Danaos Corporation Orders Five 12,600 TEU Containerships

Athens, Greece, October 22, 2007 Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) today announced that it has ordered five 12,600 TEU containerships. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and are expected to be delivered to Danaos gradually starting from January until August of 2011.

Danaos has also arranged for a large international liner company to charter all these vessels for 12 years each, at accretive rates. The deal increases Danaos’ contracted fleet to 32 vessels with a total carrying capacity of 217,421 TEU or 150% of its current fleet.

The total contract deal size is approximately $830 million and will be financed by own funds and debt. For the first full year of operation, this five vessel block addition to Danaos’ fleet of containerships is expected to contribute approximately $92 million of EBITDA, annually upon delivery of all 5 vessels. For this purpose, EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, shall mean net earnings before interest, un-drawn credit facility fees, taxes, depreciation and amortization of deferred dry-docking charges and financing fees.

"We have ordered the largest size containerships available," said Dr. Coustas, Chief Executive Officer of Danaos. "In addition we have arranged 12 year charters at accretive rates with one of the largest liner companies in the world for all five of these vessels scheduled to be delivered to us in 2011. With this order Danaos is reaffirming its position as one of the major players in the containership market worldwide. With this deal we have not only managed to increase our contracted fleet to 32 containerships, but also secure long term charters for all of our vessels currently comprising our contracted fleet. Our contracted revenue has now reached $ 6.5 billion”.