The Chief Executive Officer of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp supports the Japan earthquake relief fund

Athens, Greece, March 20, 2011. Capital Ship Management Corp. today announced that Mr. Evangelos Marinakis, the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp.,  donated the amount of $140,000 to the Ambassador of Japan in Greece, Mr. Hiroshi Toda.

Mr. Evangelos Marinakis stated: “My personal relations, as well as those of my family, with Japan go way back in time, as a result of my investments in shipping ventures. We have worked together with the Japanese people in a number of occasions over the years and we were shocked by this biblical catastrophe that struck their country.”

About Capital Ship Management Corp.

Capital Ship Management Corp. currently operates a fleet of 41 vessels including 30 tankers (3 VLCCs, 5 Suezmaxes, 20 MR/Handy product tankers, 2 small tankers), 9 modern bulk carriers (1 Capesize, 1 Supramax, 7 Handy) and 2 container carriers. The fleet includes the vessels of Nasdaq-listed Capital Product Partners L.P. and NYSE-listed Crude Carriers Corp.