasonably request regarding:
|
(a) |
the Ship, her employment, position and engagements;
|
(b) |
the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the master and crew of the Ship;
|
(c) |
any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship and any payments made in respect of the
Ship;
|
(d) |
any towages and salvages;
|
(e) |
its compliance, the Approved Manager's compliance or the compliance of the Ship with the ISM Code
|
14.11 |
Notification of certain events.
The Borrower shall
immediately notify the Security Trustee by letter of:
|
(a) |
any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty;
|
(b) |
any occurrence as a result of which the Ship has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss;
|
(c) |
any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society (or any withdrawal of class) or by any competent authority which is not
complied with in accordance with its terms;
|
(d) |
any arrest or detention of the Ship which is not lifted within forth eight (48) hours, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on the Ship or her
Earnings or any requisition of the Ship for hire;
|
(e) |
any intended dry docking of the Ship;
|
(f) |
any Environmental Claim made against the Borrower or in connection with the Ship or any Environmental Incident;
|
(g) |
any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against the Borrower, the Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship; or
|
(h) |
any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with,
|
14.12 |
Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers, etc.
The Borrower shall not without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting on the authority of the Majority Lenders):
|
(a) |
let the Ship on demise charter for any period;
|
(b) |
enter into any time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of the Ship for a term which exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional extensions may exceed,
12 months;
|
(c) |
enter into any charter in relation to the Ship under which more than 2 months' hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance;
|
(d) |
charter the Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm's length terms at the time when the Ship is fixed;
|
(e) |
appoint a commercial, technical or operational manager of the Ship (other than the Approved Manager) or agree to any material alteration to the terms of the
Approved Manager's appointment (and in respect of which, the consent of the Agent shall not be unreasonably withheld);
|
(f) |
de‑activate or lay up the Ship;
|
(g) |
change the legal ownership of the shares in the Ship;
|
(h) |
put the Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon her in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed United States Dollars
Five Hundred Thousand (US$500,000) (or the equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Security Trustee and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Ship or her
Earnings for the cost of such work or otherwise; or
|
(i) |
change the classification society with which the Ship is classed (and in respect of which, the consent of the Agent and the authority of the Majority Lenders
shall not be unreasonably withheld).
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14.13 |
Notice of Mortgage.
The Borrower shall keep the
Mortgage registered against the Ship as a valid first priority mortgage, carry on board the Ship a certified copy of the Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the Master's cabin of the Ship a
framed printed notice stating that the Ship is mortgaged by the Borrower to the Lenders.
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14.14 |
Sharing of Earnings.
The Borrower shall not enter
into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings other than a profit sharing agreed at arm's length under a charter party provided that it is not a part of any pool arrangement, in which case the Agent's prior written
consent will be required (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld). For the avoidance of doubt the Agent has provided its consent for the Borrower to enter into the charter party dated 10/8/18 with Guardian Navigation GMax LLC and
the entry of the Ship in the pool of Guardian Navigation GMax LLC.
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14.15 |
ISPS Code.
The Borrower shall comply with the ISPS
Code and in particular, without limitation, shall:
|
(a) |
procure that the Ship and the company responsible for the Ship's compliance with the ISPS Code, comply with the ISPS Code; and
|
(b) |
maintain for the Ship an ISSC; and
|
(c) |
notify the Lender immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC.
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14.16 |
Time charter assignment.
If the Borrower enters into
any time charter or contract of affreightment in respect of the Ship which is of twelve (12) months or more in duration, or is capable of exceeding twelve (12) months in duration, the Borrower shall execute in favour of the Security
Trustee an assignment and notice of assignment (and shall use its best endeavours to obtain an acknowledgement of the same from the relevant charterer or counterparty) of such time charter or contract of affreightment in such form and
on such terms as the Agent may reasonably require, and shall deliver to the Agent such other documents equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3 (Part A) hereof as the Agent may require.
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15. |
SECURITY COVER
|
15.1 |
Provision of additional security cover
;
prepayment of Loan.
The Borrower undertake with each Creditor Party that if the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) notifies the Borrower that:
|
(a) |
the market value (determined as provided below) of the Ship; plus
|
(b) |
the net realisable value of any additional security previously provided under this Clause 15 (excluding any amounts standing to the credit of the Earnings
Account, the Retention Account),
|
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(i) |
provide, or ensure that a third party provides, additional security which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, has a net realisable value at least equal
to the shortfall and which consists of either (aa) cash pledged to the Security Trustee which when in the form of cash in Dollars, will be valued on a Dollar for Dollar basis or (bb) a Security Interest (including, but not limited to, a
first priority mortgage or a second priority mortgage over another vessel), covering such asset or assets and documented in such terms as the Agent may, with authorisation from the Majority Lenders, approve or require; or
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(ii) |
prepay in accordance with Clause 8 such part of the Loan as will eliminate the shortfall, to be applied against repayment instalments (including the balloon
payment) on a pro rata basis.
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15.2 |
Meaning of additional security.
In Clause 15.1 "
security
" means a Security Interest over an asset or assets (whether securing the Borrower's liabilities under the Finance Documents or a
guarantee in respect of those liabilities), or a guarantee, letter of credit or other security in respect of the Borrower's liabilities under the Finance Documents, in each case in a form and substance acceptable to the Agent in its
sole discretion.
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15.3 |
Requirement for additional documents.
The Borrower
shall not be deemed to have complied with Clause 15.1(i) above until the Agent has received in connection with the additional security certified copies of documents of the kinds referred to in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 3 (Part
A) and such legal opinions in terms acceptable to lawyers selected by the Agent in its sole discretion.
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15.4 |
Valuation of Ship.
Subject to the following provisions
of this Clause 15.4, the Market Value of the Ship shall be determined:
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(a) |
in Dollars, as at the date of (or no earlier than 30 days prior to) such valuation;
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(b) |
by an independent shipbroker selected by or acceptable to the Agent and reporting to the Agent;
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(c) |
with or without physical inspection of the Ship (as the Agent may require);
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(d) |
on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm's length commercial form as between a willing seller and a willing buyer, free of any
existing charter or other contract of employment.
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15.5 |
Value of additional vessel security.
The net
realisable value of any additional security which is provided under Clause 15.2 and which consists of a Security Interest over a vessel other than the Ship shall be that shown by way of a valuation complying with the requirements of
Clause 15.4.
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15.6 |
Valuations binding and conclusive.
Any valuation under
Clause 15.1(i), 15.4 or 15.5 shall be binding and conclusive evidence of the Market Value of the Ship or of the other assets it refers to at the date of such valuation.
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15.7 |
Provision of information.
The Borrower shall promptly
provide the Agent and any shipbroker or expert acting under Clause 15.4 or 15.5 with any information which the Agent or the shipbroker or expert may reasonable request for the purposes of the valuation; and, if the Borrower fails to
provide the information by the date specified in the request, the valuation may be made on any basis and assumptions which the shipbroker or the Majority Lenders (or the expert appointed by them) consider prudent.
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15.8 |
Payment of valuation expenses.
Without prejudice to the
generality of the Borrower's obligations under Clauses 20.2, 20.3 and 21.3, the Borrower shall, subject to the provisions of Clause 15.9, on demand, pay the Agent the amount of the fees and expenses of any shipbrokers or experts
instructed by the Agent under this Clause and all legal and other expenses incurred by any Creditor Party in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause.
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15.9 |
Frequency of valuations.
The Agent shall be entitled to
obtain written valuations of the Ship prior to the drawdown of the Loan and any time during the Security Period, provided that after drawdown of the Loan the costs and expenses of such shall only be borne by the Borrower once per year
(unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or a mandatory prepayment event under Clause 8.8 has occurred, in which case the Agent shall be entitled to obtain a valuation at any time, at the cost and expense of the
Borrower).
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16. |
PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS
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16.1 |
Currency and method of payments.
All payments to be
made by the Lenders or by the Borrower under a Finance Document shall be made to the Agent or to the Security Trustee, in the case of an amount payable to it:
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(i) |
by not later than 11.00 a.m. (New York City time) on the due date;
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(ii) |
in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other
manner as the Agent shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement);
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(iii) |
if in Dollars, to the account of the Agent with such corresponding bank in New York as the Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other
Creditor Parties; and
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(iv) |
in the case of an amount payable to the Security Trustee, to such account as it may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the other Creditor Parties.
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16.2 |
Payment on non-Business Day.
If any payment by the
Borrower under a Finance Document would otherwise fall due on a day which is not a Business Day:
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(a) |
the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or
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(b) |
if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day,
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16.3 |
Basis for calculation of periodic payments.
All
interest and commitment fee and any other payments under any Finance Document which are of an annual or periodic nature shall accrue from day to day and shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a 360 day
year.
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16.4 |
Distribution of payments to Creditor Parties. Subject to Clauses 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7:
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(a) |
any amount received by the Agent under a Finance Document for distribution or remittance to a Lender, or the Security Trustee shall be made available by the
Agent to that Lender, or, as the case may be, the Security Trustee by payment, with funds having the same value as the funds received, to such account as the Lender or the Security Trustee may have notified to the Agent not less than 5
Business Days previously; and
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(b) |
amounts to be applied in satisfying amounts of a particular category which are due to the Lenders generally shall be distributed by the Agent to each Lender
pro rata to the amount in that category which is due to it.
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16.5 |
Permitted deductions by Agent.
Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent may, before making an
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16.6 |
Agent only obliged to pay when monies received.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the Agent shall not be obliged to make available to the Borrower or any Lender any sum which the Agent is expecting to receive for remittance or
distribution to the Borrower or that Lender until the Agent has satisfied itself that it has received that sum.
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16.7 |
Refund to Agent of monies not received.
If and to the
extent that the Agent makes available a sum to the Borrower or a Lender, without first having received that sum, the Borrower or (as the case may be) the Lender concerned shall, on demand:
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(a) |
refund the sum in full to the Agent; and
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(b) |
pay to the Agent the amount (as certified by the Agent) which will indemnify the Agent against any funding or other loss, liability or expense incurred by the
Agent as a result of making the sum available before receiving it.
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16.8 |
Agent may assume receipt.
Clause 16.7 shall not affect
any claim which the Agent has under the law of restitution, and applies irrespective of whether the Agent had any form of notice that it had not received the sum which it made available.
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16.9 |
Creditor Party accounts.
Each Creditor Party shall
maintain accounts showing the amounts owing to it by the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect of those amounts made by the Borrower and any Security Party.
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16.10 |
Agent's memorandum account.
The Agent shall maintain a
memorandum account showing the amounts advanced by the Lenders and all other sums owing to the Agent, the Security Trustee and each Lender from the Borrower and each Security Party under the Finance Documents and all payments in respect
of those amounts made by the Borrower and any Security Party.
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16.11 |
Accounts prima facie evidence.
If any accounts
maintained under Clauses 16.9 and 16.10 show an amount to be owing by the Borrower or a Security Party to a Creditor Party, those accounts shall, absent manifest error, be prima facie evidence that that amount is owing to that Creditor
Party.
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16.12 |
Contractual recognition of Bail-In.
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(a) |
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
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(i) |
a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such
liability;
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(ii) |
a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and
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(iii) |
a cancellation of any such liability; and
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(b) |
a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
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17. |
APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS
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17.1 |
Normal order of application.
Except as any Finance
Document may otherwise provide, any sums which are received or recovered by any Creditor Party under or by virtue of any Finance Document shall be applied:‑
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(a) |
FIRST: in or towards satisfaction of any amounts then due and payable under the Finance Documents in the following order and proportions:
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(i) |
first, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of all amounts then due and payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance Documents other than those amounts
referred to at (ii) and (iii) below (including, but without limitation, all amounts payable by the Borrower under Clauses 20, 21 and 22 of this Agreement or by the Borrower or any Security Party under any corresponding or similar
provision in any other Finance Document);
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(ii) |
secondly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Creditor Parties under the Finance
Documents but shall have failed to pay or deliver to the Creditor Parties at the time of application or distribution under this Clause 17); and
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(iii) |
thirdly, in or towards satisfaction pro rata of the Loan;
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(b) |
SECONDLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Agent, by notice to the Borrower,
the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties, states in its reasonable opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance
with the provisions of Clause 17.1(a); and
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(c) |
THIRDLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrower or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it.
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17.2 |
Variation of order of application.
The Agent may,
following the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default which is continuing, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders by notice to the Borrower, the Security Parties and the other Creditor Parties provide
for a different manner of application from that set out in Clause 17.1 either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories.
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17.3 |
Appropriation rights overriden.
This Clause 17 and any
notice which the Agent gives under Clause 17.2 shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by the Borrower or any Security Party.
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18. |
APPLICATION OF EARNINGS
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18.1 |
Payment and application of Earnings.
The Borrower
undertakes with the Lenders to ensure that, throughout the Security Period (and subject only to the provisions of an Assignment for the Ship), all the Earnings of the Ship are paid to the Earnings Account and shall be applied as
follows:
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(a) |
first, towards payment of all sums other than principal and interest due to the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents;
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(b) |
secondly, towards payment of the next instalment of principal and the next payment of interest due to the Lenders in accordance with the provisions of Clause
18.2; and
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(c) |
thirdly, any surplus shall (subject always to the other provisions of this Clause 18 and provided no Event of Default is continuing) be available to the
Borrower, and
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18.2 |
Monthly retentions.
The Borrower undertakes with the
Lender to ensure that, in each calendar month of the Security Period commencing one month after the Drawdown Date, on such dates as the Lenders may from time to time specify, there is transferred to the Retention Account out of the
Earnings received in the Earnings Account during the preceding calendar month:
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(a) |
one‑third of the amount of the repayment instalment falling due under Clause 8 on the next Repayment Date; and
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(b) |
the relevant fraction of the aggregate amount of interest on the Loan which is payable on the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement.
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18.3 |
Shortfall in Earnings.
If the Earnings received in the
Earnings Account are insufficient in any month for the required amount to be transferred to the Retention Account under Clause 18.2, the Borrower shall make up the amount of the insufficiency on demand from the Lenders; but, without
thereby prejudicing the Lenders' right to make such demand at any time, the Lenders may permit the Borrower to make up all or part of the insufficiency by
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18.4 |
Application of retentions.
Until an Event of Default
occurs, the Lenders shall on each Repayment Date and on each due date for the payment of interest under this Agreement apply in accordance with the payment details set out in Clause 16.1 so much of the balance on the Retention Account
as equals:
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(a) |
the repayment instalment due on that Repayment Date; or
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(b) |
the amount of interest payable on that interest payment date;
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18.5 |
Interest accrued on Retention Account.
Any credit
balance on the Retention Account shall bear interest at the rate from time to time offered by the Lenders to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and for periods similar to those for which such balance appears to the
Lenders likely to remain on the Retention Account.
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18.6 |
Location of accounts.
The Borrower shall promptly:
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(a) |
comply with any requirement of the Agent as to the location or re‑location of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account (or either of them);
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(b) |
execute any documents which the Lenders specify to create or maintain in favour of the Security Trustee a Security Interest over (and/or rights of set-off,
consolidation or other rights in relation to) the Earnings Account and the Retention Account.
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18.7 |
Debits for expenses etc.
The Lenders shall be entitled
(but not obliged) from time to time to debit the Earnings Account with prior notice in order to discharge any amount due and payable to them under Clause 20 or 21 or payment of which they have become entitled to demand under Clause 20
or 21.
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18.8 |
Borrower's obligations unaffected.
The provisions of
this Clause 18 do not affect:
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(a) |
the liability of the Borrower to make payments of principal and interest on the due dates; or
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(b) |
any other liability or obligation of the Borrower or any Security Party under any Finance Document.
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19. |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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19.1 |
Events of Default.
An Event of Default occurs if:
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(a) |
the Borrower or any Security Party fail to pay when due or (if payable on demand) three (3) days following the date on which the written demand is served any
sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document, unless such failure to pay is caused by an
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(b) |
any breach occurs of Clauses 9.2, 11.2, 11.11, 11.17, 12.2, 12.3, 13 or 15.1 and in case any such breach (other than those referred to in Clauses 9.2. 13 and
15.1 hereinabove to which other grace periods are applicable, as therein provided) is in the opinion of the Security Trustee, capable of remedy, if it will continue un-remedied for seven (7) Business Days after its occurrence; or
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(c) |
any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraph (a) or (b)) which, in
the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is capable of remedy, and such default continues unremedied ten (10) days after written notice from the Agent requesting action to remedy the same; or
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(d) |
(subject to any applicable grace period specified in the Finance Document) any breach by the Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a
Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraphs (a), (b) or (c)); or
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(e) |
any representation, warranty or statement made by, or by an officer of, the Borrower or a Security Party in a Finance Document or in a Drawdown Notice or any
other notice or document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading in a material way when it is made; or
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(f) |
any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower:
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(i) |
any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower is not paid when due or, if payable on demand, three (3) days following the date on which the written demand is
served; or
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(ii) |
any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity date as a
consequence of any event of default; or
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(iii) |
a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes capable of
being terminated as a consequence of any termination event; or
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(iv) |
any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative
contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes capable of being
required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of default; or
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(v) |
any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower becomes enforceable; or
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(g) |
any of the following occurs in relation to the Borrower:
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(i) |
the Borrower becomes, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or
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(ii) |
any assets of the Borrower are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress in respect of a sum of, or sums aggregating,
US$500,000 or more or the equivalent in another currency unless such execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress is being contested in good faith and on substantial grounds and is discussed or withdrawn within thirty (30)
days of the occurrence thereof; or
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(iii) |
any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of the Borrower; or
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(iv) |
the Borrower makes any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that it is insolvent or likely to become insolvent, or a winding
up or administration order is made in relation to the Borrower, or the members or directors of the Borrower pass a resolution to the effect that it should be wound up, placed in administration; or
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(v) |
a petition is presented in any Pertinent Jurisdiction for the winding up or administration, or the appointment of a provisional liquidator, of the Borrower
unless the petition is being contested in good faith and on substantial grounds and is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of the presentation of the petition; or
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(vi) |
the Borrower petitions a court, or presents any proposal for, any form of judicial or non‑judicial suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of its
debt (or certain of its debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of its creditors or of any class of them or any such suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by
court order, contract or otherwise; or
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(vii) |
any meeting of the members or directors of the Borrower is summoned for the purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of
a type described in paragraphs (iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) above; or
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(viii) |
in a Pertinent Jurisdiction other than England, any event occurs or any procedure is commenced which, in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Lenders, is
similar to any of the foregoing; or
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(h) |
the Borrower ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders, is material in the context
of this Agreement; or
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(i) |
it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible:
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(i) |
for the Borrower or any Security Party to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Majority Lenders
consider material under a Finance Document; or
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(ii) |
for the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Account Bank or the Lenders to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a
Finance Document; or
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(j) |
any consent necessary to enable the Borrower to own, operate or charter the Ship or to enable the Borrower or any Security Party to comply with any provision
which the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) consider material of a Finance Document is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or
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(k) |
it appears to the Majority Lenders that, without their prior consent, a change has occurred after the date of this Agreement in the beneficial ownership of
the shares in the Borrower as declared to the Agent prior to the execution of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt the Agent consents and agrees to any changes relating to the Guarantor's trading shares in the normal course of
business and confirm that such changes do not violate the terms of this Agreement; or
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(l) |
any provision which the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) consider material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable,
or a Security Interest created by a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another third party claim or interest; or
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(m) |
the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or
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(n) |
If any debt of any Security Party (which in the case of the Guarantor exceeds an aggregate amount of US$850,000 is not paid when due or any debt of any
Security Party (which in the case of the Guarantor exceeds an aggregate amount of US$850,000 becomes due and payable prior to the date when it would otherwise have become due (unless as a result of the exercise by the relevant Security
Party of a voluntary right of prepayment), or any creditor of any Security Party becomes entitled to declare its claim (which in the case of the Guarantor exceeds an aggregate amount of US$850,000 due and payable, or any facility or
commitment available to any Security Party is withdrawn, suspended or cancelled by reason of any default (however described) of such Security Party, and such debt is not discharged within seven (7) Business Days ; or
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(o) |
any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation:
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(i) |
a Material Adverse Effect; or
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(ii) |
any accident or other event involving the Ship,
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19.2 |
Actions following an Event of Default.
On, or at any
time after, the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing:
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(a) |
the Agent may, and if so instructed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall:
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(i) |
serve on the Borrower a notice stating that the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement are terminated;
and/or
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(ii) |
serve on the Borrower a notice stating that the Loan, all accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due and
payable or are due and payable on demand; and/or
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(iii) |
take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (i) or (ii) above, the Agent and/or the Lenders are
entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law; and/or
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(b) |
the Security Trustee may, and if so instructed by the Agent, acting with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, the Security Trustee shall take any action
which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (a) (i) or (ii) above, the Security Trustee, the Agent and/or the Lenders are entitled to take under any Finance Document or any applicable law.
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19.3 |
Termination of Commitments.
On the service of a notice
under paragraph (a)(i) of Clause 19.2, the Commitments and all other obligations of each Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement shall terminate.
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19.4 |
Acceleration of Loan.
On the service of a notice under
paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 19.2, the Loan, all accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing from the Borrower or any Security Party under this Agreement and every other Finance Document shall become immediately due and
payable or, as the case may be, payable on demand.
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19.5 |
Multiple notices
;
action without notice.
The Agent may serve notices under paragraphs (a) (i) and (ii) of Clause 19.2 simultaneously or on different dates and it and/or the
Security Trustee may take any action referred to in that Clause if no such notice is served or simultaneously with or at any time after the service of both or either of such notices.
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19.6 |
Notification of Creditor Parties and Security Parties.
The Agent shall send to each Lender, the Security Trustee, the Account Bank and each Security Party a copy or the text of any notice which the Agent serves on the Borrower under Clause 19.2; but the notice shall become effective when it
is served on the Borrower, and no failure or delay by the Agent to send a copy or the text of the notice to any other person shall invalidate the notice or provide the Borrower or any Security Party with any form of claim or defence.
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19.7 |
Creditor Parties' rights unimpaired.
Nothing in this
Clause shall be taken to impair or restrict the exercise of any right given to individual Lenders under a Finance Document or the general law; and, in particular, this Clause is without prejudice to Clause 3.1 and Clause 3.2.
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19.8 |
Exclusion of Creditor Party Liability.
No Creditor
Party, and no receiver or manager appointed by the Security Trustee, shall have any liability to the Borrower or a Security Party:
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(a) |
for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to
exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest; or
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(b) |
as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a
Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in the value of such an asset;
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19.9 |
Interpretation.
In Clause 19.1(f) references to an
event of default or a termination event include any event, howsoever described, which is similar to an event of default in a facility agreement or a termination event in a finance lease; and in Clause 19.1(g) "
petition
" includes an application.
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20. |
FEES AND EXPENSES
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20.1 |
Fees- Front End Fee– Commitment Fee.
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(a) |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of the Arranger a front end flat fee corresponding to zero point ninety per cent (0.90%) of the amount of
the Loan actually drawn down, payable on the Drawdown Date of the Loan.
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(b) |
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent quarterly in arrears during the period from and including 28 August 2018, being the date of acceptance by the Borrower of
the Commitment Letter, until the earlier of (i) 25 October 2018, (ii) the Drawdown Date or (iii) the date upon which the Borrower cancels the facility in writing to the Agent prior to the Drawdown Date, a commitment fee at the rate of
zero point fifty per cent (0.50%) per annum on the amount of the Commitment.
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(c) |
The Front End Fee and Commitment Fee referred to in this Clause 20.1 shall not be refundable.
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20.2 |
Costs of negotiation, preparation etc.
The Borrower
shall pay to the Agent on its demand the amount of all expenses (including, but not limited to, all legal expenses and VAT, if applicable) incurred by the Agent or the Security Trustee in connection with the negotiation, preparation,
execution or registration of any Finance Document or any related document or with any transaction contemplated by a Finance Document or a related document, other than any syndication costs/expenses.
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20.3 |
Costs of variations, amendments, enforcement etc.
The
Borrower shall pay to the Agent, on the Agent's demand, the amount of all expenses incurred by a Lender in connection with:
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(a) |
any amendment or supplement to a Finance Document;
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(b) |
any consent or waiver by the Lenders, the Majority Lenders or the Creditor Party concerned under or in connection with a Finance Document;
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(c) |
the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 15 or any other matter relating to such security;
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(d) |
any step taken by the Agent or the Security Trustee concerned with a view to the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right or Security Interest created
by a Finance Document or for any similar purpose.
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20.4 |
Documentary taxes.
The Borrower shall promptly pay any
tax payable on or by reference to any Finance Document, and shall, on the Agent's demand, fully indemnify each Creditor Party against any liabilities and expenses resulting from any failure or delay by the Borrower to pay such a tax.
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20.5 |
Certification of amounts.
A notice which is signed by
one officer of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 20 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in
respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall, save for manifest error, be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
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21. |
INDEMNITIES
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21.1 |
Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan.
The Borrower shall fully indemnify the Agent and each Lender on the Agent's written demand and the Security Trustee on its demand in respect of all expenses, liabilities and losses which are incurred by that Creditor Party, or which
that Creditor Party reasonably and with due diligence estimates that it will incur, as a result of or in connection with:
|
(a) |
the Loan not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender claiming the indemnity;
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(b) |
the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period;
|
(c) |
any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrower to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document on the due date or, if payable on demand, three
(3) days following the date on which the written demand is served (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the Borrower on the amount concerned under Clause 7);
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(d) |
the occurrence and/or continuance of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default (including, but not limited to, a breach of Clauses 11.17 or 11.18)
and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 19;
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21.2 |
Breakage costs.
Without limiting its generality,
Clause 21.1 covers any liability, expense or loss, incurred by a Lender:
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(a) |
in liquidating or employing deposits from third parties acquired or arranged to fund or maintain all or any part of its Contribution and/or any overdue amount
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(b) |
in terminating, or reversing or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement.
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21.3 |
Miscellaneous indemnities.
The Borrower shall fully
indemnify the Agent and the Security Trustee severally on their respective demands in respect of all claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, taxes, losses and expenses of every kind ("
liability items
") which may be made or brought against, or incurred by, the Agent or the Security Trustee, in any country, in relation to:
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(a) |
any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Agent, the Security Trustee or any other
Creditor Party or by any receiver appointed under a Finance Document;
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(b) |
any other event, matter or question which occurs or arises at any time during the Security Period and which has any connection with, or any bearing on, any
Finance Document, any payment or other transaction relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security Interest created (or intended to be created) by a Finance Document;
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21.4 |
Extension of indemnities
;
environmental indemnity.
Without prejudice to its generality, Clause 21.3 covers:
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(a) |
any matter which would be covered by Clause 21.3 if any of the references in that Clause to a Lender were a reference to the Agent or (as the case may be) to
the Security Trustee; and
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(b) |
any liability items which arise, or are asserted, under or in connection with any law relating to safety at sea, pollution or the protection of the
environment if such liability items would not have arise or asserted against the Lender or Agent or the Security Trustee (as the case may be) if any of them had not entered into any of the Finance Documents and/or exercised any of its
rights, powers and discretions thereby conferred and/or performed any of its obligations thereunder and/or been involved in any of the transactions contemplated by the Finance.
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21.5 |
Currency indemnity.
If any sum due from the Borrower
or any Security Party to a Creditor Party under a Finance Document or under any order or judgment relating to a Finance Document has to be converted from the currency in which the Finance Document provided for the sum to be paid (the "
Contractual Currency
") into another currency (the "
Payment Currency
") for the purpose of:
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(a) |
making or lodging any claim or proof against the Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or
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(b) |
obtaining an order or judgment from any court or other tribunal; or
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(c) |
enforcing any such order or judgment;
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21.6 |
Certification of amounts.
A notice which is signed by
1 officer of a Creditor Party, which states that a specified amount, or aggregate amount, is due to that Creditor Party under this Clause 21 and which indicates (without necessarily specifying a detailed breakdown) the matters in
respect of which the amount, or aggregate amount, is due shall, save for manifest error, be prima facie evidence that the amount, or aggregate amount, is due.
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21.7 |
Sums deemed due to a Lender.
For the purposes of this
Clause 21, a sum payable by the Borrower to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender.
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21.8 |
Mandatory Costs.
The Borrower shall, on demand by the
Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender, such amount which any Lender certifies in a notice to the Agent to be its good faith determination of the amount necessary to compensate it for complying with:
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(a) |
in the case of a Lender lending from a lending office in a Participating Member State, the minimum reserve requirements (or other requirements having the same
or similar purpose) of the European Central Bank or any other authority or agency which replaces all or any of its functions) in respect of loans made from that lending office; and
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(b) |
in the case of any Lender lending from a lending office in the United Kingdom, any reserve asset, special deposit or liquidity requirements (or other
requirements having the same or similar purpose) of the Bank of England (or any other governmental authority or agency) and/or paying any fees to the Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority (or any other
governmental authority or agency which replaces all or any of their functions), which, in each case, is referable to that Lender's participation in the Loan.
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22. |
NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION
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22.1 |
No deductions.
All amounts due from the Borrower under
a Finance Document shall be paid:
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(a) |
without any form of set‑off, cross-claim or condition; and
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(b) |
free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which the Borrower is required by law to make.
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22.2 |
Grossing-up for taxes.
If the Borrower is required by
law to make a tax deduction from any payment:
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(a) |
the Borrower shall notify the Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement;
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(b) |
the Borrower shall pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises;
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(c) |
the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that each Creditor Party receives and retains (free from any
liability relating to the tax deduction) a net amount which, after the tax deduction, is equal to the full amount which it would otherwise have received.
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22.3 |
Evidence of payment of taxes.
Within 1 month after
making any tax deduction, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent documentary evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the tax had been paid to the appropriate taxation authority.
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22.4 |
Exclusion of tax on overall net income.
In this Clause
22 "
tax deduction
" means any deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax except tax on a Creditor Party's
overall net income.
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22.5 |
FATCA Information.
|
(a) |
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:
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|
(i) |
confirm to that other Party whether it is a FATCA Exempt Party or is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
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|
(ii) |
supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable "passthru payment
percentage" or other information required under the US Treasury regulations or other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance
with FATCA.
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(b) |
If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to paragraph (a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or
has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.
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(c) |
Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Creditor Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or
regulation, any policy of that party, any fiduciary duty or any duty of confidentiality, or to disclose any confidential information (including, without limitation, its tax returns and calculations); provided, however, that information
required (or equivalent to the information so required) by United States Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 or W-9 (or any successor forms) shall not be treated as confidential information of such party for purposes of this paragraph
(c).
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(d) |
If a Party fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (a) above (including, for
the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then:
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(i) |
if that Party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents
as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
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(ii) |
if that Party failed to confirm its applicable "passthru payment percentage" then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and
payments made thereunder) as if its applicable "passthru payment percentage" is 100%,
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22.6 |
FATCA Withholding.
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(a) |
Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall
be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction.
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(b) |
Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA
Deduction) notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Borrower, the Agent and the other Creditor Parties.
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23. |
ILLEGALITY, ETC
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23.1 |
Illegality.
This Clause 23 applies if a Lender (the "
Notifying Lender
") notifies the Agent that it has become, or will with effect from a specified date, become:
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(a) |
unlawful or prohibited (including, without limitation, due to a breach of Clauses 11.17 or 11.18) as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment
to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or will be interpreted or applied; or
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(b) |
contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation,
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23.2 |
Notification of illegality.
The Agent shall promptly
notify the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee and the other Lenders of the notice under Clause 23.1 which the Agent receives from the Notifying Lender.
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23.3 |
Prepayment
;
termination of Commitment.
On the Agent notifying the Borrower under Clause 23.2, the Notifying Lender's Commitment shall terminate; and thereupon or, if later, on the date
specified in the Notifying Lender's notice under Clause 23.1 as the date on which the notified event would become effective the Borrower shall prepay the Notifying Lender's Contribution in accordance with Clause 8.
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23.4 |
Mitigation
. If circumstances arise which would result
in a notification under Clause 23.1 then, without in any way limiting the rights of the Notifying Lender under Clause 23.3, the Notifying Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to transfer its obligations, liabilities and rights under
this Agreement and the Finance Documents to another office or financial institution not affected by the circumstances but the Notifying Lender shall not be under any obligation to take any such action if, in its opinion, to do would or
might:
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(a) |
have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition; or
|
(b) |
involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation; or
|
(c) |
involve it in any expense (unless indemnified to its satisfaction) or tax disadvantage.
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24. |
INCREASED COSTS
|
24.1 |
Increased costs.
This Clause 24 applies if a Lender
(the "
Notifying Lender
") notifies the Agent that the Notifying Lender considers that as a result of:
|
(a) |
the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in which a law is
interpreted or applied (disregarding any effect which relates to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on the Notifying Lender's overall net income); or
|
(b) |
the effect of complying with any regulation (including any regulation which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in
which the Notifying Lender allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement (including, but
not limited to, the Basel III Framework, CRR and CRD IV costs),
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(i) |
an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Notifying Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement
or a Transfer Certificate, of funding or maintaining its Commitment or Contribution or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of its Contribution or other unpaid sums; or
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|
(ii) |
a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Notifying Lender under this Agreement or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the
Notifying Lender or on its capital;
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|
(iii) |
an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Notifying
Lender's Contribution or (as the case may require) the proportion of that cost attributable to the Contribution; or
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|
(iv) |
a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Notifying Lender under this
Agreement;
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24.2 |
Notification to Borrower of claim for increased costs.
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Security Parties of the notice which the Agent received from the Notifying Lender under Clause 24.1.
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24.3 |
Payment of increased costs.
The Borrower shall pay to
the Agent, on the Agent's demand, for the account of the Notifying Lender the amounts which the Agent from time to time notifies the Borrower that the Notifying Lender has specified to be necessary to compensate the Notifying Lender for
the increased cost.
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24.4 |
Notice of prepayment.
If the Borrower is not willing
to continue to compensate the Notifying Lender for the increased cost under Clause 24.3, the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 14 days' notice of its intention to prepay the Notifying Lender's Contribution at the end of an
Interest Period.
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24.5 |
Prepayment
;
termination of Commitment.
A notice under Clause 24.4 shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Notifying Lender of the Borrower's notice of intended
prepayment; and:
|
(a) |
on the date on which the Agent serves that notice, the Commitment of the Notifying Lender shall be cancelled; and
|
(b) |
on the date specified in its notice of intended prepayment, the Borrower shall prepay (without premium or penalty) the Notifying Lender's Contribution,
together with accrued interest thereon at the applicable rate plus the Margin.
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24.6 |
Application of prepayment.
Clause 8 shall apply in
relation to the prepayment.
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25. |
SET‑OFF
|
25.1 |
Application of credit balances.
Each Creditor Party
may without prior notice at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing:
|
(a) |
apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of the Borrower at any office in any country of
that Creditor Party in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from the Borrower to that Creditor Party under any of the Finance Documents; and
|
(b) |
for that purpose:
|
|
(i) |
break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Borrower;
|
|
(ii) |
convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars;
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|
(iii) |
enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Creditor Party concerned considers appropriate.
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25.2 |
Existing rights unaffected.
No Creditor Party shall be
obliged to exercise any of its rights under Clause 25.1; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set‑off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which a Creditor Party is
entitled (whether under the general law or any document).
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25.3 |
Sums deemed due to a Lender.
For the purposes of this
Clause 25, a sum payable by the Borrower to the Agent or the Security Trustee for distribution to, or for the account of, a Lender shall be treated as a sum due to that Lender; and each Lender's proportion of a sum so payable for
distribution to, or for the account of, the Lenders shall be treated as a sum due to such Lender.
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25.4 |
No Security Interest.
This Clause 25 gives the Lenders
a contractual right of set off only, and does not create any equitable charge or other Security Interest over any credit balance of the Borrower.
|
25.5 |
No Borrowers set off.
The Borrower shall not have a
right of set off in relation to sums that may be due from any Creditor Party under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents.
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26. |
TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICES
|
26.1 |
Transfer by the Borrower. The Borrower may not:
|
(a) |
without the prior written consent of the Agent (given on the instructions of all of the Lenders), transfer any of its rights or obligations under any Finance
Document;
|
(b) |
without the prior written consent of the Agent (given on the instructions of all the Lenders), enter into any merger, de-merger or other reorganisation, or
|
26.2 |
Transfer by a Lender.
Subject to Clause 26.4, a Lender
(the "
Transferor Lender
") may, at its sole discretion, without the consent of and/or the prior consultation with the Borrower (but
with notice to the Borrower) and/or any Security Party, at any time assign or transfer:
|
(a) |
its rights in respect of all or part of its Contribution; or
|
(b) |
its obligations in respect of all or part of its Commitment; or
|
(c) |
a combination of (a) and (b);
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26.3 |
Transfer Certificate, delivery and notification.
As
soon as reasonably practicable after a Transfer Certificate is delivered to the Agent, it shall (unless it has reason to believe that the Transfer Certificate may be defective):
|
(a) |
sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of itself, the Borrower, the Security Parties, the Security Trustee, the Arranger, the Account Bank and each of the
Lenders;
|
(b) |
on behalf of the Transferee Lender, send to the Borrower and each Security Party letters or faxes notifying them of the Transfer Certificate and attaching a
copy of it;
|
(c) |
send to the Transferee Lender copies of the letters or faxes sent under paragraph (b) above.
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26.4 |
Effective Date of Transfer Certificate.
A Transfer
Certificate becomes effective on the date, if any, specified in the Transfer Certificate as its effective date
Provided that
it is
signed by the Agent under Clause 26.3 on or before that date.
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26.5 |
No transfer without Transfer Certificate.
No
assignment or transfer of any right or obligation of a Lender under any Finance Document is binding on, or effective in relation to, the Borrower, any Security Party, the Agent or the Security Trustee unless it is effected, evidenced or
perfected by a Transfer Certificate.
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26.6 |
Lender re-organisation
;
waiver of Transfer Certificate.
However, if a Lender enters into any merger, de-merger or other reorganisation as a result of which all its rights or
obligations vest in another person (the "
successor
"), the Agent may, if it sees fit, by notice to the successor and the Borrower and
the Security Trustee waive the need for the execution and delivery of a Transfer Certificate; and, upon service of the Agent's notice, the successor shall become a Lender with the same Commitment and Contribution as were held by the
predecessor Lender. In addition, where security rights (such as pledge and mortgage rights) created in the interest of the Lender concerned were transferred to the successor as a result of such a merger, de-merger or other
reorganisation, then such rights will serve as if they were created in the interest of the successor.
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26.7 |
Effect of Transfer Certificate.
A Transfer Certificate
takes effect in accordance with English law as follows:
|
(a) |
to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate, all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor Lender has under or by
virtue of the Finance Documents are assigned to the Transferee Lender absolutely, free of any defects in the Transferor Lender's title and of any rights or equities which the Borrower or any Security Party had against the Transferor
Lender;
|
(b) |
the Transferor Lender's Commitment is discharged to the extent specified in the Transfer Certificate;
|
(c) |
the Transferee Lender becomes a Lender with the Contribution previously held by the Transferor Lender and a Commitment of an amount specified in the Transfer
Certificate;
|
(d) |
the Transferee Lender becomes bound by all the provisions of the Finance Documents which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including those about
pro‑rata sharing and the exclusion of liability on the part of, and the indemnification of, the Agent and the Security Trustee and, to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes bound by those provisions (other than those relating to
exclusion of liability), the Transferor Lender ceases to be bound by them;
|
(e) |
any part of the Loan which the Transferee Lender advances after the Transfer Certificate's effective date ranks in point of priority and security in the same
way as it would have ranked had it been advanced by the transferor, assuming that any defects in the transferor's title and any rights or equities of the Borrower or any Security Party against the Transferor Lender had not existed;
|
(f) |
the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to all the rights under the Finance Documents which are applicable to the Lenders generally, including but not limited
to those relating to the Majority Lenders and those under Clause 5.7 and Clause 20, and to the extent that the Transferee Lender becomes entitled to such rights, the Transferor Lender ceases to be entitled to them; and
|
(g) |
in respect of any breach of a warranty, undertaking, condition or other provision of a Finance Document or any misrepresentation made in or in connection with
a Finance Document, the Transferee Lender shall be entitled to recover damages by reference to the loss incurred by it as a result of the breach or misrepresentation, irrespective of whether the original Lender would have incurred a
loss of that kind or amount.
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26.8 |
Maintenance of register of Lenders
. During the
Security Period the Agent shall maintain a register in which it shall record the name, Commitment, Contribution and administrative details (including the lending office) from time to time of each Lender holding a Transfer Certificate
and the effective date (in accordance with Clause 26.4) of the Transfer Certificate; and the Agent shall make the register available for inspection by any Lender, the Security Trustee and the Borrower during normal banking hours,
subject to receiving at least 3 Business Days prior notice.
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26.9 |
Reliance on register of Lenders.
The entries on that
register shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive in determining the identities of the Lenders and the amounts of their Commitments and Contributions and the effective dates of Transfer Certificates and may be relied upon
by the Agent and the other parties to the Finance Documents for all purposes relating to the Finance Documents.
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26.10 |
Authorisation of Agent to sign Transfer Certificates.
The Borrower, the Arranger, the Account Bank, the Security Trustee, each Lender irrevocably authorise the Agent to sign Transfer Certificates on its behalf.
|
26.11 |
Registration fee.
In respect of any Transfer
Certificate, the Agent shall be entitled to recover a registration fee of US$2,500 from the Transferor Lender or (at the Agent's option) the Transferee Lender. Such fees will not burden any of the Security Parties under any
circumstances.
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26.12 |
Sub-participation
;
subrogation assignment.
A Lender may sub‑participate all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with the Finance Documents without
the consent of, or any notice to, the Borrower, any Security Party, the Agent or the Security Trustee; and the Lenders may assign, in any manner and terms agreed by the Majority Lenders, the Agent and the Security Trustee, all or any
part of those rights to an insurer or surety who has become subrogated to them.
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26.13 |
Disclosure of information.
A Lender may disclose to a
potential Transferee Lender or sub‑participant any information necessary to effect the relevant transaction which the Lender has received in relation to the Borrower, any Security Party or their affairs under or in connection with any
Finance
|
26.14 |
Change of lending office.
A Lender may change its
lending office without consultation with the Borrower by giving notice to the Agent and the change shall become effective on the later of:
|
(a) |
the date on which the Agent receives the notice; and
|
(b) |
the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect.
|
26.15 |
Notification.
On receiving such a notice, the Agent
shall notify the Borrower and the Security Trustee; and, until the Agent receives such a notice, it shall be entitled to assume that a Lender is acting through the lending office of which the Agent last had notice.
|
26.16 |
Security over Lenders' rights
. In addition to the
other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 26, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from, the Borrower or any Security Party, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create a Security Interest in or over
(whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender including, without limitation:
|
(a) |
any charge, assignment or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and
|
(b) |
in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders)
of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities;
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|
(i) |
release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security Interest
for Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or
|
|
(ii) |
require any payments to be made by the Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or
granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.
|
26.17 |
Consent to disclosure.
The Borrower authorises any of
the Lenders to disclose all information related or connected to:
|
(a) |
the Ship or any other vessel owned or operated by a Security Party;
|
(b) |
the negotiation, drafting and content of this Agreement and the Finance Documents;
|
(c) |
the Loan; or
|
(d) |
any Security Party,
|
27. |
VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS
|
27.1 |
Variations, waivers etc. by Majority Lenders.
Subject
to Clause 27.2, a document shall be effective to vary, waive, suspend or limit any provision of a Finance Document, or any Creditor Party's rights or remedies under such a provision or the general law, only if the document is signed, or
specifically agreed to by fax, by the Borrower, by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders, by the Agent and the Security Trustee in their own rights, and, if the document relates to a Finance Document to which a Security Party is
party, by that Security Party.
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27.2 |
Variations, waivers etc. requiring agreement of all Lenders.
However, as regards the following, Clause 27.1 applies as if the words "by the Agent on behalf of the Majority Lenders" were replaced by the words "by or on behalf of every Lender":
|
(a) |
a change in the Margin or in the definition of LIBOR;
|
(b) |
a change to the date for, the amount of, any payment of principal, interest, fees, or other sums payable under this Agreement;
|
(c) |
a change to any Lender's Commitment;
|
(d) |
an extension of the Availability Period;
|
(e) |
a change to the definition of "Majority Lenders" or "Finance Documents";
|
(f) |
a change to the preamble or to Clause 2, 3, 4, 5.1, 11.17, 11.18, 17, 19 or 30;
|
(g) |
a change to this Clause 27;
|
(h) |
any release of, or material variation to, a Security Interest, guarantee, indemnity or subordination arrangement set out in a Finance Document; and
|
(i) |
any other change or matter as regards which this Agreement or another Finance Document expressly provides that each Lender's consent is required.
|
27.3 |
Exclusion of other or implied variations.
Except for a
document which satisfies the requirements of Clauses 27.1 and 27.2, no document, and no act, course of conduct, failure or neglect to act, delay or acquiescence on the part of the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on
behalf of any of them) shall result in the Creditor Parties or any of them (or any person acting on behalf of any of them) being taken to have varied, waived, suspended or limited, or being precluded (permanently or temporarily) from
enforcing, relying on or exercising:
|
(a) |
a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or
|
(b) |
an Event of Default; or
|
(c) |
a breach by the Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or
|
(d) |
any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law,
|
27.4 |
Notification of Variation or Waiver.
No variation or
waiver may be made before the date falling ten (10) Business Days after the terms of that variation or waiver have been notified by the Agent to the Lenders, unless each Lender is a FATCA Protected Lender. The Agent shall notify the
Lenders reasonably promptly of any variations or waivers proposed by the Borrower.
|
27.5 |
Variation or Waiver: FATCA.
|
(a) |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Agent or a Lender reasonably believes that an amendment or waiver may constitute a "material modification" for the
purposes of FATCA that may result (directly or indirectly) in a Party being required to make a FATCA Deduction and the Agent or that Lender (as the case may be) notifies the Borrower and the Agent accordingly, that amendment or waiver
may, subject to paragraph (b) below, not be effected without the consent of the Agent or that Lender (as the case may be).
|
(b) |
The consent of a Lender shall not be required pursuant to paragraph (a) above if that Lender is a FATCA Protected Lender.
|
28. |
NOTICES
|
28.1 |
General.
Unless otherwise specifically provided, any
notice under or in connection with any Finance Document shall be given by letter or fax; and references in the Finance Documents to written notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed
accordingly.
|
28.2 |
Addresses for communications. A notice shall be sent:
|
(a)
|
to the Borrower:
|
c/o Eurodry Ltd
4, Messogiou & Evropis Street 151 24, Maroussi Athens, Greece
Fax No: +30 2111 804097
Attn: Mr. Tassos Aslidis/Mr. George Kavalis |
(b)
|
to a Lender:
|
At the address below its name in Schedule 1 or (as the case may require) in the relevant Transfer Certificate;
|
(c)
|
to the Arranger, Account Bank and Security Trustee:
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
83, Akti Miaouli Street 185 38 Piraeus Greece Fax No: +30 210 4587877; |
(d)
|
to the Agent:
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
83, Akti Miaouli Street 185 38 Piraeus Greece Fax: +30 210 4587877 Attn: Mr S. Yagos |
28.3 |
Effective date of notices.
Subject to Clauses 28.4 and
28.5:
|
(a) |
a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered;
|
(b) |
a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed.
|
28.4 |
Service outside business hours.
However, if under
Clause 28.3 a notice would be deemed to be served:
|
(a) |
on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or
|
(b) |
on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time;
|
28.5 |
Illegible notices.
Clauses 28.3 and 28.4 do not apply
if the recipient of a notice notifies the sender within one hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that the notice has been received in a form which is illegible in a material respect.
|
28.6 |
Valid notices.
A notice under or in connection with a
Finance Document shall not be invalid by reason that its contents or the manner of serving it do not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if,
|
28.7 |
English language.
Any notice under or in connection
with a Finance Document shall be in English.
|
28.8 |
Meaning of
"
notice
"
.
In this Clause "notice" includes any demand, consent,
authorisation, approval, instruction, waiver or other communication.
|
28.9 |
Electronic communication.
|
(a) |
Any communication to be made between the Agent and a Lender under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other
electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Lender:
|
|
(i) |
agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication;
|
|
(ii) |
notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that
means; and
|
|
(iii) |
notify each other of any change to their respective addresses or any other such information supplied to them.
|
(b) |
Any electronic communication made between the Agent and a Lender will be effective only when actually received in readable form and, in the case of any
electronic communication made by a Lender to the Agent, only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.
|
29. |
SUPPLEMENTAL
|
29.1 |
Rights cumulative, non-exclusive.
The rights and
remedies which the Finance Documents give to each Creditor Party are:
|
(a) |
cumulative;
|
(b) |
may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and
|
(c) |
shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law.
|
29.2 |
Severability of provisions.
If any provision of a
Finance Document is or subsequently becomes void, unenforceable or illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance
Document.
|
29.3 |
Third party rights.
A person who is not a party to
this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
|
29.4 |
Counterparts.
A Finance Document may be executed in
any number of counterparts.
|
29.5 |
PATRIOT Act Notice.
Each of the Agent and the Lenders
hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act and the policies and practices of the Agent and each Lender, the Agent and each of the Lenders is required to obtain, verify and record certain
information and documentation that identifies the Borrower and each Security Party, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and each Security Party and such other information that will allow the Agent and each of
the Lenders to identify the Borrower and each Security Party in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.
|
30. |
LAW AND JURISDICTION
|
30.1 |
English law.
This Agreement (and any non-contractual
obligations connected with it) shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
|
30.2 |
Exclusive English jurisdiction.
Subject to Clause
30.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement.
|
30.3 |
Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor
Parties.
Clause 30.2 is for the exclusive benefit of the Creditor Parties, each of which reserves the right:
|
(a) |
to commence proceedings in relation to any matter which arises out of or in connection with this Agreement in the courts of any country other than England and
which have or claim jurisdiction to that matter; and
|
(b) |
to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing
proceedings in England.
|
30.4 |
Process agent.
The Borrower irrevocably appoints Hill
Dickinson Services (London) Ltd at their office for the time being, presently at The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street, London, EC2A 2EW, England, to act as its agent to receive and accept on its behalf any process or other document
relating to any proceedings in the English courts which are connected with this Agreement.
|
30.5 |
Creditor Party rights unaffected.
Nothing in this
Clause 30 shall exclude or limit any right which any Creditor Party may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the
recognition or enforcement of a judgment or any similar or related matter in any jurisdiction.
|
30.6 |
Meaning of
“
proceedings
”
.
In this Clause 30, "
proceedings
" means proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure.
|
Lender
|
Lending Office
|
Commitment
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
83, Akti Miaouli Street
185 38 Piraeus
Greece
Fax No: +30 210 4587877
Attn: Loans Administration
|
US$15,000,000
|
To:
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
83, Akti Miaouli 185 38 Piraeus Greece |
Attention:
|
[Loans Administration]
|
1. |
We refer to the loan agreement (the "
Loan Agreement
")
dated
[
●
]
2018
and made between (1) ourselves as Borrower, (2) the Lenders referred to therein and (3) yourselves as Arranger, Account Bank, Agent and as Security Trustee in connection with a secured term loan of up to US$15,000,000. Terms defined in
the Loan Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice.
|
2. |
We request to draw the Loan as follows:
|
(a) |
Amount: US$
[
●
]
;
|
(b) |
Drawdown Date:
[
●
]
2018;
|
(c) |
Duration of the first Interest Period shall be
[
●
]
months;
|
(d) |
Payment instructions: account of
[
●
]
and numbered
[
●
]
held with
[
●
]
of
[
●
]
.
|
3. |
We represent and warrant that:
|
(a) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 10 of the Loan Agreement are true and correct at the date hereof as if made with respect to the facts and
circumstances existing at this date;
|
(b) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the Loan.
|
4. |
This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.
|
1. |
A duly executed original of this Agreement, the Agency and Trust Deed, the Guarantee, the Accounts Pledge (together with all notices of assignment required
thereunder).
|
2. |
Copies of the certificate of incorporation and constitutional documents of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Approved Manager, together with up to date
evidence of the good standing of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Approved Manager or equivalent documents establishing the incorporation and/or good standing (as the case may be) of the Approved Manager.
|
3. |
Originals of resolutions of the directors and shareholders of the Borrower and originals of the relevant minutes containing the resolutions of the directors
of the Guarantor and the Approved Manager authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents referred to at 1 above to which the Borrower and/or any other Security Party is a party and authorising named officers to give the
Drawdown Notice and other notices under this Agreement.
|
4. |
The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document referred to at 1 above is executed on behalf of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the
Approved Manager.
|
5. |
Copies of all consents which the Borrower or any Security Party requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document.
|
6. |
All documentation required by the Agent in respect of the Borrower and any other Security Party pursuant to each Lender's "Know your customer" requirements
based on applicable laws and regulations from time to time and the Agent's own internal guidelines from time to time, together with such other documents or evidence as the Lenders may reasonably require with respect to money laundering
regulations.
|
7. |
Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 30 of this Agreement has accepted its appointment.
|
8. |
Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent on such matters concerning English law and the laws of Liberia and/or the Marshall Islands and
such other relevant jurisdictions as the Agent may require.
|
9. |
A certificate in a form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders confirming the legal ownership and the beneficial ownership of the shares in the Borrower,
in a form and substance satisfactory to the Agent in its sole discretion.
|
10. |
The originals of any mandates or other documents required in connection with the opening and operation of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account.
|
|
|
11. |
Receipt by the Agent and the Arranger of all fees due under Clause 20 of this Agreement.
|
12. |
If the Agent so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the
Agent.
|
1. |
In respect of the Ship, a duly executed original of the Mortgage and the Assignment (together with all notices of assignment and acknowledgements required
thereunder), together with original resolutions of directors/shareholders and a power of attorney of the Borrower with respect to the execution of such Finance Documents by the Borrower.
|
2. |
Documentary evidence that:
|
(a) |
the Ship will on the Drawdown Date be definitively and permanently registered in the name of the Borrower under the Approved Flag;
|
(b) |
the Ship will on the Drawdown Date (or as soon as reasonably practicable therafter) be in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the Borrower save as
contemplated by the Finance Documents;
|
(c) |
the Ship will on the Drawdown Date be classed with the highest available class with Lloyds Register of Ships (or IACS equivalent) free of all overdue
recommendations and conditions of such classification society affecting Class;
|
(d) |
the Mortgage in respect of the Ship has been executed by the Borrower and has been, or will immediately following drawdown of the Loan be, registered against
the Ship as a valid first priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the Approved Flag State; and
|
(e) |
the Ship will on the Drawdown Date be insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances shall
have been complied with.
|
3. |
Documents establishing that the Ship will, as from the Drawdown Date, be managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Agent, together with:
|
(a) |
the Approved Manager's Undertaking in respect of the Ship, together with a copy of the ship management agreement for the Ship;
|
(b) |
the Guarantor's Undertaking-Assignment in respect of the Ship;
|
(c) |
copies of the Document of Compliance and Safety Management Certificate and ISSC;
|
(d) |
copies of such other ISM Code or ISPS Code documentation as the Agent may by written notice to the Borrower have requested not later than 2 days before the
Drawdown Date, certified as true and complete in all material respects by the Borrower and the Approved Manager.
|
5. |
Evidence that the Minimum Liquidity is maintained in an account of the Borrower or the Guarantor.
|
6. |
Valuation of the Ship addressed to the Agent (at the cost and the expense of the Borrower), prepared in accordance with Clause 15.4 of this Agreement, in a
form satisfactory to the Agent.
|
7. |
A favourable opinion from an independent insurance consultant appointed by the Agent on such matters relating to the insurances for the Ship as the Agent may
require, and at the cost and expense of the Borrower.
|
8. |
Favourable legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Lenders on such matters concerning English law and the laws of Liberia, the laws of the Marshall
Islands, the laws of the Approved Flag State (if different) and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Lenders may require.
|
9. |
Receipt by the Agent of any fees due under Clause 20 of this Agreement.
|
10. |
Evidence of the lightweight displacement of the Ship;
|
To:
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A. for itself and for and on behalf of the Borrower, each Security Party, the Arranger, the Account Bank, the
Agent, the Security Trustee and each Lender, as defined in the Loan Agreement referred to below.
|
1. |
In this Certificate:
|
3. |
The effective date of this Certificate is [●]
Provided that
this Certificate shall not come into effect unless it is signed by the Agent on or before that date.
|
4. |
The Transferor assigns to the Transferee absolutely all rights and interests (present, future or contingent) which the Transferor has as Lender under or by
virtue of the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document in relation to [●] per cent of the Contribution outstanding to the Transferor (or its predecessors in title) which is set out below:
|
Contribution
|
Amount transferred
|
5. |
By virtue of this Transfer Certificate and Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement, the Transferor is discharged [entirely from its Commitment which amounts to
US$[●]] [from [●] per cent. of its Commitment, which percentage represents UD$[●]] and the Transferee acquires a Commitment of US$[●].
|
6. |
The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the Relevant Parties that the Transferee will observe and perform all the obligations under the
Finance Documents which Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement provides will become binding on it upon this Certificate taking effect. [For the avoidance of doubt the Transferor shall remain as [●] under the Loan Agreement and the Finance
Documents].
|
7. |
The Agent, at the request of the Transferee (which request is hereby made) accepts, for the Agent itself and for and on behalf of every other Relevant Party,
this Certificate as a Transfer Certificate taking effect in accordance with Clause 26 of the Loan Agreement.
|
(a) |
warrants to the Transferee and each Relevant Party:
|
|
(i) |
that the Transferor has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and obtained all consents which are in connection with
this transaction; and
|
|
(ii) |
that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferor;
|
(b) |
warrants to the Transferee that the Transferor is absolutely entitled, free of encumbrances, to all the rights and interests covered by the assignment in
paragraph 4 above;
|
(c) |
undertakes with the Transferee that the Transferor will, at its own expense, execute any documents which the Transferee reasonably requests for perfecting in
any relevant jurisdiction the Transferee's title under this Certificate or for a similar purpose.
|
9. |
The Transferee:
|
(a) |
confirms that it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement and each other Finance Document;
|
(b) |
agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against either the Transferor, the Arranger, the Account Bank, the Agent, the Security Trustee or
any Lender in the event that:
|
|
(i) |
the Finance Documents prove to be invalid or ineffective,
|
|
(ii) |
the Borrower or any Security Party fails to observe or perform its obligations, or to discharge its liabilities, under the Finance Documents;
|
|
(iii) |
it proves impossible to realise any asset covered by a Security Interest created by a Finance Document, or the proceeds of such assets are insufficient to
discharge the liabilities of the Borrower or Security Party under the Finance Documents;
|
(c) |
agrees that it will have no rights of recourse on any ground against the Arranger, the Account Bank, the Agent, the Security Trustee or any Lender in the
event that this Certificate proves to be invalid or ineffective;
|
(d) |
warrants to the Transferor and each Relevant Party (i) that it has full capacity to enter into this transaction and has taken all corporate action and
obtained all official consents which it needs to take or obtain in connection with this transaction; and (ii) that this Certificate is valid and binding as regards the Transferee; and
|
(e) |
confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out below regarding the Transferee.
|
10. |
The Transferor and the Transferee each undertake with the Agent and the Security Trustee severally, on demand, fully to indemnify the Agent and/or the
Security Trustee in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense (including all legal expenses) which they or either of them may incur in connection with this Certificate or any matter arising out of it, except such as are
shown to have been mainly and directly caused by the gross and culpable negligence or dishonesty of the Agent's or the Security Trustee's own officers or employees.
|
11. |
The Transferee shall repay to the Transferor on demand so much of any sum paid by the Transferor under paragraph 10 above as exceeds one-half of the amount
demanded by the Agent or the Security Trustee in respect of a claim, proceeding, liability or expense which was not reasonably foreseeable at the date of this Certificate; but nothing in this paragraph shall affect the liability of each
of the Transferor and the Transferee to the Agent or the Security Trustee for the full amount demanded by it.
|
[Name of Transferor]
|
[Name of Transferee]
|
|||
By:
|
[●]
|
By:
|
[●]
|
|
Date:
|
[●]
|
Date:
|
[●]
|
By:
|
[●]
|
|||
Date:
|
[●]
|
Note
:
|
This Transfer Certificate alone may not be sufficient to transfer a proportionate share of the Transferor's interest in the security
constituted by the Finance Documents in the Transferor's or Transferee's jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of each Lender to ascertain whether any other documents are required for this purpose.
|
To:
|
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
83, Akti Miaouli 185 38 Piraeus Greece |
Attn:
|
Loans Administration
|
Dear Sirs
|
[date]
|
THE BORROWER
|
|||
Signed by
|
)
|
||
STEFANIA KARMIRI
|
)
|
/s/ Stefania Karmiri
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
)
|
||
ULTRA ONE SHIPPING LTD
|
)
|
||
of the Marshall Islands
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
|||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
THE LENDERS
|
|||
Signed by
|
)
|
||
STAVROS YAGOS
|
)
|
/s/ Stavros Yagos
|
|
and
|
)
|
||
for and on behalf of Nikoletta Mitropoulou
|
)
|
||
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
)
|
||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
THE ARRANGER
|
|||
Signed by
|
)
|
|
|
STAVROS YAGOS
|
)
|
/s/ Stavros Yagos
|
|
and
|
)
|
||
for and on behalf of Nikoletta Mitropoulou
|
)
|
||
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
|||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
THE ACCOUNT BANK
|
|||
Signed by
|
|||
STAVROS YAGOS
|
)
|
|
|
and
|
)
|
/s/ Stavros Yagos
|
|
for and on behalf of Nikoletta Mitropoulou
|
)
|
||
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
)
|
||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
THE AGENT
|
|||
Signed by
|
|||
STAVROS YAGOS
|
)
|
|
|
and
|
)
|
/s/ Stavros Yagos
|
|
for and on behalf of Nikoletta Mitropoulou
|
)
|
||
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
)
|
||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
THE SECURITY TRUSTEE
|
|||
Signed by
|
|||
STAVROS YAGOS
|
)
|
|
|
and
|
)
|
/s/ Stavros Yagos
|
|
for and on behalf of Nikoletta Mitropoulou
|
)
|
||
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
|
)
|
||
in the presence of
|
)
|
||
Witness:
|
/s/
|
||
Name:
|
|||
Address:
|
|||
Occupation:
|
Attorney-at-law
|
||
Clause
|
Page
|
|
1
|
Interpretation
|
2
|
2
|
Facility
|
17
|
3
|
Drawdown
|
17
|
4
|
Interest
|
19
|
5
|
Interest Periods
|
20
|
6
|
Default Interest
|
21
|
7
|
Repayment and Prepayment
|
22
|
8
|
Conditions Precedent
|
24
|
9
|
Representations and Warranties
|
25
|
10
|
General Undertakings
|
28
|
11
|
Corporate Undertakings
|
32
|
12
|
Insurance
|
33
|
13
|
Ship Covenants
|
39
|
14
|
Security Cover
|
44
|
15
|
Payments and Calculations
|
46
|
16
|
Application of Receipts
|
47
|
17
|
Application of Earnings
|
48
|
18
|
Events of Default
|
50
|
19
|
Fees and Expenses
|
55
|
20
|
Indemnities
|
56
|
21
|
No Set-off or Tax Deduction
|
58
|
22
|
Illegality, etc
|
59
|
23
|
Increased costs
|
60
|
24
|
Set-Off
|
61
|
25
|
Transfers and Changes in Lending Office
|
62
|
26
|
Variations and Waivers
|
63
|
27
|
Notices
|
64
|
28
|
Joint and Several Liability
|
65
|
29
|
BAIL IN
|
66
|
30
|
Supplemental
|
67
|
31
|
Law and Jurisdiction
|
67
|
Schedule 1 Drawdown Notice
|
69
|
|
Schedule 2 Condition Precedent Documents
|
70
|
|
Schedule 3 Form of Compliance Certificate
|
74
|
|
Execution Page
|
76
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(1) |
PANTELIS SHIPPING CORP.,
a corporation incorporated in
the Republic of Liberia whose registered office is at 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia
, ARETI SHIPPING LTD. and LIGHT SHIPPING LTD
,
each
a corporation incorporated
in the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, the Marshall Islands as joint and several borrowers (together, the "
Borrowers
") and
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(2) |
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.
, acting through its branch
at 2 Bouboulinas Street and Akti Miaouli, Piraeus 185 35, Greece (as "
Lender
").
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(i) |
refinancing the Existing Indebtedness secured on Ship A and Ship B; and
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(ii) |
financing part of the Acquisition Cost of Ship C.
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1 |
INTERPRETATION
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1.1 |
Definitions
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(a) |
31 December 2018 (or such later date as the Lender may agree with the Borrowers); or
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(b) |
if earlier, the Drawdown Date of that Advance or the date on which the Lender's obligation to make that Advance available is cancelled or terminated;
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(a) |
in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for
the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, the relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time; and
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(b) |
in relation to any other state, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion
Powers contained in that law or regulation;
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(a) |
except to the extent that they fall within paragraph (b);
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(i) |
all freight, hire and passage moneys;
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(ii) |
compensation payable to any Borrower or the Lender in the event of requisition of a Ship for hire;
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(iii) |
remuneration for salvage and towage services;
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(iv) |
demurrage and detention moneys;
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(v) |
damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any charterparty or other contract for the employment of a Ship;
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(vi) |
all moneys which are at any time payable under any Insurances in respect of loss of hire;
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(vii) |
all monies which are at any time payable to that Borrower in relation to general average contribution; and
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(b) |
if and whenever a Ship is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraphs (a)(i) to (vii) are pooled or shared with any other person, that
proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement which is attributable to a Ship;
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(a) |
any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which
relates to any Environmental Law; or
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(b) |
any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident or to an alleged Environmental Incident,
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(a) |
any release of Environmentally Sensitive Material from a Ship; or
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(b) |
any incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released from a vessel other than a Ship and which involves a collision between a Ship and such
other vessel or some other incident of navigation or operation, in either case, in connection with which a Ship is actually or potentially liable to be arrested, attached, detained or injuncted and/or a Ship and/or any Borrower and/or
any operator or manager of a Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action; or
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(c) |
any other incident in which Environmentally Sensitive Material is released otherwise than from a Ship and in connection with which a Ship is actually or
potentially liable to be arrested and/or where any Borrower and/or any operator or manager of a Ship is at fault or allegedly at fault or otherwise liable to any legal or administrative action;
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(a) |
this Agreement;
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(b) |
the Guarantee;
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(c) |
the General Assignments;
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(d) |
the Mortgages;
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(e) |
the Retention Account Pledge;
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(f) |
the Manager's Undertakings;
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(g) |
any Charterparty Assignment; and
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(h) |
any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by any Borrower or Security Party or any other person as
security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, any amount payable to the Lender under this Agreement or any of the other documents referred to in this definition;
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(a) |
for principal, interest or any other sum payable in respect of any moneys borrowed or raised by the debtor;
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(b) |
under any loan stock, bond, note or other security issued by the debtor;
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(c) |
under any acceptance credit, guarantee or letter of credit facility or dematerialised equivalent made available to the debtor;
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(d) |
under a financial lease, a deferred purchase consideration arrangement or any other agreement having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money
by the debtor;
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(e) |
under any foreign exchange transaction, any interest or currency swap or any other kind of derivative transaction entered into by the debtor or, if the
agreement under which any such transaction is entered into requires netting of mutual liabilities, the liability of the debtor for the net amount; or
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(f) |
under a guarantee, indemnity or similar obligation entered into by the debtor in respect of a liability of another person which would fall within ((a)) to
((e)) if the references to the debtor referred to the other person;
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(a) |
all policies and contracts of insurance, including entries of that Ship in any protection and indemnity or war risks association, effected in respect of that
Ship, its Earnings (if applicable) or otherwise in relation to it whether before, on or after the date of this Agreement; and
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(b) |
all rights and other assets relating to, or derived from, any of the foregoing, including any rights to a return of a premium and any rights in respect of any
claim whether or not the relevant policy, contract of insurance or entry has expired on or before the date of this Agreement;
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(a) |
the applicable Screen Rate; or
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(b) |
if no Screen Rate is available for that period, the rate per annum determined by the Lender to be the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards to 4 decimal places) of
the rates, as supplied to the Lender at its request, quoted by the Reference Bank to leading banks in the London Interbank Market,
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(a) |
the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of a Borrower and/or the Guarantor taken as a whole; or
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(b) |
the ability of a Borrower and/or the Guarantor to comply with or perform any of its obligations or discharge any of its liabilities, under any Finance
Document as they fall due.
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(a) |
Security Interests created by the Finance Documents;
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(b) |
liens for unpaid crew's wages in accordance with usual maritime practice;
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(c) |
liens for salvage;
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(d) |
liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months' prepaid hire under any charter in relation to a Ship not prohibited by this Agreement;
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(e) |
liens for master's disbursements incurred in the ordinary course of trading and any other lien arising by operation of law or otherwise in the ordinary
course of the operation, repair or maintenance of a Ship, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 30 days overdue and subject, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, to Clause 13.13 (g);
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(f) |
any Security Interest created in favour of a plaintiff or defendant in any action of the court or tribunal before whom such action is brought as security for
costs and expenses where the Borrower is prosecuting or defending such action in good faith by appropriate steps (having a capped value of $250,000); and
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(g) |
Security Interests arising by operation of law in respect of taxes which are not overdue for payment other than taxes being contested in good faith by
appropriate steps and in respect of which appropriate reserves have been made.
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(a) |
any Finance Document;
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(b) |
any policy or contract of insurance contemplated by or referred to in Clause 12 or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; and
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(c) |
any other document contemplated by or referred to in any Finance Document.
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(a) |
England and Wales;
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(b) |
the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed;
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(c) |
a country in which the company has the centre of its main interests or in which the company's central management and control is or has recently been
exercised;
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(d) |
a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax;
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(e) |
a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which
the company maintains a branch or a permanent place of business, or in which a Security Interest created by the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority; and
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a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up, administration or similar order in relation to the company, whether as main or
territorial or ancillary proceedings, or which would have such jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c);
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(a) |
any transaction or matter contemplated by, arising out of, or connection with a Pertinent Document; or
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(b) |
any statement relating to a Pertinent Document or to a transaction or matter falling within paragraph (a),
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(a) |
Mr. Aristeidis J. Pittas;
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(b) |
the father, brothers and cousins of Mr. Aristeidis J. Pittas; and
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(c) |
all the lineal descendants in direct line of Mr. Aristeidis J. Pittas and any of the above persons,
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(a) |
listed on, or owned or controlled by a person, entity or party listed on any Sanctions list; or
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(b) |
located in, incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, a person, entity or party located in or organised under the
laws of a country or territory that is the target of country-wide Sanctions as applicable; or
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(c) |
being at prohibited ports; or
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(d) |
being otherwise a target of Sanctions; or
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(e) |
acting or purporting to act on behalf of any of the parties listed in paragraphs (a) and (b) above; or
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(f) |
with which the Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction pursuant to OFAC, UN, EU and HMT Sanctions;
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(a) |
imposed by law or regulation of Greece, the United Kingdom, the Council of the European Union, the United Nations or its Security Council or the United States
of America; or
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(b) |
otherwise imposed by any law or regulation by which any Security Party or any other member of the Group or any affiliate or any of them is bound or, as
regards a regulation, compliance with which is reasonable in the ordinary course of business of any Security Party or any other member of the Group, any affiliate of any of them.
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(a) |
the aggregate Market Value of the Ships then subject to a Mortgage; plus
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(b) |
the net realisable value of any additional security previously provided under Clause 14 of this Agreement,
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(a) |
a mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating) or pledge, any maritime or other lien or any other security interest of any kind;
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(b) |
the security rights of a plaintiff under an action
in rem
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and
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(c) |
any arrangement entered into by a person (A) the effect of which is to place another person (B) in a position which is similar, in economic terms, to the
position in which B would have been had he held a security interest over an asset of A; but this paragraph (c) does not apply to a right of set off or combination of accounts conferred by the standard terms of business of a bank or
financial institution;
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(a) |
actual, constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Ship;
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(b) |
any expropriation, confiscation, requisition or acquisition of that Ship, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a
nominal consideration or without any consideration, which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a government or official authority (excluding a requisition for
hire for a fixed period not exceeding 1 year without any right to an extension) unless it is within 40 days redelivered to the relevant Borrower's full control;
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(c) |
any arrest, capture, seizure, condemnation or detention of that Ship (including any hijacking or theft) unless it is within 40 days redelivered to the
relevant Borrower's full control;
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(a) |
in the case of an actual loss of a Ship, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when that Ship was last heard of;
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(b) |
in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Ship, the earliest of:
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(i) |
the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers; and
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(ii) |
the date of any compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the Borrower owing that Ship with that Ship's insurers) in which the insurers
agree to treat that Ship as a total loss; and
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(c) |
in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Lender that the event constituting the total
loss occurred; and
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1.2 |
Construction of certain terms
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1.3 |
Meaning of "month"
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(a) |
on the Business Day following the numerically corresponding day if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day or, if there is no later Business
Day in the same calendar month, on the Business Day preceding the numerically corresponding day; or
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(b) |
on the last Business Day in the relevant calendar month, if the period started on the last Business Day in a calendar month or if the last calendar month of
the period has no numerically corresponding day,
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1.4 |
Meaning of "subsidiary"
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(a) |
a majority of the issued shares in S (or a majority of the issued shares in S which carry unlimited rights to capital and income distributions) are directly
owned by P or are indirectly attributable to P; or
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(b) |
P has direct or indirect control over a majority of the voting rights attaching to the issued shares of S; or
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(c) |
P has the direct or indirect power to appoint or remove a majority of the directors of S; or
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(d) |
P otherwise has the direct or indirect power to ensure that the affairs of S are conducted in accordance with the wishes of P,
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1.5 |
General Interpretation
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(a) |
references to, or to a provision of, a Finance Document or any other document are references to it as amended or supplemented, whether before the date of this
Agreement or otherwise;
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(b) |
references to, or to a provision of, any law include any amendment, extension, re-enactment or replacement, whether made before the date of this Agreement or
otherwise;
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(c) |
words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa; and
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(d) |
Clauses 1.1 to 1.5 apply unless the contrary intention appears.
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1.6 |
Headings
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2 |
FACILITY
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2.1 |
Amount of facility
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(a) |
Advance A shall be in an amount of $6,879,192; and
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(b) |
Advance B shall be in an amount of $8,120,808.
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2.2 |
Purpose of Advances
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2.3 |
Greek Currency Committee
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3 |
DRAWDOWN
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3.1 |
Request for Advance
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3.2 |
Availability
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(a) |
the Drawdown Date in relation to an Advance has to be a Business Day during the Availability Period;
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(b) |
each Advance shall be drawn in a single amount which shall not exceed the amount applicable thereto referred to in Clause 2.1 and shall be used for the
purpose referred to in the preamble to this Agreement;
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(c) |
any amount of an Advance not drawn on the Drawdown Date in respect of that Advance shall be cancelled and may not be borrowed by the Borrowers at a later
date; and
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(d) |
the aggregate amount of the Advances shall not exceed the Commitment.
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3.3 |
Drawdown Notice irrevocable
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3.4 |
Disbursement of Advance
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3.5 |
Disbursement of Advance to third party
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3.6 |
Prepositioning of funds
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(a) |
the amount remitted shall be held in an account in the Lender's name and to the order of the Lender;
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(b) |
such amount will only be released to the Relevant Bank upon satisfaction of the conditions described in the remittance message with which the conditional
payment is effected for the transfer of the funds to the Existing Lender or the Seller, as the case may be, including without limitation, (i) written instructions specifying the amount to be released signed on behalf of the Lender by a
person named in the Lender's remittance instructions and/or (ii) a copy of the protocol of delivery and acceptance in respect of Ship C in the form agreed between the Seller and Borrower C and duly signed on behalf of the Seller and
Borrower C and/or such other documents as the Lender may, at its absolute discretion, agrees to;
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(c) |
in the event that none of the said amount so remitted is released in accordance with the Lender's instructions or any part thereof is not so released, the
money held by the Relevant Bank 5 days (or such longer period as the Lender may, at its absolute discretion, agree to) after its receipt by the Relevant Bank is returned to the account specified in the Lender's remittance instructions;
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(d) |
the Relevant Conditions Precedent shall be satisfied simultaneously with any release to the Relevant Bank pursuant to (b) above; and
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(e) |
the Borrowers shall, without duplication, indemnify the Lender against any costs, loss or liability it may incur in connection with such arrangement.
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4 |
INTEREST
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4.1 |
Payment of normal interest
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4.2 |
Normal rate of interest
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4.3 |
Payment of accrued interest
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4.4 |
Notification of market disruption
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4.5 |
Suspension of drawdown
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4.6 |
Negotiation of alternative rate of interest
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4.7 |
Application of agreed alternative rate of interest
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4.8 |
Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement
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4.9 |
Notice of prepayment
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4.10 |
Prepayment
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4.11 |
Application of prepayment
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5 |
INTEREST PERIODS
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5.1 |
Commencement of Interest Periods
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5.2 |
Duration of normal Interest Periods
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(a) |
1, 2, 3, 6 or 12 months as notified by the Borrowers to the Lender not later than 11.00 a.m. (London time) 2 Business Days before the commencement of the
Interest Period; or
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(b) |
3 months, if the Borrowers fail to notify the Lender by the time specified in paragraph (a); or
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(c) |
such other period requested by the Borrowers and accepted by the Lender in its sole discretion which is less than 12 months.
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5.3 |
Duration of Interest Periods for Repayment Instalments
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5.4 |
Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected
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6 |
DEFAULT INTEREST
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6.1 |
Payment of default interest on overdue amounts
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6.2 |
Notification of interest periods and default rates
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6.3 |
Payment of accrued default interest
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6.4 |
Compounding of default interest
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7 |
REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENT
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7.1 |
Amount of repayment instalments
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(a) |
12 consecutive quarterly instalments, in the amount of $700,000 each (each a "
Repayment Instalment
" and together, the "
Repayment Instalments
"); and
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(b) |
together with the twelfth Repayment Instalment, a balloon instalment in the amount of $6,600,000 (the "
Balloon Instalment
"),
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7.2 |
Repayment Dates
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7.3 |
Final Repayment Date
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7.4 |
Voluntary prepayment
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7.5 |
Conditions for voluntary prepayment
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(a) |
a partial prepayment shall be $100,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 or any other amount as the Lender may agree with the Borrowers;
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(b) |
the Lender has received from the Borrowers at least 10 days' prior written notice specifying the amount to be prepaid and the date on which the prepayment is
to be made; and
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(c) |
the Borrowers have provided evidence satisfactory to the Lender that any consent required by any Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the
prepayment has been obtained and remains in force, and that any regulation relevant to this Agreement which affects any Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with.
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7.6 |
Effect of notice of prepayment
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7.7 |
Mandatory prepayment
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(a) |
in the case of a sale, on or before the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of the relevant Ship to the buyer thereof; or
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(b) |
in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling 90 days after the Total Loss Date and the date of receipt by the Lender of the proceeds of
insurance relating to such Total Loss,
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(c) |
In this Clause 7.7, "
Relevant Amount
" means an amount
equal to the higher of:
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(i) |
the Loan multiplied by a fraction whose:
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(A) |
numerator is the sale price (in case of a sale) or the Insured Value (in case of Total Loss), as the case may be, of the Ship being sold or which has become a
Total Loss; and
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(B) |
denominator is the aggregate of (i) the sale price or Insured Value, as the case may be, of the Ship being sold or which has become a Total Loss and (ii) the
Market Value of the other Ships then subject to a Mortgage; and
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(ii) |
an amount, which after giving credit for the amount of the prepayment made pursuant to this Clause 7.7, results in the Security Cover Ratio being equal to the
higher of (A) the Security Cover Ratio which needs to be maintained pursuant to Clause 14.1, (B) the Security Cover Ratio which applied immediately prior to the date of sale or the Total Loss Date for the Ship which has been sold or
become a Total Loss and (C) 125 per cent..
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7.8 |
Amounts payable on prepayment
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7.9 |
Application of partial prepayment
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7.10 |
No reborrowing
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8 |
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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8.1 |
Documents, fees and no default
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(a) |
that, on or before the service of the first Drawdown Notice, the Lender receives the documents described in Part A of Schedule 2 in form and substance
satisfactory to it and its lawyers;
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(b) |
that, on each Drawdown Date but prior to the making of any Advance, the Lender receives the documents described in Part B of Schedule 2 in form and substance
satisfactory to it and its lawyers;
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(c) |
that, on or before the service of each Drawdown Notice, the Lender has received payment of the arrangement fee referred to in Clause 19.1 and has received
payment of the expenses referred to in Clause 19.2; and
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(d) |
that both at the date of each Drawdown Notice and at each Drawdown Date:
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(i) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or would result from the borrowing of the relevant Advance;
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(ii) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 9.1 and those of the Borrowers or any Security Party which are set out in the other Finance Documents would be
true and not misleading in any respect if repeated on each of those dates with reference to the circumstances then existing;
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(iii) |
none of the circumstances contemplated by Clause 4.4 has occurred and is continuing; and
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(iv) |
there has been no Material Adverse Change; and
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(e) |
that, if the ratio set out in Clause 14.1 were applied immediately following the making of the an Advance, the Borrowers would not be obliged to provide
additional security or prepay part of the Loan under that Clause; and
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(f) |
that the Lender has received, and found to be acceptable to it, any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with the Finance
Documents which the Lender may request by notice to the Borrowers prior to the Drawdown Date.
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8.2 |
Waiver of conditions precedent
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9 |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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9.1 |
General
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9.2 |
Status
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9.3 |
Share capital and ownership
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9.4 |
Corporate power
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(a) |
to execute the MOA and to purchase and pay for Ship C;
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(b) |
to execute the Finance Documents to which that Borrower is a party; and
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(c) |
to borrow under this Agreement and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which that Borrower is a party.
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9.5 |
Consents in force
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9.6 |
Legal validity; effective Security Interests
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(a) |
constitute that Borrower's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against that Borrower in accordance with their respective terms; and
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(b) |
create legal, valid and binding Security Interests enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets to which they, by their terms,
relate,
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9.7 |
No third party Security Interests
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(a) |
each Borrower which is a party to that Finance Document will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to
create; and
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(b) |
no third party will have any Security Interest (other than any Permitted Security Interests) or any other interest, right or claim over, in or in relation to
any asset to which any such Security Interest, by its terms, relates.
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9.8 |
No conflicts
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(a) |
any law or regulation in any Pertinent Jurisdiction; or
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(b) |
the constitutional documents of any Borrower; or
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(c) |
any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on any Borrower or any of its assets.
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9.9 |
No withholding taxes
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9.10 |
No default
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9.11 |
Information
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9.12 |
No litigation
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9.13 |
Compliance with certain undertakings
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9.14 |
Taxes paid
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9.15 |
ISM Code and ISPS Code compliance
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9.16 |
No money laundering
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9.17 |
Sanctions
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(a) |
No Borrower nor any Security Party:
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(i) |
is a Prohibited Party;
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(ii) |
is owned or controlled by or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or for the benefit of, a Prohibited Party;
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(iii) |
owns or controls a Prohibited Party;
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(iv) |
has a Prohibited Party serving as a director, officer or, to the best of its knowledge, employee; or
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(v) |
is domiciled or incorporated in any of the restricted countries.
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(b) |
No proceeds of the Loan shall be made available, directly or indirectly, to or for the benefit of a Prohibited Party nor shall they be otherwise directly or
indirectly, applied in a manner or for a purpose prohibited by Sanctions.
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(c) |
Each Security Party and each other member of the Group and each affiliate of any of them is in compliance with all Sanctions.
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9.18 |
Validity and completeness of the MOA
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(a) |
it constitutes valid, binding and enforceable obligations of the parties thereto in accordance with its terms subject to any relevant insolvency laws
affecting creditors' rights generally;
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(b) |
no amendments or additions to it have been agreed (other than those notified to the Lender prior to the date of this Agreement) nor has any of the parties
thereto waived any of their respective rights thereunder; and
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(c) |
it has not been cancelled, terminated, rescinded or suspended or otherwise has ceased to remain in force for any reason.
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9.19 |
No rebates etc.
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10 |
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
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10.1 |
General
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10.2 |
Title; negative pledge and pari passu ranking
|
(a) |
hold the legal title to, and own the entire direct beneficial interest in the Ship owned by it, her Insurances and Earnings, free from all Security Interests
and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created or permitted by the Finance Documents and the effect of assignments contained in the Finance Documents;
|
(b) |
not create or permit to arise any Security Interest over any other asset, present or future; and
|
(c) |
ensure that its liabilities under the Finance Documents to which it is a party do and will rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future
unsecured liabilities, except for liabilities which are mandatorily preferred by law.
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10.3 |
No disposal of assets
|
(a) |
all or a substantial part of its assets, whether by one transaction or a number of transactions, whether related or not; or
|
(b) |
any debt payable to it or any other right (present, future or contingent right) to receive a payment, including any right to damages or compensation,
|
10.4 |
No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred
|
10.5 |
Information provided to be accurate
|
10.6 |
Provision of financial statements
|
(a) |
as soon as possible, but in no event later than 120 days after the end of each Financial Year of each Borrower and the Guarantor, the individual management
accounts of each Borrower and the consolidated audited annual financial statements of the Group for that Financial Year (commencing with the unaudited management accounts or the audited financial statements (as the case may be) for the
Financial Year which ended on 31 December 2018 in respect of the Borrowers and on 31 December 2018 in respect of the Guarantor);
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(b) |
as soon as possible, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of each 6-month period ending on 30 June and 31 December in each Financial Year of each
Borrower or, as the case may be, the Guarantor, the semi-annual individual unaudited management accounts in respect of each Borrower or, in the case of the Guarantor, the semi-annual consolidated unaudited financial statements of the
Group, in each case, for that 6-month period (commencing with the management accounts for the 6-month period ending on 30 June 2018 in respect of each Borrower and the financial statements for the period ending on 30 June 2018 in
respect of the Guarantor), duly certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor;
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(c) |
from time to time, and on demand such financial or other information relating to the Borrowers, the Guarantor, the Group and/or a Ship as may be requested by
the Lender.
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10.7 |
Form of financial statements
|
(a) |
be prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
|
(b) |
give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Borrowers, the Guarantor and the Group at the date of those accounts and of their profit for the
period to which those accounts relate; and
|
(c) |
fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of each Borrower, the Guarantor and the Group.
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10.8 |
Compliance Certificate
|
(a) |
The Borrowers shall supply to the Lender, together with each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 10.6, a
Compliance Certificate.
|
(b) |
Each Compliance Certificate shall be duly signed by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor and two directors of the Borrowers, evidencing the
Guarantor's compliance with the financial covenants set out in the Guarantee.
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10.9 |
Shareholder and creditor notices
|
10.10 |
Consents
|
(a) |
in the case of Borrower C, to perform its obligations under the MOA;
|
(b) |
for that Borrower to perform its obligations under any Finance Document to which it is a party;
|
(c) |
for the validity or enforceability of any Finance Document to which it is a party;
|
(d) |
for the validity or enforceability of the MOA; and
|
(e) |
for that Borrower to continue to own and operate the Ship owned by it,
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10.11 |
Maintenance of Security Interests
|
(a) |
at its own cost, do all that it can to ensure that any Finance Document, validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to
create; and
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(b) |
without limiting the generality of paragraph (a), at its own cost, promptly register, file, record or enrol any Finance Document with any court or authority
in all Pertinent Jurisdictions, pay any stamp, registration or similar tax in all Pertinent Jurisdictions in respect of any Finance Document, give any notice or take any other step which may be or become necessary or desirable for any
Finance Document to be valid, enforceable or admissible in evidence or to ensure or protect the priority of any Security Interest which it creates.
|
10.12 |
Notification of litigation
|
10.13 |
Principal place of business
|
10.14 |
Confirmation of no default
|
(a) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred; or
|
(b) |
states that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred, except for a specified event or matter, of which all material details are given.
|
10.15 |
Notification of default
|
(a) |
the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or
|
(b) |
any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred,
|
10.16 |
Provision of further information
|
(a) |
to that Borrower, the Guarantor, the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances; or
|
(b) |
to any other matter relevant to, or to any provision of, a Finance Document,
|
10.17 |
"Know your customer" checks
|
(a) |
the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;
|
(b) |
any change in the status of a Borrower or any Security Party after the date of this Agreement; or
|
(c) |
a proposed assignment or transfer by the Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such
assignment or transfer,
|
10.18 |
No amendment to the MOA
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11 |
CORPORATE UNDERTAKINGS
|
11.1 |
General
|
11.2 |
Maintenance of status
|
11.3 |
Negative undertakings
|
(a) |
carry on any type of business other than the ownership, chartering and operation of the Ship owned by it; or
|
(b) |
pay any dividend if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or will occur as a result of the payment of that
dividend; or
|
(c) |
make any other form of distribution or effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital; or
|
(d) |
provide any form of credit or financial assistance to:
|
|
(i) |
a person who is directly or indirectly interested in that Borrower's share or loan capital; or
|
|
(ii) |
any company in or with which such a person is directly or indirectly interested or connected,
|
(e) |
open or maintain any account with any bank or financial institution except accounts with the Lender for the purposes of the Finance Documents (including,
without limitation, the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Account);
|
(f) |
issue, allot or grant any person a right to any shares in its capital or repurchase or reduce its issued share capital;
|
(g) |
acquire any shares or other securities other than US or UK Treasury bills and certificates of deposit issued by major North American or European banks, or
enter into any transaction in a derivative;
|
(h) |
enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation;
|
(i) |
acquire any vessel other than the Ship owned by it; or
|
(j) |
incur any Financial Indebtedness, other than (i) in the ordinary course of owning and operating the Ship owned by it, (ii) as otherwise contemplated pursuant
to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and (iii) at all times until the Drawdown Date the Existing Indebtedness.
|
11.4 |
Financial Developments
|
11.5 |
Minimum Liquidity
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12 |
INSURANCE
|
12.1 |
Maintenance of obligatory insurances
|
(a) |
fire and usual marine risks (including, without limitation, hull and machinery and excess risks);
|
(b) |
war risks
(including, without limitation, terrorism, piracy and
confiscation);
|
(c) |
protection and indemnity risks (including liability for oil pollution, excess war risk P&I cover and the proportion (if any) of any collision liability
not covered under the terms of the hull cover) on standard club rules, covered by a Protection and Indemnity association which is a member of the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations ("
IGA
") (or, if IGA ceases to exist, any other leading protection and indemnity association or other leading provider of protection and indemnity insurance
acceptable to the Lender);
|
(d) |
freight, demurrage and defence risks; and
|
(e) |
any other risks against which the Lender, having regard to practices and other circumstances prevailing at the relevant time, may request from time to time
and which, in the opinion of the Lender, are reasonable for that Borrower to insure and which are specified by the Lender by notice to that Borrower.
|
12.2 |
Terms of obligatory insurances
|
(a) |
in Dollars;
|
(b) |
in the case of fire and usual marine risks and war risks, in an amount on an agreed value basis at least the greater of (i) the Market Value of the Ship owned
by it and (ii) an amount which, when aggregated with the amount for which the other Ships then subject to a Mortgage are insured pursuant to this Clause, is equal to 125 per cent. of the Loan;
|
(c) |
in the case of oil pollution liability risks, for an aggregate amount equal to the highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection
and indemnity club entry and in the international marine insurance market (currently $1,000,000,000);
|
(d) |
in relation to protection and indemnity risks in respect of the full tonnage of the Ship owned by it;
|
(e) |
on approved terms; and
|
(f) |
through first class approved brokers and with first class approved insurance companies and/or underwriters or, in the case of war risks and protection and
indemnity risks, in approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations.
|
12.3 |
Further protections for the Lender
|
(a) |
subject always to paragraph (b), name that Borrower as the sole named assured unless the interest of every other named assured is limited:
|
|
(i) |
in respect of any obligatory insurances for hull and machinery and war risks;
|
|
(A) |
to any provable out-of-pocket expenses that it has incurred and which form part of any recoverable claim on underwriters; and
|
|
(B) |
to any third party liability claims where cover for such claims is provided by the policy (and then only in respect of discharge of any claims made against
it); and
|
|
(ii) |
in respect of any obligatory insurances for protection and indemnity risks, to any recoveries it is entitled to make by way of reimbursement following
discharge of any third party liability claims made specifically against it;
|
(b) |
in the case of any obligatory insurances against any risks other than protection and indemnity risks, and whenever the Lender requires, name (or be amended to
name) the Lender as additional named assured for its rights and interests, warranted no operational interest and with full waiver of rights of subrogation against the Lender, but without the Lender thereby being liable to pay (but
having the right to pay) premiums, calls or other assessments in respect of such insurance;
|
(c) |
name the Lender as loss payee with such directions for payment as the Lender may specify;
|
(d) |
provide that all payments by or on behalf of the insurers under the obligatory insurances to the Lender shall be made without set-off, counterclaim or
deductions or condition whatsoever;
|
(e) |
provide that such obligatory insurances shall be primary without right of contribution from other insurances which may be carried by the Lender;
|
(f) |
provide that the Lender may make proof of loss if that Borrower fails to do so;
|
(g) |
provide that the Lender will be notified promptly in case of any material changes to the obligatory insurances which adversely affects the interest of the
Lender; and
|
(h) |
provide that if any obligatory insurance is cancelled, or if any obligatory insurance is allowed to lapse for non-payment of premium, such cancellation, or
lapse shall not be effective for 14 days (or 7 days in the case of war risks) after receipt by the Lender of prior written notice from the insurers of such cancellation or lapse.
|
12.4 |
Renewal of obligatory insurances
|
(a) |
at least 21 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance:
|
|
(i) |
notify the Lender of the brokers (or other insurers) and any protection and indemnity or war risks association through or with whom that Borrower proposes to
renew that obligatory insurance and of the proposed terms of renewal; and
|
|
(ii) |
obtain the Lender's approval to the matters referred to in paragraph (i);
|
(b) |
at least 14 days before the expiry of any obligatory insurance, renew that obligatory insurance in accordance with the Lender's approval pursuant to paragraph
(a); and
|
(c) |
procure that the approved brokers and/or the war risks and protection and indemnity associations with which such a renewal is effected shall promptly after
the renewal notify the Lender in writing of the terms and conditions of the renewal.
|
12.5 |
Copies of policies; letters of undertaking
|
(a) |
they will have endorsed on each policy, immediately upon issue, a loss payable clause and a notice of assignment complying with the provisions of Clause 12.2;
|
(b) |
they will hold such policies, and the benefit of such insurances, to the order of the Lender in accordance with the said loss payable clause;
|
(c) |
they will advise the Lender immediately of any material change to the terms of the obligatory insurances;
|
(d) |
they will notify the Lender, not less than 14 days before the expiry of the obligatory insurances, in the event of their not having received notice of renewal
instructions from that Borrower or its agents and, in the event of their receiving instructions to renew, they will promptly notify the Lender of the terms of the instructions;
|
(e) |
if the insurances form part of a fleet cover they will not set off against any sum recoverable in respect of a claim relating to the Ship owned by that
Borrower under such obligatory insurances any premiums or other amounts due to them or any other person whether in respect of the Ship owned by it or otherwise, they waive any lien on the policies, or any sums received under them, which
they might have in respect of such premiums or other amounts,; and
|
(f) |
they will not cancel such obligatory insurances by reason of non-payment of such premiums or other amounts for 14 days (or 7 days in the case of war risks)
after the receipt by the Lender of a prior written notice and they will arrange for a separate policy to be issued in respect of the Ship forthwith upon being so requested by the Lender.
|
12.6 |
Copies of certificates of entry
|
(a) |
a certified copy of the certificate of entry for that Ship;
|
(b) |
a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as may be required by the Lender;
|
(c) |
where required to be issued under the terms of insurance/indemnity provided by that Borrower's protection and indemnity association, a certified copy of each
United States of America voyage quarterly declaration (or other similar document or documents) made by the Borrower in relation to the Ship owned by it in accordance with the requirements of such protection and indemnity association;
and
|
(d) |
a certified copy of each certificate of financial responsibility for pollution by oil or other Environmentally Sensitive Material issued by the relevant
certifying authority in relation to that Ship.
|
12.7 |
Deposit of original policies
|
12.8 |
Payment of premiums
|
12.9 |
Guarantees
|
12.10 |
Compliance with terms of insurances
|
(a) |
each Borrower shall take all necessary action and comply with all requirements which may from time to time be applicable to the obligatory insurances, and
(without limiting the obligation contained in Clause 12.6(c)) if applicable) ensure that the obligatory insurances are not made subject to any exclusions or qualifications to which the Lender has not given its prior approval;
|
(b) |
no Borrower shall make any changes relating to the classification or classification society or any manager or operator of the Ship owned by it unless approved
by the underwriters of the obligatory insurances;
|
(c) |
each Borrower shall make (and promptly supply copies to the Lender of) all quarterly or other voyage declarations which may be required by the protection and
indemnity risks association in which the Ship owned by it is entered to maintain cover for trading to the United States of America and Exclusive Economic Zone (as defined in the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 or any other
applicable legislation); and
|
(d) |
no Borrower shall employ the Ship owned by it, nor allow it to be employed, otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of the obligatory
insurances, without first
|
12.11 |
Alteration to terms of insurances
|
12.12 |
Settlement of claims
|
12.13 |
Provision of copies of communications
|
(a) |
the approved brokers; and
|
(b) |
the approved protection and indemnity and/or war risks associations; and
|
(c) |
the approved insurance companies and/or underwriters, which relate directly or indirectly to:
|
|
(i) |
that Borrower's obligations relating to the obligatory insurances including, without limitation, all requisite declarations and payments of additional
premiums or calls;
|
|
(ii) |
any credit arrangements made between that Borrower and any of the persons referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) relating wholly or partly to the effecting or
maintenance of the obligatory insurances; and
|
|
(iii) |
a claim in an amount higher than $400,000 under the obligatory insurances of the Ship owned by it.
|
12.14 |
Provision of information
|
(a) |
obtaining or preparing any report from an independent marine insurance broker as to the adequacy of the obligatory insurances effected or proposed to be
effected; and/or
|
(b) |
effecting, maintaining or renewing any such insurances as are referred to in Clause 12.16 below or dealing with or considering any matters relating to any
such insurances,
|
12.15 |
Mortgagee's interest, additional perils
|
12.16 |
Review of insurance requirements
|
12.17 |
Modification of insurance requirements
|
12.18 |
Compliance with mortgagee's instructions
|
13 |
SHIP COVENANTS
|
13.1 |
General
|
13.2 |
Ship's name and registration
|
13.3 |
Repair and classification
|
(a) |
consistent with first‑class ship ownership and management practice;
|
(b) |
so as to maintain the highest class with a first class classification society (which is a member of IACS acceptable to the Lender) free of overdue
recommendations and conditions affecting class; and
|
(c) |
so as to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to vessels registered under the applicable Approved Flag or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to
which that Ship may trade from time to time, including but not limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code,
|
13.4 |
Classification society undertaking
|
(a) |
to send to the Lender, following receipt of a written request from the Lender, certified true copies of all original class records held by the classification
society in relation to that Ship;
|
(b) |
to allow the Lender (or its agents), at any time and from time to time, to inspect the original class and related records of that Borrower and that Ship at
the offices of the classification society and to take copies of them;
|
(c) |
to notify the Lender immediately in writing if the classification society:
|
|
(i) |
receives notification from that Borrower or any other person that that Ship's classification society is to be changed; or
|
|
(ii) |
becomes aware of any facts or matters which may result in or have resulted in a change, suspension, discontinuance, withdrawal or expiry of that Ship's class
under the rules or terms and conditions of that Borrower's or that Ship's membership of the classification society; and
|
(d) |
following receipt of a written request from the Lender:
|
|
(i) |
to confirm that that Borrower is not in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society and, without limiting the
foregoing, that it has paid in full all fees or other charges due and payable to the classification society; or
|
|
(ii) |
if that Borrower is in default of any of its contractual obligations or liabilities to the classification society, to specify to the Lender in reasonable
detail the facts and circumstances of such default, the consequences of such default, and any remedy period agreed or allowed by the classification society.
|
13.5 |
Modification
|
13.6 |
Removal of parts
|
13.7 |
Surveys
|
13.8 |
Inspection
|
13.9 |
Prevention of and release from arrest
|
(a) |
all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Ship, the Earnings or the Insurances;
|
(b) |
all taxes, dues and other amounts charged in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances; and
|
(c) |
all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Ship owned by it, the Earnings or the Insurances,
|
13.10 |
Compliance with laws etc.
|
(a) |
comply, or procure compliance with the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws, all Sanctions and all other laws or regulations relating to the Ship
owned by it, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of that Borrower;
|
(b) |
not employ the Ship owned by it nor allow its employment in any manner contrary to any law or regulation in any Pertinent Jurisdiction including but not
limited to the ISM Code and the ISPS Code; and
|
(c) |
in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), not cause or permit the Ship owned by it to enter or trade to any zone
which is declared a war zone by any government or by the Ship's war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Lender has been given and that Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified
insurance cover which the Lender may require.
|
13.11 |
Provision of information
|
(a) |
the Ship owned by it, its employment, position and engagements;
|
(b) |
the Earnings and payments and amounts due to the master and crew of the Ship owned by it;
|
(c) |
any expenses incurred, or likely to be incurred, in connection with the operation, maintenance or repair of the Ship owned by it and any payments made in
respect of that Ship;
|
(d) |
any towages and salvages; and
|
(e) |
its compliance, the Approved Manager's and the compliance of the Ship owned by it with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code,
|
13.12 |
Notification of certain events
|
(a) |
any casualty which is or is likely to be or to become a Major Casualty;
|
(b) |
any occurrence as a result of which the Ship owned by it has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss;
|
(c) |
any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not immediately complied with in
accordance with its terms;
|
(d) |
any arrest or detention of the Ship owned by it which is not lifted within forth eight (48) hours, any exercise or purported exercise of any lien on that Ship
or its Earnings or any requisition of that Ship for hire;
|
(e) |
any intended dry docking of the Ship owned by it;
|
(f) |
any Environmental Claim made against that Borrower or in connection with the Ship owned by it, or any Environmental Incident;
|
(g) |
any claim for breach of the ISM Code or the ISPS Code being made against that Borrower, the Approved Manager or otherwise in connection with the Ship owned by
it; or
|
(h) |
any other matter, event or incident, actual or threatened, the effect of which will or could lead to the ISM Code or the ISPS Code not being complied with,
|
13.13 |
Restrictions on chartering, appointment of managers etc.
|
(a) |
let that Ship on demise charter for any period;
|
(b) |
enter into any time or consecutive voyage charter in respect of that Ship for a term which is equal to or exceeds, or which by virtue of any optional
extensions may be equal to or exceed, 12 months;
|
(c) |
enter into any charter in relation to that Ship under which more than 2 months' hire (or the equivalent) is payable in advance;
|
(d) |
charter that Ship otherwise than on bona fide arm's length terms at the time when that Ship is fixed;
|
(e) |
appoint a manager of that Ship other than the Approved Manager or agree to any alteration to the terms of the Approved Manager's appointment;
|
(f) |
de‑activate or lay up that Ship; or
|
(g) |
put that Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed $400,000 (or the
equivalent in any other currency) unless that person has first given to the Lender and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on that Ship or its Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other
reason.
|
13.14 |
Notice of Mortgage
|
13.15 |
Sharing of Earnings
|
13.16 |
Charterparty Assignment
|
(a) |
an Approved Charter, that Borrower shall at the request of the Lender execute in favour of the Lender (and register, if applicable) a Charterparty Assignment
in respect of such Approved Charter and shall deliver to the Lender any documents in relation thereto which the Lender may require; or
|
(b) |
a bareboat or demise charter, that Borrower shall at the request of the Lender execute in favour of the Lender a Charterparty Assignment and/ or a tripartite
agreement (as the Lender may require) and shall deliver to the Lender such other documents, including, without limitation documents in respect of the relevant bareboat charterer, equivalent to those referred to at paragraphs 3, 4 and 5
of Part A and paragraph 10 of Part B of Schedule 2 hereof as the Lender may require.
|
13.17 |
ISPS Code
|
(a) |
procure that the Ship owned by that Borrower and the company responsible for that Ship's compliance with the ISPS Code comply with the ISPS Code; and
|
(b) |
maintain for that Ship an ISSC; and
|
(c) |
notify the Lender immediately in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC.
|
13.18 |
Trading certificates
|
14 |
SECURITY COVER
|
14.1 |
Minimum required security cover
|
14.2 |
Provision of additional prepayment
|
14.3 |
Meaning of additional security
|
14.4 |
Requirement for additional documents
|
14.5 |
Valuation of Ship
|
(a) |
as at a date not more than 30 days previously;
|
(b) |
by an Approved Broker appointed by the Lender;
|
(c) |
in Dollars;
|
(d) |
with or without physical inspection of that Ship (as the Lender may require); and
|
(e) |
on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash on normal arm's length commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer free of any
existing charter or other contract of employment.
|
14.6 |
Value of additional vessel security
|
14.7 |
Valuations binding
|
14.8 |
Provision of information
|
14.9 |
Payment of valuation expenses
|
14.10 |
Frequency of Valuations
|
14.11 |
Application of prepayment
|
15 |
PAYMENTS AND CALCULATIONS
|
15.1 |
Currency and method of payments
|
(a) |
by not later than 14.00 a.m. (Athens time) on the due date; and
|
(b) |
in same day Dollar funds settled through the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds and/or settled in such other
manner as the Lender shall specify as being customary at the time for the settlement of international transactions of the type contemplated by this Agreement).
|
15.2 |
Payment on non-Business Day
|
(a) |
the due date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; or
|
(b) |
if the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, the due date shall be brought forward to the immediately preceding Business Day,
|
15.3 |
Basis for calculation of periodic payments
|
15.4 |
Lender accounts
|
15.5 |
Accounts prima facie evidence
|
16 |
APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS
|
16.1 |
Normal order of application
|
(a) |
FIRST: in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Lender under the Finance Documents;
|
(b) |
SECONDLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest or commission due but unpaid under the Finance Documents;
|
(c) |
THIRDLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement;
|
(d) |
FOURTHLY: in or towards payment pro rata of any other amounts due but unpaid under any Finance Document;
|
(e) |
FIFTHLY: in retention of an amount equal to any amount not then due and payable under any Finance Document but which the Lender, by notice to the Borrowers
and the Security Parties, states in its opinion will or may become due and payable in the future and, upon those amounts becoming due and payable, in or towards satisfaction of them in accordance with the provisions of Clause 16.1(a),
16.1(b), 16.1(c) and 16.1(d);
|
(f) |
SIXTHLY: any surplus shall be paid to the Borrowers or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it.
|
16.2 |
Variation of order of application
|
16.3 |
Notice of variation of order of application
|
16.4 |
Appropriation rights overridden
|
17 |
APPLICATION OF EARNINGS
|
17.1 |
Payment of Earnings
|
17.2 |
Monthly retentions
|
(a) |
one‑third of the amount of the Repayment Instalment falling due under Clause 7 on the next Repayment Date; and
|
(b) |
the relevant fraction of the aggregate amount of interest on the Loan which is payable on the next due date for payment of interest under this Agreement,
|
17.3 |
Shortfall in Earnings
|
17.4 |
Application of retentions
|
(a) |
the Repayment Instalment due on that Repayment Date; or
|
(b) |
the amount of interest payable on that interest payment date,
|
17.5 |
Interest accrued on Retention Account
|
17.6 |
No release of accrued interest
|
17.7 |
Location of accounts
|
(a) |
comply with any requirement of the Lender as to the location or re‑location of the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Account (or any of them); and
|
(b) |
execute any documents which the Lender specifies to create or maintain in favour of the Lender a Security Interest over (and/or rights of set-off,
consolidation or other rights in relation to) the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Account.
|
17.8 |
Debits for expenses etc.
|
17.9 |
Borrowers' obligations unaffected
|
(a) |
the liability of any Borrower to make payments of principal and interest on the due dates; or
|
(b) |
any other liability or obligation of any Borrower or any Security Party under any Finance Document.
|
17.10 |
Release of surplus
|
18 |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
|
18.1 |
Events of Default
|
(a) |
A Borrower or any Security Party fails to pay when due or if so payable on demand 2 Business Days following the date on which the written demand is served,
any sum payable under a Finance Document or under any document relating to a Finance Document unless such failure to pay is caused by an administrative or technical error or any disruption event in the payment/communication system which
is beyond the control of the Borrowers, in which case the Borrowers shall rectify such error within three (3) Business Days; or
|
(b) |
any breach occurs of Clause 8.2, 9.16, 9.17, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.2, 11.3, 12, 13.2, 13.10, 13.13 or 14.2 or clause 11.13 of the Guarantee; or
|
(c) |
any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a Finance Document (other than a breach covered by paragraph (a) or (b)) which in
the opinion of the Lender, is capable of remedy and such default continues unremedied 10 days after written notice from the Lender requesting action to remedy the same; or
|
(d) |
(subject to any applicable grace period specified in any Finance Document) any breach by any Borrower or any Security Party occurs of any provision of a
Finance Document (other than a breach falling within by paragraph (a), (b) or (c)); or
|
(e) |
any representation, warranty or statement made or repeated by, or by an officer of, a Borrower or a Security Party in a Finance Document or in the Drawdown
Notice or any other notice or document relating to a Finance Document is untrue or misleading when it is made or repeated; or
|
(f) |
any of the following occurs in relation to any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor:
|
|
(i) |
any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor is not paid when due or, if so payable, on demand; or
|
|
(ii) |
any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity
date as a consequence of any event of default; or
|
|
(iii) |
a lease, hire purchase agreement or charter creating any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor is terminated by the lessor or owner or becomes
capable of being terminated as a consequence of any termination event; or
|
|
(iv) |
any overdraft, loan, note issuance, acceptance credit, letter of credit, guarantee, foreign exchange or other facility, or any swap or other derivative
contract or transaction, relating to any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor ceases to be available or becomes capable of being terminated as a result of any event of default, or cash cover is required, or becomes
capable of being required, in respect of such a facility as a result of any event of default; or
|
|
(v) |
any Security Interest securing any Financial Indebtedness of a Borrower or the Guarantor becomes enforceable;
|
(g) |
any of the following occurs in relation to a Borrower or the Guarantor:
|
|
(i) |
a Borrower or the Guarantor becomes, in the opinion of the Lender, unable to pay its debts as they fall due; or
|
|
(ii) |
any assets of a Borrower or the Guarantor are subject to any form of execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress, or any form of freezing order
in respect of a sum of, or sums aggregating, $400,000 (or $1,000,000 in the case of the Guarantor) or more or the equivalent in another currency unless such execution, attachment, arrest, sequestration or distress is being contested in
good faith and on substantial grounds and is discussed or withdrawn within thirty (30) days of the occurrence thereof; or
|
|
(iii) |
any administrative or other receiver is appointed over any asset of a Borrower or the Guarantor; or
|
|
(iv) |
an administrator is appointed (whether by the court or otherwise) in respect of a Borrower or the Guarantor; or
|
|
(v) |
any formal declaration of bankruptcy or any formal statement to the effect that a Borrower or the Guarantor is insolvent or likely to become insolvent is made
by that Borrower or the Guarantor or by the directors of that Borrower or the Guarantor or, in any proceedings, by a lawyer acting for that Borrower or the Guarantor; or
|
|
(vi) |
a provisional liquidator is appointed in respect of a Borrower or the Guarantor, a winding up order is made in relation to a Borrower or the Guarantor or a
winding up resolution is passed by a Borrower or the Guarantor; or
|
|
(vii) |
a resolution is passed, an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by
(aa) a Borrower or the Guarantor, (bb) the members or directors of a Borrower or the Guarantor, (cc)
|
|
(viii) |
an administration notice is given or filed, an application or petition to a court is made or presented or any other step is taken by a creditor of a Borrower
or the Guarantor (other than a holder of Security Interests which together relate to all or substantially all of the assets of a Borrower or the Guarantor) for the winding up of a Borrower or the Guarantor or the appointment of a
provisional liquidator or administrator in respect of a Borrower or the Guarantor in any Pertinent Jurisdiction, unless the proposed winding up, appointment of a provisional liquidator or administration is being contested in good faith,
on substantial grounds and not with a view to some other insolvency law procedure being implemented instead and either (aa) the application or petition is dismissed or withdrawn within 30 days of being made or presented, or (bb) within
30 days of the administration notice being given or filed, or the other relevant steps being taken, other action is taken which will ensure that there will be no administration and (in both cases (aa) or (bb)) that Borrower or the
Guarantor will continue to carry on business in the ordinary way and without being the subject of any actual, interim or pending insolvency law procedure; or
|
|
(ix) |
a Borrower or the Guarantor or its directors take any steps (whether by making or presenting an application or petition to a court, or submitting or
presenting a document setting out a proposal or proposed terms, or otherwise) with a view to obtaining, in relation to that Borrower or the Guarantor, any form of moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation of debt
(or certain debt) or arrangement with all or a substantial proportion (by number or value) of creditors or of any class of them or any such moratorium, suspension or deferral of payments, reorganisation or arrangement is effected by
court order, by the filing of documents with a court, by means of a contract or in any other way at all; or
|
|
(x) |
any meeting of the members or directors, or of any committee of the board or senior management, of a Borrower or the Guarantor is held or summoned for the
purpose of considering a resolution or proposal to authorise or take any action of a type described in paragraphs (iv) to (ix) or a step preparatory to such action, or (with or without such a meeting) the members, directors or such a
committee resolve or agree that such an action or step should be taken or should be taken if certain conditions materialise or fail to materialise; or
|
|
(xi) |
in a Pertinent Jurisdiction other than England, any event occurs, any proceedings are opened or commenced or any step is taken which, in the opinion of the
Lender is similar to any of the foregoing; or
|
(h) |
any Borrower ceases or suspends carrying on its business or a part of its business which, in the opinion of the Lender, is material in the context of this
Agreement; or
|
(i) |
it becomes unlawful in any Pertinent Jurisdiction or impossible:
|
|
(i) |
for any Borrower or any Security Party to discharge any liability under a Finance Document or to comply with any other obligation which the Lender considers
material under a Finance Document; or
|
|
(ii) |
for the Lender to exercise or enforce any right under, or to enforce any Security Interest created by, a Finance Document; or
|
(j) |
it appears to the Lender that, without its prior written consent, a change has occurred or probably has occurred after the date of this Agreement in (i) the
ultimate beneficial ownership of the shares in the Approved Manager or (ii) the legal ownership or any of the shares in a Borrower; or
|
(k) |
without the Lender's prior written consent the Pittas Family (either directly and/or indirectly through companies beneficially owned by any member of the
Pittas Family) cease to own and control (directly or indirectly) in aggregate at least 20 per cent. of the share capital of the Guarantor or a Borrower; or
|
(l) |
members pf the Pittas family cease to be directly or indirectly involved in the management of the Guarantor or the management of a Ship; or
|
(m) |
Mr Aristeidis Pittas ceases to be the Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of the Guarantor; or
|
(n) |
any provision which the Lender considers material of a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable, or a Security Interest
created by a Finance Document proves to have been or becomes invalid or unenforceable or such a Security Interest proves to have ranked after, or loses its priority to, another Security Interest or any other third party claim or
interest; or
|
(o) |
the security constituted by a Finance Document is in any way imperilled or in jeopardy; or
|
(p) |
any consent necessary to enable a Borrower to own, operate or charter the Ship owned by it or to enable a Borrower or any Security Party to comply with any
provision which the Lender considers material of a Finance Document or the MOA is not granted, expires without being renewed, is revoked or becomes liable to revocation or any condition of such a consent is not fulfilled; or
|
(q) |
any other event occurs or any other circumstances arise or develop including, without limitation:
|
|
(i) |
a change in the financial position, state of affairs or prospects of any Relevant Person which may have a Material Adverse Effect; or
|
|
(ii) |
any accident or other event involving a Ship,
|
18.2 |
Actions following an Event of Default
|
(a) |
serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that all obligations of the Lender to the Borrowers under this Agreement are cancelled; and/or
|
(b) |
serve on the Borrowers a notice stating that the Loan, all accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or owing under this Agreement are immediately due
and payable or are due and payable on demand; and/or
|
(c) |
take any other action which, as a result of the Event of Default or any notice served under paragraph (a) or (b), the Lender is entitled to take under any
Finance Document or any applicable law.
|
18.3 |
Termination of obligations
|
18.4 |
Acceleration of Loan
|
18.5 |
Multiple notices; action without notice
|
18.6 |
Exclusion of Lender liability
|
(a) |
for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of a Security Interest created by, a Finance Document or by any failure or delay to
exercise such a right or to enforce such a Security Interest; or
|
(b) |
as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset comprised in such a
Security Interest or for any reduction (however caused) in the value of such an asset,
|
18.7 |
Relevant Persons
|
18.8 |
Interpretation
|
19 |
FEES AND EXPENSES
|
19.1 |
Arrangement fee
|
19.2 |
Costs of negotiation, preparation etc.
|
19.3 |
Costs of variation, amendments, enforcement etc.
|
(a) |
any amendment or supplement to a Finance Document, or any proposal for such an amendment to be made;
|
(b) |
any consent or waiver by the Lender under or in connection with a Finance Document, or any request for such a consent or waiver;
|
(c) |
the valuation of any security provided or offered under Clause 14 or any other matter relating to such security;
|
(d) |
the opinion of the independent insurance consultant referred to in paragraph 9 of Part B of Schedule 2 and any opinion referred to in Clause 12.17; or
|
(e) |
any step taken by the Lender with a view to the protection, exercise or enforcement of any right or Security Interest created by a Finance Document or for any
similar purpose.
|
19.4 |
Documentary taxes
|
19.5 |
Certification of amounts
|
20 |
INDEMNITIES
|
20.1 |
Indemnities regarding borrowing and repayment of Loan
|
(a) |
an Advance or the Loan not being borrowed on the date specified in the Drawdown Notice for any reason other than a default by the Lender;
|
(b) |
the receipt or recovery of all or any part of the Loan or an overdue sum otherwise than on the last day of an Interest Period or other relevant period;
|
(c) |
any failure (for whatever reason) by the Borrowers to make payment of any amount due under a Finance Document on the due date or, if so payable on demand,
within 3 Business Days' from the service of the Lender's written demand (after giving credit for any default interest paid by the Borrowers on the amount concerned under Clause 6);
|
(d) |
the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default and/or the acceleration of repayment of the Loan under Clause 18,
|
20.2 |
Breakage costs
|
(a) |
in liquidating or employing deposits from third parties acquired or arranged to fund or maintain all or any part of the Loan and/or any overdue amount (or an
aggregate amount which includes the Loan or any overdue amount); and
|
(b) |
in terminating, or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement.
|
20.3 |
Miscellaneous indemnities
|
(a) |
any action taken, or omitted or neglected to be taken, under or in connection with any Finance Document by the Lender or by any receiver appointed under a
Finance Document;
|
(b) |
any other Pertinent Matter,
|
20.4 |
Currency indemnity
|
(a) |
making or lodging any claim or proof against any Borrower or any Security Party, whether in its liquidation, any arrangement involving it or otherwise; or
|
(b) |
obtaining an order or judgment from any court or other tribunal; or
|
(c) |
enforcing any such order or judgment,
|
20.5 |
Certification of amounts
|
21 |
NO SET-OFF OR TAX DEDUCTION
|
21.1 |
No deductions
|
(a) |
without any form of set‑off, cross-claim or condition; and
|
(b) |
free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which a Borrower is required by law to make.
|
21.2 |
Grossing-up for taxes
|
(a) |
that Borrower shall notify the Lender as soon as it becomes aware of the requirement;
|
(b) |
that Borrower shall pay the tax deducted to the appropriate taxation authority promptly, and in any event before any fine or penalty arises; and
|
(c) |
the amount due in respect of the payment shall be increased by the amount necessary to ensure that the Lender receives and retains (free from any liability
relating to the tax deduction) a net amount which, after the tax deduction, is equal to the full amount which it would otherwise have received.
|
21.3 |
Evidence of payment of taxes
|
21.4 |
Exclusion of tax on overall net income
|
21.5 |
FATCA information
|
(a) |
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each party to the Finance Documents shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by another party to the Finance
Documents:
|
|
(i) |
confirm to that other party whether it is:
|
|
(A) |
a FATCA Exempt Party; or
|
|
(B) |
not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
|
|
(ii) |
supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other party reasonably requests for the
purposes of that other party's compliance with FATCA;
|
(b) |
if a party to any Finance Document confirms to another party pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it
subsequently becomes aware
|
(c) |
paragraph (a) above shall not oblige the Lender to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:
|
|
(i) |
any law or regulation;
|
|
(ii) |
any fiduciary duty; or
|
|
(iii) |
any duty of confidentiality;
|
(d) |
if a party to any Finance Document fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph
(a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then (i) if that party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party, such party shall be treated for the purposes of the
Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party, and (ii) if that party failed to confirm its applicable "passthru payment percentage" then such party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made
thereunder) as if its applicable "passthru payment percentage" is 100%, until (in each case) such time as the party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
|
21.6 |
FATCA Deduction
|
(a) |
Each party to a Finance Document may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA
Deduction, and shall not be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction.
|
(b) |
Each party to a Finance Document shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis
of such FATCA Deduction), notify the party to a Finance Document to whom it is making the payment.
|
22 |
ILLEGALITY, ETC
|
22.1 |
Illegality
|
(a) |
unlawful or prohibited as a result of the introduction of a new law, an amendment to an existing law or a change in the manner in which an existing law is or
will be interpreted or applied; or
|
(b) |
contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation,
|
22.2 |
Notification and effect of illegality
|
22.3 |
Mitigation
|
(a) |
have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition; or
|
(b) |
involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent with, any regulation; or
|
(c) |
involve it in any expense (unless indemnified to its satisfaction) or tax disadvantage.
|
23 |
INCREASED COSTS
|
23.1 |
Increased costs
|
(a) |
the introduction or alteration after the date of this Agreement of a law, a regulation or an alteration after the date of this Agreement in the manner in
which a law is interpreted or applied (disregarding any effect which relates to the application to payments under this Agreement of a tax on the Lender's overall net income); or
|
(b) |
complying with any regulation (including any which relates to capital adequacy or liquidity controls or which affects the manner in which the Lender allocates
capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement) which is introduced, or altered, or the interpretation or application of which is altered, after the date of this Agreement; or
|
(c) |
the implementation or application of or compliance with the Basel II Capital Accord, the Basel III Accord or any other Basel II Regulation or Basel III
Regulation (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, supervisory authority, the Lender or its holding company) in all cases as applicable,
|
23.2 |
Meaning of "increased costs"
|
(a) |
an additional or increased cost incurred as a result of, or in connection with, the Lender having entered into, or being a party to, this Agreement or having
taken an assignment of rights under this Agreement, of funding or maintaining the Loan or performing its obligations under this Agreement, or of having outstanding all or any part of the Loan or other unpaid sums; or
|
(b) |
a reduction in the amount of any payment to the Lender under this Agreement or in the effective return which such a payment represents to the Lender or on its
capital;
|
(c) |
an additional or increased cost of funding all or maintaining all or any of the advances comprised in a class of advances formed by or including the Loan or
(as the case may require) the proportion of that cost attributable to the Loan; or
|
(d) |
a liability to make a payment, or a return foregone, which is calculated by reference to any amounts received or receivable by the Lender under this
Agreement,
|
23.3 |
Payment of increased costs
|
23.4 |
Notice of prepayment
|
23.5 |
Prepayment
|
23.6 |
Application of prepayment
|
24 |
SET-OFF
|
24.1 |
Application of credit balances
|
(a) |
apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of a Borrower at any office in any country of
the Lender in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from that Borrower to the Lender under any of the Finance Documents; and/or
|
(b) |
for that purpose:
|
|
(i) |
break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of that Borrower;
|
|
(ii) |
convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and
|
|
(iii) |
enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Lender considers appropriate.
|
24.2 |
Existing rights unaffected
|
24.3 |
No Security Interest
|
25 |
TRANSFERS AND CHANGES IN LENDING OFFICE
|
25.1 |
Transfer by Borrower
|
25.2 |
Assignment by Lender
|
25.3 |
Rights of assignee
|
25.4 |
Sub-participation; subrogation assignment
|
25.5 |
Disclosure of information
|
25.6 |
Change of lending office
|
(a) |
the date on which the Borrowers receive the notice; and
|
(b) |
the date, if any, specified in the notice as the date on which the change will come into effect.
|
25.7 |
Security over Lender's rights
|
(a) |
any charge, assignment or other Security Interest to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and
|
(b) |
if the Lender is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security Interest granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations
owed, or securities issued, by the Lender as security for those obligations or securities;
|
|
(i) |
release the Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security
Interest for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or
|
|
(ii) |
require any payments to be made by any Borrower or any Security Party or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or
granted to the Lender under the Finance Documents.
|
26 |
VARIATIONS AND WAIVERS
|
26.1 |
Variations, waivers etc. by Lender
|
26.2 |
Exclusion of other or implied variations
|
(a) |
a provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document; or
|
(b) |
an Event of Default; or
|
(c) |
a breach by a Borrower or a Security Party of an obligation under a Finance Document or the general law; or
|
(d) |
any right or remedy conferred by any Finance Document or by the general law,
|
27 |
NOTICES
|
27.1 |
General
|
27.2 |
Addresses for communications
|
(a)
|
to the Borrower:
|
4 Messogiou & Evropis Street
151 24, Maroussi
Greece
Fax No: +30 211 1804097
|
(b)
|
to a Lender:
|
National Bank of Greece S.A.
2 Bouboulinas Street & Akti Miaouli
Piraeus 185 35
Greece
Fax No: +30 210 4144120
|
27.3 |
Effective date of notices
|
(a) |
a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered;
|
(b) |
a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, 2 hours after its transmission is completed.
|
27.4 |
Service outside business hours
|
(a) |
on a day which is not a business day in the place of receipt; or
|
(b) |
on such a business day, but after 5 p.m. local time,
|
27.5 |
Illegible notices
|
27.6 |
Valid notices
|
(a) |
the failure to serve it in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may be, has not caused any party to
suffer any significant loss or prejudice; or
|
(b) |
in the case of incorrect and/or incomplete contents, it should have been reasonably clear to the party on which the notice was served what the correct or
missing particulars should have been.
|
27.7 |
English language
|
27.8 |
Meaning of "notice"
|
28 |
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
|
28.1 |
General
|
28.2 |
No impairment of Borrower's obligations
|
(a) |
this Agreement being or later becoming void, unenforceable or illegal as regards any other Borrower;
|
(b) |
the Lender entering into any rescheduling, refinancing or other arrangement of any kind with any other Borrower;
|
(c) |
the Lender releasing any other Borrower or any Security Interest created by a Finance Document; or
|
(d) |
any combination of the foregoing.
|
28.3 |
Principal debtors
|
28.4 |
Subordination
|
(a) |
claim any amount which may be due to it from any other Borrower whether in respect of a payment made, or matter arising out of, this Agreement or any Finance
Document, or any matter unconnected with this Agreement or any Finance Document; or
|
(b) |
take or enforce any form of security from any other Borrower for such an amount, or in any other way seek to have recourse in respect of such an amount
against any asset of any other Borrower; or
|
(c) |
set off such an amount against any sum due from it to any other Borrower; or
|
(d) |
prove or claim for such an amount in any liquidation, administration, arrangement or similar procedure involving any other Borrower or other Security Party;
or
|
(e) |
exercise or assert any combination of the foregoing.
|
28.5 |
Borrower's required action
|
29 |
BAIL IN
|
29.1 |
Contractual recognition of bail-in
|
(a) |
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
|
|
(i) |
a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such
liability;
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|
(ii) |
a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and
|
|
(iii) |
a cancellation of any such liability; and
|
(b) |
a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
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30 |
SUPPLEMENTAL
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30.1 |
Rights cumulative, non-exclusive
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(a) |
cumulative;
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(b) |
may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and
|
(c) |
shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so, be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law.
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30.2 |
Severability of provisions
|
30.3 |
Counterparts
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30.4 |
Third party rights
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31 |
LAW AND JURISDICTION
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31.1 |
English law
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31.2 |
Exclusive English jurisdiction
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31.3 |
Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Lender
|
(a) |
to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and
|
(b) |
to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing
proceedings in England.
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31.4 |
Process agent
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31.5 |
Lender's rights unaffected
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31.6 |
Meaning of "proceedings"
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To:
|
National Bank of Greece S.A.
2 Bouboulinas & 2 Akti Miaouli
Piraeus 185 35
Greece
|
Attention:
|
Loans Administration
|
1 |
We refer to the loan agreement (the "
Loan Agreement
")
dated [
●
] November 2018 and made between ourselves, as Borrowers, and yourselves, as Lender, in connection with a facility of up to US$15,000,000. Terms defined in the Loan Agreement
have their defined meanings when used in this Drawdown Notice.
|
2 |
We request to borrow [Advance A][Advance B] as follows:
|
(a) |
Amount: US$[
●
];
|
(b) |
Drawdown Date: [
●
] November 2018;
|
(c) |
[Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [
●
] months;] and
|
(d) |
Payment instructions: account in our name and numbered [
●
] with [
●
]
of [
●
].
|
3 |
We represent and warrant that:
|
(a) |
the representations and warranties in Clause 9 of the Loan Agreement would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this notice with
reference to the circumstances now existing; and
|
(b) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the above Advance [s].
|
4 |
This notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Lender.
|
1 |
A duly executed original of each Finance Document (and of each document required to be delivered by each Finance Document) other than those referred to in
Part B.
|
2 |
Copies of the certificate of incorporation and constitutional documents of each Borrower and each Security Party.
|
3 |
Copies of resolutions of the shareholders and directors of each Borrower and each Security Party (and in the case of the Guarantor resolutions of its
directors only) authorising the execution of each of the Finance Documents to which that Borrower or that Security Party is a party and, in the case of a Borrower, authorising named officers to give any Drawdown Notice and other notices
under this Agreement and, in respect of Borrower C ratifying the execution of the MOA.
|
4 |
The original of any power of attorney under which any Finance Document is executed on behalf of a Borrower or a Security Party.
|
5 |
Copies of all consents which any Borrower or any Security Party requires to enter into, or make any payment under, any Finance Document.
|
6 |
The originals of any mandates or other documents required in connection with the opening or operation of the Earnings Accounts and the Retention Account.
|
7 |
The Material Adverse Change Letter duly signed by the Borrowers and countersigned by the Guarantor.
|
8 |
One valuation of each Ship (at the cost of the Borrowers), addressed to the Lender, stated to be for the purposes of this Agreement and dated not earlier than
15 days before the Drawdown Date from an Approved Broker appointed by the Lender and prepared in accordance with Clause 14.5 which show a value for that Ship in an amount acceptable to the Lender.
|
9 |
A copy of the MOA and all amendments and supplements thereto and of all documents signed or issued by each of Borrower C and the Seller (or any of them) under
or in connection with the MOA.
|
10 |
Such documentary evidence as the Lender and its legal advisers may require in relation to the due authorisation and execution by the Seller of the MOA and of
all documents to be executed by the Seller thereunder.
|
11 |
All documentation required by the Lender in relation to the Borrowers and any Security Party pursuant to the Lender's "know your customer" requirements
(including, without limitation, evidence of beneficial ownership in such form as the Lender may require).
|
12 |
Written confirmation that the agent for service of process named in Clause 31 will accepted its appointment.
|
13 |
If the Lender so requires, in respect of any of the documents referred to above, a certified English translation prepared by a translator approved by the
Lender.
|
1 |
A duly executed original of each Mortgage, General Assignment, the Retention Account Pledge, (and of each document to be delivered by each of them).
|
2 |
A duly executed original of each Deed of Release (together with any document to be delivered under it).
|
3 |
Evidence that the Borrower's Equity Portion in respect of the Existing Indebtedness and the Acquisition Cost, as the case may be, has been received by the
Lender, the Existing Lender, or the Seller (as applicable).
|
4 |
Evidence that all outstanding Existing Indebtedness under the Existing Agreements has been duly paid.
|
5 |
Documentary evidence that each Ship is:
|
(a) |
in the case of Ship C, unconditionally delivered by the Seller to, and accepted by, Borrower C under the MOA, and the full Acquisition Cost has been duly
paid (together with a copy of each of the documents to be delivered by the Seller to Borrower C under the MOA (including, without limitation, a copy of the bill of sale evidencing the purchase price);
|
(b) |
in the case of Ship A and Ship B, definitively and permanently registered in the name of the relevant Borrower under the Approved Flag;
|
(c) |
is in the absolute and unencumbered ownership of the relevant Borrower save as contemplated by the Finance Documents;
|
(d) |
maintains the highest available class with such first class classification society which is a member of IACS as the Lender may approve free of all overdue
recommendations and conditions affecting class; and
|
(e) |
insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and all requirements therein in respect of insurances have been complied with.
|
6 |
Documentary evidence that the Mortgage relating to each Ship has been duly registered against that Ship as a valid first preferred or, as the case may be,
first priority ship mortgage in accordance with the laws of the Approved Flag.
|
7 |
Documents establishing that each Ship will, as from the Drawdown Date, be managed by the Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Lender, together with:
|
(a) |
a duly executed original of each Manager's Undertaking relating to that Ship; and
|
(b) |
copies of the Approved Manager's Document of Compliance and of the Ship's Safety Management Certificate for the Relevant Ship and ISSC for that Ship.
|
8 |
If a Ship is subject to an Approved Charter:
|
(a) |
a certified true copy of the Approved Charter; and
|
(b) |
a duly executed original of the Charter Assignment.
|
9 |
Evidence satisfactory to the Lender that the Minimum Liquidity amount is standing to the credit of each Earnings Account pursuant to Clause 11.5.
|
10 |
A favourable opinion (at the cost of the Borrowers) from an independent insurance consultant acceptable to the Lender on such matters relating to the
insurances for the Ships as the Lender may require.
|
11 |
Favourable legal opinions (at the cost of the Borrowers) from lawyers appointed by the Lender on such matters concerning the laws of Liberia, the Marshall
Islands, Cyprus and such other relevant jurisdictions as the Lender may require.
|
12 |
Documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in Clause 31 has accepted its appointment.
|
To:
|
National Bank of Greece S.A.
2 Bouboulinas & 2 Akti Miaouli
Piraeus 185 35
Greece
|
(a) |
a loan agreement dated [
●
] 2018 (the "
Loan Agreement
") made between (amongst others) yourselves and ourselves in relation to a term loan facility of up to $15,000,000; and
|
(b) |
a guarantee dated [
●
] 2018 (the "
Guarantee
") made between the Guarantor and yourselves.
|
(a) |
the ratio set out in clause 14.1 is at [
l
●
]
per cent.;
|
(b) |
the aggregate of all Cash is [
●
]. Such amount [does][not] equal less than $300,000 in respect of each Fleet
Vessel;
|
(c) |
the Market Value Adjusted Net Worth is $[
●
]; and
|
(d) |
the Leverage Ratio is [
●
] per cent.
|
Chief Financial Officer
|
Director
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
for and on behalf of
|
|
EURODRY LTD.
|
PANTELIS SHIPPING CORP.
|
Director
|
Director
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
for and on behalf of
|
|
ARETI SHIPPING LTD.
|
LIGHT SHIPPING LTD
|
BORROWERS
|
||
SIGNED
by
|
)
|
|
STEFANIA KARMIRI
|
)
|
/s/ Stefania Karmiri
|
being an attorney-in-fact
|
)
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
)
|
|
PANTELIS SHIPPING CORP.
|
)
|
|
in the presence of:
|
)
|
|
Emmanouil Pontikis
|
)
|
/s/Emmanouil Pontikis
|
SIGNED
by
|
)
|
|
STEFANIA KARMIRI
|
)
|
/s/ Stefania Karmiri
|
being an attorney-in-fact
|
)
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
)
|
|
ARETI SHIPPING LTD
|
)
|
|
in the presence of:
|
)
|
|
Emmanouil Pontikis
|
)
|
/s/Emmanouil Pontikis
|
SIGNED
by
|
)
|
|
STEFANIA KARMIRI
|
)
|
/s/ Stefania Karmiri
|
being an attorney-in-fact
|
)
|
|
for and on behalf of
|
)
|
|
LIGHT SHIPPING LTD
|
)
|
|
in the presence of:
|
)
|
|
Emmanouil Pontikis
|
)
|
/s/Emmanouil Pontikis
|
LENDER
|
||
SIGNED
by
|
)
|
|
M. Maniatakou
|
)
|
/s/M. Maniatakou
|
Amalia Kafka
|
)
|
/s/Amalia Kafka
|
for and on behalf of
|
)
|
|
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.
|
)
|
|
in the presence of:
|
)
|
|
Emmanouil Pontikis
|
)
|
/s/Emmanouil Pontikis
|
Subsidiary
|
Country of Incorporation
|
Pantelis Shipping Corp.
|
Liberia
|
Eirini Shipping Ltd.
|
Liberia
|
Ultra One Shipping Ltd.
|
Liberia
|
Ultra Two Shipping Ltd.
|
Liberia
|
Kamsarmax One Shipping Ltd.
|
Marshall Islands
|
Kamsarmax Two Shipping Ltd.
|
Marshall Islands
|
Areti Shipping Ltd.
|
Marshall Islands
|
Light Shipping Ltd.
|
Marshall Islands
|
|
a) |
designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
|
|
b) |
designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to
provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
|
|
c) |
evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
|
|
d) |
disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting; and
|
|
a) |
all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the Company's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
|
|
b) |
any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company's internal control over financial
reporting.
|
a)
|
designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
|
b)
|
designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under
our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
|
c)
|
evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
|
d)
|
disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered
by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting; and
|
a)
|
all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
|
b)
|
any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company's internal
control over financial reporting.
|
(1)
|
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
|
(2)
|
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations
of the Company.
|
Exhibit 13.2
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350
In connection with the Annual Report of EuroDry Ltd. (the "Company") on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018 as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on or about the date hereof (the "Report"), I, Anastasios Aslidis, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002, that:
(1) |
The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and |
(2) |
The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. |
A signed original of this written statement has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the SEC or its staff upon request.
Date: April 30, 2019
/s/Anastasios Aslidis
Chief Financial Officer