Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces Four New Time Charter Contracts

New Charters Increase to 68% Long Term Employment; Secured Revenues at Minimum $1.4 Billion with 2.8 Years Average Contract Duration

December 6, 2016 6:11 PM EST

ATHENS, GREECE -- (Marketwired) -- 12/06/16 -- Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited ("TEN") (NYSE: TNP), a leading diversified tanker owner, today announced new time charter contracts for four vessels, an aframax, two panamaxes, and a handysize product tanker, all to major end users. The average contract length of all four fixtures is 14 months which bring the aggregate fleet gross revenues to a minimum of $1.4 billion.

"The new time charters increase TEN's fleet under secured revenue employment to 68%. With seven more vessels delivering in 2017, six of which under long term charters, the coverage will well exceed 70%. Responding to our charterers' appetite, we will be reaching our long term coverage goal well ahead of schedule," stated Mr. Nikolas P. Tsakos, President and CEO of TEN and current Chairman of INTERTANKO. "Repeat business from first class clients fits well with our industrial shipping model, solidify further our balance sheet, and support TEN's continued profitability, all attributes which should ultimately be reflected in TEN's true valuation," Mr. Tsakos concluded.

ABOUT TSAKOS ENERGY NAVIGATION TEN, founded in 1993, is one of the first and most established public shipping companies in the world today. The Company's pro-forma fleet, including one VLCC, five Aframax tankers and a Suezmax DP2 shuttle tanker under construction, consists of 65 double-hull vessels, constituting a mix of crude tankers, product tankers and LNG carriers, totalling 7.2 million dwt. Of these, 45 vessels trade in crude, 15 in products, three are shuttle tankers and two are LNG carriers.

COMPANY'S GROWTH TIME-TABLE


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 #  Vessel Name        Type       Dwt    Delivery   Status      Employment
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 1  Ulysses            VLCC     300,000  May 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 2  Elias Tsakos      Aframax   112,700 June 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 3  Thomas Zafiras    Aframax   112,700  Aug 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 4  Leontios H        Aframax   112,700  Oct 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 5  Parthenon TS      Aframax   112,700  Nov 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 6  Sunray          Panamax LR1  74,200  Aug 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 7  Sunrise         Panamax LR1  74,200  Sep 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 8  Maria Energy        LNG      93,616  Oct 2016  Delivered       Yes
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 9  Hercules           VLCC     300,000  Q1 2017      TBD    In Negotiations
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 10 Lisboa          DP2 Shuttle 157,000  Q1 2017      TBD          Yes
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 11 Marathon TS       Aframax   112,700  Q1 2017      TBD          Yes
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 12 Sola TS           Aframax   112,700  Q2 2017      TBD          Yes
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 13 Oslo TS           Aframax   112,700  Q2 2017      TBD          Yes
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 14 Stavanger TS      Aframax   112,700  Q3 2017      TBD          Yes
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 15 Bergen TS         Aframax   112,700  Q4 2017      TBD          Yes
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Visit our company website at: http://www.tenn.gr

ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted by such forward-looking statements.

TEN undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

For further information please contact:

Company
Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd.
George Saroglou
COO
+30210 94 07 710
[email protected]

Investor Relations / Media
Capital Link, Inc.
Nicolas Bornozis
Paul Lampoutis
+212 661 7566
[email protected]

Source: Tsakos Energy Navigation



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