Exhibit 10.39

EXECUTION VERSION

[*]: THE CONFIDENTIAL PORTION HAS BEEN OMITTED PURSUANT TO A REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT AND THE OMITTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN FILED SEPARATELY WITH THE COMMISSION.

Dated 21 November 2017

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO TERM LOAN FACILITY

LEONARDO three, LTD.

as Borrower

and

NCL CORPORATION LTD.

as Guarantor

and

NCL International, ltd.

as Chargor

and

THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LISTED IN SCHEDULE 1

as Lenders

bnp paribas fortis s.a./n.v.

hsbc bank plc

kfw ipex-bank gmbh

cassa depositi e prestiti s.p.a.

as Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers

and

BNP Paribas s.a.

as Agent and SACE Agent

and

bnp paribas s.a.

as Security Trustee

with the support of

SACE S.P.A

amending and restating AGREEMENT

relating to the part financing of the 3,300 passenger cruise ship

newbuilding presently designated as

Hull No.[*] at Fincantieri S.p.A

Index

Appendices

Appendix Part A Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement marked to indicate amendments to the Facility Agreement

Appendix Part B Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement

Appendix Part C Form of Agreed form certificate

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 21 November 2017

PARTIES

BACKGROUND

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

In this Agreement:

"Account Pledge" means the pledge of any Acceptable Deposit granted by the Borrower in favour of the Lenders, the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Security Trustee, the agreed form of which is appended to the agreed form certificate (the form of which is attached at Part C of the Appendix).

"Amended and Restated Facility Agreement" means the Facility Agreement as amended and restated by this Agreement in the form set out in the Appendix.

"Effective Date" means the date on which the conditions precedent in Clause 3 (Conditions Precedent) are satisfied.

"Obligors" means the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Chargor.

"Party" means a party to this Agreement.

Defined expressions in the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall have the same meanings when used in this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise defined in this Agreement.

Clause 1.2 (construction) of the Facility Agreement applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.

References in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) to any new or supplement to a Finance Document being in "agreed form" are to that Finance Document:

The Borrower and the Agent designate this Agreement as a Finance Document.

The Lenders agree, subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to the request set out in Recital (C).

The Secured Parties agree, subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to the consequential amendment of the Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents in connection with the matters referred to in Clause 2.1 (Agreement of the Lenders).

The agreement of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties contained in Clause 2.1 (Agreement of the Lenders) and Clause 2.2 (Agreement of the Secured Parties) shall have effect on and from the Effective Date.

The agreement of the Lenders and the other Secured Parties contained in Clause 2.1 (Agreement of the Lenders) and Clause 2.2 (Agreement of the Secured Parties) is subject to:

The Agent shall have received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Conditions Subsequent) in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent on or before the date specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent and Conditions Subsequent) or such later date as the Agent may agree with the Borrower.

Each Obligor that is a party to the Facility Agreement makes the representations and warranties set out in clause 11 (Representations and Warranties) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement, by reference to the circumstances then existing on the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date.

Each Obligor makes the representations and warranties set out in the Finance Documents (other than the Facility Agreement) to which it is a party, as amended and restated and/or supplemented by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement, by reference to the circumstances then existing on the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date.

With effect on and from the Effective Date the Facility Agreement shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended and restated in the form of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and, as so amended and restated, the Facility Agreement shall continue to be binding on each of the parties to it in accordance with its terms as so amended and restated.

With effect on and from the Effective Date, each of the Finance Documents other than the Facility Agreement shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended by construing references throughout each of the Finance Documents to "this Agreement", "this Deed" and other like expressions as if the same referred to such Finance Documents as amended and supplemented by this Agreement.

The Finance Documents shall remain in full force and effect:

At the same time as an Obligor delivers to the Agent or Security Trustee any document executed under this Clause 6 (Further Assurance), that Obligor shall deliver to the Agent or Security Trustee as applicable reasonable evidence that that Obligor's execution of such document has been duly authorised by it.

Clause 10.11 (Transaction Costs) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.

Clause 32 (Notices) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and restated by this Agreement, applies to this Agreement as if it were expressly incorporated in it with any necessary modifications.

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

Jurisdiction

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, each of the Borrower and Guarantor:

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

Schedule 1

The Lenders

Schedule 2

Conditions Precedent and Conditions Subsequent

PART 1 – CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

PART 2 – CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT

Execution Pages

Appendix

Part A

Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement marked to
indicate amendments to the Facility Agreement

Amendments are indicated as follows:

Separately provided.

Appendix

Part B

Form of Amended and Restated Facility Agreement

Execution Version

Originally dated 12 April 2017

(as amended and restated

pursuant to an Amending and Restating Agreement dated 21 November 2017)

TERM LOAN FACILITY

LEONARDO three, LTD.

as Borrower

and

The Banks and Financial Institutions

listed in SCHEDULE 1

as Lenders

and

BNP PARIBAS Fortis S.A./N.V.

HSBC Bank PLC

KFW IPEX-BANK GMBH

CASSA DEPOSITI E PRESTITI S.P.A.

as Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers

and

BNP PARIBAS S.A.

as Agent and SACE Agent

and

BNP PARIBAS S.A.

as Security Trustee

with the support of

SACE S.p.A.

amended and restated Loan Agreement

relating to the part financing of the 3,300 passenger cruise ship

newbuilding presently designated as

Hull No. [*] at Fincantieri S.p.A.

Index

THIS AGREEMENT is originally made on 12 April 2017 (as amended and restated pursuant to an amending and restating agreement dated 21 November 2017).

PARTIES

BACKGROUND

as each such event is described in the Shipbuilding Contract.

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

Subject to Clause 1.6 (General Interpretation), in this Agreement:

"Acceptable Deposit" means a cash deposit for an amount equal to the cumulative total of the principal and interest secured by the relevant Refund Guarantee which is to be paid by the Builder (a) for security purposes in favour of the Borrower and under its control, the Builder agreeing that it shall not have any control rights in respect of the deposit, that the Borrower may freely assign, charge, pledge or otherwise convey its rights in relation to the deposit to its financiers and SACE without the need to seek or obtain any approval or consent from the Builder, and that the Borrower shall be entitled to claim payment of the deposit in the same circumstances that it could claim payment of a Refund Guarantee, and (b) to the Account Bank by or before the relevant due date for payment of the deposit in accordance with Article 10.3 of the Shipbuilding Contract.

"Account" means a Euro account of the Borrower opened or to be opened with the Account Bank and subject to an Account Pledge.

"Account Bank" means BNP PARIBAS S.A. being pursuant to the terms of the Shipbuilding Contract, the legal person designated by written notice by the Borrower to the Builder at any time to hold an Acceptable Deposit.

"Account Pledge" means any pledge of an Acceptable Deposit granted in favour of the Security Trustee, the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers, the Agent, the SACE Agent and the Lenders.

"Advance" means the principal amount of each borrowing by the Borrower under this Agreement.

"Affected Lender" has the meaning given in Clause 6.6 (Market disruption).

"Affiliate" means in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company.

"Agent" means BNP Paribas S.A., a French "société anonyme", having a share capital of two billion, four hundred and ninety-four million, five thousand three hundred and six Euros (€2,494,005,306) and its registered office located at 16 Boulevard des Italiens, 75009 Paris, France, registered under the n° Siren 662.042.449 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Paris or any successor of it appointed under Clause 26 (Role of the Agent and the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers).

"Amending and Restating Agreement" means the amending and restating agreement dated 21 November 2017 and made between, amongst others, the Borrower, the Lenders, the Agent and the Security Trustee.

"Annex VI" means Annex VI (Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships, entered into on 19 May, 2005) to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto and by the Protocol of 1997 (MARPOL) .

"Approved Broker" means Clarkson plc, Barry Rogliano Salles, Fearnleys, Rocca & Partners, Brax Shipbrokers AS (or any Affiliate of such person through which valuations are commonly issued) or such other shipbroker or ship valuer experienced in valuing cruise ships nominated by the Borrower and approved by the Agent.

"Approved Flag" means the Bermudan flag, the Marshall Islands flag, the Bahamas flag or such other flag as the Agent may, with the approval of the Italian Authorities and at least three Lenders representing as a minimum the Majority Lenders, approve from time to time.

"Approved Manager" means any of the Borrower, NCL Corporation Ltd., NCL (Bahamas) Ltd. or other member of the Group, or any company which is not a member of the Group which the Agent may, with the authorisation of the Majority Lenders, approve from time to time as manager of the Ship.

"Approved Manager's Undertaking" means, in the event that the Approved Manager is a company other than the Borrower, a letter of undertaking executed or to be executed by the Approved Manager in favour of the Agent, which will include, without limitation, an agreement by the Approved Manager to subordinate its rights against the Ship and the Borrower to the rights of the Secured Parties under the Finance Documents, in the agreed form.

"Availability Period" means the period commencing on the date of the Original Facility Agreement and ending on:

"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers.

"Bail-In Legislation" means:

"Bermudan Obligors" means the Borrower, the Shareholder and the Guarantor.

"Builder" has the meaning given in Recital (A).

"Business Day" means:

"CDP" means Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A..

"Certified Copy" means in relation to any document delivered or issued by or on behalf of any company, a copy of such document certified as a true, complete and up-to-date copy of the original by any of the directors or the secretary or assistant secretary or any attorney-in-fact for the time being of that company.

"Charged Property" means all of the assets which from time to time are, or are expressed to be, the subject of Security Interests pursuant to the Finance Documents.

"CIRR" (Commercial Interest Reference Rate) means zero point sixty-three per cent. (0.63%) per annum or any other CIRR rate being the fixed rate for medium and long term export credits in Euros applicable to the financing of the Ship according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development rules as determined by the competent Italian Authorities.

"Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

"Code of Ethics" means the code of ethics adopted by CDP, available on CDP’s website (http://www.cdp.it/static/upload/cdp/cdp_code_ethics.pdf).

"Commitment" means, in relation to a Lender, the percentage of the Maximum Loan Amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments), or, as the case may require, the amount specified in the relevant Transfer Certificate, as that amount may be reduced, cancelled or terminated in accordance with this Agreement (and "Total Commitments" means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders).

"Compliance Certificate" has the meaning given to the term "Compliance Certificate" in the Guarantee.

"Confidential Information" means all information relating to any Obligor, the Group, the Finance Documents or the Loan of which a Secured Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Secured Party or which is received by a Secured Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Secured Party under, the Finance Documents or the Loan from either:

in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes information that:

"Confidentiality Undertaking" means a confidentiality undertaking in substantially the appropriate form recommended by the LMA from time to time or in any other form agreed between the Borrower and the Agent.

"Contribution" means, in relation to a Lender, the part of the Loan which is owing to that Lender.

"Corresponding Debt" means any amount, other than any Parallel Debt, which an Obligor owes to a Creditor Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

"Creditor Party" means the Agent, the Security Trustee, the SACE Agent, the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers or any Lender, whether as at the date of this Agreement or at any later time.

"Delivery Advance" means, subject to the provisions of Clause 8.4 (Refund), the Advance to be made available for drawing on the Delivery Date.

"Delivery Date" means the date and time of delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower as stated in the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance.

"Document of Compliance" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.

"Dollars" and "$" means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.

"Downgraded Refund Guarantor" means a Refund Guarantor who has become subject to a RG Downgrade Event.

"Drawdown Date" means, in relation to an Advance, the date on which that Advance is drawn down and applied in accordance with Clause 2 (Facility).

"Drawdown Notice" means a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 (Form of Drawdown Notice) (or in any other form which the Agent approves or reasonably requires).

"Earnings" means all moneys whatsoever which are now, or later become, payable (actually or contingently) to the Borrower and which arise out of the use or operation of the Ship, including (but not limited to):

"EEA Member Country" means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

"Eligible Amount" means eighty per cent. (80%) of the lesser of:

"Environmental Approval" means any present or future permit, ruling, variance or other authorisation required under Environmental Laws.

"Environmental Claim" means any claim by any governmental, judicial or regulatory authority or any other person which arises out of an Environmental Incident or an alleged Environmental Incident or which relates to any Environmental Law and, for this purpose, "claim" includes a claim for damages, compensation, contribution, injury, fines, losses and penalties or any other payment of any kind, including in relation to clean-up and removal, whether or not similar to the foregoing; an order or direction to take, or not to take, certain action or to desist from or suspend certain action; and any form of enforcement or regulatory action, including the arrest or attachment of any asset.

"Environmental Incident" means:

"Environmental Law" means any present or future law relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment, to conditions in the workplace, to the carriage, generation, handling, storage, use, release or spillage of Environmentally Sensitive Material or to actual or threatened releases of Environmentally Sensitive Material.

"Environmentally Sensitive Material" means and includes all contaminants, oil, oil products, toxic substances and any other substance (including any chemical, gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous.

"EONIA" means, on any date, the effective overnight reference rate for the Euro administered by the European Money Markets Institute (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate), computed as a weighted average of all overnight unsecured lending transactions in the European interbank market, undertaking in the European Union and European Free Trade Association countries.

"Equator Principles" means the standards entitled "A financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in projects" dated June 2013 and adopted by certain financial institutions, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time.

"EURIBOR" means, in relation to a particular period, the rate determined by the Agent to be that at which Euro interbank term deposits administered by the European Money Markets Institute (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) are offered by one prime bank to another prime bank within the EMU zone at 11 a.m. (CET time) for spot value on the Quotation Date for such period as displayed on page EURIBOR 01 of the Thomson Reuters screen (or any replacement Thomson Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Thomson Reuters (and if such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Borrower), Provided that if on such date no such rate is so displayed, EURIBOR for such period shall be the rate quoted to the Agent by the Lenders who are able to quote such rate at the request of the Agent as those Lenders' offered rate for deposits of Euros in an amount approximately equal to the amount in relation to which EURIBOR is to be determined for a period equivalent to such period to prime banks in the European interbank eurocurrency market at or about 11 a.m. (CET time) on the Quotation Date for such period and provided further that, if the rate displayed on the relevant page is less than zero, EURIBOR shall be deemed to be zero (except with respect to the Interest Make-Up Agreement).

"Euro", "Euros" and "EUR" means the single currency of the Participating Member States.

"Event of Default" means any of the events or circumstances described in Clause 18.1 (Events of Default).

"Existing Indebtedness" means Financial Indebtedness referred to in the financial statements of the Guarantor delivered to the Agent prior to the date of the Original Facility Agreement.

"Exporter Declaration" means a declaration to be issued for Advances in respect of which interest is payable at the Fixed Interest Rate, in the form required by SIMEST at the relevant time duly signed by an authorised signatory of the Builder.

"Facility" means the term loan facility made available under this Agreement as described in Clause 2.1 (Amount of facility).

"Facility Office" means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days' written notice) as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement.

"FATCA" means:

"FATCA Application Date" means:

or, in each case, such other date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA as a result of any change in FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

"FATCA Deduction" means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.

"FATCA Exempt Party" means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.

"Fee Letter" means any letter dated on or about the date of the Original Facility Agreement between the SACE Agent and the Borrower setting out the fees referred to in paragraph (d) of Clause 9.1 (Fees).

"Finance Documents" means:

"Final Contract Price" has the meaning given in Recital (C).

"Financial Indebtedness" means, in relation to a person (the "debtor"), a liability of the debtor:

"First Instalment" means the first instalment of the SACE Premium as more particularly described in paragraph (a) of Clause 8.1 (SACE Premium).

"Fixed Interest Rate" means, in respect of any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of:

"Floating Interest Rate" means, in respect of any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of:

"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America consistently applied (or, if not consistently applied, accompanied by details of the inconsistencies) including, without limitation, those set forth in the opinion and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

"General Assignment" means an assignment of any Management Agreement, the Earnings, the Insurances and any Requisition Compensation, executed or to be executed by the Borrower and, in the event that the Approved Manager is not a member of the Group and is named as a co-assured in the Insurances, the Approved Manager in favour of the Security Trustee in the agreed form.

"Gross Negligence" means any act or omission, whether deliberate or not, which in the circumstances (including both the probability and seriousness of the consequences likely to result) would reasonably be regarded by those familiar with the nature of the activity in question and with the surrounding circumstances, as amounting to the reckless disregard of, or serious indifference to, the consequences, being in any case more than a negligent failure to exercise proper skill and care.

"Group" means the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries.

"Guarantee" means a guarantee issued by the Guarantor in favour of the Security Trustee in the agreed form.

"Guarantor" means NCL Corporation Ltd., a Bermuda company with its registered office at Cumberland House, 9th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM11, Bermuda.

"Holding Company" means, in relation to a person, any other person in respect of which it is a Subsidiary.

"IAPPC" means a valid international air pollution prevention certificate for the Ship issued under Annex VI.

"Illicit Origin" means any origin which is illicit, fraudulent or in breach of Sanctions including, without limitation, drug trafficking, corruption, organised criminal activities, terrorism, money laundering or fraud.

"Initial Contract Price" has the meaning given in Recital (B).

"Insurances" means:

"Intended Delivery Date" means [*] (the date on which the Ship will be ready for delivery pursuant to the Shipbuilding Contract as at the date of this Agreement) or any other date notified by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) of Clause 3.12 (No later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date) or paragraph (b) of Clause 3.14 (No later than five (5) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date) as being the date on which the Builder and the Borrower have agreed that the Ship will be ready for delivery pursuant to the Shipbuilding Contract.

"Interest Make-up Agreement" means an interest make up agreement (Capitolato) to be entered into between SIMEST and the Agent on behalf of the Lenders and in form and substance acceptable to the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers, whereby, inter alia, the return to the Lenders on the Loan made hereunder will be supplemented by SIMEST so that it equals that which the Lenders would have received if interest were payable on the Loan at EURIBOR plus the Margin (as described in paragraph (b) of the definition of Margin).

"Interest Period" means a period determined in accordance with Clause 7 (Interest Periods).

"ISM Code" means the International Safety Management Code for the safe operation of ships and for pollution prevention (including the guidelines on its implementation), adopted by the International Maritime Organisation as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

"ISPS Code" means the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code adopted by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Diplomatic Conference of December 2002, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

"Italian Authorities" means SACE and/or SIMEST and any other relevant Italian authorities involved in the implementation of the Loan.

"Legislative Decree 231/01" means the Italian legislative decree of 8 June 2001, no. 231 (Disciplina della responsabilità amministrativa delle persone giurdiche, delle società e delle associazioni anche prive di personalità giuridica, a norma dell’articolo 11 della legge 29 settembre 2000, n.300) as amended from time to time, on administrative vicarious liability of corporate entities.

"Lender" means a bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity listed in Schedule 1 (Lenders and Commitments) and acting through its Facility Office or its transferee, successor or assign.

"Loan" means the principal amount for the time being outstanding under this Agreement.

"Majority Lenders" means:

"Management Agreement" means the management agreement (if any) entered or to be entered into between the Borrower and an Approved Manager which is not a member of the Group with respect to the Ship on terms reasonably acceptable to the Majority Lenders and SACE.

"Margin" means:

"Maritime Registry" means the maritime registry which the Borrower will specify to the Lenders no later than 90 days before the Intended Delivery Date, being that of Bermuda, the Marshall Islands, Bahamas or such other registry as the Agent may, with the approval of the Italian Authorities and at least three Lenders representing as a minimum the Majority Lenders, approve.

"Material Adverse Effect" means the occurrence of any event or circumstance which reasonably would be expected to have a material adverse effect on:

"Material Provisions" means Article 1 (Subject of the Contract), Article 2 (Vessel's Classification – Rules and Regulations – Certificates), Article 8 (Delivery), Article 9 (Price), Article 13 (Speed – Liquidated Damages), Article 14 (Deadweight – Liquidated Damages), Article 17 (Fuel Oil Consumption – Liquidated Damages), Article 19 (Maximum Amount of Liquidated Damages), Article 20 (Termination of the Contract – Liquidated Damages to be paid by the Builder), Article 23 (Insurance), Article 25 (Guarantee – Liability), Article 26 (Permissible Delay), Article 29 (Assignment of the Contract), and Article 30 (Law of the Contract – Disputes) of the Shipbuilding Contract.

"Maximum Loan Amount" means the aggregate of:

provided that such amount shall not, at any time, exceed six hundred and sixty five million, two hundred and eighty thousand, six hundred and sixty five Euros and twenty eight Cents (€665,280,665.28).

"Minor Modification" means a modification of the plans or the specification or the construction of the Ship under Article 24 of the Shipbuilding Contract, resulting in a contract price increase or decrease of less than [*] Euros (€[*]).

"Model" means the principles of the compliance system adopted by CDP pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/01, available on CDP’s website (http://www.cdp.it/static/upload/pri/principles-of-the-compliance-system.pdf).

"Mortgage" means the first priority mortgage on the Ship acceptable for registration on the Approved Flag and, if applicable, deed of covenant, executed or to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee in the agreed form.

"Negotiation Period" has the meaning given in Clause 6.9 (Negotiation of alternative rate of interest).

"Obligors" means the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Shareholder and (in the event that the Approved Manager is a member of the Group) the Approved Manager.

"Original Jurisdiction" means, in relation to an Obligor, the jurisdiction under whose laws that Obligor is incorporated as at the date of this Agreement.

"Parallel Debt" means any amount which an Obligor owes to the Security Trustee under Clause 27.2 (Parallel Debt (Covenant to pay the Security Trustee)).

"Participating Member State" means any member state of the European Union that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.

"Party" means a party to this Agreement from time to time.

"Permitted Financial Indebtedness" means any Financial Indebtedness:

"Permitted Security Interests" means:

"Pertinent Document" means:

"Pertinent Matter" means:

and covers any such transaction, matter or statement, whether entered into, arising or made at any time before the signing of the Original Facility Agreement or on or at any time after that signing.

"Post-Delivery Assignment" means an assignment of the rights of the Borrower in respect of the post-delivery guarantee liability of the Builder under Article 25 of the Shipbuilding Contract executed or to be executed by the Borrower in favour of the Security Trustee in the agreed form.

"Pre-delivery Contracts" means the Shipbuilding Contract and the Refund Guarantee.

"Pre-delivery Security" means:

"Prohibited Payment" means:

"Prohibited Person" means any person (whether designated by name or by reason of being included in a class of persons) against whom Sanctions are directed.

"Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance" means the protocol of delivery and acceptance of the Ship to be signed by the Borrower and the Builder in accordance with Article 8 of the Shipbuilding Contract.

"Quotation Date" means, in relation to any Interest Period (or any period for which an interest rate is to be determined under any provision of a Finance Document), two TARGET Days before the first day of that period, unless market practice differs in the Relevant Interbank Market for a currency, in which case the Quotation Date will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market (and if quotations would normally be given by leading banks in the Relevant Interbank Market on more than one day, the Quotation Date will be the last of those days).

"Qualifying Certificate" means the certificate to be issued by the Builder on each Drawdown Date and issued to the Agent and copied to the Borrower substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Qualifying Certificate).

"Refund Guarantee" means any irrevocable and unconditional guarantee issued or to be issued by a Refund Guarantor in favour of the Borrower under the Shipbuilding Contract in the form annexed to the Sixth Addendum or in any other form acceptable to the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers and the SACE Agent.

"Refund Guarantor" means a bank, insurance company or other financial institution acceptable to the Lenders and SACE which, at the time of issue by it of a Refund Guarantee, has a minimum credit rating of at least BBB- at Standard & Poor’s (or, where the relevant Refund Guarantor is not rated by Standard & Poor’s, the equivalent rating at Moody’s or where the relevant Refund Guarantor is not rated by Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s, the equivalent rating at Fitch).

"Relevant Interbank Market" means the European Interbank Market.

"Relevant Jurisdiction" means, in relation to an Obligor:

"Repayment Date" means a date on which a repayment is required to be made under Clause 5 (Repayment).

"Representative" means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian.

"Requisition Compensation" includes all compensation or other moneys payable by reason of any act or event such as is referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "Total Loss".

"Restricted Country" means a country or territory that is the subject of any comprehensive Sanctions barring dealings with such country or territory.

"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers.

"RG Downgrade Event" means an event which occurs when a Refund Guarantor ceases to maintain a credit rating of at least BBB- at Standard & Poor’s (or, where the relevant Refund Guarantor is not rated by Standard & Poor’s, the equivalent rating at Moody’s or where the relevant Refund Guarantor is not rated by Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s, the equivalent rating at Fitch).

"SACE" means SACE S.p.A.

"SACE Agent" means BNP Paribas S.A., a French "société anonyme", having a share capital of two billion, four hundred and ninety-four million, five thousand three hundred and six Euros (€2,494,005,306) and its registered office located at 16 Boulevard des Italiens, 75009 Paris, France, registered under the n° Siren 662.042.449 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Paris or any successor of it appointed under Clause 26 (Role of the Agent and the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers).

"SACE Insurance Policy" means the insurance policy in respect of this Agreement (which, in all material respects, is not inconsistent with the commercial terms of this Agreement) to be issued by SACE for the benefit of the Lenders in respect of one hundred per cent. (100%) of the Loan in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent and all the Lenders.

"SACE Premium" means the amount payable by the Borrower to SACE directly or through the Agent in two instalments in respect of the SACE Insurance Policy as set out in Clause 8 (SACE Premium and Italian Authorities).

"SACE Premium Instalments" means each of the First Instalment and Second Instalment.

"SACE Required Documents" means in relation to each Drawdown Notice:

"Safety Management Certificate" has the meaning given to it in the ISM Code.

"Sanctions" means any sanctions, embargoes, freezing provisions, prohibitions or other restrictions relating to trading, doing business, investment, exporting, financing or making assets available (or other activities similar to or connected with any of the foregoing):

"Second Instalment" means the second instalment of the SACE Premium as more particularly described in paragraph (b) of Clause 8.1 (SACE Premium).

"Secured Liabilities" means all liabilities which the Borrower, the Obligors or any of them have, at the date of the Original Facility Agreement or at any later time or times, under or in connection with any Finance Document or any judgment relating to any Finance Document; and for this purpose, there shall be disregarded any total or partial discharge of these liabilities, or variation of their terms, which is effected by, or in connection with, any bankruptcy, liquidation, arrangement or other procedure under the insolvency laws of any country.

"Secured Party" means SACE, the Agent, the Security Trustee, the SACE Agent, the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers or any Lender whether at the date of this Agreement or any later time.

"Security Interest" means:

"Security Period" means the period commencing on the date of the Original Facility Agreement and ending on the date on which:

"Security Property" means:

except:

"Security Requirement" means the amount in Euros (as certified by the Agent whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Agent) which is at any relevant time one hundred and twenty-five per cent (125%) of the Loan.

"Security Trustee" means BNP Paribas S.A., a French "société anonyme", having a share capital of two billion, four hundred and ninety-four million, five thousand three hundred and six Euros (€2,494,005,306) and its registered office located at 16 Boulevard des Italiens, 75009 Paris, France, registered under the n° Siren 662.042.449 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Paris or any successor of it appointed under Clause 27 (The Security Trustee).

"Security Value" means the amount in Euros (as certified by the Agent whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Agent) which, at any relevant time, is the aggregate of (i) the charter free market value of the Ship as most recently determined in accordance with Clause 13.4 (Valuation of the Ship); and (ii) the market value of any additional security for the time being actually provided to the Agent pursuant to Clause 15 (Security Value Maintenance).

"Servicing Party" means the Agent or the Security Trustee.

"Shares Security Deed" means a document creating security over the share capital in the Borrower in the agreed form.

"Shareholder" means NCL International Ltd., a Bermuda company with its registered office at Cumberland House, 9th Floor, 1 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM11, Bermuda.

"Ship" means the passenger cruise ship currently designated with Hull No. [*] (as more particularly described in the Shipbuilding Contract) to be constructed under the Shipbuilding Contract and to be delivered to, and purchased by, the Borrower and registered in its name under an Approved Flag.

"Shipbuilding Contract" has the meaning given in Recital (F).

"SIMEST" means Società Italiana per Le Imprese all'Estero - SIMEST Spa, which grants export subsidies in Italy under and according to the Italian Legislative Decree n. 143/98 and its amendments.

"Subordinated Debt Security" has the meaning given in paragraph (b)(ii) of Clause 12.14 (Financial Indebtedness and subordination of indebtedness).

"Subsidiary" has the following meaning:

A company (S) is a subsidiary of another company (P) if:

and any company of which S is a subsidiary is a parent company of S.

"TARGET2" means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilises a single shared platform and which was launched on 19 November 2007.

"TARGET Day" means any day on which TARGET2 is open for the settlement of payment in Euros.

"Tax" means any tax, levy, impost, duty, assessment, fee, deduction or other charge or withholding of a similar nature imposed by any governmental authority (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).

"Total Loss" means:

"Total Loss Date" means:

"Transaction Documents" means the Finance Documents and the Underlying Documents.

"Transfer Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Borrower.

"Underlying Documents" means the Shipbuilding Contract, the Refund Guarantee, any Management Agreement, any bareboat charter and any charter and associated guarantee in respect of which a notice of assignment is required to be served under the terms of the General Assignment.

"Unpaid Sum" means (i) any sum due and payable but unpaid by an Obligor under the Finance Documents and (ii) any part of the SACE Premium unpaid by the Borrower.

"VAT" means:

"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:

In this Agreement:

"Agent", the "SACE Agent", the "Joint Mandated Lead Arranger", the "Security Trustee", any "Creditor Party", any "Secured Party", any "Lender", any "Obligor" or any other "person", shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees.

"approved by the Lenders" (or any similar determination or instruction by the Lenders) means approved in writing by the Agent acting on the instructions of all the Lenders and SACE (on such conditions as they may respectively impose) (or the Lenders only to the extent the SACE Insurance Policy does not cover the event for which such instruction or approval is required) and any requirement for approval by all the Lenders shall mean prior approval.

"approved by the Majority Lenders" (or any similar determination or instruction by the Majority Lenders) means approved in writing by the Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders and SACE (or the Majority Lenders only to the extent the SACE Insurance Policy does not cover the event for which such instruction or approval is required) (on such conditions as they may respectively impose) and otherwise approved means approved in writing by the Agent (on such conditions as the Agent may impose) and approval and approve shall be construed accordingly and any requirement for approval by the Agent or the Majority Lenders shall mean prior approval.

"asset" includes every kind of property, asset, interest or right, including any present, future or contingent right to any revenues or other payment.

"company" includes any partnership, joint venture and unincorporated association.

"consent" includes an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, registration, notarisation and legalisation.

"contingent liability" means a liability which is not certain to arise and/or the amount of which remains unascertained.

"date of this Agreement" means _____________ November 2017.

"document" includes a deed; also a letter, fax or electronic mail.

"expense" means any kind of cost, charge or expense (including all legal costs, charges and expenses) and any applicable Taxes including VAT.

"including" and "in particular" (and other similar expressions) shall be construed as not limiting any general words or expressions in connection with which they are used.

"indebtedness" includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;

"law" includes any order or decree, any form of delegated legislation, any treaty or international convention and any regulation or resolution of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, the United Nations or its Security Council.

"legal or administrative action" means any legal proceeding or arbitration and any administrative or regulatory action or investigation.

"liability" includes every kind of debt or liability (present or future, certain or contingent), whether incurred as principal or surety or otherwise.

"months" shall be construed in accordance with Clause 1.4 (Meaning of "month").

"parent company" has the meaning given in the definition of "Subsidiary".

"person" includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, any state, political sub-division of a state and local or municipal authority, agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership; and any international organisation (whether or not having a separate legal personality).

"proceedings" means, in relation to any enforcement provision of a Finance Document, proceedings of any kind, including an application for a provisional or protective measure.

"regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation.

"approved" means, for the purposes of Clause 14 (Insurance Undertakings), approved in writing by the Agent.

"excess risks" means the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies in respect of the Ship in consequence of its insured value being less than the value at which the Ship is assessed for the purpose of such claims.

"obligatory insurances" means all insurances effected, or which the Borrower is obliged to effect, under Clause 14 (Insurance Undertakings) or any other provision of this Agreement or another Finance Document.

"policy" in relation to any insurance, includes a slip, cover note, certificate of entry or other document evidencing the contract of insurance or its terms.

"protection and indemnity risks" means the usual risks covered by a protection and indemnity association managed in London, including pollution risks and the proportion (if any) of any sums payable to any other person or persons in case of collision which are not recoverable under the hull and machinery policies by reason of the incorporation in them of clause 6 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02) (1/11/03), clause 8 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/10/83) (1/11/95) or the Institute Amended Running Down Clause (1/10/71) or any equivalent provision.

"war risks" includes the risk of mines and all risks excluded by clause 29 of the International Hull Clauses (1/11/02 or 1/11/03), clause 24 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) (1/11/95) or clause 23 of the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls)(1/10/83).

A period of one or more "months" ends on the day in the relevant calendar month numerically corresponding to the day of the calendar month on which the period started ("the numerically corresponding day"), but:

and "month" and "monthly" shall be construed accordingly.

The undertakings and covenants given under paragraph (e) of Clause 12.2 (Information), Clause 12.4 (Illicit Payments), Clause 12.5 (Prohibited Payments), Clause 12.24 (Compliance with laws etc.) or Clause 21.1 (Illegality and Sanctions) and the representations and warranties given under paragraphs (u), (v), (y), (z) and (jj) of Clause 11.2 (Continuing representations and warranties) and paragraph (j) of Clause 11.3 (Representations on the Delivery Date) respectively shall only be given, and be applicable to, a Lender incorporated in the Federal Republic of Germany insofar as the giving of and compliance with such undertakings and covenants and such representations and warranties do not result in a violation of or conflict with section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung) (in conjunction with section 4 paragraph 1 a no.3 foreign trade law (AWG) (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz)), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) 2271/1996 or any similar applicable anti-boycott law or regulation.

In this Agreement:

In interpreting a Finance Document or any provision of a Finance Document, all clauses, sub-clauses and other headings in that and any other Finance Document shall be entirely disregarded.

The schedules form an integral part of this Agreement.

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Lenders agree to make available to the Borrower a loan in five (5) Advances not exceeding the Maximum Loan Amount intended to be applied as follows:

Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall participate in each Advance in the proportion which, as at the relevant Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.

The Borrower undertakes with each Secured Party to use each Advance only to pay for:

No Creditor Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.

The obligations of the Lenders under this Agreement are several; and a failure of a Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not result in:

and in no circumstances shall a Lender have any responsibility for a failure of another Lender to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any other Finance Document.

The Borrower may only draw an Advance when the following conditions have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Agent and provided no Event of Default shall have occurred and remains unremedied or is likely to occur as a consequence of the drawing of the Advance:

The Agent shall have received no later than the date of the Original Facility Agreement:

and containing such qualifications and assumptions as are standard for opinions of this type;

The Agent shall have received from the Borrower no later than forty-five (45) days before the first Drawdown Date (and on each subsequent date on which a Compliance Certificate is to be received by the Security Trustee pursuant to clause 11.3(c) of the Guarantee) a duly completed Compliance Certificate from the Guarantor.

The Agent shall have received from the Borrower no later than [*] days before the first Drawdown Date:

The Agent shall have received no later than five (5) Business Days before each Drawdown Date a Drawdown Notice from the Borrower, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, specifying the amount of the Advance to be drawn down.

The Agent shall have received no later than five (5) Business Days before the First Drawdown Date:

The Agent shall have received no later than the first Drawdown Date:

The Agent shall have received no later than the Drawdown Date in respect of each Advance other than in respect of the first Advance and the Delivery Advance, a copy of the class milestone certificate in respect of the instalment due under the Shipbuilding Contract to which the Advance relates issued by the classification society.

The Agent shall have received no later than the Drawdown Date in respect of each Advance other than the Delivery Advance:

The Agent shall have received no later than four (4) years before the Intended Delivery Date, payment of the remaining [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the Joint Mandated Lead Arranger structuring fee payable in accordance with paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 9.1 (Fees).

The Agent shall have received no later than ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date:

The Agent shall have received from the Borrower no later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date:

The Agent shall have received no later than fifteen (15) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date insurance documents in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders confirming that the Insurances have been effected and will be in full force and effect on the Delivery Date.

The Agent shall have received no later than five (5) Business Days before the Intended Delivery Date:

The Agent shall have received no later than the Delivery Date:

provided always that the obligations of the Lenders to make the Advance available on the Delivery Date are subject to the Lenders remaining satisfied that each of the SACE Insurance Policy and the Interest Make-up Agreement will cover the Loan following the advance of the Delivery Advance and delivery to the Agent of the documents listed in Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on Delivery).

Immediately prior to the delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower, the Agent shall have received:

Immediately following the delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower, the Agent shall receive:

The Agent shall notify the Lenders and SACE promptly upon being satisfied as to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent referred to in this Clause 3 (Conditions Precedent).

If the Majority Lenders, at their discretion, subject to the prior written consent of SACE, permit an Advance to be borrowed before any of the conditions precedent referred to in Clause 3 (Conditions Precedent) has been satisfied, the Borrower shall ensure that that condition is satisfied within five (5) Business Days after the date (as specified in the relevant part of Clause 3 (Conditions Precedent)) or such later date as the Agent may agree in writing with the Borrower.

then such changes will be made to this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof.

The Borrower agrees that the Finance Parties may act on the instructions of the Italian Authorities in relation to this Agreement.

The Agent and the Lenders shall not be responsible for any delay in making available any Advances resulting from any requirement for the delivery of further information or documents reasonably required by the Agent for the relevant conditions precedent in this Agreement to be satisfied.

The Lenders shall not be obliged to fulfil their obligation to make an Advance available other than (i) by reimbursing the Borrower or by paying the Builder all or part of eighty per cent. (80%) of the Final Contract Price on behalf of and in the name of the Borrower, (ii) by reimbursing the Borrower for the First Instalment of the SACE Premium which is to be paid by the Borrower to SACE on the earlier of (A) the date falling 30 days after the issuance of the SACE Insurance Policy and (B) the date falling 6 months after the date of SACE’s board approval and (iii) by payment to SACE of the Second Instalment of the SACE Premium payable on the first Drawdown Date. For the avoidance of doubt, the amount of the Loan shall not exceed the Maximum Loan Amount.

The Borrower hereby instructs the Lenders in accordance with this Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) and in accordance with Schedule 6 (Drawdown Schedule):

Payment to the Builder of the amounts drawn under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) above shall be made on the relevant Drawdown Date during usual banking hours in Italy to the Builder's account as specified by the Builder in accordance with the Shipbuilding Contract and, in respect of the Delivery Advance, after receipt and verification by the Agent of the documents provided under Schedule 3 (Documents to be produced by the Builder to the Agent on Delivery).

Save as contemplated in Clause 4.2 (Modification of payment terms) below, the payment instruction contained in this Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) is irrevocable.

The Borrower expressly acknowledges that the payment terms set out in this Clause may only be modified with the agreement of the Italian Authorities, the Agent, the Security Trustee, the Lenders and the Borrower in the case of paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) and with the agreement of the Italian Authorities, the Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower in the case of paragraphs (b) and (c) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions).

The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders that it has received a Drawdown Notice and shall inform each Lender of:

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender shall, on and with value on each Drawdown Date, make available to the Agent the amount due from that Lender under Clause 2.2 (Lenders' participations in Loan) on that Drawdown Date.

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent shall on each Drawdown Date pay the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.5 (Lenders to make available Contributions) in the like funds as the Agent received the payments from the Lenders:

The payment by the Agent under Clause 4.6 (Disbursement of Advance) shall constitute the making of the Advance and the Borrower shall at that time become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in an amount equal to that Lender's Contribution.

The Borrower shall repay the Loan by twenty-four (24) consecutive six-monthly instalments from the earlier of (i) the Delivery Date and (ii) the date of actual disbursement of the respective delivery instalment (the "Starting Point of Repayment").

The first repayment instalment shall be repaid on the date falling six (6) months after the Starting Point of Repayment and the last repayment instalment on the date falling one hundred and forty-four (144) months after the Starting Point of Repayment, each date of payment of an instalment being a "Repayment Date".

Each repayment instalment of the Loan shall be of an equal amount.

On the final Repayment Date, the Borrower shall additionally pay to the Agent for the account of the Creditor Parties all other sums then accrued or owing under any Finance Document.

The Borrower shall provide notification, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, to the Agent at least [*] days before the first Drawdown Date specifying which of the Fixed Interest Rate or the Floating Interest Rate shall be applicable to all Advances until the date of payment of the final repayment instalment of the Loan.

If the Borrower has specified a Fixed Interest Rate pursuant to Clause 6.1 (Fixed or Floating Interest Rate), the Loan shall bear interest in respect of each Interest Period at the Fixed Interest Rate. Such interest shall accrue on the actual number of days elapsed based upon a 360 day year and shall be paid on the last day of each Interest Period.

If:

the rate of interest on the Loan in respect of any Interest Period shall be the Floating Interest Rate applicable for that Interest Period and the following provisions of this Clause 6 (Interest) shall apply (in the case of the circumstances referred to in paragraph (b) above, with effect from the date on which the Interest Make-up Agreement ceases to be in effect, with such consequential amendments as shall be necessary to give effect to the switch from a Fixed Interest Rate to a Floating Interest Rate).

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, interest on the Loan, as applicable, in respect of each Interest Period shall accrue on the actual number of days elapsed based upon a 360 day year and shall be paid by the Borrower on the last day of that Interest Period.

The Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of each Floating Interest Rate and the duration of each Interest Period as soon as reasonably practicable after each is determined and no later than the Quotation Date.

The following provisions of this Clause 6 (Interest) apply if:

The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and each of the Lenders stating the circumstances falling within Clause 6.6 (Market disruption) which have caused its notice to be given.

If the Agent's notice under Clause 6.6 (Market disruption) is served before an Advance is made:

shall be suspended while the circumstances referred to in the Agent's notice continue.

If the Agent's notice under Clause 6.7 (Notification of market disruption) is served after an Advance is made, the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, in consultation with SACE, within the 30 days after the date on which the Agent serves its notice under Clause 6.7 (Notification of market disruption) (the "Negotiation Period"), an alternative interest rate or (as the case may be) an alternative basis for the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender to fund or continue to fund their or its Contribution during the Interest Period concerned.

Any alternative interest rate or an alternative basis which is agreed during the Negotiation Period shall take effect in accordance with the terms agreed.

If an alternative interest rate or alternative basis is not agreed within the Negotiation Period, and the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the Negotiation Period, then the Agent shall, with the agreement of each Lender or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender (and in consultation with SACE), set an interest period and interest rate representing the cost of funding of the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender in Euros or in any available currency of their or its Contribution plus the Margin; and the procedure provided for by this Clause 6.11 (Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement) shall be repeated if the relevant circumstances are continuing at the end of the interest period so set by the Agent.

If the Borrower does not agree with an interest rate set by the Agent under Clause 6.11 (Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement), the Borrower may give the Agent not less than 15 Business Days', or, if the Fixed Interest Rate has been selected pursuant to Clause 6.1 (Fixed or Floating Interest Rate), 30 days, notice of its intention to prepay at the end of the interest period set by the Agent.

A notice under Clause 6.12 (Notice of prepayment) shall be irrevocable; the Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders or (as the case may require) the Affected Lender and, if the Fixed Interest Rate has been selected by the Borrower, SIMEST of the Borrower's notice of intended prepayment; and:

The provisions of Clause 16 (Cancellation, Prepayment and Mandatory Prepayment) shall apply in relation to the prepayment.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement:

The first Interest Period applicable to an Advance shall commence on the Drawdown Date in respect of that Advance and each subsequent Interest Period shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period.

Subject to Clause 7.3 (Duration of Interest Periods for Repayment Instalments), each Interest Period shall be:

Any Interest Period that includes a Repayment Date shall expire on such Repayment Date.

The estimated SACE Premium for a maximum amount of [*] (being [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the Maximum Loan Amount) is due and payable in two instalments as follows:

The Borrower irrevocably agrees to pay the First Instalment, and to instruct the Lenders to pay the Second Instalment on behalf of the Borrower as follows:

Consequently, the Borrower hereby irrevocably instructs the Agent on behalf of the Lenders to pay the Second Instalment to SACE on the first Drawdown Date in accordance with paragraph (c) of Clause 2.1 (Amount of facility) of this Agreement and to reimburse the Borrower by the Borrower drawing under the Loan the amount of the First Instalment in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause 2.1 (Amount of facility) of this Agreement.

The First Instalment and Second Instalment each financed by the Loan will be repayable in any event by the Borrower to the Lenders in the manner specified in Clause 5 (Repayment) and under any and all circumstances including but without limitation in the event of prepayment or acceleration of the Loan.

The following fees shall be paid to the Agent by the Borrower as required hereunder:

and calculated on the undrawn amount of the Maximum Loan Amount and payable in arrears on the date falling six (6) months after the date of the Original Facility Agreement and on each date falling at the end of each following consecutive six (6) month period, with the exception of the commitment fee due in respect of the last period, which shall be paid on the Delivery Date, or the date of receipt by the Agent of the written cancellation notice sent by the Borrower as described in Clause 16.1 (Cancellation), whichever is the earliest, such commitment fee to be calculated on the actual number of days elapsed divided by three hundred and sixty (360). For the purpose of the computation of the periodical commitment fee payable to the Lenders, the Maximum Loan Amount is assumed to be six hundred and sixty five million, two hundred and eighty thousand, six hundred and sixty five Euros and twenty eight Cents (€665,280,665.28);

"Protected Party" means a Secured Party which is or will be subject to any liability, or required to make any payment, for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document;

"Tax Credit" means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of any Tax.

"Tax Deduction" means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document other than a FATCA Deduction.

"Tax Payment" means either the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Secured Party under Clause 10.2 (Tax gross-up) or a payment under Clause 10.3 (Tax indemnity).

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Secured Party; or

If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Creditor Party determines that:

the Creditor Party shall pay an amount to the Obligor which that Creditor Party determines will leave it (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Obligor.

The Borrower shall pay and, within three Business Days of demand, indemnify each Secured Party against any cost, loss or liability that Secured Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, registration and other similar Taxes payable in respect of any Finance Document.

then the Borrower shall on demand pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender or Lenders amounts sufficient to indemnify the relevant Lender or Lenders against, as the case may be, such cost, such increased cost (or such proportion of such increased cost as is in the reasonable opinion of the relevant Lender or Lenders attributable to the funding or maintaining of its or their Commitment(s) hereunder) or such liability.

In this Clause 10.10 (Increased Costs), a reference to a "Tax Deduction" has the same meaning given to the term in Clause 10.1 (Definitions).

The Borrower undertakes to pay to the Agent, upon demand, all costs and expenses, duties and fees, including but without limitation pre-agreed legal costs (which, for avoidance of doubt are exclusive of VAT and disbursements) out of pocket expenses and travel costs, reasonably incurred by the Italian Authorities, the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers and the Lenders (but not including any bank which becomes a Lender after the date of this Agreement) in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of all agreements, guarantees, security agreements and related documents entered into, or to be entered into, for the purpose of the transaction contemplated hereby as well as all costs and expenses, duties and fees incurred by the Agent or the Lenders in connection with the registration, filing, enforcement or discharge of the said guarantees or security agreements, including without limitation the fees and expenses of legal advisers and insurance experts (provided that such insurance costs are not to exceed ten thousand Dollars ($10,000)) and the fees and expenses of the Italian Authorities (including the fees and expenses of its legal advisers) payable by the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers to the Italian Authorities, the cost of registration and discharge of security interests and the related travel and out of pocket expenses; the Borrower further undertakes to pay to the Agent all costs, expenses, duties and fees incurred by the Lenders and the Italian Authorities in connection with any variation of this Agreement and the related documents, guarantees and security agreements, any supplements thereto and waiver given in relation thereto, in connection with the investigation of any potential Event of Default, the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement and/or the related guarantees and security agreements, including in each case the fees and expenses of legal advisers, and in connection with the consultations or proceedings made necessary or in the opinion of the Agent desirable by the acts of, or failure to act on the part of, the Borrower.

The Borrower undertakes to pay to the Agent, upon demand, any costs incurred by the Lenders and/or the Italian Authorities in funding the Loan in the event that the Delivery Date is later than the Intended Delivery Date unless the Borrower has given the Agent at least three (3) Business Days' notification of such delay in the Delivery Date.

To the extent that this Clause 10 (Taxes, Increased Costs, Costs and Related Charges) imposes obligations or restrictions on a Secured Party, such obligations or restrictions shall not apply to SACE and SACE shall have no obligations hereunder nor be constrained by such restrictions.

The following applies in relation to the time at which representations and warranties are made and repeated:

The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Secured Parties that:

nor result in the creation or imposition of any Security Interest on the Borrower or its assets pursuant to the provisions of any such agreement or document, except for Security Interests which qualify as Permitted Security Interests with respect to the Borrower;

The Borrower further represents and warrants to each of the Secured Parties at Delivery that:

all authorisations, approvals, consents, licences, exemptions, filings, registrations, notarisations and other matters, official or otherwise, required in connection with the entry into, performance, validity and enforceability of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which any Obligor is a party and the transactions contemplated thereby have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect except authorisations, approvals, consents, licences, exemptions, filings and registrations required in the normal day to day course of the operation of the Ship and not already obtained by the Borrower.

The Borrower undertakes with each Secured Party to comply with the following undertakings during the Security Period:

The Borrower will provide to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders and SACE (or will procure the provision of):

All accounts required under this Clause 12.2 (Information) shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP and shall fairly represent the financial condition of the relevant company.

Upon the request of the Agent, the Borrower shall provide to the Agent information as may be reasonably requested by the Lenders for the purposes of monitoring that the Borrower conducts its operations in all material respects in accordance with the Equator Principles.

No payments made by the Borrower, the Shareholder, the Guarantor or any Approved Manager which is a member of the Group in respect of amounts due under this Agreement or any Finance Document shall be funded out of funds of Illicit Origin and none of the sources of funds to be used by the Borrower, the Shareholder, the Guarantor or any Approved Manager which is a member of the Group in connection with the construction of the Ship or its business shall be of Illicit Origin.

No Prohibited Payment shall be made or provided, directly or indirectly, by (or on behalf of) the Borrower, the Shareholder, the Guarantor or any of their affiliates, officers, directors or any other person acting on its behalf to, or for the benefit of, any authority (or any official, officer, director, agent or key employee of, or other person with management responsibilities in, of any authority) in connection with the Ship, this Agreement, the Finance Documents and/or the Pre-delivery Contracts.

The Borrower will notify the Agent of any Event of Default forthwith upon becoming aware of the occurrence thereof. Upon the Agent's request from time to time the Borrower will issue a certificate stating whether any Obligor is aware of the occurrence of any Event of Default.

The Borrower will procure that (and will promptly furnish Certified Copies to the Agent on the request of the Agent of) all such authorisations, approvals, consents, licences and exemptions as may be required under any applicable law or regulation to enable it or any Obligor to perform its obligations under, and ensure the validity or enforceability of, each of the Transaction Documents are obtained and promptly renewed from time to time and will procure that the terms of the same are complied with at all times. Insofar as such filings or registrations have not been completed on or before the relevant Drawdown Date the Borrower will procure the filing or registration within applicable time limits of each Finance Document which requires filing or registration together with all ancillary documents required to preserve the priority and enforceability of the Finance Documents.

The Borrower will not create or permit to subsist any Security Interest on the whole or any part of its present or future assets, except for the following:

Except in the case of a sale of the Ship if the completion of the sale is contemporaneous with prepayment of the Loan in accordance with the provisions of Clause 16.3 (Mandatory prepayment – Sale and Total Loss) and except for charters and other arrangements complying with Clause 13.1 (Pooling of earnings and charters) the Borrower shall not without the consent of the Majority Lenders and SACE, either in a single transaction or in a series of transactions whether related or not and whether voluntarily or involuntarily, (i) sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of the Ship or any of the Ship's equipment except in the case of items (a) being replaced (by an equivalent or superior item) or renewed or (b) that are being disposed of in the ordinary course of business provided that in the case of both (a) and (b) the net impact does not reduce the value of the Ship and, in the case of (b), the value of any such disposals during the term of this Agreement do not, in aggregate, exceed ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) (ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms; (iii) enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set off or made subject to a combination of accounts, or (iv) enter into any other preferential arrangement having the same effect in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising financial indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset.

Except with the prior consent of the Agent, the Borrower shall not make or threaten to make any substantial change in its business as presently conducted, namely that of a single ship owning company for the Ship, or change its place of business to any country other than that of its Original Jurisdiction, or carry on any other business which is substantial in relation to its business as presently conducted so as to affect, in the opinion of the Agent, the Borrower's ability to perform its obligations hereunder.

Except with the prior consent of the Lenders and SACE and subject to compliance with all necessary "know your customer" requirements, the Borrower will not enter into any amalgamation, restructure, substantial reorganisation, merger, de-merger or consolidation or anything analogous to the foregoing nor will it acquire any equity, share capital or obligations of any corporation or other entity.

The Borrower will do all such things as are necessary to maintain its company existence in good standing and will ensure that it has the right and is duly qualified to conduct its business as it is conducted in all applicable jurisdictions and will obtain and maintain all franchises and rights necessary for the conduct of its business.

The Borrower will keep proper books of record and account, in which proper and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets, liabilities and business of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP.

The following restrictions shall apply:

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall not make any repayments of principal, payments of interest or of any other costs, fees, expenses or liabilities arising from or representing such indebtedness. In this paragraph (b) of Clause 12.14 (Financial Indebtedness and subordination of indebtedness) "fully subordinated" shall mean that any claim of the lender against the Borrower in relation to such indebtedness shall rank after and be in all respects subordinate to all of the rights and claims of the Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and that the lender shall not take any steps to enforce its rights to recover any monies owing to it by the Borrower and in particular but without limitation the lender will not institute any legal or quasi-legal proceedings under any jurisdiction at any time against the Ship, her Earnings or Insurances or the Borrower and it will not compete with the Secured Parties or any of them in a liquidation or other winding-up or bankruptcy of the Borrower or in any proceedings in connection with the Ship, her Earnings or Insurances.

The Borrower shall not:

No Obligor shall do (or fail to do) or cause or permit another person to do (or omit to do) anything which is likely to:

The Borrower shall not make or pay any dividend or other distribution (in cash or in kind) in respect of its share capital other than dividends and distributions that are transferred to the Shareholder or the Guarantor provided that no Event of Default has occurred or is continuing or would result from the payment of any dividend.

Otherwise than in the ordinary course of business in its ownership and operation of the Ship following the Delivery Date, the Borrower will not make any loan or advance or extend credit to any person, firm or corporation (other than as permitted pursuant to paragraph (a) of Clause 12.15 (Investments)), or issue or enter into any guarantee or indemnity or otherwise become directly or contingently liable for the obligations of any other person, firm or corporation.

The Borrower will not:

The Borrower will, from time to time on being required to do so by the Agent, do or procure the doing of all such acts and/or execute or procure the execution of all such documents in a form satisfactory to the Agent as the Agent may reasonably consider necessary for giving full effect to any of the Transaction Documents, the Interest Make-Up Agreement or the SACE Insurance Policy or securing to the Secured Parties the full benefit of the rights, powers and remedies conferred upon the Secured Parties or any of them in any such Transaction Document the Interest Make-Up Agreement or the SACE Insurance Policy.

The Borrower shall not modify, revoke or withhold the payment instructions set out in Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) without the agreement of the Builder (in the case of paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower's irrevocable payment instructions) only), the Agent, SACE and the Lenders.