Exhibit 10.44

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

Execution Version

DATED 19 December 2018

LEONARDO FIVE, LTD.

as Borrower

and

THE BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
LISTED IN SCHEDULE 1

as Lenders

and

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
BNP PARIBAS FORTIS S.A./N.V.
HSBC BANK PLC
KFW IPEX-BANK GMBH
CASSA DEPOSITI E PRESTITI S.P.A.
Banco Santander, S.A.
Société Générale

as Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers

and

BNP PARIBAS

as Facility Agent

and

CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK

as SACE Agent

and

HSBC CORPORATE TRUSTEE COMPANY (UK) LIMITED

as Security Trustee

with the support of

SACE S.P.A.

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 made on 19 December 2018.

PARTIES

BACKGROUND

as each such event is described in the Shipbuilding Contract.

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

Subject to Clause 1.5 (General Interpretation), in this Agreement:

“Affected Lender” has the meaning given in Clause 6.6 (Unavailability of Screen Rate).

“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.

“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) and as further revised in October 2008 with such revised version having entered into force on 1 July 2010.

“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 Facility Agent.

“Approved Flag” means the Bermuda flag, the Marshall Islands flag, the Bahamas flag or such other flag as the Facility Agent may, with the approval of the Italian Authorities and at least four 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 Facility 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 Facility 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 Effective Dateand ending on:

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

“Bail-In Legislation” means:

“Base Rate” means one Euro for [*] Dollars or any other rate communicated by SACE being the Euro/USD spot rate as at the date of the SACE board approval plus [*] per cent subject to the approval of all Lenders and the Borrower.

“Bermuda Obligors” means the Borrower, the Shareholder and the Guarantor.

“Builder” has the meaning given in Recital (A).

“Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are open in New York, Milan, Frankfurt, Brussels, Madrid, Paris, Rome and London; and

“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” means, in relation to the Loan, the applicable Commercial Interest Reference Rate determined in accordance with the OECD Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits, to be notified by SIMEST to the Facility Agent (through the SACE Agent) and expected to be three point thirty two per cent. (3.32%) per annum.

“CIRR Break Costs” means, in respect of the Loan, all the amounts that SIMEST is entitled to charge, whether for taxes, costs, expenses, indemnities, penalties, losses or liabilities whatsoever, under and in accordance with the relevant Interest Make-up Agreement, including without limitation, as a result of any prepayment of all or any part of the Loan under this Agreement (whether voluntary, following acceleration of the Loan or otherwise), as a result of an Interest Make-up Event and/or as a result of the Borrower deciding to switch from the Fixed Interest Rate to another interest rate after the Drawdown Date. Such amounts include, without limitation, (i) breakage costs calculated on the basis of the net present value referred to in the relevant Interest Make-up Agreement, (ii) any amount due as a consequence of the close-out of any hedging arrangement entered into by SIMEST in relation to this Agreement, (iii) default interest and penalties (maggiorazioni) whenever applicable, and (iv) all amounts (if any) to be returned by the SACE Agent or the Facility Agent (as applicable) to SIMEST under and pursuant to the Interest Make-up Agreement.

“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 amount equal to 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, in each case 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 Creditor Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Creditor Party or which is received by a Creditor Party 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 Facility Agent.

“Contribution” means, in relation to a Lender, the amount of the Loan which is owing to that Lender.

“Conversion Rate” means the rate determined by the Facility Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date and notified to the Borrower as being the lower of:

“Conversion Rate Fixing Date” means the date falling [*] days before the Intended Delivery Date.

“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 Facility 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.

“Delegate” means any delegate, agent, attorney or co-trustee appointed by the Security Trustee

“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.

“Dollar Equivalent” means such amount in Dollars as is calculated by the Facility Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date to be the equivalent of an amount in Euro at the Conversion Rate.

“Dollars”, “$” and “USD” means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of America.

“Drawdown Date” means the date on which the Loan 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 Facility 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.

“Effective Date” means the earlier of:

“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.

“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.

“EU Blocking Regulation” means EU Regulation (EC) 2271/96 of 22 November 1996.

“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 Facility Agent prior to the date of this Agreement.

“Exporter Declaration” means a declaration 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 Agent” means BNP Paribas, a French “société anonyme”, having a share capital of two billion four hundred ninety-nine million five hundred ninety-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-two Euros (€2,499,597,122) 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 Facility Agent and the Joint Mandated Lead Arrangers).

“Facility Office” means the office or offices notified by a Lender to the Facility 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 this Agreement between:

“Finance Documents” means:

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

“Financial Indebtedness” means, in relation to a person (the “debtor”), an indebtedness 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 Facility Agent to be the aggregate of:

“Fixed Rate Margin” means the difference between the Floating Rate Margin and the SIMEST Margin Contribution.

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

“Floating Rate Margin” means one point forty-five per cent. (1.45%).

“FOREX Contracts” means each actual purchase contract, spot or forward contract and any other contract, such as an option or collar arrangement, which is entered into in the foreign exchange markets for the acquisition of Euro intended to pay the delivery instalment under the Shipbuilding Contract, which:

“FOREX Contracts Weighted Average Rate” means the rate determined by the Facility Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date in accordance with the following principles which (inter alia) are intended to take into account any maturity mismatch between the maturity of the FOREX Contracts and the Intended Delivery Date as well as FOREX Contracts that are unwound as part of the hedging strategy of the Borrower:

Any marked to market valuation, as required in paragraph (c) above, shall be performed by BNP Paribas’s dedicated desk in accordance with market practices. The Borrower shall have the right to request indicative valuations from time to time prior to the Conversion Rate Fixing Date.

“Funding Rate” means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent pursuant to Clause 6.11(b).

“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, inter alia, any Management Agreement, the Earnings, the Insurances, any charter 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.

“German Blocking Provisions” means section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (AWV) (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung) (in connection with section 4 paragraph 1 a no. 3 German Foreign Trade Law (AWG) (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz)).

“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 Park Place, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, 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 Facility Agent in accordance with paragraph (a) of Clause 3.5 (No later than sixty (60) days before the Intended Delivery Date) or paragraph (c) of Clause 3.9 (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 agreement on interest stabilisation (Capitolato per il Contributo Interessi) to be entered into between SIMEST and the SACE Agent on behalf of the Lenders and in form and substance acceptable to the SACE Agent, the Facility Agent and the Lenders, which provides, inter alia, for the applicable CIRR to be subsidised in relation to the Loan made available under this Agreement and to which the CIRR applies.

“Interest Make-up Event” means the occurrence of any circumstances which result in the termination, cancellation, revocation, cessation or suspension (in each case, in whole or in part) of the Interest Make-up Agreement or the Interest Make-up Agreement otherwise ceases or may cease to be in full force and effect or the SACE Agent notifies the Borrower that the Fixed Interest Rate is not available for any reason, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Interest Make-up Agreement.

“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.

“LIBOR” means, in relation to the Loan or any part of the Loan:

and if, in either case, that rate is less than zero, LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero (except with respect to the Interest Make-up Agreement).

“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 Facility 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:

“Maximum Loan Amount” means the aggregate of:

provided that such amount shall not, at any time, exceed nine hundred fifty-four million eight hundred fifty-four thousand seven hundred seventy-one Dollars and seventy-eight cents ($954,854,771.78), provided further that the $954,854,771.78 figure shall be adjusted to the extent the Base Rate is not exactly [*] upon the final determination of such Base Rate subject to all Lenders’ approval.

“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 (https://en.cdp.it/kdocs/1896656/Organization_Management_and_Control_Model_pursuant_to_Italian_Legislative_Decree_No._231-01_EN.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.

“Overnight LIBOR” means, on any date, the London interbank offered rate, being the day to day rate at which Dollars are offered to prime banks in the London interbank market and published by the Intercontinental Exchange at or about 11.00 a.m. London time on page LIBOR01 of the Reuters screen. If the agreed page is replaced or the service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the appropriate rate after consultation with the Borrower, provided that if the rate is less than zero, Overnight LIBOR shall be deemed to be zero (except with respect to the Interest Make-up 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 this 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.

“Prohibited Jurisdiction” means any country or territory which is, or whose government is, the target of country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions.

“Prohibited Payment” means:

“Prohibited Person” means any person that (i) appears on any Sanctions list of prohibited persons, (ii) is directly or indirectly owned 50 percent or more by, or directly or indirectly controlled by, one or more persons covered by sub-section (i) above, or (iii) is located, is resident in or is incorporated under the laws of a Prohibited Jurisdiction.

“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), the day which is 2 Business 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 Facility 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 the Delivery Date and issued to the Facility Agent and copied to the Borrower substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Qualifying Certificate).

“Receiver” means a receiver or receiver and manager or administrative receiver of the whole or any part of the Charged Property

“Reference Bank Quotation” means any quotation supplied to the Facility Agent by a Reference Bank.

“Reference Bank Rate” means the arithmetic mean of the rates (rounded upwards to four decimal places) as supplied to the Facility Agent at its request by the Reference Banks as either:

the rate (applied to the relevant Reference Bank and the relevant currency and period) which contributors to the Screen Rate are asked to submit to the relevant administrator; or

“Reference Banks” means such entities as may be appointed by the Facility Agent in consultation with the Borrower.

“Relevant Interbank Market” means the London Interbank Market.

“Relevant Jurisdiction” means, in relation to an Obligor:

“Relevant Nominating Body” means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board (or any successor organization).

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

“Replacement Benchmark” means a benchmark rate which is:

and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the “Replacement Benchmark” shall be the replacement under paragraph (ii) above;

“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 Creditor Party” means a Creditor Party which serves a notice pursuant to paragraph (a) of Clause 37.7 (Non-applicable provisions between the Obligors, German Lenders and any Creditor Party subject to the EU Blocking Regulation).

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

“SACE” means SACE S.p.A.

“SACE Agent” means Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, a French “société anonyme”, having a share capital of seven billion eight hundred and fifty one million six hundred and thirty six thousand three hundred and forty two Euros (€7,851,636,342) and its registered office located at 12, place des Etats-Unis, CS 70052, 92547 Montrouge cedex, France, registered under the n° Siren 304 187 701 at the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés of Nanterre or any successor of it appointed under Clause 26 (Role of the Facility 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 together with interest thereon in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent, the SACE Agent and all the Lenders.

“SACE Premium” means the amount payable by the Borrower to SACE directly or through the SACE 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 the Drawdown Notice:

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

“Sanctions” means any financial, economic or trade sanctions, embargoes or other restrictions relating to trading, doing business, investment, exporting, importing, travelling, financing or making assets available (or other activities similar to or connected with any of the foregoing):

“SBC Effective Date” means the effective date under the Shipbuilding Contract.

“Screen Rate” means, in relation to a particular period, the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate for Dollars at or about 11 a.m (London time) on the Quotation Date for such period as displayed on page LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 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 ceases to be available, the Facility Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consulting with the Borrower).

“Screen Rate Replacement Event” means, in relation to the Screen Rate:

provided that in each case, at that time, there is no successor or administrator to continue to provide the Screen Rate;

“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 Effective Date 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 Facility 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, a Receiver or any Delegate.

“Security Interest” means:

“Security Period” means the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the date on which:

“Security Property” means:

except:

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

“Security Trustee” means HSBC Corporate Trustee Company (UK) Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (with registered number 6447555) whose registered office is located at 8 Canada Square, London, E14 5HQ or any successor of it appointed under Clause 27 (The Security Trustee).

“Security Value” means the amount in Dollars (as certified by the Facility Agent whose certificate shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Facility 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 Facility Agent pursuant to Clause 15 (Security Value Maintenance).

“Servicing Party” means the Facility 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 Park Place, 55 Par-la-Ville Road, 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 (A).

“SIMEST” means Società Italiana per Le Imprese all’Estero - SIMEST S.p.A., which grants export subsidies in Italy under and according to the Italian Legislative Decree n. 143/98 and its amendments.

“SIMEST Margin Contribution” means the margin contribution approved and granted by SIMEST to the Lenders under the Interest Make-up Agreement as communicated by the SACE Agent to the Creditor Parties and the Borrower following the date of this Agreement as soon as the SACE Agent is made aware of it.

“Structuring Fee” has the meaning given in paragraph (a) of Clause 9.1 (Fees).

“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.

“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).

“Third Party Act” means the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

“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 Facility Agent and the Borrower.

“Underlying Documents” means the Shipbuilding Contract, 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.

“US” means the United States of America.

“VAT” means:

“Write-down and Conversion Powers” means:

In this Agreement:

“Facility Agent”, the “SACE Agent”, the “Joint Mandated Lead Arranger”, the “Security Trustee”, “SACE”, 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 Facility Agent acting on the instructions of all the Lenders and approved in writing by the SACE Agent acting on the instructions of SACE (or the 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 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 Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders and approved in writing by the SACE Agent acting on the instructions of 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 Facility Agent (on such conditions as the Facility Agent may impose) and “approval” and “approve” shall be construed accordingly and any requirement for approval by the Facility Agent, the SACE 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 19 December 2018.

“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 Facility 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.

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 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 the Loan in the proportion which, as at the Drawdown Date, its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments.

The Borrower undertakes with each Secured Party to use the Loan 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 the Loan when the following conditions have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Facility 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 Loan:

The Facility Agent shall have received no later than the Effective Date:

The Facility Agent shall have received no later than four (4) years before the Intended Delivery Date, payment of the remaining portion of the Structuring Fee as set out in and payable in accordance with the relevant Fee Letter.

The Facility Agent (or the SACE Agent in respect of paragraphs (c), (e) and (f) below) shall have received no later than ninety (90) days before the Intended Delivery Date:

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

The Facility Agent shall have received from the Borrower no later than forty five (45) days before the Intended Delivery 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 SACE Agent (with a copy to the Facility Agent) shall have received from the Borrower no later than [*] ([*]) days before the Intended Delivery Date notification, signed by a duly authorised signatory of the Borrower, specifying which of the Fixed Interest Rate or the Floating Interest Rate shall be applicable to the Loan until the date of payment of the final repayment instalment of the Loan.

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

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

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

Immediately following the delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower, the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee), or, in the case of paragraph (a) below, the Security Trustee (with copy to the Facility Agent), shall receive:

The Facility 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 the Loan 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 Facility 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 Creditor Parties may act on the instructions of the Italian Authorities in relation to this Agreement.

The Lenders shall not be obliged to fulfil their obligation to make the Loan available other than (i) 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 was 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 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):

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

Save as contemplated in Clause 4.3 (Modification of payment terms) below, the payment instruction contained in this Clause 4.1 (Borrower’s irrevocable payment instructions) is irrevocable.

The Dollar amount to be drawn down under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower’s irrevocable payment instructions) shall be calculated by the Facility Agent on the Conversion Rate Fixing Date in accordance with the definitions of “Eligible Amount” and “Conversion Rate” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions).

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 Facility 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 Facility Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower in the case of paragraphs (b) and (c) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower’s irrevocable payment instructions); provided that it is the intention of the Borrower, the Lenders, the Security Trustee and the Facility Agent that prior to the Conversion Rate Fixing Date agreement shall be reached with those financial institutions with whom the Borrower has entered into the FOREX Contracts (the “Counterparties”) in order that the Euro payments due from the Counterparties under the FOREX Contracts shall be paid to the Facility Agent for holding in escrow and to be released by the Facility Agent simultaneously with (i) the payment in full to the Builder of the balance of the Final Contract Price denominated in Euro at the time of delivery of the Ship and (ii) the payment to the Counterparties of the Dollars due to them under the relevant FOREX Contracts out of the Dollar amount available under paragraph (a) of Clause 4.1 (Borrower’s irrevocable payment instructions), subject only to delivery of the Ship by the Builder to the Borrower taking place as evidenced by the execution and delivery of the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance and to the Borrower having deposited with the Facility Agent before the Drawdown Date, if and to the extent required, any Dollar and/or Euro amounts as may be needed to ensure the payment in full of both the balance of the Final Contract Price in Euro and the Dollars owed to the Counterparties under all the relevant FOREX Contracts.

The Facility Agent shall promptly and, in any case, by no later than three (3) Business Days before the Drawdown Date, 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 the Drawdown Date, make available to the Facility Agent the amount due from that Lender under Clause 2.2 (Lenders’ participations in Loan).

Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Facility Agent shall on the Drawdown Date pay the amounts which the Facility Agent receives from the Lenders under Clause 4.6 (Lenders to make available Contributions) in the like funds as the Facility Agent received the payments from the Lenders:

The payment by the Facility Agent under Clause 4.7 (Disbursement of Loan) shall constitute the making of the Loan 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 Loan (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 Facility 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 SACE Agent (with a copy to the Facility Agent) at least [*] days before the Drawdown Date specifying which of the Fixed Interest Rate or the Floating Interest Rate shall be applicable 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 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 Facility 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.

The Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and each of the Lenders stating the circumstances falling within paragraph (b) of Clause 6.6 (Unavailability of Screen Rate) which have caused its notice to be given.

If the Facility Agent’s notice under Clause 6.6 (Unavailability of Screen Rate) is served before the Loan is made:

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

If the Facility Agent’s notice under Clause 6.7 (Notification of market disruption) is served after the Loan is made, the Borrower, the Facility Agent and the Lenders or (as the case may be) the Affected Lender shall use reasonable endeavours to agree, in consultation with SACE and SIMEST, within the 30 days after the date on which the Facility 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 the Borrower does not agree with an interest rate set by the Facility Agent under Clause 6.11 (Alternative rate of interest in absence of agreement), the Borrower may give the Facility 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 Facility Agent.

A notice under Clause 6.12 (Notice of prepayment) shall be irrevocable; the Facility 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:

Without prejudice to any other provisions of this Agreement, each Party acknowledges and agrees to the benefit of the other Party that:

may be made with the consent of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the Obligors.

The first Interest Period applicable to the Loan shall commence on the Drawdown Date 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 6 months.

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

The estimated SACE Premium for an amount equal to [*] (being [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the Maximum Loan Amount), or any other amount communicated by SACE subject to the approval of all Lenders and the Borrower, 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 Facility Agent on behalf of the Lenders to pay the Second Instalment to SACE on the 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 due by the Borrower and payable 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 Effective Date 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 Facility Agent of the written cancellation notice (as described in Clause 16.1(a)) or written termination notice (as described in Clause 16.1(b)) (as applicable) sent by the Borrower, 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 nine hundred fifty-four million eight hundred fifty-four thousand seven hundred seventy-one Dollars and seventy-eight cents ($954,854,771.78) provided that the $954,854,771.78 figure shall be adjusted to the extent the Base Rate is not exactly [*] upon the final determination of such Base Rate subject to all Lenders’ approval);

“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 Facility 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 Facility 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 Facility 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;

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

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

The Borrower will provide to the Facility 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 Facility Agent, the Borrower shall provide to the Facility 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 Prohibited Payment shall be received, 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 public or government entity (or any official, officer, director, agent or key employee of, or other person with management responsibilities in, of any authority or public or government entity) in connection with the Ship, this Agreement and/or the Finance Documents.

The Borrower will notify the Facility Agent of any Event of Default forthwith upon becoming aware of the occurrence thereof. Upon the Facility 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 Facility Agent on the request of the Facility 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 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:

provided that in the case of both sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) above the net impact does not reduce the value of the Ship and, in the case of sub-paragraph (ii), the value of any such disposals during the term of this Agreement do not, in aggregate, exceed ten million Dollars ($10,000,000);

Except with the prior consent of the Facility 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 Facility 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:

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 Facility 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 Facility Agent as the Facility 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 Facility Agent, SACE and the Lenders.

obliges the Facility Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of paragraph (a)(iii) of Clause 12.22 (“Know your customer” checks), any prospective new Lender) to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it or the Lenders (acting reasonably) require any additional documents to supplement those already provided, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Facility Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Facility Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in paragraph (a)(iii) of Clause 12.22 (“Know your customer” checks), on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Facility Agent and, such Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.

The Borrower shall:

The Facility Agent shall inform the Lenders within ten (10) days of receipt of such information from the Borrower.

The Borrower shall:

including the ISM Code, the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws, all Sanctions and the laws of the Approved Flag;

The Borrower shall procure that if at any time after the date of this Agreement the Guarantor enters into any financial contract or financial document relating to any Financial Indebtedness with or which has the support of any export credit agency and which contains pari passu provisions or cross default provisions which are more favourable to the lenders than those contained in paragraph (l) of Clause 11.2 (Continuing representations and warranties) and Clause 18.6 (Cross default) respectively, the Borrower or the Guarantor shall immediately notify the Facility Agent of such provisions and the relevant provisions contained in this Agreement shall be deemed amended so that such more favourable pari passu provisions or cross default provisions are granted to the Creditor Parties pursuant to this Agreement.

The Borrower will not without the prior written consent of the Facility Agent or SACE enter into in respect of the Ship (such consent for the purposes of paragraph (e) of Clause 13.1 (Pooling of earnings and charters) shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), nor permit to exist at any time following the Delivery Date:

and each of the notice of assignment and acknowledgement of assignment being substantially in the form appended to the General Assignment;

The Borrower will not as from the Delivery Date:

The Borrower shall in respect of the Ship take all reasonable precautions as from the Delivery Date to prevent any infringements of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 of the United States of America (as the same may be amended and/or re-enacted from time to time hereafter) or any similar legislation applicable to the Ship in any other jurisdiction in which the Ship shall trade (a “Trading Jurisdiction”) where the Ship trades in the territorial waters of the United States of America or a Trading Jurisdiction.

The following shall apply in relation to the valuation of the Ship:

The Borrower will procure that the Earnings (if any) are paid in full without set off and free and clear of and without deduction for any taxes, levies, duties, imposts, charges, fees, restrictions or conditions of any nature whatsoever.

From the Delivery Date until the end of the Security Period at its own expense the Borrower will keep the Ship in a good and efficient state of repair so as to maintain it to the highest classification notation available for the Ship of its age and type free of all recommendations and qualifications with Bureau Veritas. On the Delivery Date and annually thereafter, it will furnish to the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee) a statement by such classification society that such classification notation is maintained. It will comply with all recommendations, regulations and requirements (statutory or otherwise) from time to time applicable to the Ship and shall have on board as and when required thereby valid certificates showing compliance therewith and shall procure that all repairs to or replacements of any damaged, worn or lost parts or equipment are carried out (both as regards workmanship and quality of materials) so as not to diminish the value or class of the Ship. It will not make any substantial modifications or alterations to the Ship or any part thereof which would reduce the market and commercial value of the Ship determined in accordance with Clause 13.4 (Valuation of the Ship).

The Borrower will:

The Borrower will comply, or procure that the Approved Manager will comply, with the ISM Code (as the same may be amended from time to time) or any replacement of the ISM Code (as the same may be amended from time to time) and in particular, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, as and when required to do so by the ISM Code and at all times thereafter:

The Borrower will comply, or procure that the Approved Manager will comply, with the ISPS Code (as the same may be amended from time to time) or any replacement of the ISPS Code (as the same may be amended from time to time) and in particular, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, as and when required to do so by the ISPS Code and at all times thereafter:

The Borrower will comply with Annex VI (as the same may be amended from time to time) or any replacement of Annex VI (as the same may be amended from time to time) and in particular, without limitation, to:

The Borrower shall:

The Borrower shall give notice to the Facility Agent and the Security Trustee promptly and in reasonable detail upon the Borrower or any other Obligor becoming aware of:

The Borrower shall promptly pay and discharge:

provided always that the Borrower shall not be obliged to compromise any liabilities as aforesaid which are being contested in good faith subject always that full details of any such contested liabilities which, either individually or in aggregate, exceed [*] shall be forthwith provided to the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee). If the Ship is arrested or detained for any reason it will procure its immediate release by providing bail or taking such other steps as the circumstances may require.

The Borrower shall give to the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee) at such times as it may from time to time reasonably require a certificate, duly signed on its behalf, as to the total amount of any debts, damages and liabilities relating to the Ship and details of such of those debts, damages and liabilities as are over a certain amount to be specified by the Facility Agent at the relevant time and, if so required by the Facility Agent, forthwith discharge such of those debts, damages and liabilities as the Facility Agent shall require other than those being contested in good faith.

The Borrower shall maintain the type of the Ship as at the Delivery Date and not put the Ship into the possession of any person for the purpose of work being done on it in an amount exceeding or likely to exceed [*] unless such person shall first have given to the Facility Agent a written undertaking addressed to the Facility Agent in terms satisfactory to the Facility Agent agreeing not to exercise a lien on the Ship or her Earnings for the cost of such work or for any other reason (or the Borrower is able to demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Facility Agent that the Borrower or the relevant Group company has set aside and will have funds readily available for payment when due of the cost of the work (to the extent not fully covered by insurance proceeds in the case of a partial loss)).

The Borrower shall maintain the registration of the Ship under and fly the flag of the Maritime Registry and not do or permit anything to be done whereby such registration may be forfeited or imperilled.

The Borrower shall comply with all Environmental Laws, obtain, maintain and ensure compliance with all requisite Environmental Approvals, and implement procedures to monitor compliance with and to prevent liability under any Environmental Law.

The Borrower shall keep the Mortgage registered against the Ship as a valid first preferred mortgage, carry on board the Ship a certified copy of the Mortgage and place and maintain in a conspicuous place in the navigation room and the master’s cabin of the Ship a framed printed notice stating that the Ship is mortgaged by the Borrower to the Security Trustee.

Each Obligor shall, (through the Guarantor), promptly upon becoming aware of the same, inform the Facility Agent in writing of:

In the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), the Borrower shall not cause or permit the Ship to enter or trade to any zone which is declared a war zone by the Ship’s war risks insurers unless:

The undertakings in this Clause 14 (Insurance Undertakings) remain in force on and from the Delivery Date and throughout the rest of the Security Period except as the Facility Agent may otherwise permit.

The Borrower shall insure the Ship in its name and keep the Ship insured on an agreed value basis for an amount in the currency in which the Loan is denominated approved by the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) but not being less than the greater of (x) [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the amount of the Loan; and (y) the full market and commercial value of the Ship determined in accordance with Clause 13.4 (Valuation of the Ship) from time to time through internationally recognised independent first class insurance companies, underwriters, war risks and protection and indemnity associations acceptable to the Facility Agent (acting on the instruction of the Majority Lenders), acting reasonably, in each instance on terms and conditions approved by the Facility Agent including as to deductibles but at least in respect of:

and in any event in respect of those risks and at those levels covered by first class and prudent owners and/or financiers in the international market in respect of similar tonnage provided that if any of such insurances are also effected in the name of any other person (other than the Borrower and/or a Secured Party) such person shall if so required by the Facility Agent execute a first priority assignment of its interest in such insurances in favour of the Secured Parties in similar terms mutatis mutandis to the relevant provisions of the General Assignment.

The Facility Agent shall take out mortgagee interest insurance on such conditions as the Facility Agent may reasonably require and mortgagee interest insurance for pollution risks as from time to time agreed each for an amount in the currency in which the Loan is denominated of [*] per cent. ([*]%) of the amount of the Loan, the Borrower having no interest or entitlement in respect of such policies; the Borrower shall upon demand of the Facility Agent reimburse the Facility Agent for the costs of effecting and/or maintaining any such insurance(s).

If the Ship shall trade in the United States of America and/or the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States of America (the “EEZ”) as such term is defined in the US Oil Pollution Act 1990 (“OPA”), to comply strictly with the requirements of OPA and any similar legislation which may from time to time be enacted in any jurisdiction in which the Ship presently trades or may or will trade at any time during the existence of this Agreement and in particular before such trade is commenced and during the entire period during which such trade is carried on:

The Borrower will procure that each of the relevant brokers and associations furnishes the Facility Agent with a letter of undertaking in the standard form available in the relevant insurance market or otherwise in such form as may be required by the Facility Agent and waives any lien for premiums or calls except in relation to premiums or calls solely attributable to the Ship.

The Borrower shall punctually pay all premiums, calls, contributions or other sums payable in respect of the Insurances on the Ship and to produce all relevant receipts when so required by the Facility Agent.

The Borrower shall notify the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee) of the renewal of the obligatory insurances at least five (5) days before the expiry thereof and shall procure that the relevant brokers or associations shall promptly confirm in writing to the Facility Agent (with copy to the Security Trustee) that such renewal is effected, it being understood by the Borrower that any failure to renew the Insurances on the Ship at least two (2) days before the expiry thereof or to give or procure the relevant notices of such renewal shall constitute an Event of Default.