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On April 22, 2024, TradeWinds published an article entitled “John Wobensmith reflects on ‘fight letters’ with George Economou and fending off Houthi attacks in the Red Sea” that included the quote from Mr. Wobensmith below. The article contains excerpts from an interview Mr. Wobensmith gave at the 2024 TradeWinds Shipowners Forum in New York City that covered a wide variety of topics from Genco-specific matters to broader market trends. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited may in the future use the same or substantially similar materials from time to time:

You have a significant investor, George Economou, who now holds a 5.4% stake and is engaged in a highly visible proxy battle. What are your thoughts on this development?

Look, we obviously put out what our advisors called a fight letter … which was put out to really rebut the bogus information that was in his proxy statement. So I think that that letter speaks for itself.

I look at our board. I think it’s a very well-functioning board. It is a diverse board. It has a lot of expertise on it. Capital allocation, commercial, technical — it’s very well-rounded. So it’s very tough for us to figure out what he really brings to the table at this point.

We have this strategy currently that that’s in place that is working well. And quite frankly, I know from an industry standpoint, it’s a great theatre ticket to have, right?

But the reality is when we talk to shareholders, very, very rarely do we get any questions about George Economou and the proxy side of it. We get more questions about, tell me about your value strategy, tell me about the market, tell me about you taking your leverage down and congratulations on such a low break-even rate.

That’s what the conversations are more focused on than anything else.

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On April 16, 2024, Genco filed with the SEC a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the “Definitive Proxy Statement”), containing a form of WHITE proxy card, with respect to its solicitation of proxies for Genco’s 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) FILED BY GENCO AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN OR WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ANY SOLICITATION. Investors and security holders may obtain copies of these documents and other documents filed with the SEC by Genco free of charge through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed by Genco are also available free of charge by accessing Genco’s website at www.gencoshipping.com.

Participants

Genco, its directors and certain of its executive officers will be participants in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders in respect of the 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, including John C. Wobensmith (Chief Executive Officer and President), Peter Allen (Chief Financial Officer), Joseph Adamo (Chief Accounting Officer), Jesper Christensen (Chief Commercial Officer), and Genco’s directors other than Mr. Wobensmith, namely James G. Dolphin, Paramita Das, Kathleen C. Haines, Basil G. Mavroleon, Karin Y. Orsel, and Arthur L. Regan. Investors and security holders may obtain more detailed information regarding the Company’s directors and executive officers, including a description of their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, under the captions “Management,” “Executive Compensation,” and “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” in Genco’s Definitive Proxy Statement. To the extent holdings of such participants in Genco’s securities changed since the amounts described in the Definitive Proxy Statement, such changes will be reflected on Initial Statements of Beneficial Ownership on Form 3 or Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. These documents are available free of charge as described above.