Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) extended its shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding Trading Company, Limited to include one more 8,530 TEU vessel, bringing the total number to five vessels. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry Company Limited and are expected to be delivered to Danaos between August 2010 and February 2011. Danaos has also arranged for a large international liner company to charter all these vessels for 12 years each at accretive rates. For the first full year of operation, this five vessel block addition to Danaos' fleet of containerships is expected to contribute approximately $65 million of EBITDA.