Box Ships Inc. announced that the Board of Directors of the company has increased the size of the Board to five members and that Mr. Athanasios Reisopoulos was appointed to fill the resulting vacancy, as an independent Class B Director whose term expires at the company's 2016 annual general meeting of shareholders. Mr. Reisopoulos will also be a member of all the company's Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Conflicts Committees and will serve as Chairman of the Conflicts Committee. Mr. Reisopoulos is a Vice President, Head of Business & Market Development for the East Mediterranean, Black & Caspian Seas Regions for DNV GL.