ATHENS, GREECE--(Marketwired - Aug 15, 2016) - TEN Ltd. (NYSE: TNP), a leading crude, product and LNG tanker operator, today announced the delivery of the Aframax crude tanker "Thomas Zafiras" from Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries which will immediately enter a long term contract to a Northern European charterer that could generate gross revenues in excess of $100 million.

This is the second vessel in a series of nine purposely built Aframax tankers on long term time charters at accretive rates. TEN's new building program continues later this month with the delivery of a Panamax LR1 tanker also chartered to long term accretive employment.

The majority of the Company's new building vessels are built against long lasting time charters that secure revenue growth and dividend distributions.

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, one LNG carrier, eight Aframax tankers, a Suezmax DP2 shuttle tanker and two LR1 product tankers all under construction, consists of 65 double-hull vessels, constituting a mix of crude tankers, product tankers and LNG carriers, totaling 7.2 million dwt. Of these, 47 vessels trade in crude, 13 in products, three are shuttle tankers and two are LNG carriers. All of TEN's tanker newbuildings except the one remaining VLCC Hercules and the LNG carrier Maria Energy are fixed on long-term project businesses. As of August 2016, about 60% of 2016 fleet available days, assuming nine deliveries, are on secured contracts with an average length of 2.5 years and minimum gross revenues of about $1.5 billion.

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

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.