TEN Ltd. Declares Dividend on its 8.00% Series B and 8.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares


ATHENS, GREECE--(Marketwired - Jan 11, 2017) - TEN Ltd. ("TEN") (NYSE: TNP) (the "Company"), a leading crude, product, and LNG tanker operator, today announced that its Board of Directors declared the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share for its 8.00% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series B Preferred Shares") (NYSE; TNPPRB) and approximately $0.5547 per share for its 8.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series C Preferred Shares") (NYSE; TNPPRC).

Each dividend is for the period from the most recent dividend payment date on October 30, 2016 through January 29, 2017. 

The dividend on the Series B Preferred Shares will be paid on January 30, 2017 to all holders of record of Series B Preferred Shares as of January 27, 2017. The dividend on the Series C Preferred Shares will be paid on January 30, 2017 to all holders of record of Series C Preferred Shares as of January 25, 2017. Dividends on the Series B and C Preferred Shares are payable quarterly in arrears on the 30th day (unless the 30th falls on a weekend or public holiday, in which case the payment date is moved to the next business day) of January, April, July and October of each year, when, as and if declared by TEN's board of directors. This is the 15th dividend on the Series B and the 13th dividend on the Series C since their commencement of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

TEN has 2,000,000 Series B Preferred Shares and 2,000,000 Series C Preferred Shares outstanding as of the date of this press release.

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

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

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.

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