Exhibit 10.5
TSIBANOULIS & PARTNERS LAW FIRM
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
000 00 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
tel. x00 000 0000 000
fax x00 000 0000 000
LOAN AGREEMENT
DATED
16TH MAY, 2005
BETWEEN
EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
AND
ALCINOE SHIPPING LIMITED
OCEANOPERA SHIPPING LIMITED
OCEANPRIDE SHIPPING LIMITED
SEAROUTE MARITIME LIMITED
FOR A SECURED FLOATING INTEREST RATE
LOAN FACILITY OF UP TO US$ 13,500,000
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CLAUSE HEADINGS PAGE
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1. PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION ........................ 1
2. THE LOAN ....................................................... 8
3. INTEREST ....................................................... 10
4. REPAYMENT - PREPAYMENT ......................................... 12
5. PAYMENTS, TAXES AND COMPUTATION ................................ 14
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ................................. 15
7. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT ........................................... 20
8. COVENANTS ...................................................... 23
9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT .............................................. 29
10. INDEMNITIES - EXPENSES - FEES .................................. 32
11. SECURITY AND SET-OFF ........................................... 35
12. UNLAWFULNESS, INCREASED COSTS .................................. 39
13. GENERAL ........................................................ 40
14. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION ................................ 43
SCHEDULES
1. INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
2. FORM OF DRAWDOWN NOTICE
THIS AGREEMENT is dated 16th May, 2005 made BETWEEN:
(1) EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A., a banking societe anonyme duly incorporated
under the laws of Greece, having its registered office at 0 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, acting for the purposes of this Agreement through its
office at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the "BANK"); and
(2) (A) ALCINOE SHIPPING LIMITED, a company duly incorporated in the Republic
of Cyprus and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxx., Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx (the "FIRST BORROWER"); and
(B) OCEANOPERA SHIPPING LIMITED, a company duly incorporated in the
Republic of Cyprus and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxx.,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the "SECOND BORROWER"); and
(C) OCEANPRIDE SHIPPING LIMITED, a company duly incorporated in the
Republic of Cyprus and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxx.,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the "THIRD BORROWER"); and
(D) SEAROUTE MARITIME LIMITED, a company duly incorporated in the Republic
of Cyprus and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxx., Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx (the "FOURTH BORROWER")
AND IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:
1. PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1.1 PURPOSE
This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions upon and subject to which
it is agreed that the Bank will make available to the Borrowers on a joint
and several basis a term loan of up to Dollars thirteen million five
hundred thousand ($13,500,000) to be used for the purpose of financing
working capital needs of the Borrowers.
1.2 DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires each term or
expression defined in the recital of the parties, in this Clause and in
Clause 11.1 shall have the meaning given to it in the recital of the
parties, in this Clause and in Clause 11.1 and:
"ADVANCE" means each borrowing of a portion of the Commitment by the
Borrowers or (as the context may require) the principal amount of such
borrowing;
"AGREED RATE" means a rate agreed between the Bank and the Borrowers when
LIBOR is not available in the market;
"AVAILABILITY PERIOD" means the period commencing on the date of this
Agreement and ending on:
(A) The 30th May, 2005 or until such later date as the Bank may agree in
writing with the Borrowers; or
(B) if earlier, the Drawdown Date or any such date on which the Borrowers
cancel the whole of the undrawn Commitment under Clause 2.7 or on
which the Commitment is reduced to zero pursuant to Clauses 9.9 or
12.1, 12.2 or any other Clause of this Agreement;
"ARIEL CHARTERPARTY" means in relation to ARIEL the time charter dated 30th
September, 2004 and made between the Manager on behalf of the Owner
thereof, and SK Shipping Co. Ltd, of Seoul, Korea, as charterer, (herein
the "ARIEL Charterer") for the time charter employment of such Vessel at a
daily hire rate at $16,000;
"BANK" means the Bank as specified in the beginning of this Agreement and the
successors and assigns of the Bank;
"BANKING DAY" means any day on which banks and foreign exchange markets in New
York, London, Athens and Piraeus and in each country or place in or at which an
act is required to be done under this Agreement in accordance with the usual
practice of the Bank, are open for the transaction of business of the nature
contemplated in this Agreement;
"BORROWED MONEY" means Indebtedness incurred in respect of (i) money borrowed or
raised, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture or similar instrument, (iii)
acceptance of documentary credit facilities, (iv) deferred payments for assets
or services acquired, (v) rental payments under leases (whether in respect of
land, machinery, equipment or otherwise) entered into primarily as a method of
raising finance or of financing the acquisition of the asset leased, (vi)
guarantees, bonds, stand-by letters of credit or other instruments issued in
connection with the performance of contracts and (vii) guarantees or other
assurances against financial loss in respect of Indebtedness of any person
falling within any of paragraphs (i) to (vi) above;
"BORROWERS" means the First Borrower, the Second Borrower, the Third Borrower
and the Fourth Borrower as specified at the beginning of this Agreement;
"CHARTERER" means each of the ARIEL Charterer, the NIKOLAOS P Charterer and the
PANTELIS P Charterer (together the "CHARTERERS");
"CHARTERPARTY" means each of the ARIEL Charterparty, the NIKOLAOS P Charterparty
and the PANTELIS P Charterparty (together the "CHARTERPARTIES");
"COMMITMENT" means the amount which the Bank agreed to lend to the Borrowers
under Clause 2.1 as reduced by any relevant term of this Agreement;
"CORPORATE GUARANTOR" means the Manager and any other person nominated by the
Borrowers and acceptable to the Bank which may give a Corporate Guarantee;
"CORPORATE GUARANTEE" means the guarantee given or, as the context may require,
to be given by a Corporate Guarantor in form and substance satisfactory to the
Bank as a security for the Outstanding Indebtedness and any and all other
obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement;
"DEFAULT" means any Event of Default or any event which with the giving of
notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction of any other condition (or any
combination thereof) would constitute an Event of Default;
"DEFAULT RATE" means that rate of interest per annum which is determined in
accordance with the provisions of Clause 3.4;
"DOC" means a document of compliance issued to an Operator in accordance with
rule 13 of the ISM Code;
"DOLLAR" AND "$" mean the lawful currency of the United States of America and in
respect of all payments to be made under any of the Security Documents mean
funds which are for same day settlement in the New York Clearing House Interbank
Payments System (or such other U.S. dollar funds as may at the relevant time be
customary for the settlement of international banking transactions denominated
in Dollars);
"DRAWDOWN DATE" means the date, being a Banking Day, upon which the Commitment
is or as the context may require, shall be advanced to the Borrowers;
"DRAWDOWN NOTICE" means a notice substantially in the terms of Schedule 2;
"EARNINGS" in relation to a Vessel, means all earnings whatsoever of such
Vessel, due or to become due to the owner of such Vessel, as the case may be,
including (but not limited to) all freight, hire and passage moneys,
compensation payable to its owner in the event of requisition of such Vessel for
hire, remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention
moneys, contributions of any nature whatsoever in respect of general average,
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damages for breach (or payments for variation or termination) of any
charterparty or other contract for employment of such Vessel and any other
earnings whatsoever and all sums recoverable under the Insurances in respect of
loss of Earnings and includes, if and whenever such Vessel is employed on terms
whereby any and all such moneys as aforesaid are pooled or shared with any other
person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing
agreement which is attributable to such Vessel together with the benefit of any
guarantee, indemnity or other security which may at any time be given to its
owner as security for the payment of such moneys;
"EARNINGS ACCOUNT" means the account or accounts with the Lending Branch or with
any other bank the Bank may designate to the Borrowers and at the discretion of
the Bank, to which (inter alia) all Earnings of each of the Vessels are to be
paid in accordance with Clauses 11.6 and 8.9(b);
"ENCUMBRANCE" means any mortgage, charge (whether fixed or floating), pledge,
lien, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, title retention, arrest,
seizure, garnishee order (whether nisi or absolute) or any other order or
judgement having similar effect or other encumbrance of any kind securing or any
right conferring a priority of payment in respect of any obligation of any
person;
"ENVIRONMENTAL AFFILIATE" means any agent or employee of any of the Borrowers,
the Manager or any other Relevant Party or any person having a contractual
relationship with any of the Borrowers, the Manager or any other Relevant Party
in connection with any Relevant Ship or her operation or the carriage of cargo
thereon;
"ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVAL" means any consent, authorisation, licence or approval
of any governmental or public body or authorities or courts applicable to any
Relevant Ship or her operation or the carriage of cargo thereon and/or
passengers therein and/or provisions of goods and/or services on or from the
Relevant Ship required under any Environmental Law;
"ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIM" means any and all enforcement, clean up, removal or other
governmental or regulatory actions or orders instituted or completed pursuant to
any Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval together with claims made by
any third party relating to damage, contribution, loss or injury, resulting from
any actual or threatened emission, spill, release or discharge of a Material of
Environmental Concern from any Relevant Ship;
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means all national, international and state laws, rules,
regulations, treaties and conventions applicable to any Relevant Ship pertaining
to the pollution or protection of human health or the environment including,
without limitation, the carriage of Materials of Environmental Concern and
actual or threatened emissions, spills, releases or discharges of Materials of
Environmental Concern and actual or threatened emissions, spills, releases or
discharges of Materials of Environmental Concern from any Relevant Ship;
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any one of those events set out in Clause 9 or
described as such in any other of the Security Documents;
"EXPENSES" means the aggregate at any relevant time (to the extent that the same
have not been received or recovered by the Bank) of:
(A) all losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, damages and outgoings of
whatever nature, (including, without limitation, Taxes, repair costs,
registration fees and insurance premiums, crew wages, repatriation expenses
and seamen's pension fund dues) suffered, incurred, charged to or paid or
committed to be paid by the Bank in connection with the exercise of the
powers referred to in or granted by any of the Security Documents or
otherwise payable by the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of any of
the Security Documents;
(B) the expenses referred to in Clause 10.2 (a) and (b); and
(C) interest on all such losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, damages
and outgoings from the date on which the same were suffered, incurred or
paid by the Bank until the date of receipt or recovery thereof (whether
before or after judgement)
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at a rate per annum calculated in accordance with Clause 3.4 (as
conclusively certified by the Bank);
"FINAL MATURITY DATE" means in respect of the Loan the date falling three (3)
years after the Drawdown Date, or the 30th May, 2008, which ever occurs first;
"GOVERNMENTAL WITHHOLDINGS" means withholdings and any restrictions or
conditions resulting in any charge whatsoever imposed, either now or hereafter,
by any sovereign state or by any political sub-division or taxing authority of
any sovereign state;
"GUARANTEES" means together the Corporate Guarantee and the Personal Guarantee
and "Guarantee" means any of them;
"GUARANTORS" means together the Corporate Guarantor and the Personal Guarantor
and "Guarantor" means any of them;
"INDEBTEDNESS" means any obligation for the payment or repayment of money,
whether as principal or as surety, whether present or future, actual or
contingent;
"INSURANCES" means in respect of a Vessel all policies and contracts of
insurance (including, without limitation, all entries of such Vessel in a
protection and indemnity, war risks or other mutual insurance association) which
are from time to time in place or taken out or entered into by or for the
benefit of its Owner (whether in the sole name of its owner or in the joint
names of its owner and the Bank) in respect of such Vessel and its earnings or
otherwise howsoever in connection with such vessel and all benefits of such
policies and/or contracts (including all claims of whatsoever nature and return
of premiums);
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means in respect of the Loan or any part thereof in
respect of which a separate Interest Period is fixed the last day of the
relevant Interest Period and in case of any Interest Period longer than three
(3) months, the date(s) falling at successive three (3) month intervals falling
during such longer Interest Period and the last day of such longer Interest
Period;
"INTEREST PERIOD" means in relation to the Loan or any part thereof, each period
for the calculation of interest in respect of the Loan or such part ascertained
in accordance with Clauses 3.2 and 3.3;
"ISM CODE" means the International Safety Management Code for the Safe Operating
of Ships and for Pollution Prevention constituted pursuant to Resolution A.741
(18) of the International Maritime Organisation and incorporated into the
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and includes any
amendments or extensions thereto and any regulation issued pursuant thereto;
"ISPS CODE" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code
constituted pursuant to Resolution A. 924(22) of the International Maritime
Organisation and incorporated into the Safety of Life at Sea Convention and
includes any amendments or extensions thereto and any regulation issued pursuant
thereto;
"ISSC" means an International Ship Security Certificate issued in respect of a
Vessel pursuant to the ISPS Code;
"LENDING BRANCH" means the office of the Bank appearing at the beginning of this
Agreement or any other office of the Bank designated by the Bank as the Lending
Branch by notice to the Borrowers;
"LIBOR" means, in relation to a particular period and a particular amount the
rate (rounded upwards to the nearest whole multiple of one sixteenth of one
percentage point (1/16%)) percentage per annum at which the Bank is able in
accordance with its normal practices to acquire deposits in Dollars in amounts
comparable with this amount for that period in the London Interbank Market at or
about 11 a.m. (London time) on the second Banking Day before the beginning of
that period;
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"LOAN" means the aggregate principal amount borrowed by the Borrowers in
respect of the Commitment or (as the context may require) the principal
amount owing to the Bank under this Agreement at any time;
"MANAGER" means Eurobulk Ltd., a company duly incorporated in the Republic
of Liberia and having its registered office at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx and having an office established in Greece pursuant to the Greek
laws 89/67, 378/68, 27/75 and 814/79 (as amended) (at 40 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxx., Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 000 00 Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx) or any other person
appointed by the Borrowers with the consent of the Bank as the manager of
the Vessels and includes its successors in title;
"MARKET VALUE" means the market value of a Vessel as determined in
accordance with Clause 8.5(b).
"MARGIN" means one and a half percentum (1.50%) per annum;
"MATERIAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN" means and includes pollutants,
contaminants toxic substances, oil as defined in the United States Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 and all hazardous substances as defined in the United
States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Xxx
0000;
"MINIMUM VALUE" means i) for the period commencing on the Drawdown Date and
ending on the 1st June, 2006, an amount equal to a percentage of one
hundred and thirty per cent (130%) of the Loan and ii) thereafter
throughout the Security Period an amount equal to the amount of the Loan.
"MONTH" means a period beginning in one calendar month and ending in the
next calendar month on the day numerically corresponding to the day of the
calendar month on which it started provided that (i) if there is no such
numerically corresponding day, it shall end on the last Banking Day in such
next calendar month and (ii) if such numerically corresponding day is not a
Banking Day, the period shall end on the next following Banking Day in the
same calendar month but if there is no such Banking Day it shall end on the
preceding Banking Day and "months" and "monthly" shall be construed
accordingly;
"NIKOLAOS P CHARTERPARTY" means in relation to NIKOLAOS P the time charter
dated 17th March, 2005 and made between the Owner thereof, and Xxxxxxxx
Trading S.A., of Liberia, as charterer, (herein the "NIKOLAOS P Charterer")
for the time charter employment of such Vessel at a daily hire rate at
$22,000;
"OPERATOR" means any person who is from time to time during the Security
Period concerned with the operation of the Vessels (or any of them) and
falls within the definition of "Company" set out in rule 1.1.2. of the ISM
Code;
"OUTSTANDING INDEBTEDNESS" means the aggregate of the Loan and interest
accrued and accruing thereon, the Expenses and all other sums of money from
time to time owing by the Borrowers to the Bank, whether actually or
contingently under this Agreement and the other Security Documents;
"OWNER" means the owner of each of the Vessels as specified in the
definition of the Vessels in this Clause 1.2;
"PANTELIS P CHARTERPARTY" means in relation to PANTELIS P the time charter
dated 18th January, 2005 and made between the Owner thereof, and Xxxxxxxx
Trading S.A., of Liberia, as charterer, (herein the "PANTELIS P Charterer")
for the time charter employment of such Vessel at a daily hire rate at
$16,500;
"PERSONAL Guarantee" means a guarantee given or, as the context may
require, to be given by a Personal Guarantor in form and substance
satisfactory to the Bank as security for the Outstanding Indebtedness and
any and all other obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement;
"PERSONAL GUARANTOR" means a person nominated by the Borrowers and
acceptable to the Bank which gave or, as the context may require, shall or
may give a Personal Guarantee;
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"RECEIVING BANK" means Banker's Trust, situated at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx
Xxxx, X.X. 00000. U.S.A., or such other bank in New York as the Bank may
notify to the Borrowers;
"RELATED COMPANY" of a person means any Subsidiary of such person, any
company or other entity of which such person is a Subsidiary and any
Subsidiary of any such company or entity;
"RELEVANT PARTY" means any of the Borrowers, the Manager and their Related
Companies;
"RELEVANT SHIP" means any of the Vessels and any other vessel owned,
managed, operated or crewed by any Relevant Party;
"REPAYMENT DATE" means each of the dates specified in Clause 4.1 on which
the Repayment Instalments shall be payable by the Borrowers to the Bank;
"REPAYMENT INSTALMENT" means each instalment of the Loan which becomes due
FOR repayment by the Borrowers to the Bank on a Repayment Date pursuant to
Clause 4.1;
"REQUISITION COMPENSATION" means all sums of money or other compensation
from time to time payable by reason of requisition of a vessel otherwise
than by requisition for hire;
"RETENTION ACCOUNT" means an account with the Lending Branch or any other
branch of the Bank as the Bank may at its discretion require;
"SCRAP VALUE" means the scrap value of a Vessel determined in accordance
with the scrap prices in the Far Eastern scrapyards reported in the latest
"Shipping Intelligence Weekly" issue of Clarkson Research Studies, or, in
case such publication is not published, does not exist, or is not
obtainable by the Bank, such other reputable (in the opinion of the Bank)
publication as the Bank may reasonably determine;
"SECURITY VALUE" means i) for the period commencing on the Drawdown Date
and ending on the 1st June, 2006, the aggregate Market Values of the Vessel
together with the value in Dollars of any additional security given under
Clause 8.5(c) and accepted by the Bank and ii) thereafter throughout the
Security Period the aggregate Scrap Values of the Vessel together with the
value in Dollars of any additional security given under Clause 8.5(c) and
accepted by the Bank.
"SECURITY DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the documents referred to in
Clause 11.1 and any and every other document from time to time executed or,
as the context may require, to be executed to secure the whole or any part
of the Outstanding Indebtedness and/or any and all other obligations of the
Borrowers and/or the other Security Parties to the Bank under this
Agreement and the Security Documents;
"SECURITY PARTY" means each of the Borrowers, the Guarantors and any person
(other than the Bank) which is or will become a party to any of the
Security Documents;
"SECURITY PERIOD" the period commencing on the date hereof and terminating
on the date upon which the Loan together with all interest thereon and all
other moneys payable to the Bank under this Agreement and the Security
Documents has been repaid in full to the Bank;
"SMC" means a safety management certificate issued in respect of each
Vessel in accordance with rule 13 of the ISM Code;
"SUBSIDIARY" means a body corporate from time to time of which another (a)
has direct or indirect control, or (b) owns directly or indirectly more
than fifty (50) percent of the share capital or similar right of ownership
(and in this definition "control" means the power to direct the management
and the policies of a body corporate, whether through the ownership of
voting capital, by contract or otherwise);
"TAXES" includes all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
fees or charges of whatever nature together with interest thereon and
penalties in respect thereof (except taxes concerning the Bank and imposed
on the net income of the Bank) and "Taxation" shall be construed
accordingly;
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"TOTAL LOSS" means (a) actual, constructive, compromised or arranged total
loss of a vessel; or (b) requisition for title or other compulsory
acquisition of a vessel otherwise than by requisition for hire; or (c)
capture, seizure, detention, arrest or confiscation of a vessel by any
government or by any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of any
government, unless such vessel is released within fourteen (14) days
thereafter;
"VESSELS" means:
(A) m/v "ARIEL" of about 19,279 gt and 11,298 nt, built in Japan in 1977
registered in the name of the Fourth Borrower under the Cyprus flag at
the Ships Registry of the port of Limassol with official number 709790
and IMO No 7621188 ("ARIEL");
(B) m/v "XXXX P" of about 16,079 gt and 9,951 nt, built in Glasgow,
Scotland in 1981 registered in the name of the Third Borrower under
the Cyprus flag at the Ships Registry of the port of Limassol with
Official/IMO no. 7928055 ("XXXX P");
(C) m/v "PANTELIS P" of about 16,079 gt and 9,951 nt, built in Glasgow,
Scotland in 1981 registered in the name of the First Borrower under
the Cyprus flag at the Ships Registry of the port of Limassol with
Official/IMO number 7928067 ("PANTELIS P");
(D) m/v "NIKOLAOS P" of about 20,280 gt and 13,715 nt, built in Bilbao,
Spain in 1984 registered in the name of the Second Borrower under the
Cyprus flag at the Ships Registry of the port of Limassol with
Official number 708191 and IMO No. 8026684 ("NIKOLAOS P")
(together the "VESSELS" and "VESSEL" means any of them as the context may
require); and
1.3 INTERPRETATION
In this Agreement:
(A) Clause headings and the table of contents are inserted for convenience
of reference only and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this
Agreement;
(B) each of the terms defined in Clause 1.2 when used in plural and terms
defined in plural or words used in plural (and unless in the specific
clause or sentence is otherwise expressly specified) mean all of them
collectively and/or each of them and/or anyone of them (even if this
is not expressly so spelled out) as the context may require or permit;
(C) subject to any specific provision of this Agreement or of any
assignment and/or participation or syndication agreement of any nature
whatsoever, reference to each of the parties hereto and to the other
Security Documents shall be deemed to be reference to and/or to
include, as appropriate, their respective successors and permitted
assigns;
(D) reference to a person shall be construed as including reference to an
individual firm, company, corporation, unincorporated body of persons
or any State or any agency thereof;
(E) where the context so admits, words in the singular include the plural
and vice versa;
(F) the words "including" and "in particular" shall not be construed as
limiting the generality of any foregoing words;
(G) this Agreement and all documents referred to in this Agreement include
the same as varied or supplemented from time to time;
(H) reference to this Agreement includes all the terms of this Agreement
and any Schedules, Annexes or Appendices to this Agreement, which form
an integral part of same;
(I) reference to Clauses, Sub-Clauses and Schedules are to Clauses,
Sub-Clauses and Schedules in this Agreement;
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(J) all obligations imposed on, or assumed by each of the Borrowers and
the Guarantors are joint and several even if not so expressed; and
(K) reference to the opinion of the Bank or a determination or acceptance
by the Bank or to documents, acts, or persons acceptable or
satisfactory to the Bank or the like shall be construed as reference
to opinion, determination, acceptance or satisfaction of the Bank at
the sole discretion of the Bank and such opinion, determination,
acceptance or satisfaction of the Bank shall be conclusive and binding
on the Borrowers.
2. THE LOAN
2.1 COMMITMENT TO LEND
Relying upon each of the representations and warranties in Clause 6 and in
each of the other Security Documents, it is hereby agreed and undertaken by
the Bank to lend to the Borrowers on a joint and several basis upon and
subject to the terms of this Agreement, a sum of up to Dollars thirteen
million five hundred thousand ($13,500,000).
2.2 DRAWDOWN NOTICE AND COMMITMENT TO BORROW
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Commitment shall
be advanced to the Borrowers following receipt by the Bank of a Drawdown
Notice from the Borrowers not later than 10 a.m. (London time) on the
second Banking Day before the date on which the drawdown is intended to be
made. A Drawdown Notice shall be effective on actual receipt by the Bank
and, once given, shall, subject as provided in Clause 3.6, be irrevocable.
2.3 NUMBER OF ADVANCES AGREED
The Commitment shall be advanced to the Borrowers in one Advance.
2.4 DISBURSEMENT
Upon receipt of the Drawdown Notice complying with the terms of this
Agreement the Bank shall, subject to the provisions of Clause 7, on the
date specified in the Drawdown Notice, make the Commitment available to the
Borrowers.
2.5 APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS
Without prejudice to the Borrowers' obligations under Clause 8.8(a), the
Bank shall have no responsibility for the application of the proceeds of
the Loan (or any part thereof) by the Borrowers.
2.6 TERMINATION DATE
Any part of the Commitment undrawn and uncancelled at the end of the
Availability Period shall thereupon be automatically cancelled.
2.7 CANCELLATION
The Borrowers shall be entitled to cancel any undrawn part of the
Commitment under this Agreement upon giving the Bank not less than five (5)
Banking Days' notice in writing to that effect, provided that no Drawdown
Notice has been given to the Bank under Clause 2.2 for the full amount of
the Commitment or in respect of the portion thereof in respect of which
cancellation is required by the Borrowers. Any such notice of cancellation,
once given, shall be irrevocable. Any amount cancelled may not be drawn.
Notwithstanding any such cancellation pursuant to this Clause 2.7 the
Borrowers shall continue to be liable for any and all amounts due to the
Bank under this Agreement including without limitation any amounts due to
the Bank under Clause 10.
2.8 LOAN ACCOUNT
All sums advanced by the Bank to the Borrowers under this Agreement and all
interest accrued thereon and all other amounts due under this Agreement
from time to time and all repayments and/or payments thereof shall be
debited and credited respectively to a separate
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loan account maintained by the Bank in the name of the Borrowers. The Bank
may, however, in accordance with its usual practices or for its accounting
needs, maintain more than one accounts, consolidate or separate them but
all such accounts shall be considered parts of one single loan account
maintained under this Agreement. In case that a ship mortgage in the form
of Account Current is granted as security under this Agreement, the
account(s) referred to in this Clause shall be the Account Current referred
to in the mortgage.
2.9 EVIDENCE
It is hereby expressly agreed and admitted by the Borrowers that abstracts
or photocopies or other reproductions of the books of the Bank as well as
statements of accounts or a certificate signed by an authorised officer of
the Bank shall (save for manifest error) be conclusive binding and full
evidence on the Borrowers as to the existence and/or the amount of the at
any time Outstanding Indebtedness, of any amount due under this Agreement,
of the applicable Interest Rate or Default Rate or any other rate provided
for or referred to in this Agreement, the Interest Period, the value of
additional securities under Clause 8.5(c), the payment or non payment of
any amount and/or the occurrence of any other Event of Default.
2.10 JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY OF THE BORROWERS
(A) The liability of each of the Borrowers hereunder shall in all cases,
whether so expressed to be or not, be joint and several and each
representation and warranty and each covenant and agreement made or
given by the Borrowers is made or given by them all jointly and
severally.
(B) The Bank may at its discretion accept orders, instructions, notices or
advices from any of the Borrowers hereunder (which Borrower will be
deemed to act on behalf of all the Borrowers and express authority is
given to it by this Clause to act on this way) and shall ignore any
subsequent conflicting instructions, notices or advices from any of
the other Borrowers (unless they may be deemed at the discretion of
the Bank as proper revocation or amendments of earlier instructions)
and may reach any agreement in connection with this Agreement or any
of the other Security Documents with any of the Borrowers which shall
be binding on all the Borrowers.
(C) None of the Borrowers shall be exonerated and its liability hereunder
shall not be lessened or impaired by any time indulgence or relief
being given by the Bank to any other Borrower or any other person or
by any person to the Borrowers, by any amendment of or supplement to
this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or any other
document, by the taking, variation, compromise, renewal or release of
or refusal or neglect to perfect or enforce any right, remedies or
securities against any of the Borrowers or any other person or by
anything done or omitted which but for this provision might operate to
exonerate such Borrower (or might be interpreted as such).
(D) The obligations of any of the Borrowers hereunder shall not be
affected by any legal limitation, disability, incapacity or other
circumstances relating to any Other Borrower or any other person,
whether or not known to the Bank, by any invalidity in or irregularity
or unenforceability of the obligations of any other Borrower or any
other person under this Agreement or any of the other Security
Documents or otherwise or by any change in the constitution of, or any
amalgamation or reconstruction of any other Borrower, the Bank or any
other person.
(E) Each of the Borrowers hereby waive all rights such Borrower may have
of first requiring the Bank to proceed against or enforce any right or
security of, or claim payment from any other Borrower or any other
person.
2.11 NON COMPETITION OF THE BORROWERS WITH THE BANK
(A) Until all moneys, obligations and liabilities due, owing or incurred
by the Borrowers to the Bank under this Agreement and the other
Security Documents have been paid or discharged in full, each Borrower
agrees not to exercise or enforce any rights of subrogation or
indemnity or any other right which otherwise it has against any other
Borrower and agrees not to claim any set-off or counterclaim against
any other Borrower or to claim or prove in competition with the Bank
in the event of bankruptcy,
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insolvency or liquidation of any other Borrower or have any benefit of
or any share in any guarantee or security now or hereafter held by the
Bank.
(B) None of the Borrowers has taken or received, and each Borrower
undertakes that until all moneys, obligations and liabilities due,
owing or incurred by the Borrowers under this Agreement and the
Security Documents have been paid in full, it will not take or
receive, any security or lien from any other Borrower in respect of
borrowing as co-borrower jointly and severally liable or for any
liability whatsoever.
2.12 INTEREST TO CO-BORROW
The Borrowers have an interest in borrowing jointly and severally in that
they are companies which belong to the same group of companies, have close
financial co-operation and mutual assistance and in that the Commitment
would not have been available to each one of the Borrowers separately.
3. INTEREST
3.1 INTEREST RATE
The Borrowers shall pay interest on the Loan (or as the case may be, each
portion thereof to which a different Interest Period relates) in respect of
each Interest Period (or part thereof) on each Interest Payment Date, in
arrears, Provided that in the case of an Interest Period of more than three
(3) months interest accruing during such Interest Period shall be payable
quarterly in arrears and on the last day of such Interest Period. The
interest rate for the calculation of interest shall be the rate per annum
determined by the Bank to be the aggregate of (i) the Margin and (ii)
LIBOR, unless there is an Agreed Rate in which case the interest rate for
the calculation of interest shall be the rate per annum determined by the
Bank to be the aggregate of (i) the Margin and (ii) the Agreed Rate.
3.2 SELECTION OF INTEREST PERIOD
The Borrowers may by notice received by the Bank not later than 10 a.m.
(London time) on the second Banking Day before the beginning of each
Interest Period specify (subject to Clause 3.3 below) whether such Interest
Period shall have a duration of one (1) or three (3), or six (6) months (or
such other period as may be requested by the Borrowers subject to Bank's
approval and market availability).
3.3 DURATION OF INTEREST PERIOD
Every Interest Period shall, subject to market availability to be
conclusively determined by the Bank, be of the duration specified by the
Borrowers pursuant to Clause 3.2 but so that:
(A) the initial Interest Period in respect of the Loan will commence on
the date on which the Commitment is advanced and each subsequent
Interest Period will commence forthwith upon the expiry of the
previous Interest Period;
(B) if any Interest Period would otherwise overrun one or more Repayment
Dates, then, in the case of the last Repayment Date, such Interest
Period shall end on such Repayment Date, and in the case of any other
Repayment Date or Dates the Loan shall be divided into parts so that
there is one part equal to the amount(s) of the Repayment
Instalment(s) due on each Repayment Date falling during that Interest
Period and having an Interest Period ending on the relevant Repayment
Date and another part equal to the amount of the balance of the Loan
having an Interest Period determined in accordance with Clause 3.2 and
the other provisions of this Clause 3.3;
(C) if the Borrowers fail to specify the duration of an Interest Period in
accordance with the provisions of Clause 3.2 and this Clause 3.3, such
Interest Period shall have a duration of three (3) months unless
another period shall be agreed between the Bank and the Borrowers
provided always that such period (whether of three (3) months or of
different duration) shall comply with this Clause 3.3; and
(D) if the Bank determines that the duration of an Interest Period
specified by the Borrowers in accordance with Clause 3.2 is not
readily available, then that Interest
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Period shall have such duration as the Bank, in consultation with the
Borrowers, may determine,
Provided always that:
(I) any Interest Period which commences on the last day of a calendar
month, and any Interest Period which commences on the day on
which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar
month during which such Interest Period is due to end, shall end
on the last Banking Day of the calendar month during which such
Interest Period is due to end; and
(II) if the last day of an Interest Period is not a Banking Day the
Interest Period shall be extended until the next following
Banking Day unless such next following Banking Day falls in the
next calendar month in which case such Interest Period shall be
shortened to expire on the preceding Banking Day.
3.4 DEFAULT INTEREST
If the Borrowers fail to pay any sum (including, without limitation, any
sum payable pursuant to this Clause 3.4) on its due date for payment under
any of the Security Documents, the Borrowers shall pay interest on such sum
from the due date up to the date of actual payment (as well after as before
judgement) at the rate determined by the Bank pursuant to this Clause 3.4.
The period beginning on such due date and ending on such date of payment
shall be divided into successive periods of not more than three (3) months
as selected by the Bank each of which (other than the first, which shall
commence on such due date) shall commence on the last day of the preceding
such period. The rate of interest applicable to each such period shall be
the aggregate (as determined by the Bank) of (i) two per cent (2%), per
annum, (ii) the Margin and (iii) LIBOR. Such interest shall be due and
payable on the last day of each such period as determined by the Bank and
each such day shall, for the purposes of this Agreement, be treated as an
Interest Payment Date, Provided that if such unpaid sum is of principal
which became due and payable on a date other than an Interest Payment Date
relating thereto, the first such period selected by the Bank shall be of a
duration equal to the period between the due date of such principal sum and
such Interest Payment Date and interest shall be payable on such principal
sum during such period at a rate two per cent (2%) above the rate
applicable thereto immediately before it fell due. If for the reasons
specified in Clause 3.6, the Bank is unable to determine a rate in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Clause 3.4, interest on
any sum not paid on its due date for payment shall be calculated at a rate
determined by the Bank to be two per cent (2%) per annum above the
aggregate of the Margin and costs of funds to the Bank as conclusively
determined by the Bank save for manifest error. Interest payable by the
Borrowers as aforesaid shall be compounded quarterly (or if the period
fixed by the Bank is longer, at the end of such longer period) and shall be
payable on demand.
3.5 NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST
The Bank shall notify the Borrowers promptly of the duration of each
Interest Period and of each rate of interest determined by it under this
Clause 3. In case that the Bank fails to notify the Borrowers as above,
such failure will not affect the validity of the determination of the
Interest Period and Interest Rate made pursuant to Clause 3 and neither
will constitute nor will be interpreted as if to constitute a breach of
obligation of the Bank except in case of wilful misconduct.
3.6 MARKET DISRUPTION - NON AVAILABILITY
(A) If and whenever, at any time prior to the commencement of any Interest
Period, the Bank shall have determined (which determination shall, in
the absence of manifest error, be conclusive) (i) that adequate and
fair means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR in respect of Dollars
during said Interest Period or (ii) that deposits in Dollars are not
available to the Bank in the London Interbank Market in the ordinary
course of business in sufficient amounts for any Interest Period or
(iii) that by reason of circumstances affecting the London Interbank
Market generally it is impracticable for the Bank to advance the
Commitment or fund or continue to fund an Advance or the Loan during
any Interest Period or (iv) that LIBOR for that Interest Period will
not adequately reflect the cost of funding of the Loan for that
Interest Period, the Bank shall forthwith give notice (a
"DETERMINATION NOTICE") thereof to the Borrowers. A
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Determination Notice shall contain particulars of the relevant
circumstances giving rise to its issue. After the giving of any
Determination Notice the undrawn amount of the Commitment shall not be
borrowed until notice to the contrary is given to the Borrowers by the
Bank.
(B) During the Period of ten banking (10) days after any Determination
Notice has been given by the Bank under Clause 3.6(a) the Bank and the
Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith (but without incurring any
legal obligations) with a view to arriving to an acceptable
alternative basis (the "SUBSTITUTE BASIS"), for maintaining the Loan,
failing which the Borrowers shall promptly, on first demand or within
the time limit which may be determined by the Bank, prepay the Loan
together with accrued interest thereon to the date of prepayment
(calculated at the rate or rates most lately applicable to the Loan)
and all other sums payable by the Borrowers under the Security
Documents and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero. In such case
the Borrowers shall also reimburse to the Bank such amount as may be
determined by the Bank to be necessary to compensate it for the
increased cost (if any) of maintaining the Loan during the period of
negotiation referred to in this Clause 3.6 until such prepayment. In
case the Bank agrees to a Substitute Basis for funding the Loan the
Bank shall certify such Substitute Basis to the Borrowers. The
Substitute Basis may (without limitation) include alternative interest
period, alternative currencies or alternative rates of interest but
shall include a margin above the cost of funds to the Bank equivalent
to the Margin. Each Substitute Basis so certified shall be binding
upon the Borrowers and shall take effect in accordance with its terms
from the date specified in the Determination Notice until such time as
the Bank notifies the Borrowers that none of the circumstances
specified in clause 3.6(a) continues to exist whereupon the normal
interest rate fixing provisions of this Agreement shall apply.
4. REPAYMENT - PREPAYMENT
4.1 REPAYMENT
The Borrowers shall and it is expressly undertaken by the Borrowers to
repay the Loan jointly and severally by (i) twelve (12) consecutive
quarterly Repayment Instalments each to be repaid on each of the Repayment
Dates so that the first be repaid on the date falling three (3) months
after the Drawdown Date or on the 30th August, 2005, whichever occurs
first, and each of the subsequent ones consecutively falling due for
payment on each of the dates falling three (3) months after the immediately
preceding Repayment Date with the last of such Repayment Instalments
falling due for payment on the Final Maturity Date and (ii) an additional
payment of an amount of two million six hundred thousand Dollars
($2,600,000) (the "Balloon Instalment") payable together with the last (the
12th) Repayment Instalment on the Final Maturity Date. Subject to the terms
of this Agreement each of the first two (2) of the Repayment Instalments
shall be of an amount of two million Dollars ($2,000,000), the third of the
Repayment Instalments shall be of an amount of one million five hundred
thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) and each of the subsequent nine (9) of the
Repayment Instalments shall be of an amount of six hundred thousand Dollars
($600,000).
Provided that (i) if the last Repayment Date would otherwise fall after the
Final Maturity Date, the last Repayment Date shall be the Final Maturity
Date, (ii) in the event that the Commitment is not drawn down in full, the
amount of each of the Repayment Instalments shall be proportionally reduced
(iii) there shall be no Repayment Dates after the Final Maturity Date and
(iv) on the Final Maturity Date the Borrowers shall pay to the Bank any and
all other sums of money then due and payable to the Bank,
and Provided further that if any of the Repayment Instalments becomes due
on a day which is not a Banking Day, the due date thereof shall be extended
to the next succeeding Banking Day unless such Banking Day falls in the
next calendar month in which event such due date shall be the immediately
preceding Banking Day.
4.2 VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENT
The Borrowers shall have the right, upon giving the Bank not less than ten
(10) Banking Days' notice in writing, to prepay, without any penalty or
fee, part or all of the Loan in each case together with all unpaid interest
accrued thereon and all other sums of money whatsoever due and owing from
the Borrowers to the Bank hereunder or pursuant to the other Security
Documents and all interest accrued thereon, provided that:
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(A) the giving of such notice by the Borrowers will irrevocably commit the
Borrowers to prepay such amount as stated in such notice;
(B) such prepayment may take place only on the last day of an Interest
Period relating to the whole of the Loan, provided however that if the
Borrowers shall request consent to make such prepayment on another day
and the Bank shall accede to such request (it being in the sole
discretion of the Bank to decide whether or not to do so) the
Borrowers will pay in addition to the amount to be prepaid, any such
sum as may be payable to the Bank pursuant to Clause 10.1;
(C) each partial prepayment shall be equal to the amount of $400,000 (four
hundred thousand Dollars) or a whole multiple thereof or the balance
of the Loan and will be applied by the Bank in or towards satisfaction
of the Repayment Instalments in inverse order of their maturity;
(D) every notice of prepayment shall be effective only on actual receipt
by the Bank, shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrowers to
make such prepayment on the date specified;
(E) no amount prepaid may be re-borrowed; and
(F) the Borrowers may not prepay the Loan or any part thereof save as
expressly provided in this Agreement.
4.3 COMPULSORY PREPAYMENT IN CASE OF TOTAL LOSS OR SALE OF A VESSEL
(A) On any of the Vessels becoming a Total Loss or suffering damage or
being involved in an incident which in the reasonable opinion of the
Bank may result in any such Vessel being subsequently determined to be
a Total Loss: (1) prior to the advance of the Loan, the obligation of
the Bank to advance the Commitment (or any part thereof) shall
immediately cease and the Commitment shall be reduced to zero or (2)
in case the Commitment has been already advanced, the amount of the
Loan, shall on expiry of a period of one hundred and twenty (120) days
after the date on which the incident which may result in any Vessel
being subsequently determined to be a Total Loss occurred or, if
earlier, on the date upon which the insurance proceeds in respect of
such Total Loss are or Requisition Compensation is received by the
Borrowers (or the Bank pursuant to the Security Documents), the
Borrowers shall prepay to the Bank the higher of (i) the insurance
proceeds or (ii) the Required Amount, Provided however that forthwith
upon receipt by the Borrowers (or the Bank pursuant to the Security
Documents) of the insurance proceeds in respect of such Total Loss or
Requisition Compensation, the amount of the Loan shall be reduced by
an amount equal to the amount of such insurance proceeds or, if the
Borrowers have already repaid to the Bank the Required Amount and the
amount of the insurance proceeds is higher than the amount of the
Required Amount, the amount of the Loan shall be further reduced by an
amount equal to the difference between the amount of the Required
Amount and the amount of the insurance proceeds, and the Borrowers
shall be obliged to make such repayment(s) of the Loan.
For the purpose of this Agreement:
(I) an actual total loss of a Vessel shall be deemed to have occurred
at the actual date and time such Vessel was lost but in the event
of the date of the loss being unknown then the actual total loss
shall be deemed to have occurred on the date on which such Vessel
was last reported;
(II) a constructive total loss shall be deemed to have occurred at the
date and time notice of abandonment of a Vessel is given to the
insurers of such Vessel for the time being (provided a claim for
total loss is admitted by such insurers);
(III) a compromised or arranged total loss shall be deemed to have
occurred on the date on which a binding agreement as to such
compromised or arranged total loss has been entered into by the
insurers of a Vessel;
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(IV) requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition of a Vessel
shall be deemed to have occurred on the date upon which the
relevant requisition for title or other compulsory acquisition
occurs;
(V) capture, seizure, detention, arrest, or confiscation of a Vessel
by any government or by any person acting or purporting to act on
behalf of any government, which deprives the Owner of the
relevant Vessel of the use of such Vessel for more than fourteen
(14) days shall be deemed to occur upon the expiry of the period
of fourteen (14) days after the date upon which the relevant
capture, seizure, detention, arrest or confiscation occurred.
(B) If any of the Vessels is sold or disposed of in any other manner, the
amount of the Loan shall, forthwith upon receipt of the proceeds of
such sale be reduced by an amount equal to the higher of (i) the
proceeds of such sale or (ii) the Required Amount and the Borrowers
shall thereupon be obliged to make such repayment of the Loan;
and for the purpose of this Clause 4.3 "REQUIRED AMOUNT" in relation
to any Vessel, means the amount which is required to be repaid to the
Bank out of the insurance proceeds or, as the case may be, the sale or
such other disposal proceeds, so that, after the payment of the
Required Amount to the Bank, the Security Value determined in
accordance with Clause 8.5 immediately before the Total Loss or, as
the case may be, the sale or other disposal of the relevant Vessel, is
at least equal to the Minimum Value, Provided however that if the
relevant Vessel so lost or sold or otherwise disposed of is the last
Vessel mortgaged in favour of the Bank pursuant to this Agreement,
then the full amount of the insurance or, as the case may be, the sale
proceeds shall apply against full repayment of the Outstanding
Indebtedness and additionally the Borrowers shall pay to the Bank the
balance (if any) of the Outstanding Indebtedness.
(C) Any amount prepaid in accordance with Clause 4.3 (a) and (b) which is
less than the whole of the Outstanding Indebtedness will be applied by
the Bank in or towards prepayment of the Repayment Instalments in
inverse order of their maturity or otherwise in such other order as
the Borrowers may request and the Bank may accept as its sole and
absolute discretion.
4.4 AMOUNTS PAYABLE ON PREPAYMENT
Any prepayment of all or part of "the Loan under this Agreement shall be
made together with (a) accrued interest on the amount to be prepaid to the
date of such prepayment, (b) any additional amount payable under Clause 5.3
and (c) all other sums payable by the Borrowers to the Bank under this
Agreement or any of the other Security Documents including, without
limitation, any amounts payable under Clause 10.
5. PAYMENTS, TAXES AND COMPUTATION
5.1 PAYMENT - NO SET-OFF OR COUNTERCLAIMS
(A) The Borrowers hereby jointly and severally acknowledge that in
performing their respective obligations under this Agreement, the Bank
will be incurring liabilities to third parties in relation to the
funding of amounts to the Borrowers, such liabilities matching the
liabilities of the Borrowers to the Bank and that it is reasonable for
the Bank to be entitled to receive payments from the Borrowers gross
on the due date in order that the Bank is put in a position to perform
its matching obligations to the relevant third parties. Accordingly,
all payments to be made by the Borrowers under this Agreement and/or
any of the other Security Documents shall be made in full, without any
set-off or counterclaim whatsoever and, subject as provided in Clause
5.3, free and clear of any deductions or withholdings or Governmental
withholdings whatsoever, as follows:
(I) in Dollars, not later than 10.00 a.m. (London time) on the
Banking Day (in London and New York City) on which the relevant
payment is due under the terms of this Agreement; and
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(II) to the Receiving Bank for the account of the Bank Account No.
00000000, reference: Alcinoe Shipping Limited, Oceanopera
Shipping Limited, Oceanpride Shipping Limited, Searoute Maritime
Limited - Loan Agreement dated 16th May, 2005"
Provided however, that the Bank shall have the right to change the
place of account for payment, upon eight (8) Banking Days' prior
written notice to the Borrowers.
(B) If at any time it shall become unlawful or impracticable for the
Borrowers to make payment under this Agreement to the relevant account
or bank referred to in Clause 5.1 (a), the Borrowers may request and
the Bank may agree to alternative arrangements for the payment of the
amounts due by the Borrowers to the Bank under this Agreement or the
other Security Documents.
5.2 PAYMENTS ON BANKING DAYS
All payments due shall be made on a Banking Day. If the due date for
payment falls on a day which is not a Banking Day, the payment or payments
due shall be made on the first Banking Day thereafter, provided that this
falls in the same calendar month. If it does not, payments shall fall due
and be made on the last Banking Day before the said due date.
5.3 GROSS UP
If at any time any law, regulation, regulatory requirement or requirement
of any governmental authority, monetary agency, central bank or the like
compels the Borrowers to make payment subject to Governmental Withholdings,
or any other deduction or withholding, the Borrowers shall pay to the Bank
such additional amounts as may be necessary to ensure that there will be
received by the Bank a net amount equal to the full amount which would have
been received had payment not been made subject to such Governmental
Withholdings or other deduction or withholding. The Borrowers shall
indemnify the Bank against any losses or costs incurred by the Bank by
reason of any failure of the Borrowers to make any such deduction or
withholding or by reason of any increased payment not being made on the due
date for such payment. The Borrowers shall, not later than thirty (30) days
after each deduction, withholding or payment of any Governmental
Withholdings, forward to the Bank official receipts and any other
documentary receipts and any other documentary evidence reasonably required
by the Bank in respect of the payment made or to be made of any deduction
or withholding or Governmental Withholding. The obligations of the
Borrowers under this provision shall, subject to applicable law, remain in
force notwithstanding the repayment of the Loan and the payment of all
interest due thereon pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.
5.4 CERTIFICATES CONCLUSIVE
Any certificate or determination of the Bank as to any rate of interest,
rate of exchange or any other amount pursuant to and for the purposes of
any of the Security Documents shall, in the absence of manifest error, be
conclusive and binding on the Borrowers.
5.5 COMPUTATION
All interest and other payments payable by reference to a rate per annum
under this Agreement shall accrue from day to day and be calculated on the
basis of actual days elapsed and a 360 day year.
6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
This Agreement is entered into by the Bank in reliance upon the following
representations and warranties made by each of the Borrowers and it is
hereby represented and warranted by each of the Borrowers that the
following matters are true at the date of this Agreement, and covenant that
they shall remain true so long as there is any Outstanding Indebtedness.
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6.1 REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE SECURITY PARTIES
(A) DUE INCORPORATION/VALID EXISTENCE
each of the Borrowers and any other corporate Security Party are
incorporated and duly organised and validiy existing and in good
standing under the laws of their respective countries of
incorporation, with power to own their property and assets, to carry
on their business as the same is now being lawfully conducted and to
purchase, own, finance and operate vessels, or manage vessels as the
case may be;
(B) DUE AUTHORITY
the entry into and performance of this Agreement and all the other
Security Documents are within the corporate powers of each of the
Borrowers and any other corporate Security Party and have been duly
authorised by all corporate, shareholders' and other necessary action
required for the authorisation and do not and would not contravene or
result in breach of any applicable law, regulation, rule, judgement,
decree or permit or contractual restriction which does, or may, bind
any one or more of them or their shareholders or their subsidiaries,
or the documents defining the respective constitutions of any of them
and do not and will not result in the creation or imposition of any
security interest, lien, charge, or Encumbrance on any of their assets
or those of any of their Subsidiaries in favour of any party other
than the Bank;
(C) NO DEFAULT/OR LITIGATION
none of the Borrowers or any other Security Party is in default under
any agreement to which it/he is a party or by which it/he may be bound
and no litigation, arbitration, tax claim or administrative proceeding
is current or pending or (to its or its officers' knowledge (in the
case of a corporate Security Party)) threatened, which, if adversely
determined, would have a materially detrimental effect on the business
assets or the financial condition of any of them;
(D) FINANCIAL INFORMATION
all information, accounts, statements of financial position, exhibits
and reports furnished by or on behalf of any Security Party to the
Bank in connection with the negotiation and preparation of this
Agreement and each of the Security Documents are true and accurate in
all material respects and not misleading, do not omit material facts
and all reasonable enquiries have been made to verify the facts and
statements contained therein; 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;
(E) Financial CONDITION
the financial condition of each of the Borrowers and of any other
Security Party has not suffered any material deterioration since that
condition was last disclosed to the Bank;
(F) NO IMMUNITY
neither any of the Borrowers or 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 Borrowers and the Manager is a shipping company involved
in the owning or (as the case may be) managing of ships engaged in
international voyages and earning profits in free foreign currency;
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(H) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
each of the Owners is and shall on the Drawdown Date be in the
beneficial ownership of persons acceptable in all respects to the
Bank; and
(I) COMMERCIAL BENEFIT OF THE CORPORATE GUARANTOR
the giving by the Corporate Guarantor of the Corporate Guarantee is to
the commercial benefit of the Corporate Guarantor in that the
Corporate Guarantor and the Borrowers have close financial
co-operation and mutual assistance and that by lending its support to
the Borrowers through the Corporate Guarantee it furthers its own
business interest within the scope of its constitutional documents.
6.2 REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS
(A) LICENCES/AUTHORISATION
all licences, authorisations, consents or approvals necessary for the
execution, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of
the Security Documents and all other documents executed or to be
executed in connection therewith, have been obtained and complied with
by the Borrowers and any other Security Party;
(B) PERFECTED SECURITIES
when duly executed, the Security Documents will create a perfected
security interest in favour of the Bank, with the intended priority,
in the assets and revenues intended to be covered, valid and
enforceable against each of the Borrowers and the other Security
Parties;
(C) NO NOTARISATION/FILING/RECORDING
save for the registration of any mortgage in the appropriate shipping
registry, it is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity,
enforceability or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement or any
of the Security Documents that it or they or any other instrument be
notarised, filed, recorded, registered or enrolled in any court,
public office or elsewhere or that any stamp, registration or similar
tax or charge be paid on or in relation to this Agreement or the
Security Documents;
(D) VALIDITY AND BINDING EFFECT
the Security Documents constitute (or upon their execution - and in
the case of any mortgage upon its registration at the appropriate
registry - will constitute) valid and legally binding obligations of
the relevant Security Parties enforceable against each of the
Borrowers and the other Security Parties in accordance with their
respective terms and that there are no other agreements or
arrangements which may adversely affect or conflict with the Security
Documents or the security thereby created;
(E) VALID CHOICE OF LAW
the choice of law agreed to govern this Agreement and/or any other
Security Document and the submission to the jurisdiction of the courts
agreed in each of the Security Documents are or will be, on execution
of the respective Security Documents, valid and binding on each of the
Borrowers and any other Security Party which is or is to be a party
thereto;
6.3 INITIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each of the Borrowers further jointly and severally represent and warrant
to the Bank that;
(A) DIRECT OBLIGATIONS - PARI PASSU
the obligations of each of the Borrowers and any other Security Party
under this Agreement are direct, general and unconditional obligations
of such Borrower and any other Security Party and rank at least pari
passu with all other present and future
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unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of each Borrower and any
other Security Party with the exception of any obligations which are
mandatorily preferred bylaw;
(B) NO DEFAULT
no Default has occurred and is continuing;
(C) NO WITHHOLDING TAXES
no Taxes are imposed by deduction, withholding or otherwise on any
payment to be made by any Security Party under this Agreement and/or
any other of the Security Documents or are imposed on or by virtue of
the execution or delivery of this Agreement and/or any other of the
Security Documents or any document or instrument to be executed or
delivered hereunder or thereunder;
(D) NO DEFAULT UNDER OTHER INDEBTEDNESS
neither any of the Borrowers nor any other Security Party is (nor
would with the giving of notice or lapse of time or the satisfaction
of any other condition or combination thereof be) in Default under any
agreement relating to Indebtedness to which it is a party or by which
it may be bound;
(E) 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 Encumbrances (other than in favour
of the Bank) ownership of its Owner who will on and after the
Drawdown Date be the sole and beneficial owner of such Vessel;
(II) registered in the name of the Owner thereof through a Ships
Registry and under a flag acceptable to the Bank;
(III) operationally seaworthy and in every way fit for service;
(IV) classed with a Classification Society which is a full member of
IACS and which has been approved by the Bank in writing and such
classification is and will be free of all requirements and
recommendations of such Classification Society (other than such
notified in writing to the Bank and accepted by the Bank in
writing) and with all trading and other class certificates,
national and international, valid and in full force and effect,
and will continue throughout the Security Period to maintain such
Vessel with such classification (or equivalent) and which is in
all respects satisfactory to the Bank;
(V) insured in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and
the relevant Mortgage; and
(VI) managed by the Manager;
(F) VESSEL'S EMPLOYMENT
unless otherwise permitted in writing by the Bank, none of the 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 Bank under this Agreement and/or any of the Security
Documents and there will not on or before the Drawdown Date be any
agreement or arrangement whereby the Earnings of the relevant Vessel
may be shared with any other person;
(G) FREEDOM OF ENCUMBRANCES
neither the Vessels (or any of them) nor their/her Earnings,
Requisition Compensation or Insurances nor any other properties or
rights which are, or are to be, the subject of
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any of the Security Documents nor any part thereof will, on the
relevant Drawdown Date, be subject to any Encumbrances other than
Encumbrances in favour of the Bank.
(H) COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND APPROVALS
except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrowers in writing
to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Bank:
(I) each of the Borrowers, the Manager and their Related Companies
have complied with the provisions of all Environmental Laws;
(II) each of the Borrowers, the Manager and their Related Companies
have obtained all Environmental Approvals and are in compliance
with all such Environmental Approvals; and
(III) neither any of the Borrowers nor the Manager nor any of their
Related Companies have received notice of any Environmental Claim
that any of the Borrowers and the Manager or any of its/their
respective Related Companies are not in compliance with any
Environmental Law or any Environmental Approval;
(I) NO ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS
(I) except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrowers in
writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Bank, there is no
Environmental Claim pending or, to the best of each of the
Borrowers' knowledge and belief, threatened against any of the
Borrowers, the Manager or the Vessels (or any of them) or any of
any of the Borrowers' or the Manager's Related Companies or any
other Relevant Ship;
(II) except as may already have been disclosed by the Borrowers in
writing to, and acknowledged in writing by, the Bank, there has
been no emission, spill, release or discharge of a Material of
Environmental Concern from the Vessels (or any of them) or any
other Relevant Ship owned by, managed or crewed by or chartered
to the Borrowers, the Manager nor to the best of each of the
Borrowers' knowledge and belief (having made due enquiry) from
any Relevant Ship which could give rise to an Environmental
Claim;
(J) COPIES TRUE AND COMPLETE
the copies of the Management Agreements delivered or to be delivered
to the Bank pursuant to Clause 7.3 are, or will when delivered be,
true and complete copses 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;
(K) COMPLIANCE WITH THE ISM CODE, ISO 9002 AND ISPS CODE
Each Vessel, any Relevant Ship and any Operator complies with the
requirements of the ISM Code and the ISPS Code and when applicable the
Owners and the Manager shall comply with the requirements of ISO 9002;
6.4 REPRESENTATIONS CORRECT
At the time of entering into this Agreement all above representations and
warranties or any other information given by the Borrowers and/or any other
Security Party to the Bank are true and accurate;
6.5 REPETITION OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The representations and warranties in this Clause 6 shall be deemed to be
repeated by the Borrowers on and as of each day from the date of this
Agreement until all moneys due or
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owing by the Security Parties or any of them under this Agreement and the
Security Documents have been repaid in full as if made with reference to
the facts and circumstances existing on each such day.
7. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
7.1 CONDITIONS CONCERNING CORPORATE AUTHORISATIONS
The obligation of the Bank to make the Commitment or any part thereof
available shall be subject to the condition that the Bank, shall have
received, not later than two (2) Banking Days before the day on which the
Drawdown Notice in respect of the Commitment is given, the following
documents and evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank:
(A) a duly certified true copy of the Articles of Incorporation and
By-Laws or the Memorandum and Articles of Association, or of any other
constitutional documents, as the case may be, of each corporate
Security Party together, where appropriate, with certified
translations of the same in English;
(B) a recent certificate of incumbency of each corporate Security Party
issued by the appropriate authority and/or at the discretion of the
Bank signed by the secretary or a director of each of them
respectively, stating the officers and/or the directors of each of
them (or of any other body which binds them, if any) and containing
specimens of their signatures;
(C) minutes of separate meetings of the directors and shareholders (or of
any other body which binds them, if any) of any corporate Security
Party at which there was approved the entry into, execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement, the other Security Documents and
any other documents executed or to be executed pursuant hereto or
thereto to which the relevant corporate Security Party is a party;
(D) the original of any power(s) and any further evidence of the due
authority of any person signing this Agreement, the Security Documents
and any other documents executed or to be executed pursuant hereto or
thereto on behalf of any corporate person;
(E) evidence that all necessary licences, consents, permits and
authorisations (including exchange control ones) have been obtained by
any Security Party for the execution, delivery, validity,
enforceability, admissibility in evidence and the due performance of
the respective obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement and the
other Security Documents;
(F) the shareholders of all Security Parties shall be acceptable in all
respects to the Bank. In the event that the Bank agrees (at its sole
discretion) that a Security Party may have a corporate shareholder,
the conditions set out in sub-clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this
Clause 7.1 shall apply (mutatis mutandis) to such corporate
shareholder;
(G) any other documents or recent certificates or other evidence which
would be required by the Bank in relation to any corporate Security
Party evidencing that the relevant Security Party has been properly
established, continues to exist validly and to be in good standing,
which is its present board of directors and shareholders, that the
execution and performance of the Security Documents has been duly
authorised and generally that the representations in Clause 6 are
correct in all respects;
(H) any other document or other evidence which would be required by the
Bank evidencing the entire issued and outstanding share capital of the
Borrowers and the Corporate Guarantor is within the legal and/or
beneficial ownership of persons acceptable to the Bank;
7.2 CONDITIONS CONCERNING THE SECURITIES
The obligations of the Bank to advance the Commitment or any part thereof
is subject to the further condition that the Bank at the time of receiving
a Drawdown Notice shall have received the following documents (save for the
securities which, due to the requirement of their registration in public
registries or due to their nature, cannot be delivered to the Bank before
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the relevant Drawdown Notice and which will be delivered to the Bank
simultaneously with the drawdown of the Commitment):
(A) each of the Security Documents duly executed and where appropriate
duly registered with the appropriate registry; and
(B) evidence that each of the Earnings Account and the Retention Account
has been duly opened and all mandate forms, signature cards and
authorities have been duly delivered.
7.3 CONDITIONS CONCERNING THE VESSELS
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment or any part thereof is
subject to the further condition that the Bank shall have received prior to
the Drawdown Date or, where this is not possible, simultaneously with the
drawdown of the Commitment or the relevant part thereof:
(A) evidence that, prior to or simultaneously with the drawdown, the
relevant Vessel will be duly registered in the ownership of its Owner
with a shipping registry and under a flag acceptable to the Bank free
from any Encumbrances save for those in favour of the Bank and
otherwise as contemplated herein;
(B) evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank that the
relevant Vessel has been or will - on drawdown - be insured in
accordance with the insurance requirements provided for in this
Agreement and the other Security Documents (including Mortgagee's
Interest Insurance) to be followed by full copies of cover notes,
policies, certificates of entry or other contracts of insurance and
irrevocable authority is hereby given to the Bank at any time at its
discretion to obtain copies of the policies, certificates of entry or
other contracts of insurance from the insurers and/or obtain any
information in relation to the Insurances relating to each Vessel;
(C) certified copy of a management agreement between the Owner of each
relevant Vessel and the Manager;
(D) all necessary confirmations by insurers of each relevant Vessel that
they will issue letters of undertaking and endorse notice of
assignment and loss payable clauses on the Insurances, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Bank in its sole discretion,
(E) a report signed by an independent firm of marine insurance brokers
appointed by the Bank at the expense of the Borrowers confirming the
adequacy of the Insurances maintained on each Vessel;
(F) evidence that the relevant Vessel is classed 100 A1 with Lloyd's
Register of Shipping, or to a similar standard with another
classification society of like standing to be specifically approved by
the Bank, and remains free from recommendations, notations or average
damage affecting class;
(G) evidence that the trading certificates of the relevant Vessel are
valid and in force;
(H) certified copies of each Charterparty and any other charterparty
relevant to any Vessel in excess of twelve (12) months duration;
(I) true and complete copies of the DOC for the Operator and an SMC for
each Vessel issued pursuant to the ISM Code;
(J) true and complete copy of the ISSC in respect of each Vessel pursuant
to the ISPS Code;
(K) a certificate issued by the classification society of the Vessel
and/or other evidence satisfactory to the Bank showing the light
displacement of each Vessel;
(L) due authorisation in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank
authorising the Bank in case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing to have access and/or
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obtain any copies of class records or other information at its
discretion from the Classification Society of the Vessels;
(M) valuation of each Vessel, at the Borrowers' expense, as at a date
determined by the Bank but in any event before the relevant drawdown,
prepared on the basis specified in Clause 8.5(b) by major shipbrokers
appointed by the Bank in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank
in its sole discretion; and
(N) if the Bank so requires, a satisfactory to the Bank physical condition
survey report on the relevant Vessel(s) together with a comprehensive
record inspection form a surveyor appointed by the Bank, at the
Borrowers' expense;
7.4 NO CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment or any part thereof is
subject to the further condition that at the time of the giving of a
Drawdown Notice and on advancing the Commitment:
(A) the representations and warranties set out in Clause 6 and in each of
the Security Documents are true and correct on and as of each such
time as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances
existing at such time;
(B) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would
result from the relevant drawdown;
(C) the Bank shall be satisfied that there has been no change in the
ultimate ownership, management, operations and/or adverse change
financial condition of any Security Party which (change) might, in the
sole opinion of the Bank, be detrimental to the interests of the Bank;
and
(D) the Interest Rate applicable during the first Interest Period would
not fall to be determined pursuant to Clause 3.6.
7.5 GENERAL CONDITIONS
(A) The obligation of the Bank to advance the Commitment is subject to the
further condition that the Bank, prior to or simultaneously with the
drawdown, shall have received:
(I) opinions from the Security Parties' legal counsel and from
lawyers appointed by the Bank as to all the matters referred to
in Clauses 6.1 (a) and (b) and all such aspects of law as the
Bank shall deem relevant to this Agreement and the other Security
Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or
thereto confirming also that all the Security Parties are aware
of the entire contents of this Agreement and the other Security
Documents as well as opinion from the lawyers appointed by the
Bank and any further legal or other expert opinion as the Bank at
its sole discretion may require;
(II) confirmation from any agents nominated in this Agreement and
elsewhere in the other Security Documents for the acceptance of
any notice or service of process, that they consent to such
nomination;
(III) a receipt in writing in form and substance satisfactory to the
Bank including an acknowledgement and admission of the Borrowers
and/or any other Security Party to the effect that the Commitment
was drawn by the Borrowers and a declaration by the Borrowers
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; and
(IV) evidence satisfactory to the Bank that the arrangement fee and
the commitment commission referred to in Clause 10.8 has been
paid in full to the Bank;
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7.6 FURTHER DOCUMENTS
The Bank may from time to time request and the Borrowers shall, within the
period specified by the Bank, deliver to the Bank such further documents
certificates and/or opinions as requested at the sole discretion of the
Bank
8. COVENANTS
It is hereby undertaken by each of the Borrowers that, from the date of
this Agreement and as long as any money is due and/or owing and/or
outstanding under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents,
each of the Borrowers will:
8.1 INFORMATION COVENANTS
(A) ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
furnish the Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank, with
annual (audited if available) financial statements of the Borrowers,
the Corporate Guarantor and their Related Companies at latest within
150 days after the end of the financial year concerned, commencing as
at the 31st December, 2004 prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles consistently applied;
(B) FINANCIAL INFORMATION
provide the Bank annually and from time to time as the Bank may
request and in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank with
information on the financial conditions, cash flow position,
commitments and operations of the Security Parties and their Related
Companies including cash flow analysis and voyage accounts of each
Vessel and any vessels owned or managed by any such party or member
with a breakdown of income and running expenses showing net trading
profit, trade payables and trade receivables, such financial details
to be certified by one of the directors of such of the Security
Parties as to their correctness; and
(C) INFORMATION ON ADVERSE CHANGE OR DEFAULT
promptly inform the Bank of any occurrence which came to the knowledge
of the Borrowers which might adversely affect the ability of any of
the Borrowers or any other Security Party to perform its respective
obligations under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security
Documents and of any Default forthwith upon becoming aware thereof;
(D) INFORMATION ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE VESSELS
provide the Bank from time to time as the Bank may request with
information on the employment of each Vessel as well as on the terms
and conditions of any charterparty, contract of affreightment,
agreement or related document in respect of the employment of each
Vessel, such information to be certified by one of the directors of
the Owner thereof as to their correctness;
8.2 BANKING OPERATIONS - LIQUIDITY
(A) ensure that all banking operations in connection with the Vessels are
carried out through the Lending Branch of the Bank; and
(B) ensure that throughout the Security Period the Borrowers and/or the
Guarantors will maintain with the Lending Branch a minimum balances of
not less than Dollars one million ($1,000,000);
8.3 NO FURTHER FINANCIAL EXPOSURE
Without the prior written consent of the Bank;
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(A) NO FURTHER INDEBTEDNESS
incur no further Indebtedness nor authorise or accept any capital
commitments (other than that normally associated with the day to day
operations of the Vessels) nor enter into any agreement for payment on
deferred terms or hire agreement without the prior written consent of
the Bank;
(B) NO LOANS
not 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 to any officer, director, stockholder
or employee or any other company managed by the Manager directly or
through the Manager;
(C) NO DIVIDENDS - NO DISPOSAL OF ASSETS
not declare or pay any dividends or other distribution upon any of the
issued shares or otherwise dispose of any assets to any of the
shareholders of the Borrowers, without the prior written consent of
the Bank, such consent no to be unreasonably withheld: and
(D) NO PAYMENTS
except pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents (or as
expressly permitted by the same) not pay out any funds to any company
or person except in connection with the administration of the
Borrowers, the operation and/or repair of the Vessels;
8.4 MAINTENANCE OF BUSINESS STRUCTURE
(A) MAINTENANCE OF BUSINESS STRUCTURE
not change the nature, organisation and conduct of the business of the
Borrowers as owners of the Vessels or the Manager as manager of
vessels as the case may be, or carry on any business other than the
business carried on at the date of this Agreement;
(B) MAINTENANCE OF LEGAL STRUCTURE
ensure that none of the documents defining the constitution of each
Borrower and/or any corporate shareholder shall be altered in any
manner whatsoever without the prior written consent of the Bank;
(C) CONTROL
ensure that no change shall be made directly or indirectly in the
ownership, legal and beneficial ownership control or management of
each Borrower or any share therein or of the Vessels without the prior
written consent of the Bank; and
(D) NO MERGER
not merge or consolidate with any other company or person;
8.5 NO SUBORDINATION/VALUE OF SECURITY
(A) NO SUBORDINATION
ensure that the indebtedness of the Borrowers to the Bank hereunder
will not be subordinated in priority of payment to any other present
or future indebtedness;
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(B) VALUATION OF THE VESSELS/PHYSICAL CONDITION SURVEY OF THE VESSELS
(I) until June 2006, at any time that the Bank might consider to be
(at the sole discretion of the Bank) necessary or useful, have
each of Vessels valued in Dollars, at the Borrowers' expense, on
the basis of sale for prompt delivery, excluding any charter and
free of Encumbrances, for cash, at arm's length on normal
commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer
("THE BASIS OF VALUATION"), by major independent shipbrokers
appointed by the Bank.
(II) at any time that the Bank might consider to be (at the sole
discretion of the Bank) necessary or useful, conduct a physical
condition survey on each of the Vessels and conduct a
comprehensive inspection of the class and other records of each
Vessel by a surveyor appointed by the Bank at the expense of the
Borrowers;
(C) MARKET OR SCRAP VALUE TO DEBT RATIO-ADDITIONAL SECURITY
ensure and procure that throughout the Security Period the applicable
Security Value shall be no less than the applicable Minimum Value.
and if at any particular time during the Security Period the Security
Value is less than the applicable Minimum Value, within thirty (30)
days of being advised by the Bank of such shortfall in writing, either
prepay or provide additional security in form and substance in all
respects acceptable to the Bank in an amount at least equal to the
amount of such shortfall. Such additional security shall be
constituted by:
(I) additional pledged cash deposits in favour of the Bank in an
amount equal to such shortfall with a bank and in an account and
manner to be determined by the Bank; and/or
(II) any other security acceptable to the Bank to be provided in a
manner determined by the Bank;
(D) The Market Value of each Vessel shall be determined for the purpose of
the Clause 8.5(c) as provided in Clause 8.5(b) and shall be notified
by the Bank to the Borrowers. In the event that by written notice to
the Bank (within two (2) Banking Days) such valuation is not accepted
by the Borrowers, the value of such Vessel shall be determined by a
first class shipbroker appointed by the Bank and, if the Borrowers so
request, one further first class shipbroker, appointed by the
Borrowers, on the basis set out in clause 8.5(b) and the mean of the
valuations of such shipbrokers shall constitute the value of such
Vessel for the purposes of Clause 8.5(c) and shall be binding upon the
parties hereto, provided however that the original valuation obtained
by the Bank shall constitute the value of such Vessel if (i) no
shipbroker is appointed by the Borrowers within three (3) Banking Days
of delivery of the original valuation or (ii) the shipbroker appointed
by the Borrower fails to submit the valuation to the Bank within
fifteen (15) days of delivery of the original valuation. All costs in
connection with such valuations and any valuation of any additional
security provided pursuant to Clause 8.5(c) shall be borne by the
Borrowers.
8.6 MAINTENANCE OF ASSETS
(A) NO TRANSFER OF ASSETS
not convey, assign, transfer, sell or otherwise dispose of or deal
with any of their real or personal property, assets or rights, whether
present or future, without the prior written consent of the Bank; and
(B) NO ENCUMBRANCE OF ASSETS
not allow any part of its undertaking, property, assets or rights,
whether present or future, to be mortgaged, charged, pledged, used as
a lien or otherwise encumbered without the prior written consent of
the Bank.
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8.7 COVENANTS CONCERNING THE VESSELS
(A) OWNERSHIP/MANAGEMENT/CONTROL
ensure that each of the Vessels will maintain her present ownership,
management, control and beneficial ownership;
(B) CLASS
ensure that each Vessel will remain in class free of recommendations,
notations or average damage affecting class and provide the Bank on
demand with copies of all class and trading certificates of each
Vessel;
(C) INSURANCES
maintain all Insurances of the Vessels and comply with all insurance
requirements specified in this Agreement (including in particular
Schedule 1) and in case of failure to maintain any of the Vessels so
insured shall authorise the Bank (and such authorisation is hereby
expressly given to the Bank) to have the right but not the obligation
to effect such Insurances on behalf of the relevant Owner (and in case
that any of the Vessels remains in port for an extended period) to
effect port risks Insurances at the cost of the Borrowers which, if
paid by the Bank, shall be Expenses;
(D) TRANSFER/ENCUMBRANCES
not without the prior written consent of the Bank sell or otherwise
dispose of any of the Vessels or any share therein or mortgage, charge
or otherwise assign any of the Vessels or any part thereof or suffer
the creation of any such mortgage, charge or assignment in favour of
any person other than the Bank;
(E) NOT IMPERIL FLAG, OWNERSHIP, INSURANCE
ensure that each of the Vessels is maintained and trades in conformity
with the laws of the flag of the respective Vessel, 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 the respective Vessel or its free ownership or
its Insurances;
(F) MORTGAGE COVENANTS
always comply with all the covenants provided for in the mortgage on
each of the Vessels and any accompanying Deed of Covenants;
(G) CHARTER
not without the prior written consent of the Bank enter into a
charterparty, contract of affreightment, agreement or related document
in respect of the employment of the vessels (i) for a period for more
than 12 months or (ii) below the market rate prevailing at the time
when the respective Vessel is fixed in or on terms which are not in
accordance with the commercial practice prevailing at the relevant
time or (iii) on demise charterparty;
(H) CHARTER ASSIGNMENT
execute and deliver to the Bank within fifteen (15) days of signing of
any charter, the duration of which is agreed to be for a period,
directly or by extension, of more than twelve (12) months, (a) a
specific assignment of such charter in form and substance satisfactory
to the Bank and (b) a notice of any such assignment addressed to the
relevant charterer and endorsed with an acknowledgement of receipt by
the relevant charterer all in form and substance satisfactory to the
Bank or (c) alternatively, at the discretion of the Bank, a copy of
irrevocable instructions of the Owner of the respective Vessel to the
charterer for the payment of the hire to the Bank and/or a copy of the
charterparty with appropriate irrevocable notation;
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(I) COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
to comply with, and procure that all Environmental Affiliates of any
Relevant Party complies with, all Environmental Laws including without
limitation, requirements relating to xxxxxxx and establishment of
financial responsibility and to obtain and comply with, and procure
that all Environmental Affiliates of such Relevant Party obtain and
comply with, all Environmental Approvals and to notify the Bank
forthwith:
(I) of any Environmental Claim for an amount or amounts exceeding
$100,000 made against any Relevant Ship and/or her respective
Owner; and
(II) upon becoming aware of any incident which may give rise to an
Environmental Claim and to keep the Bank advised in writing of
the relevant Owner's response to such Environmental Claim on such
regular basis and in such detail as the Bank shall require.
(J) COMPLIANCE WITH ISM CODE
procure that each Owner and any Operator:
(I) will comply with and ensure that each Vessel and any Operator
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 Bank if there is any threatened or actual
withdrawal of any Owner's or any Operator's DOC or the SMC in
respect of any Vessel (or any of them) or any Relevant Ship; and
(III) promptly inform the Bank upon the issue to the Owners (or any of
them), the manager or any Operator of a DOC and to a Vessel or
any Relevant Ship of an SMC or the receipt by an Owner or any
Operator of notification that its application for the same has
been realised.
(K) COMPLIANCE WITH THE ISPS CODE
procure that each Owner:
(I) will maintain at all times a valid and current ISSC in respect of
each Vessel;
(II) immediately notify the Bank in writing of any actual or
threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification
of the ISSC in respect of any Vessel; and
(III) procure that each Vessel will comply at all times with the ISPS
Code
(I) COMPLIANCE WITH ISO 9002
procure that each Owner and any Related Company shall, when
applicable, comply with the requirements of ISO 9002.
(M) OPERATION WITHIN USA
if at any time any of the Vessel is to trade or operate within USA
jurisdiction and/or is to enter or is located in waters subject to the
United States Oil Pollution Xxx 0000, the Borrowers shall notify the
Bank in writing beforehand and shall provide the Bank evidence
satisfactory to the Bank that the Owner of the relevant Vessel has a
valid and current Certificate of Financial Responsibility pursuant to
the United States Oil Pollution Xxx 0000.
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8.8 OBSERVANCE OF COVENANTS
(A) USE OF THE LOAN
use the Loan exclusively for the purpose specified in this Agreement;
(B) COMPLIANCE WITH COVENANTS
duly and punctually perform all obligations under this Agreement and
the other Security Documents;
(C) PAYMENT ON DEMAND
pay to the Bank on demand any sum of money which is payable by the
Borrowers to the Bank under this Agreement but in respect of which it
is not specified in any other Clause when it is due and payable; and
(D) EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE
upon request by the Bank from time to time provide such information
and evidence to the Bank as the Bank would reasonably require to
demonstrate compliance with the covenants and undertakings set forth
in this Agreement and any other Security Document.
8.9 VALIDITY OF SECURITIES
(A) VALIDITY
ensure and procure that all governmental or other consents required by
law and/or any other steps required for the validity, enforceability
and legality of this Agreement and the other Security Documents are
maintained in full force and effect and/or appropriately taken;
(B) EARNINGS
ensure and procure that, unless and until directed by the Bank
otherwise (i) all the Earnings of the Vessels shall be paid to the
relevant Earnings Account and (ii) the persons from whom the Earnings
are from time to time due are irrevocably instructed to pay them to
the relevant Earnings Account in accordance with the provisions hereof
and of the relevant Security Documents;
(C) TAXES
pay all Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges when the
same fall due, except to the extent that the same are being contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves have
been set aside for their payment if such proceedings fail; and
(D) ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS
from time to time at the request of the Bank execute and deliver to
the Bank or procure the execution and delivery to the Bank of all such
documents as shall be deemed desirable at the sole discretion of the
Bank for giving full effect to this Agreement, and for perfecting,
protecting the value of or enforcing any rights or securities granted
to the Bank under any one or more of this Agreement, the other
Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant hereto or
thereto and in case that any Conditions Precedent have not been
fulfilled prior to the Drawdown, such Conditions shall be complied
with within five (5) days of Drawdown (unless the Bank agrees
otherwise in writing) and failure to comply with this Covenant shall
be an Event of Default.
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8.10 COVENANTS FOR THE SECURITY PARTIES
Ensure and procure that all other Security Parties and each of them duly
and punctually comply, with the covenants in Clauses 8.1 to 8.9 which are
applicable to them mutatis mutandis.
9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
There shall be an Event of Default whenever an event described in Clauses
9.1 to 9.8 occurs:
9.1 NON PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS
(A) failure by the Borrowers to pay any sum due from the Borrowers under
this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents when due,
or, in the case of any sum payable on demand, within three (3) days of
such demand; or
(B) failure by the Borrowers to observe and perform any one or more of the
covenants, terms or obligations contained in this Agreement (including
Schedule 1) and/or any other Security Document relating to the
Insurances; or
(C) any breach by the Borrowers of or omission of the Borrowers to observe
any of the covenants, terms, obligations or undertakings under this
Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents (other than
failure to pay any sum when due or to comply with any obligation
concerning the Insurances) and, in respect of any such breach or
omission which in the opinion of the Bank is capable of remedy, such
action as the Bank may require shall not have been taken within
fourteen (14) days of the Bank notifying the Borrowers of such
required action to remedy the breach or omission;
9.2 EVENTS AFFECTING THE BORROWERS
(A) any of the Borrowers is adjudicated or found bankrupt or insolvent or
any order is made by any competent court or resolution passed by any
of the Borrowers or petition presented for the winding-up or
dissolution of any of the Borrowers or for the appointment of a
liquidator, trustee, administrator or conservator of the whole or any
part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any of the
Borrowers; or
(B) any of the Borrowers becomes or is deemed to be insolvent or suspends
payment of its debts or is (or is deemed to be) unable to or admits
inability to pay its debts as they fall due (within the meaning of
section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986) or proposes or enters into any
composition or other arrangement for the benefit of its creditors
generally or proceedings are commenced in relation to any of the
Borrowers under any law, regulation or procedure relating to
reconstruction or readjustment of debts; or
(C) an encumbrancer takes possession or a receiver or similar officer is
appointed of the whole or any part of the undertakings, assets, rights
or revenues of any of the Borrowers or a distress, execution,
sequestration or other process is levied or enforced upon or sued out
against any of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues of any of
the Borrowers and is not discharged within seven (7) days; or
(D) all or a material part of the undertakings, assets, rights or revenues
of any of the Borrowers are seized, nationalised, expropriated or
compulsorily acquired by or under the authority of any government; or
(E) any event occurs or proceeding is taken with respect to any of the
Borrowers in any jurisdiction to which it is subject which has an
effect equivalent or similar to any of the events mentioned in Clauses
9.2(a) to 9.2(d); or
(F) any of the Borrowers suspends or ceases or threatens to suspend or
cease to carry on its business; or
(G) there occurs, in the reasonable opinion of the Bank, a materially
adverse change in the financial condition of any of the Borrowers; or
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(H) any other event occurs or circumstances arise which, in the reasonable
opinion of the Bank, is likely materially and adversely to affect
either (i) the ability of any of the Borrowers to perform all or any
of its obligations under or otherwise to comply with the terms of this
Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents, or (ii) the
security created by this Agreement and/or any of the Security
Documents; or
(I) there is any change in the beneficial ownership of any of the shares
in any of :he Borrowers and/or in the Corporate Guarantor; or
9.3 REPRESENTATIONS INCORRECT
any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated by or
in respect of the Borrowers in or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the
other Security Documents or in any notice, certificate or statement
referred to in or delivered under this Agreement or any of the other
Security Documents is or proves to have been incorrect in any material
respect; or
9.4 CROSS-DEFAULT OF THE BORROWERS
any Indebtedness of any of the Borrowers is not paid when due or becomes
due and payable, or any creditor of any of the Borrowers becomes entitled
to declare any such Indebtedness due and payable prior to the date when it
would otherwise have become due, or any guarantee or indemnity given or any
obligation or covenant undertaken or agreement made by any of the Borrowers
in respect of Indebtedness is not honoured when due; or
9.5 EVENTS AFFECTING THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS
(A) this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents shall at any
time and for any reason become invalid or unenforceable or otherwise
cease to remain in full force and effect, or if the validity or
enforceability of any of the Security Documents shall at any time and
for any reason be contested by any party thereto (other than the
Bank), or if any such party shall deny that it has any, or any
further, liability thereunder or it becomes impossible or unlawful for
any of the Borrowers to fulfil any of its covenants and obligations
contained in this Agreement or any of the Security Documents or for
the Bank to exercise the rights vested in it thereunder or otherwise;
or
(B) any consent, authorisation, licence or approval of, or registration
with or declaration to governmental or public bodies or authorities
or courts required by any of the Borrowers to authorise or otherwise
in connection with, the execution, delivery, validity, enforceability
or admissibility in evidence of this Agreement and/or any of the
Security Documents or the performance by any of the Borrowers of its
obligations under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents
is modified in a manner unacceptable to the Bank or is not granted or
is revoked or terminated or expires and is not renewed or otherwise
ceases to be in full force and effect; or
(C) any Encumbrance in respect of any of the property (or part thereof)
which is the subject of the Security Documents (or any of them) is
enforced; or
9.6 EVENTS CONCERNING THE SECURITY PARTIES
(A) any Security Party (other than the Borrowers) fails to pay any sum due
from it under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents when
due, or, in the case of any sum payable on demand, within three (3)
Banking Days of demand; or
(B) any Security Party (other than the Borrowers) fails to observe and
perform any one or more of the covenants, terms or obligations
contained in this Agreement (including Schedule 1) and/or the other
Security Documents relating to the Insurances; or
(C) any Security Party (other than the Borrowers) commits any breach of or
omits to observe any of the covenants, terms, obligations or
undertakings expressed to be assumed by it under this Agreement and/or
any of the Security Documents (other than failure to pay any sum when
due or to observe or perform obligations relating to the Insurances)
and, in respect of any such breach or omission which in the opinion of
the Bank is capable of remedy, such action as the Bank may require
shall not have been
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taken within seven (7) days of the Bank notifying the relevant
Security Party, of such required action to remedy the breach or
omission; or
(D) any representation or warranty made or deemed to be made or repeated
by or in respect of any Security Party (other than the Borrowers) in
or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents
or in any notice, certificate or statement referred to in or delivered
under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents is or
proves to have been incorrect in any material respect; or
(E) any of the events referred to in Clauses 9.2 to 9.5 occurs (amended as
appropriates in relation to any Security Party (other than the
Borrowers); or
(F) death or any legal disability or incapacity of the Personal Guarantor
or any steps are taken or legal proceedings initiated for the Personal
Guarantor to be adjudicated or found bankrupt or any event analogous
thereto occurs in relation to a Personal Guarantor in any jurisdiction
or any of the events referred to in Clauses 9.2, 9.3, 9,4 or 9.5
occurs in relation to the Personal Guarantor.
9.7 ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS
(A) any Relevant Party and/or the Manager 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 other vessel
managed by or chartered to the Manager 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 opinion of the Bank) reasonably be expected to
have a material adverse effect on the business assets, operations,
property or financial condition of any of the Borrowers or any other
Security Party or on the security created by any of the Security
Documents; or
(B) any Security Party or any other person fails or omits to comply with
any requirements of the protection and indemnity association or other
insurer with which 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 (including without
limitation, liability for Environmental Claims arising in
jurisdictions where the Vessels operate or trade) is or may be liable
to cancellation, qualification or exclusion at any time.
9.8 EVENTS CONCERNING THE VESSELS
(A) any Vessel becomes a Total Loss and the insurance indemnity is not
paid by the insurers to the Bank under the relevant General Assignment
within a period of one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of the
occurrence of the Total Loss;
(B) any Vessel ceases to be managed by the Manager (for any reason other
than the reason of a Total Loss or sale of such Vessel) with the prior
written approval of the Bank and the relevant Owner fails to appoint a
Manager within two (2) days after the termination of the Management
Agreement with the previous Manager; or
(C) any Vessel is arrested, confiscated, seized, taken in execution,
impounded, forfeited, detained in exercise or purported exercise of
any possessory lien or other claim and the relevant Owner shall fail
to procure the release of such Vessel within a period of fourteen (14)
days thereafter; or
(D) (without prejudice to the generality of sub-Clause 9.1 (b) and (c))
for any reason whatsoever the provisions of Clause 8.7(j) and (k) are
not complied with and/or any Vessel ceases to comply with the ISM
and/or the ISPS Codes.
9.9 CONSEQUENCES OF DEFAULT
The Bank may without prejudice to any other rights of the Bank (which will
continue to be in force concurrently with the following), at any time after
the happening of an Event of Default.
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(A) by notice to the Borrowers declare that the obligation of the Bank to
make the Commitment available shall be terminated, whereupon the
Commitment shall be reduced to zero forthwith; and/or
(B) by notice to the Borrowers declare that the Loan and all interest and
commitment commission accrued and all other sums payable under this
Agreement and the other Security Documents have become due and
payable, whereupon the same shall, immediately or in accordance with
the terms of such notice, become due and payable without any further
diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest or notice or any
other procedure from the Bank which are expressly waived by the
Borrowers; and/or
(C) put into force and exercise all or any of the rights, powers and
remedies possessed by it under this Agreement and/or under any
Guarantee and/or under any other Security Document and/or as mortgagee
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 Security Documents
or otherwise (whether at law, by virtue of any of the Security
Documents or otherwise);
provided that if an event occurs in respect of any of the Borrowers or the
other Security Parties of the type described in Clause 9.2(a) to (e)
(except only in the case when a petition was presented or proceedings were
commenced or a suit or writ were issued by a third party and in the case
that such events relate to only a part of the undertakings, assets, rights
or revenues which in the opinion of the Bank does not affect the ability of
any of the Borrowers to perform their respective obligations under this
Agreement and/or the Security Documents) the obligation of the Bank to make
the Commitment available shall terminate immediately upon receipt by the
Bank of the relevant information (as such receipt shall be conclusively
certified by a certificate of the Bank) and all amounts payable under
sub-clause 9.9(b) above shall become immediately due and payable without
any notice or other formality which is hereby expressly waived by the
Borrowers.
9.10 PROOF OF DEFAULT
It is agreed that (i) the non-payment of any sum of money in time will be
proved conclusively by mere passage of time and (ii) the occurrence of this
(non payment) and any other Event of Default shall be proved conclusively
by a mere written statement of the Bank which statement shall (save for
manifest error) be conclusive, binding and full evidence for the Borrowers.
9.11 EXCLUSION OF BANK'S LIABILITY
Neither the Bank nor any receiver or manager appointed by the Bank, shall
have any liability to the Borrowers (or any of them) or a Security Party:
(A) for any loss caused by an exercise of rights under, or enforcement of
a security interest created by, a Security Document or by any failure
or delay to exercise such a right or to enforce such a security
interest; or
(B) as mortgagee in possession or otherwise, for any income or principal
amount which might have been produced by or realised from any asset
comprised in such a security interest or for any reduction (however
caused) in the value of such an asset;.
except that this does not exempt the Bank or a receiver or manager from
liability for losses shown to have been caused by the negligence or the
wilful misconduct of the Bank's own officers and employees or (as the case
may be) such receiver's or manager's own partners or employees.
10. INDEMNITIES - EXPENSES - FEES
10.1 INDEMNITY
The Borrowers shall on demand (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the
Borrowers to) indemnify the Bank, without prejudice to any of the other
rights of the Bank under any of the Security Documents, against any loss
(including loss of Margin) or expense which the Bank shall certify as
sustained or incurred as a consequence of (i) any default in payment by any
of
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the Security Parties of any sum under any of the Security Documents when
due, (ii) the occurrence of any Event of Default, (iii) any prepayment of
the Loan or part thereof being made under Clauses 4.3, 8.5(c) or 12 or any
other repayment of the Loan or part thereof being made otherwise than on an
Interest Payment Date relating to the part of the Loan prepaid or repaid or
(iv) any drawdown not being made for any reason (excluding any default by
the Bank) after a 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
The Borrowers shall (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrowers
to) pay to the Bank on demand:
(A) INITIAL AND AMENDMENT EXPENSES
all expenses (including legal, printing and out-of-pocket expenses)
incurred by the Bank in connection with the negotiation, preparation
and execution of this Agreement and the other Security Documents and
of any amendment or extension of or the granting of any waiver or
consent under this Agreement and/or any of the Security Documents
and/or in connection with any proposal by the Borrowers to constitute
additional security pursuant to Clause 8.5(c), whether any such
security shall in fact be constituted or not;
(B) ENFORCEMENT EXPENSES
all expenses (including legal and out-of- pocket expenses) incurred by
the Bank in contemplation of, or otherwise in connection with, the
enforcement of, or preservation of any rights under, this Agreement
and/or any of the other Security Documents, or otherwise in respect of
the moneys owing under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security
Documents or the contemplation or preparation of the above, whether
they have been effected or not; and
(C) OTHER EXPENSES
any and all other Expenses; and
(d) LEGAL COSTS
the legal costs of the Bank's appointed lawyer, in respect of the
preparation of this Agreement and the other Security Documents as well
as the legal costs of the foreign lawyers (if these are available) in
respect of the registration of the Security Documents or any search or
opinion given to the Bank in respect of the Security Parties or the
Vessels (or any of them) or the Security Documents. The said legal
costs to be due and payable on the date of drawdown.
All expenses payable pursuant to this Clause 10.2 shall be paid together
with Value Added Tax (if any) thereon.
10.3 STAMP DUTY
The Borrowers shall (and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrowers
to pay) any and all stamp, registration and similar taxes or charges
(including those payable by the Bank) imposed by governmental authorities
in relation to this Agreement and any of the other Security Documents, and
shall indemnify the Bank against any and all liabilities with respect to,
or resulting from delay or omission on the part of the Borrowers to pay
such stamp taxes or charges.
10.4 ENVIRONMENTAL INDEMNITY
The Borrowers shall indemnify the Bank on demand and hold the Bank harmless
from and against all costs, expenses, payments charges, losses, demands,
liabilities, actions, proceedings (whether, civil or criminal) penalties,
fines, damages, judgements, orders,
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sanctions or other outgoings of whatever nature which may be suffered,
incurred or paid by, or made or asserted against the Bank at any time,
whether before or after the repayment in full of principal and interest
under this Agreement, relating to, or arising directly or indirectly in any
manner or for any cause or reason out of an Environmental Claim made or
asserted against the Bank.
10.5 CURRENCIES
If any sum due from the Borrowers under any of the Security Documents or
any order or judgement given or made in relation hereto has to be converted
from the currency (the "FIRST CURRENCY") in which the same is payable under
the relevant Security Document or under such order or judgement into
another currency (the "SECOND CURRENCY") for the purpose of (i) making or
filing a claim or proof against the Borrowers (or any of them) or any other
Security Party, as the case may be, (ii) obtaining an order or judgement in
any court or other tribunal or (iii) enforcing any order or judgement given
or made in relation to any of the Security Documents, the Borrowers shall
(and it is hereby expressly undertaken by the Borrowers to) indemnify and
hold harmless the Bank from and against any loss suffered as a result of
any difference between (a) the rate of exchange used for such purpose to
convert the sum in question from the first currency into the second
currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange at which the Bank may in the
ordinary course of business purchase the first currency into the second
currency and (b) the rate or rates of exchange at which the Bank may in the
ordinary course of business purchase the first currency with the second
currency upon receipt of a sum paid to it in satisfaction, in whole or in
part, of any such order, judgement, claim or proof. Any amount due from the
Borrowers under this Clause 10.5 shall be due as a separate debt and shall
not be affected by judgement being obtained for any other sums due under or
in respect of any of the Security Documents, and the term "RATE OF
EXCHANGE" includes any premium and costs of exchange payable in connection
with the purchase of the first currency with the second currency.
10.6 MAINTENANCE OF THE INDEMNITIES
The indemnities contained in this Clause 10 shall apply irrespective of any
indulgence granted to the Borrowers or any other party from time to time
and shall continue to be in full force and effect notwithstanding any
payment in favour of the Bank and any sum due from the Borrowers under this
Clause 10 will be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by
judgement being obtained for any other sums due under any one or more of
this Agreement, the other Security Documents and any other documents
executed pursuant hereto or thereto.
10.7 COMMUNICATIONS INDEMNITY
It is hereby agreed in connection with communications that:
(A) express authority is hereby given by the Borrowers to the Bank to
accept (at the sole discretion of the Bank) all tested or untested
communications given by facsimile, telex, cable or otherwise,
regarding any or all of the notices, requests, instructions or other
communications under this Agreement, subject to any restrictions
imposed by the Bank relating to such communications including, without
limitation (if so required by the Bank), the obligation to confirm
such communications by letter;
(B) each of the Borrowers shall recognise any and all of the said notices,
requests, instructions or other communications as legal, valid and
binding, when these notices, requests, instructions or communications
come from the telex and fax numbers mentioned in Clause 13.9 or any
other telex usually used by it or its managing company;
(C) each of the Borrowers hereby assumes full responsibility for the
execution of the said notices, requests, instructions or
communications by the Bank and promises and recognises that the Bank
shall not be held responsible for any loss, liability or expense that
may result from such notices, requests, instructions or other
communications. It is hereby undertaken by the Borrowers to indemnify
in full the Bank from and against all actions, proceedings, damages,
costs, claims, demands, expenses and any and all direct and/or
indirect losses which the Bank or any third party may suffer, incur or
sustain by reason of the Bank following such notices, requests,
instructions or communications;
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(D) with regard to notices, requests, instructions or communications
issued by electronic and/or mechanical processes (e.g. by facsimile,
telex), the risk of equipment malfunction, including, without
limitation, paper shortage, transmission errors, omissions and
distortions is assumed fully and accepted by the Borrowers;
(E) the risks of misunderstandings and errors of notices, requests,
instructions or communications being given as mentioned above, are for
the Borrowers and the Bank will be indemnified in full pursuant to
this Clause;
(F) the Bank shall have the right to ask the Borrowers to furnish any
information the Bank may require to establish the authority of any
person purporting to act on behalf of the Borrowers for these notices,
requests, instructions or communications but it is expressly agreed
that there is no obligation for the Bank to do so. The Bank shall be
fully protected in, and the Bank shall incur no liability to the
Borrowers for acting upon the said notices, requests, instructions or
communications which were believed by the Bank in good faith to have
been given by the Borrowers or by any of their authorised
representative(s); and
(G) it is undertaken by the Borrowers to safeguard the function and the
security of the electronic and mechanical appliance(s) such as
telex(es), fax(es) etc., as well as the code word list, if any, and to
take adequate precautions to protect it from loss and to prevent its
terms becoming known to any persons not directly concerned with its
use. The Borrowers shall hold the Bank harmless and indemnified from
all claims, losses, damages and expenses which the Bank may incur by
reason of the failure of the Borrowers to comply with the obligations
under this Clause and/or this Agreement
10.8 ARRANGEMENT FEE - COMMITMENT COMMISSION
The Borrowers shall pay to the Bank a non-refundable arrangement fee of
Dollars sixty seven thousand five hundred ($67,500) payable on the Drawdown
Date, which shall be considered as earned, and shall be payable by the
Borrowers to the Bank whether or not any part of the Commitment is ever
advanced.
10.9 MORTGAGEE'S INTEREST INSURANCE
The Borrowers shall reimburse the Bank on demand for any and all costs
incurred by the Bank (as conclusively certified by the Bank) in effecting
and keeping effected (a) a mortgagee's interest insurance which the Bank
may at any time effect for an amount of 120% of the Loan under the so
called "German wording" or upon such terms as shall from time to time be
determined by the Bank and (b) if the Bank so requires, a mortgagee's
interest additional perils (pollution) insurance policy, which the Bank may
at any time effect for the amount of the Loan, such Insurance to be
effected for the benefit of the Bank and prior to any intended trading of
the Ship to U.S.A. and the Exclusive Economic Zone, Provided however, that
the Bank shall in its absolute discretion appoint and instruct in respect
of any such Mortgagee's Interest Insurance policy the insurance brokers in
respect of each such Insurance and Provided further, that in the event that
the Bank effects any such Insurance on the basis of any mortgagee's open
cover, the Borrowers shall pay on demand to the Bank its proportion of
premium due in respect of the Vessels for which such insurance cover has
been effected by the Bank, and any certificate of the Bank in respect of
any such premium due by the Borrowers shall (save for manifest error) be
conclusive and binding upon the Borrowers.
11. SECURITY AND SET-OFF
11.1 SECURITIES
As security for the due and punctual repayment of the Loan and payment of
interest thereon as provided in this Agreement and of all other Outstanding
Indebtedness, the Borrowers shall ensure and procure that the following
Security Documents are duly executed and, where required, registered in
favour of the Bank in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank at the
time specified herein or otherwise as required by the Bank and ensure that
such security consists of:
(A) duly registered first preferred/priority maritime mortgage over each
of the Vessels accompanied (if applicable) by deed of covenants as
appropriate on the basis of the
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provisions of the applicable law providing the highest degree of
security for the Bank (hereinafter the "MORTGAGES")
(B) first priority general assignment of all the Insurances and Earnings
and Requisition Compensation of each of the Vessels in form and
substance satisfactory to the Bank and respective notices of
assignment (hereinafter the "GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS");
(C) the Personal Guarantee duly executed by the Personal Guarantor in form
and substance satisfactory to the Bank;
(D) the Corporate Guarantee duly executed by the Corporate Guarantor in
form and substance satisfactory to the Bank;
(E) a letter of undertaking (the "MANAGER'S UNDERTAKING") executed by the
Manager whereby the Manager shall (inter alia) subordinate any and all
claims it may have against any of the Owners and/or any of the Vessels
to the claims of the Bank hereunder and under the Security Documents;
(F) first priority specific assignment (in form and substance satisfactory
to the Bank) of the benefit of the Charterparties and all other
charters of more than twelve (12) calendar months' duration in respect
of each of the Vessels with respective notices and acknowledgements
thereof and/or, at the discretion of the Bank, copy of irrevocable
instructions of the respective Owner to the respective Charterer for
the payment of the hire to the Bank and/or a copy of the charter with
appropriate irrevocable notation (the "CHARTERPARTY ASSIGNMENT"); and
(G) pledge (the "ACCOUNT PLEDGE AGREEMENT") over the Earnings Accounts and
the Retention Account in favour of the Bank in form and substance
satisfactory to the Bank;
11.2 MAINTENANCE OF SECURITIES
It is hereby undertaken by each Borrower that the Security Documents shall
both at the date of execution and delivery thereof and so long as any
moneys are owing and/or due under this Agreement or under the other
Security Documents be valid and binding obligations of the respective
Security Parties thereto and rights of the Bank enforceable in accordance
with their respective terms and that they will, at the expense of the
Borrowers, execute, sign, perfect and do any and every such further
assurance, document, act, omission or thing as in the opinion of the Bank
may be necessary or desirable for perfecting the security contemplated or
constituted by the Security Documents.
11.3 APPLICATION OF FUNDS
Unless the Bank determines otherwise or except as is otherwise provided in
Clauses 11.5 and 11.6, all moneys received or recovered by the Bank under
or pursuant to any of the Security Documents shall be applied by the Bank
in the following manner:
(A) firstly in or towards payment of Expenses and all sums other than
principal or interest which may be due to the Bank under this
Agreement and the Security Documents or any of them, at the time of
application;
(B) secondly in or towards payment of any default interest;
(C) thirdly in or towards payment of any arrears of interest due in
respect of the Loan or any part thereof starting from the interest
first accrued;
(D) fourthly in or towards repayment of the Loan or any part thereof which
is due and payable; and
(E) fifthly the surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Borrowers, or to
whomsoever else shall be entitled thereto.
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11.4 WAIVER OF RIGHT OF APPROPRIATION
Each Borrower hereby irrevocably waives any rights of appropriation to
which it may be entitled.
11.5 SET OFF
Express authority is hereby given by the Borrowers to the Bank without
prejudice to any of the rights of the Bank at law contractually or
otherwise, at any time and without notice to the Borrowers:
(A) to apply any credit balance standing upon any account of any of the
Borrowers with any branch of the Bank and in whatever currency in or
towards satisfaction of any sum due to the Bank from the Borrowers
under this Agreement and/or any of the other Security Documents;
(B) in the name of the Borrowers and/or the Bank to do all such acts and
execute all such documents as may be necessary or expedient to effect
such application; and
(C) to combine and/or consolidate all or any accounts in the name of any
of the Borrowers with the Bank.
For all or any of the above purposes authority is hereby given to the Bank
to purchase with the monies standing to the credit of any such account or
accounts such other currencies as may be necessary to effect such
application. The Bank shall not be obliged to exercise any right given by
this Clause.
11.6 EARNINGS ACCOUNT - RETENTION ACCOUNT
(A) Each Borrower shall procure that all moneys payable in respect of the
Earnings of the Vessels shall be paid to the relevant Earnings Account
free from Encumbrances. Unless and until an Event of Default shall
occur (whereupon the provisions of Clause 11.3 shall be applicable) no
monies shall be withdrawn from the Earnings Account save as
hereinafter provided:
(I) first: in payment of any and all sums whatsoever due and payable
to the Bank hereunder (such sums to be paid in such order as the
Bank may in its sole discretion elect);
(II) second: during each month of the Security Period (but by no later
than, in the case of the first such month, the date falling
thirty (30) days after the Drawdown Date and, in the case of each
subsequent month, the same date of that month), the Borrowers
shall cause to be transferred from the Earnings Account to the
Retention Account of the aggregate amount of the Earnings of the
Vessels received in the Earnings Account during the preceding
month:
AA) one third (1/3rd) of the amount of the Repayment Instalment
specified in Clause 4.1 falling due for payment on the next
following Repayment Date; and
BB) the relevant fraction of the amount of interest on the Loan
falling due on the next due date for payment of interest
under this Agreement.
The expression "RELEVANT FRACTION" in relation to an amount of
interest on the Loan falling due for payment means a fraction
(which shall be notified by the Bank to the Borrowers at the
beginning of each Interest Period) where the numerator is always
one and where the denominator shall always be three except in the
case of an Interest Period of less than three months, in which
case the denominator shall be the number of months comprised in
such Interest Period; and
(III) thirdly: any balance shall be released to the Borrowers.
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(B) If the aggregate amount of the Earnings of the Vessels received in the
Earnings Account is insufficient in any month for the required
transfer to be made from the relevant Earnings Account to the
Retention Account in accordance with Clause 11.6(a), the Borrowers
shall make up the amount of such insufficiency on demand from the
Bank, but, without prejudice to its right to make such demand, the
Bank may elect to make up the whole or any part of such insufficiency
by increasing the amount of any transfer to be made in accordance with
Clause 11.6(a)(ii) from the aggregate amount of such Earnings received
in the next or subsequent months.
(C) Until the occurrence of a Default, the Bank shall on each Repayment
Date and on each due date for the payment of interest under this
Agreement apply in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5.1 the
relevant part of the balance then standing to the credit of the
Retention Account as shall be required to make payment of the
Repayment Instalment specified in Clause 4.1 then due under the terms
of this Agreement or payment of interest then due under the terms of
this Agreement and such transfer shall constitute a pro tanto
satisfaction of the Borrowers' obligations to pay such repayment
instalment or interest (as the case may be) then due under this
Agreement.
(D) Any amounts for the time being standing to the credit of the Retention
Account shall bear interest at the rate from time to time offered by
the Bank to its customers for Dollar deposits of similar amounts and
for periods similar to those for which such amounts are likely to
remain standing to the credit of the Retention Account. Such interest
shall, provided that the foregoing provisions of this Clause 11.6
shall have been complied with and provided that no Default shall have
occurred, be released to the Borrowers.
(E) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the absolute
obligation of the Borrowers to pay interest on and to repay the Loan
as provided in Clauses 3 and 4 or shall constitute a manner of
postponement thereof.
(F) The Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorise the Bank to make from the
Earnings Account any and all above payments and repayments as and when
the same fall due or at any time thereafter.
(G) The Borrowers will comply with any written requirement of the Bank
from time to time as to the location or re-location of each the
Earnings Account and the Retention Account (or any of them) and will
from time to time enter into such documentation as the Bank may
require in order to create or maintain in favour of the Bank a
security interest in each Earnings Account and the Retention Account,
all at cost and expense of the Borrowers.
(H) The Borrowers hereby covenant with the Bank that the Earnings
Accounts, the Retention Account and any moneys therein shall not be
charged, assigned, transferred or pledged nor shall there be granted
by the Borrowers or suffered to arise any third party rights over or
against the whole or any part of the Earnings Accounts and/or the
Retention Account other than in favour of the Bank.
(I) The Earnings Accounts shall be operated in accordance with the Bank's
usual terms and conditions (full knowledge of which each of the
Borrowers hereby acknowledges) and subject to the Bank's usual charges
levied on such accounts and/or transactions conducted on such accounts
(as from time to time notified by the Bank to the Borrowers).
(J) The Borrowers hereby warrant that sufficient monies to meet the next
Repayment Instalment plus interest thereon will be accumulated each
and every month in the Retention Account.
(K) After the occurrence of an Event of Default the balance (if any)
including any accrued interest standing to the credit of the Earnings
Accounts and the Retention Account shall be applied in accordance with
the provisions of Clause 11.3.
(L) Upon payment in full of all principal, interest and all other amounts
due to the Bank under the terms of this Agreement and the other
Security Documents, any balance then standing to the credit of the
Retention Account and/or the Earnings Accounts
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shall be released and paid to the Borrowers or to whomsoever else may
be entitled to receive such balance.
12. UNLAWFULNESS, INCREASED COSTS
12.1 UNLAWFULNESS
If any change in, or introduction of, any law, regulation or regulatory
requirement or any request of any central bank, monetary, regulatory or
other authority or any order of any court renders it unlawful or contrary
to any such regulation, requirement, request or order for the Bank to
advance the Commitment or any Advance as the case may be, or to maintain or
fund the Loan, notice shall be given promptly by the Bank to the Borrowers
whereupon the Commitment shall be reduced to zero and the Borrowers shall
prepay the Loan in accordance with such notice, together with accrued
interest thereon to the date of prepayment and all other sums payable by
the Borrowers under this Agreement.
12.2 INCREASED COST
If, as a result of (a) any change in or in the interpretation of any law,
regulation or official directive (whether or not having the force of law)
by any governmental authority in any country, the laws or regulations of
which are applicable on the Bank, or (b) compliance by the Bank with any
request from any applicable fiscal or monetary authority (whether or not
having the force of law), or (c) any other set of circumstances affecting
the Bank including (without limitation) those relating to Taxation, capital
adequacy, liquidity, reserve assets, cash ratio deposits and special
deposits and/or those resulting from the implementation of any amendment of
the "1988 Basle convergence agreement" or any amendatory or substitute
agreement thereof:
(A) the cost to the Bank of making the Commitment or any part thereof or
maintaining or funding the Loan is increased; or
(B) the basis of Taxation (other than the basis of taxation of the overall
net income of the Bank) of payments to the Bank of principal or of
interest on any amounts advanced by it is changed; or
(C) any reserve or liquidity requirements are imposed, modified or deemed
applicable against assets held by or commitments of deposits in or for
the account of, or loans by or commitments of the Bank; or
(D) any other condition is imposed upon the Bank in respect of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Security
Documents,
then the Borrowers shall pay to the Bank, from time to time, upon demand,
such additional moneys as shall indemnify the Bank for any increased cost,
reduction in principal or interest receivable or other sums which the Bank
will collect pursuant to this Agreement.
12.3 CLAIM FOR INCREASED COST
The Bank will promptly notify the Borrowers of any intention to claim
indemnification pursuant to Clause 12.2 and such notification will be a
conclusive and full evidence binding on the Borrowers as to the amount of
any increased cost or reduction and the method of calculating the same. A
claim under Clause 12.2 may be made at any time and must be discharged by
the Borrowers within fourteen (14) days of demand. It shall not be a
defence to a claim by the Bank under this Clause 12.2 that any increased
cost or reduction could have been avoided by the Bank. Any amount due from
the Borrowers under Clause 12.2 shall be due as a separate debt and shall
not be affected by judgement being obtained for any other sums due under or
in respect of this Agreement.
12.4 OPTION TO PREPAY
If any additional amounts are required to be paid by the Borrowers to the
Bank by virtue of Clause 12.2, the Borrowers shall be entitled, on giving
the Bank not less than fourteen (14) days prior notice in writing, to
prepay the Loan and accrued interest thereon, together with all
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other Outstanding Indebtedness, on the next Repayment Date. Any such
notice, once giver shall be irrevocable.
13. GENERAL
13.1 ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, CHANGE OF LENDING BRANCH
(A) BINDING EFFECT
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the
Bank and the Borrowers and their respective successors and assigns.
(B) NO ASSIGNMENT BY THE BORROWERS
The Borrowers and any other parties to the Security Documents may not
assign any rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any of
the other Security Documents or any documents executed pursuant to
this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents.
(C) ASSIGNMENT BY THE BANK
The Bank may at any time assign, transfer or offer participations to
any affiliated company of the EFG Group or, with the prior written
consent of the Borrowers, such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld, to other banks or financial institutions in whole or in
part, or in any manner dispose of all or any of its rights and/or
obligations arising or accruing under this Agreement or any of the
other Security Documents or any documents executed pursuant to this
Agreement and/or the other Security Documents. The Bank may disclose
to a potential assignee, transferee or participant or to any other
person who may propose entering into contractual relations with the
Bank in relation to this Agreement such information about the
Borrowers and the Security Parties as the Bank shall consider
appropriate.
(D) DOCUMENTATION
If the Bank assigns, transfers or in any other manner grants
participation in respect of all or any part of its rights or benefits
or transfers all or any of its obligations as provided in this Clause
13.1 each of the Borrowers undertakes, immediately on being requested
to do so by the Bank, to enter into and procure that each Security
Party enters into such documents as may be necessary or desirable to
transfer to the assignee, transferee or participant all or the
relevant part of the interest of the Bank in the Security Documents
and all relevant references in this Agreement to the Bank shall
thereafter be construed as a reference to the Bank and/or assignee,
transferee or participant of the Bank to the extent of their
respective interests and, in the case of a transfer of all or part of
the obligations of the Bank, the Borrowers shall thereafter look only
to the assignee, transferee or participant in respect of that
proportion of the obligations of the Bank under this Agreement assumed
by such assignee, transferee or participant. Each of the Borrowers
hereby expressly consents to any subsequent transfer of the rights and
obligations of the Bank and undertakes that it shall join in and
execute such supplemental or substitute agreements as may be necessary
to enable the Bank to assign and/or transfer and/or grant
participation in respect of its rights and obligations to another
branch or to one or more banks or financial institutions in a
syndicate or otherwise.
(E) DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
The Bank may without the consent of the Borrowers, disclose (on a
confidential basis) to a prospective assignee, substitute or
transferee or to any other person who may propose entering into
contractual relations with the Bank in relation to this Agreement such
information about the Borrowers and the other Security Parties as the
Bank shall consider appropriate.
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(F) CHANGE OF LENDING BRANCH
The Bank shall be at liberty to transfer the Loan to any branch or
branches, and upon notification of any such transfer, the word "Bank"
in this Agreement and in the other Security Documents shall mean the
Bank, acting through such branch or branches and the terms and
provisions of this Agreement and of the other Security Documents shall
be construed accordingly.
13.2 CUMULATIVE REMEDIES
The rights and remedies of the Bank contained in this Agreement and the
other Security Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of each other nor
of any other rights or remedies conferred by law.
13.3 WAIVERS
No delay or omission by the Bank to exercise any right, remedy or power
vested in the Bank under this Agreement and/or the other Security Documents
or by law shall impair such right or power, or be construed as a waiver of,
or as an acquiescence in any default by the Borrowers and/or any other
Security Party, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Bank of any
power, right or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or
the exercise of any other power, right or remedy. In the event of the Bank
on any occasion agreeing to waive any such right, remedy or power, or
consent to any departure from the strict application of the provisions of
this Agreement or of any Security Document, such waiver shall not in any
way prejudice or affect the powers conferred upon the Bank under this
Agreement and the other Security Documents or the right of the Bank
thereafter to act strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and the other Security Documents. No modification or waiver by the Bank of
any provision of this Agreement or of any of the other Security Documents
nor any consent by the Bank to any departure therefrom by any Security
Party shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and then shall
only be effective in the specific case and for the specific purpose for
which given. No notice to or demand on any such party in any such case
shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in
similar or other circumstances.
13.4 INTEGRATION OF TERMS
This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties and its
provisions supersede the provisions of the Commitment Letter dated 26th
April, 2005 addressed by the Bank to the Manager (save for the provisions
thereof which relate to fees) and any and all other prior correspondence
and oral negotiation by the parties in respect of the matters regulated by
this Agreement.
13.5 AMENDMENTS
This Agreement and any other Security Documents shall not be amended or
varied in their respective terms by any oral agreement or representation or
in any other manner other than by an instrument in writing of even date
herewith or subsequent hereto executed by or on behalf of the parties
hereto or thereto.
13.6 INVALIDITY OF TERMS
In the event of any provision contained in one or more of this Agreement,
the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant
hereto or thereto being invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect
under any applicable law in any jurisdiction whatsoever, such provision
shall be ineffective as to the jurisdiction only without affecting the
remaining provisions hereof or thereof. If, however, this event becomes
known to the Bank prior to the Drawdown of the Commitment or of any part
thereof the Bank shall be entitled to refuse drawdown until this
discrepancy is remedied. Where, however, the provisions of any such
applicable law may be waived, they are hereby waived by the parties hereto
to the full extent permitted by the law to the intent that this Agreement,
the other Security Documents and any other documents executed pursuant
hereto or thereto shall be deemed to be valid binding and enforceable in
accordance with their respective terms.
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13.7 INCONSISTENCY OF TERMS
In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement
and the provisions of a Security Document the provisions of this Agreement
shall prevail.
13.8 LANGUAGE AND GENUINENESS OF DOCUMENTS
(A) LANGUAGE
All certificates, instruments and other documents to be delivered
under or supplied in connection with this Agreement or any of the
other Security Documents shall be in the Greek or the English language
(or such other language as the Bank shall agree) or shall be
accompanied by a certified Greek translation upon which the Bank shall
be entitled to rely.
(B) CERTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS
Any copies of documents delivered to the Bank shall be duly certified
as true, complete and accurate copies by appropriate authorities or
legal counsel practising in Greece or otherwise as it will be
acceptable to the Bank at the sole discretion of the Bank.
(C) CERTIFICATION OF SIGNATURE
Signatures on Board or shareholder resolutions, Secretary's
certificates and any other documents are, at the discretion of the
Bank, to be verified for their genuineness by appropriate Consul or
other competent authority.
13.9 NOTICES
Every notice, request, demand or other communication under the Agreement
or, unless otherwise provided therein, any of the Security Documents shall.
(A) be in writing delivered personally or be first-class prepaid letter
(airmail if available), or cable or shall be served through a process
server or subject to Clause 10.7 by telex or fax;
(B) be deemed to have been received, subject as otherwise provided in this
Agreement or the relevant Security Document, in the case of a telex,
at the time of despatch with confirmed answerback of the addressee
appearing at the beginning and end of the communication, in the case
of fax, at the time of dispatch as per transmission report (provided
that if the date of despatch is not a business day in the country of
the addressee it shall be deemed to have been received at the opening
of business on the next such business day), in the case of a cable 24
hours after despatch and in the case of a letter when delivered or
served personally or five (5) days after it has been put into the
post; and
(C) be sent:
(I) if to be sent to any Security Party, to:
x/x xxx Xxxxxxx
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx xxx
Xxxxxxxx Center
Maroussi 151 24
Athens
Telex No.: 210501 EUBU GR
Fax No.: (+30210)0000000
Attention : Xx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
(II) if to be sent to the Bank, to
EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Fax No. : (x00000)00 00000
Attention : The Manager
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or to such other person, address, telex or fax number as is notified
by the relevant Security Party or the Bank (as the case may be) to the
other parties to this Agreement and, in the case of any such change of
address, telex or fax number notified to the Bank, the same shall not
become effective until notice of such change is actually received by
the Bank and a copy of the notice of such change is signed by the Bank
13.10 PROCESS AGENT
Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, attorney-at-law, of 2 II Xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx, 000 00
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, is hereby appointed by the Borrowers as agent to accept
service (hereinafter called the "PROCESS AGENT") upon whom any judicial or
extrajudicial process may be served (including but without limitation any
documents initiating legal proceedings) and any notice, request, demand
payment order, announcement of claim, any enforcement process or other
communication under this Agreement or any of the Security Documents. In the
event that the Process Agent (or any substitute process agent notified to
the Bank in accordance with the foregoing) cannot be found at the address
specified above (or, as the case may be, notified to the Bank), which will
be conclusively proved by the affidavit of a process server to that effect,
the authority of the Process Agent as agent to accept service shall be
deemed to have ceased and service of documents may be effected in
accordance with the procedure provided by the relevant provisions on
service of process provided by the Hellenic Procedural Code. In case,
however, that such Process Agent is found at any other address, the Bank
shall have the right to serve the documents either on the Process Agent at
such address or in accordance with the procedure provided by the relevant
law.
13.11 CONFIDENTIALITY
(A) Each of the parties hereto agree and undertake to keep confidential
any documentation and any confidential information concerning the
business, affairs, directors or employees of the other which comes
into its possession during this Agreement and not to use any such
documentation, information for any purpose other than for which it was
provided.
(B) Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and accepts that the Bank may be
required by law or that it may be appropriate for the Bank to disclose
information and deliver documentation relating to the Borrowers and
the transactions and matters in relation to this Agreement and/or the
other Security Documents to governmental or regulatory agencies and
authorities.
(C) Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and accepts that in case of
occurrence of any of the Events of Default the Bank may disclose
information and deliver documentation relating to the Borrowers and
the transactions and matters in relation to this Agreement and/or the
other Security Documents to third parties to the extend that this is
necessary for the enforcement or the contemplation of enforcement of
the Bank's rights or for any other purpose for which in the opinion of
the Bank, such disclosure should be useful or appropriate for the
interests of the Bank or otherwise and each of the Borrowers expressly
authorise any such disclosure and delivery.
(D) Each of the Borrowers acknowledges and accepts that the Bank may be
prohibited or it may be inappropriate for the Bank to disclose
information to the Borrowers by reason of law or duties of
confidentiality owed or to be owed to other persons.
13.12 THIRD PARTY RIGHTS
No term of this Agreement is enforceable under the Contracts (Rights of
Third Parties, Act 1999 by a person who is not a party to this Agreement.
14. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
14.1 LAW
(A) This Agreement 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 the Loan Agreement
will be proved by an affidavit of a
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solicitor from an English law firm to be appointed by the Bank and the
said affidavit shall constitute full and conclusive evidence binding
on the Borrowers.
14.2 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION - AGENT
(A) For the exclusive benefit of the Bank, each of the Borrowers agrees
that any legai action or proceedings arising out or in connection with
this Agreement against the Borrowers or any of them or any of their
respective assets may be brought in the English Courts. Each of the
Borrowers irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction
of such courts and irrevocably designates, appoints and empowers
Messrs. Hill Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Services (att: Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx),
whose present address is at Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxx'x Xxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X
0XX, Xxxxxxx, to receive for it and on its behalf, service of process
issued out of the English courts in any such legal action or
proceedings. Provided, however, that each of the Borrowers further
agrees that in the event that (i) Messrs. Hill Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Services close or fail to maintain a business presence in England, or
(ii) the Bank, in its sole discretion, shall determine that service of
process on the said agents is not feasible or may be insufficient
under the Laws of England, then any summons, writ or other legal
process issued against them in England may be served upon Messrs. The
Law Debenture Corporation Ltd., currently located at Xxxxxx Xxxxx, 00,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0, Xxxxxxx, (hereinafter called the "PROCESS
AGENT FOR ENGLISH PROCEEDINGS"), or their successors, who are hereby
authorised to accept such service, which shall be deemed to be good
service on the Borrowers. The Bank is hereby irrevocably appointed by
the Borrowers as the duly authorised attorney of the Borrowers and for
the purpose of appointing the Process Agent for English Proceedings as
provided herein. The appointment of the Process Agent for English
Proceedings shall be valid and binding from the date notice of such
appointment is given by the Bank to the Borrowers in accordance with
Clauses 13.9.
(B) The submission to the jurisdiction of the English Courts shall not
(and shall not be construed so as to) limit the right of the Bank to
take proceedings against the Borrowers (or any of them) in the courts
of any other competent jurisdiction nor shall the taking of
proceedings in any one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of
proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.
(C) The parties further agree that subject to Clause 14.2(b) the Courts of
England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any claim which
the Borrowers may have against the Bank arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement and each of the Borrowers hereby waives
any objections to proceedings with respect to this Agreement in such
courts on the grounds of venue or inconvenient forum.
14.3 PROCEEDINGS IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY
If it is decided by the Bank that any such proceedings should be commenced
in any other country, then any objections as to the jurisdiction or any
claim as to the inconvenience of the forum is hereby waived by each of the
Borrowers and it is agreed and undertaken by each of the Borrowers to
instruct lawyers in that country to accept service of legal process and not
to contest the validity of such proceedings as far as the jurisdiction of
the court or courts involved is concerned and each of the Borrowers agrees
that any judgment or order obtained in an English court shall be conclusive
and binding on the Borrowers and shall be enforceable without review in the
courts of any other jurisdiction.
14.4 In this Clause 14 "PROCEEDINGS" means proceedings of any kind, including an
application for a provisional or protective measure.
IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed the date first above written.
SIGNED by )
Xx. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx ) /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
for and on behalf of the First -------------------------------------
Borrower )
ALCINOE SHIPPING LIMITED )
of Cyprus in the presence of )
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-------------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney-at-law
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx xxx.,
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Tel. x00 000 0000000 -
Fax: x00 000 0000000
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SIGNED by )
Xx. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx ) /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
for and on behalf of the Second -------------------------------------
Borrower )
OCEANOPERA SHIPPING LIMITED )
of Cyprus, in the presence of )
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-------------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney-at-law
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx xxx.,
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Tel. x00 000 0000000 -
Fax: x00 000 0000000
SIGNED by )
Xx. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx ) /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
for and on behalf of the Third -------------------------------------
Borrower )
OCEANPRIDE SHIPPING LIMITED )
of Cyprus, in the presence of: )
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-------------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney-at-law
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx xxx.,
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Tel. x00 000 0000000 -
Fax: x00 000 0000000
SIGNED by
Xx. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx ) /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
for and on behalf of the Fourth -------------------------------------
Borrower )
SEAROUTE MARITIME LIMITED )
of Cyprus, in the presence of )
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-------------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney-at-law
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx xxx.,
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Tel. x00 000 0000000 -
Fax: x00 000 0000000
SIGNED by ) /s/ Harina Tzoutzouraki
Xxx. Xxxxxx Tzoutzouraki ) -------------------------------------
and Mrs. Xxxxxxxxx - Xxxxxxx Hydrfou )
for and on behalf of
EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A. ) /s/ Xxxxxxxxx - Xxxxxxx Hydrfou
in the presence of ) -------------------------------------
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-------------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney-at-law
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx xxx.,
000 00 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Tel. x00 000 0000000 -
Fax: x00 000 0000000
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SCHEDULE 1
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
This Schedule is an integral part of the Agreement to which it is attached.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Words and expressions used in this Schedule shall have the meanings given
thereto in the agreement to which this Schedule is attached and the
following expressions shall have the meanings listed below:
"APPROVED BROKERS" means such firm of insurance brokers, appointed by the
Owner, as may from time to time be approved by the Bank in writing for the
purposes of this Schedule;
"EXCESS RISKS" means the proportion (if any) of claims for general average,
salvage and salvage charges and under the ordinary collision clause not
recoverable in consequence of the value at which a vessel is assessed for
the purpose of such claims exceeding its insured value;
"INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS" means all the terms and conditions in this
Schedule or any other provision concerning Insurances in any other Clause
of the agreement to which this Schedule is attached and all such terms and
conditions are an integral part of the agreement to which they are
attached;
"INSURANCES" in respect of a vessel means all policies and contracts of
insurance (including, without limitation, all entries of such vessel in a
protection and indemnity, war risks or other mutual insurance association)
which are from time to time in place or taken out or entered into by or for
the benefit of the Owner owning such vessel (whether in the sole name of
its Owner or in the joint names of its Owner and the Bank) in respect of
such vessel and its earnings or otherwise howsoever in connection with such
vessel and all benefits of such policies and/or contracts (including all
claims of whatsoever nature and return of premiums);
"LOSS PAYABLE CLAUSES" means the provisions regulating the manner of
payment of sums receivable under the Insurances which are to be
incorporated in the relevant insurance document, such Loss Payable Clauses
to be in the forms set out in paragraph 4 of this Schedule, or such other
form as the Bank may from time to time agree in writing;
"OWNER" means the owner of a vessel which should be insured and be
maintained insured pursuant to these Insurance Requirements in accordance
with any agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached;
"PROTECTION AND INDEMNITY RISKS" means the usual risks covered by an
English protection and indemnity association including the proportion (if
any) not recoverable in the case of collision under the ordinary collision
clause; and
"WAR RISKS" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded from the
standard form of English marine policy by the free of capture and seizure
clause.
2. INSURANCES TO BE EFFECTED AND MAINTAINED
2.1 The insurance which must be effected and maintained in accordance with the
provisions of the agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are
attached should be in the name of the Owner and as follows:
(A) HULL AND MACHINERY
insurance against fire and usual marine risks on an agreed value
basis, on a full cover/all risks basis according to English or
American Hull Clauses with a reasonable deductible and upon such terms
as shall from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank; and
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(B) WAR RISKS INSURANCE
insurance against War risks according to the London Institute War
Clauses, on an agreed value basis attaching also the so called war
protection clauses. In this case crew war liabilities insurance shall
also have to be effected separately; and
(C) INCREASED VALUE
increased Value insurance (Total Loss only, including Excess
Liabilities) as per the applicable English or American Institute
Clauses (Disbursement/Increased Value/Excess Liabilities) up to an
amount not exceeding the Insurance Amount specified in Clause 3.3
below; and
(D) PROTECTION AND INDEMNITY
insurance against protection and indemnity risks for the full value
and tonnage of the vessel insured (as approved in writing by the Bank)
according to the relevant rules and deductibles provided thereof for
all risks including Pollution (and if the vessel is passenger ship
including liability towards third parties which is not covered by the
War Risk Insurance) insured by P + 1 Clubs, members of the
International Group of Protection and Indemnity Associations. If any
risks are excluded or the deductibles as provided by the rules have
been altered, the written consent of the Bank shall have to be
previously required. In case that crew liabilities (including without
limitation loss of life, injury or illness) have been entirely
excluded from the association cover or insured on a deductible excess
basis, (always subject to the prior written consent of the Bank) such
liabilities shall have to be further insured separately with other
underwriters acceptable to the Bank and upon such terms as shall from
time to time be approved in writing by the Bank; and
(E) FD & D INSURANCE
Freight, Demurrage and Defence insurance as per the terms and
conditions of a mutual club or association acceptable to the Bank; and
(F) POLLUTION LIABILITY INSURANCE
an extra insurance in respect of excess Oil Pollution Liability
(including -if the vessel insured is a tanker- the Civil Liability
Convention certificate) including full cover of pollution risks for
the amount up to the maximum commercially available limit and upon
such terms as shall be commercially available and accepted by the
Bank; and
(G) USA POLLUTION RISK INSURANCE
(in case that the vessel is scheduled to operate within or nearby USA
jurisdiction) to cover and keep such vessel covered with an extra
insurance in respect of oil pollution liability for an amount and upon
such terms as required by international and national law regulations
and shall from time to time be required by the Bank; and
(H) MORTGAGEE'S INTEREST INSURANCE
Mortgagees' Interest Insurance which shall be effected by the Bank in
its name but at the expense of the Borrowers and in an amount equal to
120% of the amount of the Loan including Mortgagees' asset protection
(pollution) cover or other similar insurance in respect of any
pollution claims against each Vessel under the so called "German
wording" for 360 days or upon such terms as shall from time to time be
determined by the Bank; and
(I) OTHER INSURANCE
insurance in respect of such other matters of whatsoever nature and
howsoever arising in respect of which the Bank would at any time
require at its discretion the vessel to be insured.
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3. TERMS AND OBLIGATIONS FOR EFFECTING AND MAINTAINING INSURANCES
3.1 The Insurances to be effected in such currency as the Bank may approve and
through the Approved Brokers (other than the mortgagee's interest insurance
which shall be effected through brokers nominated by the Bank) and with
such insurance companies and/or underwriters as shall from time to time be
approved in writing by the Bank, provided however that the insurances
against war risks, protection and indemnity, FD & D cover or other mutual
insurance risks may be effected by the entry of the vessel with such war,
protection and indemnity or other mutual insurance associations as shall
from time to time be approved in writing by the Bank.
3.2 The Insurances to be effected and maintained free of cost and expense to
the Bank and in the sole name of the relevant Owner or, if so required by
the Bank, in the joint names of the relevant Owner and the Bank (but
without liability on the part of the Bank for premiums or calls). All
insurances to be in form and substance and under terms satisfactory to the
Bank and with insurers acceptable to the Bank.
3.3 Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Bank:
(A) The amount in respect of which the Insurances should be effected shall
be an amount (Insurance Amount) which will be (aa) in respect of each
of Hull and Machinery and War Risks Insurances the greater of the
aggregate market value of the Vessels insured for the time being and
120% of an amount (the "Amount of Debt") equal to (i) the Loan if the
agreement to which these Insurance Requirements are attached is a Loan
Agreement or (ii) the Maximum Limit of the Facility if the agreement
to which these Insurance Requirements are attached is an Overdraft
Facility or a Facility for Issue of Guarantees or Letters of Credit;
and (bb) in respect of Mortgagee's Interest Insurance and/or
Mortgagee's Asset Additional Perils (Pollution), 120% of the Amount of
Debt.
(B) In case that the Amount of Debt is secured by more than one vessels
the above percentages should be covered by the aggregate of the
Insurances in respect of all such vessels.
(C) In case that the vessel insured secures by its Insurances Amounts of
Debt under more than one agreements then the above percentages apply
to the aggregate of all the Amounts of Debt under all the agreements.
3.4 Any person which is obliged under the agreement to which these Insurance
Requirements are attached to effect and maintain the Insurances, it will be
obliged and it hereby undertakes, jointly and severally with any other
person having the same obligation to (and will ensure that the Owner, if it
is a different person shall):
(A) procure and ensure that the Approved Brokers and/or the Club Managers,
as the case may be, shall send to the Bank a letter of undertaking in
respect of the Insurances in form and substance satisfactory to the
Bank and Notice of Cancellation as per Clause 4(d) below. The Approved
Brokers' Letter of Undertaking shall be compatible with the form
recommended by Lloyd's Insurance Brokers Committee, or any subsequent
LIBC form. Such brokers to further undertake to give immediate notice
of any insurance being subject to the Condition Survey Warranty
(X.X.115) and/or Structural Conditions Warranty (X.X.722) and/or the
Classification Clause (Hulls) 29/6/89, 30 days prior to the attachment
date of any insurance bearing any of these warranties.
(B) (if any of the Insurances form part of a fleet cover), procure that
the Approved Brokers shall undertake to the Bank that they shall
neither set off against any claims in respect of the vessel insured
any premiums due in respect of other vessels under such fleet cover or
any premiums due for other insurances, nor cancel the insurance for
reasons of non-payment of premiums for other vessels under such fleet
cover or of premiums for such other insurances, and shall undertake to
issue a separate policy in respect of the vessel insured if and when
so requested by the Bank;
(C) punctually pay all premiums, calls, contributions or other sums
payable in respect of all Insurances and produce all relevant receipts
or other evidence of payment when so required by the Bank;
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(D) at least fourteen (14) days before the Insurances expire, notify the
Bank of the names of the brokers and/or the war risks and protection
and indemnity risks associations proposed to be employed by the
relevant Owner for the purposes of the renewal of such Insurances and
of the amounts in which such Insurances are proposed to be renewed and
the risks to be covered and, subject to compliance with any
requirements of the Bank under the Insurance Requirements, procure
that appropriate instructions for the renewal of such Insurances on
the terms so specified are given to the Approved Brokers and/or to the
approved war risks and protection and indemnity risks associations at
least ten (10) days before the relevant Insurances expire, and that
the Approved Brokers and/or the approved war risks and protection and
indemnity risks associations will at least seven (7) days before such
expiry (or within such shorter period as the Bank may from time to
time agree) confirm in writing to the Bank as and when such renewals
have been effected in accordance with the instructions so given;
(E) arrange for the execution and delivery of such guarantees or
indemnities as may from time to time be required by any protection and
indemnity or war risks association;
(F) deposit with the Approved Brokers (or procure the deposit of) all
slips, cover notes, policies, certificates of entry or other
instruments of insurance from time to time issued and procure that the
interest of the Bank shall be endorsed thereon by incorporation of the
relevant Loss Payable Clause and by means of a notice of assignment
(signed by the Owner) in the form set out in Paragraph 4 of this
Schedule or in such other form as may from time to time be agreed in
writing by the Bank, and that the Bank shall be furnished with pro
forma copies thereof and a letter or letters of undertaking from the
Approved Brokers in such form as shall from time to time be required
by the Bank;
(G) procure that any protection and indemnity and/or war risks
associations and/or Hull and Machinery and/or any other insurance
company or underwriters in which the vessel insured is for the time
being entered and/or insured shall endorse the relevant Loss Payable
Clause on the relevant certificate of entry or policy and shall
furnish the Bank with a copy of such certificate of entry or policy
and a letter or letters of undertaking in such form as shall from time
to time be required by the Bank;
(h) (if so requested by the Bank, but at the cost of the Owner) furnish
the Bank from time to time with a detailed report signed by an
independent firm of marine insurance brokers appointed by the Bank
dealing with the Insurances maintained on the vessel insured and
stating the opinion of such firm as to the adequacy thereof;
(I) do all things necessary and provide all documents, evidence and
information to enable the Bank to collect or recover any moneys which
shall at any time become due in respect of the Insurances;
(J) ensure that the vessel insured shall not be employed otherwise than in
conformity with the terms of the Insurances (including any warranties
express or implied therein) without first obtaining the consent of the
insurers to such employment and complying with such requirements as to
extra premium or otherwise as the insurers may prescribe;
(K) apply all sums receivable under the Insurances which are paid to the
Owner in accordance with the Loss Payable Clauses in repairing all
damage and/or in discharging the liability in respect of which such
sums shall have been received; and
(L) (in case that the vessel is scheduled to operate or operates within or
nearby USA jurisdiction) make all the Protection & Indemnity Club US
Voyage Quarterly Declarations for each quarter in time and send copies
of same to the Bank.
3.5 Fleet Cover is permitted only subject to the prior written approval of the
Bank, to the conditions set out in 3.4(b) above and the Bank's prior
express written approval of fleet aggregate deductibles.
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4. LOSS PAYABLE CLAUSES AND CANCELLATION CLAUSE
The Loss Payable Clauses to be attached to the relevant Insurances should
be substantially in the following form:
(A) HULL AND MACHINERY (MARINE AND WAR RISKS)
It is noted that by a Deed of General Assignment and a first
preferred/priority ______________ ship Mortgage and a Deed of covenant
supplemental thereto, both dated ______________, 2005 granted by
______________, of ______________ (the "Owner") in favour of EFG EUROBANK
ERGASIAS S.A., acting through its office at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx (the "Mortgagee") all the Owner's rights, title and interest in and
to all policies and contracts of insurance from time to time taken out or
entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner including all claims of
whatsoever nature and return or premia in respect of the ______________
flag m/v "______________" and accordingly:
(A) all claims hereunder in respect of an actual or constructive or
compromised or arranged total loss, and all claims in respect of a
major casualty (that is to say any casualty the claim in respect of
which exceeds $100,000 inclusive of any deductible) shall be paid in
full to the Mortgagee or to its order; and
(B) all other claims hereunder shall be paid in full to the Owner or to
its order, unless and until the Mortgagee shall have notified the
insurers hereunder to the contrary, whereupon all such claims shall be
paid to the Mortgagee or to its order.
(B) PROTECTION AND INDEMNITY RISKS
Payment of any recovery which ______________, of ______________ (the
"Owner") is entitled to make out of the funds of the Association in respect
of any liability, costs or expenses incurred by the Owner, shall be made to
the Owner or to its order, unless and until the Association receives notice
to the contrary from EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A., acting through its office
at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the "Mortgagee") in which event all
recoveries shall thereafter be paid to the Mortgagee or to its order;
provided that no liability whatsoever shall attach to the Association, its
managers or its agents for failure to comply with the latter obligation
until the expiry of two clear business days from the receipt of such
notice.
4.2 NOTICE OF CANCELLATION
The Owner to procure that Notice of Cancellation of Insurances be given to
the Mortgagee along the following terms:
Notice of Cancellation of Insurances will be given to EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS
S.A., acting through its office at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the
"Mortgagee") in any of the following cases:
(A) immediately of any material changes which are proposed to be made in
the terms of the Insurances or if the insurers cease to be insurers
for any purposes connected with the Insurances;
(B) not later than fourteen (14) days prior to the expiry of any of the
Insurances if instructions have not been received for the renewal
thereof and, in the event of instructions being received to renew, of
the details thereof;
(C) immediately of any instructions or notices received by insurers with
regard to the cancellation or invalidity of any of the Insurances
aforesaid; and
(D) immediately if the insurers give notice of their intention to cancel
the Insurances, provided that the insurers will not exercise any
rights of cancellation by reason of unpaid premiums without giving the
Bank fourteen (14) days, from the receipt of such notice in which to
remit the sums due.
4.3 NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT
The Notice of Assignment shall be in the following form:
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FORM OF NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT - FIRST MORTGAGE
(for attachment by way of endorsement to the Policy)
________________, of ________________ (the "Owner") the owner of the m/v
"________________" registered under ________________ flag, (the "Vessel")
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that by a first priority Deed of General Assignment made
the ______ day of ____________, 2005 and entered into by us with EFG
EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A., acting through its office at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (the "Mortgagee") there has been assigned by us to the
Mortgagee, as First Mortgagee and first assignee of the Vessel all rights,
title and interest in and to all policies and contracts of insurance from
time to time taken out or entered into by or for the benefit of the Owner,
all insurances in respect thereof, including the insurances constituted by
the Policy whereon this notice is endorsed and the Owner has authorised the
Mortgage to have access and/or obtain any copies of the Policy(ies),
certificate(s) of entry and/or other information from the insurers.
Dated ____________, 2005
For and on behalf of
The Owner
By:
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Attorney-in-fact
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SCHEDULE 2
FORM OF DRAWDOWN NOTICE
(referred to in Clause 2.2)
To: EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
(the "Bank")
________ May, 2005
Re: US$13,500,000 Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated ______ May, 2005
made between (1) the Bank, as lender, (2) Alcione Shipping Limited, Oceanopera
Shipping Limited, Oceanpride Shipping Limited and Searoute Maritime Limited, all
of Cyprus as joint and several borrowers (the "Borrowers")
We refer to the Loan Agreement and hereby give you notice that we wish to draw
the ______________ Commitment in the amount of $( _______ _______ _______)
(Dollars _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______) on _______
May, 2005. We select a first Interest Period in respect of the Loan of _______
months/terminating on __________ _____, 2005 _______ The funds should be
credited to the Retention Account/[name and no. of account] with [_______]
We confirm that:
(i) no event or circumstance has occurred and is continuing which constitutes a
Default;
(ii) the representations and warranties contained in Clause 6 of the Loan
Agreement and the representations and warranties contained in each of the
Security Documents are true and correct at the date hereof as if made with
respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such date;
(iii) the borrowing to be effected by the drawing 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;
(iv) there has been no change in the ownership, management, operations or
financial condition of any of the Security Parties from that previously
disclosed to the Bank in writing other than _______ _______ _______ _______
_______ _______
Words and expressions defined in the Loan Agreement shall have the same meanings
when used herein.
SIGNED by )
Mr. )
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for and on behalf of the First Borrower )
ALCINOE SHIPPING LIMITED, of Cyprus )
SIGNED by )
Mr. )
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for and on behalf of the Second Borrower )
OCEANOPERA SHIPPING LIMITED, of Cyprus )
SIGNED by )
Mr. )
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for and on behalf of the Third Borrower )
OCEANPRIDE SHIPPING LIMITED, of Cyprus )
SIGNED by )
Mr. )
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for and on behalf of the Fourth Borrower )
SEAROUTE MARITIME LIMITED, of Cyprus )
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