Item 4 is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:
Each of Sea Consolidation, Intermed, Methoni, TEM and Nikolas P. Tsakos acquired 195,000 Common Shares, 267,500 Common Shares, 353,702 Common Shares, 670,000 Common Shares and 800 Common Shares, respectively, to increase its investment in the Company. Each of Sea Consolidation, Intermed, Methoni, TEM and Nikolas P. Tsakos is holding its Common Shares solely for investment purposes and each has no plans or proposals with respect to any material change in the Company’s business or corporate structure or, generally, any other action referred to in instructions (a) through (j) of Item 4 of the form of Schedule 13D.
Each of the Reporting Persons reserve the right to change their intentions, as they deem appropriate. Depending on market conditions and other factors that they may deem material, each of the Reporting Persons may, in privately negotiated transactions, in the open market or otherwise, purchase additional Common Shares and/or related securities, dispose of all or a portion of the Common Shares or related securities that they now beneficially owns or may acquire hereafter, and/or enter into transactions that increase or hedge their economic exposure to the Common Shares without affecting their beneficial ownership.