Exhibit 4.53

	TABLE OF CONTENTS
CLAUSE	HEADINGS	PAGE
1.	PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION	1
2.	THE LOAN	24
3.	INTEREST	26
4.	REPAYMENT - PREPAYMENT	32
5.	PAYMENTS, TAXES, LOAN ACCOUNT AND COMPUTATION	35
6.	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES	37
7.	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT	44
8.	UNDERTAKINGS	49
9.	EVENTS OF DEFAULT	62
10.	INDEMNITIES - EXPENSES – FEES	68
11.	SECURITY, APPLICATION, AND SET-OFF	73
12.	UNLAWFULNESS, INCREASED COSTS AND BAIL-IN	75
13.	BORROWER’S OPERATING ACCOUNT	77
14.	ASSIGNMENT, TRANSFER, PARTICIPATION, LENDING OFFICE	80
15.	MISCELLANEOUS	83
16.	NOTICES AND COMMUNICATIONS	85
17.	LAW AND JURISDICTION	87
17.1	GOVERNING LAW	87

SCHEDULE 1:	Form of Drawdown Notice
SCHEDULE 2:	Form of Insurance Letter
SCHEDULE 3:	Reference Rate Terms
SCHEDULE 4:	Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate

(1)

ALPHA BANK S.A., a banking société anonyme incorporated in and pursuant to the laws of the Hellenic Republic with its head office at 40 Stadiou Street, Athens GR 102 52, Greece, acting, except as otherwise herein provided, through its office at 93 Akti Miaouli, Piraeus, Greece (hereinafter called the “Lender”, which expression shall include its successors and assigns); and

(2)

DUKE SHIPPING CO., a corporation duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands having its registered address at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH 96960 (hereinafter called the “Borrower”, which expression shall include its successors)

1.1	Amount and Purpose

(a)

Amount: This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon and subject to which it is agreed that the Lender will make available to the Borrower by way of one (1) Advance, a secured term loan facility in the amount of up to Twenty one million Dollars ($21,000,000) which when added to the Associated Loan represents up to fifty per cent (50%) of the aggregate Market Value of the Vessels,.

(b)

Purpose: The Loan proceeds shall be used for working capital and investment purposes

1.2	Definitions

(a)

the 20th day of August, 2022 or until such later date as the Lender may agree in writing; or

(b)

on such earlier date (if any): (i) on which the whole Commitment has been advanced by the Lender to the Borrower, or (ii) on which the Commitment is reduced to zero pursuant to Clauses 9.2  (Consequences of Default – Acceleration), 12.1  (Unlawfulness) or any other Clause of this Agreement;

(a)

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

(b)

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

(a)

the agreements on capital requirements, leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems", "Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated;

(b)

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

(c)

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

(a)

any date for payment or purchase of an amount relating to the Loan, any part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum; or

(b)

the determination of the first day or the last day of an Interest Period for the Loan, any part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum, or otherwise in relation to the determination of the length of such an Interest Period,

(a)

the capesize bulk carrier motor vessel “FRIENDSHIP“, of about 89,603 gt and 58,437 nt, built in 2009 and having IMO No. 9410454 registered under the laws and flag of Liberia under Official Number: 21000 in the ownership of Friend Ocean Navigation Co. (the “FRIENDSHIP”);

(b)

the capesize bulk carrier motor vessel “LORDSHIP “, of about 93,564 gt and 59,500 nt, built in 2010 and having IMO No. 9519066 registered under the laws and flag of Liberia in the ownership of the Lord Ocean Navigation Co. (the “LORDSHIP”); and

(c)

the capesize bulk carrier motor vessel “SQUIRESHIP“, of about 88,479 gt and 56,828 nt, built in 2010 and having IMO No. 9391646 registered under the laws and flag of Liberia in the ownership of the Squire Ocean Navigation Co. (the “SQUIRESHIP”);

(a)

is agreed in writing by the Borrower and the Lender;

(b)

specifies a calculation methodology for that rate;

(a)

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

(b)

any other law or regulation which implements Basel III;

(a)

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

(b)

any claim by any other person which relates to an Environmental Incident,

(a)

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

(b)

the expenses referred to in Clause 10.2 (Expenses); and

(c)

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

(a)

sections 1471 to 1474 of the US Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code") or any associated regulations or other associated 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)

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)

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

(b)

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

(a)

the DOC and SMC issued by the Classification Society in all respects acceptable to the Lender in its absolute discretion pursuant to the ISM Code in relation to a Vessel within the period specified by the ISM Code;

(b)

all other documents and data which are relevant to the ISM SMS and its implementation and verification which the Lender may require by request; and

(c)

any other documents which are prepared or which are otherwise relevant to establish and maintain the relevant Vessel’s or its Owner’s compliance with the ISM Code which the Lender may require by request;

(a)

the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and/or any other Security Party taken as a whole;

(b)

the ability of the Borrower and/or any other Security Party to (i) comply with or perform any of its obligations or (ii) discharge any of its liabilities, under any Finance Document as they fall due; or

(c)

the validity, legality or enforceability of any Finance Document or the rights and remedies of the Lender under any Finance Document;

(a)

each Collateral Vessel, the Collateral Owner thereof; and

(b)

the Borrower’s Vessel, the Borrower,

“Permitted Security Interests” means:

(a)

Security Interests created by the Finance Documents;

(b)

the Associated Collateral Security;

(c)

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

(d)

liens for salvage;

(e)

liens arising by operation of law for not more than 2 months’ prepaid hire under any charter in relation to a Vessel not prohibited by this Agreement;

(f)

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 Vessel, provided such liens do not secure amounts more than 60 days overdue (unless the overdue amount is being contested by the Borrower in good faith by appropriate steps) and, in the case of liens for repair or maintenance, in the relevant Vessel is put in the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done upon her in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed the Major Casualty Amount provided that (i) either that person has first given to the Lender(s) and in terms satisfactory to it a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the relevant Vessel or her earnings for the cost of such work or (ii) the previous consent of the Lender shall have been obtained (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld);

(g)

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

(h)

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

(a)

the government of the United States of America;

(b)

the United Nations;

(c)

the European Union (or the governments of any of its member states);

(d)

the United Kingdom; or

(e)

the respective governmental institutions and agencies of any of the foregoing including the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("OFAC"), the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Commerce and Her Majesty’s Treasury;

(a)

that is, or is directly or indirectly, owned or controlled (as such terms are defined by the relevant Sanctions Authority) by, or acting on behalf of, one or more persons or entities on any list (each as amended, supplemented or substituted from time to time) of restricted entities, persons or organisations (or equivalent) published by a Sanctions Authority;

(b)

that is located or resident in or incorporated under the laws of, or owned or controlled by, a person located or resident in or incorporated under the laws of a Sanctions Restricted Jurisdiction; or

(c)

that is otherwise the target or subject of Sanctions;

(a)

the Borrower’s Accounts Pledge Agreement;

(b)

the Collateral Accounts Pledge Agreement;

(c)

the Approved Manager’s Undertakings;

(d)

the General Assignments;

(e)

the Mortgages;

(f)

the Charterparty Assignment in respect of any Assignable Charterparty;

(g)

the Corporate Guarantees; and

(h)

any other document (whether creating a Security Interest or not) which is executed at any time by the Borrower or the other Security Parties or any other person as security for, or to establish any form of subordination or priorities arrangement in relation to, the whole or any part of the Outstanding Indebtedness and/or any and all other obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement and other moneys from time to time owing or payable under or in connection with this Agreement to the Lender or any of the documents referred to in this definition as each such document may from time to time be amended and/or supplemented, and “Security Document” means any of them as the context may require;

(a)

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

(b)

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

(c)

any trust arrangement or other economic arrangement or structure the effect of which is to create a security interest of any kind (including without limitation title transfer and/or retention arrangements having a similar effect);

(a)

all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrower or any other Security Party under the Finance Documents have been paid;

(b)

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

(c)

neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party has any future or contingent liability under Clauses 11 (Indemnities- Expenses-Fees) or 5 (Payments, Taxes, Loan Account and Computation) or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document;

(b)

actual, constructive, compromised or arranged total loss of that Vessel; or

(c)

the Compulsory Acquisition of that Vessel; or

(d)

the condemnation, capture, seizure, confiscation, arrest or detention of that Vessel (other than where the same amounts to the Compulsory Acquisition of that Vessel) by any Government Entity, or by persons acting on behalf of any Government Entity, unless that Vessel be released and restored to the Owner thereof from such condemnation, capture, seizure, confiscation arrest or detention or within sixty (60) days after the occurrence thereof; and

(e)

the hijacking, capture, seizure or confiscation of that Vessel arising as a result of a piracy or related incident unless that Vessel be released and restored to the Owner thereof from such hijacking, capture, seizure or confiscation within ninety (90) days after the occurrence thereof;

(a)

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

(b)

in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of that Vessel, 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 that Vessel with that Vessel's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat that Vessel as a total loss;

(a)

the Borrower, if it is resident for tax purposes in the United States of America; or

(b)

a Security Party some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the United States for US Federal income tax purposes;

(a)

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

(b)

in relation to any other applicable Bail-In Legislation:

(i)

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

(c)

in relation to any UK Bail-In Legislation:

(i)

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

1.3	Interpretation

(a)

Clause headings and the table of contents are inserted for convenience of reference only and in interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all Clause, sub-Clause and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded;

(b)

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

(c)

where the context so admits, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa;

(d)

the words “including” and “in particular” shall not be construed as limiting the generality of any foregoing words;

(e)

references to (or to any specified provisions of) a Finance Document or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument as it may from time to time be amended, restated, novated or replaced, however fundamentally, whether before the date of this Agreement or otherwise;

(f)

references to Clauses and Schedules are to be construed as references to the Clauses of, and the Schedules to, the relevant Finance Document and references to a Finance Document include all the terms of that Finance Document and any Schedules, Annexes or Appendices thereto, which form an integral part of same;

(g)

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

(h)

references to a “regulation” include any present or future regulation, rule, directive, requirement, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any of any governmental or intergovernmental body, agency, authority, central bank or government department or any self-regulatory or other national or supra-national authority or organisation and includes (without limitation) any Basel II Regulation or Basel III Regulation;

(i)

references to any person include such person’s assignees and successors in title; and

(j)

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;

(k)

a reference in this Agreement to a Central Bank Rate shall include any successor rate to, or replacement rate for, that rate;

(l)

any Reference Rate Supplement overrides anything in:

(i)

Schedule 3 (Reference Rate Terms); or

(ii)

any earlier Reference Rate Supplement.

(m)

a Compounding Methodology Supplement relating to the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate overrides anything relating to that rate in:

(i)

Schedule 4 (Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate), as the case may be; or

(n)

any earlier Compounding Methodology Supplement.

1.4	Construction of certain terms.  In this Agreement:

(a)

the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:

(i)

cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of that entity; or

(ii)

appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors or other equivalent officers of that entity; or

(iii)

give directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of that entity with which the directors or other equivalent officers of that entity are obliged to comply; and/or

(b)

the holding beneficially of more than 50 per cent of the issued share capital of that entity (excluding any part of that issued share capital that carries no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits or capital) (and, for this purpose, any Security Interest over share capital shall be disregarded in determining the beneficial ownership of such share capital);

1.5	Same meaning

1.6	Inconsistency

1.7	Finance Documents

2.1	Commitment to Lend

2.2	Drawdown Notice and Commitment to Borrow

2.3	Drawdown Notice irrevocable

2.4	Number of Advances Agreed

2.5	Disbursement

2.6	Application of Proceeds

2.7	Termination Date of the Commitment

2.8

Evidence

2.9	Cancellation

2.10	No security or lien from other person

3.1	Calculation of interest

(a)

the Margin; and

(b)

the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for that day; and

3.2	Selection of Interest Period

(a)

Notice:  The Borrower may by notice received by the Lender not later than 10:00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day before the beginning of each Interest Period specify (subject to Clause 3.3 (Determination of Interest Periods)) whether such Interest Period shall have a duration of one (1) or two (2) or three (3) months (or such other period as may be requested by the Borrower and as the Lender, in its sole discretion, may agree to).

(b)

Non-availability of matching deposits for Interest Period selected:  If, after the Borrower has selected an Interest Period longer than 3 months, the Lender notifies the Borrower by 10.00 a.m. (London time) on the third Business Day before the commencement of the Interest Period that it is not satisfied that deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the Interest Period will be available to it in the Relevant Interbank Market when the Interest Period commences, the Interest Period shall be of 3 months duration.

3.3	Determination of Interest Periods

(a)

Initial Interest Period: the initial Interest Period applicable to the Loan will commence on the Drawdown Date and each subsequent Interest Period will commence forthwith upon the expiry of the preceding Interest Period;

(b)

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

(c)

Failure to notify: if the Borrower fails to specify the duration of an Interest Period in accordance with the provisions of Clause 3.2 (Selection of Interest Period) and this Clause 3.3, such Interest Period shall have a duration of three (3) months unless another period shall be agreed between the Lender and the Borrower provided, always, that such period (whether of three months or different duration) shall comply with this Clause 3.3.

3.4	Default Interest

(a)

Default interest: If the Borrower fails to pay any sum (including, without limitation, any sum payable pursuant to this Clause 3.4) on its due date for payment under any of the Finance Documents, the Borrower shall pay interest on such sum from the due date up to the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgement) at a rate which, subject to paragraph (b) below, is 2 per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have been payable if the Unpaid Sum had, during the period of non-payment, constituted part of the Loan in the currency of the Unpaid Sum for successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Lender. Any interest accruing under this Clause 3.4 shall be immediately payable by the Borrower on demand by the Lender.

(b)

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 be compounded every six (6) months and shall be payable on demand.

3.5	Notification of Interest and interest rate

(a)

of the duration of each Interest Period and of each rate of interest determined by it under this Clause 3;

(b)

each Funding Rate relating to the Loan, any part of the Loan or any Unpaid Sum);

(c)

to the extent it is then determinable, the Market Disruption Rate (if any) relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan;

3.6

Changes to the calculation of interest

(a)	Interest calculation if no RFR or Central Bank Rate is available:

(i)

there is no RFR or Central Bank Rate for the purposes of calculating the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for an RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for the Loan or any part of the Loan; and

(ii)

"Cost of funds as a fallback" is specified in the Reference Rate Terms,

(b)

Clause 3.8 (Cost of funds) shall apply to the Loan or that part of the Loan (as applicable) for that Interest Period.

3.7	Market disruption

(a)

a Market Disruption Rate is specified in the Reference Rate Terms; and

(b)

before the Reporting Time for the Loan or any part of the Loan, the Lender’s cost of funds  would be in excess of that Market Disruption Rate,

3.8	Cost of funds

(a)

If this Clause 3.8 applies to the Loan or part of the Loan for an Interest Period, paragraph (a) of Clause 3.1 (Calculation of interest) shall not apply to the Loan or that part of the Loan for that Interest Period and the rate of interest on each Lender's share of the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for the relevant Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:

(i)

the Margin; and

(ii)

the rate notified to the Borrower by the Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by the Reporting Time for the Loan or that part of the Loan to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum its cost of funds relating to the Loan or that part of the Loan.

(b)

If this Clause 3.8 (Cost of funds) applies and the Lender or the Borrower so requires, the Lender and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than 30 days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for funding.

(c)

Subject to Clause 3.10 (Changes to reference rates), any substitute or alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (ii) above shall be binding on all Parties.

(d)

If paragraph (e) below does not apply and any rate notified to the Borrower under sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above is less than zero, the relevant rate shall be deemed to be zero.

(e)

If this Clause 3.8 (Cost of funds) applies pursuant to Clause 3.7 (Market disruption) and the Funding Rate is less than the relevant Market Disruption Rate, the Lender’s cost of funds relating to the Loan or the relevant part of the Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) above, to be the Market Disruption Rate for the Loan or that part of the Loan.

(f)

If this Clause 3.8 (Cost of funds) applies, the Lender shall, as soon as is practicable, in case of Clause 3.6(a) (Interest calculation if no RFR or Central Bank Rate is available), notify the Borrower.

3.9	Break Costs

(a)

The Borrower shall, within three Business Days of demand by the Lender, pay to the Lender its Break Costs (if any) attributable to:

(i)

all or any part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by the Borrower on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for the Loan, the relevant part of the Loan or that Unpaid Sum; or

(ii)

any part of the Commitment which is cancelled; or

(b)

The Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, provide email advice confirming the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period (if applicable) in respect of which they become, or may become, payable.

3.10	Changes to reference rates

(a)

The Borrower agrees and acknowledges that it shall co-operate with the Lender in good faith to agree and implement any amendment or waiver as contemplated pursuant to this Clause 3.10 as a result of an RFR Replacement Event.

(b)

If an RFR Replacement Event has occurred any amendment or waiver which relates to:

(i)

providing for the use of a Replacement Reference Rate in place of the RFR; and

(A)

aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Reference Rate;

(B)

enabling that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the purposes of this Agreement);

(C)

implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Reference Rate;

(D)

providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Reference Rate; or

(E)

adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Reference Rate (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation),

(c)

An amendment or waiver that relates to, or has the effect of, aligning the means of calculation of interest on the Loan or any part of the Loan under this Agreement to any recommendation of a Relevant Nominating Body which:

(i)

relates to the use of the RFR on a compounded basis in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets; and

(ii)

is issued on or after the date of this Agreement,

(d)	In this Clause 3.10:

(a)

the methodology, formula or other means of determining the RFR has, in the opinion of the Lender, materially changed; or

(A)

the administrator of the RFR or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or

(B)

information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of the RFR is insolvent,

(ii)

the administrator of the RFR publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease, to provide the RFR permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide the RFR; or

(iii)

the supervisor of the administrator of the RFR publicly announces that the RFR has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or

(iv)

the administrator of the RFR or its supervisor announces that the RFR may no longer be used; or

(c)

the administrator of the RFR determines that the RFR should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either:

(i)

the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Lender) temporary; or

(ii)

the RFR is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period no less than the period specified as the "RFR Contingency Period" in the Reference Rate Terms; or

(d)

in the opinion of the Lender, the RFR is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.

(a)

formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for the RFR by:

(i)

the administrator of the RFR (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by the RFR); or

(ii)

any Relevant Nominating Body,

(b)

in the opinion of the Lender, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor or alternative to the RFR; or

3.11	Transition to a term-based rate

(a)

If there is extensive use of term-based rates in the loan markets, following the Borrower’s written request, the Borrower and the Lender shall negotiate and enter into a supplemental agreement to this Agreement in order to replace the provisions relating to the Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate with a term SOFR based rate mechanism or other term-based rate provisions - prevailing in the loan markets at the time (and provided that the Lender has the technical ability for effecting such transition to a term-based rate mechanism). Such amendments will only be applied from the date on which the conditions in paragraph (b) below have been satisfied and throughout the rest of the Security Period.

(b)

For the avoidance of doubt, no agreement between the Lender and the Borrower regarding a term-based rate shall be or become effective under this Clause 3.11, without the prior written consent of the Lender and unless and until:

(i)

the Parties have executed such documents (including an agreement supplemental to this Agreement and an addendum to the Mortgage) documenting such agreement and any other documents requested by the Agent in its absolute discretion; and

(ii)

the Borrower has delivered to the Lender such documents and evidence of the type referred to in Clause 7 (Conditions precedent) in relation to the documents referred to in paragraph (i) above as requested by the Lender in its absolute discretion,

4.1

Repayment

(i)

1st to 4th (both incl.) in the amount of Dollars One million ($1,000,000); and

(ii)

5th to 16th (both incl.) in the amount of Dollars five hundred thousand ($500,000;

4.2	Voluntary Prepayment

(a)

the giving of such notice by the Borrower will irrevocably commit the Borrower to prepay such amount as stated in such notice;

(b)

if the Borrower shall request consent to make such prepayment on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period the Borrower will pay, in addition to the amount to be prepaid, any such sum as may be payable to the Lender pursuant to Clause 10.1  (Indemnity);

(c)

any prepayment of less than the whole of the Loan will be applied either in or towards pro-rata reduction of the Balloon Instalment and the remaining Repayment Instalments or at Borrower’s request and in the sole discretion of the Lender in order of maturity of the Repayment Instalments falling due after the date of prepayment;

(d)

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

(e)

the Borrower has provided evidence satisfactory to the Lender that any consent required by the Borrower or any Security Party in connection with the prepayment has been obtained and remains in force, and that any regulation relevant to this Agreement which affects the Borrower or any Security Party has been complied with;

(f)

no amount prepaid may be re-borrowed; and

(g)

the Borrower may not prepay the Loan or any part thereof, save as expressly provided in this Agreement or as otherwise agreed by the Lender;

4.3	Mandatory Prepayment

(a)

Total Loss of a Mortgaged Vessel: On a Mortgaged Vessel becoming a Total Loss:

(i)

prior to the advancing of the Commitment (or any part thereof), the obligation of the Lender to advance the Commitment (or any part thereof) shall immediately cease and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero; or

(ii)

in case the Commitment (or any part thereof) has been already advanced, on the earlier of (1) the date falling one hundred and eighty (180) days after the Total Loss Date and (2) the date of receipt by the Lender of the insurance proceeds relating to such Total Loss or Requisition Compensation in respect of that Mortgaged Vessel

(b)

Sale or refinancing of a Mortgaged Vessel: In the event of a sale or other disposal or refinancing of a Mortgaged Vessel:

(i)

prior to the advancing of the Commitment (or any part thereof), the obligation of the Lender to advance the Commitment or such part thereof shall immediately cease and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero; or

(ii)

in case the Commitment (or any part thereof), has been already advanced or in case of refinancing by another bank or financial institution of a Mortgaged Vessel or if the Borrower requests the Lender’s consent for the discharge of the Mortgage registered on a Mortgaged Vessel the Borrower shall thereupon be obliged to pay to the Lender the Required Amount (as hereinafter defined) and the amount of the Loan shall, forthwith upon receipt of the proceeds of such sale or such other disposal or such refinancing by another bank or prior to the discharge of the Mortgage registered on such Mortgaged Vessel, be reduced by an amount equal to the Required Amount (as hereinafter defined) and the Borrower shall thereupon be obliged to make such repayment of the Loan;

(1)

the Borrower’s Vessel, means the Outstanding Indebtedness at the relevant time; and

(2)

any Collateral Vessel, means an amount which after payment of the Relevant Percentage as defined in the Associated Loan Agreement and as provided in Clause 4.3 (Compulsory Prepayment in case of Total Loss or sale or refinancing of a Vessel) of the Associated Loan Agreement is the higher of:

4.4	Application by the Lender in case of compulsory prepayment

4.5	Amounts payable on prepayment

(a)

accrued interest on the prepaid amount to the date of such prepayment (calculated, in the case of a prepayment pursuant to Clauses 3.7 (Market disruption) and 3.8 (Costs of funds);

(b)

any additional amount, if applicable, payable under Clause 5.3 (Gross Up) and/or 12.2 (Increased cost) and 12.3 (Claim for increased cost);

(c)

all other sums payable by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents including, without limitation, any amounts payable under Clause 10 (Indemnities - Expenses – Fees); and

(d)

in relation to any prepayment made on a date other than an Interest Payment Date in respect of the whole of the Loan, it shall, in addition to the amount prepaid and accrued interest, pay to the Lender any amount which the Lender may certify is necessary to compensate the Lender for any Break Costs incurred by the Lender as a result of the making of the prepayment in question.

5.1	Payments – No set-off or counterclaims

(a)

The Borrower acknowledges that in performing its obligations under this Agreement, the Lender will be incurring liabilities to third parties in relation to the funding of amounts to the Borrower, such liabilities matching the liabilities of the Borrower to the Lender and that it is reasonable for the Lender to be entitled to receive payments from the Borrower gross on the due date in order that the Lender is put in a position to perform its matching obligations to the relevant third parties. Accordingly, all payments to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and/or any of the other Finance Documents shall be made in full, without any set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and, subject as provided in Clause 5.3  (Gross-up), free and clear of any deductions or withholdings or Governmental Withholdings whatsoever, as follows:

(i)

in Dollars, not later than 10:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day (in Piraeus, Athens, London and New York City) on which the relevant payment is due under the terms of this Agreement; and

(ii)

to the account of the Lender at Citibank N.A., 399, Park Avenue, New York 10022, N.Y., U.S.A. (SWIFT Code CITIUS33) for account of the Lender, account number 36251442 (Swift Code: CRBAGRAA), or such other bank in New York as the Lender may notify from time to time to the Borrower, reference: “DUKE SHIPPING CO. -Loan Agreement dated:  June, 2022”, provided, however, that the Lender shall have the right to change the place of account for payment, upon ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Borrower from the date on which the relevant payment has to be made.

(b)

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

5.2	Payments on Business Days

5.3

Gross Up

5.4	Mitigation

(a)

have an adverse effect on its business, operations or financial condition on the Lender; or

(b)

involve it in any activity which is unlawful or prohibited or any activity that is contrary to, or inconsistent, with any regulation of the Lender; or

(c)

involve the Lender in any expense (unless indemnified to its reasonable satisfaction) or tax disadvantage.

5.5	Claw-back of Tax benefit

(a)

the Lender shall not be obliged to allocate this transaction any part of a tax repayment or credit which is referable to a number of transactions;

(b)

nothing in this Clause shall oblige the Lender to rearrange its tax affairs in any particular manner, to claim any type of relief, credit, allowance or deduction instead of, or in priority to, another or to make any such claim within any particular time or to disclose any information regarding its tax affairs and computations;

(c)

nothing in this Clause shall oblige the Lender to make a payment which exceeds any repayment or credit in respect of tax on account of which the Borrower has made an increased payment under this Clause;

(d)

any allocation or determination made by the Lender under or in connection with this Clause shall be binding on the Borrower; and

(e)

without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Borrower shall not, by virtue of this Clause 5.5, be entitled to enquire about the Lender’s tax affairs.

5.6	Loan Account

5.7	Computation

6.1	Continuing representations and warranties

(a)

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

(b)

Due Corporate Authority:  each of the Borrower and the other corporate Security Parties has power to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party and to borrow the Commitment and to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, those Finance Documents to which that Security Party is a party and each of the corporate Security Parties has power to execute and deliver and perform its obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is or is to be a party; all necessary corporate, shareholder and other action has been taken to authorise the execution, delivery and performance of the same and no limitation on the powers of the Borrower to borrow will be exceeded as a result of borrowing the Loan;

(c)

No litigation:  no litigation or arbitration, tax claim or administrative proceeding (including action relating to any alleged or actual breach of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code) involving a potential liability of the Borrower or any other Security Party exceeding Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000)  is current or pending or (to its or its officers’ knowledge) threatened against the Borrower (or any of them) or any other Security Party, which, if adversely determined, would have a Material Adverse Effect on any of them;

(d)

No conflict with other obligations:  the execution and delivery of, the performance of its obligations under, and compliance with the provisions of, the Finance Documents by the relevant Security Parties will not (i) contravene any existing applicable law, statute, rule or regulation or any judgment, decree or permit to which the Borrower or any other Security Party is subject, (ii) conflict with, or result in any breach of any of the terms of, or constitute a default under, any agreement or other instrument to which the Borrower or any other Security Party is a party or is subject to or by which it or any of its property is bound, (iii) contravene or conflict with any provision of the memorandum and articles of association/articles of incorporation/by-laws/statutes or other constitutional documents of the Borrower or any other Security Party or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of or oblige the Borrower or any other Security Party to create any Security Interest (other than a Permitted Security Interest) on any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of the Borrower or any other Security Party;

(e)

Financial Condition: to the knowledge of the officers/directors or shareholders of the Borrower the financial condition of the Borrower and of the other Security Parties has not suffered any material deterioration since that condition was last disclosed to the Lender;

(f)

No Immunity: neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party nor any of their respective assets are entitled to immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from any legal action or proceeding (which shall include, without limitation, suit, attachment prior to judgement, execution or other enforcement);

(g)

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

(h)

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

(i)

Perfected Securities: the Finance Documents do now or, as the case may be, will, upon execution and delivery (and, where applicable, registration as provided for in the Finance Documents):

(i)

constitute the relevant Security Party's legal, valid and binding obligations enforceable against that Security Party in accordance with their respective terms (having the requisite corporate benefit which is legally and economically sufficient); and

(ii)

create legal, valid and binding Security Interests (having the priority specified in the relevant Finance Document) enforceable in accordance with their respective terms over all the assets and revenues intended to be covered to which they, by their terms, relate, subject to any relevant insolvency laws affecting creditors' rights generally;

(j)

No third party Security Interests: without limiting the generality of Clause 6.1(i) (Perfected Securities), at the time of the execution and delivery of each Finance Document to which the Borrower is a party:

(i)

the Borrower will have the right to create all the Security Interests which that Finance Document purports to create; and

(ii)

no third party will have any Security Interests (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;

(k)

No Notarisation/Filing/Recording: save for the registration of any mortgage in the relevant Registry, it is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents that it or they or any other instrument be notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court, public office or elsewhere or that any stamp, registration or similar tax or charge be paid on or in relation to this Agreement or the other Finance Documents;

(l)

No conflict: There are no other agreements or arrangements which may adversely affect or conflict with the Finance Documents or the security thereby created;

(m)

Taxes paid: the Borrower has paid all taxes applicable to, or imposed on or in relation to the Borrower, its business or the Borrower’s Vessel;

(n)

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

(o)

Sanctions:

(i)

none  of the Security Parties:

a)

is a Sanctions Restricted Person;

b)

owns or controls directly or indirectly a Sanctions Restricted Person; or

c)

has a Sanctions Restricted Person serving as a director, officer or, to the best of its knowledge, employee; and

(ii)

no proceeds of the Loan shall be made available, directly or to the knowledge of the Borrower (after reasonable enquiry) indirectly, to or for the benefit of a Sanctions Restricted Person contrary to Sanctions or for transactions in a Sanctions Restricted Jurisdiction nor shall they be otherwise directly or indirectly, applied in a manner or for a purpose prohibited by Sanctions.

6.2	Initial representations and warranties

(a)

Direct obligations - Pari Passu:  the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement are direct, general and unconditional obligations of the Borrower and rank at least pari passu with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law;

(b)

Information:  all information, accounts, statements of financial position, exhibits and reports furnished by or on behalf of any Security Party to the Lender in connection with the negotiation and preparation of this Agreement and each of the other Finance Documents are true and accurate in all material respects and not misleading, do not omit material facts and all reasonable enquiries have been made to verify the facts and statements contained therein; to the best knowledge of the Directors/Officers or shareholders of the Borrower, there are no other facts the omission of which would make any fact or statement therein misleading and, in the case of accounts and statements of financial position, they have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles which have been consistently applied;

(c)

No Default:  no Default has occurred and is continuing;

(d)

No Taxes:   no Taxes are imposed by deduction, withholding or otherwise on any payment to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement and/or any other of the Finance Documents or are imposed on or by virtue of the execution or delivery of this Agreement and/or any other of the Finance Documents or any document or instrument to be executed or delivered hereunder or thereunder.  In case that any Tax exists now or will be imposed in the future, it will be borne by the Borrower;

(e)

No Default under other Financial Indebtedness: neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party is in Default under any agreement relating to Financial Indebtedness to which it/he is a party or by which it/he may be bound;

(f)

Ownership/Flag/Seaworthiness/Class/Insurance of the Vessels: each  Vessel is and on the Drawdown Date will be:

(i)

in the absolute and free from Security Interests (other than Permitted Security Interests) ownership of the Owner thereof, who will on and after the Drawdown Date be the sole legal and beneficial owner of that Vessel;

(ii)

registered in the name of the Owner thereof through the relevant Registry under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State;

(iii)

operationally seaworthy and in every way fit for service;

(iv)

classed with the Classification Society which is a member of IACS and which has been approved by the Lender in writing and such class will be free of any overdue requirements and recommendations of the Classification Society affecting class;

(v)

insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Mortgage relative thereto;

(vi)

managed by the Approved Manager; and

(vii)

in full compliance with the ISM and the ISPS Code;

(g)

No Charter:  unless otherwise permitted in writing by the Lender, none of Vessels will on or before the Drawdown Date be subject to any charter or contract nor to any agreement to enter into any charter or contract which, if entered into after the Drawdown Date would have required the consent of the Lender under any of the Finance Documents and there will not on or before the Drawdown Date be any agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings of that Vessel may be shared with any other person;

(h)

No Security Interests: neither any Vessel, nor its Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Insurances nor any other properties or rights which are, or are to be, the subject of any of the Security Documents nor any part thereof will, on the Drawdown Date, be subject to any Security Interests other than Permitted Security Interests or otherwise permitted by the Finance Documents;

(i)

Compliance with Environmental Laws and Approvals:  except as may already have been disclosed by the Owners in writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Lender:

(i)

the  Owners and their respective Related Companies have complied with the provisions of all Environmental Laws;

(ii)

the Owners and their respective Related Companies have obtained all Environmental Approvals and are in compliance with all such Environmental Approvals; and

(iii)

none of the Owners nor any of and their respective Related Companies have received notice of any Environmental Claim that any Owner or any of its Related Companies is not in compliance with any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval;

(j)

No Environmental Claims: except as may already have been disclosed by the  Owners in writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Lender:

(i)

there is no Environmental Claim in excess of Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000)pending or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge and belief, threatened against the Owners (or any of them) or the Vessels (or any of them) or any of the  Owners’ Related Companies or any other Relevant Ship; and

(ii)

there has been no emission, spill, release or discharge of a Material of Environmental Concern from any of the Vessels or any other Related Ship or any of the Vessels owned by, managed or crewed by or chartered to any of the  Owners which could give rise to an Environmental Claim;

(k)

Copies true and complete:  the copies of the Management Agreements delivered or to be delivered to the Lender pursuant to Clause 7.2 (Conditions precedent to the making of the Commitment) are, or will when delivered be, true and complete copies of such documents; such documents will when delivered constitute valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and there will have been no amendments or variations thereof or defaults thereunder;

(l)

DOC and SMC: in relation to each Vessel the DOC applicable to their respective Approved Technical Manager and the SMC applicable to that Vessel are presently in full effect;

(m)

Compliance with the ISM Code: each Vessel and the Operator complies with the requirements of the ISM Code and the SMC which has been be issued in respect of each relevant Vessel shall remain valid throughout the Security Period;

(n)

Compliance with ISPS Code:  each Borrower has a valid and current ISSC in respect thereof and and the Operator complies, with the requirements of the ISPS Code and the ISSC in respect of its Vessel shall remain valid throughout the Security Period;

(o)

Shareholding: each Borrower throughout the Security Period is and will continue to be until the Final Maturity Date a 100% direct or indirect owned subsidiary of Seanergy;

(p)

Corporate Guarantor: the common shares of Seanergy are listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and Seanergy is and will continue to be managed by the person(s) disclosed to the Lender at the negotiation of this Agreement;

(q)

No US Tax Obligor:  (other than as disclosed to the Lender) none of the Security Parties and any corporate shareholder of any thereof is a US Tax Obligor; and

(r)

Compliance with laws and regulations:

aa)

Each Owner is in compliance in all material respects with any Environmental Laws and official requirements applicable to it and provided for under the European Union or the relevant international conventions as well the Environmental Laws and regulations of its jurisdiction of incorporation which have as a purpose or effect the protection of, and/or prevention of harm or damage to, and/or improvement of, the environment; and implement the necessary measures and carry out any necessary and designated action for the effective dealing with and remedy of the issues which, in the course of ordinary audits, are indicated to the Borrowers (or any of them), either from the competent authorities of its jurisdiction of incorporation or from advisors specialized in this field having the required expertise;

bb)

each Owner is in compliance in all material respects with any law or regulation applicable to it and pertaining to the labor and employment conditions, the occupational health and safety and the public health, safety and security and implement the necessary measures and carry out any necessary and designated action for the effective dealing with and remedy of the issues which, in the course of ordinary audits, are indicated to the Borrowers (or any of them) either from the competent authorities of its jurisdiction of incorporation or from advisors specialized in this field having the required expertise; and

cc)

each Owner is in compliance in all material respects with any law or regulation applicable to it and pertaining on the protection of the individual from the processing of personal data and no claim, notice or other communication is received by it in respect of any actual or alleged breach of, or liability under, any such law or regulation which have or are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.3	Acting for its own account - Money laundering

6.3	Representations Correct

6.5	Repetition of Representations and Warranties

(a)

on the date of service of the Drawdown Notice;

(b)

on the Drawdown Date; and

(c)

on each Interest Payment Date throughout the Security Period,

7.1	Conditions precedent to the execution of this Agreement

(a)

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

(b)

Certificates of incumbency: a recent certificate of incumbency of each corporate Security Party issued by the appropriate authority or, as appropriate, signed by the secretary or a director thereof, stating the officers and the directors of each of them;

(c)

Shareholding: a written letter or statement addressed to the Lender from individual(s) acceptable to the Lender confirming the identity of the shareholder(s) of the Borrower, in line with “know your customer” procedures of the Lender;

(d)

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

(e)

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

(f)

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

(g)

Fees:  evidence that the fees referred to in Clause 10.10 (Fees) have been paid in full;

(h)

DOC:  a copy of the DOC applicable to the Technical Approved Managers certified as true and in effect;

(i)

Other documents: any other documents or recent certificates or other evidence which would be reasonably required by the Lender in relation to any corporate Security Party evidencing that the relevant Security Party has been properly established, continues to exist validly and is in good standing;

(j)

Management Agreements-Assignable Charterparty:  a copy of each of the following documents certified as true and complete by the legal counsel of the Borrower:

(i)

each Management Agreement evidencing that the relevant Vessel is managed by the respective Approved Manager on terms acceptable to the Lender; and

(ii)

any Assignable Charterparty;

(k)

Borrower’s Operating Account: evidence that the Borrower’s Operating Account has been duly opened and all mandate forms and other legal documents required for the opening of an account under any applicable law, as well as signature cards and properly adopted authorizations have been duly delivered to and have been accepted by the compliance department of the Lender.

7.2	Conditions precedent to the making of the Commitment

(a)

Conditions precedent: evidence that the conditions precedent set out in Clause 7.1 (Conditions precedent to the execution of this Agreement) remain fully satisfied;

(b)

Drawdown Notice: the Drawdown Notice duly executed and issued;

(c)

Security Documents:  the originals of the Accounts Pledge Agreements, Corporate Guarantees, Mortgages, General Assignments, Approved Manager’s Undertakings, any Charterparty Assignment relating to any Assignable Charterparty and relevant Insurance Letter (and of each document to be delivered by each of them) each in respect of the relevant Vessel and each duly executed and where appropriate duly registered with the relevant Registry or any other competent authority (as required);

(d)

Title and no Security Interests:  evidence that, prior to or simultaneously with the drawdown, each Vessel has been or will - as regards the Collateral Vessels, on the Drawdown Date - be duly registered in the ownership of its Owner with the relevant Registry and under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State free from any Security Interests save for those in favour of the Lender and otherwise as contemplated herein;

(e)

Insurances: evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender that the Vessels have been or will on or, as the case may be, prior to the Drawdown Date be insured in accordance with the insurance requirements provided for in this Agreement and the other Security Documents (in amounts not less than such sum which is at least equal to the greater of (i) the aggregate full Market Value of the Mortgaged Vessels and (ii) such sum which when aggregated with the aggregated insured value of all the Mortgaged Vessels  is at least equal to 125% of the aggregate of (aa) the Loan and (bb) the Associated Loan at the relevant time, provided however that the Borrower’s Vessel has been or will be insured in accordance with the insurance requirements provided for in this Agreement and the other Security Documents in amounts not less than such sum which is at least equal to the greater of (i) the full Market Value of the Borrower’s Vessel and (ii) the Loan, together with an opinion from insurance consultants (appointed by the Lender at the Borrower’s expense) as to the adequacy of the insurances effected or to be effected in respect of that Vessel, to be followed by full copies of cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other contracts of insurance and irrevocable authority is hereby given to the Lender at any time at its discretion to obtain copies of the policies, certificates of entry or other contracts of insurance from the insurers and/or obtain any information in relation to the Insurances relating to that Vessel;

(f)

Insurers’ confirmations: all necessary confirmations from the insurers of each of the Vessels that they will issue letters of undertaking and endorse notice of assignment and loss payable clauses on the Insurances, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender in its sole discretion and - in the event of fleet cover - accompanied by waivers for liens for unpaid premium of other vessels managed by the Approved Manager and which are not subject to any mortgage in favour of the Lender) and (if required by the Lender) an opinion signed by an independent firm of marine insurance brokers appointed and/or approved by the Lender at the expenses of the Borrower confirming the adequacy of the Insurances maintained on each Vessel;

(g)

MII:  the MII shall have been reimbursed by the Borrower as provided in Clause 10.7 (MII costs);

(h)

Access to class records: due authorisation in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender authorising the Lender to have access and/or obtain any copies of class records or other information at its discretion from the Classification Society of each Vessel, provided however, that the Lender shall not exercise such right unless and until an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(i)

Notices of assignment:  duly executed notices of assignment in the form prescribed by the Security Documents;

(j)

Mortgage registration; evidence that each Mortgage on the Drawdown Date will be registered against the Vessel relative thereto through the relevant Registry under the laws and flag of the relevant Flag State.

(k)

Trading Certificates: copies of the trading certificates of each Vessel certified as true and complete by the legal counsel of the Borrower evidencing the same to be valid and in force;

(l)

Class confirmation:  evidence from the Classification Society that each Vessel is classed with the class notation (referred to in the Mortgage relative thereto), with the Classification Society or to a similar standard with another classification society of like standing to be specifically approved by the Lender and remains free from any overdue requirements or recommendations affecting her class;

(m)

Trim and stability booklet:  a true copy of an extract of the trim and stability booklet evidencing the lightweight of each Vessel;

(n)

DOC and SMC: true and complete copies of (i) the DOC referred to in paragraph (a) in the definition of the ISM Code Documentation and (ii) of the SMC for each Vessel;

(o)

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

(p)

ISPS Code:

(i)

evidence satisfactory to the Lender that each Vessel is subject to a ship security plan which complies with the ISPS Code; and

(ii)

upon its issuance, a copy, certified as a true and complete copy of the ISSC for the Borrower’s Vessel;

(q)

Valuation:  recent charter free valuation of the Borrower’s Vessel, at the Borrower’s expense, as at a date determined by the Lender, prepared on the basis specified in Clause 8.5(b) (Valuation of Vessels) by an Approved Shipbroker in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, for the purposes of determining the amount of the Loan as per Clause 1.1 (Amount and purpose);

(r)

Insurance Letter: the Insurance Letter duly executed;

(s)

Pledged Deposit: evidence that the Borrower has deposited the Pledged Deposit of Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) as provided in Clause 8.1(j) (Pledged Deposit);

(t)

Liquidity: evidence that  the Borrower  has deposited the liquidity set out in Clause 8.1 (l) (Liquidity

(u)

No Security Interests: evidence that no Security Interests are registered against the Borrower’s Vessel on her previous register;

(v)

Arrangement Fee: the arrangement fee referred to in Clause 10.11 (Arrangement Fee) has been paid to the Lender;

(w)

Acknowledgement of Receipt: a receipt in writing in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender including an acknowledgement and admission of the Borrower and/or any other Security Party to the effect that the Loan was drawn by the Borrower and a declaration by the Borrower that all conditions precedent have been fulfilled, that there is no Event of Default and that all the representations and warranties are true and correct;

(x)

Legal opinions: draft opinion from lawyers appointed by the Lender as to all the matters referred to in Clauses 6.1(a) (Due Incorporation/Valid Existence) and (b) (Due Corporate Authority) and all such aspects of law as the Lender shall deem relevant to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto and any further legal or other expert opinion as the Lender at its discretion may require;

(y)

Security Parties’ process agent: a letter from each Security Party’s agent for receipt of service of proceedings referred to in each Security Document to which the relevant Security Party is a party, accepting its appointment under each of the relevant Security Documents; and

(z)

Flag State opinion:  draft opinion of legal advisers to the Lender on matters of the laws of the relevant Flag State(s).

7.3	No change of circumstances

(a)

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

(b)

No Default:  no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the drawdown of the Loan; and

(c)

No change:  the Lender shall be satisfied that (i) there has been no change in the control of any of the Owners (or any of them) from that disclosed to the Lender at the negotiation of this Agreement and no change directly or indirectly in the ownership, beneficial ownership, or management of the Owners (or any of them), or any share therein or of the Vessels (or either of them) and (ii)  there has been no Material Adverse Change in the financial condition of any Security Party which (change) might, in the sole opinion of the Lender, be detrimental to the interests of the Lender.

7.4	Know your customer and money laundering compliance

7.5	Further documents

7.6	Waiver of conditions precedent

8.1

General

(a)

Notice on adverse change or Default:  promptly inform the Lender upon becoming aware of any occurrence which might adversely affect the ability of any Security Party to perform its obligations under any of the Finance Documents and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, will inform the Lender of any Default forthwith upon becoming aware thereof and will from time to time, if so requested by the Lender, confirm to the Lender in writing that, save as otherwise stated in such confirmation, no Default has occurred and is continuing;

(b)

Consents and licenses:  without prejudice to Clause 6 (Representations and warranties) and Clause 7 (Conditions precedent), obtain or cause to be obtained, maintain in full force and effect and comply in all material respects with the conditions and restrictions (if any) imposed in, or in connection with, every consent, authorisation, license or approval of governmental or public bodies or authorities or courts and do or cause to be done, all other acts and things which may from time to time be necessary or desirable under applicable law for the continued due performance of all the obligations of the Security Parties under each of the Finance Documents;

(c)

Use of Loan proceeds: use the Loan exclusively for the purposes specified in Clause 1.1  (Amount and Purpose);

(d)

Pari passu: ensure that its obligations under this Agreement shall, without prejudice to the provisions of this Clause 8.1, at all times rank at least pari passu with all its other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated Financial Indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are mandatorily preferred by law and not by contract;

(e)

Financial statements: send or procure that there are sent to the Lender:

(i)

as soon as possible, but in no event later than 180 days after the end of each Financial Year of the Owners and Seanergy, their annual –unaudited, in the case of the Owners and audited, in the case of Seanergy - financial statements for that Financial Year (commencing with the financial statements for the Financial Year ending on 31st December 2021); and

(ii)

promptly after each request by the Lender, such further financial or other information in respect of each Owner, each Vessel, the Corporate Guarantor, the other Security Parties and the Group as may reasonably be requested by the Lender;

(f)

Form of financial statements: all accounts delivered under Clause 8.1(f) (Financial Statements) will:

(i)

be prepared in accordance with US-GAAP consistently applied and, in the case of any audited financial statements, be certified by an Approved Auditor;

(ii)

fairly represent the financial condition of each of the Borrower and the Corporate Guarantors at the date of those accounts and of their profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and

(iii)

fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Borrower, the Group and the Corporate Guarantors and each of its/their subsidiaries;

(g)

Provision of further information:  promptly, when requested, provide the Lender with such financial and other information and accounts relating to the business, undertaking, assets, liabilities, revenues, financial condition or affairs of any Security Party and such other further general information relating to any Security Party as the Lender from time to time may reasonably require;

(h)

Financial Information: provide the Lender from time to time as the Lender may reasonably request with information on the financial conditions, cash flow position, commitments and operations of the Borrower and the Corporate Guarantors including cash flow analysis and voyage accounts of the Vessels with a breakdown of income and running expenses showing net trading profit, trade payables and trade receivables, such financial details to be certified by an authorized signatory of the relevant Security Party as to their correctness;

(i)

Information on the employment of the Vessels:  provide the Lender, and/or procure that the Lender is provided, from time to time as the Lender may request with information on the employment of the Vessels, as well as on the terms and conditions of any charterparty, contract of affreightment, agreement or related document in respect of the employment of the Vessels, such information to be certified by one of the directors of the respective Owner as to their correctness;

(j)

Banking operations:  subject to the provisions of Clause 13.7 (Relocation of Borrower’s Operating Account), ensure that all banking operations in connection with the Vessels are carried out through the respective Operating Accounts;

(k)

Pledged Deposit: ensure that as from the Drawdown Date and throughout the remainder of the Security Period the Borrower shall maintain in the Borrower’s Operating Account with the Lender cash minimum liquidity in the amount of Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) pledged in favour of the Lender (herein, the “Pledged Deposit”);

(l)

Liquidity: procure that Seanergy shall maintain cash including cash equivalents, restricted cash and term deposits (which, without limitation, shall include the balances standing in each Operating Account) in account(s) minimum free liquidity of Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) per each ship owned by a Subsidiary of Seanergy and Seanergy shall provide on Lender’s demand evidence satisfactory to the Lender of such minimum free liquidity;

(m)

Subordination: ensure that all Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower to its shareholders is fully subordinated to the rights of the Lender under the Finance Documents, all in a form acceptable to the Lender and to subordinate to the rights of the Lender under the Finance Documents any Financial Indebtedness issued to it by its shareholders, , all in a form acceptable to the Lender;

(n)

Obligations under Finance Documents:  duly and punctually perform each of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it under the Finance Documents to which is or it is to be a party;

(o)

Payment on demand:  pay to the Lender promptly upon demand any sum of money which is due and payable by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement but in respect of which it is not specified in any other Clause when it is due and payable; and

(p)

Compliance with Laws and Regulations: to comply, or procure compliance with all laws or regulations relating to the Owners and/or the Vessels, its ownership, operation and management or to the business of the Owners and cause this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to comply with and satisfy all the requirements and formalities established by the applicable laws to perfect this Agreement and the other Finance Documents as valid and enforceable Finance Documents;

(q)

Maintenance of Security Interests:

(i)

at its own cost, do all that it reasonably can to ensure that any Finance Document validly creates the obligations and the Security Interests which it purports to create; and

(ii)

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

(r)

Inspections/Surveys: once per year or in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at any time that the Lender might consider to be necessary or useful, have its Vessel and or procure that each Collateral Owner have its Collateral Vessel inspected and/or surveyed at the expense of the Borrower by surveyors and/or inspectors appointed by the Lender and the Borrower hereby duly authorise the Lender to review the insurance and operating records of the Borrower provided that any inspections/surveys/reviews are conducted at reasonable times and without interfering with the daily operations and the ordinary trading of the Vessel;

(s)

Notification of litigation: provide the Lender with details of any legal or administrative action involving the Owners (or any of them), any Security Party, the Approved Manager, the Vessels (or any of them), the Earnings of the Vessels or the Insurances of the Vessels as soon as such action is instituted or it becomes apparent to the Borrower that it is likely to be instituted, unless it is clear that the legal or administrative action cannot be considered material in the context of any Finance Document and the Borrower shall procure that all reasonable measures are taken to defend any such legal or administrative action;

(t)

Notification of default:  the Borrower will notify the Lender as soon as the Borrower becomes aware of:

(i)

the occurrence of an Event of Default; or

(ii)

any matter which indicates that an Event of Default may have occurred,

(u)

Principal place of business:  maintain its place of business, and keep its corporate documents and records, at the address referred to in Clause 16.1 (Notices); and 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;

(v)

Compliance with Covenants:  duly and punctually perform all obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents; and

(w)

No US Tax Obligor:  The Borrower shall procure that, unless otherwise agreed by the Lender, no Security Party shall become a US Tax Obligor (other than as disclosed to the Lender).

8.2	Negative undertakings

(a)

Negative pledge:

(i)

cease to hold the legal title to, and own the entire beneficial interest in its Vessel, its Insurances and Earnings, free from all Security Interests and other interests and rights of every kind, except for those created by the Finance Documents and the effect of the assignments contained in the Borrower’s General Assignment and any other Finance Documents; and

(ii)

create or permit any Security Interest (other than a Permitted Security Interest) to subsist, arise or be created or extended over all or any part of its present or future undertakings, assets, rights or revenues to secure or prefer any present or future Financial Indebtedness or other liability or obligation of the Borrower or any other person other than in the normal course of its business of owning, financing and operating vessels and owning or acquiring ship-owning companies;

(b)

No further Financial Indebtedness: incur no further Financial Indebtedness nor authorise or accept any capital commitments (other than that normally associated with the day to day operations, maintenance and repair of its Vessel) nor enter into any agreement for payment on deferred terms or hire agreement;

(c)

No merger:  merge or consolidate with any other person;

(d)

No disposals:

(i)

sell, transfer, abandon, lend, lease or otherwise dispose of or cease to exercise direct control over any part (being either alone or when aggregated with all other disposals falling to be taken into account pursuant to this Clause 8.2(d), material in the opinion of the Lender, in relation to the undertakings, assets, rights and revenues of the Borrower) of its present or future undertaking, assets, rights or revenues (otherwise than by transfers, sales or disposals for full consideration in the ordinary course of operation and trading) whether by one or a series of transactions related or not;

(ii)

transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of 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;

(aa)

any charter of a Vessel; and

(bb)

any sale of a Vessel to a bona fide third party on arm’s length terms, otherwise than as provided in Clause 4.3(b) (Sale or refinancing of a Vessel);

(e)

No other business:  undertake any type of business other than the ownership and operation of its Vessel and the chartering of its Vessel to third parties;

(f)

No acquisitions:  acquire any further assets other than its Vessel and rights arising under contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Borrower in the ordinary course of its business of owning, operating and chartering its Vessel;

(g)

No investments: make any investments in any person, asset, firm, corporation, joint venture or other entity;

(h)

No other liabilities or obligations to be incurred:  incur any liability or obligation (including, without limitation, any Financial Indebtedness or any obligations under a guarantee or sale and leaseback transaction) except:

(i)

liabilities and obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is or, as the case may be, will be a party; and

(ii)

liabilities or obligations reasonably incurred in the normal course of its business of trading, operating and chartering, maintaining and repairing its Vessel (and for the purposes of this Clause 8.2(h) fees to be paid pursuant to the Management Agreement in respect of its Vessel shall be considered as permitted obligations under the Finance Documents) (including, without limitation, any Financial Indebtedness owing to its shareholder(s) or the Approved Manager, subject to the Borrower ensuring on or prior to the Drawdown Date, that the rights of the Lender thereunder are fully subordinated in writing pursuant to a subordination agreement acceptable to the Lender);

(i)

No borrowing:  incur any Financial Indebtedness except for Financial Indebtedness pursuant to the Finance Documents or in the ordinary course of business of operating, maintaining and repairing its Vessel;

(j)

No repayment of borrowings:  repay the principal of, or pay interest on or any other sum in connection with, any of its Financial Indebtedness except for Financial Indebtedness pursuant to the Finance Documents or in the ordinary course of business of operating, maintaining and repairing its Vessel;

(k)

No payments: unless otherwise provided in this Agreement and the other Finance Documents (and then only to the extent expressly permitted by the same) not pay out any funds (whether out of the Earnings or out of moneys collected under the relevant General Assignment and/or the other Finance Documents or not) to any person except in connection with the administration of that Borrower and the operation and/or maintenance and/or repair and/or trading of its Vessel;

(l)

No guarantees: issue any guarantees or indemnities or otherwise become directly or contingently liable for the obligations of any person, firm, or corporation except pursuant to the Finance Documents and except for, in the case of such Owner, guarantees or indemnities from time to time required in the ordinary course of its business or by any protection and indemnity or war risks association with which its Vessel is entered, guarantees required to procure the release of its Vessel from any arrest, detention, attachment or levy or guarantees or undertakings required for the salvage of its Vessel;

(m)

No loans:  make any loans or advances to, or any investments in any person, firm, corporation, joint venture or other entity including (without limitation) any loan or advance or grant any credit (save for normal trade credit in the ordinary course of business) to any officer, director, stockholder or employee or any other company managed by the Approved Manager directly or through the managers of its Vessel or agree to do so provided, always, that any loans of its shareholders to the Borrower shall be fully subordinated to the Borrower's obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents;

(n)

No securities:  permit any Financial Indebtedness of the Borrower to any person (other than the Lender) to be guaranteed by any person (save, in the case of the Borrower, for guarantees or indemnities from time to time required in the ordinary course by any protection and indemnity or war risks association with which its Vessel is entered, guarantees required to procure the release of its Vessel from any arrest, detention, attachment or levy or guarantees or undertakings required for the salvage of its Vessel);

(o)

No dividends or distribution: declare or pay any dividends or make any other distribution under any name or description upon any of the issued shares or effect any form of redemption, purchase or return of share capital or otherwise dispose of any of its present or future assets, undertakings, rights or revenues to any of the shareholders of the Borrower, Provided that the Borrower may declare or pay any dividends or make any other distribution under any name or description upon any of the issued shares if (aa) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (bb) no Event of Default results from the payment of such dividends or the making of any other form of distribution or any redemption, purchase or return of share capital;

(p)

No subsidiaries:  form or acquire any Subsidiaries;

(q)

No change of Business Structure: change the nature, organisation and conduct of the business of the Borrower as owner of its Vessel or carry on any business other than the business carried on at the date of this Agreement;

(r)

No change of Legal Structure:  (such consent not be unreasonably withheld) ensure that none of the documents defining the constitution of the Borrower shall be materially (in the Lender’s opinion) altered in any manner whatsoever;

(s)

No Security Interest of Assets:  other than Permitted Security Interests, allow any part of its undertaking, property, assets or rights, whether present or future, to be mortgaged, charged, pledged, used as a lien or otherwise encumbered;

(t)

Master Agreement Derivatives:   not enter into any transaction in a derivative other than any under a master agreement entered into with the Lender;

(u)

No change of control: ensure that no change shall be made directly or indirectly in the ownership and the management of the Borrower;

(v)

Stock Exchange: Seanergy remains a public listed company at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and continue to be managed by the person(s) disclosed to the Lender at the negotiation of this Agreement.

8.3	Undertakings concerning the Borrower’s Vessel

(a)

Chartering:  not without the prior written consent of the Lender which shall not be unreasonably withheld (and then only subject to such conditions as the Lender may impose) let or agree to let its Vessel:

(i)

on demise charter for any period; or

(ii)

by any Assignable Charterparty; or

(iii)

other than on at arm’s length basis;

(b)

Laid-up: without the prior written consent of the Lender not de-activate or lay up its Vessel;

(c)

No amendment to Assignable Charterparty: not waive or fail to enforce, any Assignable Charterparty to which it is a party or any of its provisions, and will promptly notify the Lender of any material amendment or supplement to any Assignable Charterparty;

(d)

Approved Manager:  not without the prior written consent of the Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) agree or appoint a manager of its Vessel other than the Approved Manager;

(e)

Ownership/Management/Control:  ensure that its Vessel remains registered in the ownership of the Borrower under the laws of the relevant Flag State and thereafter ensure its Vessel will maintain her ownership, management and control;

(f)

Class:  ensure that its Vessel will remain in class free of overdue recommendations or average damage affecting class or permitted by the Classification Society and provide the Lender on demand with copies of all class and trading certificates of its Vessel;

(g)

Insurances: ensure that all Insurances (as defined in the relevant Mortgage/General Assignment) of its Vessel is maintained and comply with all insurance requirements specified in this Agreement and in the relevant Mortgage and in case of failure to maintain its Vessel so insured, authorise the Lender (and such authorisation is hereby expressly given to the Lender) to have the right but not the obligation to effect such Insurances on behalf of the Borrower (and in case that its Vessel remains in port for an extended period) to effect port risks insurances at the cost of the Borrower which, if paid by the Lender, shall be Expenses; the Lender shall be entitled to obtain once per year at Borrower’s expense an opinion from insurance consultants (appointed by the Lender at the Borrower’s expense) as to the adequacy of the insurances effected or to be effected in respect of its Vessel, Provided that (i) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) if there has been any change in the insurance placement within such year or (iii) if there has been a Material Adverse Change of the financial condition of any of the insurers of its Vessel at the Lender’s sole opinion, the Lender shall be entitled to obtain at Borrower’s expense such opinion from such insurance consultants at any time it deems necessary;

(h)

Transfer/Security Interests:  not without the prior written consent of the Lender sell or otherwise dispose of its Vessel or any share therein or create or agree to create or permit to subsist any Security Interest over its Vessel (or any share or interest therein other than Permitted Security Interests;

(i)

Not imperil Flag, Ownership, Insurances:  ensure that its Vessel is maintained and trades in conformity with the laws of the relevant Flag State, of its owning company or of the nationality of the officers, the requirements of the Insurances and nothing is done or permitted to be done which could endanger the flag of its Vessel or its unencumbered (other than Permitted Security Interests) ownership or its Insurances;

(j)

Mortgage Covenants:  always comply with all the covenants provided for in the Borrower’s Mortgage;

(k)

Assignment of Earnings:  not assign or agree to assign otherwise than to the Lender the Earnings or any part thereof.

(l)

Sharing of Earnings: ensure that none of the Owners:

(i)

(save for agreements for the sharing of Earnings made between the Owners) will enter into any agreement or arrangement for the sharing of any Earnings  and/or;

(ii)

not enter into any agreement or arrangement for the postponement of any date on which any Earnings are due; the reduction of the amount of any Earnings or otherwise for the release or adverse alteration of any right of the Borrower to any Earnings; and/or

(iii)

not enter into any agreement or arrangement for the release of, or adverse alteration to, any guarantee or Security Interest relating to any Earnings;

(m)

Assignable Charterparty:  ensure and procure that in the event of its Vessel being employed under an Assignable Charterparty:

(i)

It shall execute and deliver to the Lender within fifteen (15) days of signing thereof a specific assignment of all its rights, title and interest in and to such charter and any charter guarantee (if available) in the form of a Charterparty Assignment and a notice of such assignment addressed to the relevant charterer;

(ii)

It will ensure (on a reasonable endeavours basis) that the relevant charterer and any charter guarantor agree to acknowledge to the Lender the specific assignment of such charter and charter guarantee by executing an acknowledgement substantially in the form included in the relevant Charterparty Assignment;

(iii)

in the case where such charter is a demise charter it will ensure (on a best effort basis), that the relevant charterer  undertakes to the Lender (1) to comply with all of the Borrower's undertakings with regard to the employment, insurances, operation, repairs and maintenance of its Vessel contained in this Agreement, the Borrower’s Mortgage and the Borrower’s General Assignment and (2) to provide (inter alia) an assignment of its interest in the insurances of its Vessel in the form of a tripartite agreement in form and substance acceptable to the Lender, to be made between the Lender, the Borrower and such charterer;

(n)

No freight derivatives: not enter into or agree to enter into any freight derivatives or any other instruments which have the effect of hedging forward exposures to freight derivatives without the Lender’s consent;

(o)

Borrower’s Vessel’s inspection: permit the Lender (i) by surveyors or other persons appointed by it in its behalf to board its Vessel once per year or in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at any time that the Lender might consider to be necessary or useful (but in any event without interfering with the daily operations and the ordinary trading of its Vessel) for the purpose of inspecting her condition or for the purpose of satisfying itself with regard to proposed or executed repairs and to afford all proper facilities for such inspections and (ii) at any time by financial or insurance advisors or other persons appointed by the Lender to review the operating and insurance records of its Vessel and the Owner thereof and the costs (as supported by vouchers) of any and all such inspections shall be borne by the Borrower;

(p)

Trading: use its Vessel only for civil merchant trading;

(q)

Compliance with ISM Code:  procure that each Approved Technical Manager and any Operator will:

(i)

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

(ii)

immediately inform the Lender if there is any threatened or actual withdrawal of the Borrower, the Approved Manager’s or an Operator’s DOC or the SMC in respect of its Vessel; and

(iii)

promptly inform the Lender upon the issue to the Borrower, the Approved Manager or any Operator of a DOC and to its Vessel of an SMC or the receipt by the Borrower, the Approved Manager or any Operator of notification that its application for the same has been realised;

(r)

Compliance with ISPS Code:  procure that each Approved Technical Manager or any Operator will:

(i)

maintain at all times a valid and current ISSC in respect of its Vessel;

(ii)

immediately notify the Lender in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the ISSC in respect of its Vessel; and

(iii)

procure that its Vessel will comply at all times with the ISPS Code;

(s)

Compliance with Environmental Laws: comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of any Relevant Party comply with, all Environmental Laws including without limitation, requirements relating to manning and establishment of financial responsibility and to obtain and comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of any Relevant Party comply with, all Environmental Approvals and to notify the Lender forthwith:

(i)

of any Environmental Claim for an amount or amounts in aggregate exceeding Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) made against its Vessel, any Relevant Ship and/or her respective owner; and

(ii)

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

(t)

War Risk Insurance cover: in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), it will not cause or permit its Vessel to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by its Vessel's war risks insurers unless the prior written consent of the Lender has been given and the Borrower has (at its expense) effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which the Lender may approve or require.

8.4	Validity of Securities - Earnings - Taxes etc.

(a)

Validity:  ensure and procure that all governmental or other consents required by law and/or any other steps required for the validity, enforceability and legality of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents are maintained in full force and effect and/or appropriately taken;

(b)

Earnings:  ensure and procure that, unless and until directed by the Lender otherwise (i) all the Earnings of its Vessel shall be paid to the Borrower’s Operating Account and (ii) the persons from whom the Earnings are from time to time due are irrevocably instructed to pay them to the Borrower’s Operating Account or to such account in the name of the Borrower as shall be from time to time determined by the Lender in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and/or the relevant Security Documents;

(c)

Taxes:  pay all Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges when the same fall due, except to the extent that the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves have been set aside for their payment if such proceedings fail; and

(d)

Additional Documents:  from time to time at the request of the Lender execute and deliver to the Lender or procure the execution and delivery to the Lender of all such documents as shall be deemed necessary at the reasonable discretion of the Lender for giving full effect to this Agreement, and for perfecting, protecting the value of or enforcing any rights or securities granted to the Lender under any one or more of this Agreement, the other Finance Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or thereto and in case that any conditions precedent (with the Lender’s consent) have not been fulfilled prior to the Drawdown Date, such conditions shall be complied with within ten (10) Business Days after the Lender’s written request (unless the Lender agrees otherwise in writing) and failure to comply with this covenant shall be an Event of Default.

8.5	Security cover - Valuation of the Vessels

(a)

Security shortfall - Additional Security:  If at any time during the Security Period, the Security Value shall be less than the Security Requirement, the Lender may give notice to the Borrower requiring that such deficiency be remedied and then the Borrower shall (unless the sole cause of such deficiency is the Total Loss of a Vessel and the Borrower is in full compliance with his obligations in relation to such Total Loss) either;

(i)

prepay (in accordance with Clause 4.2 (Voluntary prepayment) (but without regard to the requirement for 10 RFR Banking Days’ notice) within a period of thirty (30) Business Days of the date of receipt by the Borrower of the Lender’s said notice (the “Prepayment Date”) such sum in Dollars as will result in the Security Requirement after such prepayment (taking into account any other repayment of the Loan made or to be made between the date of the notice and the date of such prepayment) being at least equal to the Security Value; or

(ii)

before the Prepayment Date constitute to the satisfaction of the Lender such additional security for the Loan as shall be acceptable to the Lender having a net realisable value for security purposes (as determined by the Lender in its absolute discretion) at the date upon which such additional security shall be constituted which, when added to the Security Value, shall not be less than the Security Requirement as at such date. Such additional security shall be constituted by:

a)

additional pledged cash deposits in favor of the Lender in an amount equal to such shortfall with the Lender and in an account and manner to be determined by the Lender; and/or

b)

any other security acceptable to the Lender at its absolute discretion to be provided in a manner determined by the Lender.

(b)

Valuation of Vessels:  Each of the Vessels shall, for the purposes of this Clause 8.5, be valued in Dollars once a year or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at any other time that the Lender shall reasonably require by an Approved Shipbroker (such valuation to be made without, unless required by the Lender, physical inspection, and on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash at arm’s length on normal commercial terms as between a willing buyer and a willing seller, without taking into account the benefit of any charterparty or other engagement concerning the relevant Vessel. The Lender and the Borrower agree to accept such valuation made by the Approved Shipbroker appointed as aforesaid as conclusive evidence of the Market Value of the relevant Vessel at the date of such valuation and such valuation shall constitute the Market Value of that Vessel for the purposes of this Clause 8.5.

(c)

Information: The Borrower undertakes to the Lender to, and to procure that each of the Collateral Owners, supply to the Lender and to any such shipbrokers such information concerning each Vessel and its condition as such shipbrokers may reasonably require for the purpose of making any such valuation.

(d)

Costs:  All costs in connection with:

(i)

the Lender obtaining any valuation of each Vessel referred to in Clause 8.5(b) (Valuation of Vessels); and

(ii)

any valuation of any additional security for the purposes of ascertaining the Security Value at any time or necessitated by the Borrower electing to constitute additional security pursuant to Clause 8.5(a)(ii): and

(iii)

all legal and other expenses incurred by the Lender in connection with any matter arising out of this Clause 8.5

(e)

Valuation of additional security:  For the purpose of this Clause 8.5, the market value of any additional security provided or to be provided to the Lender shall be determined by the Lender in its absolute discretion without any necessity for the Lender assigning any reason thereto and if such security consists of a vessel shall be that shown by a valuation complying with the requirements of Clause 8.5(b) (Valuation of Vessels) (whereas the costs shall be borne by the Borrower in accordance with Clause 8.5(d) (Costs)) or if the additional security is in the form of a cash deposit full credit shall be given for such cash deposit on a Dollar for Dollar basis.

(f)

Release of additional security. Once the Security Value shall be equal to the Security Requirement for a period of at least thirty (30) days, and the Borrower has previously provided additional security pursuant to this Clause 8.5, the Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable and subject to being indemnified to its satisfaction against the cost of doing so, release any such additional security to the extent that the Security Requirement would be maintained following such release, provided that at the relevant time there is no Event of Default in existence.

(g)

Documents and evidence: In connection with any additional security provided in accordance with this Clause 8.5, the Lender shall be entitled to receive such evidence and documents of the kind referred to in Schedule 2 as may in the Lender’s opinion be appropriate and such favourable legal opinions as the Lender shall in its   discretion require.

8.6

Sanctions

(a)

Without Limiting Clause 8.7 (Compliance with laws etc.), the Borrower hereby undertakes with the Lender that, from the date of this Agreement and until the date that the Outstanding Indebtedness is paid in full, shall ensure that its Vessel:

(i)

will not be used by or for the benefit of a Sanctions Restricted Person contrary to Sanctions;

(ii)

will not be used in trading in any Sanctions Restricted Jurisdiction or in any manner contrary to Sanctions; and

(iii)

will not be traded in any manner which would trigger the operation of any sanctions limitation or exclusion clause (or similar) in the Insurances.

(a)

The Borrower shall:

(i)

not directly or to its knowledge (after reasonable enquiry) indirectly use or permit to be used all or any part of the proceeds of the Loan, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds directly or to its knowledge (after reasonable enquiry) indirectly, to any person or entity (i) to finance or facilitate any activity or transaction of or with any Sanctions Restricted Person contrary to Sanctions or in any Sanctions Restricted Country, or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by any Party;

(ii)

shall not fund all or part of any payment under the Loan out of proceeds derived directly or to its knowledge (after reasonable enquiry) indirectly from any activity or transaction with a Sanctions Restricted Person contrary to Sanctions or in a Sanctions Restricted Jurisdiction or which would otherwise cause any party to be in breach of any Sanctions; and

(iii)

procure that no proceeds to its knowledge (after reasonable enquiry) from activities or business with a Sanctions Restricted Person contrary to Sanctions or in a Sanctions Restricted Jurisdiction are credited to the Borrower’s Operating Account.

8.7	Compliance with laws etc.

(a)

comply, or procure compliance with all laws or regulations by the relevant Security Party:

(i)

relating to its respective business generally; and

(ii)

relating to its Vessel, its ownership, employment, operation, management and registration including, but not limited to, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws and the laws of the relevant Flag State; and

(iii)

all Sanctions;

(b)

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

(c)

without limiting paragraph (a) above, not employ its Vessel nor allow its employment, operation or management in any manner contrary to any law or regulation including, but not limited to, the ISM Code, the ISPS Code and all Environmental Laws which has or is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the business, position, profitability, assets or the financial condition of any of the Security Parties.

8.8	Covenants for the Securities Parties

8.9	Know your customer and money laundering compliance

9.1

Events

(a)

Non‑payment: any Security Party fails to pay any sum payable by it under any of the Finance Documents at the time, in the currency and in the manner stipulated in the Finance Documents (and so that, for this purpose, sums payable on demand shall be treated as having been paid at the stipulated time if paid within five (5) Business Days of demand and other sums due shall be treated as having been paid at the stipulated time if paid within three (3) Business Days of its falling due); or

(b)

Breach of Insurance and certain other obligations: the Borrower fails to obtain and/or maintain the Insurances (as defined in, and in accordance with the requirements of, the Finance Documents) or if any insurer in respect of such Insurances cancels the Insurances or disclaims liability by reason, in either case, of mis‑statement in any proposal for the Insurances or for any other failure or default on the part of the Borrower or any other person or the Borrower commits any breach of or omits to observe any of the obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under Clause 8  (Undertakings); or

(c)

Breach of other obligations: any Security Party commits any breach of or omits to observe any of its obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under any of the Finance Documents (other than those referred to in Clauses 9.1(a) (Non‑payment) and 9.1(b) (Breach of Insurance and certain other obligations)) and, in respect of any such breach or omission which in the opinion of the Lender is capable of remedy, such action as the Lender may require shall not have been taken within fifteen (15) days of the Lender notifying in writing the relevant Security Party of such default and of such required action; or

(d)

Misrepresentation: any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or in respect of any Security Party in or pursuant to any of the Finance Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered under any of the Finance Documents is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect; or

(e)

Cross‑default:

(i)

any Financial Indebtedness of (aa) the Borrower or a Security Party (other than Seanergy) related to an amount exceeding the amount of Five hundred thousand Dollars ($500,000) and (bb) the Seanergy related to an amount exceeding the amount of Five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (in each case herein, the “Permitted Amount”) is not paid when due (unless contested in good faith)

(ii)

any Financial Indebtedness of any of the Security Parties relating to the Permitted Amount (whether by declaration or automatically in accordance with the relevant agreement or instrument constituting the same) due and payable prior to the date when it would otherwise have become due (unless as a result of the exercise by the relevant Security Party or the relevant Group Member (as the case may be) of a voluntary right of prepayment), or

(iii)

any creditor of any of the Security Parties becomes entitled to declare any such Financial Indebtedness due and payable, or

(iv)

any facility or commitment available to any of the Security Parties relating to Financial Indebtedness relating to an amount exceeding the Permitted Amount is withdrawn, suspended or cancelled by reason of any default (however described) of the person concerned unless the relevant Security Party shall have satisfied the Lender that such withdrawal, suspension or cancellation will not affect or prejudice in any way the relevant Security Party’s (as the case may be) ability to pay its debts as they fall due, or

(v)

any guarantee given by any of the Security Parties or any Group Member in respect of Financial Indebtedness relating to an amount exceeding the Permitted Amount  is not honoured when due and called upon; or

(f)

Legal process: any judgment or order made or commenced in good faith by a person against any Security Party relating to an amount exceeding the Permitted Amount is not stayed or complied with within thirty (30) Banking  Days or a good faith creditor attaches or takes possession of, or a distress, execution, sequestration or other bonafide process is levied or enforced upon or sued out against, any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any Security Party and is not discharged , or bail is lodged in respect thereof, within thirty (30) Business  Days; or

(g)

Insolvency:  any Security Party becomes insolvent or stops or suspends making payments (whether of principal or interest) with respect to all or any class of its debts or announces an intention to do so; or

(h)

Reduction or loss of capital: a meeting is convened by any Security Party for the purpose of passing any resolution to purchase, reduce or redeem any of its share capital; or

(i)

Winding up: any petition is presented or other step is taken for the purpose of winding up any Security Party or an order is made or resolution passed for the winding up of any Security Party or a notice is issued convening a meeting for the purpose of passing any such resolution; or

(j)

Administration: any petition is presented or other step is taken for the purpose of the appointment of an administrator of any Security Party or the Lender believes that any such petition or other step is imminent or an administration order is made in relation to any Security Party; or

(k)

Appointment of receivers and managers: any administrative or other receiver is appointed of any Security Party or any part of its assets and/or undertaking or any other steps are taken to enforce any Security Interest over all or any part of the assets of any Security Party; or

(l)

Compositions: any steps are taken, or negotiations commenced, by any Security Party or by any of its creditors with a view to the general readjustment or rescheduling of all or part of its indebtedness or to proposing any kind of composition, compromise or arrangement involving such company and any of its creditors provided, however, that if the Borrower is able to provide such evidence as is satisfactory in all respects to the Lender that such rescheduling will not relate to any payment default or anticipated default the same shall not constitute an Event of Default; or

(m)

Analogous proceedings: there occurs, in relation to any Security Party, in any country or territory in which any of them carries on business or to the jurisdiction of whose courts any part of their assets is subject, any event which, in the opinion of the Lender, appears in that country or territory to correspond with, or have an effect equivalent or similar to, any of those mentioned in Clauses 9.1(f) (Legal process) to (l) (Compositions) (inclusive) or any Security Party otherwise becomes subject, in any such country or territory, to the operation of any law relating to insolvency, bankruptcy or liquidation; or

(n)

Cessation of business: any Security Party suspends or ceases or threatens to suspend or cease to carry on its business; or

(o)

Seizure: all or a material part of the undertaking, assets, rights or revenues of, or shares or other ownership interests in, any Security Party are seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under the authority of any government; and the respective Security Party fails to procure for its release within a period of  forty five (45) days; or

(p)

Invalidity: any of the Finance Documents shall at any time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise cease to remain in full force and effect, or if the validity or enforceability of any of the Finance Documents shall at any time and for any reason be contested by any Security Party which is a party thereto, or if any such Security Party shall deny that it has any, or any further, liability thereunder; or

(q)

Unlawfulness: it becomes impossible or unlawful at any time for any Security Party, to fulfil any of the covenants and obligations expressed to be assumed by it in any of the Finance Documents or for the Lender to exercise the rights or any of them vested in it under any of the Finance Documents or otherwise; or

(r)

Repudiation: any Security Party repudiates any of the Finance Documents or does or causes or permits to be done any act or thing evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Finance Documents; or

(s)

Security Interests enforceable: any Security Interest (other than Permitted Security Interests) in respect of any of the property (or part thereof) which is the subject of any of the Finance Documents becomes enforceable; or

(t)

Material Adverse Change: any other event or events (whether related or not) occurs or circumstance arises which constitutes a Material Adverse Change, from the position applicable as at the date of this Agreement, in the business, affairs or condition (financial or otherwise) of any Security Party) (including any such Material Adverse Change resulting from an Environmental Incident) the effect of which is likely, in the opinion of the Lender, to impair, delay or prevent the due fulfilment by any Security Party of any of its respective obligations or undertakings contained in this Loan Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents and/or materially and adversely to affect the security created by any of the Finance Documents; or

(u)

Arrest: any of the Vessels is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution, impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of any possessory lien or other claim or otherwise taken from the possession of its Owner and such Owner shall fail to procure the release of that Vessel within a period of sixty (60) days thereafter; or

(v)

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

(w)

Unrest: the Flag State of a Vessel becomes involved in hostilities or civil war or there is a seizure of power in such Flag State by unconstitutional means if, in any such case, (a) such event could in the opinion of the Lender reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the security constituted by any of the Finance Documents and (b) the relevant Owner has failed within sixty (60) days from receiving notice from the Lender to this effect to (i) delete the relevant Vessel from its Flag State and (ii) re-register that Vessel under another Flag State approved by the Lender in its sole discretion through a relevant Registry, in each case, at the Borrower’s cost and expense; or

(x)

Approved Manager: there occurs, in relation to the Approved Manager any of the events mentioned in Clauses 9.1(e) (Legal process) to (m) (Cessation of business) (inclusive) and the Borrower fails to appoint a new Approved Manager of the Vessels acceptable to the Lender such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld within ten (10) days of becoming aware of the occurrence of such event.

(x)

Environment:  any Relevant Party and/or any of their respective Environmental Affiliates fails to comply with any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval or any of the Vessels or any Relevant Ship is involved in any incident which gives rise or which may give rise to any Environmental Claim, if in any such case, such non-compliance or incident or the consequences thereof could (in the reasonable opinion of the Lender) be expected to have a Material Adverse Change as described hereinbelow under paragraph (t) above; or

(y)

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

(z)

Stock Exchange:  the common shares of Seanergy cease to be listed at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Corporate Guarantor cease to be managed by the person(s) disclosed to the Lender at the negotiation of this Agreement; or

(aa)

Ownership:  there has been a change of control directly or indirectly in the Owners (or any of them) or the management of the Owners or of any Vessel as a result of which any of the Owners ceases to 100% owned by Seanergy or any of the Vessels ceases to be 100% owned by the Owner thereof; or

(bb)

Change of Management: any Vessel ceases to be managed by her respective Approved Manager (for any reason other than the reason of a Total Loss or sale of that Vessel) without the approval of the Lender, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, and its Owner fails to appoint another Approved Manager prior to the termination of the mandate with the previous Approved Manager; or

(cc)

Deviation of Earnings: any Earnings of any Vessel are not paid to the Operating Account relative thereto for any reason whatsoever (other than with the Lender’s prior written consent); or

(dd)

ISM Code and ISPS Code: (without prejudice to the generality of sub-Clause 9.1(c) (Breach of other obligations)) for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Clause 8.1(o) (Compliance with ISM Code) and (p) (Compliance with ISPS Code) are not complied with and any Vessel ceases to comply with the ISM Code or, as the case may be, the ISPS Code; or

(ee)

Sanctions:  (without prejudice to the generality of sub-Clause 9.1(c) (Breach of other obligations)) for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Clause 8.6 (Sanctions) and Clause 8.7 (Compliance with laws etc.) are not complied with; or

(ff)

Operating Account: any moneys are withdrawn from the Operating Accounts (or any of them) other than in accordance with Clauses 8.4(b) (Earnings) and 13 (Operating Accounts); or

(gg)

Finance Documents: any event of default (as howsoever described or defined therein) occurs under the Finance Documents (or any of them); or

(hh)

Corporate Guarantees: a Corporate Guarantor commits any breach of or omits to observe any of its obligations or undertakings expressed to be assumed by it/him under its respective Corporate Guarantee; or

(ii)

Associated Loan Agreement: any Event of Default (as defined therein) occurs and is continuing under the Associated Loan Agreement.

9.2	Consequences of Default – Acceleration

(a)

by notice to the Borrower declare that the obligation of the Lender to make the Commitment (or any part thereof) available shall be terminated, whereupon the Commitment shall be reduced to zero forthwith; and/or

(b)

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

(c)

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

9.3	Multiple notices; action without notice

9.4	Demand basis

9.5	Proof of Default

9.6	Exclusion of Bank’s 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,

10.1

Indemnity

(a)

any default in payment by any of the Security Parties of any sum under any of the Finance Documents when due;

(b)

the occurrence of any Event of Default which is continuing;

(c)

any prepayment of the Loan or part thereof being made under Clauses  4.2 (Voluntary Prepayment) and 4.3 (Mandatory Prepayment), 8.5(a) (Security shortfall) or 12 (Unlawfulness, Increased cost and bail in) or any other repayment of the Loan or part thereof being made otherwise than on an Interest Payment Date relating to the part of the Loan prepaid or repaid; or

(d)

the Commitment not being advanced for any reason (excluding any default by the Lender and any reason mentioned in Clause 12.1 (Unlawfulness)) after the Drawdown Notice has been given, including, in any such case, but not limited to, any loss or expense sustained or incurred in maintaining or funding the Loan or any part thereof or in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Loan or any part thereof.

10.2

Expenses

(a)

Initial and Amendment expenses:  all expenses (including reasonable legal, printing and out-of-pocket expenses) reasonably incurred by the Lender in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and of any amendment or extension of or the granting of any waiver or consent under this Agreement and/or any of the Finance Documents and/or in connection with any proposal by the Borrower to constitute additional security pursuant to sub-Clause 8.5(a) (Security shortfall), whether any such security shall in fact be constituted or not and in the case of Clause 3.10 (Changes to reference rates) the drafting, negotiating and execution of any Compounding Methodology Supplement or Reference Rate Supplement;

(b)

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

(c)

Legal costs:  the legal costs of the Lender’s appointed lawyers, in respect of the preparation of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents as well as the legal costs of the foreign lawyers (if these are available) in respect of the registration of the Finance Documents or any search or opinion given to the Lender in respect of the Security Parties or the Vessels or the Finance Documents. The said legal costs shall be due and payable on the Drawdown Date; and

(d)

Other expenses:  any and all other Expenses.

10.3	Stamp duty

10.4	Environmental Indemnity

10.5	Currency indemnity

10.6	Maintenance of the Indemnities

10.7

MII costs

10.8	Central Bank or European Central Bank reserve requirements indemnity

10.9	Communications Indemnity

(a)

Express authority is hereby given by the Borrower to the Lender to accept all tested or untested communications given by facsimile, electronic mail or otherwise, regarding any or all of the notices (as defined in Clause 16.5 (Meaning of “notice”) under this Agreement, subject to any restrictions imposed by the Lender relating to such notices including, without limitation (if so required by the Lender), the obligation to confirm such notices by letter.

(b)

The Borrower shall recognise any and all of the said notices as legal, valid and binding, when these notices come from the fax number or electronic mail address mentioned in Clause 16.1 (Notices) or any other fax or electronic mail address usually used by it or the Approved Manager and are duly signed or in case of emails are duly sent by the person appearing to be sending such notice.

(c)

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

(d)

With regard to notices (as defined in Clause 16.5 (Meaning of “notice”) issued by electronic and/or mechanical processes (e.g. by facsimile or electronic mail) the following are applicable:

(i)

The Borrower hereby acknowledges and accepts the risks associated with the use of unsecured electronic mail communication including, without limitation, risk of delay, loss of data, confidentiality breach, forgery, falsification and malicious software.  The Lender shall not be liable in any way for any loss or damage or any other disadvantage suffered by the Borrower resulting from such unsecured electronic mail communication.

(ii)

If the Borrower or any other Security Party wishes to cease all electronic communication, it shall give written notice to the Lender accordingly after receipt of which notice the Parties shall cease all electronic communication.

(iii)

For as long as electronic communication is an accepted form of communication, the Parties shall:

a)

notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and

b)

notify each other of any change to their respective addresses or any other such information supplied to them; and

(e)

in case electronic communication is sent to recipients with the domain <@seanergy.gr>, the parties shall without undue delay inform each other if there are changes to the said domain or if electronic communication shall thereafter be sent to individual e-mail addresses.

(f)

The risks of misunderstandings and errors resulting from notices (as defined in Clause 16.5 (Meaning of “notice”) being given as mentioned above, are for the Borrower and the Lender will be indemnified in full pursuant to this Clause save in case of Lender’s wilful misconduct.

(g)

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

(h)

It is undertaken by the Borrower to use its best endeavours to safeguard the function and the security of the electronic and mechanical appliance(s) such as fax(es), electronic mail(s) etc. The Borrower shall hold the Lender harmless and indemnified from all claims, losses, damages and expenses which the Lender may incur by reason of the failure of the Borrower to comply with the obligations under this Clause.

10.10

Fees

(a)

Arrangement fee: The Borrower shall pay to the Lender an arrangement fee (the “Arrangement Fee”) in the amount equal to one per cent (1%) of the amount of the Commitment payable on   the Drawdown Date.

(b)

Non-refundable: The Arrangement Fee shall be payable by the Borrower to the Lender irrespective of utilisation/cancellation in part or in whole of the Commitment and shall be non-refundable.

10.11

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.

(a)

Subject to Clause 10.12(c) below, each party shall, within ten Business Days of a reasonable request by another party:

(ii)

supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable passthru percentage or other information required under the 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.

(b)

If a party confirms to another party pursuant to Clause 10.12(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.

(c)

Clause 10.12(a)(i) 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 fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with Clause 10.12(a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where Clause 10.12(c) above applies), then:

(i)

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

(ii)

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

11.1	Securities

11.2	Maintenance of Securities

11.3	Application of receipts

(a)

Order of application:  Except as any Finance Document may otherwise provide, any sums which are received or recovered by the Lender under or pursuant to or by virtue of any of the Finance Documents and expressed to be applicable in accordance with this Clause 11.3 shall be applied by the Lender in the following manner:

(i)

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

a)

Firstly, in or towards satisfaction of all amounts then due and payable to the Lender under the Finance Documents other than those amounts referred to at paragraphs b) and c) below (including, but without limitation, all amounts payable by the Borrower under Clauses 10 (Indemnities- Expenses-Fees), 5.1 (Payments – No set-off or counterclaims) or 5.3 (Gross Up) of this Agreement or by the Borrower or any Security Party under any corresponding or similar provision in any other Finance Document);

b)

Secondly, in or towards payment of any default interest;

c)

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

d)

Fourthly, in or towards satisfaction of any and all amounts of interest or default interest payable to the Lender under the Finance Documents;

e)

Fifthly, in or towards satisfaction of the Loan whether the same is due and payable or not; and

(ii)

SECOND: the surplus (if any) after the full and complete payment of the Outstanding Indebtedness shall be paid to the Borrower or to any other person appearing to be entitled to it.

(b)

Notice of variation of order of application:  The Lender may, by notice to the Borrower and the Security Parties, provide, at its sole discretion, for a different order of application from that set out in Clause 11.3(a) (Order of application) either as regards a specified sum or sums or as regards sums in a specified category or categories, without affecting the obligations of the Borrower to the Lender.

(c)

Effect of variation notice:  The Lender may give notices under Clause 11.3(b) (Notice of variation of order of application) from time to time; and such a notice may be stated to apply not only to sums which may be received or recovered in the future, but also to any sum which has been received or recovered on or after the third Business Day before the date on which the notice is served.

(d)

Insufficient balance: For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that such balance is insufficient to pay in full the whole of the Outstanding Indebtedness, the Lender shall be entitled to collect the shortfall from the Borrower or any other person liable therefor.

(e)

Appropriation rights overridden:  This Clause 11.3 and any notice which the Lender gives under Clause 11.3(b) (Notice of variation of order of application) shall override any right of appropriation possessed, and any appropriation made, by the Borrower or any other Security Party.

11.4

Set off

(a)

Application of credit balances: Express authority is hereby given by the Borrower to the Lender without prejudice to any of the rights of the Lender at law, contractually or otherwise, at any time after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and without prior notice to the Borrower:

(i)

to apply any credit balance standing upon any account of the Borrower with any branch of the Lender (including, without limitation, the Borrower’s Operating Account and in whatever currency in or towards satisfaction of any sum due to the Lender from the Borrower under this Agreement and/or any of the other Finance Documents;

(ii)

in the name of the Borrower and/or the Lender to do all such acts and execute all such documents as may be necessary or expedient to effect such application; and

(iii)

to combine and/or consolidate all or any accounts in the name of the Borrower with the Lender; and

a)

to break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Borrower;

b)

to convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance of the Borrower into Dollars; and

c)

to enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance of the Borrower which the Lender considers appropriate.

(b)

Existing rights unaffected: The Lender shall not be obliged to exercise any right given by this Clause; and those rights shall be without prejudice and in addition to any right of set-off, combination of accounts, charge, lien or other right or remedy to which the Lender is entitled (whether under the general law or any document). For all or any of the above purposes authority is hereby given to the Lender to purchase with the moneys standing to the credit of any such account or accounts such other currencies as may be necessary to effect such application. The Lender shall notify the Borrower forthwith upon the exercise of any right of set‑off giving full details in relation thereto.

12.1	Unlawfulness

12.2	Increased Cost

(a)

increase the cost to, or impose an additional cost on, the Lender or its holding company in making or keeping the Commitment available or maintaining or funding all or part of the Loan; and/or

(b)

subject the Lender to Taxes or change the basis of Taxation of the Lender with respect to any payment under any of the Finance Documents (other than Taxes or Taxation on the overall net income, profits or gains of the Lender imposed in the jurisdiction in which its principal or  lending office under this Agreement is located); and/or

(c)

reduce the amount payable or the effective return to the Lender under any of the Finance Documents; and/or

(d)

reduce the Lender’s or its holding company rate of return on its overall capital by reason of a change in the manner in which it is required to allocate capital resources to the Lender’s obligations under any of the Finance Document; and/or

(e)

require the Lender or its holding company to make a payment or forgo a return on or calculated by references to any amount received or receivable by it under any of the Finance Documents is required; and/or

(f)

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

(i)

the Lender shall notify the Borrower in writing of such event promptly upon its becoming aware of the same; and

(ii)

the Borrower shall on demand pay to the Lender the amount which the Lender specifies (in a certificate and supporting documents setting forth and evidencing the basis of the computation of such amount but not including any matters which the Lender or its holding company regards as confidential) is required to compensate the Lender and/or (as the case may be) its holding company for such liability to Taxes, cost, reduction, payment, foregone return or loss whatsoever.

12.3	Claim for increased cost

12.4	Option to prepay

12.5

Exception

12.6	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;

(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.

13.1

General

(a)

on or before the Drawdown Date open the Borrower’s Operating Account; and

(b)

procure that all moneys payable to the Borrower in respect of the Earnings of its Vessel shall, unless and until the Lender directs to the contrary pursuant to the Borrower’s General Assignment, be paid to the Borrower’s Operating Account, free from Security Interests and rights of set off other than those created by or under the Finance Documents and, shall be held there on trust for the Lender and shall be applied as provided in Clause 13.2 (Application of Earnings).

13.2	Application of Earnings of the Borrower’s Vessel

(a)

firstly: in payment of any and all sums whatsoever which from time to time become due and payable to the Lender hereunder (such sums to be paid in such order as the Lender may in its sole discretion elect);

(b)

secondly: in payment of the Operating Expenses of the Borrower’s Vessel; and

(c)

thirdly: any credit balance shall be available to the Borrower to be used (unless the Lender otherwise direct at its discretion) for any purpose not inconsistent with the Borrower’s other obligations under this Agreement.

13.3

Interest

13.4	Drawings from Borrower’s Operating Account

13.5	Sufficient monies

13.6	Obligations unaffected

(a)

the liability and absolute obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loan and pay interest thereon on the due dates as provided in Clause 3 (Interest) and Clause 4 (Repayment-Prepayment) nor shall they constitute or be construed as constituting a manner of postponement thereof; or

(b)

any other liability or obligation of the Borrower or any other Security Party under any Finance Document.

13.7	Relocation of Borrower’s Operating Account

13.8	Authorisation

13.9

Set-off

13.10

No Security Interests

13.11

Operation of Borrower’s Operating Account

13.12

Application after occurrence of Event of Default

13.13

Release

14.1	Binding Effect

14.2	No Assignment by the Borrower and other Security Parties

14.3	Assignment by the Lender

(b)

another branch, any Subsidiary or Affiliate of, or company controlled by, the Lender,

(c)

a member of the European Central Bank System, a credit institution, a financial services institution, a financial institution, an insurance company, a social security fund, a pension fund, an investment company/trust or a special purpose company established for the purposes of securitization,

(d)

a capital investment company, hedge fund, financial intermediary or special purpose vehicle associated to any of them or

(e)

a trust corporation, fund or other person which regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets of which are managed or serviced by the Lender

14.4	Participation

14.5

Cost

14.6	Documenting assignments and transfers

14.7	Disclosure of information

(a)

in relation to any proceedings arising out of this Agreement or the other Finance Documents to the extent considered necessary by the Prospective Assignee to protect its interest; or

(b)

pursuant to a court order relating to discovery or otherwise; or

(c)

pursuant to any law or regulation or to any fiscal, monetary, tax, governmental or other competent authority; or

(d)

to its auditors, legal or other professional advisers.

14.8	Changes in constitution or reorganisation of the Lender

14.9	Securitisation

14.10

Lending Office

15.1	Time of essence

15.2	Cumulative Remedies

15.3	No implied waivers

15.4	Integration of Terms

15.5	No modification, waiver etc. unless in writing

15.6	Invalidity of Terms

15.7	Language and genuineness of documents

(a)

Language:  All certificates, instruments and other documents to be delivered under or supplied in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents shall be in the Greek or the English language (or such other language as the Lender shall agree) or shall be accompanied by a certified Greek translation upon which the Lender shall be entitled to rely.

(b)

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

(c)

Certification of signature:  Signatures on Board or shareholder resolutions, Secretary’s certificates and any other documents are, at the discretion of the Lender, to be verified for their genuineness by appropriate Consul or other competent authority.

15.8	Recourse to other security

15.9	Further assurances

15.10

Confidentiality

(a)

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

(b)

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

(c)

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

(d)

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

15.11

Process of personal data

(a)

Process of personal data: The Borrower hereby confirms that it has been informed that its personal data and/or the personal data of its director(s), officer(s) and legal representative(s) (together the “personal data”) contained in this Agreement or the personal data that have been or will be lawfully received by the Lender in relation to this Agreement and the Finance Documents will be included at the personal data database maintained by the Lender as processing agent (Υπεύθυνη Επεξεργασίας) and will be processed by the Lender in accordance with the European Regulation 679/2016 and the Hellenic Law 4684/2019 for the purpose of properly serving, supporting and monitoring their current business relationship. The Borrower hereby declares that it has taken knowledge of the Notice on Procession of Data «Ενημέρωση για την Επεξεργασία Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα»), located on the Lender’s website (https://apps.alpha.gr/GDPR/files/GDPR.pdf.

(b)

Duration of the process: The personal data process shall survive the termination of this Agreement for such period as it is required by the applicable law.

16.1

Notices

(a)

every such notice in the case of a letter shall be in writing delivered personally or be first-class prepaid letter, or shall be served through a process server or subject to Clauses 10.9 (Communications Indemnity) and 16.4 (Effect of electronic communication) by fax or electronic mail;

(b)

be deemed to have been received, subject as otherwise provided in this Agreement or the relevant Finance Document, in the case of a letter, when delivered personally or five (5) days after it has been put in to the post and, in the case of a facsimile transmission or electronic mail or other means of telecommunication in permanent written form, at the time of despatch (provided that if the date of despatch is not a business day in the country of the addressee or if the time of despatch is after the close of business in the country of the addressee it shall be deemed to have been received at the opening of business on the next such business day); and

(c)

be sent by letter, electronic mail or fax:

(i)

if to be sent to any Security Party, to:

16.2	Illegible notices

16.3	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.

16.4	Effect of electronic communication

(a)

Any communication to be made between any two Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means (including, without limitation, by way of posting to a secure website) if those two Parties:

(i)

notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the transmission of information by that means; and

(ii)

notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them by not less than five Business Days' notice.

(b)

Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above to be made between a Security Party and the Lender may only be made in that way to the extent that those two Parties agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication.

(c)

Any such electronic communication as specified in paragraph (a) above made between any two Parties will be effective only when actually received (or made available) in readable form and in the case of any electronic communication made by a Party to the Lender only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Lender shall specify for this purpose.

(d)

Any electronic communication which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraph (c) above, after 5.00 p.m. in the place in which the Party to whom the relevant communication is sent or made available has its address for the purpose of this Agreement shall be deemed only to become effective on the following Business Day.

(e)

Any reference in a Finance Document to a communication being sent or received shall be construed to include that communication being made available in accordance with this Clause 17.6

16.5	Meaning of “notice”

17.1	Governing Law

(a)

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations connected with it shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law.

(b)

For the purposes of enforcement in Greece, it is hereby expressly agreed that English law as the governing law of this Agreement will be proved by an affidavit of a solicitor from an English law firm to be appointed by the Lender and the said affidavit shall constitute full and conclusive evidence binding on the Borrower but the Borrower shall be allowed to rebut such evidence save for witness.

17.2	Jurisdiction

(a)

The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any non-contractual obligations connected with it (including a dispute regarding the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement and including claims arising out of tort or delict) (a “Dispute”). The Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of such courts.

(b)

The Parties agree that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Party will argue to the contrary and waives any objections to the inconvenience of England as a forum.

(c)

This Clause 17.2 is for the benefit of the Lender only.  As a result, the Lender shall not be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Lender may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

17.3	Process Agent for English Proceedings

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law the Borrower irrevocably designates, appoints and Messrs. Shoreside Agents Ltd, presently at 5 St.Helen’s Place, London EC3A 6AB (T: +44 (0)20 3771 8869, M: + 44 (0) 7591 440086, F: +44 (0)20 3771 8870, attention: Andrew Johnson (hereinafter called the “Process Agent for English Proceedings”), to receive for it and on its behalf, service of process issued out of the English courts in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document, provided, however, that:

(a)

the Borrower hereby agrees and undertakes to maintain a Process Agent for English Proceedings throughout the Security Period and hereby agrees that in the event that if any Process Agent for English Proceedings is unable for any reason to act as agent for service of process, the Borrower must immediately (and in any event within fifteen (15) days of such event taking place) appoint another agent on terms acceptable to the Lender.  Failing this, the Lender may appoint for this purpose a substitute Process Agent for English Proceedings and the Lender is hereby irrevocably authorised to effect such appointment on Borrower’s behalf. The appointment of such Process Agent for English Proceedings shall be valid and binding from the date notice of such appointment is given by the Lender to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 16.1 (Notices); and

(b)

the Borrower hereby agrees that failure by a Process Agent for English Proceedings to notify the Borrower of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

17.4	Proceedings in any other country

17.5	Process Agent (antiklitos) in Greece

17.6	Third Party Rights

17.7	Meaning of “proceedings”

SIGNED by	)
Mrs. Theodora Mitropetrou	)
for and on behalf of	)
DUKE SHIPPING CO.,	)
of the Marshall Islands,	)	/s/ Theodora Mitropetrou
in the presence of:	)	Attorney-in-fact

Witness:   /s/ Ioannis Kotronias

Name: Ioannis Kotronias

Address: 13 Defteras Merarchias

Piraeus, Greece

Occupation:  t. Attorney-at-Law

SIGNED by	)
Mrs. Aikaterini Damianidou  and	)	/s/ Aikaterini Damianidou
Mrs. Chryssanthi Papathanasopoulou	)	Attorney-in-fact
for and on behalf of	)
ALPHA BANK S.A.,	)
in the presence of:	)	/s/ Chryssanthi Papathanasopoulou
		Attorney-in-fact

Witness: /s/ Ioannis Kotronias

Name: Ioannis Kotronias

Address: 13 Defteras Merarchias

Piraeus, Greece

Occupation: t. Attorney-at-Law

To:	ALPHA BANK S.A.

Re: US$21,000,000 Loan Agreement dated [●] June, 2022 made between (A) DUKE SHIPPING CO. (the “Borrower”) and (B) the Lender (the “Loan Agreement”).

1.	We refer to the Loan Agreement and hereby give you notice that we wish to draw the Commitment as follows:

(a)

Loan: the full amount of the Commitment in the amount of Twenty one million Dollars ($21,000,000);

(b)

Drawdown Date: [●] June, 2022;

(c)

Duration of first Interest Period: duration of the first Interest Period in respect of the Loan shall be [●] months; and

(d)

Payment instructions: [The funds to be credited into the Operating Account for application for the purpose set out in Clause 1.1 (Amount and purpose) of the Loan Agreement].

(a)

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

(b)

the representations and warranties contained in Clause 6 (Representations and warranties) of the Loan Agreement and the representations and warranties contained in each of the other Finance Documents would remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this Drawdown Notice with reference to the circumstances now existing;

(c)

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

(d)

to the best of our knowledge and belief there has been no Material Adverse Change in our financial position or in the consolidated financial position of ourselves and the other Security Parties from that described by us to the Lender in the negotiation of the Loan Agreement.

3.	This Drawdown Notice cannot be revoked without the prior consent of the Lender.

SIGNED by	)
Mrs.	)
for and on behalf of	)
the Borrower	)
DUKE SHIPPING CO.,	)
of the Marshall Islands,	)
in the presence of:	)	Attorney-in-fact

Witness:
Name:
Address:	13 Defteras Merarchias
	Piraeus, Greece
Occupation:	t. Attorney-at-Law

To:	[P&I Club]

[●]

[●]

From:

DUKE SHIPPING CO.

Trust Company Complex,