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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)  

ý

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2003

or

o

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                             to                              

Commission file number 1-7560


SEA CONTAINERS LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Bermuda
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
  98-0038412
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

22 Victoria Street, P.O. Box HM 1179, Hamilton HMEX, Bermuda
(Address of principal executive offices)

 



(zip code)

441-295-2244
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

        Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý    No o

        Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (under Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ý    No o

        As of October 31, 2003, 19,507,899 Class A common shares and 14,414,195 Class B common shares of Sea Containers Ltd. were outstanding including 12,900,000 Class B shares owned by a subsidiary.





PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets

 
  September 30,
2003
(unaudited)

  December 31,
2002

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Assets            
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 130,813   $ 218,022
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $10,468 and $9,365     191,145     134,036
Prepaid expenses and other     53,214     53,860
Asset sale receivables     39,204     35,844
Advances on asset purchase contracts     9,190     5,242
Containers at cost, less accumulated depreciation of $527,125 and $512,724     509,751     551,712
Ships at cost, less accumulated depreciation of $121,592 and $140,897     1,102,352     1,105,143
Assets under capital lease, less accumulated depreciation of $17,450 and $14,748     13,060     15,574
Real estate and other fixed assets at cost, less accumulated depreciation of $93,761 and $92,619     134,705     179,377
Inventories     46,806     46,061
Investments     311,022     288,570
Goodwill     11,814     31,867
Other intangible assets, net     88,108     90,591
Other assets     34,723     40,935
   
 
    $ 2,675,907   $ 2,796,834
   
 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Balance Sheets (continued)

 
  September 30,
2003
(unaudited)

  December 31,
2002

 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity              
Working capital facilities   $ 1,809   $ 1,651  
Accounts payable     124,862     143,454  
Accrued liabilities     305,497     268,063  
Manufacturer accounts payable, notes payable, bank loans and other purchase obligations in respect of containers     367,983     407,358  
Mortgage loans in respect of ships     595,313     579,849  
Obligations under capital leases     9,088     11,763  
Bank loans in respect of real estate and other fixed assets     189,640     264,036  
Senior notes     305,758     422,783  
Senior subordinated debentures     79,531     98,485  
Deferred revenue     12,566     11,025  
   
 
 
      1,992,047     2,208,467  
   
 
 
Minority interests     1,620     1,535  
   
 
 
Shareholders' equity:              
  Preferred shares $.01 par value (15,000,000 shares authorized):              
  Issued—150,000 $7.25 convertible cumulative preferred shares (liquidation value of $100 per share)     15,000     15,000  
  Class A common shares $.01 par value (60,000,000 shares authorized): Issued—19,503,890 shares (2002—19,500,115)     195     195  
  Class B common shares $.01 par value (60,000,000 shares authorized): Issued—14,416,895 shares (2002—14,419,614)     144     144  
Paid-in capital     389,707     389,693  
Retained earnings     860,580     761,364  
Accumulated other comprehensive loss     (192,125 )   (188,303 )
Less: reduction due to class B common shares acquired with voting rights by a subsidiary—12,900,000 shares at cost     (391,261 )   (391,261 )
   
 
 
Total shareholders' equity     682,240     586,832  
   
 
 
Commitments and contingencies          
   
 
 
    $ 2,675,907   $ 2,796,834  
   
 
 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Statements of Consolidated Operations (unaudited)

 
  Three months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

 
Revenue   $ 464,634   $ 540,705  
Other     15,505     5,595  
   
 
 
      480,139     546,300  
   
 
 
Expenses:              
  Depreciation and amortization     26,307     33,345  
  Operating     326,076     376,014  
  Selling, general and administrative     56,863     74,228  
   
 
 
Total expenses     409,246     483,587  
   
 
 
Gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges     60,000      
   
 
 
Earnings from operations before net finance costs     130,893     62,713  
  Interest expense (net of capitalized interest)     (21,202 )   (34,692 )
  Interest and related income     1,625     2,825  
   
 
 
  Net finance costs     (19,577 )   (31,867 )
   
 
 
Earnings before minority interests and income taxes     111,316     30,846  
Minority interests         (3,827 )
   
 
 
Earnings before income taxes     111,316     27,019  
Provision for income taxes     10,300     8,863  
   
 
 
Net earnings     101,016     18,156  
Preferred share dividends     272     272  
   
 
 
Net earnings on class A and class B common shares   $ 100,744   $ 17,884  
   
 
 
Earnings per class A and class B common share:              
  Basic   $ 4.79   $ 0.85  
   
 
 
  Diluted   $ 4.68   $ 0.84  
   
 
 
Dividends per class A common share   $ 0.025   $ 0.075  
   
 
 
Dividends per class B common share   $ 0.0225   $ 0.068  
   
 
 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Statements of Consolidated Operations (unaudited)

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

 
Revenue   $ 1,222,114   $ 1,207,654  
Other     29,404     19,884  
   
 
 
      1,251,518     1,227,538  
   
 
 
Expenses:              
  Depreciation and amortization     82,994     87,818  
  Operating     888,739     828,152  
  Selling, general and administrative     164,698     178,104  
   
 
 
Total expenses     1,136,431     1,094,074  
   
 
 
Gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges     60,000      
   
 
 
Earnings from operations before net finance costs     175,087     133,464  
  Interest expense (net of capitalized interest)     (75,388 )   (96,477 )
  Interest and related income     7,887     8,266  
   
 
 
  Net finance costs     (67,501 )   (88,211 )
   
 
 
Earnings before minority interests and income taxes     107,586     45,253  
Minority interests         (10,958 )
   
 
 
Earnings before income taxes     107,586     34,295  
Provision for income taxes     7,032     5,580  
   
 
 
Net earnings     100,554     28,715  
Preferred share dividends     816     816  
   
 
 
Net earnings on class A and class B common shares   $ 99,738   $ 27,899  
   
 
 
Earnings per class A and class B common share:              
  Basic   $ 4.74   $ 1.40  
   
 
 
  Diluted   $ 4.66   $ 1.40  
   
 
 
Dividends per class A common share   $ 0.025   $ 0.225  
   
 
 
Dividends per class B common share   $ 0.0225   $ 0.204  
   
 
 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows (unaudited)

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Cash flows from operating activities:              
  Net earnings on class A and class B common shares   $ 99,738   $ 27,899  
   
 
 
  Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash provided by operating activities:              
  Preferred share dividends     816     816  
  Depreciation and amortization     82,994     87,818  
  Gain on sale of ferry and other assets     (101,391 )   (3,906 )
  Undistributed earnings of affiliates, and non-cash items     (17,826 )   (7,112 )
  Non-recurring charges relating to asset write downs     25,000      
  Change in assets and liabilities net of effects from acquisition of subsidiaries:              
    (Increase)/decrease in receivables     (37,488 )   17,722  
    Increase in inventories     (1,491 )   (1,520 )
    Decrease in accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities     (11,096 )   (5,321 )
   
 
 
  Total adjustments     (60,482 )   88,497  
   
 
 
Net cash provided by operating activities     39,256     116,396  
   
 
 
Cash flows from investing activities:              
  Capital expenditures     (37,225 )   (109,386 )
  Acquisitions and investments, net of cash acquired         (91,388 )
  Net proceeds on sale of ferry and other fixed assets     222,654     6,011  
   
 
 
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities     185,429     (194,763 )
   
 
 
Cash flows from financing activities:              
  Issuance of common shares     14     109  
  Issuance of long-term debt     45,401     200,886  
  Sale of OEH shares by SCL         25,014  
  Principal payments under long-term debt     (121,241 )   (114,007 )
  Principal payments on disposal of ferry and other fixed assets     (109,799 )    
  Purchase and retirement of notes and debentures     (136,323 )   (9,700 )
  Payment of preferred share dividends     (816 )   (816 )
  Payment of common share dividends     (522 )   (4,326 )
   
 
 
      (323,286 )   97,160  
  Working capital facilities and redrawable loans drawn/(repaid), net     6,700     (68,715 )
   
 
 
Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities     (316,586 )   28,445  
   
 
 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents     4,692     6,468  
   
 
 
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents     (87,209 )   (43,454 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period     218,022     216,936  
   
 
 
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period   $ 130,813   $ 173,482  
   
 
 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Statement of Consolidated Shareholders' Equity (unaudited)

 
  Redeemable
Preferred
Shares at
Liquidation
Value

  Class A
Common
Shares
at Par
Value

  Class B
Common
Shares
at Par
Value

  Paid-in
Capital

  Retained
Earnings

  Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss

  Common
Shares
Held by
Subsidiary

  Total Com-
prehensive
Income

 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Balance, January 1, 2003   $ 15,000   $ 195   $ 144   $ 389,693   $ 761,364   $ (188,303 ) $ (391,261 )      
Issuance of class A common shares under dividend reinvestment plan                 14                    
Dividends on common shares                     (522 )              
Comprehensive income:                                                  
  Net earnings on common shares for the period                     99,738           $ 99,738  
  Other comprehensive loss                         (3,822 )       (3,822 )
                                             
 
                                              $ 95,916  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance, September 30, 2003   $ 15,000   $ 195   $ 144   $ 389,707   $ 860,580   $ (192,125 ) $ (391,261 )      
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
       

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Sea Containers Ltd. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

1.     Basis of financial statement presentation

(a)   Accounting policies

        For a description of significant accounting policies, see the Notes to the consolidated financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of the Company's 2002 Form 10-K annual report. "SFAS" means a Statement of Financial Accounting Standards and "FIN" means an accounting interpretation, both of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

        Certain reclassifications have been made to the 2002 financial statements to conform to the classifications in the 2003 financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002, which are all of a normal recurring nature, have been reflected in the information provided.

        For purposes of these Notes, the "Company" refers to Sea Containers Ltd., and "SCL" refers to Sea Containers Ltd. and its subsidiaries. "OEH" refers to Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., an equity investment of the Company engaged in the hotel and leisure business. "GE SeaCo" refers to GE SeaCo SRL, a container leasing joint venture company between the Company and General Electric Capital Corporation accounted for under the equity method. "GNER" refers to Great North Eastern Railway Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and operator of SCL's passenger rail franchise in Great Britain. "Silja" refers to Silja Oyj Abp, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company based in Finland engaged in ferry operations in the northern Baltic Sea.

(b)   Earnings per share

        The number of shares used in computing basic and diluted earnings per share was as follows:

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
  2003
  2002
 
  (in thousands)

Basic   21,021   19,922
Effect of dilution   536   24
   
 
Diluted   21,557   19,946
   
 
 
  Three months ended September 30,
 
  2003
  2002
Basic   21,021   21,014
Effect of dilution   572   496
   
 
Diluted   21,593   21,510
   
 

        The anti-dilutive effect of stock options on 33,383 and 116,549 shares, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002 and on 18,295 and 116,532 shares, respectively, for the three months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002 have been excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share. In addition, 478,622 common shares to be issued upon conversion of convertible preferred shares were also excluded from the nine months ended September 30, 2002 computation of diluted earnings because to do so would be anti-dilutive.

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(c)   Other

        Other in the statements of consolidated operations comprises gains/(losses) on asset sales, excluding the gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring changes, and earnings from unconsolidated companies.

        For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, gains/(losses) on asset sales were $6,392,000 (2002—$3,120,000). The 2003 gains related to a gain of $5,000,000 on the sale of land at the port of Newhaven and container asset disposal gains of $1,392,000. During 2002, $6,523,000 of gains related to the sale by the Company of OEH shares and $3,403,000 of losses related to container asset disposals.

        For the three months ended September 30, 2003, gains/(losses) on asset sales were $5,384,000 (2002—$(826,000)). The 2003 gains related to a gain of $5,000,000 on the sale of land at the port of Newhaven and container asset disposal gains of $384,000. During 2002, $1,031,000 of losses related to container asset disposals and $205,000 of gains related to the sale by the Company of OEH shares.

        Earnings from unconsolidated companies include SCL's share of the net earnings of its equity investments as well as interest income related to loans and advances to the equity investees.

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(d)   Stock-based compensation

        SCL's compensation cost for share options is measured as the excess, if any, of the quoted market price of the Company's shares at the date of the grant over the amount an employee must pay to acquire the shares, in accordance with the intrinsic value method under Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25. If compensation cost for the Company's stock option plans had been determined based on fair values as of the date of grant, SCL's net earnings and earnings per share would have been reported as follows:

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

 
Net earnings on common shares:              
  As reported   $ 99,738   $ 27,899  
  Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method, net of related tax     (253 )   (301 )
   
 
 
  Pro forma   $ 99,485   $ 27,598  
   
 
 
Basic and diluted earnings per share:              
  As reported:              
    Basic   $ 4.74   $ 1.40  
   
 
 
    Diluted   $ 4.66   $ 1.40  
   
 
 
  Pro forma:              
    Basic   $ 4.73   $ 1.39  
   
 
 
    Diluted   $ 4.65   $ 1.39  
   
 
 
 
  Three months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
Net earnings on common shares:              
  As reported   $ 100,744   $ 17,884  
  Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method, net of related tax     (70 )   (107 )
   
 
 
  Pro forma   $ 100,674   $ 17,777  
   
 
 
Basic and diluted earnings per share:              
  As reported:              
    Basic   $ 4.79   $ 0.85  
   
 
 
    Diluted   $ 4.68   $ 0.84  
   
 
 
  Pro forma:              
    Basic   $ 4.79   $ 0.85  
   
 
 
    Diluted   $ 4.67   $ 0.84  
   
 
 

        The pro forma figures in the preceding tables may not be representative of pro forma amounts in future years.

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2.     Gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges

        Included in Gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2003 are the following items:

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Gain on sale of ferry assets   $ 100,000
Non-recurring charges     40,000
   
Gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges   $ 60,000
   

(a)   Gain on sale of ferry assets

        On July 18, 2003, the Company completed the sale of its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Sea Containers Isle of Man Ltd., which was the holding company of SCL's Isle of Man Steam Packet ferry business (collectively "Steam Packet"). The sale was to Windwood Limited, a company unaffiliated with SCL and controlled by Montagu Private Equity Ltd., formerly the private equity arm of HSBC. Steam Packet operated passenger, vehicle and freight ferry services between the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea and England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The sale price was approximately $242,000,000, paid in cash, which resulted in a gain on sale of approximately $100,000,000. Under separate contractual agreements, SCL will continue to charter a vessel and provide certain administrative services to Steam Packet. SCL retains its remaining ferry service in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Scotland for which Steam Packet will provide certain administrative services also under separate contractual agreement.

(b)   Non-recurring charges

        As a result of the sale of Steam Packet and SCL's concurrent restructuring of its fast ferry business, an impairment evaluation was performed in accordance with the guidelines of SFAS No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets. This indicated that the carrying value of certain ship and ship-related assets exceeded the expected future cash flows attributable to these assets, resulting in an impairment. The total impairment charge recognized during the quarter was approximately $15,000,000 determined by taking the excess of the carrying value over the estimated fair value. Fair value was determined using estimated future discounted cash flows and external valuations where applicable.

        In connection with the restructuring of some of SCL's ferry routes, SCL recorded a severance charge of approximately $10,000,000, about $5,500,000 of which has been paid during the third quarter of 2003 with the remaining $4,500,000 expected to be paid during the fourth quarter of 2003.

        Other non-recurring charges of approximately $5,000,000 were incurred relating to the Company's exchange offers for a portion of its publicly-traded debt (see Note 7). These costs consisted of legal and other professional fees and were paid during the third quarter of 2003.

        In addition, during the third quarter of 2003 management implemented a plan to sell certain specifically identified container assets and applied the provisions of SFAS No. 144. This required that these assets be valued at the lower of their respective carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell. As a result, SCL recognized a charge of approximately $10,000,000. The carrying value of container assets held for sale at September 30, 2003 was approximately $16,000,000.

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3.     Acquisitions and investments; deconsolidation of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.

(a)   Acquisitions

        As reported in Note 3(a) to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report, during the second quarter of 1999, SCL purchased a 50% interest in Silja which was listed on the Helsinki Exchanges. The shareholders from whom SCL acquired this investment had options under the 1999 share purchase agreement to sell the balance of their shares in Silja to SCL exercisable in April 2002, representing an additional 25% of shares outstanding. These options were duly exercised and SCL purchased the shares at a total price of €40,299,000 ($37,954,000) paid in newly-issued class A common shares of the Company.

        On June 25, 2002, SCL launched a redemption offer for the remaining shares in Silja and for Silja's outstanding convertible subordinated bonds, which had an aggregate par value of €55,368,000. The offer was €2.25 for each common share and 92.4% of the par value of the bonds. The offer expired on August 26, 2002 and SCL acquired additional Silja shares, bringing its total shareholding to 97.2%, and €13,222,900 of the Silja bonds for an aggregate price of €43,398,000 ($42,654,000) paid in cash funded by bank loans. Any shares not tendered have been compulsorily acquired as permitted by Finnish law.

        This acquisition has been accounted for as a purchase in accordance with SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations. The results of Silja's operations have been included in the consolidated financial results of SCL from the date of acquisition (May 1, 2002), and the assets and liabilities of Silja have been recorded at their fair value at the date of acquisition. The pro forma impact on results, had this acquisition occurred on January 1, 2002, is not material.

(b)   Investments

        Investments represent equity interests of 20% to 50% in any unconsolidated company. SCL does not have effective control of these unconsolidated companies and, therefore, accounts for these investments using the equity method. SCL's principal equity investees are as follows:

GE SeaCo SRL

        GE SeaCo and its subsidiaries are engaged in the container leasing business. SCL and General Electric Capital Corporation each have a 50% interest in GE SeaCo. See Note 14 regarding transactions between SCL and GE SeaCo.

Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.

        OEH and its subsidiaries are engaged in the hotel and leisure business. During the fourth quarter of 2002, SCL sold sufficient common shares in OEH to reduce its equity interest in OEH below 50% to 47%. Prior to those sales, OEH was accounted for as a consolidated subsidiary of SCL. Thereafter, SCL began to account for the investment in OEH under the equity method of accounting. Note 2 to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report presents unaudited pro forma financial information of SCL as if this deconsolidation of OEH had occurred on January 1, 2002. As of September 30, 2003 and December 31, 2002, SCL had a 47% interest in OEH.

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        Summarized financial data of SCL's unconsolidated companies for the periods during which the investments were held by SCL are as follows:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Current assets   $ 216,481   $ 186,804
Property, plant and equipment, net     1,476,633     1,281,101
Other assets     228,364     172,171
   
 
Total assets   $ 1,921,478   $ 1,640,076
   
 
Current liabilities   $ 247,938   $ 206,558
Long-term debt     1,039,401     827,123
Other liabilities     10,125     32,390
Total shareholders' equity     624,014     574,005
   
 
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity   $ 1,921,478   $ 1,640,076
   
 
 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
  2003
  2002
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Revenue   $ 313,755   $ 176,583
   
 
Earnings from operations before net finance costs   $ 71,480   $ 31,902
   
 
Net earnings   $ 46,087   $ 18,519
   
 

4.     Real estate and other fixed assets

        The major classes of real estate and other fixed assets are as follows:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Freehold and leased land and buildings.   $ 120,835   $ 161,110
Machinery and equipment     54,357     60,448
Fixtures, fittings and office equipment     53,274     50,438
   
 
      228,466     271,996
Less: accumulated depreciation     93,761     92,619
   
 
    $ 134,705   $ 179,377
   
 

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5.     Intangible assets

        Intangible assets consist of the following:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Intangible assets not subject to amortization:              
  Goodwill   $ 11,814   $ 31,867  
  Trademarks     24,918     24,918  
  Other intangible assets at cost     37,181     37,091  
   
 
 
      73,913     93,876  
   
 
 
Intangible assets subject to amortization:              
  Other intangibles at cost     51,450     51,450  
  Less: accumulated amortization     (25,441 )   (22,868 )
   
 
 
      26,009     28,582  
   
 
 
Total   $ 99,922   $ 122,458  
   
 
 

        Amortization for the next five years is expected to be approximately $3,400,000 annually. The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 are as follows:

 
  Ferry
Operations

  Rail
Operations

  Container
Operations

  Leisure
Operations

  Other
Operations

  Total
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Balance as of January 1, 2003   $ 22,091   $   $ 5,665   $   $ 4,111   $ 31,867  
Sale of ferry assets     (20,145 )                   (20,145 )
Foreign currency translation                     92     92  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Balance as of September 30, 2003   $ 1,946   $   $ 5,665   $   $ 4,203   $ 11,814  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 

6.     Long-term debt (other than senior notes and senior subordinated debentures)

        Long-term debt consists of the following:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Container bank loans and purchase notes payable over periods of 2 to 8 years, with a weighted average interest rate of 3.42% and 3.86%, respectively   $ 367,983   $ 407,358
Ship mortgage loans payable over periods of 1 to 13 years, with a weighted average interest rate of 3.48% and 4.72%, respectively     595,313     579,849
Loans from banks secured by real estate and other fixed assets payable over periods of 1 to 9 years, with a weighted average interest rate of 4.93% and 6.62%, respectively     189,640     264,036
   
 
    $ 1,152,936   $ 1,251,243
   
 

        Several credit agreements of SCL have restrictive financial covenants. At September 30, 2003, SCL was in compliance with its covenants.

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        Included in long-term debt is a revolving credit facility with a group of banks secured by container equipment, a securitization facility with a nine-year term secured by other container equipment, and a revolving credit and term loan facility secured on Silja ship assets. At September 30, 2003, an aggregate of $652,540,000 (December 31, 2002— $758,572,000) was outstanding under these and related facilities. A securitization facility of Steam Packet in the amount of $101,500,000 was repaid in July 2003 using part of the Steam Packet sale proceeds.

        The following is a summary of the aggregate maturities of long-term debt at September 30, 2003. The 2004 amount includes $127,514,000 due under a bank-syndicated facility that SCL expects to refinance:

 
  Year ending December 31,
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

2003   $ 39,002
2004     272,015
2005     119,857
2006     121,466
2007     131,546
2008 and thereafter     469,050
   
    $ 1,152,936
   

        The interest rates on substantially all SCL's long-term debt are adjusted regularly to reflect current market rates. Accordingly, the carrying value of SCL's long-term debt at September 30, 2003 and December 31, 2002 was a reasonable estimate of its fair value.

        In addition, syndicates of banks have provided GE SeaCo with $156,454,000 of credit facilities to fund new container purchases. Also, a bankruptcy-remote subsidiary of GE SeaCo formed to facilitate asset securitization has a $375,000,000 container securitization facility. At September 30, 2003, GE SeaCo had borrowed $471,454,000 (December 31, 2002— $368,100,000) under these facilities, none of which is guaranteed by SCL.

        Also, SCL has guaranteed through 2005 a bank loan of OEH in the amount of $18,579,000 (December 31, 2002—$112,854,000), and through 2010 one half of a $8,344,000 (December 31, 2002—$8,879,000) bank loan to Speedinvest Ltd., owner of the Adriatic fast ferry in which SCL has a 50% interest.

7.     Senior notes and subordinated debentures

        The maturities relating to the senior notes and senior subordinated debentures of SCL are disclosed in Note 10 to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report.

        On May 28, 2003, SCL commenced an exchange offer of 13% senior notes due 2006 for its outstanding $158,798,000 principal amount of 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes due 2003 that matured on July 1, 2003. On the same date, SCL commenced an exchange offer of 121/2% senior notes due 2009 for its outstanding $98,883,000 principal amount of 121/2% senior subordinated debentures due 2004. The offer of 13% senior notes expired on June 27, 2003, and SCL accepted for exchange $22,475,000 of 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes into an equal principal amount of new 13% senior notes. The offer of 121/2% senior notes expired on July 23, 2003, and SCL accepted for exchange $19,154,000 of 121/2% debentures into an equal principal amount of new 121/2% senior notes. The balance of the 121/2% debentures remain outstanding and mature on December 1, 2004.

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        The balance of the 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes were repaid on July 1, 2003 with the proceeds of a one-year $158,000,000 secured bridge loan to SCL from a syndicate of banks. The primary security for this loan was the shares in Company subsidiaries whose assets were designated to be sold and the shares in OEH owned by SCL. Of this bridging loan, $120,000,000 was repaid from part of the proceeds from the sale of Steam Packet (see Note 2).

8.     Income taxes

        Income taxes provided by SCL relate principally to its foreign subsidiaries as pre-tax income is primarily foreign. The provision for (benefit from) income taxes consists of the following:

 
  Nine months ended September 30, 2003
 
  Current
  Deferred
  Total
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

United States   $ 214   $ 77   $ 291
Other foreign     3,671     3,070     6,741
   
 
 
    $ 3,885   $ 3,147   $ 7,032
   
 
 
 
  Nine months ended September 30, 2002
 
  Current
  Deferred
  Total
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

United States   $ 874   $ 386   $ 1,260
Other foreign     4,736     (416 )   4,320
   
 
 
    $ 5,610   $ (30 ) $ 5,580
   
 
 

        SCL is incorporated in Bermuda which does not impose an income tax. SCL's effective tax rate is entirely due to income taxes imposed by jurisdictions in which SCL conducts business other than Bermuda.

        The net deferred tax assets recorded in other assets in the consolidated balance sheets are comprised of the following:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Gross deferred tax assets   $ 44,255   $ 46,145  
Less: Valuation allowance     (17,407 )   (17,407 )
   
 
 
Deferred tax assets     26,848     28,738  
Deferred tax liabilities     (7,599 )   (7,206 )
   
 
 
Net deferred tax assets   $ 19,249   $ 21,532  
   
 
 

        The gross deferred tax assets relate primarily to operating loss carryforwards and future tax benefits of accrued pension costs. The deferred tax liabilities are temporary differences substantially caused by tax depreciation in excess of book depreciation.

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9.     Supplemental cash flow information

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
  2003
  2002
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Cash paid for:            
  Interest   $ 83,613   $ 92,760
  Income taxes   $ 1,946   $ 5,336

        In conjunction with acquisitions (see Note 3), liabilities were assumed as follows:

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Fair value of assets acquired   $   $ 790,085  
Class A common shares issued and cash paid         (129,333 )
Carrying value of existing investment         (137,061 )
   
 
 
Liabilities assumed   $   $ 523,691  
   
 
 

10.   Derivative financial instruments

(a)   Derivative financial instruments

        As reported in Note 1(s) to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report, SCL adopted effective January 1, 2001 SFAS No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended by SFAS No. 137, No. 138 and No. 149. For the nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002, the change in the fair market value of derivative instruments resulted in a charge of $1,146,000 and a credit of $7,765,000, respectively, to other comprehensive income/(loss).

        The components of other comprehensive income are as follows:

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
  2003
  2002
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Net earnings on class A and class B common shares   $ 99,738   $ 27,899
Foreign currency translation adjustments     (2,676 )   16,272
Changes in fair value of derivatives     (1,146 )   7,765
   
 
Comprehensive income   $ 95,916   $ 51,936
   
 

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(b)   Accumulated other comprehensive loss

        The accumulated balances for each component of other comprehensive loss are as follows:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Foreign currency translation adjustment   $ (155,274 ) $ (152,598 )
Net change on derivative financial instruments     (2,170 )   (1,024 )
Maximum pension liability, net of tax     (34,681 )   (34,681 )
   
 
 
    $ (192,125 ) $ (188,303 )
   
 
 

11.   Commitments

        Outstanding contracts to purchase fixed assets were approximately $5,300,000 at September 30, 2003 (December 31, 2002—$14,000,000).

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12.   Information concerning financial reporting for segments and operations in different geographical areas

        In 2003, SCL changed its reportable segments. SCL's GNER operations, which had previously been included in the passenger transport segment, are now reported as the rail operations segment. The remaining business that had been included in the passenger transport segment, SCL's ferry operations, is now reported as the ferry operations segment. SCL has reclassified the prior year's segment information to conform to the current year's presentation. Accordingly, financial information regarding SCL's business segments is as follows:

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Total revenue:              
  Ferry operations   $ 594,417   $ 407,063  
  Rail operations     526,947     494,127  
  Container operations     83,632     83,013  
  Leisure operations         209,016  
  Other     17,118     14,435  
   
 
 
    $ 1,222,114   $ 1,207,654  
   
 
 
Other:              
  Ferry operations   $ 300   $ (718 )
  Rail operations          
  Container operations     17,094     7,243  
  Leisure operations     7,010     6,836  
  Other operations     5,000     6,523  
   
 
 
    $ 29,404   $ 19,884  
   
 
 
Earnings from operations before net finance costs:              
  Ferry operations   $ 24,142   $ 39,070  
  Rail operations     63,219     44,258  
  Container operations     26,696     15,196  
  Leisure operations     7,010     39,027  
  Other (including gains on sale of land at the port of Newhaven of $5,000 in 2003 and OEH shares of $6,523 in 2002)     5,779     7,068  
   
 
 
      126,846     144,619  
Gain from the sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges     60,000      
Corporate costs     (11,759 )   (11,155 )
Net finance costs     (67,501 )   (88,211 )
Minority interests         (10,958 )
   
 
 
Earnings before income taxes   $ 107,586   $ 34,295  
   
 
 

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        Leisure operations in 2003 include SCL's equity share of OEH earnings compared with consolidated OEH earnings of $39,027,000 in 2002, made up as follows:

 
  Nine months ended September 30,
 
 
  2003
  2002
 
 
  (Dollars in thousands)

 
Revenue   $ 238,155   $ 209,016  
Earnings from unconsolidated companies     6,454     6,836  
   
 
 
    $ 244,609   $ 215,852  
   
 
 
Earnings before net finance costs   $ 32,146   $ 39,027  
Net finance costs     (14,300 )   (14,682 )
   
 
 
Earnings before income taxes     17,846     24,345  
Provision for income taxes     2,855     3,228  
   
 
 
Net earnings     14,991     21,117  
   
 
 
Minority interest         (8,625 )
   
 
 
SCL's share of OEH net earnings   $ 7,010   $ 12,492  
   
 
 

        The identifiable assets of SCL's business segments are as follows:

 
  September 30,
2003

  December 31,
2002

 
  (Dollars in thousands)

Ferry operations   $ 1,349,616   $ 1,416,696
Rail operations     204,059     235,271
Container operations     849,596     887,720
Leisure operations     222,873     212,704
Other operations     49,763     44,443
   
 
    $ 2,675,907   $ 2,796,834
   
 

        Transactions between reportable segments are not material. The main factor SCL uses to identify its four main segments is similarity of the products and services provided.

13.   Contingencies

        As previously reported, GNER experienced severe disruption of its services following an accident in October 2000, for which Network Rail as successor to Railtrack is required to pay compensation under the track access agreement. Network Rail owns and maintains substantially all of the railway infrastructure in Britain. GNER has contracted with Network Rail for track access based on the level of service GNER provides. Because of disputes, both GNER and Network Rail withheld contractual payments due during 2001 and arbitration proceedings were commenced to determine liability and the amounts due. Payments have resumed since March 2002.

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        Pursuant to separate arbitration awards under different parts of the track access agreement, Network Rail's liability to compensate GNER was confirmed and proceedings are continuing on the amounts due. To date, GNER has been awarded substantial partial compensation which GNER has received or previously withheld from Network Rail. Network Rail in 2002 appealed to the U.K. Rail Regulator one of the awards confirming its liability, and on March 31, 2003, the Regulator publicly stated that he had ruled in GNER's favor and his formal judgment is awaited. As a result of this ruling, GNER has recognized an additional $15,000,000 of revenue in 2003 which was not recognized in 2002 awaiting this decision although cash compensation had been received. Also, the U.K. Strategic Rail Authority, the franchisor under GNER's passenger rail franchise agreement, has claimed a financial interest in part of any compensation payable by Network Rail, but GNER has been advised by its legal counsel that it has no obligation to the Authority under that agreement.

        During the third quarter of 2003, GNER and Network Rail reached agreement in principle on GNER's claims which contemplates GNER paying $7,200,000 of track access charges over-withheld. The settlement is subject to a number of conditions including audit by the Strategic Rail Authority.

14.   Related party transactions

        For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, SCL earned revenue in connection with the lease and management agreements relating to SCL-owned containers provided to the GE SeaCo joint venture of $21,182,000 (2002—$25,784,000). Also in 2003, SCL incurred expenses under the services agreement with GE SeaCo by which SCL provides management and administration services to the joint venture and for which GE SeaCo recognized and paid to SCL net amounts of $24,288,000 (2002—$22,956,000). For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, SCL sold containers from its factories and provided use of SCL's depots for container repair and storage services, for which GE SeaCo paid $14,884,000 (2002—$18,713,000). In addition, in 2003, GE SeaCo paid interest of $nil on loans from SCL (2002—$50,000) and at September 30, 2003, SCL had a loan balance of $6,000,000 due from GE SeaCo (December 31, 2002—$6,000,000). At September 30, 2003, a receivable of $5,615,000 (December 31, 2002—$8,662,000) remains outstanding from GE SeaCo in respect of all the above, which is included in accounts receivable on SCL's consolidated balance sheet.

        For the nine months ended September 30, 2003, subsidiaries of SCL received from OEH $3,421,000 (2002—$4,547,000) for the provision of various administrative services under a shared services agreement between SCL and OEH on the basis of a fee plus reimbursements equivalent to the direct and indirect costs of providing the services. At September 30, 2003, SCL has guaranteed a $18,579,000 bank loan to OEH (December 31, 2002—$112,854,000).

        SCL received from Silja, prior to its acquisition in May 2002, fees for the provision of various services which amounted to $300,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2002. These services were provided on the basis of reimbursement of SCL's costs as approved by the board of directors of Silja. SCL also chartered a SuperSeaCat to Silja to operate on the Helsinki-Tallin route for which $1,260,000 was paid to SCL for the nine months ended September 30, 2002, and SCL chartered from Silja a floating passenger terminal located at Liverpool for which $56,000 was paid to Silja for the nine months ended September 30, 2002.

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15.   Subsequent event

        On November 5, 2003, Silja entered into a €341,000,000 ($391,000,000) term loan and revolving credit facility agreement with a syndicate of banks guaranteed by the Company, and the Company entered into a related €54,000,000 ($62,000,000) loan facility agreement with the same syndicate. The non-revolving credit portion of the Silja loan is repayable in instalments with interest on both portions at EURIBOR plus 1.625% p.a. and a final maturity in October 2010. The Company loan is also repayable in instalments with interest at EURIBOR plus 2.125% p.a. maturing in October 2008. The primary security for both facilities are mortgages on certain of Silja's ships, although the Company loan is subordinated to the Silja loan. Proceeds of the loans have been used to refinance existing debt with the balance available for general corporate purposes.

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Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Three months ended September 30, 2003 compared with the three months ended September 30, 2002

Revenue and other

        The total revenue and other decrease of $66,161,000 in the third quarter of 2003 included an increase of $3,700,000 in the earnings of unconsolidated companies, of which $2,039,000 related to GE SeaCo and $1,338,000 to OEH, and an increase of $6,210,000 in other asset sale gains, of which $5,000,000 related the sale of land at Newhaven and $1,415,000 to reduced container disposal losses partly offset by gains on the sale of OEH shares of $205,000 in 2002. Of the remaining decrease of $76,071,000, $80,602,000 related to leisure operations and $978,000 to container operations, partly offset by increased revenue of $2,991,000 from rail operations, $2,080,000 from ferry operations and $439,000 from other operations.

        The increase in ferry revenue of $2,080,000 included $32,299,000 from Silja operations (of which $23,685,000 related to the strengthening of the euro against the U.S. dollar), leaving a decrease of $30,219,000 on other ferry operations which included the favorable effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $4,730,000, resulting in a decrease of $34,949,000. This decrease arose primarily from the absence of revenue from the Irish Sea operations of the Steam Packet business which was sold effective July 1, 2003 amounting to $28,600,000 together with reduced revenue relating to the remaining Irish Sea services of $2,400,000 and the cross-Channel ferry services of $4,500,000 partly offset by an increase on other ferry activities of $500,000.

        The increase in rail revenue of $2,991,000 included the favorable effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar amounting to $8,015,000, resulting in a decrease of $5,024,000 which mainly related to decreased compensation from Network Rail and other claims for disruption to GNER's rail services although revenue from passenger carryings was up $7,000,000.

        The decrease in leisure division revenue of $80,602,000 reflected the absence of revenue resulting from the deconsolidation of OEH in the fourth quarter of 2002.

        The decrease in container revenue of $979,000 mainly related to decreased revenue from SCL's manufacturing and depot facilities of $866,000 together with a decrease in leasing operations revenues, excluding GE SeaCo-owned containers, of $147,000 (reflecting the reduced size of SCL's fleet and lower equipment lease rates offset by improved utilization).

        The increased earnings from SCL's investment in GE SeaCo of $2,039,000 mentioned in the first paragraph above was mainly due to increased ontake and the beneficial effect of reduced interest rates on the existing fleet.

        The increase in other revenue of $439,000 mainly related to increased revenue of $694,000 from publishing activities.

Expenses

        Depreciation and Operating. Depreciation and operating expenses decreased in the aggregate by $56,976,000 (76% as a percent of revenue in both periods) with decreases of $5,170,000 on ferry operations, $7,435,000 on rail operations, $1,043,000 on container operations and $44,047,000 on leisure operations, partly offset by an increase of $719,000 on other operations.

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        The decrease in ferry operations costs of $5,170,000 included the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $3,740,000, resulting in a decrease of $8,910,000. This decrease related to decreased costs of $23,100,000 from the Irish Sea Services of which $18,000,000 related to the sale of the Steam Packet business effective July 1, 2003 and $7,200,000 from cross-Channel services partly offset by increases of $19,419,000 from Silja operations (of which $18,100,000 related to the strengthening of the euro against the U.S. dollar), $300,000 from New York harbor ferry services and $1,700,000 from other ferry activities.

        The decrease in rail operations costs of $7,435,000 included the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $6,293,000, resulting in a decrease of $13,728,000 due largely to reduced net access charges including the effect of compensation payments received from Network Rail.

        The decrease in leisure division costs of $44,047,000 reflected the absence of costs resulting from the deconsolidation of OEH which took place in the fourth quarter of 2002.

        The decrease in container expenses of $1,043,000 mainly related to SCL's manufacturing and depot facilities of $613,000 together with increased costs from leasing operations of $483,000.

        The increase in other expenses of $719,000 mainly related to operating costs of $555,000 from publishing activities and $98,000 from the Corinth Canal.

        Selling, General and Administrative. These costs have decreased in total by $17,365,000 (a decrease as a percent of revenue from 14% to 12%) of which a decrease of $23,250,000 related to leisure operations reflecting the deconsolidation of OEH. The remaining increase of $14,885,000 was due to an increase in other ferry operations of $4,483,000 (an increase of $1,504,000 after adjustment for the adverse effect of the strengthening of the euro and British pound against the U.S. dollar), rail operations of $1,037,000 (an increase of $263,000 after adjustment for the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar), container operations of $223,000 and other operations of $142,000 (including increased corporate costs $160,000).

        Net Finance Costs. Net finance costs in 2003 decreased by $12,290,000 of which a reduction of $5,315,000 related to the deconsolidation of OEH, leaving a decrease of $6,975,000. This decrease mainly related to a decrease in interest expense of $8,141,000 from the repayment of the 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes due July 1, 2003 of $136,323,000 in aggregate and repayment of the loan of $101,500,000 secured on the assets of the Steam Packet business, together with reduced interest rates on floating-rate debt notwithstanding additional debt borrowed to finance acquisitions and investments, partly offset by a gain of $1,000,000 on the redemption of Silja convertible bonds in 2002.

Minority interests

        The minority interest in OEH in the third quarter of 2002 amounted to $3,827,000. Since the deconsolidation of OEH in the fourth quarter of 2002, SCL began to account for its investment in OEH under the equity method of accounting.

Taxes on income

        The income tax charge in the third quarter of 2003 mainly related to the seasonal results of ferry and rail operations and in 2002 to the seasonal results of ferry, rail and leisure operations in jurisdictions which impose income tax. SCL is incorporated in Bermuda which does not impose an income tax.

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Net earnings

        The 2003 third quarter net earnings on common shares of $100,744,000 compares with earnings of $17,884,000 in 2002, an increase of $82,860,000. Earnings before net finance costs showed an increase of $68,180,000, of which $60,000,000 related to the gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges (see Note 2) which was offset by $11,967,000 relating to the reduction in leisure operations earnings following the deconsolidation of OEH in the fourth quarter of 2002. The remaining increase of $20,147,000 included $3,067,000 from ferry operations (of which $5,800,000 related to Silja operations and $6,117,000 to cross-Channel and retained Irish Sea operations, partly offset by $600,000 on New York harbor fast ferry services and the absence of Steam Packet earnings of $7,000,000), $9,389,000 from rail operations (including the effect of increased passenger carryings), $4,373,000 from other operations (of which $5,000,000 related to the gain on sale of land at Newhaven in 2003), and $3,318,000 from container-related operations including SCL's investment in GE SeaCo. Net finance costs decreased in 2003 by $12,290,000 as explained above. Additionally, there was no minority interest charge in 2003 compared with a charge of $3,827,000 in 2002 noted above, and the tax charge increased by $1,437,000.

Nine months ended September 30, 2003 compared with the nine months ended September 30, 2002

Revenue and other

        The total revenue and other increase of $23,980,000 for nine months ended September 30, 2003 included an increase of $6,248,000 in the earnings of unconsolidated companies, of which $4,975,000 related to GE SeaCo and $174,000 to OEH, and an increase of $3,272,000 in asset sale gains, of which $5,000,000 related to the gain on sale of land at the port of Newhaven and $4,795,000 to reduced container disposal losses partly offset by $6,523,000 relating to gains on the sale of OEH shares in 2002. Of the remaining increase of $14,460,000, $187,354,000 related to ferry operations, $32,820,000 to rail operations, $619,000 to container operations and $2,683,000 to other operations, partly offset by decreased revenue of $209,016,000 from leisure operations.

        The increase in ferry revenue of $187,354,000 included $215,244,000 from Silja operations which were consolidated effective May 1, 2002 (see Note 3) and included the favorable effect of the strengthening of the euro against the U.S. dollar amounting to $40,300,000, leaving a decrease of $27,890,000 on other ferry operations which included the favorable effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $14,248,000, resulting in a decrease of $42,138,000. This decrease arose primarily from the absence of the Steam Packet's revenues amounting to $27,000,000 following the sale of the business which was effective July 1, 2003 together with reduced revenue relating to the cross-Channel ferry services of $9,800,000 and the remaining Irish Sea services of $5,200,000.

        The increase in rail revenue of $32,820,000 included the favorable effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar amounting to $43,403,000, resulting in a decrease of $10,583,000 which included reduced compensation from Network Rail and other claims for disruption to GNER's rail services of $3,000,000 although revenue from passenger carryings was up $13,000,000.

        The decrease in leisure division revenue of $209,016,000 reflected the absence of revenue resulting from the deconsolidation of OEH which took place in the fourth quarter of 2002.

        The increase in container revenue of $619,000 related to SCL's manufacturing and depot facilities of $3,195,000, partly offset by a reduction in leasing operations, excluding GE SeaCo-owned containers, of $1,828,000 (reflecting the reduced size of SCL's fleet and lower equipment lease rates, partly offset by improved utilization) and cargoship revenues of $748,000.

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        The increased earnings from SCL's investment in GE SeaCo of $4,975,000 mentioned in the first paragraph above was mainly due to increased ontake and the beneficial effect of reduced interest rates on its existing fleet.

        The increase in other revenue of $2,683,000 included revenue of $1,295,000 from publishing activities, $757,000 from the Corinth Canal and $679,000 from property activities.

Expenses

        Depreciation and Operating. Depreciation and operating expenses increased in the aggregate by $55,763,000 (an increase as a percent of revenue from 76% to 80%) with increases of $172,879,000 on ferry operations and $1,624,000 on other operations, partly offset by a decrease of $1,519,000 on rail operations, $114,618,000 on leisure operations and $2,603,000 on container operations.

        The increase in ferry operations costs of $172,879,000 included $190,659,000 from Silja operations which were consolidated from May 1, 2002 and included the adverse effect of the strengthening of the euro against the U.S. dollar amounting to $28,000,000, leaving a decrease on other ferry operations of $17,780,000 which included the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $12,224,000, resulting in a decrease of $30,004,000. This decrease related to the absence of the Steam Packet's costs amounting to $16,300,000 together with decreased costs of $9,100,000 from the remaining Irish Sea services and $8,900,000 from cross-Channel services partly offset by increases of $1,000,000 from New York harbor ferry services and $3,300,000 from other ferry activities. Ferry operations generally in the first half of 2003 experienced higher fuel costs compared to the first half of 2002.

        The decrease in rail operations costs of $1,519,000 included the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar, amounting to $35,590,000, resulting in a decrease of $37,109,000 due largely to reduced net access charges including the effect of compensation payments received from Network Rail.

        The decrease in leisure division costs of $114,618,000 reflected the absence of costs resulting from the deconsolidation of OEH which took place in the fourth quarter of 2002.

        The decrease in container expenses of $2,603,000 related to reduced costs from leasing operations of $2,852,000 and cargoship operations of $2,136,000, partly offset by increased costs from SCL's manufacturing and depot facilities of $2,385,000.

        The increase in other expenses of $1,624,000 mainly related to costs of $646,000 from the Corinth Canal, $1,184,000 from publishing activities and $297,000 from property activities, partly offset by a decrease of $328,000 from fruit farming.

        Selling, General and Administrative. These costs have decreased in total by $13,406,000 (a decrease as a percent of revenue from 15% to 13%) of which there is a decrease on leisure operations of $62,207,000 reflecting the deconsolidation of OEH and an increase of $35,005,000 on Silja operations which included the adverse affect of the strengthening of the euro against the U.S. dollar amounting to $2,700,000. The remaining increase of $22,796,000 was due to increased costs from rail operations of $15,378,000 (an increase of $11,453,000 after adjustment for the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar) which included increased central overheads, container operations of $1,573,000 and other operations of $1,429,000 (including $186,000 from the Corinth Canal, $260,000 from publishing activities, $315,000 from fruit farming, and increased corporate costs $604,000), partly offset by a decrease in other ferry operations of $4,584,000 (a decrease of $6,636,000 after adjustment for the adverse effect of the strengthening of the British pound against the U.S. dollar) of which $3,648,000 related to the Irish Sea operations (including the absence of Steam Packet's costs) and $1,930,000 to the cross-Channel services.

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        Net Finance Costs. Net finance costs in 2003 decreased by $20,710,000 of which a reduction of $14,682,000 related to the deconsolidation of OEH, offset by $11,000,000 of interest expense on Silja operations, leaving a decrease of $17,028,000. This decrease mainly related to a decrease in interest expense of $16,707,000 from the repayment of the 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes due July 1, 2003 of $136,323,000 in aggregate and repayment of the loan of $101,500,000 secured on the assets of the Steam Packet business together with reduced interest rates on floating-rate debt and increased foreign exchange gains of $867,000, partly offset by a gain of $1,000,000 on the redemption of Silja convertible bonds in 2002 and increased interest expense on additional debt used to finance acquisitions and investments.

Minority interests

        The minority interest in OEH and Silja for the nine months ended September 30 2002 amounted to $8,625,000 and $2,333,000, respectively.

Taxes on income

        The income tax charges for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 mainly related to the seasonal results of ferry and rail operations and for the nine months ended September 30, 2002 mainly to the seasonal results of ferry, rail and leisure operations in jurisdictions which impose income tax.

Net earnings

        The net earnings on common shares for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 of $99,738,000 compares with net earnings of $27,899,000 in 2002, an increase in earnings of $71,839,000. Earnings before net finance costs showed an increase of $41,623,000, of which $60,000,000 related to the gain on sale of ferry assets and non-recurring charges (see Note 2) which was offset by $32,017,000 relating to leisure operations (reflecting the effect of SCL's reduced share of OEH results following the deconsolidation of OEH in the fourth quarter of 2002). The remaining increase of $13,640,000 included increased earnings from rail operations of $18,961,000 (including the effect of increased passenger carryings and reduced net access charges partly offset by $3,000,000 of reduced compensation for disruption to GNER's rail services) and from container-related activities of $11,500,000 partly offset by reduced earnings of $14,928,000 from ferry operations (which mainly arose from the consolidation of seasonal first quarter losses on Silja operations in 2003 following the acquisition of Silja in May 2002 and the absence of Steam Packet earnings following the sale in July 2003), and $1,893,000 from other operations including corporate costs (of which $6,523,000 related to OEH share sale gains in 2002 offset by a gain of $5,000,000 on the sale of land at the port of Newhaven in 2003). Net finance costs decreased in 2003 by $20,710,000 as explained above. Additionally, there was no minority interest charge in 2003 compared with a charge of $10,958,000 in 2002 relating to OEH and Silja, and the tax charge increased by $1,452,000.

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

        SCL is exposed to market risk from changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and fuel price movements. These exposures are monitored and managed as part of its overall risk management program, which recognizes the unpredictability of financial and commodity markets and seeks to mitigate material adverse effects on consolidated earnings and cash flows. SCL does not hold market rate sensitive financial or commodity instruments for trading purposes.

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        The market risk relating to interest rates arises mainly from the financing activities of SCL. Earnings are affected by changes in interest rates on borrowings, principally based on U.S. dollar LIBOR and EURIBOR, and on short-term cash investments. As reported in Note 19(a) to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of the 2002 Form 10-K annual report of SCL, SCL entered into various interest rate swap agreements, including agreements which exchanged floating rate dollar debt for fixed rate dollar debt and floating rate euro debt for fixed rate euro debt. These agreements expire over a period of one to seven years. If interest rates increased by 10%, with all other variables held constant, annual net finance costs of SCL would have increased by approximately $4,300,000 based on borrowings at September 30, 2003. The interest rates on substantially all of SCL's long-term debt are adjusted regularly to reflect current market rates. Accordingly, the carrying amounts approximate fair value.

        The market risk relating to foreign currencies and fuel prices and their effects have not changed materially during the nine months ended September 30, 2003 from those described in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report.

LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

        At September 30, 2003, cash balances totalled $130,813,000. Undrawn working capital lines of credit amounted to approximately $32,200,000, of which $20,500,000 was undrawn under secured revolving credit facilities.

        Capital expenditures planned for the remainder of 2003 relate primarily to additions to ferry assets, which SCL management believes will be adequately financed primarily from debt and lease financings, operating cash flows and other sources. Capital expenditures are expected to be at a lower level compared to 2002 following the deconsolidation of OEH in the fourth quarter of 2002.

        Several credit agreements of SCL have restrictive covenants, certain of which were amended. At September 30, 2003, SCL was in compliance with its covenants.

        SCL is proceeding with its planned restructuring of certain debt coming due in 2004 as outlined under the heading "Proposed Restructuring of Debt" in Item 7—Management's Discussion and Analysis in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report. As reported in Notes 2 and 7 to the financial statements, SCL has completed its exchange offers of 13% and 121/2% senior notes for public debt maturing in 2003 and 2004, repaid the balance of its publicly-held 91/2% and 101/2% senior notes that matured on July 1, 2003 with the proceeds of a one-year $158,000,000 secured bridge loan from a bank syndicate, and sold its Steam Packet ferry business using the cash proceeds to repay part of the bridge loan as well as Steam Packet debt. In November 2003, SCL completed the planned refinancing of Silja ships (see Note 15) adding about $28,000,000 to SCL's liquidity.    The next steps of this plan include extension of the maturity of SCL's revolving container credit facility coming due in October 2004 and sales of SCL's remaining port interests in the U.K. at Folkestone and, when market conditions improve, OEH common shares that SCL owns. Management believes that the available cash from operations and readily saleable assets will be sufficient to service SCL's 2003 obligations.

RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

        As of September 30, 2003, SCL's significant accounting policies and estimates, which are described in Notes 1, 7 and 20 to the financial statements in Amendment No. 1 of SCL's 2002 Form 10-K annual report, have not changed from December 31, 2002, except for the adoption of the following pronouncements referred to in that report. On January 1, 2003, SCL adopted the recognition provisions of FIN No. 45, Guarantor's Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others, and SFAS No. 146, Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities. The adoption of the provisions of FIN No. 45 and SFAS No. 146 did not have a material effect on SCL's consolidated financial statements.

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        In January 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued FIN No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. FIN No. 46 requires that the assets, liabilities, and results of activities of a variable interest entity ("VIE") be consolidated into the financial statements of the enterprise that has a controlling financial interest in the VIE. FIN No. 46 applies immediately to VIEs created after January 31, 2003, and to VIEs in which an enterprise obtains an interest after that date. In October 2003, the effective date for applying the provisions of FIN No. 46 was deferred until the end of the first interim or annual period ending December 31, 2003 for VIEs in which an enterprise holds a variable interest that it acquired before February 1, 2003. The Company does not expect the provisions of FIN No. 46 will have a material effect on SCL's consolidated financial statements.

        In addition, on April 30, 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued SFAS No. 149, Amendment of Statement No. 133 on Derivatives Instruments and Hedging Activities. The statement amends and clarifies accounting for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, and for hedging activities under SFAS No. 133. SCL will adopt SFAS No. 149 for all derivative instruments entered into after September 30, 2003. Management does not expect adoption will have a material effect on SCL's financial condition or results of operations.

        Finally, in May 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued SFAS No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equities, which establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equities. SFAS No. 150 is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003, and otherwise is effective at the beginning of the first interim period beginning after September 15, 2003. The Company has determined that its redeemable convertible cumulative preferred shares of $15,000,000 should be included within shareholders' equity.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

        For a discussion of these policies, see under the heading "Critical Accounting Policies" in Item 7—Management's Discussion and Analysis in Amendment No. 1 of the Company's 2002 Form 10-K annual report.

DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

        The Company's chief executive and financial officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2003 and found no material deficiencies or weaknesses. There have been no changes in the Company's internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1.    Legal Proceedings

        See Note 13 to the financial statements in this report regarding arbitration proceedings involving GNER.

        Other than the foregoing, the Company is involved in no material legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to its business.


ITEM 6.    Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K

(a)
Exhibits. The index to exhibits appears below, on the page immediately following the signature page of this report.

(b)
Reports on Form 8-K. During the quarter for which this report is filed, the Company filed the following Form 8-K Current Reports:

Date of Report

  Item No.
  Description
July 9, 2003   5 and 7   News release regarding extension of 121/2% Senior Note exchange offer of the Company.

July 15, 2003

 

5 and 7

 

News release regarding sale of Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd.

July 18, 2003

 

2 and 7

 

Report of sale of Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd.

July 23, 2003

 

5 and 7

 

News release regarding expiration of 121/2% Senior Note exchange offer of the Company.

August 14, 2003

 

7 and 12

 

Second quarter 2003 earnings news release of the Company.

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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

    SEA CONTAINERS LTD.

 

 

By:

/s/  
D.J. O'SULLIVAN      
Daniel J. O'Sullivan
Senior Vice President—Finance and
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Accounting Officer)

Dated: November 14, 2003

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EXHIBIT INDEX

3.1
Memorandum of Association, Certificate of Incorporation and Memoranda of Increase of Share Capital of the Company, as amended through June 24, 1992, filed as Exhibit 3(a) to June 30, 1992 Form 10-Q Report of the Company (File No. 1-7560) and incorporated herein by reference.

3.2.
Bye-Laws of the Company, as amended through June 23, 1992, filed as Exhibit 3(b) to June 30, 1992 Form 10-Q Report of the Company (File No. 1-7560) and incorporated herein by reference.

3.3.
Amendments to the Bye-Laws of the Company approved by shareholders on June 6, 2001, filed as Exhibit 3.3 to June 30, 2001 Form 10-Q Report of the Company (File No. 1-7560) and incorporated herein by reference.

10.1
Term Loan and Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated November 5, 2003 among Silja Oyj Abp, certain Silja subsidiaries and a syndicate of lending banks.

10.2
Loan Facility Agreement dated November 5, 2003 among Sea Containers Ltd., Silja Oyj Abp, certain Silja subsidiaries and a syndicate of lending banks.

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Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications.

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Section 1350 Certification.

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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
EX-10.1 3 a2122662zex-10_1.htm EXHIBIT 10.1
Exhibit 10.1

 

LOAN AGREEMENT

 

Dated:    November 5, 2003

 

BETWEEN:-

 

(1)                                  SILJA OYJ ABP, a company incorporated according to the laws of Finland with registered office at Bulevardi 1A, P.O. Box 659, FIN-00101, Helsinki, Finland (“the Borrower”); and

 

(2)                                  the banks listed in Schedule 1, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 1 (together “the Banks” and each a “Bank”); and

 

(3)                                  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S, acting as paying agent through its office at Christiansbro, Strandgade 3, P.O. Box 850, DK-0900 Copenhagen C, Denmark (in that capacity “the Paying Agent”); and

 

(4)                                  NORDEA BANK FINLAND plc, acting as security agent through its office at Satamaradankatu 5, Helsinki, FIN-00020, Finland, (in that capacity “the Security Agent”); and

 

(5)                                  HSH NORDBANK AG, acting as documentation agent through its office at Martensdamm 6, D-24103 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany (in that capacity “the Documentation Agent”); and

 

(6)                                  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S, acting as lead arranger through its office at Christiansbro, Strandgade 3, P.O. Box 850, DK-0900 Copenhagen C, Denmark (in that capacity “the Lead Arranger”); and

 

(7)                                  the banks listed in Schedule 2, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 2 (together “the Co-Arrangers” and each a “Co-Arranger”); and

 

(8)                                  the companies listed in Schedule 3, each of which is a company incorporated according to the laws of the country indicated against its name in Schedule 3, with registered office at the address indicted against its name in Schedule 3 (together “the Owners” and each an “Owner”).

 

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WHEREAS:-

 

Each of the Banks has agreed to advance to the Borrower its respective Commitment of an aggregate amount of (i) a term loan not exceeding two hundred and fifteen million euro (€215,000,000) and (ii) a revolving credit facility not exceeding one hundred and twenty six million euro (€126,000,000) in order to assist the Borrower in re-financing certain indebtedness.

 

IT IS AGREED  as follows:-

 

1                                         Definitions and Interpretation

 

1.1                                 Definitions

 

In this Agreement:-

 

1.1.1                        the Address for Service” means c/o Sea Containers Services Limited of Sea Containers House, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PF or, in relation to any of the Security Parties, such other address in England and Wales as that Security Party may from time to time designate by no fewer than ten days’ written notice to the Agents.

 

1.1.2                        the Administration” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1.3 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.3                        the Advance Date”, in relation to any Drawing, means the date on which that Drawing is advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2.

 

1.1.4                        Affiliate” means a Subsidiary or a Parent Company of a person or any other Subsidiary of that Parent Company.

 

1.1.5                        the Agents” means the Paying Agent and the Security Agent together.

 

1.1.6                        Approved Brokers” means the sale and purchase brokers set out in Schedule 4 hereto or any other brokers agreed between the Paying Agent and the Borrower.

 

1.1.7                        the Assignments” means the Earnings Assignments, the Insurance Assignments and the Charter Guarantee Assignment.

 

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1.1.8                        the Availability Termination Date” means the date forty five (45) days after the date of this Agreement or such later date as the Banks may in their discretion agree.

 

1.1.9                        Bareboat Charterers” means

 

(i)                                     in respect of SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA and SILJA SYMPHONY, Silja Line AB;

 

(ii)                                  in respect of FINNJET, the Borrower; and

 

(iii)                               in respect of WALRUS, Havens.

 

1.1.10                  Bareboat Charters” means the charters of the Vessels (other than SILJA SERENADE and STAR WIND) between the relevant Owners and the relevant Bareboat Charterers.

 

1.1.11                  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 or documentary credit facilities, (iv) rental payments under and any amounts payable on termination of leases (whether in respect of ships, land, machinery, equipment or otherwise) entered into primarily as a method of raising finance or of financing the acquisition of the asset leased, (v) guarantees, bonds, stand-by letters of credit or other instruments issued in connection with the performance of contracts and (vi) guarantees or other assurances against financial loss in respect of indebtedness of any person, firm or company falling within any of (i) to (v) above.

 

1.1.12                  Borrower’s Obligations” means all of the liabilities and obligations of the Borrower to the Agents or any of the Banks or Swap Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents to which it is a party, whether actual or contingent, present or future, and whether incurred alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other and in whatever currency, including (without limitation) interest, commission and all other charges and expenses.

 

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1.1.13                  Break Costs” means all costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by the Agents or any Bank in the circumstances contemplated by Clause 19.4, or as a result of it receiving any prepayment of all or any part of the Facility (whether pursuant to Clause 5 or otherwise), or any other payment under or in relation to the Security Documents on a day other than at the end of an Interest Period or the due date for payment of the sum in question, and includes (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Facility, and any liabilities, expenses or losses incurred by the Agents or any Bank or any Swap Bank in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any Hedging Transaction or other interest rate and/or currency swap, transaction or arrangement entered into by the Agents or any Bank or any Swap Bank to hedge any exposure arising under this Agreement, or in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement or a Master Agreement.

 

1.1.14                  Business Day” means a day on which banks are open for the transaction of business of the nature contemplated by this Agreement (and not authorised by law to close) in London, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland; Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany and any other financial centre which any Bank may consider appropriate for the operation of the provisions of this Agreement and a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System (TARGET) is operating.

 

1.1.15                  Capital Loan Agreement” means the subordinated bond agreement dated 26 February 1993 and as amended on 30 December 1996 regulating the Capital Loan.

 

1.1.16                  Capital Loan” means the loan originally in the amount of FIM 50,000,000 made available to the Borrower by Nordea Bank Finland Plc (formerly known as Merita Bank plc) pursuant to the Capital Loan Agreement.

 

1.1.17                  Charter Guarantee” means the guarantee issued by Citibank N.A. guaranteeing (in part) the obligations of Havens under the Bareboat Charter for WALRUS.

 

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1.1.18                  Charter Guarantee Assignment” means the deed of assignment of the Charter Guarantee referred to in Clause 10.9.

 

1.1.19                  Charter Rights”, in relation to a Vessel, means all rights and benefits accruing to the Owner of that Vessel under or pursuant to the relevant Bareboat Charter and not forming part of the Earnings.

 

1.1.20                  the Citigroup Pledge”  means the third priority pledge of the issued share capital of the Guarantor issued in favour of Citicorp Trustee Company Limited

 

1.1.21                  Commitment” means, in relation to each Bank, the amount of the Facility which that Bank agrees to advance to the Borrower as its several liability as indicated against the name of that Bank in Schedule 1 and/or, where the context permits, the amount of the Facility advanced by that Bank and remaining outstanding.

 

1.1.22                  Commitment Commission” means the commitment commission to be paid by the Borrower to the Paying Agent pursuant to Clause 8.2.

 

1.1.23                  a “Communication” means any notice, approval, demand, request or other communication from one party to this Agreement to any other party to this Agreement.

 

1.1.24                  the Communications Address” means Silja Oyj Abp of Bulevardi 1A, P.O. Box 659, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland (fax no: +358 9 180 4640) marked for the attention of Chief Financial Officer.

 

1.1.25                  the Company” means, at any given time and in relation to any Vessel, the company responsible for the Vessel’s compliance with the ISM Code pursuant to paragraph 1.1.2 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.26                  a “Confirmation” means a Confirmation exchanged, or deemed exchanged, between a Swap Bank and the Borrower as contemplated by a Master Agreement.

 

1.1.27                  Consolidated Cash Reserves” means the consolidated Liquid Assets of the Borrower (and its Subsidiaries) including any available but undrawn amounts of the Revolving Credit.

 

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1.1.28                  Convertible Bond” means the seven per centum (7%) FIM 329,000,000 convertible subordinated bond issued by the Borrower which matures on 18 February 2004.

 

1.1.29                  Currency of Account” means, in relation to any payment to be made to the Agents or a Bank or a Swap Bank under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the currency in which that payment is required to be made by the terms of the relevant Security Document.

 

1.1.30                  the Debt Service Coverage Ratio” means EBITDA divided by the Financial Expenses of the Borrower.

 

1.1.31                  the Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination” means the deed to be entered into between the Agents, the Banks, the Borrower, the Owners, the Guarantor, the Shareholder Guarantor, the Junior Agents and the Junior Banks.

 

1.1.32                  the Deeds of Covenants” means the deeds of covenants referred to in Clause 10.1 (each a “Deed of Covenants”).

 

1.1.33                  Default Rate” means the rate being the aggregate of the Margin and two per centum (2%) per annum above the cost to the Banks of obtaining funds in amount similar to the amount of the Indebtedness or any relevant part of the Indebtedness for such periods as the Paying Agent shall determine.

 

1.1.34                  DOC” means, in relation to each Company, a valid Document of Compliance issued for the Company by the Administration pursuant to paragraph 13.2 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.35                  Drawdown Notice” means a notice complying with Clause 2.3.

 

1.1.36                  Drawing” means a part of the Facility advanced by the Banks to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 2.3 being either the Loan Drawing or a Revolving Credit Drawing.

 

1.1.37                  Earnings”, in relation to a Vessel, means all hires, freights, pool income and other sums payable to or for the account of the Owner in respect of that Vessel including (without limitation) all remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys, contributions in general

 

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average, compensation in respect of any requisition for hire and damages and other payments (whether awarded by any court or arbitral tribunal or by agreement or otherwise) for breach, termination or variation of any contract for the operation, employment or use of the Vessel.

 

1.1.38                  the Earnings Accounts” means a bank account in the name of the Borrower with Nordea Bank Finland Plc under account number 233318-3206 and an account in the name of the Borrower held with Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) under account number 6140-36802328.

 

1.1.39                  the Earnings Assignments” means the deeds of assignment of Earnings and Charter Rights and/or Earnings assignment agreements referred to in Clause 10.8 (each an “Earnings Assignment”).

 

1.1.40                  EBITDA” means the total consolidated revenues of the Borrower for the preceding 12 month period as contained in the four (4) most recent consolidated income statements for the Borrower less Operating Expenses and charter payments, but excluding all extraordinary income and costs and one-off items.

 

1.1.41                  Encumbrance” means any mortgage, charge (fixed or floating), pledge, lien, assignment, hypothecation, preferential right, option, title retention or trust arrangement or any other agreement or arrangement which has the effect of creating security or payment priority.

 

1.1.42                  EURIBOR” means the applicable Screen Rate, rounded to the nearest four decimal places downwards (if the digit displayed in the fifth decimal place is 1, 2, 3 or 4) or upwards (if the digit in the fifth decimal place is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9).

 

1.1.43                  “euro” and “€” means the currency of participating member states of the European Monetary Union pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 of 3 May 1998, as amended from time to time.

 

1.1.44                  Event of Default” means any of the events set out in Clause 14.2.

 

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1.1.45                  the Facility” means the Loan and the Revolving Credit made available by the Banks to the Borrower on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement.

 

1.1.46                  the Facility Period” means the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date when the whole of the Indebtedness has been repaid in full and the Borrower has ceased to be under any further actual or contingent liability to the Banks or the Swap Banks or to the Agents under or in connection with the Security Documents.

 

1.1.47                  the Fee Letter” means a letter from the Paying Agent to the Borrower setting out certain fees, commissions and other sums payable by the Borrower to the Agents in connection with the Loan.

 

1.1.48                  Final Maturity Date” means the earlier of seven (7) years from the first Advance Date or 1 October 2010.

 

1.1.49                  Financial Expenses” means all amounts of interest, the Margin, commitment fees and principal repayments, including interest and principal repayments hereunder and under the Junior Loan, payable during the next following period of 12 months (excluding principal repayments in respect of the Convertible Bonds).  For the purposes of calculating prospective interest payments under this definition, in all cases the twelve month EURIBOR rate prevailing at the date of calculation shall be used and it shall be assumed that the Facility has been drawn in full.

 

1.1.50                  Finnish Companies Act” means the Finnish Companies Act 29.9.1978/734 as amended and varied from time to time.

 

1.1.51                  Finnish GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in Finland consistently applied.

 

1.1.52                  Finnish Markka” and “FIM” means the currency in use in Finland at the date of the Capital Loan Agreement and the Convertible Bond.

 

1.1.53                  Free Equity” means free equity as approved from time to time by the annual shareholders’ meeting in accordance with Finnish GAAP.

 

1.1.54                  Group”  means the Borrower and all of its Subsidiaries.

 

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1.1.55                  Group Tripartite Agreements” means the tripartite agreements in respect of the vessels SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA, SILJA SYMPHONY and FINNJET referred to in Clause 10.7.

 

1.1.56                  the Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor referred to in Clause 10.3.

 

1.1.57                  the Guarantor” means Silja Holdings Limited and/or (where the context permits) any other person or company who shall at any time during the Facility Period give to the Banks or the Swap Banks or to the Agents on their behalf a guarantee and/or indemnity for the repayment of all or part of the Indebtedness.

 

1.1.58                  Havens” means Havens Pte Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of Singapore.

 

1.1.59                  a “Hedging Transaction” means a transaction entered into between a Swap Bank and the Borrower pursuant to a Master Agreement for the express purpose of hedging all or part of the Borrower’s interest rate risk pursuant to this Agreement.

 

1.1.60                  the Indebtedness” means the Loan; the Revolving Credit Outstandings; any Master Agreement Liabilities; all other sums of any nature (together with all interest on any of those sums) which from time to time may be payable by the Borrower to the Agents or to the Banks or to the Swap Banks pursuant to the Security Documents; any damages payable as a result of any breach by the Borrower of any of the Security Documents; and any damages or other sums payable as a result of any of the obligations of the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents being disclaimed by a liquidator or any other person, or, where the context permits, the amount thereof for the time being outstanding.

 

1.1.61                  an “Instructing Group” means at least three Banks whose combined Proportionate Shares exceed sixty six point six six per centum (66.66%).

 

1.1.62                  the Insurance Assignments” means the deeds of assignment of the Insurances and Requisition Compensation referred to in Clause 10.2 (each an “Insurance Assignment”).

 

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1.1.63                  Insurances”, in relation to a Vessel, means all policies and contracts of insurance (including all entries in protection and indemnity or war risks associations) which are from time to time taken out or entered into in respect of or in connection with that Vessel or her increased value or her Earnings and (where the context permits) all benefits thereof, including all claims of any nature and returns of premium.

 

1.1.64                  Interest Payment Date” means each date for the payment of interest in accordance with Clause 6.

 

1.1.65                  Interest Period” means each interest period selected by the Borrower or agreed by the Paying Agent pursuant to Clause 6.

 

1.1.66                  the ISM Code” means the International Management Code for the Safe Management of Ships and for Pollution Prevention, as adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation on 4 November 1993 by resolution A.741 (18) and incorporated on 19 May 1994 as chapter IX of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974.

 

1.1.67                  the Junior Agents” means the Agents in their capacities as agents for the Junior Banks under the Junior Loan Agreement.

 

1.1.68                  the Junior Banks” means those lenders set out in schedule 1 of the Junior Loan Agreement.

 

1.1.69                  the Junior Loan” means the €54,000,000 loan advanced or to be advanced to the Shareholder Guarantor by the Junior Banks pursuant to the Junior Loan Agreement.

 

1.1.70                  the Junior Loan Agreement” means the loan agreement in respect of the Junior Loan made or to be made between, amongst others, the Shareholder Guarantor and the Junior Banks.

 

1.1.71                  law” means any law, statute, treaty, convention, regulation, instrument or other subordinate legislation or other legislative or quasi-legislative rule or measure, or any order or decree of any government, judicial or public or other body or authority, or any directive, code of practice, circular,

 

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guidance note or other direction issued by any competent authority or agency (whether or not having the force of law).

 

1.1.72                  Liquid Assets” means cash, bank deposits and unused credit facilities in accordance with Finnish GAAP excluding any unused Shareholder Loans from the Shareholder Guarantor, which are in each case free of any Encumbrance.

 

1.1.73                  Liquidity Ratio” means Consolidated Cash Reserves divided by the total consolidated liabilities of the Borrower and in this calculation any available but undrawn amounts of the Revolving Credit shall be construed as both assets and liabilities.

 

1.1.74                  the Loan” means the aggregate amount up to the Maximum Loan Amount from time to time advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2 or, where the context permits, the amount of the Loan Drawing advanced and for the time being outstanding.

 

1.1.75                  Loan Drawing” means the Loan advanced by the Banks to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 2.2.

 

1.1.76                  the Managers” means Seawind Line Oy Ab in respect of “STAR WIND”, Seahawk, North America in respect of “WALRUS” and the Borrower in respect of all other Vessels, or such other commercial and/or technical managers of the Vessels nominated by the Owners as the Agents may approve.

 

1.1.77                  Mandatory Cost” means, for each Bank to which it applies, the cost imputed to that Bank of compliance with the mandatory requirements of any relevant regulatory authority.

 

1.1.78                  the Margin” means one point six two five per centum (1.625%) per annum.

 

1.1.79                  the Market Value” in respect of any Vessel means the arithmetic average of valuations carried out by two Approved Brokers, one appointed by the Agent the other by the Borrower, such  valuations to be on a “willing buyer, willing seller” charter free basis.

 

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1.1.80                  Master Agreements” means the ISDA Master Agreements (or any other form of master agreement relating to interest or currency exchange transactions) entered into between each Swap Bank and the Borrower on or about the date hereof, including each Schedule to any Master Agreement and any Confirmation exchanged pursuant to any Master Agreement.

 

1.1.81                  the Master Agreement Liabilities” means, at any relevant time, all liabilities of the Borrower to a Swap Bank under or pursuant to a Master Agreement, whether actual or contingent, present or future.

 

1.1.82                  the Maximum Facility Amount means three hundred and forty one million euro (€341,000,000).

 

1.1.83                  the Maximum Loan Amount” means two hundred and fifteen million euro (€215,000,000).

 

1.1.84                  the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount” means (subject to Clause 2.5) one hundred and twenty six million euro (€126,000,000) and as reduced in accordance with Clause 5.4.

 

1.1.85                  the Mortgagees’ Insurances” means all policies and contracts of mortgagees’ interest insurance, mortgagees’ additional perils (oil pollution) insurance and any other insurance from time to time taken out by the Agents on behalf of the Banks and the Swap Banks in relation to the Vessels.

 

1.1.86                  the Mortgages” means the first preferred or priority mortgages and where relevant the pledges thereof referred to in Clause 10.1 (each a “Mortgage”).

 

1.1.87                  Net Book Value” means the aggregate of any consolidated untaxed reserves, consolidated equity (excluding the Capital Loan and the Convertible Bonds) and any Shareholder Loan less the lower of Free Equity and any outstanding intercompany loans provided by the Borrower to the Guarantor and/or the Shareholder Guarantor.

 

1.1.88                  Net Book Value Ratio” means the Net Book Value expressed as a percentage of the Borrower’s total consolidated assets including the capitalisation of leased ships, defined as per Finnish GAAP, but excluding

 

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‘“SILJA EUROPA” until her acquisition by the Borrower and the lower of Free Equity and any outstanding intercompany loans provided by the Borrower to the Guarantor and/or the Shareholder Guarantor.

 

1.1.89                  Operating Expenses” means expenses properly and reasonably incurred by the Owners in connection with the operation, employment, maintenance, repair and insurance of the Vessels.

 

1.1.90                  Owner” means, in relation to a Vessel, the Owner against whose name the name of that Vessel appears in Schedule 3.

 

1.1.91                  Owners’ Liabilities” means all of the liabilities and obligations of the Owners to the Agents under or pursuant to the Owners’ Guarantee, whether actual or contingent, including (without limitation) interest at the Default Rate.

 

1.1.92                  Owners’ Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity contained in Clause 9.

 

1.1.93                  Parent Company” means in relation to a person, an entity of which that person is a Subsidiary.

 

1.1.94                  Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance which has the prior written approval of the Paying Agent (including, but not limited to, the Citigroup Pledge), or any Encumbrance arising either by operation of law or in the ordinary course of the business of any of the Security Parties which is discharged when due in the ordinary course of business.

 

1.1.95                  Potential Event of Default” means any event which, with the giving of notice and/or the passage of time, would constitute an Event of Default.

 

1.1.96                  Proceedings” means any suit, action or proceedings begun by the Agents or any of the Banks or any of the Swap Banks arising out of or in connection with the Security Documents.

 

1.1.97                  Proportionate Share” means, at any time, the proportion which that Bank’s Commitment (whether or not advanced) then bears to the aggregate Commitments of all the Banks (whether or not advanced).

 

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1.1.98                  Reference Banks” means Nordea Bank Danmark A/S, Nordea Bank Finland Plc, HSH Nordbank AG, Fortis Bank S.A./N.V. and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland.

 

1.1.99                  Repayment Date” means the date for payment of any Repayment Instalment in accordance with Clause 5.

 

1.1.100            Repayment Instalment” means any instalment of the Loan to be repaid by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 5.

 

1.1.101            Required Sale Prepayment Amount” means, in relation to a Vessel, seventy per centum (70%) of the net sales proceeds of any sale on arms length commercial terms and on a mortgage free basis to an unconnected third party (or, in the case of a sale to an Affiliate, seventy per centum (70%) of the Market Value).

 

1.1.102            Requisition Compensation”, in relation to a Vessel, means all compensation or other money which may from time to time be payable to the Owner as a result of the Vessel being requisitioned for title or in any other way compulsorily acquired (other than by way of requisition for hire).

 

1.1.103            Revolving Credit” means the aggregate amount up to the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount from time to time advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2 or, where the context permits, the aggregate amount of all Revolving Credit Drawings advanced and for the time being outstanding.

 

1.1.104            Revolving Credit Drawing” means a part of the Revolving Credit advanced by the Banks to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 2.2.

 

1.1.105            Revolving Credit Outstandings” at any time means the total of all Revolving Credit Drawings made at that time to the extent not reduced by repayments, prepayments and voluntary reductions.

 

1.1.106            Screen Rate” means the percentage rate per annum determined by the Banking Federation of the European Union for the relevant period, displayed on the appropriate page of the Reuters screen (or such other page or pages which replace(s) such page) for the purpose of displaying offered

 

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rates of leading banks, for deposits in euros of amounts equal to the amount of the relevant Drawing for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period or, if there is no such display rate then available, the rate (rounded upwards to the nearest whole multiple of one sixteenth of one per centum) at which deposits in euros of amounts comparable to the amount of the Drawing in question are offered to the Reference Banks (or four of them if one is unable to quote a rate) in the European Interbank market for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period.

 

1.1.107            the Security Documents” means this Agreement, the Mortgages, the Deeds of Covenants, the Assignments, the Tripartite Agreements, the Guarantee, the Shareholder Guarantee, the Share Pledges, the Master Agreements or (where the context permits) any one or more of them, and any other agreement or document which may at any time be executed by any person as security for the payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness.

 

1.1.108            Security Parties” means the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Shareholder Guarantor, the Owners, the Bareboat Charterers (other than Havens) and any other person or company who may at any time during the Facility Period be liable for, or provide security for, all or any part of the Indebtedness, and “Security Party” means any one of them.

 

1.1.109            the Share Pledges” means the pledges of the issued share capital of the Borrower and the Guarantor referred to in Clause 10.5 (each a “Share Pledge”).

 

1.1.110            Shareholder Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity of the Shareholder Guarantor referred to in Clause 10.4.

 

1.1.111            Shareholder Guarantor” means Sea Containers Ltd and/or (where the context permits) any other person or company who shall at any time during the Facility Period give to the Banks or the Swap Banks or to the Agents on their behalf a guarantee and/or indemnity for the repayment of all or part of the Indebtedness.

 

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1.1.112            Shareholder Loans” means any unsecured, fully subordinated loans from the Shareholder Guarantor or the Guarantor to the Borrower.

 

1.1.113            SMC” means, in relation to each Vessel, a valid safety management certificate issued for that Vessel by or on behalf of the relevant Administration pursuant to paragraph 13.4 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.114            SMS” means, in relation to each Vessel, a safety management system for that Vessel developed and implemented in accordance with the ISM Code and including the functional requirements, duties and obligations required by the ISM Code.

 

1.1.115            Subsidiary” means an organisation from time to time over which the Borrower exercises a dominant influence either (i) by having a majority of the voting rights attached to shares, memberships or participations and this majority is based on ownership, membership, articles of association, company agreement or rules corresponding thereto or other contract or (ii) by holding the right to appoint the majority of the members of the board of directors or other corresponding body of the other organisation or of a body with such power of appointment and the right of appointment is based on the facts as mentioned above in (i) in accordance with and as ruled in the Finnish Companies Act Chapter 1 Section 3 (14.2.97/145 or as amended or re-enacted from time to time).

 

1.1.116            Surety” means any person (other than the Borrower and the Security Agent, the Guarantor, the Shareholder Guarantor or the Owners) who has given or who may in the future give to the Agents or any of the Banks or any of the Swap Banks any security or guarantee and indemnity for or in relation to the Borrower’s Obligations.

 

1.1.117            Swap Banks” means each of the Co-Arrangers and the Security Agent, acting in their capacity as swap providers under any relevant Master Agreement.

 

1.1.118            Taxes” means all taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions and withholdings (including any related interest, fines, surcharges and penalties) and any restrictions or conditions resulting in any charge, other

 

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than taxes on the overall net income of an Agent or of a Bank or of a Swap Bank, and “Tax” and “Taxation” shall be interpreted accordingly.

 

1.1.119            Total Loss”, in relation to a Vessel, means:-

 

(a)                                  an actual, constructive, arranged, agreed or compromised total loss of that Vessel; or

 

(b)                                 the requisition for title or compulsory acquisition of that Vessel by or on behalf of any government or other authority (other than by way of requisition for hire); or

 

(c)                                  the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of that Vessel, unless the Vessel is released and returned to the possession of the Owner within sixty days after the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation in question.

 

1.1.120            Transfer Certificate” means a certificate materially in the form of Appendix B.

 

1.1.121            Transfer Date”, in relation to a transfer of any of a Bank’s rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, means the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of the relevant Transfer Certificate to the Paying Agent, or such later Business Day as may be specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate.

 

1.1.122            Transferee” means any bank or financial institution to which a Bank transfers any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement.

 

1.1.123            Tripartite Agreements” means the Walrus Tripartite Agreement and the Group Tripartite Agreements together, and “Tripartite Agreement” means any of them.

 

1.1.124            the Trust Property” means:-

 

(a)                                  the benefit of the covenant contained in Clause 10; and

 

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(b)                                 all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) the Owners’ Guarantee; and

 

(c)                                  all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) each of the Security Documents (other than this Agreement), with the exception of any benefits arising solely for the benefit of the Agents.

 

1.1.125            the Underlying Documents” means the Bareboat Charters, the Charter Guarantee, the Convertible Bond, the Capital Loan Agreement.

 

1.1.126            the Vessels” means the vessels listed in Schedule 3 and everything now or in the future belonging to them on board and ashore (each a “Vessel”).

 

1.1.127            Walrus Tripartite Agreement” means the tripartite agreement in respect of the vessel “WALRUS” referred to in Clause 10.6.

 

1.2                                 Interpretation

 

In this Agreement:-

 

1.2.1                        words denoting the plural number include the singular and vice versa;

 

1.2.2                        words denoting persons include corporations, partnerships, associations of persons (whether incorporated or not) or governmental or quasi-governmental bodies or authorities and vice versa;

 

1.2.3                        references to Recitals, Clauses, Schedules and Appendices are references to recitals and clauses of, and schedules and appendices to, this Agreement;

 

1.2.4                        references to this Agreement include the Recitals, the Schedules and the Appendices;

 

1.2.5                        the headings and contents page(s) are for the purpose of reference only, have no legal or other significance, and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement;

 

1.2.6                        references to any document (including, without limitation, to all or any of the Security Documents) are, unless the context otherwise requires,

 

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references to that document as amended, supplemented, novated or replaced from time to time;

 

1.2.7                        references to statutes or provisions of statutes are references to those statutes, or those provisions, as from time to time amended, replaced or re-enacted;

 

1.2.8                        words and expressions defined in a Master Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning;

 

1.2.9                        references to a Bank or to a Swap Bank or to an Agent include its successors, transferees and assignees;

 

1.2.10                  references to times of day are to London time.

 

1.3                                 Offer letter

 

This Agreement supersedes the terms and conditions contained in any correspondence relating to the subject matter of this Agreement exchanged between the Agents or any of the Banks and the Borrower or their representatives prior to the date of this Agreement.

 

1.4                                 Joint and several liability

 

1.4.1                        All obligations, covenants, representations, warranties and undertakings in or pursuant to the Security Documents assumed, given, made or entered into by the Owners shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be assumed, given, made or entered into by the Owners jointly and severally.

 

1.4.2                        Each of the Owners agrees that any rights which it may have at any time during the Facility Period by reason of the performance of its obligations under the Security Documents to be indemnified by any other Owner or the Borrower and/or to take the benefit of any security taken by the Banks or the Swap Banks or by the Agents pursuant to the Security Documents shall be exercised in such manner and on such terms as the Agents may require.  Each of the Owners agrees to hold any sums received by it as a result of its having exercised any such right on trust for the Agents (as agents for the Banks and the Swap Banks) absolutely.

 

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1.4.3                        Each of the Owners agrees that it will not at any time during the Facility Period claim any set-off or counterclaim against any other Owner or the Borrower in respect of any liability owed to it by that other Owner or the Borrower under or in connection with the Security Documents, nor prove in competition with the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents in any liquidation of (or analogous proceeding in respect of) any other Owner or the Borrower in respect of any payment made under the Security Documents or in respect of any sum which includes the proceeds of realisation of any security held by the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents for the repayment of the Indebtedness.

 

2                                         The Loan and its Purpose

 

2.1                                 Agreement to lend  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and in reliance on each of the representations and warranties made or to be made in or in accordance with each of the Security Documents, each of the Banks agrees to advance to the Borrower its Commitment of an aggregate amount not exceeding the Maximum Facility Amount to be used by the Borrower for the purposes referred to in the Recital.

 

2.2                                 Drawings  Subject to satisfaction by the Borrower of the conditions set out in Clause 3.1, and subject to Clause 2.3 and Clause 2.4, the Loan shall be advanced to the Borrower in one Loan Drawing no later than the Availability Termination Date, and the Borrower shall be entitled to draw upon the Revolving Credit, provided that the maximum aggregate amount of Revolving Credit Outstandings at any given time during the Facility Period does not exceed the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount, in each case by the Paying Agent transferring the amount of the Drawing in question to the Borrower by such method of funds transfer as the Paying Agent and the Borrower shall agree.

 

2.3                                 Advance of Drawings  Each Drawing shall be advanced in euros, on a Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall have given to the Paying Agent not more than ten and not fewer than three Business Days’ notice in writing materially in the form set out in Appendix A of the required Advance Date of the Drawing in question.  For the avoidance of doubt, if a Drawing is to be made under the Loan and under the Revolving Credit, two such notices shall be required.  Each

 

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Drawdown Notice once given shall be irrevocable and shall constitute a warranty by the Borrower that:-

 

2.3.1                        all conditions precedent to the advance of the Drawing requested in that Drawdown Notice will have been satisfied on or before the first Advance Date requested;

 

2.3.2                        no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will then have occurred;

 

2.3.3                        no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the Drawing in question; and

 

2.3.4                        there has been no material adverse change in the business, affairs or financial condition of any of the Security Parties from that pertaining at the date of this Agreement.

 

The Paying Agent shall promptly notify each Bank of the receipt of each Drawdown Notice, following which each Bank will make its Proportionate Share of the amount of the requested Drawing available to the Borrower through the Paying Agent on the Advance Date requested.

 

2.4                                 Restrictions on Drawings  The Borrower shall not be entitled to make more than one Drawing on any Business Day (other than on the first Advance Date when two Drawings are permitted).  No Revolving Credit Drawing shall be permitted if the result is that the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount is exceeded.  No more than fifteen (15) Revolving Credit Drawings in aggregate shall be permitted at any one time of which up to five (5) shall be in amounts of not less than ten million euros (€10,000,000) each and up to ten shall be in amounts of not less than four million euros (€4,000,000) each.  To the extent that the Revolving Credit Outstandings are reduced by virtue of a prepayment pursuant to Clause 5.4 to a level below the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount, the Borrower shall again be entitled to make Drawings subject always to the other provisions of this Clause 2.

 

2.5                                 Maximum Revolving Credit Amount  Until the final repayment date of the Convertible Bond the Maximum Revolving Credit Amount will be eighty six million euro (€86,000,000).  From and including the date of the final repayment of the Convertible Bond, until the Final Maturity Date, the Maximum Revolving

 

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Credit Amount will, subject to and conditional upon the Convertible Bond being simultaneously repaid, be one hundred and twenty six million euro (€126,000,000).

 

2.6                                 Availability Termination Date  The Banks shall not be under any obligation to advance all or any part of the Loan after the Availability Termination Date and no Revolving Credit Drawing may be made unless the Loan Drawing has been advanced.

 

2.7                                 Several obligations  The obligations of the Banks under this Agreement are several.  The failure of a Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower to the Agents or to the other Banks, nor shall the Agents or any other Bank be liable for the failure of a Bank to perform any of its obligations under or in connection with this Agreement.

 

2.8                                 Application of Loan  Without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, neither the Banks nor the Agents shall be obliged to concern themselves with the application of the Loan by the Borrower.

 

2.9                                 Loan and control accounts  The Paying Agent will open and maintain such loan and control accounts as it shall consider necessary or desirable.

 

3                                         Conditions Precedent and Subsequent

 

3.1                                 Conditions Precedent  Before any Bank shall have any obligation to advance any part of the first Drawing, the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agents the following documents and evidence:-

 

3.1.1                        Evidence of incorporation  Such evidence as the Agents may reasonably require that each Security Party was duly incorporated in its country of incorporation and remains in existence and, where appropriate, in good standing, with power to enter into, and perform its obligations under, those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is intended to be, a party, including (without limitation) a copy, certified by a director or the secretary or an authorised officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and unamended, of all documents establishing or limiting the constitution of each Security Party.

 

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3.1.2                        Corporate authorities  A copy, certified by a director or the secretary or an authorised officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and neither amended nor revoked, of a resolution of the directors of each Security Party and, in respect of Crown Cruise Line Incorporated S.A. only, a resolution of the shareholders (together, where appropriate, with signed waivers of notice of any directors’ or shareholders’ meetings) approving, and authorising or ratifying the execution of, those of the Security Documents to which that Security Party is or is intended to be a party and all matters incidental thereto.

 

3.1.3                        Officer’s certificate  A certificate signed by a duly authorised officer of each of the Security Parties setting out the names of the directors, officers and (other than in the case of the Shareholder Guarantor) shareholders of that Security Party.

 

3.1.4                        Power of attorney  The power of attorney of each of the Security Parties under which any documents are to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party, notarially attested and legalised if required by the Agents.

 

3.1.5                        Vessel documents  Photocopies, certified as true, accurate and complete by a director or the secretary of the Owner, of (in respect of each Vessel):-

 

(a)                                  the Bareboat Charter or other contract of employment of that Vessel which will be in force on the first Advance Date;

 

(b)                                 the management agreement between the Owner and the Managers relating to that Vessel (except in relation to WALRUS); and

 

(c)                                  that Vessel’s current SMC; and

 

(d)                                 the relevant Company’s current DOC;

 

in each case together with all addenda, amendments or supplements.

 

3.1.6                        Evidence of ownership  Certificate(s) of ownership and encumbrance (or equivalent) issued by the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the Vessel’s port of registry confirming that each Vessel is on the first Advance

 

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Date owned by her Owner and in the case of WALRUS only, free of registered Encumbrances.

 

3.1.7                        Evidence of insurance  Evidence that each Vessel is insured in the manner required by the Security Documents and that letters of undertaking will be issued in the manner required by the Security Documents, together with (if required by the Agents) the written approval of the Insurances by an insurance adviser appointed by the Agents.

 

3.1.8                        Confirmation of class  A Certificate of Confirmation of Class for hull and machinery confirming that each Vessel is classed with the highest class applicable to vessels of her type with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas or such other classification society as may be acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.1.9                        Instruction to classification society  A letter of instruction from the Owner of each Vessel to that Vessel’s classification society in the form required by the Agents such letter to be served on the classification society after the occurrence of an Event of Default.

 

3.1.10                  Havens  Such evidence of authority of the signatory for Havens under the Walrus Tripartite Agreement as the Agents may deem necessary.

 

3.1.11                  The Security Documents  The Security Documents, together with all notices and other documents required by any of them, duly executed and, in the case of the Mortgages, registered with first priority through the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the port of registry of the Vessel concerned.

 

3.1.12                  The Pledge Documents  The pledge documents required by the Share Pledges.

 

3.1.13                  Drawdown Notice  A Drawdown Notice.

 

3.1.14                  Process agent  A letter from Sea Containers Services Limited accepting their appointment by each of the Security Parties as agent for service of Proceedings pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

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3.1.15                  Mandates  Such duly signed forms of mandate, and/or other evidence of the opening of the Earnings Accounts, as the Agents or any of the Banks may require.

 

3.1.16                  Managers’ confirmation  The written confirmation of the Managers (except Seahawk North America) that, throughout the Facility Period unless otherwise agreed by the Agents, they will remain the commercial and technical managers of the Vessels and that they will not, without the prior written consent of the Agents, sub-contract or delegate the commercial or technical management of any Vessel to any third party.

 

3.1.17                  The Fee Letter  The Fee Letter countersigned on behalf of the Borrower by way of acceptance of its terms and all fees payable thereunder having been paid when due.

 

3.1.18                  Legal opinions  Confirmation satisfactory to the Agents that all legal opinions required by the Agents will be given substantially in the form required by the Agents.

 

3.1.19                  Junior Loan Agreement  Certified true copies of the Junior Loan Agreement and all security documents required thereby.

 

3.1.20                  Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination  The Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination duly executed by all parties thereto.

 

3.1.21                  Underlying Documents  Certified true copies of the Underlying Documents.

 

3.1.22                  Citigroup Pledge  A certified true copy of the Citigroup Pledge duly executed by all parties thereto.

 

3.1.23                  Know your customer requirements  Certified copies of the passport and proof of address of each of the directors of the Borrower.

 

3.2                                 Conditions Subsequent  The Borrower undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the Agents on, or as soon as practicable after, the first Advance Date, the following additional documents and evidence:-

 

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3.2.1                        Evidence of registration  Evidence of registration of the Mortgages, in each case with first priority, with the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the port of registry of the Vessel concerned.

 

3.2.2                        Letters of undertaking  Letters of undertaking as required by the Security Documents in form and substance acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.2.3                        Legal opinions  The legal opinions referred to in Clause 3.1.18, duly issued.

 

3.2.4                        Companies Act registrations  Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security Documents have been delivered to any relevant registrar of companies within the appropriate statutory time limit.

 

3.2.5                        Master’s receipts  The master’s receipt for each of the Mortgages, if required by the laws of the flag of any Vessel.

 

3.3                                 No waiver  If the Banks in their sole discretion agree to advance any part of the Facility to the Borrower before all of the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 have been delivered to or to the order of the Agents, the Borrower undertakes to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the order of the Agents no later than the date specified by the Agents, and the advance of any part of the Facility shall not be taken as a waiver of the Agent’s right to require production of all the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1.

 

3.4                                 Form and content  All documents and evidence delivered to the Agents pursuant to this Clause shall:-

 

3.4.1                        be in form and substance acceptable to the Agents;

 

3.4.2                        be accompanied, if required by the Agents, by translations into the English language, certified in a manner acceptable to the Agents;

 

3.4.3                        if required by the Agents, be certified, notarised, legalised or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.5                                 Event of Default  No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance any part of its Commitment nor to act on any Drawdown Notice if, at the date of the Drawdown Notice or at the date on which the advance of a Drawing is requested in the

 

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Drawdown Notice, an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default shall have occurred, or if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default would result from the advance of the Drawing in question.

 

4                                         Representations and Warranties

 

The Borrower and each of the Owners represents and warrants to each of the Banks and to the Agents at the date of this Agreement and (by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining) at the date of each Drawdown Notice, at each Advance Date and at each Interest Payment Date as follows:-

 

4.1                                 Incorporation and capacity  Each of the Security Parties is a body corporate duly constituted and existing and (where applicable) in good standing under the law of its country of incorporation, in each case with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own its assets and to carry on its business, and all of the corporate shareholders (if any) of each Security Party are duly constituted and existing under the laws of their countries of incorporation with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own their assets and to carry on their business.

 

4.2                                 Solvency None of the Security Parties is insolvent or in liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of any of the Security Parties or all or any substantial part of their assets.

 

4.3                                 Binding obligations  The Security Documents when duly executed and delivered will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and each of the Owners further confirm that their entering into the Owners’ Guarantee in Clause 9 is for their corporate and commercial benefit.

 

4.4                                 Satisfaction of conditions  All acts, conditions and things required to be done and satisfied and to have happened prior to the execution and delivery of the Security Documents in order to constitute the Security Documents the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties in accordance with their respective terms

 

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have been done, satisfied and have happened in compliance with all applicable laws.

 

4.5                                 Registrations and consents  With the exception only of the registrations referred to in Clause 3.2, all (if any) consents, licences, approvals and authorisations of, or registrations with or declarations to, any governmental authority, bureau or agency which may be required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of the Security Documents have been obtained or made and remain in full force and effect and none of the Owners nor the Borrower is aware of any event or circumstance which could reasonably be expected adversely to affect the right of any of the Security Parties to hold and/or obtain renewal of any such consents, licences, approvals or authorisations.

 

4.6                                 Disclosure of material facts  None of the Owners nor the Borrower is aware of any material facts or circumstances which have not been disclosed to the Agents and which might, if disclosed, have adversely affected the decision of a person considering whether or not to make facilities of the nature contemplated by this Agreement available to the Borrower.

 

4.7                                 No material litigation  There is no action, suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding pending or to its knowledge about to be pursued before any court, tribunal or governmental or other authority which would, or would be likely to, have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or creditworthiness of any of the Security Parties.

 

4.8                                 No breach of law or contract  The execution, delivery and performance of the Security Documents will not contravene any contractual restriction or any law binding on any of the Security Parties or on any shareholder (whether legal or beneficial) of any of the Security Parties, or the constitutional documents of any of the Security Parties, nor result in the creation of, nor oblige any of the Security Parties to create, any Encumbrance over all or any of its assets, with the exception of the Encumbrances created by or pursuant to the Security Documents, and, in entering into those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is to be, a party, and in borrowing the Loan and entering into the Revolving Credit facility, the Borrower is acting for its own account.

 

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4.9                                 Financial information  All financial information and other documentation submitted to the Agents by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection herewith is accurate and correct in all material respects and is not misleading and that to the best of their knowledge the information relating to the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Shareholder Guarantor contained in the confidential information memorandum prepared in connection herewith is correct in all material respects, does not contain any untrue statements of a material nature or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading (it being agreed and acknowledged that no representation or warranty is made concerning the estimates and projections contained therein other than that they were made in good faith).

 

4.10                           Pari Passu  The claims of the Agents and the Banks hereunder will rank at least pari passu with the claims of all unsecured creditors of the Borrower and/or the Owners other than claims of such creditors to the extent that they are statutorily preferred.

 

4.11                           No deductions  None of the Security Parties is required to make any deduction or withholding from any payment which it may be obliged to make to the Agents or any of the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

4.12                           No established place of business in the United Kingdom or United States  None of the Security Parties has, nor will any of them have during the Facility Period, an established place of business (other than the Shareholder Guarantor) in the United States of America or (other than the Guarantor and the Shareholder Guarantor) in the United Kingdom.

 

4.13                           Bareboat Charters  The certified copies of the Bareboat Charters provided to the Agents pursuant to this Agreement constitute the full agreement between the Owner and the Bareboat Charterer in relation to the Vessel in question and each Bareboat Charter has been duly executed and authorised by the parties to it and is in full force and effect in accordance with its terms; each Vessel is on hire pursuant to its respective Bareboat Charter; and none of the Owners is aware of any material breach by any Bareboat Charterer of any of its obligations under or pursuant to the relevant Bareboat Charter.

 

4.14                           Use of Loan  The Loan will be used for the purposes specified in the Recital.

 

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4.15                           Shareholdings  The Guarantor is and will remain the legal and beneficial owner of all of the shares of the Borrower; the Shareholder Guarantor is and will remain the legal and beneficial owner of all the shares in the Guarantor; and the Borrower is and will remain the ultimate legal and beneficial owner of all the shares in each Owner.

 

4.16                           Underlying Documents  The copies of the Underlying Documents delivered or to be delivered to the Agents hereunder constitute the full agreement of the parties thereto and none of the parties thereto is in default thereunder.

 

5                                         Repayment, Prepayment and Cancellation

 

5.1                                 Repayment  The Borrower agrees to repay the Loan to the Paying Agent as agent for the Banks by thirteen (13) consecutive half-yearly Repayment Instalments, the first twelve Repayment Instalments each in the sum of twelve million euro (€12,000,000) and the thirteenth and last Repayment Instalment in the sum of seventy one million euros (€71,000,000), the first Repayment Date being the date which is the earlier of (i) twelve calendar months after the first Advance Date and (ii) 1 October 2004 and subsequent Repayment Dates being at consecutive intervals of six calendar months thereafter.

 

5.2                                 Reduction of Repayment Instalments  If the aggregate amount of the Loan advanced to the Borrower is less than the Maximum Loan Amount, the amount of the Repayment Instalments shall be reduced pro rata.

 

5.3                                 Repayment of Revolving Credit  Each Revolving Credit Drawing shall be repaid by the Borrower to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on the last day of its Interest Period unless the Borrower selects a further Interest Period for that Revolving Credit Drawing in accordance with Clause 6, provided that the Borrower shall not be permitted to select such further Interest Period if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and shall then be obliged to repay such Revolving Credit Drawing on the last day of its then current Interest Period.  The Borrower shall on the Final Maturity Date repay to the Paying Agent as agent for the Banks all Revolving Credit Outstandings.

 

5.4                                 Prepayment/Cancellation  The Borrower may prepay the Loan in whole or in part in an amount equal to the amount of a Repayment Instalment or an integral multiple

 

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of that amount (or as otherwise may be agreed by the Paying Agent) and the Borrower may prepay and/or cancel the Revolving Credit in whole or in part in the sum of one million euro (e1,000,000) or in integral multiples of that amount (or as otherwise may be agreed by the Paying Agent) provided that they have first given to the Paying Agent not fewer than thirty days’ prior written notice expiring on a Business Day of their intention to do so.  Any notice pursuant to this Clause once given shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to make the prepayment referred to in the notice on the Business Day specified in the notice, together with all interest accrued on the amount prepaid up to and including that Business Day.

 

5.5                                 Prepayment indemnity  If the Borrower shall, subject always to Clause 5.4, make a prepayment on a Business Day other than the last day of an Interest Period in respect part of or the whole of the Facility, it shall, in addition to the amount prepaid and accrued interest, pay to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks and the Swap Banks any amount which the Paying Agent may certify is necessary to compensate the Banks and the Swap Banks for any Break Costs incurred by the Paying Agent or any of the Banks or any of the Swap Banks as a result of the making of the prepayment in question.

 

5.6                                 Application of prepayments  Any prepayment in an amount less than the Indebtedness shall be applied in satisfaction or reduction first of any costs, fees and other expenses outstanding under this Agreement; secondly of all interest outstanding in respect of the Facility; thirdly of the Repayment Instalments in inverse order of maturity; and fourthly of all Revolving Credit Outstandings.

 

5.7                                 No reborrowing  No part of the Loan repaid or prepaid pursuant to this Agreement may in any circumstances be reborrowed but all sums prepaid in respect of the Revolving Credit may be reborrowed in accordance with Clause 2 other than prepayments under Clauses 5.8 and 5.9 which shall be treated as cancellations of the relevant amount prepaid against the Revolving Credit.

 

5.8                                 Sale of a Vessel  On the sale of any Vessel (excluding SILJA SYMPHONY and SILJA SERENADE and other than FINNJET, where the terms of sale are to be determined in accordance with Clause 5.9) during the Facility Period the Required Sale Prepayment Amount shall be applied by the Borrower as a prepayment to be applied by the Paying Agent in satisfaction or reduction of the Loan, the Revolving Credit and the Junior Loan pro rata  PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Market

 

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Value of the remaining Vessels would be less than one hundred and forty per centum (140%) of the aggregate of the Loan, the Revolving Credit Outstandings and the Junior Loan, then the Borrower will ensure that such further portion of the net sales proceeds as may be required in order to ensure that the Market Value of the remaining Vessels shall equal or exceed one hundred and forty per centum (140%) of the Loan, the Revolving Credit and the Junior Loan shall also be used in or towards prepayment of the Loan, the Revolving Credit and the Junior Loan pro rata.  Unless an Event of Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, the Paying Agent shall promptly release to or to the order of the relevant Owner the amount (if any) by which the net sale proceeds exceeds the prepayment required under this Clause 5.8.  The provisions of Clauses 5.5 and 5.6 shall apply to any such prepayment with the exception of the remaining Repayment Instalments which shall be reduced pro rata.

 

5.9                                 FINNJET prepayment  The Borrower may at its option exclude the Vessel FINNJET from the security package for this Facility by making a prepayment in the amount of twelve million six hundred thousand euro (€12,600,000) (reduced pro rata to reflect any repayments or prepayments made at any relevant date), such prepayment to be applied by the Paying Agent pro rata in satisfaction of the Loan, the Revolving Credit and the Junior Loan.  The provisions of Clauses 5.5 and 5.6 shall apply to any such prepayment with the exception of the remaining Repayment Instalments which shall be reduced pro rata.

 

6                                         Interest

 

6.1                                 Interest Periods  The period during which the Facility shall be outstanding pursuant to this Agreement shall be divided into consecutive Interest Periods of one, two, three or six months’ duration, as selected by the Borrower by written notice to the Paying Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. on the third Business Day before the beginning of the Interest Period in question, or such other duration as may be agreed by the Banks in their discretion.

 

6.2                                 Beginning and end of Interest Periods  The first Interest Period shall begin on the first Advance Date and the final Interest Period shall end on the Repayment Date applicable to the final Repayment Instalment.

 

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6.3                                 Interest Periods to meet Repayment Dates  If the Borrower shall select, or the Borrower and the Banks shall agree, an Interest Period which does not expire on the next Repayment Date, there shall, in respect of each part of the Loan equal to a Repayment Instalment falling due for payment before the expiry of that Interest Period, be a separate Interest Period which shall expire on the relevant Repayment Date, and the Interest Period selected or agreed shall apply to the balance of the Loan only.

 

6.4                                 Interest rate  During each Interest Period interest shall accrue on the Facility at the rate determined by the Paying Agent to be the aggregate of (a) the Margin, (b) EURIBOR determined at or about 11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to the beginning of that Interest Period and (c) the Mandatory Cost.

 

6.5                                 Failure to select Interest Period  If the Borrower at any time fails to select or agree an Interest Period in accordance with Clause 6.1, the interest rate applicable after the expiry of the then current Interest Period shall be the rate determined by the Paying Agent in accordance with Clause 6.4 for consecutive Interest Periods each of such duration (not exceeding three months) as the Paying Agent may select.

 

6.6                                 Accrual and payment of interest  Interest shall accrue from day to day, shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed (or, in any circumstance where market practice differs, in accordance with the prevailing market practice) and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on the last day of each Interest Period and additionally, during any Interest Period exceeding six months, on the last day of each successive six month period after the beginning of that Interest Period.

 

6.7                                 Ending of Interest Periods  Each Interest Period shall, subject to Clauses 6.2 and 6.3, end on the date which numerically corresponds to the date on which the immediately preceding Interest Period ended (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, to the first Advance Date) in the calendar month which is the number of months selected or agreed after the calendar month in which the immediately preceding Interest Period ended (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, in which the first Advance Date occurred), except that:-

 

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6.7.1                        if there is no numerically corresponding date in the calendar month in which the Interest Period ends, the Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and

 

6.7.2                        if any Interest Period would end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which event the Interest Period in question shall end on the next preceding Business Day).

 

Any adjustment made pursuant to Clause 6.7.1 or 6.7.2 shall be ignored for the purpose of determining the date on which any subsequent Interest Period shall end.

 

6.8                                     Default Rate  If an Event of Default shall occur, the whole of the Indebtedness shall, from the date of the occurrence of the Event of Default, bear interest up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at the Default Rate, compounded at such intervals as the Paying Agent shall determine, which interest shall be payable from time to time by the Borrower to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on demand.

 

6.9                                 Determinations conclusive  Each determination of an interest rate made by the Paying Agent in accordance with Clause 6 shall (save in the case of manifest error or on any question of law) be final and conclusive.

 

7                                         Hedging Transactions

 

7.1                                 Provision of details  Subject to this Clause and to Clause 7.2, the Borrower may from time to time during the Facility Period enter into one or more Hedging Transactions with any one or more of the Swap Banks for the purpose of hedging all or part of the Borrower’s interest rate risk pursuant to this Agreement, provided that the Borrower gives the Paying Agent reasonable prior notice of its intention to enter into any such Hedging Transaction, together with brief particulars of it, and that before entering into any Hedging Transaction the Borrower executes and delivers to the Paying Agent, or procures the execution and delivery to the Paying Agent of, such further documents as the Paying Agent may reasonably require in order to ensure that the Master Agreement Liabilities in respect of the Hedging Transaction in question are secured by the Security Documents.

 

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7.2                                 Restrictions on Hedging Transactions  The Borrower shall not enter into any Hedging Transactions or other transactions pursuant to this Clause 7 which are denominated in a currency other than euros or which mature on a date later than the Final Maturity Date.  At any time, the aggregate notional amounts of all Hedging Transactions and other transactions entered into pursuant to this Clause 7 shall in no circumstances exceed the Loan and the Revolving Credit Outstandings at such time.

 

7.3                                     Provision of documents  The Borrower will provide the Paying Agent with a copy of the Confirmation applicable to each Hedging Transaction as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving it from the relevant Swap Bank.

 

7.4                                 Termination  The Borrower agrees that, irrespective of the terms of any Hedging Transaction then in force, each of the Swap Banks may, at any time after the Paying Agent has demanded repayment of all or part of the Indebtedness pursuant to Clause 14.1, amend, restructure, unwind, cancel, net out, terminate, transfer or assign any of the rights and/or obligations created pursuant to a Master Agreement in relation to a Hedging Transaction.  If the exercise of the rights of the Swap Banks pursuant to this Clause results in the termination of a Hedging Transaction, that Transaction shall, for the purposes of the relevant Master Agreement, be treated as a Terminated Transaction (as defined in such Master Agreement) resulting from an Event of Default by the Borrower.

 

8                                         Fees

 

8.1                                 Fee Letter  The Borrower shall pay to or to the order of the Paying Agent the fees, commissions and other sums referred to in the Fee Letter in the amounts and on the dates set out in the Fee Letter.

 

8.2                                 Commitment Commission  The Borrower shall pay to the Paying Agent for the benefit of the Banks a commitment fee of fifty per centum (50%) of the Margin per annum on (i) the undrawn part of the Loan from the date hereof until the earlier of the Drawdown Date and the Availability Termination Date, accruing and payable on each day elapsing on the basis of a 360 day year which shall be paid in one amount on the earlier of the Drawdown Date and the Availability Termination Date and (ii) the undrawn part of the Revolving Credit from the date hereof until the Final Maturity Date, accruing and payable on each day elapsing on the basis of a

 

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360 day year which shall be paid in arrears on the first Advance Date and at quarterly intervals thereafter.

 

9                                         Owners’ Guarantee and Indemnity

 

9.1                                 Guarantee and indemnity  In consideration of the agreement of the Banks to make the Facility available to the Borrower, each of  the Owners (other than the Borrower in respect of this Clause 9 only):-

 

9.1.1                        irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the Agents as agents for the Banks and the Swap Banks to discharge on first demand of the Agents all of the Borrower’s Obligations which the Borrower has failed to discharge, including interest at the Default Rate from the date of demand until the date of payment, both before and after judgment; and

 

9.1.2                        agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, that, if any of the Borrower’s Obligations are not recoverable from any of the Owners under Clause 9.1.1 for any reason, that Owner will be liable to the Agents as agents for the Banks and the Swap Banks, as a principal debtor by way of indemnity for the same amount as that for which it would have been liable had those Borrower’s Obligations been recoverable and agrees to discharge its liability under this Clause 9.1.2 on first demand of the Agents together with interest at the Default Rate from the date of demand until the date of payment, both before and after judgement.

 

9.2                                 Continuing security  The Owners’ Guarantee is a continuing security for the full amount of the Borrower’s Obligations from time to time and shall remain in force notwithstanding the liquidation of the Borrower or any change in the constitution of the Borrower or of any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents or the absorption of or amalgamation by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents in or with any other entity or the acquisition of all or any part of the assets or undertaking of any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents by any other entity.

 

9.3                                 Preservation of the Owners’ Liabilities  The Banks and the Swap Banks may without the consent of any of the Owners and without notice to of any of the Owners and without in any way releasing or reducing the Owners’ Liabilities:-

 

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9.3.1                        amend, novate, supplement or replace all or any of the Security Documents save for any Security Documents to which any Owner is a party;

 

9.3.2                        increase or reduce the amount of the Facility or vary the terms and conditions for its repayment or reduction (including, without limitation, the rate and/or method of calculation of interest);

 

9.3.3                        allow to the Borrower or to any other person any time or other indulgence;

 

9.3.4                        renew, vary, release or refrain from enforcing any of the Security Documents or any other security, guarantee or indemnity which any of the Agents or Banks or Swap Banks may now or in the future hold from the Borrower or from any other person;

 

9.3.5                        compound with the Borrower or any other person;

 

9.3.6                        enter into, renew, vary or terminate any other agreement or arrangement with the Borrower or any other person; or

 

9.3.7                        release one or more Owners from their obligations hereunder; or

 

9.3.8                        make any concession to the Borrower or do or omit or neglect to do anything which might, but for this provision, operate to release or reduce the liability of any of  the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee.

 

9.4                                 Owners’ Liabilities unaffected  The liability of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee shall not be affected by:-

 

9.4.1                        the absence of or any defective, excessive or irregular exercise of any of the powers of the Borrower or of any Surety;

 

9.4.2                        any security given or payment made to any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents by the Borrower or any other person being avoided or reduced under any law (whether English or foreign) relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or analogous circumstance in force from time to time;

 

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9.4.4                        any other security, guarantee or indemnity now or in the future held by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents being defective, void or unenforceable, or the failure of any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents to take any security, guarantee or indemnity;

 

9.4.5                        any compromise or arrangement under Part I or Part VII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or section 425 of the Companies Act 1985 (or any statutory modification or re-enactment of either of them for the time being in force) or under any (in the opinion of the Agents) analogous provision of any foreign law;

 

9.4.6                        the novation of any of the Borrower’s Obligations;

 

9.4.7                        anything which would not have released or reduced the liability of any of the Owners had the liability of that Owner under Clause 9.1.1 been as a principal debtor and not as a guarantor.

 

9.5                                 Preservation of Agents’ rights  The Owners’ Guarantee is in addition to any other security, guarantee or indemnity now or in the future held by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or Agents in respect of the Borrower’s Obligations, whether from the Borrower, the Owners or any Surety, and shall not merge with, prejudice or be prejudiced by any such security, guarantee or indemnity or any contractual or legal right of any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents.

 

9.6                                 Release  Any release, settlement, discharge or arrangement relating to the liabilities of any of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee shall be conditional on no payment, assurance or security received by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents in respect of the Borrower’s Obligations being avoided or reduced under any law (whether English or foreign) in force from time to time relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or any (in the opinion of the Agents) analogous circumstance and after any such avoidance or reduction the Agents shall be entitled to exercise all of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Owners’ Guarantee and/or any other rights, powers, discretions or remedies which they would otherwise have been entitled to exercise, as if no release, settlement, discharge or arrangement had taken place.

 

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9.7                                 Discharge  Following the complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations, the Agents and/or the Security Agent shall release any security which they may hold for the liabilities of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee provided that they shall have first received a written statement from the Borrower’s directors stating that the Borrower is not insolvent at the time of the complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations, nor will it become insolvent as a result of such complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations. Upon the sale of a vessel pursuant to Clauses 5.8 or 5.9 (as the case may be) the Security Agent will discharge the Mortgage over that Vessel, in accordance with the law of the applicable flag state.  If the Owner of such Vessel is not the owner of any other Vessel, the Security Agent shall release the Owner from all of its obligations under the Security Documents (other than, if relevant, the Earnings Assignment for the relevant Vessel), on receipt of all (or, as the case may be, the appropriate proportion as specified in Clauses 5.8 or 5.9) of the net sales proceeds.

 

9.8                                 Subrogation  Until all claims of the Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents in respect of the Borrower’s Obligations have been discharged in full:-

 

9.8.1                        none of the Owners shall be entitled to participate in any security held or sums received by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or either Agent in respect of all or any part of the Borrower’s Obligations;

 

9.8.2                        none of the Owners shall stand in the place of, or be subrogated for, any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents in respect of any security nor take any step to enforce any claim against the Borrower or any Surety (or the estate or effects of any such person) nor claim or exercise any right of set off or counterclaim against the Borrower or any Surety nor make any claim in the bankruptcy or liquidation of the Borrower or any Surety in respect of any sums paid by that Owner to any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents or in respect of any sum which includes the proceeds of realisation of any security at any time held by any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents in respect of all or any part of the Owners’ Liabilities; and

 

9.8.3                        none of the Owners shall take any steps to enforce any claim which it may have against the Borrower or any Surety without the prior written consent

 

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of the Agents and then only on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Agents may impose.

 

9.9                                 Continuing security  The Owners’ Liabilities shall be continuing for all purposes (including interest at the Default Rate) and every sum of money which may now or in the future be or become due or owing to the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents by the Borrower (or which would have become due or owing had it not been for the bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower) shall be deemed to continue due and owing to the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents by the Borrower until that sum is actually paid to the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents, notwithstanding the bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower.

 

9.10                           Own benefit  The Agents on behalf of the Banks and/or the Swap Banks may, but shall not be obliged to, resort for their own benefit to any other means of payment at any time and in any order they think fit without releasing or reducing the Owners’ Liabilities.

 

9.11                           Enforcement  The Agents may enforce the Owners’ Guarantee either before or after resorting to any other means of payment and, in the latter case, without entitling any of the Owners to any benefit from or share in any such other means of payment for so long as the Borrower’s Obligations have not been discharged in full when due.

 

9.12                           Other security  The Owners confirm that they have not taken and will not take without the prior written consent of the Agents (and then only on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Agents may impose) any security from the Borrower or from any Surety in connection with the Owners’ Guarantee, and any security taken by any of the Owners notwithstanding this Clause shall be held by that Owner in trust for the Agents absolutely as a continuing security for the Owners’ Liabilities.

 

9.13                           Currency of Account  The Owners’ liability under the Owners’ Guarantee is to discharge the Borrower’s Obligations in the Currency of Account.

 

9.14                           Payment  If at any time any of the Agents or the Banks or the Swap Banks receives any payment by or on behalf of any of the Owners in a currency other than the Currency of Account, that payment shall take effect as a payment to the Agents or

 

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Banks or Swap Banks of the amount in the Currency of Account which the relevant Agent or Bank or Swap Bank is able to purchase (after deduction of any relevant costs) with the amount of the payment so received in accordance with its usual practice.

 

9.15                           Shortfall  To the extent that any payment to any of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents (whether by any of the Owners or any other person and whether under any judgment or court order or otherwise) in a currency other than the Currency of Account shall on actual conversion into the Currency of Account fall short of the relevant liability of the Owners expressed in the Currency of Account then the Owners as a separate and independent obligation will indemnify the Banks and the Swap Banks and the Agents against such shortfall.

 

9.16                           Principal debtors  The Owners agree that they are, and will throughout the Facility Period remain, principal debtors in respect of the Owners’ Liabilities and not a surety for any Surety.

 

9.17                           Default Rate  Interest at the Default Rate will be payable both before and after judgement on a daily basis and on the basis of a 360 day year and compounded at such intervals as the Paying Agent shall in its discretion determine.

 

9.18                           New accounts  The Agents may continue the account(s) of the Borrower or open one or more new accounts for the Borrower notwithstanding demand under the Owners’ Guarantee and the Owners’ liability at the date of demand shall not be released or affected by any subsequent payment into or out of any account of the Borrower with any of the Banks.

 

9.19                           Limitation on recourse  The Agents acknowledge and agree with Seawind Line AB that all moneys, obligations and liabilities which are to be paid, performed, satisfied or discharged by Seawind Line AB under this Agreement and any of the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is party shall be recoverable by the Agents only from and to the extent of the Relevant Security PROVIDED THAT:

 

9.19.1                  the foregoing limitation of recourse shall be ignored in the determination of the Relevant Obligations of Seawind Line AB and the Relevant Obligations shall include all moneys, obligations and liabilities which are

 

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to be paid, repaid, performed, satisfied or discharged by Seawind Line AB, notwithstanding the foregoing limitation of recourse; and

 

9.19.2                  the Agents shall be entitled (but not obliged and without prejudice to the other powers, rights and remedies under or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or as a matter of law):

 

(a)                                  to take any legal action or proceeding to obtain (but not to enforce) a declaratory or other similar judgment or order as to the obligations and liabilities Seawind Line AB; and/or

 

(b)                                 to the extent that such claim or proof is a necessary procedural step to enable the realisation or enforcement of the full benefit of the Relevant Security, or to the exercise by the Agents of any right, title, interest and benefit in, to, under or pursuant to that Relevant Security, to make or file a claim or proof in any insolvency proceedings in relation to Seawind Line AB, but not themselves to take any legal action or proceeding to instigate any such insolvency proceedings.

 

9.20                           Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Clause 9.19, but otherwise subject to any relevant provision of this Agreement or any of the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party, Seawind Line AB shall remain fully liable to the Agents as a result of the gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of Seawind Line AB with respect to any aspect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party or the performance, satisfaction and discharge of all or any of its obligations and liabilities under and pursuant to this Agreement or the Security Documents.

 

9.21                           For the purpose of Clauses 9.19 and 9.20:

 

Relevant Security” means:

 

(a)                                  the Mortgage in respect of STAR WIND, together with the relevant collateral pledge and deed of covenants;

 

(b)                                 this Agreement;

 

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(c)                                  the Insurance Assignment in respect of STAR WIND; and

 

(d)                                 the Earnings Assignment in respect of STAR WIND.

 

Relevant Obligations” means all moneys, obligations and liabilities from time to time owing or payable, undertaken, incurred or assumed by Seawind Line AB to or in favour of the Agents under or pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party.

 

10                                  Security Documents

 

As security for the repayment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Agents or cause to be executed and delivered to the Agents, on or before the first Advance Date, the following Security Documents in such forms and containing such terms and conditions as the Agents shall require:-

 

10.1                           the Mortgages  a first preferred or priority mortgage (as the case may be) over each Vessel together with a collateral deed of covenants and/or pledge agreement, as appropriate;

 

10.2                           the Insurance Assignments  a deed of assignment of the Insurances and Requisition Compensation of each Vessel;

 

10.3                           the Guarantee  the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor;

 

10.4                           the Shareholder Guarantee  the guarantee and indemnity of the Shareholder Guarantor;

 

10.5                           the Share Pledges  a pledge of all the issued shares of the Borrower and a pledge of all the issued shares of the Guarantor;

 

10.6                           the Walrus Tripartite Agreement  a tripartite agreement in respect of WALRUS;

 

10.7                           the Group Tripartite Agreements tripartite agreements in respect of SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA, SILJA SYMPHONY and FINNJET;

 

10.8                           the Earnings Assignments a deed of assignment of the Earnings and Charter Rights or Earnings assignment agreements and/or pledge agreements (as appropriate) of each Vessel;

 

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10.9                           the Charter Guarantee Assignment a deed of assignment of the Charter Guarantee in respect of WALRUS.

 

11                                  Agency and Trust

 

11.1                           Appointment  Each of the Banks appoints the Paying Agent its agent for the purpose of administering payments relating to the Facility and the Security Documents and the Security Agent as its security trustee to administer all other aspects of the Facility and to hold the benefit of the Security Documents and each of the Swap Banks appoints the Security Agent as its security trustee to hold the benefit of the Security Documents.

 

11.2                           Authority  Each of the Banks irrevocably authorises the Paying Agent (subject to Clauses 11.4 and 11.19):-

 

11.2.1                  to collect, receive, release or pay any money on its behalf;

 

and each of the Banks and the Swap Banks authorises the Security Agent (subject to Clauses 11.4 and 11.19):-

 

11.2.2                  to execute the Security Documents (other than this Agreement) on its behalf;

 

11.2.3                  acting on the instructions from time to time of an Instructing Group to give or withhold any waivers, consents or approvals under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents;

 

11.2.4                  acting on the instructions from time to time of and Instructing Group to exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretions under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents; and

 

11.2.5                  to enforce the Security Documents on its behalf.

 

The Agents shall have no duties or responsibilities as agents or as security trustee other than those expressly conferred on it by the Security Documents and shall not be obliged to act on any instructions from the Banks or an Instructing Group if to do so would, in the opinion of the relevant Agent, be contrary to any provision of the Security Documents or to any law, or would expose the relevant Agent to any actual or potential liability to any third party.

 

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11.3                           Trust  The Security Agent agrees and declares, and each of the Banks and each of the Swap Banks acknowledges, that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Clause, the Security Agent holds the Trust Property on trust for the Banks, in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares, absolutely and on trust for the Swap Banks as security for the Master Agreement Liabilities.  Each of the Banks and the Swap Banks agrees that the obligations, rights and benefits vested in the Security Agent in its capacity as security trustee shall be performed and exercised in accordance with this Clause.  The Agents in their capacity as paying agent and security agent respectively shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of this Agreement benefiting them in their capacity as paying agent and security agent for the Banks and the Swap Banks, and all the powers and discretions conferred on trustees by the Trustee Act 1925 (to the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement).  In addition:-

 

11.3.1                  the Security Agent (and any attorney, agent or delegate of the Security Agent) may indemnify itself or himself out of the Trust Property against all liabilities, costs, fees, damages, charges, losses and expenses sustained or incurred by it or him in relation to the taking or holding of any of the Trust Property or in connection with the exercise or purported exercise of the rights, trusts, powers and discretions vested in the Security Agent or any other such person by or pursuant to the Security Documents or in respect of anything else done or omitted to be done in any way relating to the Security Documents; and

 

11.3.2                  the Banks and the Swap Banks acknowledge that the Security Agent shall be under no obligation to insure any property nor to require any other person to insure any property and shall not be responsible for any loss which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack or insufficiency of any insurance; and

 

11.3.3                  the Security Agent, the Banks and the Swap Banks agree that the perpetuity period applicable to the trusts declared by this Agreement shall be the period of eighty years from the date of this Agreement.

 

11.4                               Limitations on authority  Except with the prior written consent of each of the Banks and the Swap Banks (where relevant), neither Agent shall be entitled to :-

 

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11.4.1                  release or vary any security given for the Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement; nor

 

11.4.2                  waive the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.3                  change the meaning of the expressions “the Instructing Group” or “Margin” (except that the Agents shall be allowed in their absolute discretion to negotiate and agree with the Borrower on any increase the amount of the Margin); nor

 

11.4.4                  exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretion, or give or withhold any consent, the exercise or giving of which is, by the terms of this Agreement, expressly reserved to the Banks; nor

 

11.4.5                  extend the due date for the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.6                  take or refrain from taking any step if the effect of such action or inaction may lead to the increase of the obligations of a Bank or a Swap Bank under any of the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.7                  agree to change the currency in which any sum is payable under the Security Documents (other than in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents); nor

 

11.4.8                  agree to amend this Clause 11.4; nor

 

11.4.9                  waive any material condition precedent.

 

11.5                           Liability  Neither the Agents nor any of their directors, officers, employees or agents shall be liable to the Banks or a Swap Bank for anything done or omitted to be done by the Agents under or in connection with the Security Documents unless as a result of the Agents’ gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

11.6                           Acknowledgement  Each of the Banks and the Swap Banks acknowledges that:-

 

11.6.1                  it has not relied on any representation made by the Agents or any of the Agents’ directors, officers, employees or agents or by any other person

 

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acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agents to induce it to enter into any of the Security Documents;

 

11.6.2                  it has made and will continue to make without reliance on the Agents, and based on such documents and other evidence as it considers appropriate, its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Security Parties in connection with the making and continuation of the Facility;

 

11.6.3                  it has made its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security Parties;

 

11.6.4                  the Agents shall not have any duty or responsibility at any time to provide it with any credit or other information relating to any of the Security Parties unless that information is received by the Agents pursuant to the express terms of the Security Documents.

 

Each of the Banks and the Swap Banks agrees that it will not assert nor seek to assert against any director, officer, employee or agent of the Agents or against any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agents any claim which it might have against them in respect of any of the matters referred to in this Clause.

 

11.7                           Limitations on responsibility  The Agents shall have no responsibility to any of the Security Parties or to the Banks or to the Swap Banks on account of:-

 

11.7.1                  the failure of a Bank or a Swap Bank or of any of the Security Parties to perform any of their respective obligations under the Security Documents;

 

11.7.2                  the financial condition of any of the Security Parties;

 

11.7.3                  the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, or in or pursuant to any document delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents;

 

11.7.4                  the negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of any of the Security Documents or of any document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents.

 

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11.8                           The Agents’ rights  The Agents may:-

 

11.8.1                  assume that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents are true and complete, unless, in their capacity as Agents, they have acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and

 

11.8.2                  assume that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred unless, in their capacity as Agents, they have acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and

 

11.8.3                  rely on any document or Communication believed by them to be genuine; and

 

11.8.4                  rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by them; and

 

11.8.5                  rely as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of any of the Security Parties on a certificate signed by or on behalf of that Security Party; and

 

11.8.6                  refrain from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of its exercise by the Banks or the Swap Banks (or, where applicable, by an Instructing Group) and unless and until the Agents have received from the Banks or the Swap Banks any payment which the Agents may require on account of, or any security which the Agents may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal and other professional fees) and liabilities which they considers they may incur or sustain in complying with those instructions.

 

11.9                           The Agents’ duties  The Agents shall:-

 

11.9.1                  if requested in writing to do so by a Bank or a Swap Bank, make enquiry and advise the Banks as to the performance or observance of any of the provisions of the Security Documents by any of the Security Parties or as to the existence of an Event of Default; and

 

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11.9.2                  inform the Banks and the Swap Banks promptly of any Event of Default of which the Agents have actual knowledge.

 

11.10                     No deemed knowledge  The Agents shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default unless a Bank, a Swap Bank or any of the Security Parties shall have given written notice thereof to the Agents in their capacity as Agents.  Any information acquired by the Agents other than specifically in their capacity as Agents shall not be deemed to be information acquired by the Agents in their capacity as Agents.

 

11.11                     Other business  The Agents may, without any liability to account to the Banks or the Swap Banks, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with any of the Security Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or associated companies or with a Bank or Swap Bank as if they were not the Agents.

 

11.12                     Indemnity  The Banks shall, promptly on the Agents’ request, reimburse the Agents in their respective Proportionate Shares, for, and keep the Agents fully indemnified in respect of:-

 

11.12.1            all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agents pursuant to Clause 19 to the extent that those amounts are not paid by the Borrower;

 

11.12.2            all liabilities, damages, costs and claims sustained or incurred by the Agents in connection with the Security Documents, or the performance of its duties and obligations, or the exercise of its rights, powers, discretions or remedies under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents; or in connection with any action taken or omitted by the Agents under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, unless in any case those liabilities, damages, costs or claims arise solely from the Agents’ wilful misconduct.

 

11.13                     Employment of agents  In performing their duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents, the Agents shall be entitled to employ and pay agents to do anything which the Agents are empowered to do under or pursuant to the Security Documents (including the

 

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receipt of money and documents and the payment of money) and to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or any other person believed by the Agents in good faith to be competent to give such opinion, advice or information.

 

11.14                     Distribution of payments  The Agents shall pay promptly to the order of each of the Banks that Bank’s Proportionate Share of every sum of money received by the Agents pursuant to the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances (with the exception of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 8 and/or the Fee Letter and any amounts which, by the terms of the Security Documents, are paid to an Agent for the account of that Agent alone or specifically for the account of one or more Banks and except for amounts payable pursuant to a Master Agreement which shall be paid to the relevant Swap Bank) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Agents on trust absolutely for that Bank  PROVIDED ALWAYS that the Agents may set off from any amounts owing under this Clause 11.14 sums owed to the Agents (and remaining unpaid) under Clause 11.12.

 

11.15                     Reimbursement  The Agents shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Bank until they have themselves received payment of that sum.  If, however, the Agents do pay any sum to a Bank on account of any amount prospectively due to that Bank pursuant to Clause 11.14 before they have themselves received payment of that amount, and the Agents do not in fact receive payment within five Business Days after the date on which that payment was required to be made by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances, each Bank receiving any such payment will, on demand by the Agents, refund to the Agents an amount equal to the amount received by it, together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Agents for any amount which the Agents may certify that they have been required to pay by way of interest on money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances and ending on the date on which the Agents receive reimbursement.

 

11.16                     Redistribution of payments  Unless otherwise agreed between the Banks and the Agents, if at any time a Bank receives or recovers by way of set-off, the exercise of any lien or otherwise (other than from any assignee or transferee of or

 

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sub-participant in that Bank’s Commitment), an amount greater than that Bank’s Proportionate Share of any sum due from any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents (the amount of the excess being referred to in this Clause as the “Excess Amount”) then:-

 

11.16.1            that Bank shall promptly notify the Agents (which shall promptly notify each other Bank);

 

11.16.2            that Bank shall pay to the Agents an amount equal to the Excess Amount within ten days of its receipt or recovery of the Excess Amount; and

 

11.16.3            the Agents shall treat that payment as if it were a payment by the Security Party in question on account of the sum owed to the Banks as aforesaid and shall account to the Banks in respect of the Excess Amount in accordance with the provisions of this Clause.

 

However, if a Bank has commenced any Proceedings to recover sums owing to it under the Security Documents and, as a result of, or in connection with, those Proceedings has received an Excess Amount, the Agents shall not distribute any of that Excess Amount to any other Bank which had been notified of the Proceedings and had the legal right to, but did not, join those Proceedings or commence and diligently prosecute separate Proceedings to enforce its rights in the same or another court.

 

11.17                     Rescission of Excess Amount  If all or any part of any Excess Amount is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to any of the Security Parties or to any other third party, the Banks which have received any part of that Excess Amount by way of distribution from the Agents pursuant to this Clause shall repay to the Agents for the account of the Bank which originally received or recovered the Excess Amount, the amount which shall be necessary to ensure that the Banks share rateably in accordance with their Proportionate Shares in the amount of the receipt or payment retained, together with interest on that amount at a rate equivalent to that (if any) paid by the Bank receiving or recovering the Excess Amount to the person to whom that Bank is liable to make payment in respect of such amount, and Clause 11.16.3 shall apply only to the retained amount.

 

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11.18                     Proceedings  Each of the Banks, Swap Banks and the Agents shall notify one another of the proposed commencement of any Proceedings under any of the Security Documents prior to their commencement.

 

11.19                     Instructions  Where the Agents are authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Banks or of an Instructing Group each of the Banks shall provide the Agents with instructions within three Business Days of the Agents’ request (which request may be made orally or in writing).  If a Bank does not provide the Agents with instructions within that period, that Bank shall be bound by the decision of the Agents.  Nothing in this Clause shall limit the right of the Agents to take, or refrain from taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Banks or an Instructing Group if the Agents in their discretion consider it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such action in order to preserve the rights of the Banks under or in connection with the Security Documents.  In that event, the Agents will notify the Banks of the action taken by them as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Banks agree to ratify any action taken by the Agents pursuant to this Clause.

 

11.20                     Communications  Any Communication under this Clause shall be given, delivered, made or served, in the case of the Agents (in their capacity as Paying Agent, Security Agent or as one of the Banks), in the case of the other Banks, at the address or fax number indicated in Schedule 1 and in the case of the Swap Banks, at the address or fax number indicated in Schedule 2.

 

11.21                     Payments  All amounts payable to a Bank or a Swap Bank under this Clause shall be paid to such account at such bank as that Bank or that Swap Bank may from time to time direct in writing to the Agents.

 

11.22                     Retirement  Subject to a successor being appointed in accordance with this Clause, the Paying Agent may retire as paying agent and the Security Agent may resign as security trustee at any time without assigning any reason by giving to the Borrower and the Banks and the Swap Banks notice of its intention to do so, in which event the following shall apply:-

 

11.22.1            the Banks (and the Swap Banks in the case of the Security Agent) may within thirty days after the date of the relevant Agent’s notice appoint a successor to act as paying agent and/or security trustee or, if they fail to

 

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do so, that Agent may appoint any other bank or financial institution as its successor;

 

11.22.2            the resignation of an Agent shall take effect simultaneously with the appointment of its successor on written notice of that appointment being given to the Borrower, the Banks and the Swap Banks;

 

11.22.3            that Agent shall thereupon be discharged from all further obligations as agent or security trustee as the case may be but shall remain entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Clause;

 

11.22.4            that Agent’s successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if that successor had been a party to this Agreement.

 

11.23                     No fiduciary relationship  Except as provided in Clauses 11.3 and 11.14, the Agents shall not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be trustees of or for a Bank or a Swap Bank and nothing contained in any of the Security Documents shall constitute a partnership between any two or more Banks or Swap Banks or between the Agents and any Bank or Swap Bank.

 

11.24                     The Agents as Banks  The expression “the Banks” and “the Swap Banks” when used in the Security Documents includes each Agent in its capacity as one of the Banks or one of the Swap Banks.  The Agents shall be entitled to exercise their rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents in their individual capacity as one of the Banks or as one of the Swap Banks in the same manner as any other Bank or Swap Bank and as if it were not also an Agent.

 

12                                  Covenants

 

The Borrower and the Owners covenant with the Banks and with the Paying Agent’s in the following terms.

 

12.1                           Negative covenants of the Borrower

 

The Borrower will not without the Paying Agent’s prior written consent:-

 

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12.1.1                  no disposals or third party rights  dispose of or create or permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance or other third party right on or over all or any part of its present or future assets being security under the Security Documents or undertaking with regard to or effect on all or any part of the security under the Security Documents (including, without limitation, any of its rights under or in connection with a Master Agreement) or undertaking concerning any of its rights in and to the name of “Silja” or derivatives thereof used to market its business, other than any Permitted Encumbrances existing from time to time; nor

 

12.1.2                  Shareholder Loans  other than unsecured Shareholder Loans provided that they are fully subordinated pursuant to a deed of subordination in form and substance similar to that set out in Appendix D, borrow any money from the Guarantor or the Shareholder Guarantor; nor

 

12.1.3                  no dividends  pay any dividends if the Capital Loan has not been repaid or make any other distributions to shareholders or make any intercompany loans or issue any new shares (applicable in all cases) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or if an Event of Default would occur as a result of such action; nor

 

12.1.4                  no change in ownership or control  permit any change in the legal or beneficial ownership and control of the Owners from that advised to the Paying Agent at the date of this Agreement.

 

12.2                           Negative Covenants of the Owners

 

None of the Owners will without the Paying Agent’s prior written consent:-

 

12.2.1                  no sale of Vessels  sell or otherwise dispose of the Vessel owned by it or any shares in that Vessel nor agree to do so, other than:-

 

(a)                                  a sale of FINNJET in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5.9; or

 

(b)                                 a sale of any other Vessel in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5.8; nor

 

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12.2.2                  no chartering after Event of Default  following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default let its Vessel on charter or renew or extend any charter or other contract of employment of its Vessel (nor agree to do so); nor

 

12.2.3                  no change in management  appoint anyone other than the Managers as commercial or technical managers of the Vessels, nor terminate or materially vary the arrangements for the commercial or technical management of the Vessels, nor permit the Managers to sub-contract or delegate the commercial or technical management of any Vessel to any third party; nor

 

12.2.4                  no amendment to Bareboat Charters  agree to any amendment or supplement to a Bareboat Charter which would or which might reasonably be expected materially to diminish the rights of the Security Agent as assignee of the Earnings and Charter Rights under the Bareboat Charter in question; nor

 

12.2.5                  no disposals or third party rights  dispose of or create or permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance or other third party right on or over all or any part of its present or future assets or undertaking over which security has been granted to Banks and/or the Swap Banks (or to the Security Agent on behalf of the Banks and/or the Swap Banks) other than any Permitted Encumbrances existing from time to time; nor

 

12.2.6                  no borrowings  (other than the Borrower and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) borrow any money or incur any obligations under leases other than with respect to financings relating to FINNJET; nor

 

12.2.7                  no repayments  (other than the Borrower and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) repay any loans made to it other than with respect to financings relating to FINNJET; nor

 

12.2.8                  no substantial liabilities  (other than the Borrower and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between

 

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members of the Group only) except in the ordinary course of business, incur any liability to any third party which is in the opinion of the Paying Agent of a substantial nature; nor

 

12.2.9                  no loans or other financial commitments  (other than the Borrower and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) make any loan nor enter into any guarantee or indemnity or otherwise voluntarily assume any actual or contingent liability in respect of any obligation of any other person; nor

 

12.2.10            no dividends if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or if an Event of Default would occur as a result of such action (other than the Borrower) pay any dividends or make any other distributions to shareholders or make any intercompany loans or issue any new shares.

 

12.3                           Positive covenants

 

12.3.1                  Registration of Vessels The Owners undertake to maintain the registration of the Vessels under the flags indicated in Schedule 3 for the duration of the Facility Period or under Swedish flag or such other flag as the Agents may approve, acting reasonably, provided always that upon any change of flag, the relevant Owner delivers or procures the delivery to the Agents of a first priority mortgage over the relevant Vessel in a form reasonably acceptable to the Agents, together with a deed of covenants (if customary) and an opinion satisfactory to the Agents in relation to the registration of the Vessel and the new mortgage and such other matters as the Agents may reasonably require.

 

12.3.2                  Valuations  The Owners undertake to provide valuations of each of the Vessels once in each year and upon the sale of any Vessel, from two Approved Brokers, one to be appointed by the Paying Agent and one to be appointed by the Borrower and with such valuations being made on a charter free basis.

 

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Facility Period, containing (amongst other things) the Borrower’s profit and loss account for, and balance sheet at the end of, each such financial year, prepared in accordance with Finnish GAAP consistently applied, and audited by a well known and reputable firm of chartered accountants (or equivalent), in each case within one hundred and twenty days of the end of the financial year to which they relate.  The Borrower will also supply to the Paying Agent, without request, the unaudited consolidated quarterly financial statements of the Borrower for each quarter ending during the Facility Period, as above, in each case within sixty days of the end of the quarter to which they relate.

 

12.3.4                  Other information  The Borrower will promptly supply to the Paying Agent copies of all financial and other information and explanations as the Paying Agent may from time to time require in connection with the operation of the Vessels and the Borrower’s profit and liquidity, traffic statistics and cash flows, and will procure that the Paying Agent be given the like information and explanations relating to all other Security Parties.

 

12.3.5                  Evidence of goodstanding  The Borrower will from time to time on the request of the Paying Agent provide the Paying Agent with evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Paying Agent that the Security Parties and all corporate shareholders of any of the Security Parties (other than the Shareholder Guarantor) remain in good standing.

 

12.3.6                  Evidence of current COFR  Without limiting the Borrower’s obligations under Clause 12.3.4, if any Vessel trades in US waters, the Borrower will from time to time on the request of the Paying Agent provide the Paying Agent with such evidence as the Paying Agent may reasonably require that such Vessel has a valid and current Certificate of Financial Responsibility pursuant to the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990.

 

12.3.7                  Performance of the Bareboat Charters  Each of the Owners undertakes to perform the Bareboat Charter (or other contract of employment for its Vessel) to which it may at any time during the Facility Period be party, in accordance with its terms.

 

12.3.8                  ISM Code compliance  The Owners will:-

 

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(a)                                  procure that each of the Vessels remains for the duration of the Facility Period subject to a SMS;

 

(b)                                 maintain a valid and current SMC for each of the Vessels throughout the Facility Period;

 

(c)                                  procure that each Company maintains a valid and current DOC throughout the Facility Period;

 

(d)                                 immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the SMC of any Vessel or of the DOC of any Company;

 

(e)                                  immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of any “accident” or “major non-conformity” with a cost implication of an amount of more than five per centum (5%) of the insured value of the relevant Vessel, as each of those terms is defined in the Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management Code by Administrations adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation pursuant to Resolution A.788(19), and of the steps being taken to remedy the situation; and

 

(f)                                    not without the prior written consent of the Paying Agent (which will not be unreasonably withheld) change the identity of any Company.

 

12.3.9                  Payment of tax  The Borrower and each of the Owners will file all requisite tax returns and will pay all tax as shown to be due and payable on such returns or any of the assessments made against it (other than those being contested in good faith).

 

12.3.10            Notification of Event of Default  The Borrower will immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default.

 

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12.3.11            Financial covenants   The Borrower will in relation to Clauses 12.3.11(a) to 12.3.11(c) at each quarterly review as set out in Clause 12.3.11(f) and, in relation to Clauses 12.3.11(d) and 12.3.11(e) at all times during the Facility Period:-

 

(a)                                  retain on a consolidated basis a Net Book Value of not less than one hundred and seventy million euros (€170,000,000) for the period from the first Advance Date until 30 June 2004 and one hundred and ninety million euros (€190,000,000) thereafter;

 

(b)                                 retain a Net Book Value Ratio of not less than twenty seven per centum (27%) for the period from the first Advance Date until 30 June 2004 and thirty per centum (30%) thereafter;

 

(c)                                  maintain a minimum Debt Service Coverage Ratio of 1.2:1 from 1 January 2004 until the end of the Facility Period.  If the Borrower fails to maintain the minimum Debt Service Coverage Ratio, the Shareholder Guarantor may (no more than twice during the Facility Period) cure any such failure by making Shareholder Loans to the Borrower, provided always that the Debt Service Coverage Ratio is below 1.2:1 but above 1.0:1.  Any Shareholder Loan provided in such circumstances may be repaid by the Borrower provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and that all covenants have been complied with for six consecutive months and the deed of subordination for such Shareholder Loans shall be amended accordingly;

 

(d)                                 retain a minimum Liquidity Ratio of three per centum (3%) per annum during the first and second quarters of each calendar year and five per centum (5%) per annum during the third and fourth quarters of each calendar year;

 

(e)                                  retain minimum Consolidated Cash Reserves of fifteen million euros (€15,000,000) during the first and second quarters of each calendar year and thirty million euros (€30,000,000) during the third and fourth quarters of each calendar year; and

 

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(f)                                    provide the Paying Agent, without request, with a compliance certificate in relation to the above (in the form set out in Appendix C or such other form as the Paying Agent may accept in its discretion) on a quarterly basis concurrently with the delivery of its financial statements pursuant to Clause 12.3.3 and, in relation to Clauses 12.3.11(d) and 12.3.11(e) only, upon the Paying Agent’s request which may be made at any time.  The first compliance certificate shall be provided by reference to the quarter ending 31 December 2003 and subsequent certificates to be provided at three month intervals thereafter or as requested pursuant to this Clause.

 

12.3.12            Capital Loan repayment  The Borrower shall (to the extent permitted by the Finnish Companies Act) repay the Capital Loan on its maturity date of 19 February 2004 or as soon thereafter as may be permissible under the Finnish Companies Act.

 

13                                  Earnings Accounts

 

13.1                           Maintenance of accounts  The Borrower and the Owners shall maintain the Earnings Accounts with Nordea Bank Finland plc and Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) for the duration of the Facility Period.  The Earnings Account held with Nordea Bank Finland plc shall be free of Encumbrances and rights of set off other than as created by or pursuant to the Security Documents.  The Borrower undertakes to use its best efforts to procure that the Earnings Account held with Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) shall also become free of Encumbrances and rights of set off other than as created by or pursuant to the Security Documents as soon as reasonably practicable.

 

13.2                           Earnings  The Owners shall procure that there is credited to the Earnings Accounts all Earnings (after deduction only of Operating Expenses) and any Requisition Compensation in accordance with the Earnings Assignments.

 

13.3                           Relocation of Earnings Accounts  At any time following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the Paying Agent may without the consent of the Borrower relocate the Earnings Accounts to any other branch of the

 

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Paying Agent, without prejudice to the continued application of this Clause and the rights of the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

14                                  Events Of Default

 

14.1                           The Paying Agent’s rights  If any of the events set out in Clause 14.2 occurs, the Paying Agent may (and, if instructed to do so by an Instructing Group, shall) by notice to the Borrower declare the Banks to be under no further obligation to the Borrower under or pursuant to this Agreement and may (and, if instructed to do so by an Instructing Group, shall) declare all or any part of the Indebtedness (including such unpaid interest as shall have accrued) to be immediately payable, in which event the Indebtedness (or the part of the Indebtedness referred to in the Paying Agent’s notice) shall immediately become due and payable without any further demand or notice of any kind.

 

14.2                           Events of Default  The events referred to in Clause 14.1 are:-

 

14.2.1                  payment default  if the Borrower defaults in the payment of any part of the Indebtedness within three (3) Business Days of it becoming due; or

 

14.2.2                  other default  if any of the Security Parties fails to observe or perform any of the covenants, conditions, undertakings, agreements or obligations on its part contained in any of the Security Documents or shall in any other way be in breach of or do or cause to be done any act repudiating or evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Security Documents and such default (if, in the reasonable opinion of the Agents, capable of remedy) is not remedied within fifteen (15) days after notice from the Agents thereof; or

 

14.2.3                  misrepresentation or breach of warranty  if any representation or warranty made or repeated, or any other information given, by any of the Security Parties to the Banks or to the Agents in or leading up to or during the currency of any of the Security Documents, or in or pursuant to any notice or other document delivered to the Agents under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, is false or incorrect or misleading in any respect which the Agents in their discretion consider to be material and (unless in the reasonable opinion of the Agents it is incapable of

 

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remedy) action has not been taken by the Borrower to ensure that such representation or warranty is rendered correct within fifteen (15) days after notice from the Agents thereof; or

 

14.2.4                  execution  if a distress or execution or other process of a court or authority is levied on any of the property of any of the Security Parties before or after final judgment or by order of any competent court or authority for an amount in excess of five million euro (e5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency and is not satisfied, removed or discharged within twenty (20) days of levy; or

 

14.2.5                  insolvency events  if any of the Security Parties:-

 

(a)                                  resolves to appoint, or applies for, or consents to, the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, trustee, administrator or liquidator of itself or of all or any substantial part of its assets; or

 

(b)                                 is unable or admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due; or

 

(c)                                  makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or enters into a moratorium on payment of any of its indebtedness; or

 

(d)                                 ceases trading or threatens to cease trading; or

 

(e)                                  has appointed an Inspector under the Companies Act 1985 or any statutory provision which the Agents in their discretion consider analogous thereto; or

 

14.2.6                  insolvency proceedings  if any proceedings are commenced or threatened, or any order or judgment is given by any court, for the bankruptcy, liquidation, winding up, administration or re-organisation of any of the Security Parties or for the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee of any of the Security Parties or of all or any substantial part of the assets of any of the Security Parties, or if any person appoints or purports to appoint such receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee; or

 

14.2.7                  impossibility or illegality  if any event occurs which would, or would with the passage of time, render performance of any of the Security

 

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Documents by any of the Security Parties impossible, unlawful or unenforceable by the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents; or

 

14.2.8                  conditions subsequent  if any of the conditions set out in Clause 3.2 is not satisfied within the time reasonably required by the Paying Agent; or

 

14.2.9                  revocation or modification of consents etc.  if any consent, licence, approval, authorisation, filing, registration or other requirement of any governmental, judicial or other public body or authority which is now, or which at any time during the Facility Period becomes, necessary to enable any of the Security Parties to comply with any of their obligations in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents is not obtained or is revoked, suspended, withdrawn or withheld, or is modified in a manner which the Agents consider is, or may be, prejudicial to the interests of the Banks or the Swap Banks, or ceases to remain in full force and effect; or

 

14.2.10            curtailment of business  if the business of any of the Security Parties is wholly or partially curtailed or suspended by any intervention by or under authority of any government, or if all or a substantial part of the undertaking, property or assets of any of the Security Parties is seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under authority of any government; or

 

14.2.11            Master Agreement termination  if a Master Agreement is terminated, cancelled, suspended, rescinded, revoked or otherwise ceases to remain in full force and effect as a consequence of a default pursuant to that Master Agreement; or

 

14.2.12            loss of Vessel  if any Vessel or any other vessel which may from time to time be mortgaged to the Banks and/or the Swap Banks (or to the Security Agent on their behalf) as security for the repayment of all or any part of the Indebtedness is destroyed, abandoned, confiscated, forfeited, condemned as prize or becomes a Total Loss, except that a Total Loss shall not be an Event of Default if:-

 

(a)                                  the Vessel or other vessel is insured in accordance with the Security Documents; and

 

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(b)                                 no insurer has refused to meet or has disputed the claim for Total Loss and it is not apparent to the Agents in their discretion that any such refusal or dispute is likely to occur; and

 

(c)                                  payment of all insurance proceeds in respect of the Total Loss is made in full to the Agents on behalf of the Banks within one hundred and fifty days of the occurrence of the casualty giving rise to the Total Loss in question

 

PROVIDED THAT no Event of Default shall arise under this Clause 14.2.12 if either (a) the Borrower pays to the Paying Agent within thirty (30) days of the relevant date a sum equal to the insured value of the relevant Vessel or (b) the Borrower provides the Security Agent within thirty (30) days of the relevant date with alternative security in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents.

 

14.2.13            acceleration of other indebtedness  if any other indebtedness or obligation for Borrowed Money (in excess of two million euros (€2,000,000) in respect of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Shareholder Guarantor) of any of the Security Parties becomes due or capable of being declared due prior to its stated maturity by reason of default on the part of that Security Party, or is not repaid or satisfied at maturity or if an event of default occurs under the Capital Loan Agreement or the Convertible Bonds; or

 

14.2.14            reduction of capital  if any of the Security Parties reduces its authorised or issued or subscribed capital; or

 

14.2.15            challenge to registration  if the registration of any Vessel or any Mortgage is contested or becomes void or voidable or liable to cancellation or termination, or if the validity or priority of any Mortgage is contested PROVIDED ALWAYS that if such circumstances occur in relation to a Vessel other than “SILJA SYMPHONY” or “SILJA SERENADE” then it shall only constitute an Event of Default if, within fifteen (15) days of a notice from the Agents, the Borrower shall fail to make a prepayment in an amount equal to the Required Sale Prepayment Amount of the relevant Vessel or charge in favour of the Security Agent

 

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an equal amount as security for the Indebtedness, or (at the sole discretion of the Agents) grant alternative security to the Security Agent in a form and on terms acceptable to the Agents; or

 

14.2.16            war  if the country of registration of any Vessel becomes involved in war (whether or not declared) or civil war or is occupied by any other power and the Agents in their discretion consider that, as a result, the security conferred by the Security Documents is materially prejudiced  PROVIDED ALWAYS that if such circumstances occur in relation to a Vessel other than “SILJA SYMPHONY” or “SILJA SERENADE” then it shall only constitute an Event of Default if, within fifteen (15) days of a notice from the Agents, the Borrower shall fail to make a prepayment in an amount equal to the Required Sale Prepayment Amount of the relevant Vessel or charge in favour of the Security Agent an equal amount as security for the Indebtedness, or (at the sole discretion of the Agents) grant alternative security to the Security Agent in a form and on terms acceptable to the Agents; or

 

14.2.17            notice of termination  if either the Shareholder Guarantor, the Guarantor or any of the Owners gives notice to the Agents to determine its obligations under the Shareholder Guarantee, the Guarantee or the Owners’ Guarantee (as the case may be); or

 

14.2.18            material adverse change etc.  if there occurs any material adverse change in the business, assets or financial condition of any of the Security Parties from that pertaining at the date of this Agreement which may reasonably be considered to affect the ability of such Security Party to comply with its obligations under any one or more of the Security Documents; or

 

14.2.19            change in ownership or control if there is a change in the legal or beneficial ownership and control of any of the Security Parties; or

 

14.2.20            NYSE listing if the Shareholder Guarantor ceases to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange; or

 

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14.2.21            analogous events  if any event which (in the opinion of the Agents) is analogous to any of the events set out in Clauses 14.2.5 or 14.2.6 above shall occur.

 

15                                  Set-Off And Lien

 

15.1                           Set-off  The Borrower and each Owner irrevocably authorises the Agents and the Banks at any time after all or any part of the Indebtedness shall have become due and payable to set off without notice any liability of the Borrower to any of the Banks or to the Agents (whether present or future, actual or contingent, and irrespective of the branch or office, currency or place of payment) against any credit balance from time to time standing on any account of the Borrower or an Owner (whether current or otherwise and whether or not subject to notice) with any branch of the Agents or of any Bank in or towards satisfaction of the Indebtedness and, in the name of the Agents or that Bank or the Borrower or an Owner, to do all acts (including, without limitation, converting or exchanging any currency) and execute all documents which may be required to effect such application.

 

15.2                           Application  The Borrower and the Owners irrevocably authorise the Agents to apply all sums which the Agents may receive:-

 

15.2.1                  pursuant to a sale or other disposition of a Vessel or any right, title or interest in a Vessel; or

 

15.2.2                  by way of payment to the Agents of any sum in respect of the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Charter Rights of a Vessel; or

 

15.2.3                  otherwise arising under or in connection with any of the Security Documents

 

in or towards satisfaction, or by way of retention on account, of the Indebtedness, in such manner as is set out in the Deed of Coordination.

 

16                                  Assignment and Sub-Participation

 

16.1                           Right to assign  Each of the Banks may assign or transfer any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement to any other branch of that Bank or to any other Bank without the prior written consent of the Borrower or the Owners or to any other bank or financial institution with the prior written consent of the

 

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Borrower and the Owners (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), and may grant sub-participations in all or any part of its Commitment provided it has first obtained the written consent of the Borrower and the Owners (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) which consent shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.  The Borrower may not assign any of its rights hereunder.

 

16.2                           Borrower’s co-operation  Subject always to Clause 16.1, the Borrower and the Owners will co-operate fully with the Banks in connection with any assignment, transfer or sub-participation; will execute and procure the execution of such documents as the Banks may require in connection therewith; irrevocably authorise the Agents to sign any Transfer Certificate on their behalf; and irrevocably authorise the Agents and the Banks to disclose to any proposed assignee, transferee or sub-participant (whether before or after any assignment, transfer or sub-participation and whether or not any assignment, transfer or sub-participation shall take place) all information relating to the Security Parties, the Facility or the Security Documents which the Agents or the Bank may in their discretion consider necessary or desirable.

 

16.3                           Rights of assignee  Any assignee, transferee or sub-participant of a Bank shall (unless limited by the express terms of the assignment, transfer or sub-participation) take the full benefit of every provision of the Security Documents benefiting that Bank.

 

16.4                           Transfer Certificates If any Bank wishes to transfer any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, it may do so by delivering to the Paying Agent a duly completed Transfer Certificate, in which event on the Transfer Date:-

 

16.4.1                  to the extent that that Bank seeks to transfer its rights and/or obligations, the Borrower (on the one hand) and the Bank in question (on the other) shall be released from all further obligations towards the other(s);

 

16.4.2                  the Borrower (on the one hand) and the Transferee (on the other) shall assume obligations towards the other(s) identical to those released pursuant to Clause 16.4.1;

 

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16.4.3                  the Agents, each of the Banks and the Transferee shall have the same rights and obligations between themselves as they would have had if the Transferee had been an original party to this Agreement as a Bank; and

 

16.4.4                  the Transferee shall pay to the Paying Agent for its own account a transfer fee of two thousand five hundred euro (€2,500).

 

Each Bank and each Swap Bank irrevocably authorises the Security Agent to sign on its behalf any Transfer Certificate relating to the transfer of any of the rights and/or obligations of any other Bank.

 

16.5                           Security Documents Unless otherwise expressly provided in any Security Document or otherwise expressly agreed between a Bank and any proposed Transferee and notified by that Bank to the Agents on or before the relevant Transfer Date, there shall automatically be assigned to the Transferee with any transfer of a Bank’s rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement the rights of that Bank under or pursuant to the Security Documents (other than this Agreement) which relate to the portion of the Bank’s rights and/or obligations transferred by the relevant Transfer Certificate.

 

17                                  Payments, Mandatory Prepayment, Reserve Requirements and Illegality

 

17.1                           Payments  All amounts payable by the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents shall be paid to such accounts at such banks as the Paying Agent may from time to time direct to the Borrower, and (unless payable in any other Currency of Account) shall be paid in euro in same day funds (or such funds as are required for settlement of international payments for immediate value).  Payments shall be deemed to have been received by the Paying Agent on the date on which the Paying Agent receives authenticated advice of receipt, unless that advice is received by the Paying Agent on a day other than a Business Day or at a time of day (whether on a Business Day or not) when the Paying Agent in its discretion considers that it is impossible or impracticable for the Paying Agent to utilise the amount received for value that same day, in which event the payment in question shall be deemed to have been received by the Paying Agent on the Business Day next following the date of receipt of advice by the Paying Agent.

 

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17.2                           No deductions or withholdings  All payments (whether of principal or interest or otherwise) to be made by the Borrower pursuant to the Security Documents shall, subject only to Clause 17.3, be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any Taxes or other deductions, withholdings, restrictions, conditions or counterclaims of any nature.

 

17.3                           Grossing-up  If at any time any law requires (or is interpreted to require) the Borrower to make any deduction or withholding from any payment, or to change the rate or manner in which any required deduction or withholding is made, the Borrower will promptly notify the Paying Agent and, simultaneously with making that payment, will pay to the Paying Agent whatever additional amount (after taking into account any additional Taxes on, or deductions or withholdings from, or restrictions or conditions on, that additional amount) is necessary to ensure that, after making the deduction or withholding, the Paying Agent and the Banks and the Swap Banks receive a net sum equal to the sum which they would have received had no deduction or withholding been made.

 

17.4                           Evidence of deductions  If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or withholding from any payment to be made by it pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the Borrower will pay the amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant authority within the time allowed under the applicable law and will, no later than thirty days after making that payment, deliver to the Paying Agent an original receipt issued by the relevant authority, or other evidence acceptable to the Paying Agent, evidencing the payment to that authority of all amounts required to be deducted or withheld.

 

17.5                           Rebate  If the Borrower makes any deduction or withholding from any payment under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, and any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Paying Agent subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any tax authority which that Bank or that Swap Bank or the Paying Agent identifies as being referable to that deduction or withholding, the Paying Agent or the Bank or the Swap Bank in question shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to the Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial position than that in which it would have been had the deduction or withholding not been required to

 

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have been made.  Nothing in this Clause shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on the Paying Agent or any Bank or any Swap Bank to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any way the manner in which the Paying Agent and the Banks and the Swap Banks, organise their tax affairs, nor as imposing on the Paying Agent or on any Bank or any Swap Bank any obligation to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations.

 

17.6                           Adjustment of due dates  If any payment or transfer of funds to be made under any of the Security Documents, other than a payment of interest on the Facility shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day, that payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month in which event the payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day).  Any such variation of time shall be taken into account in computing any interest in respect of that payment.

 

17.7                           Change in law  If, by reason of the introduction of any law, or any change in any law, or the interpretation or administration of any law, or in compliance with any request or requirement from any central bank or any fiscal, monetary or other authority:-

 

17.7.1                  any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Paying Agent (or the holding company of any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Paying Agent) shall be subject to any Tax with respect to payments of all or any part of the Indebtedness; or

 

17.7.2                  the basis of Taxation of payments to any Bank or any Swap Bank or to the Paying Agent in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness shall be changed; or

 

17.7.3                  any reserve requirements shall be imposed, modified or deemed applicable against assets held by or deposits in or for the account of or loans by any branch of any Bank or any Swap Bank except to the extent included in the Mandatory Cost; or

 

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ratio (whether cash, capital adequacy, liquidity or otherwise) which any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Paying Agent is required or requested to maintain shall be affected; or

 

17.7.5                  there is imposed on any Bank or any Swap Bank or on the Paying Agent (or on the holding company of any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Paying Agent) any other condition in relation to the Indebtedness or the Security Documents;

 

and the result of any of the above shall be to increase the cost to any Bank or any Swap Bank (or to the holding company of any Bank or any Swap Bank) of that Bank or that Swap Bank making or maintaining its Commitment, or to cause any Bank or any Swap Bank to suffer (in its opinion) a material reduction in the rate of return on its overall capital below the level which it reasonably anticipated at the date of this Agreement and which it would have been able to achieve but for its entering into this Agreement and/or performing its obligations under this Agreement, the Bank or Swap Bank affected shall notify the Paying Agent and the Borrower shall from time to time pay to the Paying Agent on demand for the account of the Bank or Swap Bank affected the amount which shall compensate that Bank or that Swap Bank or the Paying Agent (or the relevant holding company) for such additional cost or reduced return.  A certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Paying Agent or of the Bank or Swap Bank affected setting out the amount of that payment and the basis of its calculation shall be submitted to the Borrower and shall be conclusive evidence of such amount save for manifest error or on any question of law.

 

17.8                           Illegality Notwithstanding anything contained in the Security Documents, the obligations of the Banks to advance or maintain the Facility shall terminate in the event that a change in any law or in the interpretation of any law by any authority charged with its administration shall make it unlawful for any Bank to advance or maintain its Commitment.  In that event the Bank affected shall notify the Paying Agent and the Paying Agent shall, by written notice to the Borrower, declare that Bank’s obligations to be immediately terminated.  If all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by such Bank to the Borrower, that portion of the Indebtedness (including all accrued interest) shall be prepaid within thirty days

 

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from the date of such notice.  Clause 5.4 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.

 

17.9                           Changes in market circumstances  If at any time a Bank determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower) that, by reason of changes affecting the London Interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the rate of interest on the Facility pursuant to this Agreement:-

 

17.9.1                  that Bank shall give notice to the Paying Agent and the Paying Agent shall give notice to the Borrower of the occurrence of such event; and

 

17.9.2                  the Paying Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable certify to the Borrower in writing the effective cost to such Bank of maintaining the Facility for such further period as shall be selected by such Bank and the rate of interest payable by the Borrower for that period; or, if that is not acceptable to the Borrower,

 

17.9.3                  the Paying Agent on behalf of the affected Bank will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to modifying this Agreement to provide a substitute basis for the Facility which is financially a substantial equivalent to the basis provided for in this Agreement.

 

If, within thirty days of the giving of the notice referred to in Clause 17.9.1, the Borrower and the Paying Agent fail to agree in writing on a substitute basis for the Facility, the Borrower will immediately prepay the relevant portion of the Indebtedness.  Clause 5.4 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.

 

17.10                     Non-availability of currency  If a Bank is for any reason unable to obtain euro in the London Interbank market and is, as a result, or as a result of any other contingency affecting the London Interbank market, unable to advance or maintain its Commitment in euro, that Bank shall give notice to the Paying Agent and the Paying Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and such Bank’s obligations to make the Facility available shall immediately cease.  In that event, if all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by the Banks to the Borrower, the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a

 

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view to establishing a mutually acceptable basis for funding the relevant portion of the Facility from an alternative source.  If the Paying Agent and the Borrower have failed to agree in writing on a basis for funding the Facility from an alternative source by 11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to the end of the then current Interest Period, the Borrower will (without prejudice to its other obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, its obligation to pay interest on the Facility, arising on the expiry of the then current Interest Period) prepay the relevant portion of the Indebtedness to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on the expiry of the then current Interest Period.

 

18                                  Communications

 

18.1                           Method  Except for Communications pursuant to Clause 11, which shall be made or given in accordance with Clause 11.20, any Communication may be given, delivered, made or served (as the case may be) under or in relation to this Agreement by letter or fax and shall be in the English language and sent addressed:-

 

18.1.1                  in the case of the Banks or the Agents to the communications details of the Agents set out in Schedule 1;

 

18.1.2                  in the case of the Borrower or the Owners to the Communications Address;

 

or to such other address or fax number as the Banks, the Agents, the Owners or the Borrower may designate for themselves by written notice to the others.

 

18.2                           Timing  A Communication shall be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to or on, and received by, the Borrower:-

 

18.2.1                  in the case of a fax when the sender receives one or more transmission reports showing the whole of the Communication to have been transmitted to the correct fax number;

 

18.2.2                  if delivered to an officer of the Borrower or left at the Communications Address at the time of delivery or leaving; or

 

18.2.3                  if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post.

 

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A Communication shall only be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to or on, and received by, the Banks or the Agents on actual receipt of the whole of that Communication by the Agents.

 

18.3                           Indemnity  The Borrower shall indemnify the Agents and each of the Banks against any cost, claim, liability, loss or expense (including legal fees and any Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax (if applicable)) which the Agents or any of the Banks may sustain or incur as a consequence of any Communication sent by or on behalf of the Borrower by fax not being received by its intended recipient, or being received incomplete, or by reason of any Communication purportedly having been sent by or on behalf of the Borrower having been sent fraudulently.

 

19                                  General Indemnities

 

19.1                           Currency  In the event of an Agent or a Bank or a Swap Bank receiving or recovering any amount payable under any of the Security Documents in a currency other than the Currency of Account, and if the amount received or recovered is insufficient when converted into the Currency of Account at the date of receipt to satisfy in full the amount due, the Borrower shall, on the Paying Agent’s written demand, pay to the Paying Agent such further amount in the Currency of Account as is sufficient to satisfy in full the amount due and that further amount shall be due to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks and the Swap Banks as a separate debt under this Agreement.

 

19.2                           Costs and expenses  The Borrower will, within fourteen days of the Security Agent’s written demand, reimburse the Security Agent (on behalf of itself and the Banks and the Swap Banks) for all costs and expenses (including Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax if applicable) of and incidental to:-

 

19.2.1                  the negotiation, preparation, execution and registration of the Security Documents (whether or not any of the Security Documents are actually executed or registered and whether or not all or any part of the Facility is advanced);

 

19.2.2                  any amendments, addenda or supplements to any of the Security Documents (whether or not completed);

 

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19.2.3                  any other documents which may at any time be required by any Bank or by any Swap Bank or by the Security Agent to give effect to any of the Security Documents or which any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Security Agent is entitled to call for or obtain pursuant to any of the Security Documents (including, without limitation, all premiums and other sums from time to time payable by the Security Agent in relation to the Mortgagees’ Insurances); and

 

19.2.4                  the exercise of the rights, powers, discretions and remedies of the Banks  and/or the Swap Banks and/or a Swap Banks and/or the Security Agent under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

19.3                           Events of Default  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks, the Swap Banks, and the Agents from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Bank or Swap Bank or by the Agents as a consequence of any Event of Default, including (without limitation) any Break Costs.

 

19.4                           Funding costs  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks, the Swap Bank, and the Paying Agent from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Bank or by the Paying Agent if, for any reason, any Drawing is not advanced to the Borrower after the relevant Drawdown Notice has been given to the Paying Agent, or is advanced on a date other than that requested in the Drawdown Notice (unless, in either case, as a result of any default by the Paying Agent or by any of the Banks) including (without limitation) any Break Costs.

 

19.5                           Protection and enforcement  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents from time to time on demand against all losses, costs and liabilities which any Bank or Swap Bank or either Agent may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for in or about the protection, maintenance or enforcement of the rights conferred on the Banks and/or the Swap Banks  and/or the Agents by the Security Documents or in or about the exercise or purported exercise by the Banks and/or the Swap Banks and/or the Agents of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies vested in them under or arising out of the Security Documents, including (without limitation) any losses, costs and liabilities which any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for by reason of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents being mortgagees of any Vessel and/or a lender to the Borrower, or by reason of any

 

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Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent being deemed by any court or authority to be an operator or controller, or in any way concerned in the operation or control, of any Vessel.

 

19.6                           Liabilities of Banks and Agents  The Borrower will from time to time reimburse the Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents on demand for all sums which any Bank or any Swap Bank or the Agents may pay or become actually or contingently liable for on account of the Borrower or in connection with any Vessel (whether alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other person) including (without limitation) all sums which any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent may pay or guarantees which any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent may give in respect of the Insurances, any expenses incurred by any Bank or any Swap Bank or by either Agent in connection with the maintenance or repair of any Vessel or in discharging any lien, bond or other claim relating in any way to any Vessel, and any sums which any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent may pay or guarantees which they may give to procure the release of any Vessel from arrest or detention.

 

19.7                           Taxes  The Borrower shall pay all Taxes to which all or any part of the Indebtedness or any of the Security Documents may be at any time subject and shall indemnify the Agents and the Banks and the Swap Banks on demand against all liabilities, costs, claims and expenses resulting from any omission to pay or delay in paying any such Taxes.

 

20                                  Miscellaneous

 

20.1                           Waivers  No failure or delay on the part of either Agent or of a Bank or of a Swap Bank in exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, nor any actual or alleged course of dealing between the Agents or any Bank or any Swap Bank and the Borrower, shall operate as a waiver of, or acquiescence in, any default on the part of any Security Party, unless expressly agreed to do so in writing by the Agents, nor shall any single or partial exercise by either Agent or a Bank or a Swap Bank of any right, power, discretion or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of that right, power, discretion or remedy, or the exercise by either Agent or a Bank or a Swap Bank of any other right, power, discretion or remedy.

 

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20.2                           No oral variations  No variation or amendment of any of the Security Documents shall be valid unless in writing and signed on behalf of the Banks, the Swap Banks  and the Agents.

 

20.3                           Severability  If at any time any provision of any of the Security Documents is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect that provision shall be severed from the remainder and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected or impaired in any way.

 

20.4                           Successors etc.  The Security Documents shall be binding on the Security Parties and on their successors and permitted transferees and assignees, and shall inure to the benefit of the Banks and the Swap Banks and the Agents and their respective successors, transferees and assignees.  The Borrower may not assign nor transfer any of its rights under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents without the prior written consent of the Agents.

 

20.5                           Further assurance  If any provision of the Security Documents shall be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of any present or future law or any decision of any court, or if the documents at any time held by the Banks or by the Swap Banks or by the Agents on their behalf are considered by the Banks or the Swap Banks for any reason insufficient to carry out the terms of this Agreement, then from time to time the Borrower will promptly, on demand by the Agents, execute or procure the execution of such further documents as in the opinion of the Banks and/or the Swap Banks are necessary to provide adequate security for the repayment of the Indebtedness.

 

20.6                           Other arrangements  The Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents may, without prejudice to their rights under or pursuant to the Security Documents, at any time and from time to time, on such terms and conditions as they may in their discretion determine, and without notice to the Borrower, grant time or other indulgence to, or compound with, any other person liable (actually or contingently) to the Banks and/or the Swap Banks and/or the Agents in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and may release or renew negotiable instruments and take and release securities and hold funds on realisation or suspense account without affecting the liabilities of the Borrower or the rights of the Banks and the Swap Banks and the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

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20.7                           Advisers  The Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agents, at any time and from time to time during the Facility Period, to consult insurance advisers on any matters relating to the Insurances, including, without limitation, the collection of insurance claims, and from time to time to consult or retain advisers or consultants to monitor or advise on any other claims relating to the Vessels.  The Borrower and the Owners will provide such advisers and consultants with all information and documents which they may from time to time require and will reimburse the Agents on demand for all costs and expenses incurred by the Agents in connection with the consultation or retention of such advisers or consultants.

 

20.8                           Delegation  The Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents may at any time and from time to time delegate to any person any of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies pursuant to the Security Documents on such terms as they may consider appropriate (including the power to sub-delegate).

 

20.9                           Rights etc. cumulative  Every right, power, discretion and remedy conferred on the Banks and/or the Swap Banks and/or the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right, power, discretion or remedy to which they may at any time be entitled by law or in equity.  The Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents may exercise each of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies as often and in such order as they deem appropriate.  The exercise or the beginning of the exercise of any right, power, discretion or remedy shall not be interpreted as a waiver of the right to exercise that or any other right, power, discretion or remedy either simultaneously or subsequently.

 

20.10                     No enquiry  The Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents shall not be concerned to enquire into the powers of the Security Parties or of any person purporting to act on behalf of any of the Security Parties, even if any of the Security Parties or any such person shall have acted in excess of their powers or if their actions shall have been irregular, defective or informal, whether or not any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent had notice thereof.

 

20.11                     Continuing security  The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be continuing and shall not be satisfied by any intermediate payment or satisfaction until the Indebtedness shall have been repaid in full and neither the Banks nor the Swap Banks nor the Agents shall be under any further actual or contingent liability

 

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to any third party in relation to the Vessels, the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Charter Rights or any other matter referred to in the Security Documents.

 

20.12                     Security cumulative  The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be in addition to any other security now or in the future held by the Banks or by the Swap Banks or by the Agents for or in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and shall not merge with or prejudice or be prejudiced by any such security or any other contractual or legal rights of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents, nor affected by any irregularity, defect or informality, or by any release, exchange or variation of any such security.  Section 93 of the Law of Property Act 1925 and all provisions which the Agents consider analogous thereto under the law of any other relevant jurisdiction shall not apply to the security constituted by the Security Documents.

 

20.13                     No liability  Neither the Banks nor the Swap Banks nor the Agents, nor any agent or employee of any Bank or of any Swap Bank or of either Agent, nor any receiver and/or manager appointed by the Agents, shall be liable for any losses which may be incurred in or about the exercise of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies of the Banks and/or the Swap Banks and/or the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents nor liable as mortgagee in possession for any loss on realisation or for any neglect or default of any nature for which a mortgagee in possession might otherwise be liable unless such loss is as a result of the Banks’ and/or Swap Banks’ and/or Agents’ gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

20.14                     Rescission of payments etc.  Any discharge, release or reassignment by the Banks and/or the Swap Banks and/or the Agents of any of the security constituted by, or any of the obligations of any Security Party contained in, any of the Security Documents shall be (and be deemed always to have been) void if any act (including, without limitation, any payment) as a result of which such discharge, release or reassignment was given or made is subsequently wholly or partially rescinded or avoided by operation of any law.

 

20.15                     Subsequent Encumbrances  If the Security Agent receives notice of any subsequent Encumbrance affecting any Vessel or all or any part of the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation, Charter Rights or the Accounts, the Security Agent may open a new account in its books for the Borrower.  If the Security Agent

 

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does not open a new account, then (unless the Security Agent gives written notice to the contrary to the Borrower) as from the time of receipt by the Security Agent of notice of such subsequent Encumbrance, all payments made to the Security Agent shall be treated as having been credited to a new account of the Borrower and not as having been applied in reduction of the Indebtedness.

 

20.16                     Releases  If any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent shall at any time release any party from all or any part of any of the Security Documents, the liability of any other party to the Security Documents shall not be varied or diminished.

 

20.17                     Discretions  Unless otherwise expressly indicated, where any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent is stated in the Security Documents to have a discretion and/or where the opinion of any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent is referred to and/or where the consent, agreement or approval of any Bank or any Swap Bank or either Agent is required for any course of action, or where anything is required to be acceptable to any Bank or to any Swap Bank or to either Agent, the Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents shall have a sole, absolute and unfettered discretion and/or may give or withhold their consent, agreement or approval at their sole, absolute and unfettered discretion provided always that they act reasonably.

 

20.18                     Certificates  Any certificate or statement signed by an authorised signatory of the Paying Agent purporting to show the amount of the Indebtedness (or any part of the Indebtedness) or any other amount referred to in any of the Security Documents shall, save for manifest error or on any question of law, be conclusive evidence as against the Borrower of that amount.

 

20.19                     Survival of representations and warranties  The representations and warranties on the part of the Borrower contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution of this Agreement and the advance of the Facility.

 

20.20                     Counterparts  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument.

 

20.21                     Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999  No term of this Agreement is enforceable by a person who is not a party to it.

 

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20.22                     Conflicts  In the event of there being any conflict between this Agreement and any of the Security Documents, this Agreement shall prevail except in respect of the pledge agreements related to the Swedish and Finnish Vessels.

 

21                                  Law and Jurisdiction

 

21.1                           Governing law  This Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

 

21.2                           Jurisdiction  For the exclusive benefit of the Banks, the Swap Banks and the Agents, the parties to this Agreement irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and that any Proceedings may be brought in those courts.

 

21.3                           Alternative jurisdictions  Nothing contained in this Clause shall limit the right of the Banks or the Swap Banks or the Agents to commence any Proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent jurisdiction nor shall the commencement of any Proceedings against the Borrower in one or more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any Proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.

 

21.4                           Waiver of objections  The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in any court referred to in this Clause, and any claim that those Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum, and irrevocably agrees that a judgment in any Proceedings commenced in any such court shall be conclusive and binding on it and may be enforced in the courts of any other jurisdiction.

 

21.5                           Service of process  Without prejudice to the right of the Agents and the Banks and the Swap Banks to use any other method of service permitted by law, the Borrower irrevocably agrees that any writ, notice, judgment or other legal process shall be sufficiently served on it if addressed to it and left at or sent by post to the Address for Service, and in that event shall be conclusively deemed to have been served at the time of leaving or, if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post.

 

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IN WITNESS  of which the parties to this Agreement have executed this Agreement the day and year first before written.

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

The Banks and the Commitments

 

The Banks

 

The Commitments (in €)

 

 

 

Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

 

Christiansbro

 

 

Strandgade 3

 

 

DK-1401

 

 

Copenhagen K

 

 

Denmark

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: + 45 3333 5820/+ 45 3333 6690

 

 

FAO:  International Loan Services

 

 

 

 

 

Nordea Bank Finland Plc

 

141,356,250

Satamaradankatu 5,

 

 

Helsinki

 

 

FIN-00020

 

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: + 358 753 6816

 

 

FAO: Tellervo Koski / Taina Salo

 

 

 

 

 

HSH Nordbank AG

 

84,893,750

Martensdamm 6

 

 

D-24103 Kiel

 

 

Federal Republic of Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: +49 40 3333 34269

 

 

FAO: Matthias Happich/Jannita Werner - Shipping Department

 

 

 

 

 

Fortis Bank S.A./N.V.

 

42,500,000

23 Camomile Street

 

 

London EC3A 7PP

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: +44 207 444 8889

 

 

FAO: Paul Barnes / Raymond Ko

 

 

 

 

 

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland

 

42,500,000

11 Earl Grey Street

 

 

Edinburgh EH3 9N

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: +44 207 0129 457

 

 

FAO: Iain Ross / Clayton Scott

 

 

 

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DVB Bank AG, London Branch

 

29,750,000

80 Cheapside

 

 

London

 

 

 

 

 

EC2V 6EE

 

 

Fax: +44 207 618 9652

 

 

FAO: Alison Scoot – Loans Administration

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE 2

 

The Co-Arrangers

 

HSH Nordbank AG

Martensdamm 6

D-24103 Kiel

Federal Republic of Germany

 

Fax:                           +49 40 3333 34269

FAO:                   Matthias Happich/Jannita Werner - Shipping Department

 

Fortis Bank S.A./N.V.

23 Camomile Street

London EC3A 7PP

 

Fax:                           +44 207 444 8889

FAO:                   Paul Barnes / Raymond Ko

 

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland

11 Earl Grey Street

Edinburgh EH3 9N

 

Fax:                           +44 207 0129 457

FAO:                   Iain Ross / Clayton Scott

 

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SCHEDULE 3

 

The Owners and the Vessels

 

Name of
Owner

 

Country of
Incorporation

 

Registered Office

 

Name of Vessel

 

Flag of
Vessel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA FESTIVAL

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA SYMPHONY

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA SERENADE

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Cruise AB

 

Sweden

 

Positionen 8
115 74 Stockholm
Sweden

 

SILJA OPERA

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally AB

 

Finland

 

Torggatan 14
22100 Mariehamn
Finland

 

FINNJET

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crown Cruise
Line
Incorporated
S.A.

 

Panama

 

20th Floor
Banco Continental Building
PO Box 0816-01771
Panama 5
Republic of Panama

 

WALRUS

 

Panama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seawind Line
AB

 

Sweden

 

Positionen 8
115 74 Stockholm
Sweden

 

STAR WIND

 

Sweden

 

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SCHEDULE 4

 

The Approved Brokers

 

Fearnleys A/S

PO Box 1158 Sentrum

N-0107 Oslo

Norway

 

Tel:

+47 22 936 000

Fax:

+47 22 936 150

 

Simonship AB

Skeppsbron 16

S-111 30 Stockholm

Sweden

 

Tel:

+46 8 240310

Fax:

+46 8 204610

 

Brax Shipping AB

Engelbrektsgatan 26

S-411 37 Gothenburg

Sweden

 

Tel:

+46 31 18 3200

Fax:

+46 31 18 3260

 

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SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SILJA OYJ ABP (as Borrower)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SILJA OYJ ABP (as an Owner)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SILJA CRUISE AB

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SALLY AB

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  CROWN CRUISE LINE

)

INCORPORATED  S.A.

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SEAWIND LINE AB

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S

)

(as Lead Arranger)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG

)

(as a Co-Arranger)

 

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  FORTIS BANK S.A./N.V.

)

(as Co-Arranger)

)

 

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SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY

)

OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND

)

(as Co-Arranger)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK

)

DANMARK A/S (as a Bank)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG (as a Bank)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  FORTIS BANK S.A./N.V. (as a Bank)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY

)

OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND

)

(as a Bank)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  DVB BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S

)

(as the Paying Agent)

)

 

 

SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC

)

(as the Security Agent)

)

 

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SIGNED by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG

)

(as Documentation Agent)

)

 

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APPENDIX A

 

Form of Drawdown Notice

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

 

From:                  Silja Oyj Abp

 

[Date]

 

 

Dear Sirs,

 

Drawdown Notice

 

We refer to the Loan and Revolving Credit Agreement dated                        2003 made between, amongst others, ourselves and yourselves (“the Agreement”).

 

Words and phrases defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Drawdown Notice.

 

Pursuant to Clause 2.3 of the Agreement, we irrevocably request that you advance a Drawing of [           ] to us on                   2003, which is a Business Day, by paying the amount of the Drawing to [                                                 ].

 

We warrant that the representations and warranties contained in Clause 4 of the Agreement are true and correct at the date of this Drawdown Notice and will be true and correct on               2003; that no Event of Default nor Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the Drawing requested in this Drawdown Notice.

 

[We select the period of [       ] months as the first Interest Period].(1)

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For and on behalf of

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

 


(1)                                  First Drawing only

 

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APPENDIX B

 

Form of Transfer Certificate

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

 

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

This transfer certificate relates to a secured loan and revolving credit facility agreement (as from time to time amended, varied, supplemented or novated “the Agreement”) dated                   2003, on the terms and subject to the conditions of which a secured loan facility of up to €215,000,000 and a revolving facility of €126,000,000 was made available to Silja Oyj Abp, by a syndicate of banks on whose behalf you act as paying agent.

 

1                                          Terms defined in the Agreement shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, have the same meaning when used in this certificate.  The terms “Transferor” and “Transferee” are defined in the schedule to this certificate.

 

2                                          The Transferor:-

 

2.1                                 confirms that the details in the Schedule under the heading “Transferor’s Commitment” accurately summarise its Commitment; and

 

2.2                                 requests the Transferee to accept by way of novation the transfer to the Transferee of the amount of the Transferor’s Commitment specified in the Schedule by counter-signing and delivering this certificate to the Security Agent at its address for Communications specified in the Agreement.

 

3                                          The Transferee requests the Paying Agent to accept this certificate as being delivered to the Paying Agent pursuant to and for the purposes of clause 16.4 of the Agreement so as to take effect in accordance with the terms of that clause on the Transfer Date specified in the Schedule.

 

4                                          The Paying Agent (on its own behalf and on behalf of the Borrower and each of the Banks other than the Transferor) confirms its acceptance of this certificate for the purposes of clause 16.4 of the Agreement.

 

5                                          The Transferee confirms that:-

 

5.1                                 it has received a copy of the Agreement together with all other information which it has required in connection with this transaction;

 

5.2                                 it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Agreement to check or enquire on its behalf into the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any such information; and

 

5.3                                 it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Agreement to keep under review on its behalf the financial condition, creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status or nature of any of the Security Parties.

 

6                                          Execution of this certificate by the Transferee constitutes its representation to the Transferor and to all other parties to the Agreement that it has the power to become a party

 

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to the Agreement as a Bank on the terms of the Agreement and has taken all steps to authorise execution and delivery of this certificate.

 

7                                          The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the other parties to the Loan Agreement that it will perform in accordance with their terms all those obligations which by the terms of the Agreement will be assumed by it after delivery of this certificate to the Paying Agent and the satisfaction of any conditions subject to which this certificate is expressed to take effect.

 

8                                          The Transferor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any of the Security Documents or any document relating to any of the Security Documents, and assumes no responsibility for the financial condition of any of the Security Parties or for the performance and observance by the Security Parties of any of their obligations under any of the Security Documents or any document relating to any of the Security Documents and any conditions and warranties implied by law are expressly excluded.

 

9                                          The Transferee acknowledges that nothing in this certificate or in the Agreement shall oblige the Transferor to:-

 

9.1                                 accept a re-transfer from the Transferee of the whole or any part of the rights, benefits and/or obligations transferred pursuant to this certificate; or

 

9.2                                 support any losses directly or indirectly sustained or incurred by the Transferee for any reason including, without limitation, the non-performance by any party to any of the Security Documents of any obligations under any of the Security Documents.

 

10                                    The address and fax number of the Transferee for the purposes of clause 11.20 of the Agreement are set out in the Schedule.

 

11                                    This certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument.

 

12                                    This certificate shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

 

THE SCHEDULE

 

1                                          Transferor:

 

2                                          Transferee:

 

3                                          Transfer Date (not earlier that the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of the Transfer Certificate to the Security Agent):

 

4                                          Transferor’s Commitment:

 

5                                          Amount transferred:

 

6                                          Transferee’s address and fax number for the purposes of clause 11.20 of the Agreement:

 

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[name of Transferor]

 

[name of Transferee]

 

 

 

By:

 

By:

 

 

 

Date:

 

Date:

 

 

Nordea Bank Danmark A/S as Paying Agent

for and on behalf of itself, the Borrower, each of the Owners, each of the Swap Banks and each of the Banks (other than the Transferor)

 

By:

 

Date:

 

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APPENDIX C

 

Form of Compliance Certificate

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

[Date]

 

Dear Sirs

 

Compliance Certificate

 

We refer to the Loan and Revolving Credit Agreement dated                                     2003 made between, amongst others, ourselves and yourselves (“the Agreement”).

 

Words and phrases defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance Certificate.

 

Pursuant to Clause 12.3.11(f) of the Agreement we hereby confirm that as at the date hereof:-

 

(1)                                  the Net Book Value is:

 

(2)                                  the Net Book Value Ratio is:

 

(3)                                  the Debt Service Coverage Ratio is:

 

(4)                                  the Liquidity Ratio is:

 

(5)                                  the Consolidated Cash Reserves are:

 

We further confirm that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

 

For and on behalf of

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

 

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APPENDIX D

 

Form of Deed of Subordination

 

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EX-10.2 4 a2122662zex-10_2.htm EXHIBIT 10.2

Exhibit 10.2

 

LOAN AGREEMENT

 

Dated:     November 5,  2003

 

BETWEEN:-

 

(1)       SEA CONTAINERS LTD., a company incorporated according to the laws of Bermuda with registered office at Canon’s Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda (“the Borrower”); and

 

(2)       the banks listed in Schedule 1, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 1 (together “the Banks” and each a “Bank”); and

 

(3)       NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S, acting as paying agent through its office at Christiansbro, Strandgade 3, P.O. Box 850, DK-0900 Copenhagen C, Denmark (in that capacity “the Paying Agent”); and

 

(4)       NORDEA BANK FINLAND plc, acting as security agent through its office at Satamaradankatu 5, Helsinki, FIN-00020, Finland, (in that capacity “the Security Agent”); and

 

(5)       HSH NORDBANK AG, acting as documentation agent through its office at Martensdamm 6, D-24103 Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany (in that capacity “the Documentation Agent”); and

 

(6)       NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S, acting as lead arranger through its office at Christiansbro, Strandgade 3, P.O. Box 850, DK-0900 Copenhagen C, Denmark (in that capacity “the Lead Arranger”); and

 

(7)       the banks listed in Schedule 2, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 2 (together “the Co-Arrangers” and each a “Co-Arranger”); and

 

(8)       the companies listed in Schedule 3, each of which is a company incorporated according to the laws of the country indicated against its name in Schedule 3, with registered office at the address indicted against its name in Schedule 3 (together “the Owners” and each an “Owner”).

 

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WHEREAS:-

 

Each of the Banks has agreed to advance to the Borrower its respective Commitment of an aggregate amount of a term loan not exceeding fifty four million euro (€54,000,000) in order to provide the Borrower with additional working capital.

 

IT IS AGREED  as follows:-

 

1        Definitions and Interpretation

 

1.1       Definitions

 

In this Agreement:-

 

1.1.1     the Address for Service” means c/o Sea Containers Services Limited of Sea Containers House, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PF or, in relation to any of the Security Parties, such other address in England and Wales as that Security Party may from time to time designate by no fewer than ten days’ written notice to the Agents.

 

1.1.2     the Administration has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1.3 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.3     the Advance Date” means the date on which the Drawing is advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2.

 

1.1.4     Affiliate” means a Subsidiary or a Parent Company of a person or any other Subsidiary of that Parent Company.

 

1.1.5     the Agents” means the Paying Agent and the Security Agent together.

 

1.1.6     Approved Brokers” means the sale and purchase brokers set out in Schedule 4 hereto or any other brokers agreed between the Paying Agent and the Borrower.

 

1.1.7     the Assignments” means the Earnings Assignments, the Insurance Assignments and the Charter Guarantee Assignment.

 

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1.1.8     the Availability Termination Date” means the date forty five (45) days after the date of this Agreement or such later date as the Banks may in their discretion agree.

 

1.1.9     Bareboat Charterers” means

 

(i)       in respect of SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA and SILJA SYMPHONY, Silja Line AB;

 

(ii)       in respect of FINNJET, Silja Oyj Abp; and

 

(iii)      in respect of WALRUS, Havens.

 

1.1.10    Bareboat Charters” means the charters of the Vessels (other than SILJA SERENADE and STAR WIND) between the relevant Owners and the relevant Bareboat Charterers.

 

1.1.11    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 or documentary credit facilities, (iv) rental payments under and any amounts payable on termination of leases (whether in respect of ships, land, machinery, equipment or otherwise) entered into primarily as a method of raising finance or of financing the acquisition of the asset leased, (v) guarantees, bonds, stand-by letters of credit or other instruments issued in connection with the performance of contracts and (vi) guarantees or other assurances against financial loss in respect of indebtedness of any person, firm or company falling within any of (i) to (v) above.

 

1.1.12    Borrower’s Obligations” means all of the liabilities and obligations of the Borrower to the Agents or any of the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents to which it is a party, whether actual or contingent, present or future, and whether incurred alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other and in whatever currency, including (without limitation) interest, commission and all other charges and expenses.

 

1.1.13    Break Costs” means all costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by the Agents or any Bank in the circumstances contemplated by Clause 19.4,

 

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or as a result of it receiving any prepayment of all or any part of the Facility (whether pursuant to Clause 5 or otherwise), or any other payment under or in relation to the Security Documents on a day other than at the end of an Interest Period or the due date for payment of the sum in question, and includes (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Facility, and any liabilities, expenses or losses incurred by the Agents or any Bank in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any interest rate and/or currency swap, transaction or arrangement entered into by the Agents or any Bank to hedge any exposure arising under this Agreement, or in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement.

 

1.1.14    Business Day” means a day on which banks are open for the transaction of business of the nature contemplated by this Agreement (and not authorised by law to close) in London, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland; Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany and any other financial centre which any Bank may consider appropriate for the operation of the provisions of this Agreement and a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System (TARGET) is operating.

 

1.1.15    Charter Guarantee” means the guarantee issued by Citibank N.A. guaranteeing (in part) the obligations of Havens under the Bareboat Charter for WALRUS.

 

1.1.16    Charter Guarantee Assignment” means the deed of assignment of the Charter Guarantee referred to in Clause 10.6.

 

1.1.17    Charter Rights”, in relation to a Vessel, means all rights and benefits accruing to the Owner of that Vessel under or pursuant to the relevant Bareboat Charter and not forming part of the Earnings.

 

1.1.18    the Citigroup Pledge” means the third priority pledge of the issued share capital of Silja Holdings Limited issued in favour of Citicorp Trustee Company Limited

 

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1.1.19    Commitment” means, in relation to each Bank, the amount of the Facility which that Bank agrees to advance to the Borrower as its several liability as indicated against the name of that Bank in Schedule 1 and/or, where the context permits, the amount of the Facility advanced by that Bank and remaining outstanding.

 

1.1.20    Commitment Commission” means the commitment commission to be paid by the Borrower to the Paying Agent pursuant to Clause 8.2.

 

1.1.21    a “Communication” means any notice, approval, demand, request or other communication from one party to this Agreement to any other party to this Agreement.

 

1.1.22    the Communications Address” means Sea Containers Ltd. C/o Sea Containers Services Limited of 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PF (fax no: +44 20 7805 5000) marked for the attention of Legal Services Department.

 

1.1.23    the Company” means, at any given time and in relation to any Vessel, the company responsible for the Vessel’s compliance with the ISM Code pursuant to paragraph 1.1.2 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.24    Consolidated Cash Reserves” means the consolidated cash, bank deposits and unused credit facilities (excluding any credit facilities from Silja Oyj Abp and Silja Holdings Limited) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries which are in each case free of Encumbrances.

 

1.1.25    Consolidated Tangible Net Worth” means at any relevant time the aggregate of:-

 

(a)       the amounts paid up or credited as paid up on the share capital account of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries;

 

(b)       any credit balance on the Borrower’s consolidated profit and loss account;

 

(c)       any amount standing to the credit of any other consolidated capital and revenue reserves of the Borrower (including any share premium account); and

 

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(d)       bonds, notes, loan stock, debentures or other similar instruments (other than those falling due for repayment within twelve months);

 

less the aggregate of:-

 

(a)       any debit balance on the Borrower’s consolidated profit and loss account;

 

(b)       any reserves attributable to the interest of minority shareholders in any Subsidiary of the Borrower;

 

(c)       any amount shown in the Borrower’s consolidated balance sheet in respect of goodwill or other intangible assets; and

 

(d)       deferred taxation of the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries.

 

1.1.26    Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Ratio” means the ratio of Borrowed Money to Consolidated Tangible Net Worth.

 

1.1.27    Currency of Account” means, in relation to any payment to be made to the Agents or a Bank under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the currency in which that payment is required to be made by the terms of the relevant Security Document.

 

1.1.28    the Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination” means the deed to be entered into between the Agents, the Banks, the Borrower, the Owners, Silja Oyj Abp, Silja Holdings Limited the Senior Agents and the Senior Banks.

 

1.1.29    the Deeds of Covenants” means the deeds of covenants referred to in Clause 10.1 (each a “Deed of Covenants”).

 

1.1.30    Default Rate” means the rate being the aggregate of the Margin and two per centum (2%) per annum above the cost to the Banks of obtaining funds in amount similar to the amount of the Indebtedness or any relevant part of the Indebtedness for such periods as the Paying Agent shall determine.

 

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1.1.31    DOC” means, in relation to each Company, a valid Document of Compliance issued for the Company by the Administration pursuant to paragraph 13.2 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.32    Drawdown Notice” means a notice complying with Clause 2.3.

 

1.1.33    Drawing” means a part of the Facility advanced by the Banks to the Borrower in accordance with Clause 2.3.

 

1.1.34    Earnings”, in relation to a Vessel, means all hires, freights, pool income and other sums payable to or for the account of the Owner in respect of that Vessel including (without limitation) all remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys, contributions in general average, compensation in respect of any requisition for hire and damages and other payments (whether awarded by any court or arbitral tribunal or by agreement or otherwise) for breach, termination or variation of any contract for the operation, employment or use of the Vessel.

 

1.1.35    the Earnings Accounts” means a bank account in the name of Silja Oyj Abp with Nordea Bank Finland Plc under account number 233318-3206 and an account in the name of Silja Oyj Abp held with Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) under account number 6140-36802328.

 

1.1.36    the Earnings Assignments” means the deeds of assignment of Earnings and Charter Rights and/or Earnings assignment agreements referred to in Clause 10.5 (each an “Earnings Assignment”).

 

1.1.37    Encumbrance” means any mortgage, charge (fixed or floating), pledge, lien, assignment, hypothecation, preferential right, option, title retention or trust arrangement or any other agreement or arrangement which has the effect of creating security or payment priority.

 

1.1.38    EURIBOR” means the applicable Screen Rate, rounded to the nearest four decimal places downwards (if the digit displayed in the fifth decimal place is 1, 2, 3 or 4) or upwards (if the digit in the fifth decimal place is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9).

 

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1.1.39    euro and ” means the currency of participating member states of the European Monetary Union pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) 974/98 of 3 May 1998, as amended from time to time.

 

1.1.40    Event of Default” means any of the events set out in Clause 14.2.

 

1.1.41    the Facility” means the aggregate amount up to the Maximum Loan Amount from time to time advanced to the Borrower by the Banks pursuant to Clause 2 or, where the context permits, the amount of the Drawing advanced and for the time being outstanding.

 

1.1.42    the Facility Period” means the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date when the whole of the Indebtedness has been repaid in full and the Borrower has ceased to be under any further actual or contingent liability to the Banks or to the Agents under or in connection with the Security Documents.

 

1.1.43    the Fee Letter” means a letter from the Paying Agent to the Borrower setting out certain fees, commissions and other sums payable by the Borrower to the Agents in connection with the Facility.

 

1.1.44    Final Maturity Date” means the earlier of five (5) years from the Advance Date or 1 October 2008.

 

1.1.45    Group” means Silja Oyj Abp and its Subsidiaries.

 

1.1.46    Group Tripartite Agreements” means the tripartite agreements in respect of the vessels SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA, SILJA SYMPHONY and FINNJET referred to in Clause 10.4.

 

1.1.47    Havens” means Havens Pte Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of Singapore.

 

1.1.48    the Indebtedness” means the Facility; all other sums of any nature (together with all interest on any of those sums) which from time to time may be payable by the Borrower to the Agents or to the Banks pursuant to the Security Documents; any damages payable as a result of any breach by the Borrower of any of the Security Documents; and any damages or other sums payable as a result of any of the obligations of the Borrower under or

 

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pursuant to any of the Security Documents being disclaimed by a liquidator or any other person, or, where the context permits, the amount thereof for the time being outstanding.

 

1.1.49                  an “Instructing Group” means at least three Banks whose combined Proportionate Shares exceed sixty six point six six per centum (66.66%).

 

1.1.50    the Insurance Assignments” means the deeds of assignment of the Insurances and Requisition Compensation referred to in Clause 10.2 (each an “Insurance Assignment”).

 

1.1.51    Insurances”, in relation to a Vessel, means all policies and contracts of insurance (including all entries in protection and indemnity or war risks associations) which are from time to time taken out or entered into in respect of or in connection with that Vessel or her increased value or her Earnings and (where the context permits) all benefits thereof, including all claims of any nature and returns of premium.

 

1.1.52    Interest Payment Date” means each date for the payment of interest in accordance with Clause 6.

 

1.1.53    Interest Period” means each interest period selected by the Borrower or agreed by the Paying Agent pursuant to Clause 6.

 

1.1.54    the ISM Code” means the International Management Code for the Safe Management of Ships and for Pollution Prevention, as adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation on 4 November 1993 by resolution A.741 (18) and incorporated on 19 May 1994 as chapter IX of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974.

 

1.1.55    law” means any law, statute, treaty, convention, regulation, instrument or other subordinate legislation or other legislative or quasi-legislative rule or measure, or any order or decree of any government, judicial or public or other body or authority, or any directive, code of practice, circular, guidance note or other direction issued by any competent authority or agency (whether or not having the force of law).

 

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1.1.56    the Managers” means Seawind Line Oy Ab in respect of “STAR WIND”, Seahawk, North America in respect of “WALRUS” and Silja Oyj Abp in respect of all other Vessels, or such other commercial and/or technical managers of the Vessels nominated by the Owners as the Agents may approve.

 

1.1.57    Mandatory Cost” means, for each Bank to which it applies, the cost imputed to that Bank of compliance with the mandatory requirements of any relevant regulatory authority.

 

1.1.58    the Margin” means two point one two five per centum (2.125%) per annum.

 

1.1.59    the Market Value” in respect of any Vessel means the arithmetic average of valuations carried out by two Approved Brokers, one appointed by the Agent the other by the Borrower, such  valuations to be on a “willing buyer, willing seller” charter free basis.

 

1.1.60    the Maximum Loan Amount” means fifty four million euro (€54,000,000).

 

1.1.61    the Mortgagees’ Insurances” means all policies and contracts of mortgagees’ interest insurance, mortgagees’ additional perils (oil pollution) insurance and any other insurance from time to time taken out by the Agents on behalf of the Banks in relation to the Vessels.

 

1.1.62    the Mortgages” means the second preferred or priority mortgages and where relevant the pledges thereof referred to in Clause 10.1 (each a “Mortgage”).

 

1.1.63    Operating Expenses” means expenses properly and reasonably incurred by the Owners in connection with the operation, employment, maintenance, repair and insurance of the Vessels.

 

1.1.64    Owner” means, in relation to a Vessel, the Owner against whose name the name of that Vessel appears in Schedule 3.

 

1.1.65    Owners’ Liabilities” means all of the liabilities and obligations of the Owners to the Agents under or pursuant to the Owners’ Guarantee, whether

 

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actual or contingent, including (without limitation) interest at the Default Rate.

 

1.1.66    Owners’ Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity contained in Clause 9.

 

1.1.67    Parent Company” means in relation to a person, an entity of which that person is a Subsidiary.

 

1.1.68    Permitted Encumbrance” means any Encumbrance which has the prior written approval of the Paying Agent (including, but not limited to, the Citigroup Pledge), or any Encumbrance arising either by operation of law or in the ordinary course of the business of any of the Security Parties which is discharged when due in the ordinary course of business.

 

1.1.69    Potential Event of Default” means any event which, with the giving of notice and/or the passage of time, would constitute an Event of Default.

 

1.1.70    Proceedings” means any suit, action or proceedings begun by the Agents or any of the Banks arising out of or in connection with the Security Documents.

 

1.1.71    Proportionate Share” means, at any time, the proportion which that Bank’s Commitment (whether or not advanced) then bears to the aggregate Commitments of all the Banks (whether or not advanced).

 

1.1.72    Reference Banks” means Nordea Bank Danmark A/S, Nordea Bank Finland Plc, HSH Nordbank AG, Fortis Bank S.A./N.V. and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland.

 

1.1.73    Repayment Date” means the date for payment of any Repayment Instalment in accordance with Clause 5.

 

1.1.74    Repayment Instalment” means any instalment of the Facility to be repaid by the Borrower pursuant to Clause 5.

 

1.1.75    Required Sale Prepayment Amount” means, in relation to a Vessel, seventy per centum (70%) of the net sales proceeds of any sale on arms length commercial terms and on a mortgage free basis to an unconnected

 

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third party (or, in the case of a sale to an Affiliate, seventy per centum (70%) of the Market Value).

 

1.1.76    Requisition Compensation”, in relation to a Vessel, means all compensation or other money which may from time to time be payable to the Owner as a result of the Vessel being requisitioned for title or in any other way compulsorily acquired (other than by way of requisition for hire).

 

1.1.77    Screen Rate” means the percentage rate per annum determined by the Banking Federation of the European Union for the relevant period, displayed on the appropriate page of the Reuters screen (or such other page or pages which replace(s) such page) for the purpose of displaying offered rates of leading banks, for deposits in euros of amounts equal to the amount of the relevant Drawing for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period or, if there is no such display rate then available, the rate (rounded upwards to the nearest whole multiple of one sixteenth of one per centum) at which deposits in euros of amounts comparable to the amount of the Drawing are offered to the Reference Banks (or four of them if one is unable to quote a rate) in the European Interbank market for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period.

 

1.1.78    the Security Documents” means this Agreement, the Mortgages, the Deeds of Covenants, the Assignments, the Tripartite Agreements, the Share Pledges or (where the context permits) any one or more of them, and any other agreement or document which may at any time be executed by any person as security for the payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness.

 

1.1.79    Security Parties” means the Borrower, the Owners, the Bareboat Charterers (other than Havens), Silja Holdings Limited and any other person or company who may at any time during the Facility Period be liable for, or provide security for, all or any part of the Indebtedness, and “Security Party” means any one of them.

 

1.1.80    the Senior Agents” means the Agents in their capacities as agents for the Senior Banks under the Senior Facility Agreement.

 

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1.1.81    the Senior Banks” means those lenders set out in schedule 1 of the Senior Facility Agreement.

 

1.1.82    the Senior Facility” means the €215,000,000 secured term loan and €126,000,000 revolving credit facility advanced or to be advanced to Silja Oyj Abp by the Senior Banks pursuant to the Senior Facility Agreement.

 

1.1.83    the Senior Facility Agreement” means the term loan and revolving credit facility agreement in respect of the Senior Facility made or to be made between, amongst others, Silja Oyj Abp and the Senior Banks.

 

1.1.84    the Share Pledges means the pledges of the issued share capital of Silja Holdings Limited and Silja Oyj Abp referred to in Clause 10.7.

 

1.1.85     SMC” means, in relation to each Vessel, a valid safety management certificate issued for that Vessel by or on behalf of the relevant Administration pursuant to paragraph 13.4 of the ISM Code.

 

1.1.86     SMS” means, in relation to each Vessel, a safety management system for that Vessel developed and implemented in accordance with the ISM Code and including the functional requirements, duties and obligations required by the ISM Code.

 

1.1.87     Subsidiary” means an organisation from time to time over which the Borrower exercises a dominant influence either (i) by having a majority of the voting rights attached to shares, memberships or participations and this majority is based on ownership, membership, articles of association, company agreement or rules corresponding thereto or other contract or (ii) by holding the right to appoint the majority of the members of the board of directors or other corresponding body of the other organisation or of a body with such power of appointment.

 

1.1.88     Surety” means any person (other than the Borrower and the Security Agent, or the Owners, or Silja Holdings Limited) who has given or who may in the future give to the Agents or any of the Banks any security or guarantee and indemnity for or in relation to the Borrower’s Obligations.

 

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1.1.89    Taxes” means all taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions and withholdings (including any related interest, fines, surcharges and penalties) and any restrictions or conditions resulting in any charge, other than taxes on the overall net income of an Agent or of a Bank, and “Tax” and “Taxation” shall be interpreted accordingly.

 

1.1.90    Total Loss”, in relation to a Vessel, means:-

 

(a)       an actual, constructive, arranged, agreed or compromised total loss of that Vessel; or

 

(b)       the requisition for title or compulsory acquisition of that Vessel by or on behalf of any government or other authority (other than by way of requisition for hire); or

 

(c)       the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of that Vessel, unless the Vessel is released and returned to the possession of the Owner within sixty days after the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation in question.

 

1.1.91    Transfer Certificate” means a certificate materially in the form of Appendix B.

 

1.1.92    Transfer Date”, in relation to a transfer of any of a Bank’s rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, means the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of the relevant Transfer Certificate to the Paying Agent, or such later Business Day as may be specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate.

 

1.1.93    Transferee” means any bank or financial institution to which a Bank transfers any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement.

 

1.1.94    Tripartite Agreements” means the Walrus Tripartite Agreement and the Group Tripartite Agreements together, and “Tripartite Agreement” means any of them.

 

1.1.95”the Trust Property” means:-

 

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(a)       the benefit of the covenant contained in Clause 10; and

 

(b)       all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) the Owners’ Guarantee; and

 

(c)       all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) each of the Security Documents (other than this Agreement), with the exception of any benefits arising solely for the benefit of the Agents.

 

1.1.96    the Underlying Documents” means the Bareboat Charters and the Charter Guarantee.

 

1.1.97    the Vessels means the vessels listed in Schedule 3 and everything now or in the future belonging to them on board and ashore (each a “Vessel”).

 

1.1.98    Walrus Tripartite Agreement” means the tripartite agreement in respect of the vessel “WALRUS” referred to in Clause 10.3.

 

1.2       Interpretation

 

In this Agreement:-

 

1.2.1     words denoting the plural number include the singular and vice versa;

 

1.2.2     words denoting persons include corporations, partnerships, associations of persons (whether incorporated or not) or governmental or quasi-governmental bodies or authorities and vice versa;

 

1.2.3     references to Recitals, Clauses, Schedules and Appendices are references to recitals and clauses of, and schedules and appendices to, this Agreement;

 

1.2.4     references to this Agreement include the Recitals, the Schedules and the Appendices;

 

1.2.5     the headings and contents page(s) are for the purpose of reference only, have no legal or other significance, and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement;

 

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1.2.6     references to any document (including, without limitation, to all or any of the Security Documents) are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to that document as amended, supplemented, novated or replaced from time to time;

 

1.2.7     references to statutes or provisions of statutes are references to those statutes, or those provisions, as from time to time amended, replaced or re-enacted;

 

1.2.8     references to a Bank or to an Agent include its successors, transferees and assignees;

 

1.2.9     references to times of day are to London time.

 

1.3       Offer letter

 

This Agreement supersedes the terms and conditions contained in any correspondence relating to the subject matter of this Agreement exchanged between the Agents or any of the Banks and the Borrower or their representatives prior to the date of this Agreement.

 

1.4       Joint and several liability

 

1.4.1     All obligations, covenants, representations, warranties and undertakings in or pursuant to the Security Documents assumed, given, made or entered into by the Owners shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be assumed, given, made or entered into by the Owners jointly and severally.

 

1.4.2     Each of the Owners agrees that any rights which it may have at any time during the Facility Period by reason of the performance of its obligations under the Security Documents to be indemnified by any other Owner or the Borrower and/or to take the benefit of any security taken by the Banks or by the Agents pursuant to the Security Documents shall be exercised in such manner and on such terms as the Agents may require.  Each of the Owners agrees to hold any sums received by it as a result of its having exercised any such right on trust for the Agents (as agents for the Banks) absolutely.

 

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Borrower in respect of any liability owed to it by that other Owner or the Borrower under or in connection with the Security Documents, nor prove in competition with the Banks or the Agents in any liquidation of (or analogous proceeding in respect of) any other Owner or the Borrower in respect of any payment made under the Security Documents or in respect of any sum which includes the proceeds of realisation of any security held by the Banks or the Agents for the repayment of the Indebtedness.

 

2        The Facility and its Purpose

 

2.1       Agreement to lend  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and in reliance on each of the representations and warranties made or to be made in or in accordance with each of the Security Documents, each of the Banks agrees to advance to the Borrower its Commitment of an aggregate amount not exceeding the Maximum Loan Amount to be used by the Borrower for the purposes referred to in the Recital.

 

2.2       Drawings  Subject to satisfaction by the Borrower of the conditions set out in Clause 3.1, and subject to Clause 2.3, the Facility shall be advanced to the Borrower in one Drawing no later than the Availability Termination Date, by the Paying Agent transferring the amount of the Drawing to the Borrower by such method of funds transfer as the Paying Agent and the Borrower shall agree.

 

2.3       Advance of Drawing  The Drawing shall be advanced in euros, on a Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall have given to the Paying Agent not more than ten and not fewer than three Business Days’ notice in writing materially in the form set out in Appendix A of the required Advance Date of the Drawing.  The Drawdown Notice once given shall be irrevocable and shall constitute a warranty by the Borrower that:-

 

2.3.1     all conditions precedent to the advance of the Drawing will have been satisfied on or before the Advance Date requested;

 

2.3.2     no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will then have occurred;

 

2.3.3     no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the Drawing; and

 

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2.3.4     there has been no material adverse change in the business, affairs or financial condition of any of the Security Parties from that pertaining at the date of this Agreement.

 

The Paying Agent shall promptly notify each Bank of the receipt of the Drawdown Notice, following which each Bank will make its Proportionate Share of the amount of the requested Drawing available to the Borrower through the Paying Agent on the Advance Date requested.

 

2.4       Availability Termination Date  The Banks shall not be under any obligation to advance all or any part of the Facility after the Availability Termination Date.

 

2.5       Several obligations  The obligations of the Banks under this Agreement are several.  The failure of a Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower to the Agents or to the other Banks, nor shall the Agents or any other Bank be liable for the failure of a Bank to perform any of its obligations under or in connection with this Agreement.

 

2.6       Application of Facility  Without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement, neither the Banks nor the Agents shall be obliged to concern themselves with the application of the Facility by the Borrower.

 

2.7       Loan and control accounts  The Paying Agent will open and maintain such loan and control accounts as it shall consider necessary or desirable.

 

3        Conditions Precedent and Subsequent

 

3.1       Conditions Precedent  Before any Bank shall have any obligation to advance any part of the Drawing, the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agents the following documents and evidence:-

 

3.1.1     Evidence of incorporation  Such evidence as the Agents may reasonably require that each Security Party was duly incorporated in its country of incorporation and remains in existence and, where appropriate, in good standing, with power to enter into, and perform its obligations under, those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is intended to be, a party, including (without limitation) a copy, certified by a director or the secretary or an authorised officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete,

 

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accurate and unamended, of all documents establishing or limiting the constitution of each Security Party.

 

3.1.2     Corporate authorities  A copy, certified by a director or the secretary or an authorised officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and neither amended nor revoked, of a resolution of the directors of each Security Party and, in respect of Crown Cruise Line Incorporated S.A. only, a resolution of the shareholders (together, where appropriate, with signed waivers of notice of any directors’ or shareholders’ meetings) approving, and authorising or ratifying the execution of, those of the Security Documents to which that Security Party is or is intended to be a party and all matters incidental thereto.

 

3.1.3     Officer’s certificate  A certificate signed by a duly authorised officer of each of the Security Parties setting out the names of the directors, officers and (other than in the case of the Borrower) shareholders of that Security Party.

 

3.1.4     Power of attorney  The power of attorney of each of the Security Parties under which any documents are to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party, notarially attested and legalised if required by the Agents.

 

3.1.5     Vessel documents  Photocopies, certified as true, accurate and complete by a director or the secretary of the Owner, of (in respect of each Vessel):-

 

(a)       the Bareboat Charter or other contract of employment of that Vessel which will be in force on the Advance Date;

 

(b)       the management agreement between the Owner and the Managers relating to that Vessel (except in relation to WALRUS); and

 

(c)       that Vessel’s current SMC; and

 

(d)       the relevant Company’s current DOC;

 

in each case together with all addenda, amendments or supplements.

 

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3.1.6     Evidence of ownership  Certificate(s) of ownership and encumbrance (or equivalent) issued by the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the Vessel’s port of registry confirming that each Vessel is on the Advance Date owned by her Owner, free of registered Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances.

 

3.1.7     Evidence of insurance  Evidence that each Vessel is insured in the manner required by the Security Documents and that letters of undertaking will be issued in the manner required by the Security Documents, together with (if required by the Agents) the written approval of the Insurances by an insurance adviser appointed by the Agents.

 

3.1.8     Confirmation of class  A Certificate of Confirmation of Class for hull and machinery confirming that each Vessel is classed with the highest class applicable to vessels of her type with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas or such other classification society as may be acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.1.9     Instruction to classification society  A letter of instruction from the Owner of each Vessel to that Vessel’s classification society in the form required by the Agents such letter to be served on the classification society after the occurrence of an Event of Default.

 

3.1.10    Havens  Such evidence of authority of the signatory for Havens under the Walrus Tripartite Agreement as the Agents may deem necessary.

 

3.1.11    The Security Documents  The Security Documents, together with all notices and other documents required by any of them, duly executed and, in the case of the Mortgages, registered with second priority through the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the port of registry of the Vessel concerned.

 

3.1.12    Drawdown Notice  A Drawdown Notice.

 

3.1.13    Process agent  A letter from Sea Containers Services Limited accepting their appointment by each of the Security Parties as agent for service of Proceedings pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

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3.1.14    Mandates  Such duly signed forms of mandate, and/or other evidence of the opening of the Earnings Accounts, as the Agents or any of the Banks may require.

 

3.1.15    Managers’ confirmation  The written confirmation of the Managers (except Seahawk North America) that, throughout the Facility Period unless otherwise agreed by the Agents, they will remain the commercial and technical managers of the Vessels and that they will not, without the prior written consent of the Agents, sub-contract or delegate the commercial or technical management of any Vessel to any third party.

 

3.1.16    The Fee Letter  The Fee Letter countersigned on behalf of the Borrower by way of acceptance of its terms and all fees payable thereunder having been paid when due.

 

3.1.17    Legal opinions  Confirmation satisfactory to the Agents that all legal opinions required by the Agents will be given substantially in the form required by the Agents.

 

3.1.18    Senior Facility Agreement  Certified true copies of the Senior Facility Agreement and all security documents required thereby.

 

3.1.19    Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination  The Deed of Co-ordination and Subordination duly executed by all parties thereto.

 

3.1.20    Underlying Documents  Certified true copies of the Underlying Documents.

 

3.1.21    Citigroup Pledge  A certified true copy of the Citigroup Pledge duly executed by all parties thereto.

 

3.1.22    Know your customer requirements  Certified copies of the passport and proof of address of each of the directors of Silja Oyj Abp.

 

3.2       Conditions Subsequent  The Borrower undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the Agents on, or as soon as practicable after, the Advance Date, the following additional documents and evidence:-

 

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3.2.1     Evidence of registration  Evidence of registration of the Mortgages, in each case with second priority, with the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the port of registry of the Vessel concerned.

 

3.2.2     Letters of undertaking  Letters of undertaking as required by the Security Documents in form and substance acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.2.3     Legal opinions  The legal opinions referred to in Clause 3.1.17, duly issued.

 

3.2.4     Companies Act registrations  Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security Documents have been delivered to any relevant registrar of companies within the appropriate statutory time limit.

 

3.2.5     Master’s receipts  The master’s receipt for each of the Mortgages, if required by the laws of the flag of any Vessel.

 

3.3       No waiver  If the Banks in their sole discretion agree to advance any part of the Facility to the Borrower before all of the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 have been delivered to or to the order of the Agents, the Borrower undertakes to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the order of the Agents no later than the date specified by the Agents, and the advance of any part of the Facility shall not be taken as a waiver of the Agent’s right to require production of all the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1.

 

3.4       Form and content  All documents and evidence delivered to the Agents pursuant to this Clause shall:-

 

3.4.1     be in form and substance acceptable to the Agents;

 

3.4.2     be accompanied, if required by the Agents, by translations into the English language, certified in a manner acceptable to the Agents;

 

3.4.3     if required by the Agents, be certified, notarised, legalised or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agents.

 

3.5       Event of Default  No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance any part of its Commitment nor to act on the Drawdown Notice if, at the date of the Drawdown Notice or at the date on which the advance of the Drawing is requested in the

 

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Drawdown Notice, an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default shall have occurred, or if an Event of Default or Potential Event of Default would result from the advance of the Drawing.

 

4        Representations and Warranties

 

The Borrower and each of the Owners represents and warrants to each of the Banks and to the Agents at the date of this Agreement and (by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining) at the date of each Drawdown Notice, at each Advance Date and at each Interest Payment Date as follows:-

 

4.1       Incorporation and capacity  Each of the Security Parties is a body corporate duly constituted and existing and (where applicable) in good standing under the law of its country of incorporation, in each case with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own its assets and to carry on its business, and all of the corporate shareholders (if any) of each Security Party are duly constituted and existing under the laws of their countries of incorporation with perpetual corporate existence and the power to sue and be sued, to own their assets and to carry on their business.

 

4.2       Solvency None of the Security Parties is insolvent or in liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of any of the Security Parties or all or any substantial part of their assets.

 

4.3       Binding obligations  The Security Documents when duly executed and delivered will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and each of the Owners further confirm that their entering into the Owners’ Guarantee in Clause 9 is for their corporate and commercial benefit.

 

4.4       Satisfaction of conditions  All acts, conditions and things required to be done and satisfied and to have happened prior to the execution and delivery of the Security Documents in order to constitute the Security Documents the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties in accordance with their respective terms

 

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have been done, satisfied and have happened in compliance with all applicable laws.

 

4.5       Registrations and consents  With the exception only of the registrations referred to in Clause 3.2, all (if any) consents, licences, approvals and authorisations of, or registrations with or declarations to, any governmental authority, bureau or agency which may be required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of the Security Documents have been obtained or made and remain in full force and effect and none of the Owners nor the Borrower is aware of any event or circumstance which could reasonably be expected adversely to affect the right of any of the Security Parties to hold and/or obtain renewal of any such consents, licences, approvals or authorisations.

 

4.6       Disclosure of material facts  None of the Owners nor the Borrower is aware of any material facts or circumstances which have not been disclosed to the Agents and which might, if disclosed, have adversely affected the decision of a person considering whether or not to make facilities of the nature contemplated by this Agreement available to the Borrower.

 

4.7       No material litigation  There is no action, suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding pending or to its knowledge about to be pursued before any court, tribunal or governmental or other authority which would, or would be likely to, have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or creditworthiness of any of the Security Parties other than as disclosed in their financial statements.

 

4.8       No breach of law or contract  The execution, delivery and performance of the Security Documents will not contravene any contractual restriction or any law binding on any of the Security Parties or on any shareholder (whether legal or beneficial) of any of the Security Parties, or the constitutional documents of any of the Security Parties, nor result in the creation of, nor oblige any of the Security Parties to create, any Encumbrance over all or any of its assets, with the exception of the Encumbrances created by or pursuant to the Security Documents, and, in entering into those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is to be, a party, and in borrowing the Facility, the Borrower is acting for its own account.

 

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4.9       Financial information  All financial information and other documentation submitted to the Agents by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection herewith is accurate and correct in all material respects and is not misleading and that to the best of their knowledge the information relating to the Borrower contained in the confidential information memorandum prepared in connection herewith is correct in all material respects, does not contain any untrue statements of a material nature or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading (it being agreed and acknowledged that no representation or warranty is made concerning the estimates and projections contained therein other than that they were made in good faith).

 

4.10     Pari Passu  The claims of the Agents and the Banks hereunder will rank at least pari passu with the claims of all unsecured creditors of the Borrower and/or the Owners other than claims of such creditors to the extent that they are statutorily preferred.

 

4.11     No deductions  None of the Security Parties is required to make any deduction or withholding from any payment which it may be obliged to make to the Agents or any of the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

4.12     No established place of business in the United Kingdom or United States  None of the Security Parties has, nor will any of them have during the Facility Period, an established place of business (other than the Borrower) in the United States of America or (other than the Borrower and Silja Holdings Limited) in the United Kingdom.

 

4.13     No investment business in Bermuda  The Borrower is not carrying on investment business in or from Bermuda.

 

4.14     Bareboat Charters  The certified copies of the Bareboat Charters provided to the Agents pursuant to this Agreement constitute the full agreement between the Owner and the Bareboat Charterer in relation to the Vessel in question and each Bareboat Charter has been duly executed and authorised by the parties to it and is in full force and effect in accordance with its terms; each Vessel is on hire pursuant to its respective Bareboat Charter; and none of the Owners is aware of any material breach by any Bareboat Charterer of any of its obligations under or pursuant to the relevant Bareboat Charter.

 

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4.15     Use of Facility  The Facility will be used for the purposes specified in the Recital.

 

4.16     Shareholdings  The Borrower is and will remain the ultimate legal and beneficial owner of all the shares in each Owner.

 

4.17     Underlying Documents  The copies of the Underlying Documents delivered or to be delivered to the Agents hereunder constitute the full agreement of the parties thereto and none of the parties thereto is in default thereunder.

 

5        Repayment and Prepayment

 

5.1       Repayment  The Borrower agrees to repay the Facility to the Paying Agent as agent for the Banks by eight (8) consecutive half-yearly Repayment Instalments each in the sum of six million seven hundred and fifty thousand euro (€6,750,000), the first Repayment Date being the date which is the earlier of (i) eighteen calendar months after the Advance Date and (ii) 31 March 2005 and subsequent Repayment Dates being at consecutive intervals of six calendar months thereafter.

 

5.2       Reduction of Repayment Instalments  If the aggregate amount of the Facility advanced to the Borrower is less than the Maximum Loan Amount, the amount of the Repayment Instalments shall be reduced pro rata.

 

5.3       Prepayment  The Borrower may prepay the Facility in whole or in part in an amount equal to the amount of a Repayment Instalment or an integral multiple of that amount (or as otherwise may be agreed by the Paying Agent) provided that they have first given to the Paying Agent not fewer than thirty days’ prior written notice expiring on a Business Day of their intention to do so.  Any notice pursuant to this Clause once given shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to make the prepayment referred to in the notice on the Business Day specified in the notice, together with all interest accrued on the amount prepaid up to and including that Business Day.

 

5.4       Prepayment indemnity  If the Borrower shall, subject always to Clause 5.3, make a prepayment on a Business Day other than the last day of an Interest Period in respect part of or the whole of the Facility, it shall, in addition to the amount prepaid and accrued interest, pay to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks any amount which the Paying Agent may certify is necessary to compensate the Banks

 

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for any Break Costs incurred by the Paying Agent or any of the Banks as a result of the making of the prepayment in question.

 

5.5       Application of prepayments  Any prepayment in an amount less than the Indebtedness shall be applied in satisfaction or reduction first of any costs, fees and other expenses outstanding under this Agreement; secondly of all interest outstanding in respect of the Facility; and thirdly of the Repayment Instalments in inverse order of maturity.

 

5.6       No reborrowing  No part of the Facility repaid or prepaid pursuant to this Agreement may in any circumstances be reborrowed.

 

5.7       Sale of a Vessel  On the sale of any Vessel (excluding SILJA SYMPHONY and SILJA SERENADE and other than FINNJET, where the terms of sale are to be determined in accordance with Clause 5.8) during the Facility Period the Required Sale Prepayment Amount shall be applied by the Borrower as a prepayment to be applied by the Paying Agent in satisfaction or reduction of the Facility and the Senior Facility pro rata  PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Market Value of the remaining Vessels would be less than one hundred and forty per centum (140%) of the aggregate of the Facility and the Senior Facility, then the Borrower will ensure that such further portion of the net sales proceeds as may be required in order to ensure that the Market Value of the remaining Vessels shall equal or exceed one hundred and forty per centum (140%) of the Facility and the Senior Facility shall also be used in or towards prepayment of the Facility and the Senior Facility pro rata.  Unless an Event of Default shall then have occurred and be continuing, the Paying Agent shall promptly release to or to the order of the relevant Owner the amount (if any) by which the net sale proceeds exceeds the prepayment required under this Clause 5.7.  The provisions of Clauses 5.4 and 5.5 shall apply to any such prepayment with the exception of the remaining Repayment Instalments which shall be reduced pro rata.

 

5.8       FINNJET prepayment  The Borrower may at its option exclude the Vessel FINNJET from the security package for this Facility by making a prepayment in the amount of twelve million six hundred thousand euro (e12,600,000) (reduced pro rata to reflect any repayments or prepayments made at any relevant date), such prepayment to be applied by the Paying Agent pro rata in satisfaction of the Facility and the Senior Facility.  The provisions of Clauses 5.4 and 5.5 shall apply to any

 

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such prepayment with the exception of the remaining Repayment Instalments which shall be reduced pro rata.

 

6        Interest

 

6.1       Interest Periods  The period during which the Facility shall be outstanding pursuant to this Agreement shall be divided into consecutive Interest Periods of one, two, three or six months’ duration, as selected by the Borrower by written notice to the Paying Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. on the third Business Day before the beginning of the Interest Period in question, or such other duration as may be agreed by the Banks in their discretion.

 

6.2       Beginning and end of Interest Periods  The first Interest Period shall begin on the Advance Date and the final Interest Period shall end on the Repayment Date applicable to the final Repayment Instalment.

 

6.3       Interest Periods to meet Repayment Dates  If the Borrower shall select, or the Borrower and the Banks shall agree, an Interest Period which does not expire on the next Repayment Date, there shall, in respect of each part of the Facility equal to a Repayment Instalment falling due for payment before the expiry of that Interest Period, be a separate Interest Period which shall expire on the relevant Repayment Date, and the Interest Period selected or agreed shall apply to the balance of the Facility only.

 

6.4       Interest rate  During each Interest Period interest shall accrue on the Facility at the rate determined by the Paying Agent to be the aggregate of (a) the Margin, (b) EURIBOR determined at or about 11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to the beginning of that Interest Period and (c) the Mandatory Cost.

 

6.5       Failure to select Interest Period  If the Borrower at any time fails to select or agree an Interest Period in accordance with Clause 6.1, the interest rate applicable after the expiry of the then current Interest Period shall be the rate determined by the Paying Agent in accordance with Clause 6.4 for consecutive Interest Periods each of such duration (not exceeding three months) as the Paying Agent may select.

 

6.6       Accrual and payment of interest  Interest shall accrue from day to day, shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed (or, in any circumstance where market practice differs, in accordance with the

 

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prevailing market practice) and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on the last day of each Interest Period and additionally, during any Interest Period exceeding six months, on the last day of each successive six month period after the beginning of that Interest Period.

 

6.7       Ending of Interest Periods  Each Interest Period shall, subject to Clauses 6.2 and 6.3, end on the date which numerically corresponds to the date on which the immediately preceding Interest Period ended (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, to the Advance Date) in the calendar month which is the number of months selected or agreed after the calendar month in which the immediately preceding Interest Period ended (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, in which the Advance Date occurred), except that:-

 

6.7.1     if there is no numerically corresponding date in the calendar month in which the Interest Period ends, the Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and

 

6.7.2     if any Interest Period would end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which event the Interest Period in question shall end on the next preceding Business Day).

 

Any adjustment made pursuant to Clause 6.7.1 or 6.7.2 shall be ignored for the purpose of determining the date on which any subsequent Interest Period shall end.

 

6.8                                     Default Rate  If an Event of Default shall occur, the whole of the Indebtedness shall, from the date of the occurrence of the Event of Default, bear interest up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at the Default Rate, compounded at such intervals as the Paying Agent shall determine, which interest shall be payable from time to time by the Borrower to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on demand.

 

6.9       Determinations conclusive  Each determination of an interest rate made by the Paying Agent in accordance with Clause 6 shall (save in the case of manifest error or on any question of law) be final and conclusive.

 

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7        Blank Clause

 

This clause has been left blank deliberately.

 

8        Fees

 

8.1       Fee Letter  The Borrower shall pay to or to the order of the Paying Agent the fees, commissions and other sums referred to in the Fee Letter in the amounts and on the dates set out in the Fee Letter.

 

8.2       Commitment Commission  The Borrower shall pay to the Paying Agent for the benefit of the Banks a commitment fee of fifty per centum (50%) of the Margin per annum on the undrawn part of the Facility from the date hereof until the earlier of the Drawdown Date and the Availability Termination Date, accruing and payable on each day elapsing on the basis of a 360 day year which shall be paid in one amount on the earlier of the Drawdown Date and the Availability Termination Date.

 

9        Owners’ Guarantee and Indemnity

 

9.1       Guarantee and indemnity  In consideration of the agreement of the Banks to make the Facility available to the Borrower, each of the Owners:-

 

9.1.1     irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the Agents as agents for the Banks to discharge on first demand of the Agents all of the Borrower’s Obligations which the Borrower has failed to discharge, including interest at the Default Rate from the date of demand until the date of payment, both before and after judgment; and

 

9.1.2     agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, that, if any of the Borrower’s Obligations are not recoverable from any of the Owners under Clause 9.1.1 for any reason, that Owner will be liable to the Agents as agents for the Banks, as a principal debtor by way of indemnity for the same amount as that for which it would have been liable had those Borrower’s Obligations been recoverable and agrees to discharge its liability under this Clause 9.1.2 on first demand of the Agents together with interest at the Default Rate from the date of demand until the date of payment, both before and after judgement.

 

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9.2       Continuing security  The Owners’ Guarantee is a continuing security for the full amount of the Borrower’s Obligations from time to time and shall remain in force notwithstanding the liquidation of the Borrower or any change in the constitution of the Borrower or of any of the Banks or the Agents or the absorption of or amalgamation by any of the Banks or the Agents in or with any other entity or the acquisition of all or any part of the assets or undertaking of any of the Banks or the Agents by any other entity.

 

9.3       Preservation of the Owners’ Liabilities  The Banks may without the consent of any of the Owners and without notice to of any of the Owners and without in any way releasing or reducing the Owners’ Liabilities:-

 

9.3.1     amend, novate, supplement or replace all or any of the Security Documents save for any Security Documents to which any Owner is a party;

 

9.3.2     increase or reduce the amount of the Facility or vary the terms and conditions for its repayment or reduction (including, without limitation, the rate and/or method of calculation of interest);

 

9.3.3     allow to the Borrower or to any other person any time or other indulgence;

 

9.3.4     renew, vary, release or refrain from enforcing any of the Security Documents or any other security, guarantee or indemnity which any of the Agents or Banks may now or in the future hold from the Borrower or from any other person;

 

9.3.5     compound with the Borrower or any other person;

 

9.3.6     enter into, renew, vary or terminate any other agreement or arrangement with the Borrower or any other person; or

 

9.3.7     release one or more Owners from their obligations hereunder; or

 

9.3.8     make any concession to the Borrower or do or omit or neglect to do anything which might, but for this provision, operate to release or reduce the liability of any of  the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee.

 

9.4       Owners’ Liabilities unaffected  The liability of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee shall not be affected by:-

 

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9.4.1     the absence of or any defective, excessive or irregular exercise of any of the powers of the Borrower or of any Surety;

 

9.4.2     any security given or payment made to any of the Banks or the Agents by the Borrower or any other person being avoided or reduced under any law (whether English or foreign) relating to bankruptcy or insolvency or analogous circumstance in force from time to time;

 

9.4.3     the liquidation, administration, receivership or insolvency of any of the Owners;

 

9.4.4     any other security, guarantee or indemnity now or in the future held by any of the Banks or the Agents being defective, void or unenforceable, or the failure of any of the Banks or the Agents to take any security, guarantee or indemnity;

 

9.4.5     any compromise or arrangement under Part I or Part VII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or section 425 of the Companies Act 1985 (or any statutory modification or re-enactment of either of them for the time being in force) or under any (in the opinion of the Agents) analogous provision of any foreign law;

 

9.4.6     the novation of any of the Borrower’s Obligations;

 

9.4.7     anything which would not have released or reduced the liability of any of the Owners had the liability of that Owner under Clause 9.1.1 been as a principal debtor and not as a guarantor.

 

9.5       Preservation of Agents’ rights  The Owners’ Guarantee is in addition to any other security, guarantee or indemnity now or in the future held by any of the Banks or Agents in respect of the Borrower’s Obligations, whether from the Borrower, the Owners or any Surety, and shall not merge with, prejudice or be prejudiced by any such security, guarantee or indemnity or any contractual or legal right of any of the Banks or the Agents.

 

9.6       Release  Any release, settlement, discharge or arrangement relating to the liabilities of any of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee shall be conditional on no payment, assurance or security received by any of the Banks or the Agents in

 

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respect of the Borrower’s Obligations being avoided or reduced under any law (whether English or foreign) in force from time to time relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or any (in the opinion of the Agents) analogous circumstance and after any such avoidance or reduction the Agents shall be entitled to exercise all of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Owners’ Guarantee and/or any other rights, powers, discretions or remedies which they would otherwise have been entitled to exercise, as if no release, settlement, discharge or arrangement had taken place.

 

9.7       Discharge  Following the complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations, the Agents and/or the Security Agent shall release any security which they may hold for the liabilities of the Owners under the Owners’ Guarantee provided that they shall have received a written statement from the Borrower’s directors stating that the Borrower is not insolvent at the time of the complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations nor will it become insolvent as a result of such complete discharge of the Borrower’s Obligations.  Upon the sale of a vessel pursuant to Clauses 5.7 or 5.8 (as the case may be) the Security Agent will discharge the Mortgage over that Vessel, in accordance with the law of the applicable flag state.  If the Owner of such Vessel is not the owner of any other Vessel, the Security Agent shall release the Owner from all of its obligations under the Security Documents (other than, if relevant, the Earnings Assignment for the relevant Vessel), on receipt of all (or, as the case may be, the appropriate proportion as specified in Clauses 5.7 or 5.8) of the net sales proceeds.

 

9.8       Subrogation  Until all claims of the Banks and the Agents in respect of the Borrower’s Obligations have been discharged in full:-

 

9.8.1     none of the Owners shall be entitled to participate in any security held or sums received by any of the Banks or either Agent in respect of all or any part of the Borrower’s Obligations;

 

9.8.2     none of the Owners shall stand in the place of, or be subrogated for, any of the Banks or the Agents in respect of any security nor take any step to enforce any claim against the Borrower or any Surety (or the estate or effects of any such person) nor claim or exercise any right of set off or counterclaim against the Borrower or any Surety nor make any claim in the bankruptcy or liquidation of the Borrower or any Surety in respect of any

 

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sums paid by that Owner to any of the Banks or the Agents or in respect of any sum which includes the proceeds of realisation of any security at any time held by any of the Banks or the Agents in respect of all or any part of the Owners’ Liabilities; and

 

9.8.3     none of the Owners shall take any steps to enforce any claim which it may have against the Borrower or any Surety without the prior written consent of the Agents and then only on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Agents may impose.

 

9.9       Continuing security  The Owners’ Liabilities shall be continuing for all purposes (including interest at the Default Rate) and every sum of money which may now or in the future be or become due or owing to the Banks or the Agents by the Borrower (or which would have become due or owing had it not been for the bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower) shall be deemed to continue due and owing to the Banks or the Agents by the Borrower until that sum is actually paid to the Banks or the Agents, notwithstanding the bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency of the Borrower.

 

9.10     Own benefit  The Agents on behalf of the Banks may, but shall not be obliged to, resort for their own benefit to any other means of payment at any time and in any order they think fit without releasing or reducing the Owners’ Liabilities.

 

9.11     Enforcement  The Agents may enforce the Owners’ Guarantee either before or after resorting to any other means of payment and, in the latter case, without entitling any of the Owners to any benefit from or share in any such other means of payment for so long as the Borrower’s Obligations have not been discharged in full when due.

 

9.12     Other security  The Owners confirm that they have not taken and will not take without the prior written consent of the Agents (and then only on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Agents may impose) any security from the Borrower or from any Surety in connection with the Owners’ Guarantee, and any security taken by any of the Owners notwithstanding this Clause shall be held by that Owner in trust for the Agents absolutely as a continuing security for the Owners’ Liabilities.

 

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9.13     Currency of Account  The Owners’ liability under the Owners’ Guarantee is to discharge the Borrower’s Obligations in the Currency of Account.

 

9.14     Payment  If at any time any of the Agents or the Banks receives any payment by or on behalf of any of the Owners in a currency other than the Currency of Account, that payment shall take effect as a payment to the Agents or Banks of the amount in the Currency of Account which the relevant Agent or Bank is able to purchase (after deduction of any relevant costs) with the amount of the payment so received in accordance with its usual practice.

 

9.15     Shortfall  To the extent that any payment to any of the Banks or the Agents (whether by any of the Owners or any other person and whether under any judgment or court order or otherwise) in a currency other than the Currency of Account shall on actual conversion into the Currency of Account fall short of the relevant liability of the Owners expressed in the Currency of Account then the Owners as a separate and independent obligation will indemnify the Banks and the Agents against such shortfall.

 

9.16     Principal debtors  The Owners agree that they are, and will throughout the Facility Period remain, principal debtors in respect of the Owners’ Liabilities and not a surety for any Surety.

 

9.17     Default Rate  Interest at the Default Rate will be payable both before and after judgement on a daily basis and on the basis of a 360 day year and compounded at such intervals as the Paying Agent shall in its discretion determine.

 

9.18     New accounts  The Agents may continue the account(s) of the Borrower or open one or more new accounts for the Borrower notwithstanding demand under the Owners’ Guarantee and the Owners’ liability at the date of demand shall not be released or affected by any subsequent payment into or out of any account of the Borrower with any of the Banks.

 

9.19     Limitation on recourse  The Agents acknowledge and agree with Seawind Line AB that all moneys, obligations and liabilities which are to be paid, performed, satisfied or discharged by Seawind Line AB under this Agreement and any of the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is party shall be recoverable by the Agents only from and to the extent of the Relevant Security PROVIDED THAT:

 

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9.19.1    the foregoing limitation of recourse shall be ignored in the determination of the Relevant Obligations of Seawind Line AB and the Relevant Obligations shall include all moneys, obligations and liabilities which are to be paid, repaid, performed, satisfied or discharged by Seawind Line AB, notwithstanding the foregoing limitation of recourse; and

 

9.19.2    the Agents shall be entitled (but not obliged and without prejudice to the other powers, rights and remedies under or pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or as a matter of law):

 

(a)       to take any legal action or proceeding to obtain (but not to enforce) a declaratory or other similar judgment or order as to the obligations and liabilities Seawind Line AB; and/or

 

(b)       to the extent that such claim or proof is a necessary procedural step to enable the realisation or enforcement of the full benefit of the Relevant Security, or to the exercise by the Agents of any right, title, interest and benefit in, to, under or pursuant to that Relevant Security, to make or file a claim or proof in any insolvency proceedings in relation to Seawind Line AB, but not themselves to take any legal action or proceeding to instigate any such insolvency proceedings.

 

9.20     Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Clause 9.19, but otherwise subject to any relevant provision of this Agreement or any of the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party, Seawind Line AB shall remain fully liable to the Agents as a result of the gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of Seawind Line AB with respect to any aspect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party or the performance, satisfaction and discharge of all or any of its obligations and liabilities under and pursuant to this Agreement or the Security Documents.

 

9.21     For the purpose of Clauses 9.19 and 9.20:

 

Relevant Security” means:

 

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(a)       the Mortgage in respect of STAR WIND, together with the relevant collateral pledge and deed of covenants;

 

(b)       this Agreement;

 

(c)       the Insurance Assignment in respect of STAR WIND; and

 

(d)       the Earnings Assignment in respect of STAR WIND.

 

Relevant Obligations” means all moneys, obligations and liabilities from time to time owing or payable, undertaken, incurred or assumed by Seawind Line AB to or in favour of the Agents under or pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents to which Seawind Line AB is a party.

 

10       Security Documents

 

As security for the repayment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Agents or cause to be executed and delivered to the Agents, on or before the Advance Date, the following Security Documents in such forms and containing such terms and conditions as the Agents shall require:-

 

10.1     the Mortgages  a second preferred or priority mortgage (as the case may be) over each Vessel together with a collateral deed of covenants and/or pledge agreement, as appropriate;

 

10.2     the Insurance Assignments  a second priority deed of assignment of the Insurances and Requisition Compensation of each Vessel;

 

10.3     the Walrus Tripartite Agreement  a second priority tripartite agreement in respect of WALRUS;

 

10.4     the Group Tripartite Agreements second priority tripartite agreements in respect of SILJA FESTIVAL, SILJA OPERA, SILJA SYMPHONY and FINNJET;

 

10.5     the Earnings Assignments a second priority deed of assignment of the Earnings and Charter Rights or Earnings assignment agreements and/or pledge agreements (as appropriate) of each Vessel;

 

10.6     the Charter Guarantee Assignment a second priority deed of assignment of the Charter Guarantee in respect of WALRUS;

 

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10.7     the Share Pledges  a second priority pledge of all the issued shares in Silja Holdings Limited and a second priority pledge of all the issued shares in Silja Oyj Abp.

 

11       Agency and Trust

 

11.1     Appointment  Each of the Banks appoints the Paying Agent its agent for the purpose of administering payments relating to the Facility and the Security Documents and the Security Agent as its security trustee to administer all other aspects of the Facility and to hold the benefit of the Security Documents.

 

11.2     Authority  Each of the Banks irrevocably authorises the Paying Agent (subject to Clauses 11.4 and 11.19):-

 

11.2.1    to collect, receive, release or pay any money on its behalf;

 

and each of the Banks authorises the Security Agent (subject to Clauses 11.4 and 11.19):-

 

11.2.2    to execute the Security Documents (other than this Agreement) on its behalf;

 

11.2.3    acting on the instructions from time to time of an Instructing Group to give or withhold any waivers, consents or approvals under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents;

 

11.2.4    acting on the instructions from time to time of and Instructing Group to exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretions under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents; and

 

11.2.5    to enforce the Security Documents on its behalf.

 

The Agents shall have no duties or responsibilities as agents or as security trustee other than those expressly conferred on it by the Security Documents and shall not be obliged to act on any instructions from the Banks or an Instructing Group if to do so would, in the opinion of the relevant Agent, be contrary to any provision of the Security Documents or to any law, or would expose the relevant Agent to any actual or potential liability to any third party.

 

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11.3     Trust  The Security Agent agrees and declares, and each of the Banks acknowledges, that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Clause, the Security Agent holds the Trust Property on trust for the Banks, in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares, absolutely.  Each of the Banks agrees that the obligations, rights and benefits vested in the Security Agent in its capacity as security trustee shall be performed and exercised in accordance with this Clause.  The Agents in their capacity as paying agent and security agent respectively shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of this Agreement benefiting them in their capacity as paying agent and security agent for the Banks, and all the powers and discretions conferred on trustees by the Trustee Act 1925 (to the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement).  In addition:-

 

11.3.1    the Security Agent (and any attorney, agent or delegate of the Security Agent) may indemnify itself or himself out of the Trust Property against all liabilities, costs, fees, damages, charges, losses and expenses sustained or incurred by it or him in relation to the taking or holding of any of the Trust Property or in connection with the exercise or purported exercise of the rights, trusts, powers and discretions vested in the Security Agent or any other such person by or pursuant to the Security Documents or in respect of anything else done or omitted to be done in any way relating to the Security Documents; and

 

11.3.2    the Banks acknowledge that the Security Agent shall be under no obligation to insure any property nor to require any other person to insure any property and shall not be responsible for any loss which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack or insufficiency of any insurance; and

 

11.3.3    the Security Agent and the Banks agree that the perpetuity period applicable to the trusts declared by this Agreement shall be the period of eighty years from the date of this Agreement.

 

11.4      Limitations on authority  Except with the prior written consent of each of the Banks, neither Agent shall be entitled to :-

 

11.4.1    release or vary any security given for the Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement; nor

 

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11.4.2    waive the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.3    change the meaning of the expressions “the Instructing Group” or “Margin” (except that the Agents shall be allowed in their absolute discretion to negotiate and agree with the Borrower on any increase the amount of the Margin); nor

 

11.4.4    exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretion, or give or withhold any consent, the exercise or giving of which is, by the terms of this Agreement, expressly reserved to the Banks; nor

 

11.4.5    extend the due date for the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.6    take or refrain from taking any step if the effect of such action or inaction may lead to the increase of the obligations of a Bank under any of the Security Documents; nor

 

11.4.7    agree to change the currency in which any sum is payable under the Security Documents (other than in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents); nor

 

11.4.8    agree to amend this Clause 11.4; nor

 

11.4.9    waive any material condition precedent.

 

11.5     Liability  Neither the Agents nor any of their directors, officers, employees or agents shall be liable to the Banks for anything done or omitted to be done by the Agents under or in connection with the Security Documents unless as a result of the Agents’ gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

11.6     Acknowledgement  Each of the Banks acknowledges that:-

 

11.6.1    it has not relied on any representation made by the Agents or any of the Agents’ directors, officers, employees or agents or by any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agents to induce it to enter into any of the Security Documents;

 

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11.6.2    it has made and will continue to make without reliance on the Agents, and based on such documents and other evidence as it considers appropriate, its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Security Parties in connection with the making and continuation of the Facility;

 

11.6.3    it has made its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security Parties;

 

11.6.4    the Agents shall not have any duty or responsibility at any time to provide it with any credit or other information relating to any of the Security Parties unless that information is received by the Agents pursuant to the express terms of the Security Documents.

 

Each of the Banks agrees that it will not assert nor seek to assert against any director, officer, employee or agent of the Agents or against any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agents any claim which it might have against them in respect of any of the matters referred to in this Clause.

 

11.7     Limitations on responsibility  The Agents shall have no responsibility to any of the Security Parties or to the Banks on account of:-

 

11.7.1      the failure of a Bank or of any of the Security Parties to perform any of their respective obligations under the Security Documents;

 

11.7.2      the financial condition of any of the Security Parties;

 

11.7.3      the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, or in or pursuant to any document delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents;

 

11.7.4      the negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of any of the Security Documents or of any document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents.

 

11.8     The Agents’ rights  The Agents may:-

 

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11.8.1      assume that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents are true and complete, unless, in their capacity as Agents, they have acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and

 

11.8.2      assume that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred unless, in their capacity as Agents, they have acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and

 

11.8.3      rely on any document or Communication believed by them to be genuine; and

 

11.8.4      rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by them; and

 

11.8.5      rely as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of any of the Security Parties on a certificate signed by or on behalf of that Security Party; and

 

11.8.6      refrain from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of its exercise by the Banks (or, where applicable, by an Instructing Group) and unless and until the Agents have received from the Banks any payment which the Agents may require on account of, or any security which the Agents may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal and other professional fees) and liabilities which they considers they may incur or sustain in complying with those instructions.

 

11.9     The Agents’ duties  The Agents shall:-

 

11.9.1       if requested in writing to do so by a Bank, make enquiry and advise the Banks as to the performance or observance of any of the provisions of the Security Documents by any of the Security Parties or as to the existence of an Event of Default; and

 

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11.9.2       inform the Banks promptly of any Event of Default of which the Agents have actual knowledge.

 

11.10    No deemed knowledge  The Agents shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by any of the Security Parties or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default unless a Bank or any of the Security Parties shall have given written notice thereof to the Agents in their capacity as Agents.  Any information acquired by the Agents other than specifically in their capacity as Agents shall not be deemed to be information acquired by the Agents in their capacity as Agents.

 

11.11    Other business  The Agents may, without any liability to account to the Banks, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with any of the Security Parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or associated companies or with a Bank as if they were not the Agents.

 

11.12    Indemnity  The Banks shall, promptly on the Agents’ request, reimburse the Agents in their respective Proportionate Shares, for, and keep the Agents fully indemnified in respect of:-

 

11.12.1     all amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agents pursuant to Clause 19 to the extent that those amounts are not paid by the Borrower;

 

11.12.2     all liabilities, damages, costs and claims sustained or incurred by the Agents in connection with the Security Documents, or the performance of its duties and obligations, or the exercise of its rights, powers, discretions or remedies under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents; or in connection with any action taken or omitted by the Agents under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, unless in any case those liabilities, damages, costs or claims arise solely from the Agents’ wilful misconduct.

 

11.13    Employment of agents  In performing their duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents, the Agents shall be entitled to employ and pay agents to do anything which the Agents are empowered to do under or pursuant to the Security Documents (including the

 

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receipt of money and documents and the payment of money) and to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or any other person believed by the Agents in good faith to be competent to give such opinion, advice or information.

 

11.14    Distribution of payments  The Agents shall pay promptly to the order of each of the Banks that Bank’s Proportionate Share of every sum of money received by the Agents pursuant to the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances (with the exception of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 8 and/or the Fee Letter and any amounts which, by the terms of the Security Documents, are paid to an Agent for the account of that Agent alone or specifically for the account of one or more Banks) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Agents on trust absolutely for that Bank  PROVIDED ALWAYS that the Agents may set off from any amounts owing under this Clause 11.14 sums owed to the Agents (and remaining unpaid) under Clause 11.12.

 

11.15    Reimbursement  The Agents shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Bank until they have themselves received payment of that sum.  If, however, the Agents do pay any sum to a Bank on account of any amount prospectively due to that Bank pursuant to Clause 11.14 before they have themselves received payment of that amount, and the Agents do not in fact receive payment within five Business Days after the date on which that payment was required to be made by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances, each Bank receiving any such payment will, on demand by the Agents, refund to the Agents an amount equal to the amount received by it, together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Agents for any amount which the Agents may certify that they have been required to pay by way of interest on money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances and ending on the date on which the Agents receive reimbursement.

 

11.16    Redistribution of payments  Unless otherwise agreed between the Banks and the Agents, if at any time a Bank receives or recovers by way of set-off, the exercise of any lien or otherwise (other than from any assignee or transferee of or sub-participant in that Bank’s Commitment), an amount greater than that Bank’s

 

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Proportionate Share of any sum due from any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents (the amount of the excess being referred to in this Clause as the “Excess Amount”) then:-

 

11.16.1     that Bank shall promptly notify the Agents (which shall promptly notify each other Bank);

 

11.16.2     that Bank shall pay to the Agents an amount equal to the Excess Amount within ten days of its receipt or recovery of the Excess Amount; and

 

11.16.3     the Agents shall treat that payment as if it were a payment by the Security Party in question on account of the sum owed to the Banks as aforesaid and shall account to the Banks in respect of the Excess Amount in accordance with the provisions of this Clause.

 

However, if a Bank has commenced any Proceedings to recover sums owing to it under the Security Documents and, as a result of, or in connection with, those Proceedings has received an Excess Amount, the Agents shall not distribute any of that Excess Amount to any other Bank which had been notified of the Proceedings and had the legal right to, but did not, join those Proceedings or commence and diligently prosecute separate Proceedings to enforce its rights in the same or another court.

 

11.17    Rescission of Excess Amount  If all or any part of any Excess Amount is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to any of the Security Parties or to any other third party, the Banks which have received any part of that Excess Amount by way of distribution from the Agents pursuant to this Clause shall repay to the Agents for the account of the Bank which originally received or recovered the Excess Amount, the amount which shall be necessary to ensure that the Banks share rateably in accordance with their Proportionate Shares in the amount of the receipt or payment retained, together with interest on that amount at a rate equivalent to that (if any) paid by the Bank receiving or recovering the Excess Amount to the person to whom that Bank is liable to make payment in respect of such amount, and Clause 11.16.3 shall apply only to the retained amount.

 

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11.18    Proceedings  Each of the Banks and the Agents shall notify one another of the proposed commencement of any Proceedings under any of the Security Documents prior to their commencement.

 

11.19    Instructions  Where the Agents are authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Banks or of an Instructing Group each of the Banks shall provide the Agents with instructions within three Business Days of the Agents’ request (which request may be made orally or in writing).  If a Bank does not provide the Agents with instructions within that period, that Bank shall be bound by the decision of the Agents.  Nothing in this Clause shall limit the right of the Agents to take, or refrain from taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Banks or an Instructing Group if the Agents in their discretion consider it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such action in order to preserve the rights of the Banks under or in connection with the Security Documents.  In that event, the Agents will notify the Banks of the action taken by them as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Banks agree to ratify any action taken by the Agents pursuant to this Clause.

 

11.20    Communications  Any Communication under this Clause shall be given, delivered, made or served, in the case of the Agents (in their capacity as Paying Agent, Security Agent or as one of the Banks) and in the case of the other Banks, at the address or fax number indicated in Schedule 1.

 

11.21    Payments  All amounts payable to a Bank under this Clause shall be paid to such account at such bank as that Bank may from time to time direct in writing to the Agents.

 

11.22    Retirement  Subject to a successor being appointed in accordance with this Clause, the Paying Agent may retire as paying agent and the Security Agent may resign as security trustee at any time without assigning any reason by giving to the Borrower and the Banks notice of its intention to do so, in which event the following shall apply:-

 

11.22.1     the Banks may within thirty days after the date of the relevant Agent’s notice appoint a successor to act as paying agent and/or security trustee or, if they fail to do so, that Agent may appoint any other bank or financial institution as its successor;

 

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11.22.2     the resignation of an Agent shall take effect simultaneously with the appointment of its successor on written notice of that appointment being given to the Borrower and the Banks;

 

11.22.3     that Agent shall thereupon be discharged from all further obligations as agent or security trustee as the case may be but shall remain entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Clause;

 

11.22.4     that Agent’s successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if that successor had been a party to this Agreement.

 

11.23    No fiduciary relationship  Except as provided in Clauses 11.3 and 11.14, the Agents shall not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be trustees of or for a Bank and nothing contained in any of the Security Documents shall constitute a partnership between any two or more Banks or between the Agents and any Bank.

 

11.24    The Agents as Banks  The expression “the Banks” when used in the Security Documents includes each Agent in its capacity as one of the Banks.  The Agents shall be entitled to exercise their rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents in their individual capacity as one of the Banks in the same manner as any other Bank and as if it were not also an Agent.

 

12       Covenants

 

The Borrower and the Owners covenant with the Banks and with the Paying Agent’s in the following terms.

 

12.1     Negative covenants of the Borrower

 

The Borrower will not without the Paying Agent’s prior written consent permit any change in the legal or beneficial ownership and control of the Owners from that advised to the Paying Agent at the date of this Agreement.

 

12.2     Negative Covenants of the Owners

 

None of the Owners will without the Paying Agent’s prior written consent:-

 

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12.2.1      no sale of Vessels  sell or otherwise dispose of the Vessel owned by it or any shares in that Vessel nor agree to do so, other than:-

 

(a)         a sale of FINNJET in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5.8; or

 

(b)         a sale of any other Vessel in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5.7; nor

 

12.2.2      no chartering after Event of Default  following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default let its Vessel on charter or renew or extend any charter or other contract of employment of its Vessel (nor agree to do so); nor

 

12.2.3      no change in management  appoint anyone other than the Managers as commercial or technical managers of the Vessels, nor terminate or materially vary the arrangements for the commercial or technical management of the Vessels, nor permit the Managers to sub-contract or delegate the commercial or technical management of any Vessel to any third party; nor

 

12.2.4      no amendment to Bareboat Charters  agree to any amendment or supplement to a Bareboat Charter which would or which might reasonably be expected materially to diminish the rights of the Security Agent as assignee of the Earnings and Charter Rights under the Bareboat Charter in question; nor

 

12.2.5      no disposals or third party rights  dispose of or create or permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance or other third party right on or over all or any part of its present or future assets or undertaking over which security has been granted to Banks (or to the Security Agent on behalf of the Banks) other than any Permitted Encumbrances existing from time to time; nor

 

12.2.6      no borrowings  (other than Silja Oyj Abp and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) borrow any money or incur any obligations under leases other than with respect to financings relating to FINNJET; nor

 

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12.2.7      no repayments  (other than Silja Oyj Abp and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) repay any loans made to it other than with respect to financings relating to FINNJET; nor

 

12.2.8      no substantial liabilities  (other than Silja Oyj Abp and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) except in the ordinary course of business, incur any liability to any third party which is in the opinion of the Paying Agent of a substantial nature; nor

 

12.2.9      no loans or other financial commitments  (other than Silja Oyj Abp and Seawind Line AB and other than in connection with any arrangements made between members of the Group only) make any loan nor enter into any guarantee or indemnity or otherwise voluntarily assume any actual or contingent liability in respect of any obligation of any other person; nor

 

12.2.10     no dividends if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or if an Event of Default would occur as a result of such action (other than Silja Oyj Abp) pay any dividends or make any other distributions to shareholders or make any intercompany loans or issue any new shares.

 

12.3     Positive covenants

 

12.3.1      Registration of Vessels The Owners undertake to maintain the registration of the Vessels under the flags indicated in Schedule 3 for the duration of the Facility Period or under Swedish flag or such other flag as the Agents may approve, acting reasonably, provided always that upon any change of flag, the relevant Owner delivers or procures the delivery to the Agents of a second priority mortgage over the relevant Vessel in a form reasonably acceptable to the Agents, together with a deed of covenants (if customary) and an opinion satisfactory to the Agents in relation to the registration of the Vessel and the new mortgage and such other matters as the Agents may reasonably require.

 

12.3.2      Valuations  The Owners undertake to provide valuations of each of the Vessels once in each year and upon the sale of any Vessel, from two

 

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Approved Brokers, one to be appointed by the Paying Agent and one to be appointed by the Borrower and with such valuations being made on a charter free basis.

 

12.3.3      Financial statements  The Borrower will supply to the Paying Agent, without request, the consolidated annual financial statements of the Borrower for each financial year of the Borrower ending during the Facility Period, containing (amongst other things) the Borrower’s profit and loss account for, and balance sheet at the end of, each such financial year, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and practices applicable to companies incorporated in Bermuda consistently applied, and audited by a well known and reputable firm of chartered accountants (or equivalent), in each case within one hundred and twenty days of the end of the financial year to which they relate.  The Borrower will also supply to the Paying Agent, without request, the unaudited consolidated quarterly financial statements of the Borrower for each quarter ending during the Facility Period, as above, in each case within sixty days of the end of the quarter to which they relate.

 

12.3.4      Other information  The Borrower will promptly supply to the Paying Agent copies of all financial and other information and explanations as the Paying Agent may from time to time require in connection with the operation of the Vessels and the Borrower’s profit and liquidity, traffic statistics and cash flows, and will procure that the Paying Agent be given the like information and explanations relating to all other Security Parties.

 

12.3.5      Evidence of goodstanding  The Borrower will from time to time on the request of the Paying Agent provide the Paying Agent with evidence in form and substance satisfactory to the Paying Agent that the Security Parties and all corporate shareholders of any of the Security Parties (other than the Borrower) remain in good standing.

 

12.3.6      Evidence of current COFR  Without limiting the Borrower’s obligations under Clause 12.3.4, if any Vessel trades in US waters, the Borrower will from time to time on the request of the Paying Agent provide the Paying Agent with such evidence as the Paying Agent may reasonably require

 

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that such Vessel has a valid and current Certificate of Financial Responsibility pursuant to the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990.

 

12.3.7      Performance of the Bareboat Charters  Each of the Owners undertakes to perform the Bareboat Charter (or other contract of employment for its Vessel) to which it may at any time during the Facility Period be party, in accordance with its terms.

 

12.3.8      ISM Code compliance  The Owners will:-

 

(a)       procure that each of the Vessels remains for the duration of the Facility Period subject to a SMS;

 

(b)       maintain a valid and current SMC for each of the Vessels throughout the Facility Period;

 

(c)       procure that each Company maintains a valid and current DOC throughout the Facility Period;

 

(d)       immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the SMC of any Vessel or of the DOC of any Company;

 

(e)       immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of any “accident” or “major non-conformity” with a cost implication of an amount of more than five per centum (5%) of the insured value of the relevant Vessel, as each of those terms is defined in the Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management Code by Administrations adopted by the Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation pursuant to Resolution A.788(19), and of the steps being taken to remedy the situation; and

 

(f)       not without the prior written consent of the Paying Agent (which will not be unreasonably withheld) change the identity of any Company.

 

12.3.9      Payment of tax  The Borrower and each of the Owners will file all requisite tax returns and will pay all tax as shown to be due and payable

 

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on such returns or any of the assessments made against it (other than those being contested in good faith).

 

12.3.10     Notification of Event of Default  The Borrower will immediately notify the Paying Agent in writing of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default.

 

12.3.11     Financial covenants   The Borrower will:-

 

(a)       maintain a minimum Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of three hundred million Dollars ($300,000,000);

 

(b)       maintain a maximum Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Ratio of 3.5:1;

 

(c)       maintain minimum Consolidated Cash Reserves of fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) provided that in the event of any transaction or series of transactions involving a change of control of any material assets of the Borrower, at the request of the Borrower, the Agent may in its sole discretion acting reasonably enter into good faith negotiations in order to reduce the minimum amount of the Consolidated Cash Reserves to take into account the change in circumstances brought about by the change of control of the assets; and

 

(d)       provide the Paying Agent, without request, with a compliance certificate in relation to the above (in the form set out in Appendix C or such other form as the Paying Agent may accept in its discretion) on a quarterly basis concurrently with the delivery of its financial statements pursuant to Clause 12.3.3 and in relation to Clause 12.3.11 (c) only upon the Paying Agent’s request which may be made at any time after an occurrence of an Event of Default or if the Paying Agent has reason to believe that the Borrower is in breach of its covenants contained in this Clause 12.3.11.  The first compliance certificate shall be provided by reference to the quarter ending 31 December 2003 and

 

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subsequent certificates will be provided at three month intervals thereafter or as requested pursuant to this clause.

 

13       Earnings Accounts

 

13.1     Maintenance of accounts  The Owners shall maintain the Earnings Accounts with Nordea Bank Finland plc and Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) for the duration of the Facility Period.  The Earnings Account held with Nordea Bank Finland plc shall be free of Encumbrances and rights of set off other than as created by or pursuant to the Security Documents.  The Borrower undertakes to use its best efforts to procure that the Earnings Account held with Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) shall also become free of Encumbrances and rights of set off other than as created by or pursuant to the Security Documents as soon as reasonably practicable.

 

13.2     Earnings  The Owners shall procure that there is credited to the Earnings Accounts all Earnings (after deduction only of Operating Expenses) and any Requisition Compensation in accordance with the Earnings Assignments.

 

13.3     Relocation of Earnings Accounts  At any time following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the Paying Agent may without the consent of the Borrower relocate the Earnings Accounts to any other branch of the Paying Agent, without prejudice to the continued application of this Clause and the rights of the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

14       Events Of Default

 

14.1     The Paying Agent’s rights  If any of the events set out in Clause 14.2 occurs, the Paying Agent may (and, if instructed to do so by an Instructing Group, shall) by notice to the Borrower declare the Banks to be under no further obligation to the Borrower under or pursuant to this Agreement and may (and, if instructed to do so by an Instructing Group, shall) declare all or any part of the Indebtedness (including such unpaid interest as shall have accrued) to be immediately payable, in which event the Indebtedness (or the part of the Indebtedness referred to in the Paying Agent’s notice) shall immediately become due and payable without any further demand or notice of any kind.

 

14.2     Events of Default  The events referred to in Clause 14.1 are:-

 

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14.2.1      payment default  if the Borrower defaults in the payment of any part of the Indebtedness within three (3) Business Days of it becoming due; or

 

14.2.2      other default  if any of the Security Parties fails to observe or perform any of the covenants, conditions, undertakings, agreements or obligations on its part contained in any of the Security Documents or shall in any other way be in breach of or do or cause to be done any act repudiating or evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Security Documents and such default (if, in the reasonable opinion of the Agents, capable of remedy) is not remedied within fifteen (15) days after notice from the Agents thereof; or

 

14.2.3      misrepresentation or breach of warranty  if any representation or warranty made or repeated, or any other information given, by any of the Security Parties to the Banks or to the Agents in or leading up to or during the currency of any of the Security Documents, or in or pursuant to any notice or other document delivered to the Agents under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, is false or incorrect or misleading in any respect which the Agents in their discretion consider to be material and (unless in the reasonable opinion of the Agents it is incapable of remedy) action has not been taken by the Borrower to ensure that such representation or warranty is rendered correct within fifteen (15) days after notice from the Agents thereof; or

 

14.2.4      execution  if a distress or execution or other process of a court or authority is levied on any of the property of any of the Security Parties before or after final judgment or by order of any competent court or authority for an amount in excess of five million euro (e5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency and is not satisfied, removed or discharged within twenty (20) days of levy; or

 

14.2.5      insolvency events  if any of the Security Parties:-

 

(a)       resolves to appoint, or applies for, or consents to, the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, trustee, administrator or liquidator of itself or of all or any substantial part of its assets; or

 

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(b)       is unable or admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due; or

 

(c)       makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or enters into a moratorium on payment of any of its indebtedness; or

 

(d)       ceases trading or threatens to cease trading; or

 

(e)       has appointed an Inspector under the Companies Act 1985 or any statutory provision which the Agents in their discretion consider analogous thereto; or

 

14.2.6      insolvency proceedings  if any proceedings are commenced or threatened, or any order or judgment is given by any court, for the bankruptcy, liquidation, winding up, administration or re-organisation of any of the Security Parties or for the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee of any of the Security Parties or of all or any substantial part of the assets of any of the Security Parties, or if any person appoints or purports to appoint such receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee; or

 

14.2.7      impossibility or illegality  if any event occurs which would, or would with the passage of time, render performance of any of the Security Documents by any of the Security Parties impossible, unlawful or unenforceable by the Banks or the Agents; or

 

14.2.8      conditions subsequent  if any of the conditions set out in Clause 3.2 is not satisfied within the time reasonably required by the Paying Agent; or

 

14.2.9      revocation or modification of consents etc.  if any consent, licence, approval, authorisation, filing, registration or other requirement of any governmental, judicial or other public body or authority which is now, or which at any time during the Facility Period becomes, necessary to enable any of the Security Parties to comply with any of their obligations in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents is not obtained or is revoked, suspended, withdrawn or withheld, or is modified in a manner which the Agents consider is, or may be, prejudicial to the interests of the Banks or ceases to remain in full force and effect; or

 

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14.2.10     curtailment of business  if the business of any of the Security Parties is wholly or partially curtailed or suspended by any intervention by or under authority of any government, or if all or a substantial part of the undertaking, property or assets of any of the Security Parties is seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under authority of any government; or

 

14.2.11     loss of Vessel  if any Vessel or any other vessel which may from time to time be mortgaged to the Banks (or to the Security Agent on their behalf) as security for the repayment of all or any part of the Indebtedness is destroyed, abandoned, confiscated, forfeited, condemned as prize or becomes a Total Loss, except that a Total Loss shall not be an Event of Default if:-

 

(a)       the Vessel or other vessel is insured in accordance with the Security Documents; and

 

(b)       no insurer has refused to meet or has disputed the claim for Total Loss and it is not apparent to the Agents in their discretion that any such refusal or dispute is likely to occur; and

 

(c)       payment of all insurance proceeds in respect of the Total Loss is made in full to the Agents on behalf of the Banks within one hundred and fifty days of the occurrence of the casualty giving rise to the Total Loss in question

 

PROVIDED THAT no Event of Default shall arise under this Clause 14.2.12 if either (a) the Borrower pays to the Paying Agent within thirty (30) days of the relevant date a sum equal to the insured value of the relevant Vessel or (b) the Borrower provides the Security Agent within thirty (30) days of the relevant date with alternative security in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents.

 

14.2.12     acceleration of other indebtedness  if any other indebtedness or obligation for Borrowed Money (in excess of two million euros (€2,000,000) in respect of the Borrower, Silja Holdings Limited or Silja Oyj Abp) of any of the Security Parties becomes due or capable of being

 

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declared due prior to its stated maturity by reason of default on the part of that Security Party, or is not repaid or satisfied at maturity; or

 

14.2.13     reduction of capital  if any of the Security Parties reduces its authorised or issued or subscribed capital; or

 

14.2.14     challenge to registration  if the registration of any Vessel or any Mortgage is contested or becomes void or voidable or liable to cancellation or termination, or if the validity or priority of any Mortgage is contested PROVIDED ALWAYS that if such circumstances occur in relation to a Vessel other than “SILJA SYMPHONY” or “SILJA SERENADE” then it shall only constitute an Event of Default if, within fifteen (15) days of a notice from the Agents, the Borrower shall fail to make a prepayment in an amount equal to the Required Sale Prepayment Amount of the relevant Vessel or charge in favour of the Security Agent (with second priority) an equal amount as security for the Indebtedness (with second priority), or (at the sole discretion of the Agents) grant alternative security to the Security Agent in a form and on terms acceptable to the Agents; or

 

14.2.15     notice of termination  if any of the Owners gives notice to the Agents to determine its obligations under the Owners’ Guarantee; or

 

14.2.16     war  if the country of registration of any Vessel becomes involved in war (whether or not declared) or civil war or is occupied by any other power and the Agents in their discretion consider that, as a result, the security conferred by the Security Documents is materially prejudiced  PROVIDED ALWAYS that if such circumstances occur in relation to a Vessel other than “SILJA SYMPHONY” or “SILJA SERENADE” then it shall only constitute an Event of Default if, within fifteen (15) days of a notice from the Agents, the Borrower shall fail to make a prepayment in an amount equal to the Required Sale Prepayment Amount of the relevant Vessel or charge in favour of the Security Agent (with second priority) an equal amount as security for the Indebtedness, or (at the sole discretion of the Agents) grant alternative security to the Security Agent in a form and on terms acceptable to the Agents; or

 

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14.2.17     notice of termination  if any of the Owners gives notice to the Agents to determine its obligations under the Owners’ Guarantee; or

 

14.2.18     material adverse change etc.  if there occurs any material adverse change in the business, assets or financial condition of any of the Security Parties from that pertaining at the date of this Agreement which may reasonably be considered to affect the ability of such Security Party to comply with its obligations under any one or more of the Security Documents; or

 

14.2.19     change in ownership or control if there is a change in the legal or beneficial ownership of the Security Parties (other than the Borrower) or any change in the control of the Borrower; or

 

14.2.20     NYSE Listing  if the Borrower ceases to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange; or

 

14.2.21     analogous events  if any event which (in the opinion of the Agents) is analogous to any of the events set out in Clauses 14.2.5 or 14.2.6 above shall occur.

 

15       Set-Off And Lien

 

15.1     Set-off  The Borrower and each Owner irrevocably authorises the Agents and the Banks at any time after all or any part of the Indebtedness shall have become due and payable to set off without notice any liability of the Borrower to any of the Banks or to the Agents (whether present or future, actual or contingent, and irrespective of the branch or office, currency or place of payment) against any credit balance from time to time standing on any account of the Borrower or an Owner (whether current or otherwise and whether or not subject to notice) with any branch of the Agents or of any Bank in or towards satisfaction of the Indebtedness and, in the name of the Agents or that Bank or the Borrower or an Owner, to do all acts (including, without limitation, converting or exchanging any currency) and execute all documents which may be required to effect such application.

 

15.2     Application  The Borrower and the Owners irrevocably authorise the Agents to apply all sums which the Agents may receive:-

 

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15.2.1      pursuant to a sale or other disposition of a Vessel or any right, title or interest in a Vessel; or

 

15.2.2      by way of payment to the Agents of any sum in respect of the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Charter Rights of a Vessel; or

 

15.2.3      otherwise arising under or in connection with any of the Security Documents

 

in or towards satisfaction, or by way of retention on account, of the Indebtedness, in such manner as is set out in the Deed of Coordination.

 

16       Assignment and Sub-Participation

 

16.1     Right to assign  Each of the Banks may assign or transfer any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement to any other branch of that Bank or to any other Bank without the prior written consent of the Borrower or the Owners or to any other bank or financial institution with the prior written consent of the Borrower and the Owners (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), and may grant sub-participations in all or any part of its Commitment provided it has first obtained the written consent of the Borrower and the Owners (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) which consent shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.  The Borrower may not assign any of its rights hereunder.

 

16.2     Borrower’s co-operation  Subject always to Clause 16.1, the Borrower and the Owners will co-operate fully with the Banks in connection with any assignment, transfer or sub-participation; will execute and procure the execution of such documents as the Banks may require in connection therewith; irrevocably authorise the Agents to sign any Transfer Certificate on their behalf; and irrevocably authorise the Agents and the Banks to disclose to any proposed assignee, transferee or sub-participant (whether before or after any assignment, transfer or sub-participation and whether or not any assignment, transfer or sub-participation shall take place) all information relating to the Security Parties, the Facility or the Security Documents which the Agents or the Bank may in their discretion consider necessary or desirable.

 

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16.3     Rights of assignee  Any assignee, transferee or sub-participant of a Bank shall (unless limited by the express terms of the assignment, transfer or sub-participation) take the full benefit of every provision of the Security Documents benefiting that Bank.

 

16.4     Transfer Certificates If any Bank wishes to transfer any of its rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, it may do so by delivering to the Paying Agent a duly completed Transfer Certificate, in which event on the Transfer Date:-

 

16.4.1      to the extent that that Bank seeks to transfer its rights and/or obligations, the Borrower (on the one hand) and the Bank in question (on the other) shall be released from all further obligations towards the other(s);

 

16.4.2      the Borrower (on the one hand) and the Transferee (on the other) shall assume obligations towards the other(s) identical to those released pursuant to Clause 16.4.1;

 

16.4.3      the Agents, each of the Banks and the Transferee shall have the same rights and obligations between themselves as they would have had if the Transferee had been an original party to this Agreement as a Bank; and

 

16.4.4      the Transferee shall pay to the Paying Agent for its own account a transfer fee of two thousand five hundred euro (e2,500).

 

Each Bank irrevocably authorises the Security Agent to sign on its behalf any Transfer Certificate relating to the transfer of any of the rights and/or obligations of any other Bank.

 

16.5     Security Documents Unless otherwise expressly provided in any Security Document or otherwise expressly agreed between a Bank and any proposed Transferee and notified by that Bank to the Agents on or before the relevant Transfer Date, there shall automatically be assigned to the Transferee with any transfer of a Bank’s rights and/or obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement the rights of that Bank under or pursuant to the Security Documents (other than this Agreement) which relate to the portion of the Bank’s rights and/or obligations transferred by the relevant Transfer Certificate.

 

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17       Payments, Mandatory Prepayment, Reserve Requirements and Illegality

 

17.1     Payments  All amounts payable by the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents shall be paid to such accounts at such banks as the Paying Agent may from time to time direct to the Borrower, and (unless payable in any other Currency of Account) shall be paid in euro in same day funds (or such funds as are required for settlement of international payments for immediate value).  Payments shall be deemed to have been received by the Paying Agent on the date on which the Paying Agent receives authenticated advice of receipt, unless that advice is received by the Paying Agent on a day other than a Business Day or at a time of day (whether on a Business Day or not) when the Paying Agent in its discretion considers that it is impossible or impracticable for the Paying Agent to utilise the amount received for value that same day, in which event the payment in question shall be deemed to have been received by the Paying Agent on the Business Day next following the date of receipt of advice by the Paying Agent.

 

17.2     No deductions or withholdings  All payments (whether of principal or interest or otherwise) to be made by the Borrower pursuant to the Security Documents shall, subject only to Clause 17.3, be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any Taxes or other deductions, withholdings, restrictions, conditions or counterclaims of any nature.

 

17.3     Grossing-up  If at any time any law requires (or is interpreted to require) the Borrower to make any deduction or withholding from any payment, or to change the rate or manner in which any required deduction or withholding is made, the Borrower will promptly notify the Paying Agent and, simultaneously with making that payment, will pay to the Paying Agent whatever additional amount (after taking into account any additional Taxes on, or deductions or withholdings from, or restrictions or conditions on, that additional amount) is necessary to ensure that, after making the deduction or withholding, the Paying Agent and the Banks receive a net sum equal to the sum which they would have received had no deduction or withholding been made.

 

17.4     Evidence of deductions  If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or withholding from any payment to be made by it pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the Borrower will pay the amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant authority within the time allowed under the applicable

 

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law and will, no later than thirty days after making that payment, deliver to the Paying Agent an original receipt issued by the relevant authority, or other evidence acceptable to the Paying Agent, evidencing the payment to that authority of all amounts required to be deducted or withheld.

 

17.5     Rebate  If the Borrower makes any deduction or withholding from any payment under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, and any Bank or the Paying Agent subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any tax authority which that Bank or the Paying Agent identifies as being referable to that deduction or withholding, the Paying Agent or the Bank in question shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to the Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial position than that in which it would have been had the deduction or withholding not been required to have been made.  Nothing in this Clause shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on the Paying Agent or any Bank to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any way the manner in which the Paying Agent and the Banks, organise their tax affairs, nor as imposing on the Paying Agent or on any Bank any obligation to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations.

 

17.6     Adjustment of due dates  If any payment or transfer of funds to be made under any of the Security Documents, other than a payment of interest on the Facility shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day, that payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month in which event the payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day).  Any such variation of time shall be taken into account in computing any interest in respect of that payment.

 

17.7     Change in law  If, by reason of the introduction of any law, or any change in any law, or the interpretation or administration of any law, or in compliance with any request or requirement from any central bank or any fiscal, monetary or other authority:-

 

17.7.1      any Bank or the Paying Agent (or the holding company of any Bank or the Paying Agent) shall be subject to any Tax with respect to payments of all or any part of the Indebtedness; or

 

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17.7.2      the basis of Taxation of payments to any Bank or to the Paying Agent in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness shall be changed; or

 

17.7.3      any reserve requirements shall be imposed, modified or deemed applicable against assets held by or deposits in or for the account of or loans by any branch of any Bank except to the extent included in the Mandatory Cost; or

 

17.7.4      the manner in which any Bank or the Paying Agent allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement or any ratio (whether cash, capital adequacy, liquidity or otherwise) which any Bank or the Paying Agent is required or requested to maintain shall be affected; or

 

17.7.5      there is imposed on any Bank or on the Paying Agent (or on the holding company of any Bank or the Paying Agent) any other condition in relation to the Indebtedness or the Security Documents;

 

and the result of any of the above shall be to increase the cost to any Bank (or to the holding company of any Bank) of that Bank making or maintaining its Commitment, or to cause any Bank to suffer (in its opinion) a material reduction in the rate of return on its overall capital below the level which it reasonably anticipated at the date of this Agreement and which it would have been able to achieve but for its entering into this Agreement and/or performing its obligations under this Agreement, the Bank affected shall notify the Paying Agent and the Borrower shall from time to time pay to the Paying Agent on demand for the account of the Bank affected the amount which shall compensate that Bank or the Paying Agent (or the relevant holding company) for such additional cost or reduced return.  A certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Paying Agent or of the Bank affected setting out the amount of that payment and the basis of its calculation shall be submitted to the Borrower and shall be conclusive evidence of such amount save for manifest error or on any question of law.

 

17.8     Illegality Notwithstanding anything contained in the Security Documents, the obligations of the Banks to advance or maintain the Facility shall terminate in the event that a change in any law or in the interpretation of any law by any authority charged with its administration shall make it unlawful for any Bank to advance or maintain its Commitment.  In that event the Bank affected shall notify the Paying

 

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Agent and the Paying Agent shall, by written notice to the Borrower, declare that Bank’s obligations to be immediately terminated.  If all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by such Bank to the Borrower, that portion of the Indebtedness (including all accrued interest) shall be prepaid within thirty days from the date of such notice.  Clause 5.3 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.

 

17.9     Changes in market circumstances  If at any time a Bank determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower) that, by reason of changes affecting the London Interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the rate of interest on the Facility pursuant to this Agreement:-

 

17.9.1      that Bank shall give notice to the Paying Agent and the Paying Agent shall give notice to the Borrower of the occurrence of such event; and

 

17.9.2      the Paying Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable certify to the Borrower in writing the effective cost to such Bank of maintaining the Facility for such further period as shall be selected by such Bank and the rate of interest payable by the Borrower for that period; or, if that is not acceptable to the Borrower,

 

17.9.3      the Paying Agent on behalf of the affected Bank will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to modifying this Agreement to provide a substitute basis for the Facility which is financially a substantial equivalent to the basis provided for in this Agreement.

 

If, within thirty days of the giving of the notice referred to in Clause 17.9.1, the Borrower and the Paying Agent fail to agree in writing on a substitute basis for the Facility, the Borrower will immediately prepay the relevant portion of the Indebtedness.  Clause 5.3 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.

 

17.10    Non-availability of currency  If a Bank is for any reason unable to obtain euro in the London Interbank market and is, as a result, or as a result of any other contingency affecting the London Interbank market, unable to advance or maintain its Commitment in euro, that Bank shall give notice to the Paying Agent and the

 

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Paying Agent shall give notice to the Borrower and such Bank’s obligations to make the Facility available shall immediately cease.  In that event, if all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by the Banks to the Borrower, the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to establishing a mutually acceptable basis for funding the relevant portion of the Facility from an alternative source.  If the Paying Agent and the Borrower have failed to agree in writing on a basis for funding the Facility from an alternative source by 11.00 a.m. on the second Business Day prior to the end of the then current Interest Period, the Borrower will (without prejudice to its other obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, its obligation to pay interest on the Facility, arising on the expiry of the then current Interest Period) prepay the relevant portion of the Indebtedness to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks on the expiry of the then current Interest Period.

 

18       Communications

 

18.1     Method  Except for Communications pursuant to Clause 11, which shall be made or given in accordance with Clause 11.20, any Communication may be given, delivered, made or served (as the case may be) under or in relation to this Agreement by letter or fax and shall be in the English language and sent addressed:-

 

18.1.1      in the case of the Banks or the Agents to the communications details of the Agents set out in Schedule 1;

 

18.1.2      in the case of the Borrower or the Owners to the Communications Address;

 

or to such other address or fax number as the Banks, the Agents, the Owners or the Borrower may designate for themselves by written notice to the others.

 

18.2     Timing  A Communication shall be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to or on, and received by, the Borrower:-

 

18.2.1      in the case of a fax when the sender receives one or more transmission reports showing the whole of the Communication to have been transmitted to the correct fax number;

 

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18.2.2      if delivered to an officer of the Borrower or left at the Communications Address at the time of delivery or leaving; or

 

18.2.3      if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post.

 

A Communication shall only be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to or on, and received by, the Banks or the Agents on actual receipt of the whole of that Communication by the Agents.

 

18.3     Indemnity  The Borrower shall indemnify the Agents and each of the Banks against any cost, claim, liability, loss or expense (including legal fees and any Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax (if applicable)) which the Agents or any of the Banks may sustain or incur as a consequence of any Communication sent by or on behalf of the Borrower by fax not being received by its intended recipient, or being received incomplete, or by reason of any Communication purportedly having been sent by or on behalf of the Borrower having been sent fraudulently.

 

19       General Indemnities

 

19.1     Currency  In the event of an Agent or a Bank receiving or recovering any amount payable under any of the Security Documents in a currency other than the Currency of Account, and if the amount received or recovered is insufficient when converted into the Currency of Account at the date of receipt to satisfy in full the amount due, the Borrower shall, on the Paying Agent’s written demand, pay to the Paying Agent such further amount in the Currency of Account as is sufficient to satisfy in full the amount due and that further amount shall be due to the Paying Agent on behalf of the Banks as a separate debt under this Agreement.

 

19.2     Costs and expenses  The Borrower will, within fourteen days of the Security Agent’s written demand, reimburse the Security Agent (on behalf of itself and the Banks) for all costs and expenses (including Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax if applicable) of and incidental to:-

 

19.2.1      the negotiation, preparation, execution and registration of the Security Documents (whether or not any of the Security Documents are actually

 

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executed or registered and whether or not all or any part of the Facility is advanced);

 

19.2.2      any amendments, addenda or supplements to any of the Security Documents (whether or not completed);

 

19.2.3      any other documents which may at any time be required by any Bank or by the Security Agent to give effect to any of the Security Documents or which any Bank or the Security Agent is entitled to call for or obtain pursuant to any of the Security Documents (including, without limitation, all premiums and other sums from time to time payable by the Security Agent in relation to the Mortgagees’ Insurances); and

 

19.2.4      the exercise of the rights, powers, discretions and remedies of the Banks and/or the Security Agent under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

19.3     Events of Default  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks and the Agents from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Bank or by the Agents as a consequence of any Event of Default, including (without limitation) any Break Costs.

 

19.4     Funding costs  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks and the Paying Agent from time to time on demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Bank or by the Paying Agent if, for any reason, the Drawing is not advanced to the Borrower after the Drawdown Notice has been given to the Paying Agent, or is advanced on a date other than that requested in the Drawdown Notice (unless, in either case, as a result of any default by the Paying Agent or by any of the Banks) including (without limitation) any Break Costs.

 

19.5     Protection and enforcement  The Borrower shall indemnify the Banks and the Agents from time to time on demand against all losses, costs and liabilities which any Bank or either Agent may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for in or about the protection, maintenance or enforcement of the rights conferred on the Banks and/or the Agents by the Security Documents or in or about the exercise or purported exercise by the Banks and/or the Agents of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies vested in them under or arising out of the Security Documents, including (without limitation) any losses, costs and liabilities which

 

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any Bank or either Agent may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for by reason of the Banks or the Agents being mortgagees of any Vessel and/or a lender to the Borrower, or by reason of any Bank or either Agent being deemed by any court or authority to be an operator or controller, or in any way concerned in the operation or control, of any Vessel.

 

19.6     Liabilities of Banks and Agents  The Borrower will from time to time reimburse the Banks and the Agents on demand for all sums which any Bank or the Agents may pay or become actually or contingently liable for on account of the Borrower or in connection with any Vessel (whether alone or jointly or jointly and severally with any other person) including (without limitation) all sums which any Bank or either Agent may pay or guarantees which any Bank or either Agent may give in respect of the Insurances, any expenses incurred by any Bank or by either Agent in connection with the maintenance or repair of any Vessel or in discharging any lien, bond or other claim relating in any way to any Vessel, and any sums which any Bank or either Agent may pay or guarantees which they may give to procure the release of any Vessel from arrest or detention.

 

19.7     Taxes  The Borrower shall pay all Taxes to which all or any part of the Indebtedness or any of the Security Documents may be at any time subject and shall indemnify the Agents and the Banks on demand against all liabilities, costs, claims and expenses resulting from any omission to pay or delay in paying any such Taxes.

 

20       Miscellaneous

 

20.1     Waivers  No failure or delay on the part of either Agent or of a Bank in exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, nor any actual or alleged course of dealing between the Agents or any Bank and the Borrower, shall operate as a waiver of, or acquiescence in, any default on the part of any Security Party, unless expressly agreed to do so in writing by the Agents, nor shall any single or partial exercise by either Agent or a Bank of any right, power, discretion or remedy preclude any other or further exercise of that right, power, discretion or remedy, or the exercise by either Agent or a Bank of any other right, power, discretion or remedy.

 

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20.2     No oral variations  No variation or amendment of any of the Security Documents shall be valid unless in writing and signed on behalf of the Banks and the Agents.

 

20.3     Severability  If at any time any provision of any of the Security Documents is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect that provision shall be severed from the remainder and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected or impaired in any way.

 

20.4     Successors etc.  The Security Documents shall be binding on the Security Parties and on their successors and permitted transferees and assignees, and shall inure to the benefit of the Banks and the Agents and their respective successors, transferees and assignees.  The Borrower may not assign nor transfer any of its rights under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents without the prior written consent of the Agents.

 

20.5     Further assurance  If any provision of the Security Documents shall be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of any present or future law or any decision of any court, or if the documents at any time held by the Banks or by the Agents on their behalf are considered by the Banks for any reason insufficient to carry out the terms of this Agreement, then from time to time the Borrower will promptly, on demand by the Agents, execute or procure the execution of such further documents as in the opinion of the Banks are necessary to provide adequate security for the repayment of the Indebtedness.

 

20.6     Other arrangements  The Banks and the Agents may, without prejudice to their rights under or pursuant to the Security Documents, at any time and from time to time, on such terms and conditions as they may in their discretion determine, and without notice to the Borrower, grant time or other indulgence to, or compound with, any other person liable (actually or contingently) to the Banks and/or the Agents in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and may release or renew negotiable instruments and take and release securities and hold funds on realisation or suspense account without affecting the liabilities of the Borrower or the rights of the Banks and the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents.

 

20.7     Advisers  The Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agents, at any time and from time to time during the Facility Period, to consult insurance advisers on any matters relating to the Insurances, including, without limitation, the collection of insurance

 

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claims, and from time to time to consult or retain advisers or consultants to monitor or advise on any other claims relating to the Vessels.  The Borrower and the Owners will provide such advisers and consultants with all information and documents which they may from time to time require and will reimburse the Agents on demand for all costs and expenses incurred by the Agents in connection with the consultation or retention of such advisers or consultants.

 

20.8     Delegation  The Banks and the Agents may at any time and from time to time delegate to any person any of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies pursuant to the Security Documents on such terms as they may consider appropriate (including the power to sub-delegate).

 

20.9     Rights etc. cumulative  Every right, power, discretion and remedy conferred on the Banks and/or the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right, power, discretion or remedy to which they may at any time be entitled by law or in equity.  The Banks and the Agents may exercise each of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies as often and in such order as they deem appropriate.  The exercise or the beginning of the exercise of any right, power, discretion or remedy shall not be interpreted as a waiver of the right to exercise that or any other right, power, discretion or remedy either simultaneously or subsequently.

 

20.10    No enquiry  The Banks and the Agents shall not be concerned to enquire into the powers of the Security Parties or of any person purporting to act on behalf of any of the Security Parties, even if any of the Security Parties or any such person shall have acted in excess of their powers or if their actions shall have been irregular, defective or informal, whether or not any Bank or either Agent had notice thereof.

 

20.11    Continuing security  The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be continuing and shall not be satisfied by any intermediate payment or satisfaction until the Indebtedness shall have been repaid in full and neither the Banks nor the Agents shall be under any further actual or contingent liability to any third party in relation to the Vessels, the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation or Charter Rights or any other matter referred to in the Security Documents.

 

20.12    Security cumulative  The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be in addition to any other security now or in the future held by the Banks or by the

 

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Agents for or in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and shall not merge with or prejudice or be prejudiced by any such security or any other contractual or legal rights of the Banks or the Agents, nor affected by any irregularity, defect or informality, or by any release, exchange or variation of any such security.  Section 93 of the Law of Property Act 1925 and all provisions which the Agents consider analogous thereto under the law of any other relevant jurisdiction shall not apply to the security constituted by the Security Documents.

 

20.13    No liability  Neither the Banks nor the Agents, nor any agent or employee of any Bank or of either Agent, nor any receiver and/or manager appointed by the Agents, shall be liable for any losses which may be incurred in or about the exercise of any of the rights, powers, discretions or remedies of the Banks and/or the Agents under or pursuant to the Security Documents nor liable as mortgagee in possession for any loss on realisation or for any neglect or default of any nature for which a mortgagee in possession might otherwise be liable unless such loss is as a result of the Banks’ and/or Agents’ gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

20.14    Rescission of payments etc.  Any discharge, release or reassignment by the Banks and/or the Agents of any of the security constituted by, or any of the obligations of any Security Party contained in, any of the Security Documents shall be (and be deemed always to have been) void if any act (including, without limitation, any payment) as a result of which such discharge, release or reassignment was given or made is subsequently wholly or partially rescinded or avoided by operation of any law.

 

20.15    Subsequent Encumbrances  If the Security Agent receives notice of any subsequent Encumbrance affecting any Vessel or all or any part of the Insurances, Earnings, Requisition Compensation, Charter Rights or the Accounts, the Security Agent may open a new account in its books for the Borrower.  If the Security Agent does not open a new account, then (unless the Security Agent gives written notice to the contrary to the Borrower) as from the time of receipt by the Security Agent of notice of such subsequent Encumbrance, all payments made to the Security Agent shall be treated as having been credited to a new account of the Borrower and not as having been applied in reduction of the Indebtedness.

 

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20.16    Releases  If any Bank or either Agent shall at any time release any party from all or any part of any of the Security Documents, the liability of any other party to the Security Documents shall not be varied or diminished.

 

20.17    Discretions  Unless otherwise expressly indicated, where any Bank or either Agent is stated in the Security Documents to have a discretion and/or where the opinion of any Bank or either Agent is referred to and/or where the consent, agreement or approval of any Bank or either Agent is required for any course of action, or where anything is required to be acceptable to any Bank or to either Agent, the Banks and the Agents shall have a sole, absolute and unfettered discretion and/or may give or withhold their consent, agreement or approval at their sole, absolute and unfettered discretion provided always that they act reasonably.

 

20.18    Certificates  Any certificate or statement signed by an authorised signatory of the Paying Agent purporting to show the amount of the Indebtedness (or any part of the Indebtedness) or any other amount referred to in any of the Security Documents shall, save for manifest error or on any question of law, be conclusive evidence as against the Borrower of that amount.

 

20.19    Survival of representations and warranties  The representations and warranties on the part of the Borrower contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution of this Agreement and the advance of the Facility.

 

20.20    Counterparts  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument.

 

20.21    Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999  No term of this Agreement is enforceable by a person who is not a party to it.

 

20.22    Conflicts  In the event of there being any conflict between this Agreement and any of the Security Documents, this Agreement shall prevail except in respect of the pledge agreements relating to the Swedish and Finnish Vessels.

 

21       Law and Jurisdiction

 

21.1     Governing law  This Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

 

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21.2     Jurisdiction  For the exclusive benefit of the Banks and the Agents, the parties to this Agreement irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and that any Proceedings may be brought in those courts.

 

21.3     Alternative jurisdictions  Nothing contained in this Clause shall limit the right of the Banks or the Agents to commence any Proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent jurisdiction nor shall the commencement of any Proceedings against the Borrower in one or more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any Proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not.

 

21.4     Waiver of objections  The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in any court referred to in this Clause, and any claim that those Proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum, and irrevocably agrees that a judgment in any Proceedings commenced in any such court shall be conclusive and binding on it and may be enforced in the courts of any other jurisdiction.

 

21.5     Service of process  Without prejudice to the right of the Agents and the Banks to use any other method of service permitted by law, the Borrower irrevocably agrees that any writ, notice, judgment or other legal process shall be sufficiently served on it if addressed to it and left at or sent by post to the Address for Service, and in that event shall be conclusively deemed to have been served at the time of leaving or, if posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post.

 

IN WITNESS  of which the parties to this Agreement have executed this Agreement the day and year first before written.

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

The Banks and the Commitments

 

 

The Banks

 

The Commitments (in €)

 

 

 

Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

 

Christiansbro

 

 

Strandgade 3

 

 

DK-1401

 

 

Copenhagen K

 

 

Denmark

 

 

 

 

 

Fax: + 45 3333 5820/+ 45 3333 6690

 

 

FAO:  International Loan Services

 

 

 

 

 

Nordea Bank Finland Plc

 

18,768,750

Satamaradankatu 5

 

 

Helsinki

 

 

FIN-00020

 

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

Fax:

+358 753 6816

 

 

FAO:

Tellervo Koski/Taina Salo

 

 

 

 

 

HSH Nordbank AG

 

14,981,250

Martensdamm 6

 

 

D-24103 Kiel

 

 

Federal Republic of Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Fax:

+49 40 3333 34269

 

 

FAO:

Matthias Happich/Jannita Werner – Shipping Department

 

 

 

 

 

Fortis Bank S.A./N.V.

 

7,500,000

23 Camomile Street

 

 

London EC3A 7PP

 

 

 

 

 

Fax:

+ 44 20 7444 8889

 

 

FAO:

Paul Barnes/Raymond Ko

 

 

 

 

 

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland

 

7,500,000

11 Earl Grey Street

 

 

Edinburgh EH3 9N

 

 

 

 

 

Fax:

+ 44 20 7012 9457

 

 

FAO:

Iain Ross/Clayton Scott

 

 

 

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DVB Bank AG, London Branch

 

5,250,000

80 Cheapside

 

 

London

 

 

EC2V 6EE

 

 

 

 

 

Fax:

+44 20 7618 9652

 

 

FAO:

Alison Scott – Loans Administration

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE 2

 

The Co-Arrangers

 

HSH Nordbank AG

Martensdamm 6

D-24103 Kiel

Federal Republic of Germany

 

Fax:

+49 40 3333 34269

FAO:

Matthias Happich/Jannita Werner – Shipping Department

 

Fortis Bank S.A./N.V.

23 Camomile Street

London EC3A 7PP

 

Fax:

+44 20 7444 8889

FAO:

Paul Barnes/Raymond Ko

 

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland

11 Earl Grey Street

Edinburgh EH3 9N

 

Fax:

+44 20 7012 9457

FAO:

Iain Ross/Clayton Scott

 

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SCHEDULE 3

 

The Owners and the Vessels

 

Name of
Owner

 

Country of
Incorporation

 

Registered
Office

 

Name of
Vessel

 

Flag of
Vessel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA FESTIVAL

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA SYMPHONY

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Oyj Abp

 

Finland

 

Bulevardi 1A
P.O. Box 659
FIN-00101
Finland

 

SILJA SERENADE

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silja Cruise AB

 

Sweden

 

Positionen 8
115 74
Stockholm
Sweden

 

SILJA OPERA

 

Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally AB

 

Finland

 

Torggatan 14
22100
Mariehamn
Finland

 

FINNJET

 

Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crown Cruise
Line
Incorporated
S.A.

 

Panama

 

20th Floor
Banco
Continental
Building
PO Box 0816
-01771
Panama 5
Republic of
Panama

 

WALRUS

 

Panama

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seawind Line
AB

 

Sweden

 

Positionen 8
115 74
Stockholm
Sweden

 

STAR WIND

 

Sweden

 

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SCHEDULE 4

 

The Approved Brokers

 

Fearnleys A/S

PO Box 1158 Sentrum

N – 0107 Oslo

Norway

 

Tel:

+ 47 22 936 000

Fax:

+ 47 22 936 150

 

Simonship AB

Skeppsbron 16

S-111 30 Stockholm

Sweden

 

Tel:

+46 8 240 310

Fax:

+46 8 204 610

 

Brax Shipping AB

Engelbrektsgatan 26

S-411 37 Gothenburg

Sweden

 

Tel:

+ 46 31 18 32 00

Fax:

+ 46 31 18 32 60

 

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SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SEA CONTAINERS LTD.

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SILJA OYJ ABP

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SILJA CRUISE AB

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SALLY AB

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  CROWN CRUISE LINE

)

INCORPORATED  S.A.

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  SEAWIND LINE AB

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S

)

(as Lead Arranger)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG

)

(as a Co-Arranger)

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by)

)

duly authorised for and on behalf)

)

of  FORTIS BANK S.A./N.V.)

)

(as Co-Arranger)

)

 

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SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY

)

OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND

)

(as Co-Arranger)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK

)

DANMARK A/S (as a Bank)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG (as a Bank)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  FORTIS BANK S.A./N.V. (as a Bank)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY

)

OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND

)

(as a Bank)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of DVB BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK DANMARK A/S

)

(as the Paying Agent)

)

 

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SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  NORDEA BANK FINLAND PLC

)

(as the Security Agent)

)

 

 

 

 

SIGNED  by

)

duly authorised for and on behalf

)

of  HSH NORDBANK AG

)

(as Documentation Agent)

)

 

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APPENDIX A

 

Form of Drawdown Notice

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

From:                  Sea Containers Ltd.

 

[Date]

 

Dear Sirs,

 

Drawdown Notice

 

We refer to the Loan Agreement dated                            2003 made between, amongst others, ourselves and yourselves (“the Agreement”).

 

Words and phrases defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Drawdown Notice.

 

Pursuant to Clause 2.3 of the Agreement, we irrevocably request that you advance a Drawing of [           ] to us on                   2003, which is a Business Day, by paying the amount of the Drawing to [                                           ].

 

We warrant that the representations and warranties contained in Clause 4 of the Agreement are true and correct at the date of this Drawdown Notice and will be true and correct on               2003; that no Event of Default nor Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the Drawing requested in this Drawdown Notice.

 

We select the period of [       ] months as the first Interest Period.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For and on behalf of

 

 

 

 

 

Sea Containers Ltd.

 

 

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APPENDIX B

 

Form of Transfer Certificate

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

 

This transfer certificate relates to a secured loan facility agreement (as from time to time amended, varied, supplemented or novated “the Agreement”) dated                   2003, on the terms and subject to the conditions of which a secured loan facility of up to €54,000,000 was made available to Sea Containers Ltd. by a syndicate of banks on whose behalf you act as paying agent.

 

1                                          Terms defined in the Agreement shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, have the same meaning when used in this certificate.  The terms “Transferor” and “Transferee” are defined in the schedule to this certificate.

 

2                                          The Transferor:-

 

2.1                                 confirms that the details in the Schedule under the heading “Transferor’s Commitment” accurately summarise its Commitment; and

 

2.2                                 requests the Transferee to accept by way of novation the transfer to the Transferee of the amount of the Transferor’s Commitment specified in the Schedule by counter-signing and delivering this certificate to the Security Agent at its address for Communications specified in the Agreement.

 

3                                          The Transferee requests the Paying Agent to accept this certificate as being delivered to the Paying Agent pursuant to and for the purposes of clause 16.4 of the Agreement so as to take effect in accordance with the terms of that clause on the Transfer Date specified in the Schedule.

 

4                                          The Paying Agent (on its own behalf and on behalf of the Borrower and each of the Banks other than the Transferor) confirms its acceptance of this certificate for the purposes of clause 16.4 of the Agreement.

 

5                                          The Transferee confirms that:-

 

5.1                                 it has received a copy of the Agreement together with all other information which it has required in connection with this transaction;

 

5.2                                 it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Agreement to check or enquire on its behalf into the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any such information; and

 

5.3                                 it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Agreement to keep under review on its behalf the financial condition, creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status or nature of any of the Security Parties.

 

6                                          Execution of this certificate by the Transferee constitutes its representation to the Transferor and to all other parties to the Agreement that it has the power to become a party

 

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to the Agreement as a Bank on the terms of the Agreement and has taken all steps to authorise execution and delivery of this certificate.

 

7                                          The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the other parties to the Loan Agreement that it will perform in accordance with their terms all those obligations which by the terms of the Agreement will be assumed by it after delivery of this certificate to the Paying Agent and the satisfaction of any conditions subject to which this certificate is expressed to take effect.

 

8                                          The Transferor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any of the Security Documents or any document relating to any of the Security Documents, and assumes no responsibility for the financial condition of any of the Security Parties or for the performance and observance by the Security Parties of any of their obligations under any of the Security Documents or any document relating to any of the Security Documents and any conditions and warranties implied by law are expressly excluded.

 

9                                          The Transferee acknowledges that nothing in this certificate or in the Agreement shall oblige the Transferor to:-

 

9.1                                 accept a re-transfer from the Transferee of the whole or any part of the rights, benefits and/or obligations transferred pursuant to this certificate; or

 

9.2                                 support any losses directly or indirectly sustained or incurred by the Transferee for any reason including, without limitation, the non-performance by any party to any of the Security Documents of any obligations under any of the Security Documents.

 

10                                    The address and fax number of the Transferee for the purposes of clause 11.20 of the Agreement are set out in the Schedule.

 

11                                    This certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument.

 

12                                    This certificate shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law.

 

THE SCHEDULE

 

1                                          Transferor:

 

2                                          Transferee:

 

3                                          Transfer Date (not earlier that the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of the Transfer Certificate to the Security Agent):

 

4                                          Transferor’s Commitment:

 

5                                          Amount transferred:

 

6                                          Transferee’s address and fax number for the purposes of clause 11.20 of the Agreement:

 

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[name of Transferor]

 

[name of Transferee]

 

 

 

By:

 

By:

 

 

 

Date:

 

Date:

 

 

Nordea Bank Danmark A/S as Paying Agent

for and on behalf of itself, the Borrower, each of the Owners and each of the Banks (other than the Transferor)

 

By:

 

Date:

 

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APPENDIX C

 

Form of Compliance Certificate

 

To:                              Nordea Bank Danmark A/S

 

[Date]

 

Dear Sirs

 

Compliance Certificate

 

We refer to the Loan Agreement dated                         2003 made between, amongst others, ourselves and yourselves (“the Agreement”).

 

Words and phrases defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance Certificate.

 

Pursuant to Clause 12.3.11(d) of the Agreement we hereby confirm that as at the date hereof:-

 

(1)                                  the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth is:

 

(2)                                  the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Ratio is:

 

(3)                                  the Consolidated Cash Reserves are:

 

We further confirm that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

For and on behalf of

 

 

 

 

 

Sea Containers Ltd.

 

 

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APPENDIX D

 

Form of Deed of Subordination

 

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SEA CONTAINERS LTD.
Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15(d)-14(a) Certification

        I, James B. Sherwood, President of Sea Containers Ltd., certify that:

        1.     I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Sea Containers Ltd. for the quarter ended September 30, 2003;

        2.     Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

        3.     Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

        4.     The registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and we have:

            a)    designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

            b)    evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

            c)     disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

        5.     The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

            a)    all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

            b)    any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: November 14, 2003


 

 

 

/s/  
J.B. SHERWOOD      
James B. Sherwood
President
(Chief Executive Officer)

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SEA CONTAINERS LTD.
Rule 13(a)-14(a)/15(d)-14(a) Certification

        I, Daniel J. O'Sullivan, Senior Vice President—Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Sea Containers Ltd., certify that:

        1.     I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Sea Containers Ltd. for the quarter ended September 30, 2003;

        2.     Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

        3.     Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

        4.     The registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and we have:

            a)    designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

            b)    evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

            c)     disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

        5.     The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

            a)    all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

            b)    any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

Dated: November 14, 2003


 

 

 

/s/  
D.J. O'SULLIVAN      
Daniel J. O'Sullivan
Senior Vice President—Finance and
Chief Financial Officer

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SEA CONTAINERS LTD.
Section 1350 Certification

        The undersigned hereby certify that this report of Sea Containers Ltd. for the periods presented fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that the information contained in this report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the periods presented in the report.


/s/  
J.B. SHERWOOD      
James B. Sherwood
President
(Chief Executive Officer)

 

/s/  
D.J. O'SULLIVAN      
Daniel J. O'Sullivan
Senior Vice President—Finance and
Chief Financial Officer

Dated: November 14, 2003

[A signed original of this written certification has been provided to Sea Containers Ltd. and will be retained by Sea Containers Ltd. and furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.]

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