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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form 6-K

 

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE
SECURITIES

EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the month of September 2017

 

Commission File Number 001-36433

 

GasLog Partners LP

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 

c/o GasLog Monaco S.A.M. 

Gildo Pastor Center

7 Rue du Gabian

MC 98000, Monaco

(Address of principal executive office)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

 

Form 20-F  þ     Form 40-F  o

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1): o

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(7): o

 

INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FORM 6-K REPORT

 

On May 3, 2017, GasLog Partners (“GasLog Partners” or the “Partnership”) acquired from GasLog Ltd. (“GasLog”) 100% of the shares in the entity that owns and charters the GasLog Greece (the “Acquisition”). The GasLog Greece is a 174,000 cubic meter (“cbm”) tri-fuel diesel electric (“TFDE”) LNG carrier built in 2016 and operated by GasLog since delivery. The vessel is currently on a multi-year time charter with Shell through March 2026 and Shell has an option to extend the charter for a period of five years.

 

The aggregate purchase price for the acquisition was $219.0 million, which included $1.0 million for positive net working capital balances transferred with the vessel. GasLog Partners financed the acquisition with cash on hand, including proceeds from our equity offering in January 2017, and the assumption of the GasLog Greece’s outstanding indebtedness of $151.4 million. The Acquisition closed on May 3, 2017.

 

Transfers of vessel owning subsidiaries from GasLog are accounted for as reorganizations of entities under common control and the Partnership’s consolidated financial statements are restated to reflect such subsidiaries from the date of their incorporation by GasLog as they were under the common control of GasLog. Accordingly, the Partnership is providing financial statements and related notes with retrospective adjustments to include the results of operations and financial position of the GasLog Greece for all periods presented in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2016, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 13, 2017 (the “Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F”).

 

Included herein as Exhibit 99.3 are the audited consolidated financial statements of the Partnership as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2016. These audited consolidated financial statements give retrospective effect to the Acquisition. These audited consolidated financial statements update Item 18 in the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F. Included herein as Exhibit 99.1 is Selected Financial Data, which is derived from the audited consolidated financial statements, and updates Item 3.A in the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F. Included herein as Exhibit 99.2 is Operating and Financial Review and Prospects, which updates Item 5 in the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F. As this Report on Form 6-K is being filed only for the purpose described above and only affects the Items specified above, the other information in the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F remains unchanged. No attempt has been made in this Report on Form 6-K to modify or update disclosures in the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F except for within the Items noted above and as described above. Information within the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F not affected by this Report on Form 6-K is unchanged and reflects the disclosure made at the time of the filing of the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F. Accordingly, this Report on Form 6-K should be read in conjunction with the Partnership’s 2016 Form 20-F.

 

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

 This Report on Form 6-K, including the Exhibits hereto, shall be incorporated by reference into our registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-204616), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 1, 2015, and the registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-203139), filed with the SEC on March 31, 2015, in each case to the extent not superseded by information subsequently filed or furnished (to the extent we expressly state that we incorporate such furnished information by reference) by us under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in each case as amended.

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EXHIBIT LIST

 

 

 

Exhibit   Description
     
99.1 - Selected Financial Data.
     
99.2 - Operating and Financial Review and Prospects.
     
99.3 - Audited Consolidated Financial Statements of GasLog Partners LP.
     
99.4 - Consent of Deloitte LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.
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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: September 29, 2017        
         
  GASLOG PARTNERS LP
         
    by /s/ Andrew Orekar
      Name: Andrew Orekar
      Title: Chief Executive Officer
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EX-99.1 2 c89422_ex99-1.htm

EXHIBIT 99.1

 

ITEM 3. KEY INFORMATION

 

A. Selected Financial Data

 

This information should be read together with, and is qualified in its entirety by, our consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included as Exhibit 99.3 to this current report on Form 6-K. You should also read “Item 5. Operating and Financial Review and Prospects” included as Exhibit 99.2 to this current report.

 

Certain numerical figures included in the below tables have been rounded. Discrepancies in tables between totals and the sums of the amounts listed may occur due to such rounding.

 

A.1. IFRS Common Control Reported Results

 

The following table presents, in each case for the periods and as of the dates indicated, selected historical financial and operating data. The selected historical financial data as of December 31, 2015 and 2016 and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2016 has been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included in Exhibit 99.3 to this current report. The selected historical financial data as of December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and for each of the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013 is a summary of and is derived from our audited consolidated financial statements after retroactive restatement for the transfer of vessels from GasLog Ltd. (“GasLog”) to GasLog Partners LP (the “Partnership” or “GasLog Partners” or “we” or “our” or “us”), that are not included in this report. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, or “IFRS”, as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or the “IASB”.

 

Prior to the closing of our initial public offering, or “IPO”, we did not own any vessels. The following presentation assumes that our business was operated as a separate entity prior to its inception. For the periods prior to the closing of the IPO, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows reflected in our financial statements include all expenses allocable to our business, but may not be indicative of those that would have been incurred had we operated as a separate public entity for all years presented or of future results. The annual consolidated financial statements and our historical financial and operating data under “IFRS Common Control Reported Results” include the accounts of the Partnership and its subsidiaries assuming that they are consolidated from the date of their incorporation by GasLog, as they were under the common control of GasLog. The transfer of the three initial vessels from GasLog to the Partnership at the time of the IPO, the transfer of two vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in September 2014, the transfer of three vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in July 2015, the transfer of one vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in November 2016 and the transfer of one additional vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in May 2017 were each accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control under IFRS and prior periods were retroactively restated.

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   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1    (restated)1 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars, except per unit data) 
STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS                         
Revenues   $   $66,210   $184,222   $224,190   $252,016 
Vessel operating costs        (12,780)   (35,732)   (47,748)   (51,737)
Voyage expenses and commissions        (811)   (2,368)   (2,979)   (3,442)
Depreciation        (12,591)   (39,569)   (49,971)   (54,548)
General and administrative expenses    (43)   (1,677)   (6,939)   (11,536)   (12,031)
(Loss)/profit from operations    (43)   38,351    99,614    111,956    130,258 
Financial costs    (6)   (12,459)   (37,725)   (31,212)   (40,300)
Financial income    118    48    49    29    188 
(Loss)/gain on interest rate swaps    (1,784)   5,071    (12,903)   (3,144)   (2,513)
Total other expenses, net    (1,672)   (7,340)   (50,579)   (34,327)   (42,625)
(Loss)/profit for the year   $(1,715)  $31,011   $49,035   $77,629   $87,633 
(Loss)/profit attributable to GasLog’s operations(2)   $(1,715)  $31,011   $34,491   $12,589   $10,363 
Partnership’s profit(2)   $   $   $14,544   $65,040   $77,270 
EARNINGS PER UNIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE PARTNERSHIP(3)                         
Common units (basic)   $   $   $0.75   $2.38   $2.18 
Common units (diluted)   $   $   $0.75   $2.38   $2.17 
Subordinated units   $   $   $0.56   $1.85   $2.14 
General partner units   $   $   $0.66   $2.28   $2.31 

 

   As of December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1    (restated)1 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars, except per unit data) 
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION DATA                         
Cash and cash equivalents   $10,005   $20,117   $50,629   $62,677   $53,235 
Short-term investments        1,500    21,700        3,000 
Vessels        763,613    1,507,541    1,464,763    1,624,494 
Vessels under construction    138,413    10,159    21,154    33,113     
Total assets    161,617    804,202    1,608,673    1,572,732    1,698,505 
Borrowings—current portion        29,404    28,356    333,147    56,020 
Borrowings—non-current portion        496,476    900,749    533,555    910,666 
Total equity    122,860    197,140    610,309    642,612    693,172 
NUMBER OF UNITS OUTSTANDING                         
General Partner units            492,750    645,811    701,933 
Common units            14,322,358    21,822,358    24,572,358 
Subordinated units            9,822,358    9,822,358    9,822,358 
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   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1    (restated)1 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
CASH FLOW DATA                         
Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities   $(115)  $32,148   $128,063   $125,934    164,557 
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities    118    (624,486)   (809,336)   14,421    (176,739)
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities    10,000    602,450    711,785    (128,307)   2,740 

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016  
   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1 
FLEET DATA*                         
Number of LNG carriers at end of period        4    9    9    10 
Average number of LNG carriers during period        2.3    7.1    9    9.8 
Average age of LNG carriers (years)        0.6    5.2    6.2    6.5 
Total calendar days of fleet for the period        855    2,595    3,285    3,571 
Total operating days of fleet for the period(4)        855    2,586    3,220    3,526 
 
*The Fleet Data above is calculated consistent with our IFRS Common Control Reported Results.

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1   (restated)1 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
OTHER FINANCIAL DATA                         
EBITDA(5)   $(43)  $50,942   $139,183   $161,927   $184,806 
Capital expenditures:                         
Payment for vessels and vessel additions        623,031    789,178    7,317    173,926 
Distributable cash flow(5)    N/A    N/A    27,259    72,254    83,660 
Cash distributions declared    N/A    9,800    22,179(6)    58,992(7)    65,577(8) 
Cash distributions paid    N/A        23,169(6)    60,002(7)    73,377(8) 

 

A.2. Partnership Performance Results

 

The financial and operating data below exclude amounts related to vessels currently owned by the Partnership for the periods prior to their respective transfer to GasLog Partners from GasLog, as the Partnership was not entitled to the cash or results generated in the periods prior to such transfers. The Partnership Performance Results are non-GAAP financial measures that the Partnership believes provide meaningful supplemental information to both management and investors regarding the financial and operating performance of the Partnership because such presentation is consistent with the calculation of the quarterly distribution and the earnings per unit, which similarly exclude the results of vessels prior to their transfer to the Partnership.

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   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS                    
Revenues(5)   $   $   $65,931   $168,927   $206,424 
Vessel operating costs(5)            (12,226)   (33,656)   (43,479)
Voyage expenses and commissions(5)            (817)   (2,102)   (2,841)
Depreciation(5)            (13,352)   (35,981)   (45,230)
General and administrative expenses(5)            (4,591)   (10,383)   (11,219)
Profit from operations(5)            34,945    86,805    103,655 
Financial costs(5)            (15,206)   (21,789)   (30,187)
Financial income(5)            23    24    179 
(Loss)/gain on interest rate swaps(5)            (5,218)       3,623 
Total other expenses, net(5)            (20,401)   (21,765)   (26,385)
Partnership’s profit(2)(5)   $   $   $14,544   $65,040   $77,270 

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE FLEET DATA*                         
Number of LNG carriers at end of period            5    8    9 
Average number of LNG carriers during period            2.4    6.5    8.2 
Average age of LNG carriers (years)            4.5    6.7    7.2 
Total calendar days of fleet for the period            885    2,377    2,989 
Total operating days of fleet for the period(4)            885    2,377    2,944 
 
*The Partnership Performance Fleet Data above is calculated consistent with our Partnership Performance Results.

 

   Year Ended December 31, 
   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
OTHER PARTNERSHIP PERFORMANCE FINANCIAL DATA                         
EBITDA(5)   $   $   $48,297   $122,786   $148,885 
Distributable cash flow(5)            27,259    72,254    83,660 
Cash distributions declared            13,369(9)    51,192(10)    65,577(11) 
Cash distributions paid            13,369(9)    51,192(10)    65,577(11) 
 
(1)Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog. See Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.
  
(2)See Note 18 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.
  
(3)As disclosed in Note 6 to our audited consolidated financial statements, on May 12, 2014, the Partnership completed its IPO and issued 9,822,358 common units, 9,822,358 subordinated units and 400,913 general partner units. On September 29, 2014, the Partnership completed an equity offering of 4,500,000 common units. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 91,837 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. On June 26, 2015, the Partnership completed an equity offering of 7,500,000 common units. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 153,061 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. On August 5, 2016, the Partnership completed an equity offering of 2,750,000 common units. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 56,122 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. Earnings per unit is presented for the periods in which the units were outstanding.
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(4)The operating days for our fleet are the total number of days in a given period that the vessels were in our possession less the total number of days off-hire not recoverable from the insurers. We define days off-hire as days lost to, among other things, operational deficiencies, dry-docking for repairs, maintenance or inspection, equipment breakdowns, special surveys and vessel upgrades, delays due to accidents, crew strikes, certain vessel detentions or similar problems, our failure to maintain the vessel in compliance with its specifications and contractual standards or to provide the required crew, or periods of commercial waiting time during which we do not earn charter hire.
  
(5)Non-GAAP Financial Measures
  
 

Partnership Performance Results. As described above, our IFRS Common Control Reported Results are derived from the consolidated financial statements of the Partnership.

 

Our Partnership Performance Results presented below are non-GAAP measures and exclude amounts related to GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd. (the owners of the GasLog Shanghai, the GasLog Santiago and the GasLog Sydney, respectively) for the period prior to the closing of the IPO, GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. (the owners of the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth, respectively) for the period prior to their transfer to the Partnership on September 29, 2014, the amounts related to GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. (the owners of the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively) for the period prior to their transfer to the Partnership on July 1, 2015, the amounts related to GAS-seven Ltd. (the owner of the GasLog Seattle) for the period prior to its transfer to the Partnership on November 1, 2016 and the amounts related to GAS-eleven Ltd. (the owner of the GasLog Greece) for the period prior to its transfer to the Partnership on May 3, 2017. While such amounts are reflected in the Partnership’s reported financial statements because the transfers to the Partnership were accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control under IFRS, (i) GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to the closing of the IPO, (ii) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to their transfer to the Partnership in September 2014, (iii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to their transfer to the Partnership in July 2015, (iv) GAS-seven Ltd. was not owned by the Partnership prior to its transfer to the Partnership in November 2016 and v) GAS-eleven Ltd. was not owned by the Partnership prior to its transfer to the Partnership in May 2017, and accordingly the Partnership was not entitled to the cash or results generated in the period prior to such transfers.

 

The Partnership Performance Results are non-GAAP financial measures. GasLog Partners believes that these financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information to both management and investors regarding the financial and operating performance of the Partnership because such presentation is consistent with the calculation of the quarterly distribution and the earnings per unit, which similarly exclude the results of vessels prior to their transfer to the Partnership. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be viewed in isolation or as substitutes to the equivalent GAAP measures presented in accordance with IFRS, but should be used in conjunction with the most directly comparable IFRS Common Control Reported Results.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2013, prior to the Partnership’s incorporation, no results were attributable to the Partnership.

 

Reconciliation of Partnership Performance Results to IFRS Common Control Reported Results in our Financial Statements:

 

 

     Year Ended December 31, 2014   Year Ended December 31, 2015   Year Ended December 31, 2016 
     Results
attributable
to GasLog
   Partnership
Performance
Results
   IFRS
Common
Control
Reported
Results
   Results
attributable
to GasLog
   Partnership
Performance
Results
   IFRS
Common
Control
Reported
Results
   Results
attributable
to GasLog
   Partnership
Performance
Results
   IFRS
Common
Control
Reported
Results
 
     Restated(1)       Restated(1)   Restated(1)       Restated(1)   Restated(1)       Restated(1) 
     (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
  STATEMENT OF PROFIT OR LOSS                                             
  Revenues   $118,291   $65,931   $184,222   $55,263   $168,927   $224,190   $45,592   $206,424   $252,016 
  Vessel operating costs    (23,506)   (12,226)   (35,732)   (14,092)   (33,656)   (47,748)   (8,258)   (43,479)   (51,737)
  Voyage expenses and commissions    (1,551)   (817)   (2,368)   (877)   (2,102)   (2,979)   (601)   (2,841)   (3,442)
  Depreciation    (26,217)   (13,352)   (39,569)   (13,990)   (35,981)   (49,971)   (9,318)   (45,230)   (54,548)
  General and administrative expenses    (2,348)   (4,591)   (6,939)   (1,153)   (10,383)   (11,536)   (812)   (11,219)   (12,031)
  Profit from operations    64,669    34,945    99,614    25,151    86,805    111,956    26,603    103,655    130,258 
  Financial costs    (22,519)   (15,206)   (37,725)   (9,423)   (21,789)   (31,212)   (10,113)   (30,187)   (40,300)
  Financial income    26    23    49    5    24    29    9    179    188 
  (Loss)/gain on interest rate swaps    (7,685)   (5,218)   (12,903)   (3,144)       (3,144)   (6,136)   3,623    (2,513)
  Total other expense    (30,178)   (20,401)   (50,579)   (12,562)   (21,765)   (34,327)   (16,240)   (26,385)   (42,625)
  Profit for the year   $34,491   $14,544   $49,035   $12,589   $65,040   $77,629   $10,363   $77,270   $87,633 
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EBITDA. We define EBITDA as earnings before interest income and expense, gain/loss on interest rate swaps, taxes, depreciation and amortization. EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is used as a supplemental financial measure by management and external users of financial statements, such as our investors, to assess our operating performance. The Partnership believes that this non-GAAP financial measure assists our management and investors by increasing the comparability of our performance from period to period. The Partnership believes that including EBITDA assists our management and investors in (i) understanding and analyzing the results of our operating and business performance, (ii) selecting between investing in us and other investment alternatives and (iii) monitoring our ongoing financial and operational strength in assessing whether to continue to hold our common units. This increased comparability is achieved by excluding the potentially disparate effects between periods of interest, gains/losses on interest rate swaps, taxes, depreciation and amortization, which items are affected by various and possibly changing financing methods, capital structure and historical cost basis and which items may significantly affect results of operations between periods.

 

EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered an alternative to, or as a substitute for, or superior to profit/(loss), profit/(loss) from operations, earnings per unit or any other measure of operating performance presented in accordance with IFRS. Some of these limitations include the fact that it does not reflect (i) our cash expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments, (ii) changes in, or cash requirements for our working capital needs and (iii) the significant interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt. Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements.

 

EBITDA excludes some, but not all, items that affect profit/(loss) and these measures may vary among other companies. Therefore, EBITDA as presented herein may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. The following table reconciles EBITDA to profit/(loss), the most directly comparable IFRS financial measure, for the periods presented.

 

EBITDA is presented on the basis of IFRS Common Control Reported Results and Partnership Performance Results. Partnership Performance Results are non-GAAP measures. The difference between IFRS Common Control Reported Results and Partnership Performance Results are results attributable to GasLog as set out in the reconciliation above.

 

Reconciliation of EBITDA to Profit:

 

     IFRS Common Control Reported Results
Year ended December 31,
   Partnership Performance Results
Year ended December 31,
 
     2012   2013   2014   2015   2016   2012   2013   2014   2015   2016 
     Restated(1)   Restated(1)   Restated(1)   Restated(1)   Restated(1)                     
     (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
  (Loss)/profit for the year   $(1,715)  $31,011   $49,035   $77,629   $87,633   $   $   $14,544   $65,040   $77,270 
  Financial income    (118)   (48)   (49)   (29)   (188)           (23)   (24)   (179)
  Financial costs    6    12,459    37,725    31,212    40,300            15,206    21,789    30,187 
  Loss/(gain) on interest rate swaps    1,784    (5,071)   12,903    3,144    2,513            5,218        (3,623)
  Depreciation        12,591    39,569    49,971    54,548            13,352    35,981    45,230 
  EBITDA   $(43)  $50,942   $139,183   $161,927   $184,806   $   $   $48,297   $122,786   $148,885 

 

Distributable cash flow. Distributable cash flow means EBITDA (Partnership Performance Results), after considering cash interest expense for the period, including realized loss on interest rate swaps and excluding amortization of loan fees, estimated dry-docking and replacement capital reserves established by the Partnership. Estimated dry-docking and replacement capital reserves represent capital expenditures required to renew and maintain over the long-term the operating capacity of, or the revenue generated by, our capital assets. Distributable cash flow, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is a quantitative standard used by investors in publicly-traded partnerships to assess their ability to make quarterly cash distributions. Our calculation of Distributable cash flow may not be comparable to that reported by other companies.

 

Distributable cash flow has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered as an alternative to, or substitute for, or superior to profit/(loss), profit/(loss) from operations, earnings per unit or any other measure of operating performance presented in accordance with IFRS.

 

The table below reconciles Distributable cash flow and Cash distributions declared to EBITDA (Partnership Performance Results).

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Reconciliation of Distributable Cash Flow to Profit:

 

   Partnership
Performance Results
Year ended
December 31,
 
   2014   2015   2016 
   (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
EBITDA (Partnership Performance Results)*   $48,297   $122,786   $148,885 
Cash interest expense including realized loss on swaps and excluding amortization of loan fees    (9,912)   (19,484)   (26,929)
Dry-docking capital reserve    (2,621)   (8,338)   (8,829)
Replacement capital reserve    (8,505)   (22,710)   (29,467)
Distributable cash flow    27,259    72,254    83,660 
Other reserves**    (3,173)   (16,067)   (14,244)
Cash distributions***   $24,086   $56,187   $69,416 

 

*   See table above for reconciliation of EBITDA (Partnership Performance Results) to Profit for the year.
     
**   Refers to reserves (other than the dry-docking and replacement capital reserves) which have been established for the proper conduct of the business of the Partnership and its subsidiaries (including reserves for future capital expenditures and for anticipated future credit needs of the Partnership and its subsidiaries).
     
***   Refers to cash distributions made since the Partnership’s IPO. It excludes payments of dividends due to GasLog before vessels were acquired by the Partnership.

 

(6)Does not reflect a distribution of $10.72 million declared in January 2015 in respect of the fourth quarter of 2014. Cash distribution paid includes $9.80 million dividend due to GasLog which was declared in 2013 and excludes $8.81 million dividend due to GasLog which was declared in 2014, in both cases prior to the contribution of the relevant vessels to the Partnership.
  
(7)Does not reflect a distribution of $15.71 million declared in January 2016 in respect of the fourth quarter of 2015. Cash distribution paid includes $8.81 million dividend due to GasLog which was declared in 2014 and excludes $7.80 million dividend due to GasLog which was declared in 2015, in both cases prior to the contribution of the relevant vessels to the Partnership.
  
(8)Does not reflect a distribution of $19.55 million declared in January 2017 in respect of the fourth quarter of 2016. Cash distribution paid includes $7.80 million dividend due to GasLog which was declared in 2015 prior to the contribution of the GasLog Seattle to the Partnership.
  
(9)Does not reflect a distribution of $10.72 million declared in January 2015 and paid in February 2015, in respect of the fourth quarter of 2014.
  
(10)Does not reflect a distribution of $15.71 million declared in January 2016 and paid in February 2016, in respect of the fourth quarter of 2015.
  
(11)Does not reflect a distribution of $19.55 million declared in January 2017 and paid in February 2017, in respect of the fourth quarter of 2016.
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EXHIBIT 99.2

 

ITEM 5. OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS

 

The following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those statements included elsewhere in this current report. This discussion includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, such as those set forth under “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors” in the annual report of Form 20-F filed on February 13, 2017 (the “2016 Form 20-F”) and elsewhere in this current report, our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Please see the section “Forward-Looking Statements” at the beginning of the 2016 Form 20-F.

 

Prior to the closing of the initial public offering (“IPO”), we did not own any vessels. Our International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) Common Control Reported Results represent the results of GasLog Partners LP (“GasLog Partners” or the “Partnership” or “we” or “our” or “us”) as an entity under the common control of GasLog Ltd. (“GasLog”). The following discussion assumes that our business was operated as a separate entity prior to its inception. The transfer of the three initial vessels from GasLog to the Partnership at the time of the IPO, the transfer of two vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in September 2014, the transfer of three vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in July 2015, the transfer of one vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in November 2016 and the transfer of one additional vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in May 2017 were each accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control under IFRS. Accordingly, the annual consolidated financial statements and the accompanying discussion under “Results of Operations” include the accounts of the Partnership and its subsidiaries assuming that they are consolidated from the date of their incorporation by GasLog, as they were under the common control of GasLog.

 

For the periods prior to the closing of the IPO, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows reflected in our financial statements include all expenses allocable to our business, but may not be indicative of those that would have been incurred had we operated as a separate public entity for all years presented or of future results.

 

We manage our business and analyze and report our results of operations in a single segment.

 

Overview

 

We are a growth-oriented limited partnership focused on owning, operating and acquiring liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) carriers engaged in LNG transportation under long-term charters, which we define as charters of five full years or more. Our fleet of ten LNG carriers, which have charter terms expiring through 2026, were contributed to us by, or acquired from, GasLog, which controls us through its ownership of our general partner.

 

Our fleet consists of ten LNG carriers, including five vessels with modern tri-fuel diesel electric (“TFDE”) propulsion technology and five modern steam turbine-powered (“Steam”) vessels that operate under long-term charters with Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”), without including the GasLog Geneva, a 174,000 cubic meters (“cbm”) LNG carrier, the acquisition of which closed on July 3, 2017 and has not been reflected throughout the discussion of our financial condition and results of operations in this current report. We also have options and other rights under which we may acquire additional LNG carriers from GasLog, as described below. We believe that such options and rights provide us with significant built-in growth opportunities. We may also acquire vessels from shipyards or other owners.

 

We operate our vessels under long-term charters with fixed-fee contracts that generate predictable cash flows. We intend to grow our fleet through further acquisitions of LNG carriers from GasLog and third parties. However, we cannot assure you that we will make any particular acquisition or that as a consequence we will successfully grow our per unit distributions. Among other things, our ability to acquire additional LNG carriers will be dependent upon our ability to raise additional equity and debt financing.

 

Items You Should Consider When Evaluating Our Historical Financial Performance and Assessing Our Future Prospects

 

Our result of operations, cash flows and financial conditions could differ from those that would have resulted if we operated autonomously or as an entity independent of GasLog in the years for which historical financial data is presented below, and such data may not be indicative of our future operating results or financial performance.

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You should consider the following facts when evaluating our historical results of operations and assessing our future prospects:

 

  The size of our fleet continues to change. Our historical results of operations, as reported under common control accounting, reflect changes in the size and composition of our fleet due to certain vessel deliveries. For example, each of the GasLog Shanghai, the GasLog Santiago, the GasLog Sydney and the GasLog Seattle were delivered from the shipyard during 2013, the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally were acquired by GasLog during 2014 and the GasLog Greece was delivered from the shipyard during 2016 and did not have any historical operations in GasLog prior to that time. In addition, pursuant to the omnibus agreement, (i) we have the option to purchase from GasLog six additional LNG carriers at fair market value as determined in accordance with the provisions of the omnibus agreement, and (ii) GasLog will be required to offer to us for purchase at fair market value, as determined in accordance with the omnibus agreement, any LNG carrier with a cargo capacity greater than 75,000 cbm engaged in oceangoing LNG transportation that GasLog owns or acquires if charters are secured with committed terms of five full years or more. Furthermore, we may grow through the acquisition in the future of other vessels as part of our growth strategy.

 

  Our future results of operations may be affected by fluctuations in currency exchange rates. All of the revenue generated from our fleet is denominated in U.S. dollars, and the majority of our expenses, including debt repayment obligations under our credit facilities and a portion of our administrative expenses, are denominated in U.S. dollars. However, a portion of the ship operating expenses, primarily crew wages of officers, and a large portion of our administrative expenses are denominated in euros. The composition of our vessel operating expenses may vary over time depending upon the location of future charters and/or the composition of our crews. All of our financing and interest expenses are also denominated in U.S. dollars. We anticipate that all of our future financing agreements will also be denominated in U.S. dollars.
     
  Our historical results of operations reflect costs that are not necessarily indicative of future administrative costs. The aggregate fees and expenses payable for services under the administrative services agreement, commercial management agreements and ship management agreements for the year ended December 31, 2016 were $4.8 million, $3.7 million and $5.4 million, respectively. As our board approved an increase in the service fee payable to GasLog under the terms of the administrative services agreement in November 2016, the fees and expenses payable pursuant to these agreements will likely be higher for future periods than reflected in our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2016. Additionally, these fees and expenses will be payable without regard to our business, results of operations and financial condition. For a description of the administrative services agreement, commercial management agreements and ship management agreements, see “Item 7. Major Unitholders and Related Party Transactions—B. Related Party Transactions” of the 2016 Form 20-F.

 

Known Trends

 

As referenced in the Risk Factors included in the 2016 Form 20-F, global crude oil prices have been depressed since 2014. This has in turn applied downward pressure on natural gas prices and led to a narrowing of the gap in pricing in different geographic regions, which has adversely affected the length of voyages in the spot LNG shipping market and the spot rates and medium term charter rates for charters which commence in the near future.

 

In the shorter-term shipping market in the fourth quarter 2016, brokers reported that spot rates in the Atlantic Basin increased to approximately $45,000 per day, with one end of year fixture reported above $50,000. The catalyst was greater ton-mile demand with many cargoes going from the U.S. to Asia through the Panama Canal. Spot charter terms have also improved with round trip economics now seen on some short term voyages. In the Pacific Basin, reported rates were lower at around $38,000 per day than the Atlantic, largely due to the greater availability of vessels during the period.

 

In the longer term, there remain uncertainties in the legacy of several years of low oil prices: oil may undermine natural gas as a fuel for power generation, although natural gas may in turn become more attractive than coal, nuclear and renewables. Amidst this uncertainty, some production companies have announced delays or cancellations of previously-announced LNG projects that, unless offset by new projects coming on stream, could adversely affect demand for LNG charters over the next few years. And although there is broad market consensus that LNG ship demand is expected to outstrip ship supply over the next few years, delays to start up or unexpected downtime of LNG supply projects may reduce demand and increase supply. Reduced demand for LNG or LNG shipping, or any reduction or limitation in LNG production capacity, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to secure future time charters at attractive rates and durations upon expiration or early termination of our current charter arrangements, for any ships for which we have not yet secured charters or for any new ships we acquire, which could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, including cash available for distribution to unitholders.

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Our ships are currently all under multi-year contracts, three of which expire during 2018 unless the charterer exercises its extension option. For the three ships concerned the charterer has the option to extend the charters for two consecutive periods of three or four years each plus or minus up to 30 days. Each charter extension and the length thereof is to be nominated by charterers at least 18 months before the end of each current charter period. No such nominations have been made in respect of the GasLog Shanghai, which is now due to come off charter in May 2018 plus or minus 30 days, the GasLog Santiago, which is now due to come off charter in July 2018 plus or minus 30 days and the GasLog Sydney, which is now due to come off charter in September 2018 plus or minus 30 days. Depending on prevailing LNG charter market conditions, we may have difficulty in securing renewed or new charters at attractive rates and durations on the ships when such multi-year charters expire. Such a failure could adversely affect our future liquidity, results of operations and cash flows, including cash available for distribution to unitholders, as well as our ability to meet certain of our debt covenants. A sustained decline in charter rates could also adversely affect the market value of our ships, on which certain of the ratios and financial covenants we are required to comply with are based. However, in 2017, we expect projects coming onstream will add approximately 25 million tonnes (annualized, mtpa) of new liquefaction capacity in both Australia and the U.S., and a further ~100 mtpa from 2018 to 2020. Although much of the shipping required to transport this additional volume has been contracted and is currently under construction, encouraging levels of tendering activity is being noted and we continue to see a future shortfall of vessels that will be required for the Australian and U.S. projects that have taken final investment decision.

 

A. Operating Results

 

Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations

 

We believe the principal factors that will affect our future results of operations include:

 

  the number and availability of our LNG carriers and the other ten GasLog LNG carriers that are or that we expect will be in the future subject to charters with committed terms of five full years or more upon delivery, and our ability to acquire any of GasLog’s other existing or future LNG carriers with cargo capacities greater than 75,000 cbm engaged in oceangoing LNG transportation, to the extent that charters are secured on these vessels with committed terms of five full years or more;
     
  our ability to maintain a good working relationship with our existing customers and our ability to increase the number of our customers through the development of new working relationships;
     
  the performance of our charterer;
     
  the supply and demand relationship for LNG shipping services;
     
  our ability to successfully re-employ our ships at economically attractive rates;
     
  the effective and efficient technical management of our ships;
     
  our ability to obtain acceptable debt financing in respect of our capital commitments;
     
  our ability to obtain and maintain regulatory approvals and to satisfy technical, health, safety and compliance standards that meet our customers’ requirements; and
     
  economic, regulatory, political and governmental conditions that affect shipping and the LNG industry, which include changes in the number of new LNG importing countries and regions, as well as structural LNG market changes impacting LNG supply that may allow greater flexibility and competition of other energy sources with global LNG use.

 

In addition to the general factors discussed above, we believe certain specific factors have impacted, or will impact, our results of operations. These factors include:

 

  the hire rate earned by our ships;
     
  unscheduled off-hire days;
     
  the level of our ship operating expenses, including crewing costs, insurance and maintenance costs;
     
  our level of debt, the related interest expense and the timing of required payments of principal;
     
  mark-to-market changes in interest rate swaps and foreign currency fluctuations; and
     
  the level of our general and administrative expenses, including salaries and costs of consultants.

 

See “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors” of the 2016 Form 20-F for a discussion of certain risks inherent in our business.

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Principal Components of Revenues and Expenses

 

Revenues

 

Our revenues are driven primarily by the number of LNG carriers in our fleet, the amount of daily charter hire that they earn under time charters and the number of operating days during which they generate revenues. These factors, in turn, are affected by our decisions relating to ship acquisitions and disposals, the amount of time that our ships spend in dry-dock undergoing repairs, maintenance and upgrade work, the age, condition and technical specifications of our ships, as well as the relative levels of supply and demand in the LNG carrier charter market. Under the terms of some of our time charter arrangements, the operating cost component of the daily hire rate is intended to correspond to the costs of operating the ship. Accordingly, we will receive additional revenue under such time charters through an annual escalation of the operating cost component of the daily hire rate. We believe these adjustment provisions can provide substantial protection against significant cost increases. See “Item 4. Information on the Partnership—B. Business Overview—Ship Time Charters—Hire Rate Provisions” of the 2016 Form 20-F for a more detailed discussion of the hire rate provisions of our charter contracts.

 

Our LNG carriers are employed through time charter contracts. Revenues under our time charters are recognized when services are performed, revenue is earned and the collection of the revenue is reasonably assured. The charter hire revenue is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the relevant time charter. We do not recognize revenue during days when the ship is off-hire, unless it is recoverable from insurers. Advance payments under time charter contracts are classified as liabilities until such time as the criteria for recognizing the revenue are met.

 

Vessel Operating Costs

 

We are generally responsible for ship operating expenses, which include costs for crewing, insurance, repairs, modifications and maintenance, lubricants, spare parts and consumable stores and other miscellaneous expenses, as well as the associated cost of providing these items and services. However, as described above, the hire rate provisions of our time charters are intended to reflect the operating costs borne by us. The charters on four vessels in our fleet contain provisions that are designed to reduce our exposure to increases in operating costs, including review provisions and cost pass-through provisions. Ship operating expenses are recognized as expenses when incurred.

 

Voyage Expenses and Commissions

 

Under our time charter arrangements, charterers bear substantially all voyage expenses, including bunker fuel, port charges and canal tolls, but not commissions. Commissions are recognized as expenses on a pro rata basis over the duration of the period of the time charter.

 

Depreciation

 

We depreciate the cost of our ships on the basis of two components: a vessel component and a dry-docking component. The vessel component is depreciated on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life of each ship, based on the cost of the ship less its estimated residual value. We estimate the useful lives of our ships to be 35 years from the date of delivery from the shipyard. Management estimates residual value of its vessels to be equal to the product of its lightweight tonnage (“LWT”) and an estimated scrap rate per LWT, which represents our estimate of the market value of the ship at the end of its useful life.

 

We must periodically dry-dock each of our ships for inspection, repairs and maintenance and any modifications to comply with industry certification or governmental requirements. All our ships are required to be dry-docked for these inspections at least once every five years. At the time of delivery of a ship, we estimate the dry-docking component of the cost of the ship, which represents the estimated cost of the ship’s first dry-docking based on our historical experience with similar types of ships. The dry-docking component of the ship’s cost is depreciated over five years, in the case of new ships, and until the next dry-docking for secondhand ships, unless the Partnership determines to dry-dock the ships at an earlier date. In the event a ship is dry-docked at an earlier date, the unamortized dry-docking component is written-off immediately.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of legal and other professional fees, board of directors’ fees, share-based compensation expense, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, travel and accommodation expenses, commercial management fees and administrative fees payable to GasLog.

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Financial Costs

 

We incur interest expense on the outstanding indebtedness under our credit facilities and the swap arrangements, if any, that qualify for treatment as cash flow hedges for financial reporting purposes, which we include in our financial costs. Financial costs also include amortization of other loan issuance costs incurred in connection with establishing our credit facilities.

 

Interest expense and amortization of loan issuance costs are expensed as incurred.

 

Financial Income

 

Financial income consists of interest income, which will depend on the level of our cash deposits, investments and prevailing interest rates. Interest income is recognized on an accrual basis.

 

Gain/(Loss) on Interest Rate Swaps

 

Any gain or loss derived from the fair value of the interest rate swaps at their inception, the ineffective portion of changes in the fair value of the interest rate swaps that meet hedge accounting criteria and net interest on interest rate swaps held for trading, the movement in the fair value of the interest rate swaps that have not been designated as hedges and the amortization of the cumulative unrealized loss for the interest rate swaps that hedge accounting was discontinued are presented as gain or loss on interest rate swaps in our consolidated statements of profit or loss.

 

Results of Operations

 

Our results set forth below are derived from the annual consolidated financial statements of the Partnership. Prior to the closing of our IPO, we did not own any vessels. The presentation assumes that our business was operated as a separate entity prior to its inception. The transfer of the three initial vessels from GasLog to the Partnership at the time of the IPO, the transfer of two vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in September 2014, the transfer of three vessels from GasLog to the Partnership in July 2015, the transfer of one vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in November 2016 and the transfer of one additional vessel from GasLog to the Partnership in May 2017 were each accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control under IFRS. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Partnership and its subsidiaries assuming that they are consolidated from the date of their incorporation by GasLog as they were under the common control of GasLog. For the periods prior to the closing of the IPO, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows reflected in our financial statements include all expenses allocable to our business, but may not be indicative of those that would have been incurred had we operated as a separate public entity for all years presented or of future results.

 

Five of our LNG carriers, the GasLog Shanghai, the GasLog Santiago, the GasLog Sydney, the GasLog Seattle and the GasLog Greece were delivered and immediately commenced their time charters in January 2013, March 2013, May 2013, December 2013 and March 2016 respectively. In addition, the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth commenced their time charters upon their acquisition by GasLog in April 2014. Finally, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally commenced their time charters upon their acquisition by GasLog in June 2014.

 

The Partnership’s historical results were retroactively restated to reflect the historical results of these acquired entities during the periods they were owned by GasLog.

 

Certain numerical figures included in the below tables have been rounded. Discrepancies in tables between totals and the sums of the amounts listed may occur due to such rounding.

 

Year ended December 31, 2015 compared to the year ended December 31, 2016

 

   IFRS Common Control Reported Results
   2015   2016   Change 
   Restated(1)    Restated(1)    
    (in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Statement of profit or loss               
Revenues   224,190    252,016    27,826 
Vessel operating costs   (47,748)   (51,737)   (3,989)
Voyage expenses and commissions   (2,979)   (3,442)   (463)
Depreciation   (49,971)   (54,548)   (4,577)
General and administrative expenses   (11,536)   (12,031)   (495)
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Profit from operations   111,956    130,258    18,302 
Financial costs   (31,212)   (40,300)   (9,088)
Financial income   29    188    159 
Loss on interest rate swaps   (3,144)   (2,513)   631 
Profit for the year   77,629    87,633    10,004 
Profit attributable to Partnership’s operations   65,040    77,270    12,230 
 

(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial results of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog. See Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2015, we had an average of 9.0 vessels operating in our owned fleet having 3,220 operating days while during the year ended December 31, 2016, we had an average of 9.8 vessels operating in our owned fleet having 3,526 operating days.

 

Revenues: Revenues increased by $27.8 million, or 12.4%, from $224.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $252.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to an increase of $23.3 million from the delivery of the GasLog Greece on March 29, 2016, which resulted in an increase in operating days, an increase of $1.6 million due to the reduced off-hire days from scheduled dry-dockings (during the year ended December 31, 2015 three vessels underwent dry-docking versus two vessels during the year ended December 31, 2016), the increase of the average daily hire rate from $69,624 for the year ended December 31, 2015 to $71,474 for the year ended December 31, 2016 and an increase of $0.6 million due to one additional calendar day during the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

Vessel Operating Costs: Vessel operating costs increased by $4.0 million, or 8.4%, from $47.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $51.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to an increase of $2.5 million in technical expenses related to new technical equipment, various scheduled repairs and technical certifications, an increase of $1.7 million in crew wages due to the increase in operating days, partially offset by a decrease of $0.2 million in insurance expenses achieved by the negotiation of more favorable terms in the renewal of the vessels’ insurance contracts. Daily operating cost per vessel marginally decreased from $14,535 per day during the year ended December 31, 2015 to $14,488 per day during the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

Voyage expenses and commissions: Voyage expenses and commissions increased by $0.4 million, or 13.3%, from $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $3.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to the increased operating days in the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

Depreciation: Depreciation increased by $4.5 million, or 9.0%, from $50.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $54.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase in depreciation resulted mainly from the increase in the average number of vessels in our fleet in the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses increased by $0.5 million, or 4.3%, from $11.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $12.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to an increase in administrative expenses of $1.0 million for services under the administrative services agreement with GasLog related to the three vessels acquired from GasLog in July 2015 and the GasLog Seattle acquired from GasLog in November 2016, an increase of $0.3 million in the non-cash expense recognized in respect of the share-based compensation and an increase of $0.3 million in all other expenses, partially offset by a decrease of $0.9 million in legal and professional fees mainly due to consultancy fees charged in 2015 and a decrease of $0.2 million in board of directors’ fees.

 

Financial Costs: Financial costs increased by $9.1 million, or 29.2%, from $31.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $40.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to the increase in amortization of loan fees of $3.6 million, mainly driven by a write-off of $2.4 million of unamortized loan fees associated with the GasLog Seattle credit facility that was refinanced in July 2016, the $4.8 million increase in interest expense on loans, the increase in commitment fees of $0.6 million mainly for the revolving credit facility with GasLog and the increase in other financial expenses of $0.1 million. During the year ended December 31, 2015, we had an average of $922.3 million of outstanding indebtedness, with a weighted average interest rate of 2.9%, compared to an average of $975.3 million of outstanding indebtedness with a weighted average interest rate of 3.2% during the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

Loss on Interest Rate Swaps: Loss on interest rate swaps decreased by $0.6 million, or 19.4%, from $3.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $2.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The decrease is mainly attributable to a decrease in loss of $1.7 million from mark-to-market valuation of our interest rate swaps carried at fair value through profit or loss and a decrease in realized loss from interest rate swaps held for trading of $0.8 million, which was partially offset by an increase of $1.9 million in recycled loss that was reclassified from equity to the statement of profit or loss related to the interest rate swaps terminated in July 2016.

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Profit for the Year: Profit for the year increased by $10.0 million, or 12.9% from $77.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $87.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, as a result of the aforementioned factors.

 

Profit attributable to the Partnership: Profit attributable to the Partnership for the year increased by $12.3 million, or 19.0% from $65.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, to $77.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase is mainly attributable to the increase in operating days (2,377 operating days in the year ended December 31, 2015 as compared to 2,944 operating days in the year ended December 31, 2016) and the unrealized gain on interest rate swaps.

 

Specifically, the acquisition of the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally on July 1, 2015 and the acquisition of the GasLog Seattle on November 1, 2016 resulted in an increase in profit from operations by $21.2 million. In addition, the profit attributable to the Partnership was further affected by (a) a decrease in revenues of $2.6 million mainly due to the off-hire days from the scheduled dry-docking of two of our vessels, partially offset by the one additional calendar day during the year ended December 31, 2016, (b) an increase in vessel operating expenses of $1.4 million deriving mainly from scheduled repairs and technical specifications during the dry-docking of two of our vessels, (c) an increase in financial costs including realized loss on interest rate swaps of $9.0 million due to the outstanding debt of the GasLog Seattle after its dropdown to the Partnership and (d) an increase of $4.1 million in unrealized gain on interest rate swaps signed in November 2016.

 

The above discussion of revenues, operating expenses, financial costs and gain on interest rate swaps attributable to the Partnership are non-GAAP measures that exclude amounts related to vessels currently owned by the Partnership for the periods prior to their respective transfer to GasLog Partners from GasLog. See “Item 3. Key Information—A. Selected Financial Data—A.2. Partnership Performance Results” for further discussion of these “Partnership Performance Results” and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable IFRS reported results (the “IFRS Common Control Reported Results”).

 

Year ended December 31, 2014 compared to the year ended December 31, 2015

 

   IFRS Common Control Reported Results 
   2014   2015   Change 
   Restated(1)   Restated(1)    
    (in thousands of U.S. dollars)  
Statement of profit or loss               
Revenues   184,222    224,190    39,968 
Vessel operating costs   (35,732)   (47,748)   (12,016)
Voyage expenses and commissions   (2,368)   (2,979)   (611)
Depreciation   (39,569)   (49,971)   (10,402)
General and administrative expenses   (6,939)   (11,536)   (4,597)
Profit from operations   99,614    111,956    12,342 
Financial costs   (37,725)   (31,212)   6,513 
Financial income   49    29    (20)
Loss on interest rate swaps   (12,903)   (3,144)   9,759 
Profit for the year   49,035    77,629    28,594 
Profit attributable to Partnership’s operations   14,544    65,040    50,496 
 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial results of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog. See Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2014, we had an average of 7.1 vessels operating in our owned fleet having 2,586 operating days while during the year ended December 31, 2015, we had an average of 9.0 vessels operating in our owned fleet having 3,220 operating days.

 

Revenues: Revenues increased by $40.0 million, or 21.70%, from $184.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $224.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to the deliveries of the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth on April 10, 2014, and the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally on June 4, 2014, June 11, 2014 and June 25, 2014, respectively, and the commencement of their charter party agreements. These deliveries resulted in an increase in operating days. In addition, the vessels delivered during 2014 were generating revenue for the full year in 2015 as compared to 2014. The increase in revenues was partially offset by a decrease of $4.4 million caused mainly by the off-hire days due to the dry-dockings of the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally. The average daily hire rate for the year ended December 31, 2014 was $71,238 as compared to $69,624 for the year ended December 31, 2015.

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Vessel Operating Costs: Vessel operating costs increased by $12.0 million, or 33.6%, from $35.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $47.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to the increased operating days in the year ended December 31, 2015 and the increased average daily operating cost per vessel from $13,769 per day in 2014 to $14,535 per day in 2015, reflecting increased technical maintenance expenses due to planned underwater inspections and maintenance of the main engines for three of our vessels and other repairs that were undertaken during the dry-docking of the three vessels acquired from GasLog in 2015, partially offset by the decrease in crew wages denominated in euros due to the decrease in the average USD/EUR exchange rate between the two periods.

 

Voyage expenses and commissions: Voyage expenses and commissions increased by $0.6 million, or 25.0%, from $2.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to the increased operating days in the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

Depreciation: Depreciation increased by $10.4 million, or 26.3%, from $39.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $50.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to the deliveries of the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth delivered in April 2014 and the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally delivered in June 2014 and the fact that depreciation charges for that period commenced from each vessel’s delivery date to December 31, 2014, compared to the year ended December 31, 2015 where the vessels were in operation for the entire year.

 

General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses increased by $4.6 million, or 66.7%, from $6.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $11.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to an increase in administrative expenses of $2.4 million for services under the administrative services agreement with GasLog, which went into effect on May 12, 2014, the closing date of our IPO, an increase of $0.9 million in legal and professional fees related to the requirements of being a public company, an increase in commercial management fees of $0.5 million related to the acquisition of the five vessels, an increase of board of directors’ fees of $0.4 million, an increase of $0.2 million in the non-cash expense recognized in respect of share-based compensation, an increase in directors and officers’ liability insurance of $0.1 million and an increase in all other expenses of $0.1 million.

 

Financial Costs: Financial costs decreased by $6.5 million, or 17.2%, from $37.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $31.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The decrease is mainly attributable to a $9.0 million write-off of the unamortized fees in connection with the repayment of the then existing debt facilities in 2014 and termination fees for the aforementioned debt of $1.2 million, which was partially offset by an increase in interest expense by $3.9 million. During the year ended December 31, 2014, we had an average of $805.9 million of outstanding indebtedness, having an aggregate weighted average interest rate of 2.9%, compared to an average of $922.3 million of outstanding indebtedness with a weighted average interest rate of 2.9% during the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

Loss on Interest Rate Swaps: Loss on interest rate swaps decreased by $9.8 million, or 76.0% from $12.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $3.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The decrease is mainly attributable to a $5.5 million decrease in recycled loss of cash flow hedges reclassified to profit or loss resulting mainly from the termination of the Partnership’s swap contracts in 2014, a decrease of $2.2 million in realized loss on interest rate swaps held for trading and a $2.1 million decrease in loss from the mark-to-market valuation of the interest rate swaps which are carried at fair value through profit or loss.

 

Profit for the Year: Profit for the year increased by $28.6 million, or 58.4%, from $49.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $77.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, as a result of the aforementioned factors.

 

Profit attributable to the Partnership: Profit attributable to the Partnership for the year increased by $50.5 million, from $14.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $65.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase is mainly attributable to the increase in operating days (885 operating days in the year ended December 31, 2014 as compared to 2,377 operating days in the year ended December 31, 2015).

 

Specifically, the five vessels acquired by the Partnership in 2014 and the acquisition of the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally on July 1, 2015 resulted in (a) an increase in revenues attributable to the Partnership by $103.0 million, from $65.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $168.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 (the average daily hire rate for the year ended December 31, 2014 was $74,498 as compared to $71,067 for the year ended December 31, 2015), (b) an increase in operating expenses attributable to the Partnership by $21.5 million, from $12.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $33.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 (the average daily operating expenses for the year ended December 31, 2014 was $13,815 per day as compared to $14,159 per day for the year ended December 31, 2015), (c) an increase in depreciation expense attributable to the Partnership by $22.6 million, from $13.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $36.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 and (d) an increase in voyage expenses and commissions attributable to the Partnership by $1.3 million, from $0.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $2.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.

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In addition, the profit attributable to the Partnership was further affected by (a) an increase in general and administrative expenses attributable to the Partnership by $5.7 million, from $4.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $10.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 which is mainly attributable to an increase in administrative fees, commercial management fees, legal and professional fees related to the requirements of being a public company, directors’ fees, non-cash expense in respect of share-based compensation and directors and officers’ liability insurance and (b) an increase in net financial costs attributable to the Partnership by $1.4 million, from $20.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2014, to $21.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.

The above discussion of revenues, operating expenses, depreciation expense, voyage expenses and commissions, general and administrative expenses and net financial costs attributable to the Partnership are non-GAAP measures that exclude amounts related to vessels currently owned by the Partnership for the periods prior to their respective transfer to GasLog Partners from GasLog. See “Item 3. Key Information—A. Selected Financial Data—A.2. Partnership Performance Results” for further discussion of these “Partnership Performance Results” and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable IFRS reported results (the “IFRS Common Control Reported Results”).

 

Customers

 

We currently derive all of our revenues from subsidiaries of Shell.

 

Seasonality

 

Since our vessels are employed under multi-year, fixed-rate charter arrangements, seasonal trends do not impact the revenues during the year.

 

B. Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

We operate in a capital-intensive industry, and we expect to finance the purchase of additional vessels and other capital expenditures through a combination of borrowings from commercial banks, cash generated from operations and debt and equity financings. In addition to paying distributions, our other liquidity requirements relate to servicing our debt, funding investments, funding working capital and maintaining cash reserves against fluctuations in operating cash flows. Our funding and treasury activities are intended to maximize investment returns while maintaining appropriate liquidity.

 

On February 18, 2016, subsidiaries of the Partnership and GasLog entered into credit agreements (the “Five Vessel Refinancing”) to refinance debt maturities that were scheduled to become due in 2016 and 2017. The Five Vessel Refinancing are comprised of a five-year senior tranche facility of up to $396.5 million and a two-year bullet junior tranche of up to $180.0 million. The vessels covered by the Five Vessel Refinancing are the Partnership-owned Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally and the GasLog-owned Methane Lydon Volney and Methane Becki Anne.

 

On April 5, 2016, $216.9 million and $89.9 million under the senior and junior tranche, respectively, of the Five Vessel Refinancing were drawn by the Partnership to refinance $305.5 million of the outstanding debt of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. The remaining principal amounts drawn under the senior tranche facility shall be repaid in 18 quarterly equal installments of $4.5 million and a balloon payment of $126.5 million together with the final quarterly installment. The amounts drawn under the junior tranche facility shall be repaid in full 24 months after the drawdown date. Amounts drawn bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin (variable margin for the junior tranche).

 

On August 5, 2016, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 2,750,000 common units and issued 56,122 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest at a public offering price of $19.50 per unit. The total net proceeds after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses were $53.39 million and were used to finance the acquisition from GasLog of 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-seven Ltd., the entity which owns the 155,000 cbm LNG carrier GasLog Seattle, which was acquired on November 1, 2016 for an aggregate purchase price of $189.0 million, including $1.0 million of positive net working capital.

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Following the acquisition of GAS-seven Ltd., the Partnership assumed $122.3 million which was drawn on July 25, 2016 (“GasLog Seattle Term and Revolving Facilities”) to refinance the existing indebtedness of $124.0 million of GAS-seven Ltd. The balance outstanding as of December 31, 2016 is $122.3 million and shall be repaid in ten semi-annual installments of $3.8 million and a balloon payment of $84.8 million due together with the last installment in July 2021, while the revolving credit facility available amounts can be drawn at any time until December 31, 2020. Amounts drawn bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin.

 

On January 27, 2017, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 3,750,000 common units at a public offering price of $20.50 per unit. In addition, the option to purchase additional units was partially exercised by the underwriter on February 24, 2017, resulting in 120,000 additional units being sold at the same price. The aggregate net proceeds from this offering, including the partial exercise by the underwriter of the option to purchase additional units, after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were $78.2 million. In connection with the offering, the Partnership also issued 78,980 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $1.6 million. The Partnership plans to use the net proceeds from the public offering for general partnership purposes, which may include future acquisitions, debt repayment, capital expenditures and additions to working capital.

 

On April 3, 2017, GasLog Partners signed a deed of termination with respect to the $30.0 million revolving credit facility with GasLog (the “Old Sponsor Credit Facility”). On the same date, GasLog Partners entered into a new unsecured five year term loan of $45.0 million and a five year revolving credit facility of $30.0 million with GasLog (together, the “New Sponsor Credit Facility”). Subsequently, on April 5, 2017, an amount of $45.0 million under the term loan facility and an amount of $15.0 million under the revolving credit facility were drawn by the Partnership and were used on the same date to prepay $60.1 million of the outstanding debt of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., which would have been originally due in April 2018.

On May 3, 2017, in connection with the acquisition of GAS-eleven Ltd., the entity that owns the GasLog Greece, the Partnership paid GasLog $66.6 million representing the difference between the $219.0 million aggregate purchase price and the $151.4 million of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity assumed by GasLog Partners less an adjustment of $1.0 million in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entity of $1.0 million.

On July 3, 2017, in connection with the acquisition of GAS-thirteen Ltd., the entity that owns the GasLog Geneva, the Partnership paid GasLog $55.0 million representing the difference between the $211.0 million aggregate purchase price and the $155.0 million of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity assumed by GasLog Partners less an adjustment of $1.0 million in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entity of $1.0 million. Whilst the acquisition of Gas-thirteen Ltd. will be accounted for as a reorganization of entities under common control, this entity is not reflected in the accompanying consolidated financial statements included in this current report.

In connection with the acquisitions of GAS-eleven Ltd. on May 3, 2017 and GAS-thirteen Ltd. on July 3, 2017, the Partnership assumed $151.4 million and $155.0 million of outstanding indebtedness of the respective acquired entities under a debt financing agreement dated October 16, 2015 with 14 international banks, with Citibank N.A. London Branch and Nordea Bank AB, London Branch acting as agents on behalf of the other finance parties. The financing is backed by the Export Import Bank of Korea (“KEXIM”) and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (“K-Sure”), who are either directly lending or providing cover for over 60% of the facility.

On May 15, 2017, GasLog Partners completed a public offering of 5,750,000 8.625% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Fixed to Floating Rate Preference Units (the “Series A Preference Units”), including 750,000 units issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional Series A Preference Units, liquidation preference $25.00 per unit, at a price to the public of $25.00 per preference unit. The net proceeds from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other offering expenses, were $138.8 million. The Series A Preference Units are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GLOP PR A”. The initial distribution on the Series A Preference Units will be payable on September 15, 2017. The preference units issued have been accounted for as equity instruments based on certain characteristics such as the discretionary nature of the distributions by our board of directors, which can be deferred and accumulate, as well as the redemption rights at the option of the Partnership only. These units have preference upon liquidation and the holders would receive $25.00 per unit plus any accumulated and unpaid distributions.

 

On May 16, 2017, GasLog Partners commenced an “at-the-market” common equity offering programme (“ATM Programme”) under which the Partnership may, from time to time, raise equity through the issuance and sale of new common units having an aggregate offering price of up to $100.0 million in accordance with the terms of an equity distribution agreement, entered into on the same date. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC have agreed to act as sales agents. From establishment of the ATM Programme through September 29, 2017, GasLog Partners had issued and received payment for 2,351,885 common units at a weighted average price of $22.91 per common unit for total net proceeds of $52.8 million after broker commissions and other expenses. In connection with the issuance of common units under the ATM Programme during this period, the Partnership also issued 47,998 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $1.1 million.

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As of December 31, 2016, we had $53.2 million of cash and cash equivalents.

 

As of December 31, 2016, we had an aggregate of $966.7 million of indebtedness outstanding under our credit facilities. The Partnership’s revolving credit facility with GasLog was repaid on December 30, 2016. An amount of $56.0 million of outstanding debt is repayable within one year.

 

In November 2016, the Partnership entered into three interest rate swap agreements with GasLog at a notional value of $390.0 million in aggregate, maturing between 2020 and 2022. As of December 31, 2016, the Partnership has hedged 39.7% of its floating interest rate exposure on its outstanding debt at a weighted average interest rate of approximately 1.63% (excluding margin).

 

Working Capital Position

 

As of December 31, 2016, our current assets totaled $67.1 million while current liabilities totaled $94.5 million, resulting in a negative working capital position of $27.4 million. Current liabilities include $20.0 million of time charter hires received in advance that are classified as liabilities until such time as the criteria for recognizing the revenue as earned are met.

 

Taking into account generally expected market conditions, we anticipate that cash flow generated from operations will be sufficient to fund our operations, including our working capital requirements, and to make the required principal and interest payments on our indebtedness during the next 12 months.

 

Cash Flows

 

Year ended December 31, 2015 compared to the year ended December 31, 2016

 

The following table summarizes our net cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities for the years indicated:

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2015   2016 
   Restated(1)   Restated(1) 
   (in thousands of
U.S. dollars)
 
Net cash provided by operating activities  $125,934   $164,557 
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities   14,421    (176,739)
Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities   (128,307)   2,740 
 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial results of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog. See Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

 

Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $38.7 million, from $125.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2015, to $164.6 million in the year ended December 31, 2016. The increase of $38.7 million is mainly attributable to an increase of $31.2 million in revenue collections, a decrease of $8.6 million in payments for general and administrative expenses, operating expenses and inventories and a decrease of $0.8 million in net interest payments relating to interest rate swaps held for trading, partially offset by an increase of $1.9 million in cash paid for interest.

 

Net Cash Provided by/(Used in) Investing Activities:

 

Net cash provided by investing activities decreased by $191.1 million, from net cash provided by investing activities of $14.4 million in the year ended December 31, 2015, to net cash used in investing activities of $176.7 million in the year ended December 31, 2016. The decrease of $191.1 million is mainly attributable to an increase of $166.6 million in payments for vessels (mainly due to the amount paid in connection with the delivery of the GasLog Greece in the year ended December 31, 2016) and a decrease in net cash from short-term investments of $24.7 million.

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Net Cash (Used in)/Provided by Financing Activities:

 

Net cash used in financing activities decreased by $131.0 million, from net cash used in financing activities of $128.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2015, to net cash provided by financing activities of $2.7 million in the year ended December 31, 2016. The decrease of $131.0 million is attributable to proceeds from borrowings of $602.0 million, the decrease of $104.5 million in cash remittance to GasLog in exchange for contribution of net assets, a decrease of $4.7 million in amounts due to shareholders and a decrease of $1.0 million in payments of dividends due prior to vessels’ drop-down to GasLog Partners. The above movements were partially offset by an increase of $428.6 million in bank loan repayments, a decrease of $122.1 million in net public offering proceeds, an increase in distributions of $14.4 million, an increase of $11.2 million in payments of loan issuance costs and net payments of $4.9 million related to the termination of our interest rate swap agreements.

 

Year ended December 31, 2014 compared to the year ended December 31, 2015

 

The following table summarizes our net cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities for the years indicated:

 

   Year ended December 31, 
   2014   2015 
   Restated(1)   Restated(1) 
    (in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
Net cash provided by operating activities  $128,063   $125,934 
Net cash (used in)/provided by investing activities   (809,336)   14,421 
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities.   711,785    (128,307)
 
(1)Restated so as to reflect the historical financial results of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog. See Note 1 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

 

Net cash provided by operating activities decreased by $2.2 million, from $128.1 million in the year ended December 31, 2014, to $125.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2015. The decrease of $2.2 million was due to an increase of $33.8 million in payments for general and administrative expenses, operating expenses and inventories, which was partially offset by an increase of $27.2 million in revenue collections, a decrease of $2.2 million in cash paid for interest and a $2.2 million decrease in net interest payments relating to interest rate swaps held for trading.

 

Net Cash (Used in)/Provided by Investing Activities:

 

Net cash provided by investing activities increased by $823.7 million, from net cash used in investing activities of $809.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2014, to net cash provided by investing activities of $14.4 million in the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase of $823.7 million is mainly attributable to a decrease of net cash used in payments for vessels of $781.8 million and an increase in net cash from short-term investments of $41.9 million.

 

Net Cash Provided by/(Used in) Financing Activities:

 

Net cash provided by financing activities decreased by $840.1 million, from net cash provided by financing activities of $711.8 million in the year ended December 31, 2014, to net cash used in financing activities of $128.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2015. The decrease of $840.1 million is mainly attributable to proceeds from borrowings of $1,022.5 million in the year ended December 31, 2014, capital contributions received of $232.6 million in 2014, decreased net public offering proceeds of $146.5 million, an increase in distributions of $37.8 million, which was partially offset by a decrease of $554.4 million in bank loan repayments, a decrease of $11.3 million in cash remittance to GasLog in exchange for contribution of net assets, a decrease of $13.7 million in payments of loan issuance costs, a decrease of $1.0 million in payments of dividends due to GasLog prior to vessels’ drop-down to the Partnership and a decrease of $18.9 million in repayments of advances from shareholders before the respective vessels’ drop-down to the Partnership.

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Borrowing Activities

 

Credit Facilities

 

Below is a summary of certain provisions of the Partnership’s credit facilities outstanding as of December 31, 2016:

 

Facility Name   Lender(s)   Subsidiary Party
(Collateral Ship)
  Outstanding
Principal
Amount
  Interest Rate   Maturity   Payment of Principals
Installments
Schedule
Facility Agreement dated November 12, 2014 among GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd., GAS-five Ltd., GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. as borrowers, and the financial institutions party thereto, or the “Partnership Facility”   Citibank, N.A., London Branch, Nordea Bank Finland plc, London Branch, DVB Bank America N.V., ABN Amro Bank N.V., Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), BNP Paribas   GAS-three Ltd. (GasLog Shanghai), GAS-four Ltd. (GasLog Santiago), GAS-five Ltd. (GasLog Sydney), GAS-sixteen Ltd. (Methane Rita Andrea), GAS-seventeen Ltd. (Methane Jane Elizabeth)   $405.0 million   LIBOR + applicable margin   2019   12 consecutive quarterly installments of $5.6 million and a balloon payment of $337.5 million together with the final quarterly payment
Old Sponsor Credit Facility   GasLog Ltd.   GasLog Partners LP   $0 million   Fixed interest rate   2017   Revolving facility of $30.0 million available in minimum amounts of $2.0 million which are repayable within a period of six months after the respective drawdown date, subject to automatic renewal if not repaid
Five Vessel Refinancing   ABN Amro Bank N.V., DNB (UK) Ltd., DVB Bank America N.V., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and National Australia Bank Limited.   GAS-nineteen Ltd. (Methane Alison Victoria) GAS-twenty Ltd. (Methane Shirley Elisabeth) GAS-twenty one Ltd. (Methane Heather Sally)   Senior Tranche: $207.8 million Junior Tranche: $89.9 million   LIBOR + applicable margin   2021   Senior Tranche: 18 consecutive quarterly installments of $4.5 million and a balloon payment of $126.5 million together with the final quarterly installment.
Junior Tranche: Balloon payment of $89.9 million due in April 2018 without intermediate payments.
GasLog Seattle Term and Revolving Facilities   Citigroup Global Market Limited, Credit Suisse AG, Nordea Bank AB, London Branch, Skandinaviska Ensklida AB (publ), HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, Danmarks Skibskredit A/S, The Korea Development Bank and DVB Bank America N.V.   GAS-seven Ltd. (GasLog Seattle)   Term Loan:
$122.3 million
Revolving Loan:
$0 million
  LIBOR + applicable margin   2021   Term Loan: 10 semi-annual installments of $3.8 million and a balloon payment of $84.7 million due together with the last installment in July 2021. Revolving Facility: $12.9 million, currently undrawn, can be drawn on a fully revolving basis in minimum amounts of $5.0 million until 6 months prior to the maturity date in July 2021.
Assumed October 2015 Facility   Citibank, N.A., London Branch, Nordea Bank AB, London Branch, The Export-Import Bank of Korea, Bank of America, National Association, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Credit Suisse AG, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, KEB HANA Bank, London Branch, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, National Australia Bank Limited, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, Société Générale and The Korea Development Bank   GAS-eleven Ltd. (GasLog Greece)   $157.2 million   LIBOR + applicable margin   2028   19 consecutive semi-annual installments of $5.8 million, a balloon payment due in 2026 of $30.6 million and thereafter 4 consecutive semi-annual installments of $4.2 million until March 2028.
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Partnership Facility

 

The Partnership Facility is secured as follows:

 

  first priority mortgages over the vessels owned by the borrowers;
     
  guarantees from us and our subsidiary GasLog Partners Holdings;
     
  a pledge or a negative pledge of the share capital of the borrowers; and
     
  a first priority assignment of all earnings and insurances related to the vessels owned by the borrowers.

 

Our Partnership Facility imposes certain operating and financial restrictions on our subsidiaries, which generally limit our subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things:

 

  incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees;
     
  provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with, us or any of our affiliates;
     
  sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including our ships;
     
  engage in merger transactions;
     
  enter into, terminate or amend any charter;
     
  amend our shipbuilding contracts, if any;
     
  change the manager of our ships;
     
  undergo a change in ownership; or
     
  acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

Our Partnership Facility also imposes specified financial covenants that apply to us and our subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

These financial covenants include the following:

 

  the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be no less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness or $15.0 million;
     
  our total indebtedness divided by our total capitalization must not exceed 60.0%;
     
  the ratio of EBITDA over our debt service obligations (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months’ basis must be no less than 110.0%; and
     
  we are permitted to declare or pay any dividends or distributions subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends or distributions.

 

Our Partnership Facility contains customary events of default, including nonpayment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy, as well as an event of default in the event of the cancellation, rescission, frustration or withdrawal of a charter agreement prior to its scheduled expiration. In addition, the Partnership Facility contains covenants requiring that the aggregate fair market value of the vessels securing the facility remains above 120.0% of the aggregate amount outstanding under the facility. In the event that the value of the vessels falls below the threshold, we could be required to provide the lender with additional security or prepay a portion of the outstanding loan balance, which could negatively impact our liquidity. Compliance with the financial covenants is required on a semi-annual basis.

 

Revolving Credit Facility with GasLog

 

Following the IPO, we entered into a $30.0 million revolving credit facility with GasLog, which has no outstanding balance as of December 31, 2016 ($15.0 million as of December 31, 2015), to be used for general partnership purposes. The facility agreement is unsecured and provides for an availability period of 36 months and bore interest at a rate of 5.0% per annum, with no commitment fee for the first year. As of December 31, 2016, interest stood at 6.0% per annum, with an annual 2.4% commitment fee on the undrawn balance. The revolving credit facility with GasLog matured in May 2017. As of December 31, 2016, the Old Sponsor Credit Facility contained covenants that required us to, among other things:

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  notify GasLog of any event which constitutes or may constitute an event of default or which may adversely affect our ability to perform our obligations under the credit facility; and
     
  provide GasLog with information in respect of our business and financial status as GasLog may reasonably require including, but not limited to, copies of our unaudited quarterly financial statements and our audited annual financial statements.

 

Events of default under the Old Sponsor Credit Facility include, among others, the following:

 

  failure to pay any sum payable under the Old Sponsor Credit Facility when due;
     
  breach of certain covenants and obligations of the Old Sponsor Credit Facility;
     
  a material inaccuracy of any representation or warranty;
     
  default under other indebtedness in excess of $10.0 million which results in the relevant creditor declaring such indebtedness prematurely due and payable;

 

  a lien, arrest, distress or similar event is levied upon or against any substantial part of our assets which is not discharged or disputed in good faith within 10 business days after we become aware of such event;
     
  a substantial part of our business or assets is destroyed, abandoned, seized, appropriated or forfeited for any reason;
     
  bankruptcy or insolvency events;
     
  suspension or cessation of our business;
     
  GasLog Partners GP LLC ceasing to be our general partner; and
     
  an amendment to our limited partnership agreement that, in the reasonable opinion of the lender, is adverse to its interests in connection with the Old Sponsor Credit Facility.

 

On April 3, 2017, GasLog Partners signed a deed of termination with respect to the Old Sponsor Credit Facility. On the same date, GasLog Partners entered into a new unsecured five year term loan of $45.0 million and a five year revolving credit facility of $30.0 million with GasLog. Subsequently, on April 5, 2017, an amount of $45.0 million under the term loan facility and an amount of $15.0 million under the revolving credit facility were drawn by the Partnership and were used on the same date to prepay $60.1 million of the outstanding debt of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., which would have been originally due in April 2018.

 

Five Vessel Refinancing

 

On February 18, 2016, subsidiaries of the Partnership and GasLog entered into credit agreements to refinance the debt maturities that were scheduled to become due in 2016 and 2017. The vessels covered by the Five Vessel Refinancing are the Partnership-owned Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally and the GasLog-owned Methane Lydon Volney and Methane Becki Anne.

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing are secured as follows:

 

  first and second priority mortgages over the vessels owned by the respective borrowers;
     
  guarantee from GasLog, guarantees up to the value of the commitments relating to the Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally from us and GasLog Partners Holdings and a guarantee from GasLog Carriers for up to the value of the commitments on the remaining vessels;
     
  a share charge over the share capital of the respective borrowers; and
     
  first and second priority assignment of all earnings and insurance related to the vessels owned by the respective borrower.
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The Five Vessel Refinancing impose certain operating and financial restrictions on the Partnership and GasLog. These restrictions generally limit the Partnership’s and GasLog’s collective subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things:

 

  incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees;
     
  provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with, the Partnership or any of its affiliates;
     
  sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including ships;
     
  engage in merger transactions;
     
  enter into, terminate or amend any charter;
     
  amend shipbuilding contracts;
     
  change the manager of ships, or;
     
  acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

The GasLog and the Partnership’s guarantees to the Five Vessel Refinancing impose specified financial covenants that apply to the Partnership and GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

The financial covenants that apply to the Partnership include the following:

 

  the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness or $15.0 million;
     
  total indebtedness divided by total assets must be less than 60.0%;
     
  the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the Partnership’s guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months’ basis must be not less than 110.0%; and
     
  the Partnership is permitted to declare or pay any dividends or distributions, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends or distributions.

 

The financial covenants that apply to GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis include the following:

 

  net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;
     
  total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;
     
  the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the GasLog guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;
     
  the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness and $50.0 million after the first drawdown;
     
  GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of total indebtedness, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and;
     
  GasLog’s market value adjusted net worth must at all times be not less than $350.0 million;

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing also impose certain restrictions relating to the Partnership and GasLog, and their other subsidiaries, including restrictions that limit the Partnership’s and GasLog’s ability to make any substantial change in the nature of the Partnership’s or GasLog’s business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the Five Vessel Refinancing, without repaying all of the Partnership’s and GasLog’s indebtedness under the Five Vessel Refinancing in full.

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The Five Vessel Refinancing contain customary events of default, including nonpayment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, they contain covenants requiring the Partnership, GasLog and certain of their subsidiaries to maintain the aggregate of (i) the market value, on a charter exclusive basis, of the mortgaged vessel or vessels and (ii) the market value of any additional security provided to the lenders, at not less than 115.0% until the maturity of the junior tranche, and 120.0% at any time thereafter, of the then outstanding amount under the applicable facility and any related swap exposure. If the Partnership and GasLog fail to comply with these covenants and are not able to obtain covenant waivers or modifications, the lenders could require prepayments or additional collateral sufficient for the compliance with such covenants, otherwise indebtedness could be accelerated.

 

GasLog Seattle Term and Revolving Facilities

 

Following the acquisition of GAS-seven Ltd., on November 1, 2016, the Partnership assumed $122.29 million of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity.

 

On July 19, 2016, GasLog entered into a credit agreement to refinance the existing indebtedness on eight of its on-the-water vessels of up to $1,050.0 million (the “Legacy Facility Refinancing”) with a number of international banks, extending the maturities of six existing credit facilities to 2021. The vessels covered by the Legacy Facility Refinancing are the GasLog Savannah, the GasLog Singapore, the GasLog Skagen, the GasLog Seattle, the Solaris, the GasLog Saratoga, the GasLog Salem and the GasLog Chelsea.

 

The credit agreement is secured as follows:

 

  first priority mortgages over the ships owned by the respective borrowers;
     
  guarantee from GasLog, guarantees up to the value of the commitments relating to the GasLog Seattle from us and GasLog Partners Holdings and a guarantee from GasLog Carriers for up to the value of the commitment on the remaining vessels;
     
  a share security over the share capital of each of the respective borrowers; and
     
  a first priority assignment of all earnings, excluding the vessels participating in The Cool Pool Limited, and insurance related to the ships owned by the respective borrowers.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing imposes certain operating and financial restrictions on GasLog. These restrictions generally limit GasLog’s ability to, among other things:

 

  incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees;
     
  provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with any of GasLog’s affiliates;
     
  sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including ships;
     
  engage in merger transactions;
     
  enter into, terminate or amend any charter;
     
  amend shipbuilding contracts;
     
  change the manager of ships, or;
     
  acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing also imposes specified financial covenants that apply to GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

  net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;
     
  total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;
     
  the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the Legacy Facility Refinancing (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;
     
  the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness and $50.0 million after the first drawdown;
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GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of total indebtedness, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and;

 

GasLog’s market value adjusted net worth must at all times be not less than $350.0 million;

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing also imposes certain customary restrictions relating to GasLog and its subsidiaries, including restrictions that limit GasLog’s ability to make any substantial change in the nature of its business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the Legacy Facility Refinancing, without repaying all of GasLog’s indebtedness under the Legacy Facility Refinancing in full.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing contains customary events of default, including non-payment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, it contains covenants requiring GasLog to maintain the aggregate of (i) the market value, on a charter exclusive basis, of the mortgaged vessels and (ii) the market value of any additional security provided to the lenders at any time at not less than 120.0% of the then outstanding amount plus any undrawn amounts under the applicable facilities. If GasLog fails to comply with these covenants and are not able to obtain covenant waivers or modifications, the lenders could require prepayments or additional collateral sufficient for the compliance with such covenants, otherwise indebtedness could be accelerated.

 

Assumed October 2015 Facility

 

Following the acquisition of GAS-eleven Ltd., on May 3, 2017, the Partnership assumed $151.4 million of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity.

 

On October 16, 2015, GasLog entered into a debt financing agreement with 14 international banks for $1,311,356 to partially finance the delivery of eight newbuildings expected to be delivered in 2016, 2018 and 2019. The financing is backed by the Export Import Bank of Korea (“KEXIM”) and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (“K-Sure”), who are either directly lending or providing cover for over 60% of the facility.

 

The debt financing agreement is secured as follows:

 

first priority mortgages over the ships owned by the respective borrowers;

 

guarantee from GasLog, guarantees up to the value of the commitments relating to the GasLog Greece from us and GasLog Partners Holdings and a guarantee from GasLog Carriers for up to the value of the commitment on the remaining vessels or newbuidings;

 

a pledge of the share capital of each of the respective borrowers; and

 

a first priority assignment of all earnings related to the ships owned by the respective borrowers, including charter revenue, management revenue and any insurance and requisition compensation.

 

The October 2015 Facility imposes certain operating and financial restrictions on GasLog. These restrictions generally limit GasLog’s ability to, among other things:

 

incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees;

 

provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with any of GasLog’s affiliates;

 

sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including ships;

 

engage in merger transactions;

 

enter into, terminate or amend any charter;

 

amend shipbuilding contracts;

 

change the manager of ships, or;
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acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

The October 2015 Facility also imposes specified financial covenants that apply to GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;

 

total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;

 

the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the Legacy Facility Refinancing (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;

 

the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness or $50.0 million after the first drawdown;

 

GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of total indebtedness, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and;

 

GasLog’s market value adjusted net worth must at all times be not less than $350.0 million;

 

The October 2015 Facility also imposes certain customary restrictions relating to GasLog and its subsidiaries, including restrictions that limit GasLog’s ability to make any substantial change in the nature of its business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the October 2015 Facility, without repaying all of GasLog’s indebtedness under the October 2015 Facility in full, or to allow our largest shareholders to reduce their shareholding in us below specified thresholds.

 

The October 2015 Facility contains customary events of default, including non-payment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, it contains covenants requiring GasLog to maintain the aggregate of (i) the market value, on a charter exclusive basis, of the mortgaged vessels and (ii) the market value of any additional security provided to the lenders at any time at not less than 115.0% for the first two years after each drawdown and 120.0% at any time thereafter of the then outstanding amount plus any undrawn amounts under the applicable facility. If GasLog fails to comply with these covenants and are not able to obtain covenant waivers or modifications, the lenders could require prepayments or additional collateral sufficient for the compliance with such covenants, otherwise indebtedness could be accelerated.

 

Contracted Chartered Revenue

 

The following table summarizes GasLog Partners’ contracted charter revenues and vessel utilization as of December 31, 2016:

 

   Contracted Charter Revenues and Days from Time Charters
For the years
 
   2017   2018   2019   2020-2026   Total 
   (in millions of U.S. dollars, except days and percentages) 
Contracted time charter revenues(1)(2)(3)(4)  $260.4   $220.1   $170.6   $252.8   $903.9 
Total contracted days(1)   3,620    3,094    2,446    3,130    12,290 
Total available days(5)   3,620    3,560    3,650    25,090    35,920 
Total unfixed days(6)       466    1,204    21,960    23,630 
Percentage of total contracted days/total available days   100.0%   86.9%   67.0%   12.5%   34.2%
 
(1)Reflects time charter revenues and contracted days for the ten LNG carriers in our fleet. This does not include charter revenues for the GasLog Geneva, the acquisition of which was completed on July 3, 2017.

 

(2)Our ships are scheduled to undergo dry-docking once every five years. Revenue calculations assume 365 revenue days per ship per annum, with 30 off-hire days when the ship undergoes scheduled dry-docking.

 

(3)For time charters that include a fixed operating cost component subject to annual escalation, revenue calculations include that fixed annual escalation.

 

(4)Revenue calculations assume no exercise of any option to extend the terms of charters.

 

(5)Available days represent total calendar days after deducting 30 off-hire days when the ship undergoes scheduled dry-docking.
  
(6)Represents available days for the ships after the expiration of the existing charters (assuming charterers do not exercise any option to extend the terms of the charters).
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The table above provides information about our contracted charter revenues and ship utilization based on contracts in effect as of December 31, 2016 for the ten LNG carriers in our fleet, without including the GasLog Geneva, the acquisition of which was completed on July 3, 2017. The table reflects only our contracted charter revenues, and it does not reflect the costs or expenses we will incur in fulfilling our obligations under the charters. In particular, the table does not reflect any time charter revenues from any additional ships we may acquire in the future, nor does it reflect the options under our time charters that permit our charterers to extend the time charter terms for successive multi-year periods at comparable charter hire rates. The exercise of options extending the terms of our existing charters, would result in an increase in the number of contracted days and the contracted revenue for our fleet in the future. Although the contracted charter revenues are based on contracted charter hire rate provisions, they reflect certain assumptions, including assumptions relating to future ship operating costs. We consider the assumptions to be reasonable as of the date of this report, but if these assumptions prove to be incorrect, our actual time charter revenues could differ from those reflected in the table. Furthermore, any contract is subject to various risks, including performance by the counterparties or an early termination of the contract pursuant to its terms. If the charterers are unable or unwilling to make charter payments to us, or if we agree to renegotiate charter terms at the request of a charterer or if contracts are prematurely terminated for any reason, we would be exposed to prevailing market conditions at the time, and our results of operations and financial condition may be materially adversely affected. Please see “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors” of the 2016 Form 20-F. For these reasons, the contracted charter revenue information presented above is not fact and should not be relied upon as being necessarily indicative of future results, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this information. Neither the Partnership’s independent auditors, nor any other independent accountants, have compiled, examined or performed any procedures with respect to the information presented in the table, nor have they expressed any opinion or any other form of assurance on such information or its achievability, and assume no responsibility for, and disclaim any association with, the information in the table.

 

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

For information about our exposure to market risks, see “Item 11. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” of the 2016 Form 20-F.

 

Capital Expenditures

 

As of December 31, 2016, there are no commitments for capital expenditures related to our fleet. In the event we decide to exercise our options to purchase additional ships from GasLog, we expect to finance the costs with cash from operations and a combination of debt and equity financing.

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses recognized in the consolidated financial statements. The Partnership’s management evaluates whether estimates should be made on an ongoing basis, utilizing historical experience, consultation with experts and other methods management considers reasonable in the particular circumstances. However, uncertainty about these assumptions and estimates could result in outcomes that could require a material adjustment to the carrying amount of the asset or liability in the future. Critical accounting policies are those that reflect significant judgments of uncertainties and potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions. For a description of all our principal accounting policies, see Note 2 to our annual consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

Classification of the Partnership Interests

 

The interests in the Partnership comprise common units, subordinated units, a general partner interest and incentive distribution rights. Under the terms of the Partnership Agreement, the Partnership is required to distribute 100% of available cash (as defined in our Partnership Agreement) with respect to each quarter within 45 days of the end of the quarter to the partners. Available cash can be summarized as cash and cash equivalents less an amount equal to cash reserves established by the board of directors to (i) provide for the proper conduct of the business of the Partnership group (including reserves for future capital expenditures and for anticipated future credit needs of the Partnership group) subsequent to such quarter, (ii) comply with applicable law or any loan agreement, security agreement, mortgage, debt instrument or other agreement or obligation to which any Partnership group member is a party or by which it is bound or its assets are subject and/or (iii) provide funds for certain distributions relating to future periods.

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In reaching a judgment as to whether the interests in the Partnership should be classified as liabilities or equity interests, the Partnership has considered the wide discretion of the board of directors to determine whether any portion of the amount of cash available to the Partnership constitutes available cash and that it is possible that there could be no available cash. In the event that there is no available cash, as determined by the board of directors, the Partnership does not have a contractual obligation to make a distribution. Accordingly, the Partnership’s management has concluded that the Partnership interests do not represent a contractual obligation on the Partnership to deliver cash and therefore should be classified as equity within the financial statements.

 

Vessel Lives and Residual Value

 

Vessels are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation. The estimates and assumptions that have the most significant effect on the vessel carrying amount relate to the estimation of the useful life of an LNG vessel of 35 years and the residual value. An increase in the estimated useful life of a vessel or in its residual value would have the effect of decreasing the annual depreciation charge, and an increase in the estimated useful life of a vessel would also extend annual depreciation charge into later periods. A decrease in the useful life of a vessel or its residual value would have the effect of increasing the annual depreciation charge.

 

Management estimates residual value of its vessels to be equal to the product of its LWT and an estimated scrap rate per LWT. Effective December 31, 2016, following management’s annual reassessment, the estimated scrap rate per LWT was decreased. This change in estimate is expected to increase the future annual depreciation expense by $0.2 million. The estimated residual value of our ships may not represent the fair market value at any time partly because market prices of scrap values tend to fluctuate. We might revise our estimate of the residual values of our ships in the future in response to changing market conditions.

 

If regulations place significant limitations on the ability of a vessel to trade on a worldwide basis, the vessel’s useful life will be adjusted to end at the date such regulations become effective. The estimated residual value of a vessel may not represent the fair market value at any one time partly because market prices of scrap rates tend to fluctuate.

 

Vessel Cost

 

When determining vessel cost, we recognize the installment payments paid to the shipyard or the acquisition price paid to the seller for secondhand vessels along with any directly attributable costs of bringing the vessels to their working condition. Directly attributable costs incurred during the vessel construction periods consist of commissions, on-site supervision costs, costs for sea trials, certain critical initial spare parts and equipment, costs directly incurred for negotiating the construction contracts, initial lubricants and other vessel delivery expenses. Any vendor discounts are deducted from the vessel cost. Subsequent expenditures for conversions and major improvements are also capitalized when the recognition criteria are met.

 

The vessel cost component is depreciated on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life of each ship, based on the cost of the vessel less its estimated residual value. We estimate the useful lives of our ships to be 35 years from the date of delivery from the shipyard, which we believe is within industry standards and represents the most reasonable useful life for each of our ships.

 

We must periodically dry-dock each of our ships for inspection, repairs and any modifications. At the time of delivery of a ship from the shipyard, we estimate the dry-docking component of the cost of the ship, representing estimated costs to be incurred during the first dry-docking at the dry-dock yard for a special survey and parts and supplies used in making required major repairs that meet the recognition criteria, based on our historical experience with similar types of ships. For subsequent dry-dockings actual costs are capitalized when incurred. Costs that will be capitalized as part of the future dry-dockings will include a variety of costs incurred directly attributable to the dry-docking and costs incurred to meet classification and regulatory requirements, as well as expenses related to the dock preparation and port expenses at the dry-dock shipyard, general shipyard expenses, expenses related to hull, external surfaces and decks, expenses related to machinery and engines of the vessel, as well as expenses related to the testing and correction of findings related to safety equipment on board. Dry-docking costs do not include vessel operating expenses such as replacement parts, crew expenses, provisions, lubricants consumption, insurance, management fees or management costs during the dry-docking period. Expenses related to regular maintenance and repairs of our vessels are expensed as incurred, even if such maintenance and repair occurs during the same time period as our dry-docking.

 

Ordinary maintenance and repairs that do not extend the useful life of the asset are expensed as incurred.

 

We recognize dry-docking costs as a separate component of the vessel’s carrying amounts and amortize the dry-docking cost on a straight-line basis over the estimated period until the next dry-docking. If the vessel is disposed of before the next dry-docking, the remaining balance of the dry-dock component is written-off and forms part of the gain or loss recognized upon disposal of vessels in the period of disposal. We expect that vessels will be required to be dry-docked in approximately 60 months after their delivery from the shipyard, and thereafter every 60 months will be required to undergo special or intermediate surveys and dry-docked for major repairs and maintenance that cannot be performed while the vessels are operating. We amortize the estimated dry-docking expenses for the first special survey over five years, in case of new vessels, and until the next dry-docking for secondhand vessels unless we intend to dry-dock the vessels earlier as circumstances arise.

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Impairment of Vessels

 

We evaluate the carrying amounts of our vessels to determine whether there is any indication that our vessels have suffered an impairment loss by considering both internal and external sources of information. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of vessels is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss, if any.

 

Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset for which the estimates of future cash flows have not been adjusted. The projection of cash flows related to vessels is complex and requires management to make various estimates including future freight rates, earnings from the vessels and discount rates. All of these items have been historically volatile. In assessing the fair value less cost to sell of the vessel, we obtain vessel valuations from independent and internationally recognized ship brokers on an annual basis or when there is an indication that an asset or assets may be impaired. If an indication of impairment is identified, the need for recognizing an impairment loss is assessed by comparing the carrying amount of the vessels to the higher of the fair value less cost to sell and the value in use.

 

Our estimates of basic market value assume that the vessels are all in seaworthy condition without a need for repair and if inspected would be certified in class without notations of any kind. Our estimates are based on approximate market values for the vessels that have been received from shipbrokers, which are also commonly used and accepted by our lenders for determining compliance with the relevant covenants in our credit facilities. Vessel values can be highly volatile, so that the estimates may not be indicative of future basic market value of our vessels or prices that could be achieved if we were to sell them.

 

The table below sets forth in U.S. dollars (i) the historical acquisition cost of our vessels and (ii) the carrying value of each of our vessels as of December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016.

 

              Carrying values(1)
(in thousands of U.S. dollars)
 
Vessel  Acquisition Date  Cargo capacity
(cbm)
   Acquisition
cost
   December 31,
2015
   December 31,
2016
 
GasLog Shanghai(2)(3)  January 2013   155,000   $189,619   $174,015   $168,625 
GasLog Santiago(2)(3)  March 2013   155,000    189,560    174,774    169,385 
GasLog Sydney(2)(3)  May 2013   155,000    195,947    181,674    176,109 
GasLog Seattle(2)(3)  December 2013   155,000    201,738    190,029    184,300 
GasLog Greece(2)(3)  March 2016   174,000    209,195        204,661 
Methane Rita Andrea(4)(6)  April 2014   145,000    156,613    146,707    143,677 
Methane Jane Elizabeth(4)(6)  April 2014   145,000    156,613    146,743    143,356 
Methane Alison Victoria(5)(6)  June 2014   145,000    156,610    149,966    144,557 
Methane Shirley Elisabeth(5)(6)  June 2014   145,000    156,599    150,387    144,843 
Methane Heather Sally(5)(6)  June 2014   145,000    156,599    150,468    144,981 
Total          $1,769,093   $1,464,763   $1,624,494 
 
(1)Our vessels are stated at carrying values (see Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report). For the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2016, no impairment was recorded.

 

(2)The construction of these vessels was completed on the acquisition date.

 

(3)The market value of each vessel individually, and all vessels in the aggregate, exceeds the carrying value of that vessel, and all vessels in the aggregate, as of December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016.

 

(4)The vessels were built in 2006.

 

(5)The vessels were built in 2007.

 

(6)Indicates vessels for which we believe, as of December 31, 2016, the basic charter-free market value is lower than the vessel’s carrying value. We believe that the aggregate carrying value of these vessels exceeds their aggregate basic charter-free market value by $117.7 million, at December 31, 2016. However, as described below, the value in use for each of the five vessels was higher than the carrying amount of these vessels and consequently, no impairment loss was recognized.
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As of December 31, 2016, for the five vessels with carrying amounts higher than the estimated charter-free market value we concluded that events and circumstances triggered the existence of potential impairment of these vessels. As a result, we performed the impairment assessment of these vessels by comparing the discounted projected net operating cash flows for these vessels to their carrying values. Our strategy is to charter our vessels under five year contracts or more, providing the Partnership with stable cash flows. The significant factors and assumptions we used in our discounted projected net operating cash flow analysis included, among others, operating revenues, off-hire revenues, dry-docking costs, operating expenses, management fees estimates, residual values and the discount factor. Revenue assumptions were based on contracted time charter rates up to the end of life of the current contract of each vessel as well as the estimated average time charter rates for the remaining life of the vessels after the completion of their current contract. The estimated daily time charter rates used for non-contracted revenue days are based on a combination of (i) recent charter market rates, (ii) conditions existing in the LNG market as of December 31, 2016, (iii) historical average time charter rates, based on publications by independent third party maritime research services and (iv) estimated future time charter rates, based on publications by independent third party maritime research services that provide such forecasts. Recognizing that the LNG industry is cyclical and subject to significant volatility based on factors beyond our control, we believe the use of revenue estimates, based on the combination of factors (i) to (iv) above, to be reasonable as of the reporting date. In addition, we used an annual operating expenses escalation factor and estimates of scheduled and unscheduled off-hire revenues based on historical experience. All estimates used and assumptions made were in accordance with our internal budgets and historical experience of the shipping industry. The value in use for the five vessels calculated as per above was higher than the carrying amount of these vessels and, consequently, no impairment loss was recognized.

 

In connection with the impairment testing of our vessels as of December 31, 2016, for the five vessels with carrying amounts higher than the estimated charter-free market value, we performed a sensitivity analysis on the most sensitive and/or subjective assumption that has the potential to affect the outcome of the impairment exercise, the projected charter hire rate used to forecast future cash flows for non-contracted days. The following table summarizes the average results of the sensitivity analysis that we performed.

 

Average charter
hire rate used(1)
  Average break-
even charter
hire rate(2)
  Variance
(Amount)
  Variance (%)
$59,366  $46,655  $12,711  21%
 
(1)The average charter rate used in our impairment testing is the average charter rate based on which we estimated the revenues for the remaining useful life of the respective vessels.

 

(2)The average break-even charter hire rate is the average charter rate that if used in the discounted projected net operating cash flows of the impairment testing, will result in discounted total cash flows being equal to the carrying value of the vessels.

 

JOBS Act Status

 

We are an EGC, as defined in the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not EGCs. We have elected to opt out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act, which election is irrevocable.

 

In addition, under the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for so long as we are an EGC. We will continue to be deemed an EGC until the earliest of the last day of the fiscal year of during which we had total annual gross revenues of $1 billion or more, the last day of the fiscal year following our fifth IPO anniversary, the date in which, during the previous 3-year period, we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt, or the date on which we will be deemed to be a large accelerated filer.

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

See Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this current report.

 

C. Research and Development, Patents and Licenses, etc.

 

Not applicable.

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D. Trend Information

 

LNG Supply

 

The global seaborne trade of LNG cargoes was over 265 mtpa in 2016, and is projected to rise to approximately 300 mtpa in 2017. This growth is driven mainly by Australian projects, with shipments commencing from Gorgon Trains 2 and 3 (10 mtpa), Wheatstone LNG Train 1 (4.5 mtpa) and Icthys Train 1 (4.2 mtpa) all scheduled to start up in the next 12 months. Looking beyond 2017, based on the public announcements of LNG producers, new LNG production volumes should become available in the 2018-2020 timeframe from projects in Australia, Malaysia, Cameroon and the United States. Of these countries, the United States is by far the most significant contributor to new supply, with more than 50 mtpa anticipated by the end of 2020.

 

The U.S. projects comprise the second major wave of new LNG supply, following the continuing ramp-up in Australia. Sabine Pass, one of five U.S. projects under construction, began exporting from Trains 1 and 2 in 2016; when construction on the remaining trains is complete, Sabine Pass will have a total export capacity of 22.5 mtpa. Other U.S. projects scheduled to begin exports by the end of 2020 include Freeport (13.2 mtpa) Corpus Christi (9 mtpa), Cameron LNG (12 mtpa), Cove Point (5.3 mtpa) and Elba Island (2.5 mtpa). The majority of U.S. volumes have already been contracted with most expected to go into the Asian and European markets. This development will be positive for tonne mile demand as the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia voyage is approximately 9,000 nautical miles through the Panama Canal, which opened to LNG shipping in 2016. The same voyage around Cape Horn is approximately 13,000 nautical miles. From the U.S. Gulf Coast to northwest Europe, the distance is approximately 5,000 nautical miles. In recent years, the average global LNG voyage was approximately 4,000 nautical miles, and therefore any voyage in excess of this distance will increase the global average distance and thus the demand for LNG carriers.

 

LNG Demand

 

In recent years, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Poland, Colombia, Malta, Jamaica and Jordan all imported their first LNG cargoes. This increase in the number of importing nations has been encouraged by low gas prices and attractive economics for Floating Storage and Regasification Units (“FSRUs”). These are either custom-built vessels or LNG Carriers that have been converted to operate as FSRUs, and offer cheaper and quicker access to LNG markets. FSRUs remain a growing sector of the LNG trade and they increase not only the number of potential customers but also the range of LNG trade routes.

 

LNG Chartering Activity

 

The significant fall in oil prices since 2014 has led to substantial declines in the price of LNG and a lack of pricing differential between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. These factors, among others, led in turn to a significant shortening of the average duration of spot charters fixed throughout 2015 and into 2016, as well as a significant decline in average rates for new spot and shorter-term LNG charters commencing promptly. The latter half of 2016 saw this trend reversing, with charterers taking vessels for longer periods and/or at higher rates; however, the turnaround is slow. In addition, some production companies have announced delays or cancellations of certain previously announced (but early stage) LNG projects, which, unless offset by new projects coming on stream, could adversely affect demand for LNG charters over the next few years, while the amount of tonnage available for charter is expected to increase.

 

Approximately 275 charters of LNG vessels were fixed in 2016, compared with 247 in 2015. This significant increase in chartering activity is a positive sign for the developing LNG shipping market, and reflects among other trends the increasing activity of trading houses. Our ability to participate in any future market growth will depend on our ability to access the equity and debt markets.

 

Global LNG Fleet

 

As of December 31, 2016, the global fleet of dedicated LNG carriers stood at 480 ships. In 2016, approximately 40 LNG carriers were delivered, and only 5 orders were placed. This low level of ordering is commensurate with the poor market conditions in 2015 and 2016.

 

We believe that the growing global demand for natural gas and the evolution of the LNG market, including less efficient trading with cargoes spending more time on the water, should support the existing order backlog for vessels and should also drive a need for more LNG carriers in the future. In addition, LNG project developers are typically large multinational oil and gas companies that have high standards for safety and reliability and a preference for modern LNG carriers with fuel-efficient ship design and propulsion, which should support our ability to obtain new charters over new or less-experienced operators. However, various factors, including changes in prices and demand for LNG can materially affect the competitive dynamics that currently exist.

 

The statements in this “Trend Information” section are forward-looking statements based on management’s current expectations and certain material assumptions and, accordingly, involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and outcomes to differ materially from those expressed herein. See “Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors” of the 2016 Form 20-F.

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E. Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

As of December 31, 2016, we do not have any transactions, obligations or relationships that should be considered off-balance sheet arrangements.

 

F. Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations

 

Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2016 were:

 

   Payments Due by Period 
   Total   Less than
1 year
   1-3 years   3-5 years   More than
5 years
 
   (Expressed in thousands of U.S. dollars) 
Long-term debt obligations  $982,191   $59,625   $546,625   $276,465   $99,476 
Interest on long-term debt obligations(1)   130,300    29,420    62,442    25,945    12,493 
Amounts due to related parties(2)   1,390    1,390             
Amounts due for management, commercial and administrative services fees(3)   3,861    3,861             
Purchase of depot spares(4)   4,340        2,000    2,340     
Total  $1,122,082   $94,296   $611,067   $304,750   $111,969 
 
(1)Our interest commitment on our floating long-term debt is calculated based on an assumed applicable interest rate of 3.5%, which takes into account the LIBOR and applicable margin spreads in our credit facilities while 2.4% is used for the commitment fees of our Old Sponsor Credit facility and 0.90% is used for the commitment fees of the GasLog Seattle Revolving Facility.

 

(2)Amounts due to related parties represent mainly payments made by GasLog LNG Services and GasLog to cover operating expenses, as well as amounts owed for commercial management and administrative services. See Note 12 to our consolidated financial statements.

 

(3)This includes the amounts due under our contractual obligations under our amended ship management agreements and our amended commercial management agreements signed with GasLog LNG Services and GasLog, respectively, for their non-terminable periods. In addition, it includes the amounts due under the amended administrative services agreement for its non-terminable period. The amended ship management agreements provide for a monthly management fee of $46 per vessel and the amended commercial management agreements provide for a fixed annual fee of $360 per vessel and may be terminated by either party giving three months’ notice. The administrative services agreement provides for a fixed annual fee of $632.4 per vessel and may be terminated by either party at any time giving the other party not less than three months’ written notice. The contractual obligations table includes administrative services fees for three months.

 

(4)Following the acquisition of the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, the Partnership, through its subsidiaries GAS-sixteen Ltd., GAS-seventeen Ltd., GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., is the counter guarantor for the acquisition from MSL of 83.3% of depot spares with an aggregate value of $6.0 million. These spares should be acquired before the end of the initial term of the related charter agreements.
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EX-99.3 4 c89422_ex99-3.htm

EXHIBIT 99.3

 

GASLOG PARTNERS LP

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

    Page
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm—Deloitte LLP   F-2
Consolidated statements of financial position as of December 31, 2015 and 2016   F-3
Consolidated statements of profit or loss for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016   F-4
Consolidated statements of comprehensive income or loss for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016   F-5
Consolidated statements of changes in owners’/partners’ equity for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016   F-6
Consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016   F-8
Notes to the consolidated financial statements   F-10
F-1

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Board of Directors and Unitholders of GasLog Partners LP

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial position of GasLog Partners LP and subsidiaries (the “Partnership”) as of December 31, 2015 and 2016, and the related consolidated statements of profit or loss, comprehensive income or loss, changes in owners’/partners’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2016. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Partnership’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audit.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Partnership is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Partnership’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of GasLog Partners LP and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2015 and 2016, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2016, in conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”).

 

/s/ Deloitte LLP

 

London, United Kingdom

 

September 29, 2017

F-2

GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of financial position
As of December 31, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars, except unit data)

 

   Note   January 1,
2015
   December 31,
2015
   December 31,
2016
 
       (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)   (restated) (1) 
Assets                    
Non-current assets                    
Other non-current assets    5       2,106       4,337       928  
Derivative financial instruments   16    198        6,008 
Vessels   3    1,507,541    1,464,763    1,624,494 
Vessel under construction   3    21,154    33,113     
Total non-current assets        1,530,999    1,502,213    1,631,430 
Current assets                    
Trade and other receivables   4    1,762    5,620    3,412 
Inventories        2,035    1,830    2,257 
Due from related parties   12            4,266 
Prepayments and other current assets        1,548    392    905 
Short-term investments        21,700        3,000 
Cash and cash equivalents        50,629    62,677    53,235 
Total current assets        77,674    70,519    67,075 
Total assets        1,608,673    1,572,732    1,698,505 
Owners’/partners’ equity and liabilities                    
Owners’/partners’ equity                    
Owners’ capital   6    202,169    64,434    50,803 
Common unitholders (14,322,358 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2014, 21,822,358 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2015 and 24,572,358 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2016)   6    324,967    507,433    565,408 
Subordinated unitholders (9,822,358 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2014, December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016)   6    77,088    59,786    60,988 
General partner (492,750 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2014, 645,811 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2015 and 701,933 units issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2016)   6    6,085    8,842    10,095 
Incentive distribution rights   6        2,117    5,878 
Total owners’/partners’ equity        610,309    642,612    693,172 
Current liabilities                    
Trade accounts payable        3,645    2,825    1,517 
Due to related parties   12    38,408    31,916    1,390 
Derivative financial instruments   16    2,249    1,623    1,836 
Other payables and accruals   8    24,657    26,090    33,722 
Borrowings—current portion   7    28,356    333,147    56,020 
Total current liabilities        97,315    395,601    94,485 
Non-current liabilities                    
Derivative financial instruments   16    247    782     
Borrowings—non-current portion   7, 12    900,749    533,555    910,666 
Other non-current liabilities        53    182    182 
Total non-current liabilities        901,049    534,519    910,848 
Total owners’/partners’ equity and liabilities        1,608,673    1,572,732    1,698,505 

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog Ltd. (“GasLog”) (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-3

GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of profit or loss
For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars, except per unit data)

 

   Note   2014   2015   2016 
       (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)   (restated) (1) 
Revenues        184,222    224,190    252,016 
Vessel operating costs   10    (35,732)   (47,748)   (51,737)
Voyage expenses and commissions        (2,368)   (2,979)   (3,442)
Depreciation   3    (39,569)   (49,971)   (54,548)
General and administrative expenses   9    (6,939)   (11,536)   (12,031)
Profit from operations        99,614    111,956    130,258 
Financial costs   11    (37,725)   (31,212)   (40,300)
Financial income   11    49    29    188 
Loss on interest rate swaps   16    (12,903)   (3,144)   (2,513)
Total other expenses, net        (50,579)   (34,327)   (42,625)
Profit for the year        49,035    77,629    87,633 
Earnings per unit attributable to the Partnership, basic and diluted:   18                
Common unit (basic)        0.75    2.38    2.18 
Common unit (diluted)        0.75    2.38    2.17 
Subordinated unit        0.56    1.85    2.14 
General partner unit        0.66    2.28    2.31 

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-4

GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of comprehensive income or loss
For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars)

 

   Note   2014   2015   2016 
       (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)   (restated) (1) 
Profit for the year        49,035    77,629    87,633 
Other comprehensive income:                    
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss:                    
Effective portion of changes in fair value of cash flow hedges   16    (368)        
Recycled loss of cash flow hedges reclassified to profit or loss   16    6,086    593    2,527 
Other comprehensive income for the year        5,718    593    2,527 
Total comprehensive income for the year        54,753    78,222    90,160 

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

F-5

GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of changes in owners’/partners’ equity
For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars, except unit data)

 

         Limited Partners                 
   General partner   Common unitholders   Subordinated
unitholders
   Incentive
distribution
   Total
Partners’
   Owners’ capital     
   Units   Amounts   Units   Amounts   Units   Amounts   rights   equity   (see Note 6)   Total 
Balance as of January 1, 2014 (as restated (1))                                   197,140    197,140 
Capital contributions                                   242,610    242,610 
Dividend declared                                   (8,810)   (8,810)
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations (see Note 18)                                   34,491    34,491 
Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   1,997    1,997 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   36,488    36,488 
Cash distribution to GasLog in exchange for net assets   400,913    3,786    162,358    1,530    9,822,358    92,767        98,083    (281,981)   (183,898)
Net proceeds from public offering and issuance of general partner units (see Note 6)   91,837    2,847    14,160,000    319,036                321,883        321,883 
Deemed distribution for excess consideration paid over the net book value       (646)       (261)       (15,815)       (16,722)   16,722     
Distribution declared (see Note 6)       (267)       (7,395)       (5,707)       (13,369)       (13,369)
Partnership’s profit (see Note 18)       291        8,713        5,540        14,544        14,544 
Partnership’s other comprehensive income       74        3,344        303        3,721        3,721 
Partnership’s total comprehensive income       365        12,057        5,843        18,265        18,265 
Balance as of December 31, 2014 (as restated (1))   492,750    6,085    14,322,358    324,967    9,822,358    77,088        408,140    202,169    610,309 
Capital contributions                                   10,050    10,050 
Dividend declared                                   (7,800)   (7,800)
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations (see Note 18)                                   12,589    12,589 
Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   593    593 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   13,182    13,182 
Cash distribution to GasLog in exchange for net assets contribution to the Partnership                                   (172,627)   (172,627)
Difference between net book values of acquired subsidiaries and consideration paid       (1,182)       (297)       (17,981)       (19,460)   19,460     
Net proceeds from public offering and issuance of general partner units (Note 6)   153,061    3,658    7,500,000    171,831                175,489        175,489 
Distributions declared (Note 6)       (1,024)       (32,359)       (17,499)   (311)   (51,193)       (51,193)
Share-based compensation       3        94        42    23    162        162 
Partnership’s profit (Note 18)       1,302        43,197        18,136    2,405    65,040        65,040 
Partnership’s total comprehensive income       1,302        43,197        18,136    2,405    65,040        65,040 
Balance as of December 31, 2015 (as restated (1))   645,811    8,842    21,822,358    507,433    9,822,358    59,786    2,117    578,178    64,434    642,612 
Capital contributions                                   40,385    40,385 
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations (see Note 18)                                   10,363    10,363 
F-6

Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   2,527    2,527 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations                                   12,890    12,890 
Cash distribution to GasLog in exchange for net assets contribution to the Partnership                                   (68,142)   (68,142)
Difference between net book values of acquired subsidiaries and consideration paid       (81)       (19)       (1,136)       (1,236)   1,236     
Net proceeds from public offering and issuance of general partner units (Note 6)   56,122    1,094    2,750,000    52,299                53,393        53,393 
Distributions declared (Note 6)       (1,312)       (44,353)       (18,780)   (1,132)   (65,577)       (65,577)
Share-based compensation       7        162        69    103    341        341 
Partnership’s profit (Note 18)       1,545        49,886        21,049    4,790    77,270        77,270 
Partnership’s total comprehensive income       1,545        49,886        21,049    4,790    77,270        77,270 
Balance as of December 31, 2016 (as restated (1))   701,933    10,095    24,572,358    565,408    9,822,358    60,988    5,878    642,369    50,803    693,172 

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of cash flows
For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars)

 

   Note   2014   2015   2016 
        (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)   (restated) (1) 
Cash flows from operating activities:                    
Profit for the year        49,035    77,629    87,633 
Adjustments for:                    
Depreciation        39,569    49,971    54,548 
Financial costs        37,725    31,212    40,300 
Financial income        (49)   (29)   (188)
Unrealized loss/(gain) on interest rate swaps held for trading including ineffective portion of cash flow hedges        2,212    107    (1,640)
Recycled loss of cash flow hedges reclassified to profit or loss        6,086    593    2,527 
Share-based compensation            205    480 
         134,578    159,688    183,660 
Movements in operating assets and liabilities:                    
Decrease/(increase) in trade and other receivables        1,828    (3,867)   2,209 
(Increase)/decrease in inventories        (1,092)   205    (427)
Change in related parties, net        7,819    (4,220)   4,543 
(Increase)/decrease in prepayments and other current assets        (1,070)   1,156    (513)
(Increase)/decrease in other non-current assets        (863)   65    1,113 
Increase/(decrease) in other non-current liabilities        53    86    (139)
Increase/(decrease) in trade accounts payable        2,261    (792)   (757)
Increase in other payables and accruals        13,418    212    3,444 
Cash provided by operations        156,932    152,533    193,133 
Interest paid        (28,869)   (26,599)   (28,576)
Net cash provided by operating activities        128,063    125,934    164,557 
Cash flows from investing activities:                    
Payments for vessels’ additions        (789,178)   (7,317)   (173,926)
Financial income received        42    38    187 
Purchase of short-term investments        (37,194)   (4,000)   (3,000)
Maturity of short-term investments        16,994    25,700     
Net cash (used in)/provided by investing activities        (809,336)   14,421    (176,739)
Cash flows from financing activities:                    
Borrowings drawdowns        1,022,500        601,999 
Borrowings repayments        (619,895)   (65,500)   (494,100)
Payment of loan issuance costs        (14,652)   (922)   (12,075)
Payments for interest rate swaps termination                (4,937)
Cash distribution to GasLog in exchange for contribution of net assets        (183,898)   (172,627)   (68,142)
Proceeds from public offerings and issuance of general partner units (net of underwriting discounts and commissions)        325,934    176,533    53,826 
Payment of offering costs        (3,964)   (1,104)   (454)
Distributions paid        (13,369)   (51,193)   (65,577)
Dividend due to GasLog before vessels’ drop-down        (9,800)   (8,810)   (7,800)
Decrease in amounts due to shareholders        (23,631)   (4,684)    
Capital contributions received        232,560         
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities        711,785    (128,307)   2,740 
Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents        30,512    12,048    (9,442)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of the year        20,117    50,629    62,677 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of the year        50,629    62,677    53,235 

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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GasLog Partners LP

 

Consolidated statements of cash flows
For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016
(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars)

 

   Note   2014   2015   2016  
       (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)   (restated) (1)  
Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities:   17                 
Payment for vessels through capital contributions before dropdown        10,050    10,050   37,299  
Capital expenditures included in liabilities at the end of the year        182    822   21  
Payment for vessels through related parties        1,100    1,303    
Financing costs included in liabilities at the end of the year        377    45    
Financing costs paid through capital contributions               1,378  
Financing costs paid through related parties            2,251    
Offering costs included in liabilities at the end of the year        87       5  
Offering costs paid through related parties            26    
Dividend declared but not paid        8,810    7,800    
Loan repayments made through capital contributions               1,708  

 

 
(1) Restated so as to reflect the historical financial statements of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. acquired on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, from GasLog (Note 1).

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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GasLog Partners LP

 

Notes to the consolidated financial statements

For the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016

(All amounts expressed in thousands of U.S. Dollars, except unit and per unit data)

 

1. Organization and Operations

 

GasLog Partners LP (“GasLog Partners” or the “Partnership”) was formed as a limited partnership under the laws of the Marshall Islands on January 23, 2014, being a wholly owned subsidiary of GasLog for the purpose of initially acquiring the interests in three liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) carriers that were contributed to the Partnership by GasLog in connection with the initial public offering of its common units (the “IPO”).

 

In connection with the IPO on May 12, 2014, the Partnership acquired from GasLog 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd., the entities that own GasLog Shanghai, GasLog Santiago and GasLog Sydney (the “Initial Fleet”).

 

On September 29, 2014, GasLog Partners acquired 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd., the entities that own two 145,000 cubic meters (“cbm”) LNG carriers, the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of $328,000.

 

On July 1, 2015, GasLog Partners acquired 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., the entities that own three 145,000 cbm LNG carriers, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of $483,000.

 

On November 1, 2016, GasLog Partners acquired 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-seven Ltd., the entity that owns a 155,000 cbm LNG carrier, the GasLog Seattle, for an aggregate purchase price of $189,000.

 

On May 3, 2017, GasLog Partners acquired 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-eleven Ltd., the entity that owns a 174,000 cbm LNG carrier, the GasLog Greece, for an aggregate purchase price of $219,000.

 

The acquisitions of (i) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd., (ii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., (iii) GAS-seven Ltd. and (iv) GAS-eleven Ltd. were accounted for as reorganizations of companies under common control. The Partnership’s historical results were retroactively restated to reflect the historical results of (i) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd., (ii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., (iii) GAS-seven Ltd. and (iv) GAS-eleven Ltd. from their respective dates of incorporation by GasLog. The carrying amounts of assets and liabilities included are based on the historical carrying amounts of such assets and liabilities recognized by the subsidiaries.

 

As of December 31, 2016, GasLog holds a 30.45% interest in the Partnership. As a result of its 100% ownership of the general partner, and the fact that the general partner elects the majority of the Partnership’s directors in accordance with the Partnership Agreement, GasLog has the ability to control the Partnership’s affairs and policies.

 

The Partnership’s principal business is the acquisition and operation of vessels in the LNG market, providing transportation services of LNG on a worldwide basis under long-term charters. GasLog LNG Services Ltd. (“GasLog LNG Services” or the “Manager”), a related party and a wholly owned subsidiary of GasLog, incorporated under the laws of the Bermuda, provides technical services to the Partnership.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the companies listed below were 100% held by the Partnership:

 

Name   Place of
incorporation
  Date of
incorporation
  Principal activities   Vessel   Cargo
Capacity
(cbm)
  Delivery Date
GAS-three Ltd.   Bermuda   April 2010   Vessel-owning company   GasLog Shanghai   155,000   January 2013
GAS-four Ltd.   Bermuda   April 2010   Vessel-owning company   GasLog Santiago   155,000   March 2013
GAS-five Ltd.   Bermuda   February 2011   Vessel-owning company   GasLog Sydney   155,000   May 2013
GAS-seven Ltd.   Bermuda   March 2011   Vessel-owning company   GasLog Seattle   155,000   December 2013
GAS-eleven Ltd.(*)   Bermuda   December 2012   Vessel-owning company   GasLog Greece   174,000   March 2016
GAS-sixteen Ltd.   Bermuda   January 2014   Vessel-owning company   Methane Rita Andrea   145,000   April 2014
GAS-seventeen Ltd.   Bermuda   January 2014   Vessel-owning company   Methane Jane Elizabeth   145,000   April 2014
GAS-nineteen Ltd.   Bermuda   April 2014   Vessel-owning company   Methane Alison Victoria   145,000   June 2014
GAS-twenty Ltd.   Bermuda   April 2014   Vessel-owning company   Methane Shirley Elisabeth   145,000   June 2014
GAS-twenty one Ltd.   Bermuda   April 2014   Vessel-owning company   Methane Heather Sally   145,000   June 2014
GasLog Partners Holdings LLC   Marshall Islands   April 2014   Holding company      

 

 

(*) As of December 31, 2016, GAS-eleven Ltd. was not owned by the Partnership. Pursuant to the company’s acquisition by the Partnership on May 3, 2017, the Partnership’s historical results have been retroactively restated to reflect the historical results of the company from the date of its incorporation by GasLog.

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2. Significant Accounting Policies

 

Statement of compliance

 

The consolidated financial statements of the Partnership have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (the “IASB”).

 

Basis of preparation

 

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis. Historical cost is generally based on the fair value of the consideration given in exchange for assets.

 

The principal accounting policies are set out below.

 

The consolidated financial statements are expressed in U.S. dollars (“USD”), which is the functional currency of the Partnership and each of its subsidiaries because their vessels operate in international shipping markets, in which revenues and expenses are primarily settled in USD and the Partnership’s most significant assets and liabilities are paid for and settled in USD.

 

In considering going concern, management has reviewed the Partnership’s future cash requirements, covenant compliance and earnings projections. As of December 31, 2016, the Partnership’s current assets totaled $67,075 while current liabilities totaled $94,485, resulting in a negative working capital position of $27,410. Current liabilities include $20,023 of time charter monthly hires received in advance that are classified as liabilities until such time as the criteria for recognizing the revenue as earned are met.

 

Management anticipates that the Partnership’s primary sources of funds will be available cash, cash from operations, borrowings under new loan agreements and equity financings. Management believes that these sources of funds will be sufficient for the Partnership to meet its liquidity needs and comply with its banking covenants for at least twelve months from the end of the reporting period and therefore it is appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis, although there can be no assurance that the Partnership will be able to obtain future debt and equity financing on terms acceptable to the Partnership.

 

On February 13, 2017, the Partnership’s board of directors authorized the consolidated financial statements for issuance and filing. Those financial statements have been recast to reflect the historical results of GAS-eleven Ltd. (Note 1). The recast financial statements were authorized for issuance and filing on September 13, 2017.

 

Basis of consolidation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Partnership and its subsidiaries assuming that they are consolidated from the date of their incorporation by GasLog, as they were under the common control of GasLog. All intra-group transactions and balances are eliminated on consolidation.

 

Accounting for (i) revenues and related operating expenses and (ii) voyage expenses and commissions

 

Revenues comprise revenues from time charters for the charter hire of the Partnership’s vessels earned during the period in accordance with existing contracts.

 

A time charter represents a contract entered into for the use of a vessel for a specific period of time and a specified daily charter hire rate. Time charter revenue is recognized as earned on a straight-line basis over the term of the relevant time charter starting from the vessel’s delivery to the charterer, except for the off-hire period, when a charter agreement exists, the vessel is made available and services are provided to the charterer and collection of the related revenue is reasonably assured. Unearned revenue includes cash received prior to the reporting date relating to services to be rendered after the reporting date. Accrued revenue represents income recognized in advance as a result of the straight-line revenue recognition in respect of charter agreements that provide for varying charter rates.

 

Time charter hires are received monthly in advance and are classified as liabilities until such time as the criteria for recognizing the revenue as earned are met.

 

Under a time charter arrangement the vessel operating expenses such as management fees, crew wages, provisions and stores, technical maintenance and insurance expenses, as well as broker’s commissions are paid by the vessel owner, whereas the majority of voyage expenses such as bunkers, port expenses, agents’ fees, and extra war risk insurance are paid by the charterer.

 

Vessel operating costs and voyage expenses and commissions are expensed as incurred, with the exception of commissions, which are recognized on a pro-rata basis over the duration of the period of the time charter.

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Financial income and costs

 

Interest income, interest expense, other borrowing costs and realized loss on interest rate swaps are recognized on an accrual basis.

 

Foreign currencies

 

Transactions in currencies other than USD are recognized at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At the end of each reporting period, monetary assets and liabilities denominated in other currencies are retranslated into USD at the rates prevailing at that date. All resulting exchange differences are recognized in the consolidated statement of profit or loss in the period in which they arise.

 

Deferred financing costs

 

Commitment, arrangement, structuring, legal and agency fees incurred for obtaining new loans or refinancing existing facilities are recorded as deferred loan issuance costs and classified contra to debt while the fees incurred for the undrawn facilities are classified under non-current assets in the statement of financial position and are classified contra debt on the drawdown dates.

 

Deferred financing costs are deferred and amortized to financial costs over the term of the relevant loan, using the effective interest method. When the relevant loan is terminated or extinguished, the unamortized loan fees are written-off in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.

 

Vessels

 

Vessels are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment loss. The initial cost of an asset comprises its purchase price and any directly attributable costs of bringing the asset to its working condition.

 

The cost of a LNG vessel is split into two components, a “vessel component” and a “dry-docking component”. Depreciation for the vessel component is calculated on a straight-line basis, after taking into account the estimated residual values, over the estimated useful life of this major component of the vessels. Residual values are based on management’s estimation about the amount that the Partnership would currently obtain from disposal of its vessels, after deducting the estimated costs of disposal, if the vessels were already of the age and in the condition expected at the end of their useful life.

 

The LNG vessels are required to undergo a dry-docking overhaul every five years to restore their service potential and to meet their classification requirements that cannot be performed while the vessels are operating. The dry-docking component is estimated at the time of a vessel’s delivery from the shipyard or acquisition from the previous owner and is measured based on the estimated cost of the first dry-docking, subsequent to its acquisition, based on the Partnership’s historical experience with similar types of vessels. For subsequent dry-dockings actual costs are capitalized when incurred. The dry-docking component is depreciated over the period of five years in case of new vessels, and until the next dry-docking for secondhand vessels.

 

Costs that will be capitalized as part of the future dry-dockings will include a variety of costs incurred directly attributable to the dry-dock and costs incurred to meet classification and regulatory requirements, as well as expenses related to the dock preparation and port expenses at the dry-dock shipyard, general shipyard expenses, expenses related to hull, external surfaces and decks, expenses related to machinery and engines of the vessel, as well as expenses related to the testing and correction of findings related to safety equipment on board. Dry-docking costs do not include vessel operating expenses such as replacement parts, crew expenses, provisions, lubricants consumption, insurance, management fees or management costs during the dry-docking period. Expenses related to regular maintenance and repairs of the vessels are expensed as incurred, even if such maintenance and repair occurs during the same time period as the dry-docking.

 

The expected useful lives are as follows:

 

Vessel    
LNG vessel component   35 years
Dry-docking component   5 years

 

Management estimates the useful life of its vessels to be 35 years from the date of initial delivery from the shipyard. Secondhand vessels are depreciated from the date of their acquisition through their remaining estimated useful life.

 

The useful lives and the depreciation method are reviewed annually to ensure that the method and period of depreciation are consistent with the expected pattern of economic benefits from Partnership’s vessels. The residual value is also reviewed at each financial period end. If expectations differ from previous estimates, the changes are accounted for prospectively in profit or loss in the period of the change and future periods.

 

Ordinary maintenance and repairs that do not extend the useful life of the asset are expensed as incurred.

 

When vessels are sold, they are derecognized and any gain or loss resulting from their disposals is included in profit or loss.

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Impairment of vessels

 

All vessels are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Whenever the carrying amount of a vessel exceeds its recoverable amount, an impairment loss is recognized in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. The recoverable amount is the higher of a vessel’s fair value less cost of disposal and “value in use”. The fair value less cost of disposal is the amount obtainable from the sale of a vessel in an arm’s length transaction less the costs of disposal, while “value in use” is the present value of estimated future cash flows expected to arise from the continuing use of a vessel and from its disposal at the end of its useful life. Recoverable amounts are estimated for individual vessels. Each vessel is considered to be a single cash-generating unit. The fair value less cost of disposal of the vessels is estimated from market-based evidence by appraisal that is normally undertaken by professionally qualified brokers.

 

Provisions

 

Provisions are recognized when the Partnership has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event, it is probable that the Partnership will be required to settle the obligation, and a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation. The amount recognized as a provision is the best estimate of the consideration required to settle the present obligation at the end of the reporting period, taking into account the risks and uncertainties surrounding the obligation. Where a provision is measured using the cash flows estimated to settle the present obligation, its carrying amount is the present value of those cash flows. When some or all of the economic benefits required to settle a provision are expected to be recovered from a third party, a receivable is recognized as an asset if it is virtually certain that reimbursement will be received and the amount of the receivable can be measured reliably.

 

Inventories

 

Inventories represent lubricants on board the vessel and are stated at the lower of cost calculated on a first-in, first-out basis, and net realizable value.

 

Financial instruments

 

Financial assets and liabilities are recognized when the Partnership has become a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument. All financial instruments are initially recognized at fair value. Transaction costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition or issue of financial assets and financial liabilities (other than financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss) are added to or deducted from the fair value of the financial assets or financial liabilities, as appropriate, on initial recognition.

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

Cash represents cash on hand and deposits with banks which are repayable on demand. Cash equivalents represent short-term, highly liquid investments which are readily convertible into known amounts of cash with original maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase that are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

 

Short-term investments

 

Short-term investments represent short-term, highly liquid time deposits placed with financial institutions which are readily convertible into known amounts of cash with original maturities of more than three months but less than 12 months at the time of purchase that are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

 

Trade receivables

 

Trade receivables are carried at the amount expected to be received from the third party to settle the obligation. Bad debts are written off during the year in which they are identified. An estimate is made for doubtful receivables based on a review of all outstanding amounts at each reporting date.

 

Borrowings

 

Borrowings are measured at amortized cost, using the effective interest method. Any difference between the proceeds (net of transaction costs) and the settlement of the borrowings is recognized in the statement of profit or loss over the term of the borrowings.

 

Derivative financial instruments

 

Derivative financial instruments, such as interest rate swaps, are used to economically hedge the Partnership’s exposure to interest rate risks. Derivative financial instruments are initially recognized at fair value and are subsequently remeasured to their fair value at each reporting date. The resulting changes in fair value are recognized in profit or loss immediately, unless the derivative is designated and effective as a hedging instrument, in which event the timing of the recognition in profit or loss depends on the nature of the hedge relationship. Derivatives are presented as assets when their valuation is favorable to the Partnership and as liabilities when unfavorable to the Partnership.

 

Criteria for classifying a derivative instrument in a hedging relationship include: (1) the hedging instrument is expected to be highly effective in achieving offsetting changes in fair value or cash flows attributable to the hedged risk; (2) the effectiveness of the hedge can be reliably measured; (3) there is adequate documentation of the hedging relationships at the inception of the hedge; and (4) for cash flow hedges, the forecasted transaction that is the hedged item in the hedging relationship must be considered highly probable.

 

The effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges is recognized in other comprehensive income. The gain or loss relating to the ineffective portion is recognized immediately in the consolidated statement of profit or loss. Amounts previously recognized in other comprehensive income and accumulated in equity are reclassified to the consolidated statement of profit or loss in the periods when the hedged item affects the consolidated statement of profit or loss. Hedge accounting is discontinued when the Partnership terminates the hedging relationship, when the hedging instrument expires or is sold, terminated or exercised, or when it no longer qualifies for hedge accounting.

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Any gain or loss accumulated in equity at that time remains in equity and is recognized in the consolidated statement of profit or loss when the hedged item affects the consolidated statement of profit or loss. When a forecast transaction designated as the hedged item in a cash flow hedge is no longer expected to occur, the gain or loss accumulated in equity is recycled immediately to the consolidated statement of profit or loss.

 

Segment information

 

Each vessel-owning company owns one LNG carrier which is operated under a long-term time charter with similar operating and economic characteristics. Consequently, the information provided to the Chief Executive Officer (the Partnership’s chief operating decision maker), to review the Partnership’s operating results and allocate resources, is on a consolidated basis for a single reportable segment. Furthermore, when the Partnership charters a vessel to a charterer, the charterer is free to trade the vessel worldwide and, as a result, the disclosure of geographic information is impracticable.

 

Share-based compensation

 

Share-based compensation to executives and others providing similar services are measured at the fair value of the equity instruments on the grant date. Details regarding the determination of the fair value of share-based transactions are set out in Note 19.

 

The fair value determined at the grant date of the equity-settled share-based compensation is expensed on a straight-line basis over the vesting period, based on the Partnership’s estimate of equity instruments that will eventually vest, with a corresponding increase in equity. At the end of each reporting period, the Partnership revises its estimate of the number of equity instruments expected to vest. The impact of the revision of the original estimates, if any, is recognized in the consolidated statement of profit or loss such that the cumulative expense reflects the revised estimate, with a corresponding adjustment to the share-based compensation reserve.

 

Critical accounting judgments and key sources of estimation uncertainty

 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses recognized in the consolidated financial statements. The Partnership’s management evaluates whether estimates should be made on an ongoing basis, utilizing historical experience, consultation with experts and other methods management considers reasonable in the particular circumstances. However, uncertainty about these assumptions and estimates could result in outcomes that could require a material adjustment to the carrying amount of the asset or liability in the future. Critical accounting judgments are those that reflect significant judgments of uncertainties and potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions.

 

Critical accounting judgments:

 

In the process of applying the Partnership’s accounting policies, management has made the following judgments, apart from those involving estimations, that had the most significant effect on the amounts recognized in the consolidated financial statements.

 

Classification of the Partnership interests: The interests in the Partnership comprise common units, subordinated units, a general partner interest and incentive distribution rights. Under the terms of the Partnership Agreement, the Partnership is required to distribute 100% of available cash (as defined in the Partnership Agreement) with respect to each quarter within 45 days of the end of the quarter to the partners. Available cash can be summarized as cash and cash equivalents less an amount equal to cash reserves established by the board of directors to (i) provide for the proper conduct of the business of the Partnership group (including reserves for future capital expenditures and for anticipated future credit needs of the Partnership group) subsequent to such quarter, (ii) comply with applicable law or any loan agreement, security agreement, mortgage, debt instrument or other agreement or obligation to which any Partnership group member is a party or by which it is bound or its assets are subject and/or (iii) provide funds for certain distributions relating to future periods.

 

In reaching a judgment as to whether the interests in the Partnership should be classified as liabilities or equity interests, the Partnership has considered the wide discretion of the board of directors to determine whether any portion of the amount of cash available to the Partnership constitutes available cash and that it is possible that there could be no available cash. In the event that there is no available cash, as determined by the board of directors, the Partnership does not have a contractual obligation to make a distribution. Accordingly, management has concluded that the Partnership interests do not represent a contractual obligation on the Partnership to deliver cash and therefore should be classified as equity within the financial statements.

 

Key sources of estimation uncertainty are as follows:

 

Vessel lives and residual value: Vessels are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation. The estimates and assumptions that have the most significant effect on the vessel carrying amount relate to the estimation of the useful life of an LNG vessel of 35 years and the residual value. An increase in the estimated useful life of a vessel or in its residual value would have the effect of decreasing the annual depreciation charge, and an increase in the estimated useful life of a vessel would also extend annual depreciation charge into later periods. A decrease in the useful life of a vessel or its residual value would have the effect of increasing the annual depreciation charge.

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Management estimates residual value of its vessels to be equal to the product of its lightweight tonnage (“LWT”) and an estimated scrap rate per LWT. Effective December 31, 2016, following management’s annual reassessment, the estimated scrap rate per LWT was decreased. This change in estimate is expected to increase the future annual depreciation by $215. The estimated residual value of the vessels may not represent the fair market value at any time partly because market prices of scrap values tend to fluctuate. The Partnership might revise the estimate of the residual values of the vessels in the future in response to changing market conditions.

 

If regulations place significant limitations on the ability of a vessel to trade on a worldwide basis, the vessel’s useful life will be adjusted to end at the date such regulations become effective. The estimated residual value of a vessel may not represent the fair market value at any one time partly because market prices of scrap rates tend to fluctuate.

 

Vessel cost: When determining vessel cost, the Partnership recognizes the installment payments paid to the shipyard or the acquisition price paid to the seller for secondhand vessels along with any directly attributable costs of bringing the vessels to their working condition. Directly attributable costs incurred during the vessel construction periods consist of commissions, on-site supervision costs, costs for sea trials, certain critical initial spare parts and equipment, costs directly incurred for negotiating the construction contracts, initial lubricants and other vessel delivery expenses. Any vendor discounts are deducted from the vessel cost. Subsequent expenditures for conversions and major improvements are also capitalized when the recognition criteria are met.

 

The vessel cost component is depreciated on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life of each vessel, based on the cost of the vessel less its estimated residual value. The Partnership estimates the useful lives of its vessels to be 35 years from the date of delivery from the shipyard, which the Partnership believes is within industry standards and represents the most reasonable useful life for each of the vessels.

 

The Partnership must periodically dry-dock each of the vessels for inspection, repairs and any modifications. At the time of delivery of a ship from the shipyard, the Partnership estimates the dry-docking component of the cost of the vessel, representing estimated costs to be incurred during the first dry-docking at the dry-dock yard for a special survey and parts and supplies used in making required major repairs that meet the recognition criteria, based on the Partnership’s historical experience with similar types of vessels. For subsequent dry-dockings actual costs are capitalized when incurred. Costs that will be capitalized as part of the future dry-dockings will include a variety of costs incurred directly attributable to the dry-docking and costs incurred to meet classification and regulatory requirements, as well as expenses related to the dock preparation and port expenses at the dry-dock shipyard, general shipyard expenses, expenses related to hull, external surfaces and decks, expenses related to machinery and engines of the vessel, as well as expenses related to the testing and correction of findings related to safety equipment on board. Dry-docking costs do not include vessel operating expenses such as replacement parts, crew expenses, provisions, lubricants consumption, insurance, management fees or management costs during the dry-docking period. Expenses related to regular maintenance and repairs of the vessels are expensed as incurred, even if such maintenance and repair occurs during the same time period as the dry-docking.

 

Ordinary maintenance and repairs that do not extend the useful life of the asset are expensed as incurred.

 

The Partnership recognizes dry-docking costs as a separate component of the vessel’s carrying amounts and amortizes the dry-docking cost on a straight-line basis over the estimated period until the next dry-docking. If the vessel is disposed of before the next dry-docking, the remaining balance of the dry-dock component is written-off and forms part of the gain or loss recognized upon disposal of vessels in the period of disposal. The Partnership expects that its vessels will be required to be dry-docked in approximately 60 months after their delivery from the shipyard, and thereafter every 60 months will be required to undergo special or intermediate surveys and dry-docked for major repairs and maintenance that cannot be performed while the vessels are operating. The Partnership amortizes its estimated dry-docking expenses for the first special survey over five years, in case of new vessels, and until the next dry-docking for secondhand vessels unless the Partnership intends to dry-dock the vessels earlier as circumstances arise.

 

Impairment of vessels: The Partnership evaluates the carrying amounts of its vessels to determine whether there is any indication that those vessels have suffered an impairment loss by considering both internal and external sources of information. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of vessels is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss, if any.

 

Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset for which the estimates of future cash flows have not been adjusted. The projection of cash flows related to vessels is complex and requires management to make various estimates including future freight rates, earnings from the vessels and discount rates. All of these items have been historically volatile. In assessing the fair value less cost to sell of the vessel, the Partnership obtains vessel valuations from independent and internationally recognized ship brokers on an annual basis or when there is an indication that an asset or assets may be impaired. If an indication of impairment is identified, the need for recognizing an impairment loss is assessed by comparing the carrying amount of the vessels to the higher of the fair value less cost to sell and the value in use.

 

The Partnership’s estimates of recoverable value assume that the vessels are all in seaworthy condition without need for repair and certified in class without notations of any kind. The Partnership’s estimates are based on approximate charter free market values for the vessels that have been received from shipbrokers which are also commonly used and accepted by the Partnership’s lenders for determining compliance with the relevant covenants in the Partnership’s credit facilities. Vessel values can be highly volatile, so the estimates may not be indicative of the future market value of the Partnership’s vessels or prices that could be achieved if it were to sell them.

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As of December 31, 2016, the carrying amounts of the following Steam vessels: the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally were higher than the charter free market values estimated by shipbrokers and the Partnership concluded that events and circumstances triggered the existence of potential impairment of these vessels. As a result, the Partnership performed the impairment assessment of these vessels by comparing the discounted projected net operating cash flows for these vessels to their carrying values. The Partnership’s strategy is to charter its vessels on 5-year-contracts or more, providing the Partnership with contracted stable cash flows. The assumptions which the Partnership has used in its discounted projected net operating cash flow analysis included, among others, operating revenues, utilization, dry-docking costs, operating expenses (including management fees), residual values and the discount factor.

 

Revenue assumptions were based on contracted time charter rates up to the end of life of the current contract of each vessel, as well as the estimated average time charter rates for the remaining life of the vessel after the completion of its current contract. The revenue assumptions exclude days of scheduled off-hire and assume a utilization rate of 99.5% based on the fleet’s historical performance and internal forecasts. The estimated daily time charter rates used for non-contracted revenue days after the completion of the current time charter are based on a combination of (i) recent charter market rates, (ii) conditions existing in the LNG market as of December 31, 2016, (iii) historical average time charter rates, based on publications by independent third party maritime research services (“maritime research publications”), and (iv) estimated future time charter rates, also based on maritime research publications that provide such forecasts. More specifically, for the non-contracted period starting upon the expiration of the firm charter period of each vessel and up to December 31, 2021, the Partnership used the most recent charter market rate for a 5-year time charter agreement based on available data from maritime research publications, which is $52 per day for the Steam vessels.

 

For the remaining period from January 1, 2022 through the end of each vessel’s useful life, the estimated average time charter rate was based on analysis of future supply and demand for LNG, analysis of future LNG shipping supply and demand balances, internally estimated and market-derived costs of building and financing newbuild LNG vessels and 5-year historical average 5-year time charter rates based on maritime research publications.

 

Recognizing that the LNG industry is cyclical and subject to significant volatility based on factors beyond the Partnership’s control, management believes the use of revenue estimates discussed above to be reasonable as of the reporting date. The Partnership does not take into account any growth rate assumptions or inflation factors for determining forecasted time charter rates beyond the contracted charter rate period through the end of a vessel’s useful life. In assessing the factors mentioned above for the purposes of determining estimated revenues, the Partnership has placed particular reliance on available third party maritime research publications and analysis of LNG shipping supply and demand data.

 

In addition, the Partnership used an annual operating expenses escalation factor equal to 1% based on its historical data and performance, as well as its expectations of future inflation and operating and dry-docking costs. Estimates for the remaining useful lives of the current fleet and residual and scrap values are the same as those used for the Partnership’s depreciation policy.

 

In the Partnership’s impairment assessment, the weighted average cost of capital (“WACC”) used to discount future estimated cash flows to their present values was approximately 7% as of December 31, 2016. This was based on the calculated cost of equity and cost of debt components. All estimates used and assumptions made were in accordance with the Partnership’s internal budgets and historical experience of the shipping industry.

 

The value in use for the five vessels calculated as per above was higher than the carrying amount of these vessels and, consequently, no impairment loss was recognized.

 

Adoption of new and revised IFRS

 

Standards and amendments in issue not yet adopted

 

At the date of authorization of these consolidated financial statements, the following standards and amendments relevant to the Partnership were in issue but not yet effective:

 

In May 2014, the IASB issued IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which applies to all contracts with customers: the main exceptions are leases, financial instruments and insurance contracts. IFRS 15 specifies how and when an IFRS reporter will recognize revenue as well as requiring such entities to provide users of financial statements with more informative, relevant disclosures. The standard supersedes IAS 18 Revenue, IAS 11 Construction Contracts and a number of revenue-related interpretations. The standard was amended in September 2015 to delay the effective date to annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2018 but early adoption is permitted. In addition, the standard was further amended in April 2016 to clarify the guidance on identifying performance obligations, accounting for licences of intellectual property and the principal versus agent assessment (gross versus net revenue presentation), as well as to give new and amended illustrative examples and practical expedients. Management anticipates that the implementation of this standard will not have a material impact on the Partnership’s financial statements since the Partnership’s revenues are generated by long-term contracts with charterers.

 

In July 2014, the IASB issued the complete version of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments. IFRS 9 specifies how an entity should classify and measure financial assets and financial liabilities. The new standard requires all financial assets to be subsequently measured at amortized cost or fair value depending on the business model of the legal entity in relation to the management of the financial assets and the contractual cash flows of the financial assets. The standard also requires a financial liability to be classified as either at fair value through profit or loss or at amortized cost. In addition, a new hedge accounting model was introduced, that is designed to be more closely aligned with how entities undertake risk management activities when hedging financial and non-financial risk exposures. The standard is effective for accounting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2018 but early adoption is permitted. Management is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on the Partnership’s financial statements.

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In January 2016, the IASB issued IFRS 16 Leases, which sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure of leases for both parties to a contract, i.e. the customer (“lessee”) and the supplier (“lessor”). IFRS 16 eliminates the classification of leases by lessees as either operating leases or finance leases and, instead, introduces a single lessee accounting model. Applying that model, a lessee is required to recognise: (a) assets and liabilities for all leases with a term of more than 12 months, unless the underlying asset is of low value; and (b) depreciation of lease assets separately from interest on lease liabilities in the statement of profit or loss. Lessors continue to classify their leases as operating leases or finance leases, and to account for those two types of leases differently. IFRS 16 supersedes the previous leases Standard, IAS 17 Leases, and related Interpretations. The standard is effective from 1 January 2019, with early adoption permitted only with concurrent adoption of IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers. Management is currently evaluating the impact of this standard on the Partnership’s financial statements.

 

In February 2016, the IASB issued amendments to IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows introducing an additional disclosure that will enable users of financial statements to evaluate changes in liabilities arising from financing activities. The amendments are part of the IASB’s Disclosure Initiative, which continues to explore how financial statement disclosure can be improved. Entities will be required to disclose changes arising from cash flows, such as drawdowns and repayments of borrowings and also non-cash changes, such as acquisitions, disposals and unrealised exchange differences. Even though a specific format is not mandated, where a reconciliation is used the disclosure should provide sufficient information to link items included in the reconciliation to the statement of financial position and statement of cash flows. The amendments are effective for annual periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017, with earlier application being permitted. Entities are not required to present comparative information for preceding periods. Management anticipates that these amendments will only have a disclosure impact on the Partnership’s financial statements.

 

The impact of all other IFRS standards and amendments issued but not yet adopted is not expected to be material on the Partnership’s financial statements.

 

3. Vessels

 

The movement in vessels is reported in the following table:

 

Cost  Vessels   Vessel under
construction
 
As of January 1, 2015   1,559,701    21,154 
Additions   7,193    11,959 
Fully amortized dry-docking component   (1,624)    
As of December 31, 2015   1,565,270    33,113 
Additions   5,084    176,082 
Transfer from vessels under construction   209,195    (209,195)
Fully amortized dry-docking component   (2,520)    
As of December 31, 2016   1,777,029     
Accumulated depreciation          
As of January 1, 2015   52,160     
Depreciation expense   49,971     
Fully amortized dry-docking component   (1,624)    
As of December 31, 2015   100,507     
Depreciation expense   54,548     
Fully amortized dry-docking component   (2,520)    
As of December 31, 2016   152,535     
Net book value          
As of December 31, 2015   1,464,763    33,113 
As of December 31, 2016   1,624,494     

 

All the vessels have been pledged as collateral under the terms of the Partnership’s bank loan agreements (Note 7).

 

On April 10, 2014, GasLog acquired three 145,000 cbm modern steam turbine-powered LNG carriers and on June 4, 2014, June 11, 2014, and June 25, 2014, acquired another three 145,000 cbm modern steam turbine-powered LNG carriers from a subsidiary of BG Group plc (“BG Group”) for an aggregate cost of $936,000 (of which $930,000 was paid at closing of these deliveries while the payment of the remaining $6,000 will be made upon receipt of the relevant spares and before the end of the initial term of the charter party agreements) and chartered those vessels back to Methane Services Limited, a subsidiary of BG Group, for an average six year initial terms. The vessels acquired are the 2006 built Methane Rita Andrea, Methane Jane Elizabeth and Methane Lydon Volney, and the 2007 built Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally. GasLog supervised the construction of all six vessels at Samsung shipyard in Korea for BG Group and has provided technical management for the ships since delivery.

 

On September 29, 2014, the Partnership acquired from GasLog 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd., the entities that own the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of $328,000. As consideration for this acquisition, the Partnership paid GasLog $118,202, representing the difference between the $328,000 aggregate purchase price and the $217,000 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entities (Note 7) plus an adjustment of $7,202 in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entities of $2,000 at the time of acquisition.

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On July 1, 2015, the Partnership acquired from GasLog 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., the entities that own the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively, for an aggregate purchase price of $483,000. As consideration for this acquisition, the Partnership paid GasLog $172,627, representing the difference between the $483,000 aggregate purchase price and the $325,500 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entities assumed by the Partnership plus an adjustment of $15,127 in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entities of $3,000 at the time of acquisition.

 

On November 1, 2016, the Partnership acquired from GasLog 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-seven Ltd., the entity which owns the GasLog Seattle, for an aggregate purchase price of $189,000. As consideration for this acquisition, the Partnership paid GasLog $68,142 representing the difference between the $189,000 aggregate purchase price and the $122,292 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity assumed by the Partnership plus an adjustment of $1,434 in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entity of $1,000 at the time of acquisition.

 

On May 3, 2017, the Partnership acquired from GasLog 100% of the ownership interests in GAS-eleven Ltd., the entity which owns the GasLog Greece, for an aggregate purchase price of $219,000. As consideration for this acquisition, the Partnership paid GasLog $66,643 representing the difference between the $219,000 aggregate purchase price and the $151,423 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity assumed by the Partnership less an adjustment of $934 in order to maintain the agreed working capital position in the acquired entity of $1,000 at the time of acquisition.

 

The additions of the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally are presented at the cost acquired from BG Group. The acquisitions of the aforementioned vessels by GasLog were treated as asset acquisitions based on the absence of processes attached to the inputs. In addition, management considered that the charter party agreements entered into approximate market rates and has concluded that the contracted daily charter rate approximates fair value on the transaction completion dates, taking into account that the rates agreed with BG Group were in arms’ length negotiations and management’s understanding of the market. Considering the above, the purchase price was allocated in total to vessel cost in both instances. The additions of the GasLog Seattle and the GasLog Greece are presented at the historical construction cost.

 

4. Trade and Other Receivables

 

Trade and other receivables consisted of the following:

 

   As of December 31, 
   2015   2016 
Due from charterers   784    799 
VAT receivable   103    35 
Accrued income   328    958 
Insurance claims   2,852    135 
Other receivables   1,553    1,485 
Total   5,620    3,412 

 

As of December 31, 2015, insurance claims included a claim receivable of $2,694 relating to a hull and machinery incident that was settled in 2016.

 

As of December 31, 2015 and 2016, no receivable balances were past due or impaired, and therefore no allowance was necessary.

 

5. Other Non-Current Assets

 

Other non-current assets consisted of the following:

 

   As of December 31, 
   2015   2016 
Accrued revenue from straight-line revenue   1,886    928 
Various guarantees   155     
Deferred financing costs   2,296     
Total   4,337    928 

 

Various guarantees as of December 31, 2015, represent amounts due from a related party for advances made to GasLog LNG Services Ltd. in connection with security to a bank guarantee provided to the Greek government for GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd., GAS-five Ltd. and GAS-seven Ltd.

 

6. Owners’/Partners’ Capital

 

As of January 1, 2014 the capital of each of the subsidiaries consisted of 12,000 authorized common shares with a par value of $1 per share, all of which have been issued and are outstanding, resulting in a total owners’ capital of $60. Each share was entitled to one vote.

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Capital contributions represent capital contributed by the owner of each subsidiary in excess of par value to fund working capital and shipyard installments and capital contributed through contributed services.

 

The reconciliation of owners’ capital is as follows:

 

   Share
capital
   Contributed
surplus
   Cash flow
hedging
reserve
   Retained
earnings
   Total
Owners’
capital
 
Balance as of January 1, 2014   60    188,819    (8,838)   17,099    197,140 
Capital contributions       242,610            242,610 
Dividend declared               (8,810)   (8,810)
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations           34,491        34,491 
Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           1,997        1,997 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           36,488        36,488 
Net contribution to the Partnership   (36)   (241,125)   3,721    (27,819)   (265,259)
Balance as of December 31, 2014   24    190,304    31,371    (19,530)   202,169 
Capital contributions       10,050            10,050 
Dividend declared               (7,800)   (7,800)
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations           12,589        12,589 
Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           593        593 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           13,182        13,182 
Net contribution to the Partnership       (139,536)       (13,631)   (153,167)
Balance as of December 31, 2015   24    60,818    44,553    (40,961)   64,434 
Capital contributions       40,385            40,385 
Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations           10,363        10,363 
Other comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           2,527        2,527 
Total comprehensive income attributable to GasLog’s operations           12,890        12,890 
Net contribution to the Partnership   (12)   (60,660)       (6,234)   (66,906)
Balance as of December 31, 2016   12    40,543    57,443    (47,195)   50,803 

 

As described in Note 1, on May 12, 2014, the Partnership completed its IPO and issued (1) 162,358 common units, 9,822,358 subordinated units and all of the IDRs to GasLog, (2) 400,913 general partner units to the general partner and (3) 9,660,000 common units (including 1,260,000 units in relation to the overallotment option exercised in full by the underwriters) at a price of $21.00 per unit. The net proceeds from the IPO amounted to $186,030 after deducting underwriting discount and underwriters’ expenses of $13,730 and the equity offering expenses of $3,100.

 

On September 29, 2014, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 4,500,000 common units at a public offering price of $31.00 per unit. The net proceeds from this offering after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were approximately $133,006. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 91,837 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0%. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $2,847.

 

On June 26, 2015, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 7,500,000 common units at a public offering price of $23.90 per unit. The net proceeds from this offering after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were $171,831. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 153,061 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $3,658.

 

On August 5, 2016, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 2,750,000 common units at a public offering price of $19.50 per unit. The net proceeds from this offering after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were $52,299. In connection with the offering, the Partnership issued 56,122 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $1,094.

 

As of December 31, 2016, the Partnership’s capital consisted of 24,572,358 outstanding common units, 9,822,358 outstanding subordinated units and 701,933 outstanding general partner units.

 

Cash distributions

 

On July 30, 2014, the board of directors declared a prorated quarterly cash distribution with respect to the quarter ended June 30, 2014 of $0.20604 per unit. The distribution was prorated for the period beginning on May 12, 2014, which was the closing date of the IPO, and ending on June 30, 2014, and corresponds to a quarterly distribution of $0.375 per outstanding unit, or $1.50 per outstanding unit on an annualized basis. The prorated cash distribution was paid on August 14, 2014 to all unitholders of record as of August 11, 2014.

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On October 29, 2014, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution with respect to the quarter ended September 30, 2014 of $0.375 per unit. The quarter ended September 30, 2014 was the Partnership’s first full quarter since the IPO. The cash distribution was paid on November 14, 2014 to all unitholders of record as of November 10, 2014.

 

On January 28, 2015, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2014, of $0.4345 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on February 12, 2015, to all unitholders of record as of February 9, 2015.

 

On April 29, 2015, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended March 31, 2015, of $0.4345 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on May 14, 2015 to all unitholders of record as of May 11, 2015.

 

On July 29, 2015, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended June 30, 2015, of $0.4345 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on August 13, 2015 to all unitholders of record as of August 10, 2015.

 

On October 28, 2015, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended September 30, 2015, of $0.478 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on November 12, 2015 to all unitholders of record as of November 9, 2015.

 

On January 27, 2016, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2015, of $0.478 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on February 12, 2016, to all unitholders of record as of February 8, 2016.

 

On April 27, 2016, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended March 31, 2016, of $0.478 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on May 13, 2016, to all unitholders of record as of May 9, 2016.

 

On July 27, 2016, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended June 30, 2016 of $0.478 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on August 12, 2016, to all unitholders of record as of August 8, 2016.

 

On October 26, 2016, the board of directors declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended September 30, 2016 of $0.478 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on November 11, 2016, to all unitholders of record as of November 7, 2016.

 

Voting Rights

 

The following is a summary of the unitholder vote required for the approval of the matters specified below. Matters that require the approval of a “unit majority” require:

 

during the subordination period, the approval of a majority of the outstanding common units, excluding those common units held by the general partner and its affiliates, voting as a single class and a majority of the subordinated units voting as a single class; and

 

after the subordination period, the approval of a majority of the outstanding common units voting as a single class.

 

In voting their common units and subordinated units the general partner and its affiliates will have no fiduciary duty or obligation whatsoever to the Partnership or the limited partners, including any duty to act in good faith or in the best interests of the Partnership or the limited partners.

 

Each outstanding common unit is entitled to one vote on matters subject to a vote of common unitholders. However, to preserve the Partnership’s ability to claim an exemption from U.S. federal income tax under Section 883 of the Code, if at any time any person or group owns beneficially more than 4.9% of any class of units then outstanding, any units beneficially owned by that person or group in excess of 4.9% may not be voted on any matter and will not be considered to be outstanding when sending notices of a meeting of unitholders, calculating required votes (except for purposes of nominating a person for election to the board of directors), determining the presence of a quorum or for other similar purposes under the Partnership Agreement, unless otherwise required by law. Effectively, this means that the voting rights of any such unitholders in excess of 4.9% will be redistributed pro rata among the other common unitholders holding less than 4.9% of the voting power of all classes of units entitled to vote. The general partner, its affiliates and persons who acquired common units with the prior approval of the board of directors will not be subject to this 4.9% limitation except with respect to voting their common units in the election of the elected directors.

 

The Partnership holds a meeting of the limited partners every year to elect one or more members of the board of directors and to vote on any other matters that are properly brought before the meeting. The general partner retains the right to appoint four of the directors.

 

General Partner Interest

 

The Partnership Agreement provides that the general partner initially will be entitled to 2.0% of all distributions that the Partnership makes prior to its liquidation. The general partner has the right, but not the obligation, to contribute a proportionate amount of capital to the Partnership to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest if the Partnership issues additional units. The general partner’s 2.0% interest, and the percentage of the Partnership’s cash distributions to which it is entitled, will be proportionately reduced if the Partnership issues additional units in the future and the general partner does not contribute a proportionate amount of capital to the Partnership in order to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest. The general partner will be entitled to make a capital contribution in order to maintain its 2.0% general partner interest in the form of the contribution to the Partnership of common units based on the current market value of the contributed common units.

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Incentive Distribution Rights

 

Incentive distribution rights represent the right to receive an increasing percentage of quarterly distributions of available cash from operating surplus after the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels have been achieved. GasLog holds the incentive distribution rights following completion of the IPO. The incentive distribution rights may be transferred separately from any other interests, subject to restrictions in the Partnership Agreement. Except for transfers of incentive distribution rights to an affiliate or another entity as part of a merger or consolidation with or into, or sale of substantially all of the assets to, such entity, the approval of a majority of the Partnership’s common units (excluding common units held by the general partner and its affiliates), voting separately as a class, generally is required for a transfer of the incentive distribution rights to a third party prior to March 31, 2019. Any transfer by GasLog of the incentive distribution rights would not change the percentage allocations of quarterly distributions with respect to such right.

 

The following table illustrates the percentage allocation of the additional available cash from operating surplus in respect to such rights:

 

   Marginal Percentage Interest in Distributions
   Total Quarterly         
   Distribution     General    Holders of  
   Target Amount  Unitholders    Partner    IDRs  
Minimum Quarterly Distribution  $0.375   98.0%   2.0%   0%
First Target Distribution  $0.375 up to $0.43125   98.0%   2.0%   0%
Second Target Distribution  $0.43125 up to $0.46875   85.0%   2.0%   13.0%
Third Target Distribution  $0.46875 up to $0.5625   75.0%   2.0%   23.0%
Thereafter  Above $0.5625   50.0%   2.0%   48.0%

 

Subordinated Units

 

GasLog holds all of the Partnership’s subordinated units. The principal difference between the common units and subordinated units is that in any quarter during the subordination period the subordinated units are entitled to receive the minimum quarterly distribution of $0.375 per unit only after the common units have received the minimum quarterly distribution and arrearages in the payment of the minimum quarterly distribution from prior quarters. Subordinated units will not accrue arrearages. In accordance with the terms of the Partnership Agreement, the subordination period generally will end if the Partnership has earned and paid at least $0.375 on each outstanding common and subordinated unit and the corresponding distribution on the general partner’s 2.0% interest for any three consecutive four-quarter periods ending on or after March 31, 2017. After the subordination period ends all subordinated units will convert into common units on a one-for-one basis and the common units will no longer be entitled to arrearages. The subordination period ended on May 16, 2017 (Note 21).

 

7. Borrowings

 

Borrowings as of December 31, 2015 and 2016 consisted of the following:

 

   As of December 31, 
   2015   2016 
Amounts due within one year   336,000    59,625 
Less: unamortized deferred loan issuance costs   (2,853)   (3,605)
Borrowings—current portion   333,147    56,020 
Amounts due after one year   540,000    922,566 
Less: unamortized deferred loan issuance costs   (6,445)   (11,900)
Borrowings—non-current portion   533,555    910,666 
Total   866,702    966,686 

 

Terminated Facilities:

 

(a)DnB Bank ASA and Export-Import Bank of Korea:

 

On March 14, 2012, GAS-three Ltd. and GAS-four Ltd. entered into a loan agreement of up to $272,500 with DnB Bank ASA and the Export-Import Bank of Korea, in order to partially finance the acquisition of two LNG vessels. On January 18, 2013 and March 19, 2013, GAS-three Ltd. and GAS-four Ltd. drew down $272,500 in total from the loan facility for the financing of the GasLog Shanghai and the GasLog Santiago. Each tranche was repayable in 45 equal quarterly installments, as well as a balloon payment of $40,000 due together with the final installment in the first quarter of 2025. In connection with the Partnership’s IPO on May 12, 2014, the credit facility was amended to, among other things, permit GasLog to contribute GAS-three Ltd. and GAS-four Ltd. to the Partnership and add GasLog Partners Holdings LLC, as a guarantor. On November 19, 2014, the outstanding amount of $246,432, for both tranches under the credit facility, was fully repaid.

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(b)Nordea Bank Finland PLC, ABN Amro Bank N.V. and Citibank International PLC syndicated loan:

 

On October 3, 2011, GAS-five Ltd. and GasLog’s subsidiary GAS-six Ltd. entered into a loan agreement of up to $277,000 with Nordea Bank Finland PLC, ABN Amro Bank N.V. and Citibank International PLC in order to partially finance the acquisition of two LNG vessels. The loan agreement provided for two equal tranches that were drawn on May 24, 2013 and July 19, 2013 for the financing of the GasLog Sydney and the GasLog Skagen. Each tranche was repayable in 23 quarterly installments, together with a final balloon payment of $89,618 payable concurrently with the last installments in 2019. In connection with the Partnership’s IPO on May 12, 2014, the credit facility entered was amended to among other things, (1) divide the facility into two separate facilities on substantially the same terms as the initial facility, with one of the facilities executed by GAS-five Ltd. for the portion allocated to the GasLog Sydney, (2) permit GasLog’s contribution of GAS-five Ltd. to the Partnership and (3) add GasLog Partners Holdings LLC as a guarantor and remove GasLog Carriers Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of GasLog, as guarantor in connection with the GAS-five Ltd. facility. In connection with these amendments, the Partnership prepaid $82,634 of the new GAS-five Ltd. facility with proceeds of the IPO. On November 19, 2014, the outstanding amount of $48,225 under the GAS-five Ltd. credit facility was fully repaid.

 

(c)Citibank N.A. London Branch facility:

 

On April 1, 2014, in connection with the acquisition of the three LNG carriers from BG Group (Note 3), GasLog signed a loan agreement of $325,500 with Citibank, N.A. London Branch acting as security agent and trustee for and on behalf of the other finance parties. The loan had a two year maturity without intermediate payments bearing interest at LIBOR plus a margin and was drawn on April 9, 2014, to partially finance the deliveries of the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth and the Methane Lydon Volney. In connection with the closing of the Partnership’s acquisition of the two entities that own the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth on September 29, 2014, the Partnership and GasLog Partners Holdings LLC executed a supplemental deed that, among other things, permitted the Partnership to acquire GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. from GasLog and added the Partnership and GasLog Partners Holdings LLC as guarantors. The debt of $217,000 was assumed by the Partnership for the acquisition of GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. On October 9, 2014, the Partnership prepaid $25,000 from a portion of the proceeds of the follow-on equity offering (Note 6). The assumed balance of $192,000 was fully repaid on November 19, 2014.

 

(d)Citibank N.A. London Branch facility:

 

Following the acquisition of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., the Partnership assumed $325,500 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entities. The loan agreement was signed by GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., on May 12, 2014 with Citibank N.A. London Branch, acting as security agent and trustee for and on behalf of the other finance parties. The loan has a two-year maturity bearing interest at LIBOR plus a margin and $108,500 was drawn on each of June 3, 2014, on June 10, 2014 and on June 24, 2014 to partially finance the deliveries of the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively. Using the proceeds of the equity offering completed in June 2015, GasLog Partners prepaid $10,000 of the GAS-nineteen Ltd. tranche on September 4, 2015, $5,000 of the GAS-twenty Ltd. tranche on December 10, 2015 and $5,000 of the GAS-twenty one Ltd. tranche on December 29, 2015. On April 5, 2016, the outstanding amount of $305,500 under the facility was fully repaid.

 

(e)Credit Suisse AG facility:

 

On January 18, 2012, GAS-seven Ltd. entered into a loan agreement of up to $144,000 with Credit Suisse AG, for the purpose of financing one of the newbuilding vessels. The agreement provided for a single tranche that was drawn on December 4, 2013 for the financing of the GasLog Seattle. On July 25, 2016, the outstanding amount of $124,000 under the facility was fully repaid.

 

Existing Facilities:

 

(a)Citibank N.A., London Branch, Nordea Bank Finland PLC London Branch, DVB Bank America N.V., ABN Amro Bank N.V., Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB and BNP Paribas:

 

On November 12, 2014, GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd., GAS-five Ltd., GAS-sixteen Ltd., GAS-seventeen Ltd, GasLog Partners LP and GasLog Partners Holdings LLC entered in a loan agreement with Citibank N.A., London Branch, acting as security agent and trustee for and on behalf of the other finance parties mentioned above, for a credit facility for up to $450,000 (the “Partnership Facility”) for the purpose of refinancing in full the existing debt facilities. The agreement provides for a single tranche that was drawn on November 18, 2014. The credit facility bears interest at LIBOR plus a margin. The balance outstanding as of December 31, 2016 was $405,000 and is repayable in 12 quarterly installments of $5,625 and a final balloon payment of $337,500 together with the last quarterly installment in 2019.

 

On May 8, 2015, the GasLog Partners entered into a supplemental deed relating to the aforementioned loan facility, via which the Partnership’s lenders unanimously approved changes to the facility agreement to reflect the amendments to the three time charters agreed with BG Group on April 21, 2015. As the aforementioned deed did not result in substantially different terms to the original loan agreement, the amendments were considered a modification of the existing terms. Consequently, the additional fees of $515 incurred during the year ended December 31, 2015 have been accounted for as deferred financing fees and will be amortized over the remaining term of the loan facility using the effective interest method.

 

Securities covenants and guarantees

 

The Partnership Facility is secured as follows: (i) first priority mortgages over the vessels owned by the borrowers, (ii) guarantees from the Partnership and its subsidiary GasLog Partners Holdings LLC, (iii) a pledge or a negative pledge of the share capital of the borrowers and (iv) a first priority assignment of all earnings and insurances related to the vessels owned by the borrowers.

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The Partnership Facility contains customary events of default, including nonpayment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, the Partnership Facility contains covenants requiring that the aggregate fair market value of the vessels securing the facility remains above 120% of the aggregate amount outstanding under the facility. In the event that the value of the vessels falls below the threshold, the Partnership could be required to provide the lender with additional security or prepay a portion of the outstanding loan balance, which could negatively impact the Partnership’s liquidity.

 

The Partnership, as corporate guarantor for the Partnership Facility is also subject to specified financial covenants on a consolidated basis. These financial covenants include the following as defined in the agreements:

 

(i)the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness or $15,000;
(ii)total indebtedness divided by total capitalization must be less than 60.0%;
(iii)the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the Partnership’s guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%; and
(iv)the Partnership is permitted to declare or pay any dividends or distributions, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends or distributions.

 

The Partnership Facility also imposes certain restrictions relating to the Partnership, including restrictions that limit its ability to make any substantial change in the nature of its business or to the corporate structure without approval from the lenders.

 

Compliance with the financial covenants is required on a semi-annual basis.

 

GasLog Partners was in compliance with the Partnership Facility covenants as of December 31, 2016.

 

(b)Five Vessel Refinancing

 

On February 18, 2016, subsidiaries of the Partnership and GasLog entered into credit agreements (the “Five Vessel Refinancing”) to refinance the debt maturities that were scheduled to become due in 2016 and 2017. The Five Vessel Refinancing is comprised of a five-year senior tranche facility of up to $396,500 and a two-year bullet junior tranche of up to $180,000. The vessels covered by the Five Vessel Refinancing are the Partnership-owned Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally and the GasLog-owned Methane Lydon Volney and Methane Becki Anne. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and DNB (UK) Ltd. were mandated lead arrangers to the transaction. The other banks in the syndicate are: DVB Bank America N.V., Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and National Australia Bank Limited.

 

On April 5, 2016, $216,865 and $89,875 under the senior and junior tranche, respectively, of the Five Vessel Refinancing were drawn by the Partnership to refinance $305,500 of the outstanding debt of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. The balance outstanding as of December 31, 2016 was $207,829 under the senior tranche that is repayable in 18 quarterly installments and $89,875 under the junior tranche that shall be repaid in full 24 months after the drawdown date.

 

Securities covenants and guarantees

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing is secured as follows: (i) first and second priority mortgages over the ships owned by the respective borrowers, (ii) guarantee from GasLog, guarantees up to the value of the commitments relating to the Methane Alison Victoria, Methane Shirley Elisabeth and Methane Heather Sally from the Partnership and GasLog Partners Holdings LLC and a guarantee from GasLog Carriers Ltd. for up to the value of the commitments on the remaining vessels, (iii) a share charge over the share capital of the respective borrower and (iv) first and second priority assignment of all earnings and insurance related to the ship owned by the respective borrower.

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing impose certain operating and financial restrictions on the Partnership and GasLog. These restrictions generally limit the Partnership’s and GasLog’s collective subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things: (a) incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees, (b) provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with, the Partnership or any of its affiliates, (c) sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including ships, (d) engage in merger transactions, (e) enter into, terminate or amend any charter, (f) amend shipbuilding contracts, (g) change the manager of ships, or (h) acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

The GasLog and the Partnership’s guarantees to the Five Vessel Refinancing impose specified financial covenants that apply to the Partnership and GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

The financial covenants that apply to the Partnership include the following:

 

(v)the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness or $15,000;
(vi)total indebtedness divided by total assets must be less than 60.0%;
(vii)the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the Partnership’s guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%; and
(viii)the Partnership is permitted to declare or pay any dividends or distributions, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends or distributions.
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The financial covenants that apply to GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis include the following:

 

(i)net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;
(ii)total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;
(iii)the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the GasLog guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;
(iv)the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness and $50,000 after the first drawdown;
(v)GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of total indebtedness, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and
(vi)GasLog’s market value adjusted net worth must at all times be not less than $350,000.

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing also imposes certain restrictions relating to the Partnership and GasLog, and their other subsidiaries, including restrictions that limit the Partnership’s and GasLog’s ability to make any substantial change in the nature of the Partnership’s or GasLog’s business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the Five Vessel Refinancing, without repaying all of the Partnership’s and GasLog’s indebtedness under the Five Vessel Refinancing in full.

 

The Five Vessel Refinancing contain customary events of default, including nonpayment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, they contain covenants requiring the Partnership, GasLog and certain of their subsidiaries to maintain the aggregate of (i) the market value, on a charter exclusive basis, of the mortgaged vessel or vessels and (ii) the market value of any additional security provided to the lenders, at not less than 115.0% until the maturity of the junior tranche, and 120.0% at any time thereafter, of the then outstanding amount under the applicable facility and any related swap exposure. If the Partnership and GasLog fail to comply with these covenants and are not able to obtain covenant waivers or modifications, the lenders could require prepayments or additional collateral sufficient for the compliance with such covenants, otherwise indebtedness could be accelerated.

 

(c)Citigroup Global Market Limited, Credit Suisse AG, Nordea Bank AB, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), HSBC Bank Plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, Danmarks Skibskredit A/S, Korea Development Bank and DVB Bank America N.V.:

 

On July 19, 2016, GasLog entered into a credit agreement to refinance the existing indebtedness on eight of its on-the-water vessels of up to $1,050,000 (the “Legacy Facility Refinancing”) with a number of international banks, extending the maturities of six existing credit facilities to 2021. The vessels covered by the Legacy Facility Refinancing are the GasLog Savannah, the GasLog Singapore, the GasLog Skagen, the GasLog Seattle, the Solaris, the GasLog Saratoga, the GasLog Salem and the GasLog Chelsea. Citigroup Global Market Limited, Credit Suisse AG and Nordea Bank AB were mandated lead arrangers to the transaction. The other banks in the syndicate are: Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ), HSBC Bank Plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, Danmarks Skibskredit A/S, Korea Development Bank and DVB Bank America N.V. Nordea Bank AB, London Branch is the agent and security agent for the transaction. The Legacy Facility Refinancing is comprised of a five-year term loan facility of up to $950,000 and a revolving credit facility of up to $100,000.

 

Following the acquisition of GAS-seven Ltd., the Partnership assumed $122,292 which was drawn on July 25, 2016 under the term loan facility to refinance the existing indebtedness of $124,000 of GAS-seven Ltd. The aforementioned refinancing was considered an extinguishment of the existing debt facility. Consequently, the unamortized loan fees of $2,434 were written off to profit or loss for the year ended December 31, 2016. The balance outstanding as of December 31, 2016 was $122,292 under the term loan that is repayable in ten semi-annual installments of $3,755 each and a balloon payment of $84,747 due together with the last installment in July 2021, while the revolving credit facility available amount of $12,873 can be drawn at any time until December 31, 2020. Amounts drawn bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin.

 

Securities covenants and guarantees

 

The credit agreement is secured as follows: (i) first priority mortgages over the ships owned by the respective borrowers, (ii) guarantee from GasLog, guarantees up to the value of the commitments relating to the GasLog Seattle from the Partnership and GasLog Partners Holdings LLC and a guarantee from GasLog Carriers Ltd. for up to the value of the commitments on the remaining vessels, (iii) a share security over the share capital of each of the respective borrowers and (iv) a first priority assignment of all earnings, excluding the vessels participating in the spot market, and insurance related to the ships owned by the respective borrowers.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing imposes certain operating and financial restrictions on GasLog. These restrictions generally limit GasLog’s ability to, among other things: (a) incur additional indebtedness, create liens or provide guarantees, (b) provide any form of credit or financial assistance to, or enter into any non-arms’ length transactions with any of GasLog’s affiliates, (c) sell or otherwise dispose of assets, including ships, (d) engage in merger transactions, (e) enter into, terminate or amend any charter, (f) amend shipbuilding contracts, (g) change the manager of ships, or (h) acquire assets, make investments or enter into any joint venture arrangements outside of the ordinary course of business.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing also imposes specified financial covenants that apply to GasLog and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

(i) net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;
(ii)total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;
(iii)the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations as defined in the GasLog guarantees (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;
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(iv)the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3.0% of total indebtedness and $50,000 after the first drawdown;
(v)GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of total indebtedness, subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and
(vi)GasLog’s market value adjusted net worth must at all times be not less than $350,000.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing also imposes certain customary restrictions relating to GasLog and its subsidiaries, including restrictions that limit GasLog’s ability to make any substantial change in the nature of its business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the Legacy Facility Refinancing, without repaying all of GasLog’s indebtedness under the Legacy Facility Refinancing in full.

 

The Legacy Facility Refinancing contains customary events of default, including non-payment of principal or interest, breach of covenants or material inaccuracy of representations, default under other material indebtedness and bankruptcy. In addition, it contains covenants requiring GasLog to maintain the aggregate of (i) the market value, on a charter exclusive basis, of the mortgaged vessels and (ii) the market value of any additional security provided to the lenders at any time at not less than 120.0% of the then outstanding amount plus any undrawn amounts under the applicable facilities. If GasLog fails to comply with these covenants and are not able to obtain covenant waivers or modifications, the lenders could require prepayments or additional collateral sufficient for the compliance with such covenants, otherwise indebtedness could be accelerated.

 

(d)GAS-eleven Ltd. facility

 

Following the acquisition of GAS-eleven Ltd., the Partnership assumed $151,423 of outstanding indebtedness of the acquired entity under a debt financing agreement dated October 16, 2015 with 14 international banks, with Citibank N.A. London Branch and Nordea Bank AB, London Branch acting as agents on behalf of the other finance parties. The financing is backed by the Export Import Bank of Korea (“KEXIM”) and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (“K-Sure”), who are either directly lending or providing cover for over 60% of the facility.

 

The loan agreement with respect to the GasLog Greece provides for four tranches of $51,257, $25,615, $24,991 and $61,104. Under the terms of the agreement, each drawing under the first three tranches would be repaid in 24 consecutive semi-annual equal installments commencing six months after the actual delivery of the GasLog Greece according to a 12-year profile. Each drawing under the fourth tranche would be repaid in 20 consecutive semi-annual equal installments commencing six months after the actual delivery of the relevant vessel according to a 20-year profile, with a balloon payment together with the final installment. On March 22, 2016, $162,967 was drawn down to partially finance the delivery of the GasLog Greece. The balance outstanding under the loan agreement as of December 31, 2016 was $157,195. Amounts drawn per tranche bear interest at LIBOR plus a margin.

 

The obligations under the aforementioned facility are secured by a first priority mortgage over the vessel, a pledge of the share capital of the vessel owning company and a first priority assignment of earnings related to the vessel, including charter revenue, management revenue and any insurance and requisition compensation. Obligations under the facility are guaranteed by GasLog, with the Partnership and its subsidiary GasLog Partners Holdings LLC guaranteeing up to the value of the commitments relating to the GasLog Greece. The facility includes customary respective covenants and, among other restrictions, the facility includes a fair market value covenant pursuant to which an event of default could occur under the facility if the aggregate fair market value of the collateral vessel (without taking into account any charter arrangements) were to fall below 115% of the aggregate outstanding principal balance for the first two years after each drawdown and below 120% at any time thereafter.

 

GasLog, as corporate guarantor for the aforementioned facility, is also subject to specified financial covenants on a consolidated basis. The financial covenants include the following:

 

-net working capital (excluding the current portion of long-term debt) must be not less than $0;
-total indebtedness divided by total assets must not exceed 75.0%;
-the ratio of EBITDA over debt service obligations (including interest and debt repayments) on a trailing 12 months basis must be not less than 110.0%;
-the aggregate amount of all unencumbered cash and cash equivalents must be not less than the higher of 3% of total indebtedness or $50,000 after the first drawdown;
-GasLog is permitted to pay dividends, provided that it holds unencumbered cash and cash equivalents equal to at least 4.0% of its total indebtedness subject to no event of default having occurred or occurring as a consequence of the payment of such dividends; and
-the market value adjusted net worth of GasLog must at all times be not less than $350,000.

 

GasLog was in compliance with the above financial covenants as of December 31, 2016. Any failure by GasLog to comply with these financial covenants would permit the lenders under this credit facility to exercise remedies as secured creditors which, if such a default was to occur, could include foreclosing on the GasLog Greece.

 

The credit facility also imposes certain restrictions relating to GasLog, including restrictions that limit its ability to make any substantial change in the nature of its business or to engage in transactions that would constitute a change of control, as defined in the credit facility, without repaying all of its indebtedness in full, or to allow its largest shareholders to reduce their shareholding in GasLog below specified thresholds.

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(e)Loan from related parties

 

Following the IPO on May 12, 2014, the Partnership entered into a $30,000 revolving credit facility (the “Old Sponsor Credit Facility”) with GasLog to be used for general partnership purposes. The credit facility is unsecured and provides for an availability period of 36 months and bears interest at a rate of 5.0% per annum, with no commitment fee for the first year. After the first year, the interest increased to a rate of 6.0% per annum, with an annual 2.4% commitment fee on the undrawn balance. Each advance drawn will be repayable within a period of 6 months after the respective drawdown date but is subject to unconditional right of immediate renewal if no repayment is made. As of December 31, 2015, the outstanding balance of the revolving credit facility was $15,000. Amounts of $10,000 and $5,000 were repaid into the revolving facility on March 31, 2016 and August 17, 2016, respectively, leaving a balance of zero. On November 18, 2016, the Partnership drew $10,000 which was repaid on December 30, 2016. As of December 31, 2016, the outstanding balance of the revolving credit facility was nil.

 

Borrowings Repayment Schedule

 

The maturity table below reflects the principal repayments of the borrowings outstanding as of December 31, 2016 based on their repayment schedules:

 

    As of December 31, 2016  
Not later than one year     59,625  
Later than one year and not later than three years     546,625  
Later than three years and not later than five years     276,465  
Later than five years     99,476  
Total     982,191  

 

The weighted average total interest rate, for the above mentioned credit facilities, as of December 31, 2016 was 3.48% (December 31, 2015: 3.03%).

 

As the bank facilities bear interest at variable interest rates, the aggregate fair value of the aforementioned facilities as of December 31, 2016 was equal to the amount outstanding of $982,191. The fair value of the revolving credit facility as of December 31, 2016 was nil.

 

8. Other Payables and Accruals

 

An analysis of other payables and accruals is as follows:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2015   2016  
Unearned revenue   17,365   20,023  
Accrued legal and professional fees   195   182  
Accrued crew costs   2,402   2,615  
Accrued off-hire   141   141  
Accrued purchases   1,538   1,287  
Accrued interest   3,356   8,187  
Accrued board of directors fees   219   188  
Other payables and accruals   874   1,099  
Total   26,090   33,722  

 

The unearned revenue of $20,023 represents monthly charter hires received in advance as of December 31, 2016 relating to January 2017 (December 31, 2015: $17,365).

 

9. General and Administrative Expenses

 

An analysis of general and administrative expenses is as follows:

               
    For the year ended December 31,  
    2014   2015   2016  
Board of directors’ fees   673   1,093   993  
Share-based compensation (Note 19)     205   480  
Legal and professional fees    1,131    2,068    1,135  
Commercial management fees (Note 12)    2,928    3,420    3,663  
Administrative fees (Note 12)    1,418    3,822    4,802  
Directors and officers’ liability insurance    334    426    68  
Other expenses    455    502    890  
Total    6,939    11,536    12,031  
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10. Vessel Operating Costs

 

An analysis of vessel operating costs is as follows:

 

    For the year ended December 31,  
    2014   2015   2016  
Management fees and other vessel management expenses (Note 12)   4,018   4,920   5,386  
Crew wages   20,630   23,788   25,471  
Technical maintenance expenses   3,680   9,163   11,679  
Provisions and stores   1,661   2,381   2,464  
Insurance expenses   2,747   3,736   3,574  
Other operating expenses   2,996   3,760   3,163  
Total   35,732   47,748   51,737  

 

11. Net Financial Income and Costs

 

An analysis of financial income and financial costs is as follows:

 

    For the year ended December 31,  
    2014   2015   2016  
Financial income              
Financial income   49   29   188  
Total financial income   49   29   188  
Financial costs              
Amortization of deferred loan issuance costs    12,768    3,643    7,246  
Interest expense on loans    22,442    27,331    32,110  
Realized loss on cash flow hedges    996      
Commitment fees      14    620  
Other financial costs    1,519    224    324  
Total financial costs    37,725    31,212    40,300  

 

During the year ended December 31, 2016, an amount of $2,434 representing the write-off of the unamortized deferred loan issuance costs in connection with the repayment of the loan agreement of GAS-seven Ltd. with Credit Suisse AG on July 25, 2016 is included in Amortization of deferred loan issuance costs.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2014, (i) an amount of $9,019 representing the write-off of the unamortized deferred loan issuance costs in connection with the repayment of the then existing debt facilities (Note 7) is included in Amortization of deferred loan issuance costs and (ii) an amount of $1,232 related to termination fees for the aforementioned debt is included in Other financial costs.

 

12. Related Party Transactions

 

The Partnership has the following balances with related parties which are included in the consolidated statements of financial position:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2015   2016  
Amounts due from related parties          
Due from GasLog LNG Services (a)     4,266  
Total     4,266  
       
    As of December 31,  
    2015   2016  
Amounts due to related parties          
Due to GasLog LNG Services (a)   1,022    
Due to GasLog (b)   1,000   255  
Due to GasLog Carriers Ltd. (“GasLog Carriers”) (c)   29,894   1,135  
Total   31,916   1,390  

 

(a) The balance as of December 31, 2015 represents mainly payments made by GasLog LNG Services on behalf of the Partnership. The balance as of December 31, 2016 represents mainly net amounts advanced to the Manager to cover future operating expenses of the Partnership.

 

(b) The balances of $1,000 and $255 as of December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016, respectively, represent payments made by GasLog on behalf of the Partnership.

 

(c) As of December 31, 2015, the balance due to GasLog Carriers, the parent company of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd. prior to their acquisitions by the Partnership on November 1, 2016 and May 3, 2017, respectively, represented mainly amounts paid directly by GasLog Carriers on behalf of GAS-seven Ltd. and GAS-eleven Ltd., covering expenses during the construction period. As of December 31, 2016, $26,904 of the outstanding balance was contributed to the share capital of GAS-seven Ltd. by GasLog Carriers and the balance was fully settled. The outstanding balance of $1,135 as of December 31, 2016 represents payments made by GasLog Carriers on behalf of the Partnership.

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    As of December 31,  
    2015   2016  
Loans due to related parties          
Revolving credit facility with GasLog   15,000    
Total   15,000    

 

The details of the revolving credit facility with GasLog are disclosed in Note 7.

 

The Partnership had the following transactions with related parties for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2015 and 2016:

 

Company   Details   Account   2014   2015   2016
GasLog   Commercial management fee(i)   General and administrative expenses    2,928    3,420    3,663
GasLog   Administrative services fee(ii)   General and administrative expenses    1,418    3,822    4,802
GasLog LNG Services   Management fees and other vessel management expenses(iii)   Vessel operating costs   4,018   4,920   5,386
GasLog LNG Services   Other vessel operating costs   Vessel operating costs   178   175   60
GasLog   Professional and advisory fees(iv)   General and administrative expenses     735  
GasLog   Interest on revolving credit
facility (Note 7)
  Interest expense   201   1,680   413
GasLog   Commitment fee on revolving credit facility (Note 7)   Other financial costs     14   567
GasLog   Interest on interest rate swaps (Note 16)   Loss on interest rate swaps       549
 
(i)Commercial Management Agreements

 

On July 19, 2013, GAS-five Ltd., and on August 28, 2013, GAS-three Ltd. and GAS-four Ltd., entered into commercial management agreements with GasLog (the “Pre-IPO Commercial Management Agreements”) that were amended upon completion of the IPO. Pursuant to the Pre-IPO Commercial Management Agreements, GasLog provided commercial management services relating to the operation of the vessels, including and not limited to negotiation of the vessels’ possible employment, assessing market conditions on specific issues, keeping proper accounting records and handling and advising on claims or disputes. The annual commercial management fee was $540 for each vessel payable quarterly in advance in lump sum amounts.

 

Upon completion of the IPO on May 12, 2014, the vessel-owning subsidiaries of the Initial Fleet entered into amended commercial management agreements with GasLog (the “Amended Commercial Management Agreements”), pursuant to which GasLog provides certain commercial management services, including chartering services, consultancy services on market issues and invoicing and collection of hire payables, to the Partnership. The annual commercial management fee under the amended agreements is $360 for each vessel payable quarterly in advance in lump sum amounts. In December 2013, GAS-seven Ltd. entered into a commercial management agreement with GasLog for an annual commercial management fee of $540 that was amended to $360 when the vessel was acquired by the Partnership on November 1, 2016.

 

The same provisions are included in the commercial management agreements that GAS-eleven Ltd., GAS-sixteen Ltd., GAS-seventeen Ltd., GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., entered into with GasLog upon the deliveries of the GasLog Greece, Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively, into GasLog’s fleet in March 2016, April 2014 and June 2014 (together with the Amended Commercial Management Agreements and the commercial management agreement between GAS-seven Ltd. and GasLog, the “Commercial Management Agreements”).

 

(ii)Administrative Services Agreement

 

Upon completion of the IPO on May 12, 2014, the Partnership entered into an administrative services agreement (the “Administrative Services Agreement”) with GasLog, pursuant to which GasLog will provide certain management and administrative services. The services provided under the Administrative Services Agreement are provided as the Partnership may direct, and include bookkeeping, audit, legal, insurance, administrative, clerical, banking, financial, advisory, client and investor relations services. The Administrative Services Agreement will continue indefinitely until terminated by the Partnership upon 90 days’ notice for any reason in the sole discretion of the Partnership’s board of directors. GasLog receives a service fee of $588 per vessel per year in connection with providing services under this agreement. On November 16, 2016, the Board of Directors approved an increase in the service fee payable to GasLog under the terms of the Administrative Services Agreement. With effect from January 1, 2017, fees of $630 per vessel per year will be payable.

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(iii)Ship Management Agreements

 

On August 16, 2010, GAS-three Ltd. and GAS-four Ltd., and on March 31, 2011, GAS-five Ltd., entered into ship management agreements (“Pre-IPO Ship Management Agreements”) with GasLog LNG Services that were amended upon completion of the IPO. The Pre-IPO Ship Management Agreements provided for the following:

 

Management Fees—A fixed monthly charge of $30 per vessel was payable by the Partnership to the Manager for the provision of management services such as crew, operational and technical management, procurement, accounting, budgeting and reporting, health, safety, security and environmental protection, insurance arrangements, sale or purchase of vessels, general administration and quality assurance.

 

Superintendent Fees—A fee of $1 per day was payable to the Manager for each day in excess of 25 days per calendar year for which a superintendent performed visits to the vessels.

 

Share of General Expenses—A monthly lump sum amounting to 11.25% of the Management Fee was payable to the Manager during the term of this agreement.

 

Annual Incentive Bonus—Annual Incentive Bonus might be payable to the Manager, at the Partnership’s discretion, for remittance to the crew of an amount of up to $72 based on Key Performance Indicators predetermined annually.

 

The same provisions are included in the ship management agreement that GAS-seven Ltd. entered into with the Manager upon its delivery from the shipyard in 2013 that was amended in May 2015 (see below).

 

Upon completion of the IPO on May 12, 2014, each of the vessel owning subsidiaries of the Initial Fleet entered into an amended ship management agreement (collectively, the “Amended Ship Management Agreements”) under which the vessel owning subsidiaries pay a management fee of $46 per month to the Manager and reimburse the Manager for all expenses incurred on their behalf. The Amended Ship Management Agreements also provide for superintendent fees of $1 per day payable to the Manager for each day in excess of 25 days per calendar year for which a superintendent performed visits to the vessels, an annual incentive bonus of up to $72 based on key performance indicators predetermined annually and contain clauses for decreased management fees in case of a vessel’s lay-up. The management fees are subject to an annual adjustment, agreed between the parties in good faith, on the basis of general inflation and proof of increases in actual costs incurred by the Manager. Each Amended Ship Management Agreement continues indefinitely until terminated by either party. The same provisions are included in the ship management agreements that GAS-sixteen Ltd., GAS-seventeen Ltd., GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. entered into with the Manager upon the deliveries of the Methane Rita Andrea, the Methane Jane Elizabeth, the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, respectively, into GasLog’s fleet in April 2014 and June 2014 (together with the Amended Ship Management Agreements and the ship management agreement between GAS-seven Ltd. and the Manager, the “Ship Management Agreements”). In May 2015, the Ship Management Agreements were further amended to delete the annual incentive bonus and superintendent fees clauses and in the case of GAS-seven Ltd. to also increase the fixed monthly charge to $46 with effect from April 1, 2015. In April 2016, the Ship Management Agreements were amended to consolidate all ship management related fees into a single fee structure. This single fee structure was already provided for in the ship management agreement that GAS-eleven Ltd. entered into with GasLog upon the delivery of GasLog Greece in March 2016 (with a fixed monthly charge of $46).

 

(iv)Professional and advisory fees paid to third parties by GasLog on behalf of the Partnership.

 

Omnibus Agreement

 

Upon completion of the IPO on May 12, 2014, the Partnership entered into an omnibus agreement with GasLog, our general partner and certain of our other subsidiaries. The omnibus agreement governs among other things (i) when and the extent to which the Partnership and GasLog may compete against each other, (ii) the time and the value at which the Partnership may exercise the right to purchase certain offered vessels by GasLog (iii) certain rights of first offer granted to GasLog to purchase any of its vessels on charter for less than five full years from the Partnership and vice versa and (iv) GasLog’s provisions of certain indemnities to the Partnership. On September 29, 2014, June 26, 2015, October 27, 2016 and March 9, 2017 the Partnership exercised the option to acquire (i) the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth, (ii) the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, (iii) the GasLog Seattle and (iv) the GasLog Greece, respectively.

 

13. Commitments and Contingencies

 

Future gross minimum revenues receivable upon collection of hire under non-cancellable time charter agreements as of December 31, 2016, are as follows (30 off-hire days are assumed when each vessel will undergo scheduled dry-docking; in addition early delivery of the vessels by the charterers or any exercise of the charterers’ options to extend the terms of the charters are not accounted for):

 

    As of December 31,
2016
 
Not later than one year   260,430  
Later than one year and not later than three years   390,684  
Later than three years and not later than five years   122,191  
More than five years   130,607  
Total   903,912  

 

Following the acquisition of (i) the Methane Rita Andrea and the Methane Jane Elizabeth and (ii) the Methane Alison Victoria, the Methane Shirley Elisabeth and the Methane Heather Sally, the Partnership, through its subsidiaries (i) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. and (ii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., respectively, is counter guarantor for the acquisition from BG Group of 83.33% of depot spares with an aggregate value of $6,000, of which $660 have been purchased and paid as of December 31, 2016 by GasLog. These spares should be acquired before the end of the initial term of the charter party agreements.

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Various claims, suits and complaints, including those involving government regulations, arise in the ordinary course of the shipping business. In addition, losses may arise from disputes with charterers, environmental claims, agents and insurers and from claims with suppliers relating to the operations of the Partnership’s vessels. Currently, management is not aware of any such claims or contingent liabilities requiring disclosure in the consolidated financial statements.

 

14. Financial Risk Management

 

The Partnership’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks, including market risk, liquidity risk and credit risk. The Partnership’s overall risk management program focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to minimize potential adverse effects on the Partnership’s financial performance. The Partnership makes use of derivative financial instruments such as interest rate swaps to mitigate certain risk exposures.

 

Market risk

 

Interest Rate Risk: The Partnership is subject to market risks relating to changes in interest rates because it has floating rate debt outstanding. Significant increases in interest rates could adversely affect the Partnership’s operating margins, results of operations and its ability to service its debt. The Partnership uses interest rate swaps to reduce its exposure to market risk from changes in interest rates. The principal objective of these contracts is to minimize economic risks and costs associated with its floating rate debt and not for speculative or trading purposes. As of December 31, 2016, the Partnership had economically hedged 39.71% of its floating interest rate exposure on its outstanding borrowings by swapping the variable rate for a fixed rate (December 31, 2015: 14.61% and December 31, 2014: 14.45%).

 

The aggregate principal amount of the Partnership’s outstanding floating rate debt which was not economically hedged as of December 31, 2016 was $592,191 (December 31, 2015: $748,000). As an indication of the extent of the Partnership’s sensitivity to interest rate changes, an increase or decrease in LIBOR by 10 basis points would have decreased or increased, respectively, the profit during the year ended December 31, 2016 by $857, based upon its debt level during the period (December 31, 2015: $905 and December 31, 2014: $584).

 

Interest Rate Swaps: The fair value of the swaps as of December 31, 2016 was estimated as a net asset of $4,172 (December 31, 2015: net liability of $2,405). For the years ended December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, the interest rate swaps were not designated as cash flow hedging instruments (Note 16). For the year ended December 31, 2014, the interest rate swaps were designated as cash flow hedging instruments and a loss of $368 was recognised directly in the consolidated statement of changes in owners’/partners’ equity.

 

As of December 31, 2016, if interest rates had increased or decreased by 10 basis points with all other variables held constant, the positive/(negative) impact, respectively, on the fair value of the interest rate swaps would have amounted to approximately $1,766 (December 31, 2015: $501 and December 31, 2014: $628) affecting loss on swaps in the respective periods.

 

Currency Risk: Currency risk is the risk that the value of financial instruments will fluctuate due to changes in foreign exchange rates. Currency risk arises when future commercial transactions and recognized assets and liabilities are denominated in a currency that is not the Partnership’s functional currency. The Partnership is exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures primarily with respect to general and crew costs denominated in Euros. Specifically, for the year ended December 31, 2016, approximately $28,537, of the operating and administrative expenses were denominated in euros (December 31, 2015: $24,598 and December 31, 2014: $18,351). As of December 31, 2016, approximately $3,107 of the Partnership’s outstanding trade payables and accruals were denominated in euros (December 31, 2015: $4,946).

 

The Partnership does not hedge movements in exchange rates but management monitors the exchange rate fluctuations on a continuous basis. As an indication of the extent of the Partnership’s sensitivity to changes in exchange rate, a 10% increase in the average euro/dollar exchange rate would have decreased its profit and cash flows during the year ended December 31, 2016 by $2,854, based upon its expenses during the year (December 31, 2015: $2,460 and December 31, 2014: $1,835).

 

Liquidity risk

 

Liquidity risk is the risk that arises when the maturity of assets and liabilities does not match. An unmatched position potentially enhances profitability, but can also increase the risk of losses.

 

The Partnership manages its liquidity risk by having secured credit lines and by receiving capital contributions to fund its commitments and by maintaining cash and cash equivalents.

 

The following tables detail the Partnership’s expected cash flows for its financial liabilities. The tables have been drawn up based on the undiscounted cash flows of financial liabilities based on the earliest date on which the Partnership can be required to pay. The table includes both interest and principal cash flows. Variable future interest payments were determined based on an average LIBOR plus the margins applicable to the Partnership’s loans at the end of each year presented.

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    Weighted-
average
effective
interest
rate
  Less
than 1
month
  1-3 months   3-12 months   1-5 years   5+ years   Total  
December 31, 2016                                
Trade accounts payable       1,498       19       1,517  
Due to related parties         1,390           1,390  
Other payables and accruals*       7,276   5,691     732       13,699  
Other non-current liabilities               182     182  
Variable interest loans   3.48%   8,462   14,207     63,211   897,580   110,942   1,094,402  
Fixed interest loans**             317   528     845  
Total       17,236   21,288     64,279   898,290   110,942   1,112,035  
December 31, 2015                                
Trade accounts payable       2,643   98     84       2,825  
Due to related parties         3,953      27,963       31,916  
Other payables and accruals*       2,620   5,891     214       8,725  
Other non-current liabilities               182     182  
Variable interest loans   2.90%     10,520     344,867   579,966     935,353  
Fixed interest loans***         319     963   15,462     16,744  
Total       5,263   20,781     374,091   595,610     995,745  

 

*Unearned revenue is excluded since it is not a financial liability.

 

**A commitment fee of 2.4% and 0.9% is charged on the available amount of the revolving credit facility with GasLog and the available amount of the revolving credit facility of GAS-seven Ltd., respectively.

 

***Interest is charged at 6.0% on the outstanding amount, while the commitment fee is charged at 2.4% on the available amount of the revolving credit facility with GasLog.

 

The amounts included above for variable interest rate instruments is subject to change if changes in variable interest rates differ from those estimates of interest rates determined at the end of the reporting period.

 

The following tables detail the Partnership’s expected cash flows for its derivative financial liabilities. The table has been drawn up based on the undiscounted contractual net cash inflows and outflows on derivative instruments that are settled on a net basis. When the amount payable or receivable is not fixed, the amount disclosed has been determined by reference to the projected interest rates as illustrated by the yield curves existing at the end of the reporting period. The undiscounted contractual cash flows are based on the contractual maturities of the interest rate swaps.

 

   Less
than 1
month
   1-3 months   3-12 months   1-5 years   5+ years   Total 
December 31, 2016                              
Interest rate swaps   (31)       (1,581)   5,359    819    4,566 
Total   (31)       (1,581)   5,359    819    4,566 
December 31, 2015                              
Interest rate swaps       (364)   (1,172)   (901)       (2,437)
Total       (364)   (1,172)   (901)       (2,437)

 

The Partnership expects to be able to meet its current obligations resulting from financing and operating its vessels using the liquidity existing at year-end) and the cash generated by operating activities. The Partnership expects to be able to meet its long-term obligations resulting from financing its vessels through cash generated from operations.

 

Credit risk

 

Credit risk is the risk that a counterparty will fail to discharge its obligations and cause a financial loss. The Partnership is exposed to credit risk in the event of non-performance by any of its counterparties. To limit this risk, the Partnership deals exclusively with financial institutions and customers with high credit ratings.

 

    As of December 31,  
    2015   2016  
Cash and cash equivalents   62,677   53,235  
Short-term investments     3,000  
Trade and other receivables   5,620   3,412  
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For the years ended December 31, 2014, December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016, all of the Partnership’s revenue was earned from subsidiaries of Royal Dutch Shell plc (“Shell”) and accounts receivable were not collateralized; however, management believes that the credit risk is partially offset by the creditworthiness of the Partnership’s counterparty and the fact that the hire is being collected in advance. The Partnership did not experience credit losses on its accounts receivable portfolio during the years ended December 31, 2014, December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2016. The carrying amount of financial assets recorded in the consolidated financial statements represents the Partnership’s maximum exposure to credit risk. Management monitors exposure to credit risk, and they believe that there is no substantial credit risk arising from the Partnership’s counterparty.

 

The credit risk on liquid funds and derivative financial instruments is limited because the counterparties are banks with high credit ratings assigned by international credit rating agencies.

 

15. Capital Risk Management

 

The Partnership’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Partnership’s ability to continue as a going concern and to pursue future growth opportunities. Among other metrics, the Partnership monitors capital using a total indebtedness to total assets ratio, which is total debt and derivative financial instruments divided by total assets. The total indebtedness to total assets ratio is as follows:

 

     As of December 31, 
     2015   2016 
  Derivative financial instruments—non-current asset       (6,008)
  Borrowings—current liability   333,147    56,020 
  Derivative financial instruments—current liability   1,623    1,836 
  Borrowings—non-current liability   533,555    910,666 
  Derivative financial instruments—non-current liability   782     
  Total indebtedness   869,107    962,514 
  Total assets   1,572,732    1,698,505 
  Total indebtedness/total assets   55.26%   56.67%

 

16. Derivative Financial Instruments

 

The fair value of the derivative assets is as follows:

 

     As of December 31, 
     2015   2016 
  Derivative assets carried at fair value through profit or loss   (FVTPL)          
  Interest rate swaps       6,008 
  Total       6,008 
  Derivative financial instruments, non-current asset       6,008 
  Total       6,008 

 

The fair value of the derivative liabilities is as follows:

 

     As of December 31, 
     2015   2016 
  Derivative liabilities carried at fair value through profit or loss   (FVTPL)          
  Interest rate swaps   2,405    1,836 
  Total   2,405    1,836 
  Derivative financial instruments, current liability   1,623    1,836 
  Derivative financial instruments, non-current liability   782     
  Total   2,405    1,836 

 

Interest rate swap agreements

 

The Partnership enters into interest rate swap agreements which convert the floating interest rate exposure into a fixed interest rate in order to hedge a portion of the Partnership’s exposure to fluctuations in prevailing market interest rates. Under the interest rate swaps, the counterparty effects quarterly floating-rate payments to the Partnership for the notional amount based on the three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR, and the Partnership effects quarterly payments to the counterparty on the notional amount at the respective fixed rates.

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Interest rate swaps held for trading

 

The principal terms of the interest rate swaps held for trading were as follows:

 

                   Notional Amount 
      Trade  Effective  Termination  Fixed
Interest
   December 31,   December 31, 
Company  Counterparty  Date  Date  Date  Rate   2015   2016 
GAS-seven Ltd.  Credit Suisse AG  Mar 2012  Nov 2013  Nov 2020   2.23%   96,000     
GAS-seven Ltd.  Credit Suisse AG  April 2014  May 2014  May 2019   1.77%   32,000     
GasLog Partners  GasLog  Nov 2016  Nov 2016  July 2020   1.54%       130,000 
GasLog Partners  GasLog  Nov 2016  Nov 2016  July 2021   1.63%       130,000 
GasLog Partners  GasLog  Nov 2016  Nov 2016  July 2022   1.715%       130,000 
                     128,000    390,000 

 

 

 

During 2014, the Partnership terminated the existing interest rate swap agreements of GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd. (designated as cash flow hedging instruments and held for trading) by paying their fair values on the respective termination dates of $4,634 plus accrued interest of $616. The cumulative loss of $6,086 from the period that their hedging was effective was recycled to profit or loss during the year ended December 31, 2014.

 

In July 2016, the Partnership terminated the interest rate swap agreements of GAS-seven Ltd. associated with the Legacy Facility Refinancing (Note 7) paying their fair value on that date. The cumulative loss of $2,527 from the period that hedging was effective was recycled to profit or loss during the year ended December 31, 2016 (December 31, 2015: $593).

 

In November 2016, the Partnership entered into three interest rate swap agreements with GasLog at a notional aggregate value of $390,000, maturing between 2020 and 2022.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2014, the effective portion of changes in the fair value of derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments amounting to a loss of $368 has been recognized in other comprehensive income. The change in the fair value of the contracts not designated as cash flow instruments for the year ended December 31, 2016 amounted to a gain of $1,640 (December 31, 2015: $107 loss and December 31, 2014: $2,233 loss), which was recognized against earnings in the period incurred and is included in Loss on interest rate swaps.

 

An analysis of Loss on interest rate swaps is as follows:

 

     For the year ended December 31, 
     2014   2015   2016 
  Realized loss on interest rate swaps held for trading   4,605    2,444    1,626 
  Unrealized loss/(gain) on interest rate swaps held for trading   2,233    107    (1,640)
  Recycled loss of cash flow hedges reclassified to profit or loss   6,086    593    2,527 
  Ineffective portion on cash flow hedges   (21)        
  Total Loss on interest rate swaps   12,903    3,144    2,513 

 

Fair value measurements

 

The fair value of the Partnership’s financial assets and liabilities approximate to their carrying amounts at the reporting date.

 

The fair value of interest rate swaps at the end of the reporting period is determined by discounting the future cash flows using the interest rate curves at the end of the reporting period and the estimation of the counterparty risk and the Partnership’s own risk inherent in the contract. The interest rate swaps met Level 2 classification, according to the fair value hierarchy as defined by IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement. There were no financial instruments in Levels 1 or 3 and no transfers between Levels 1, 2 or 3 during the periods presented. The definitions of the levels, provided by IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement, are based on the degree to which the fair value is observable:

 

Level 1 fair value measurements are those derived from quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

 

Level 2 fair value measurements are those derived from inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly (i.e., as prices) or indirectly (i.e., derived from prices); and

 

Level 3 fair value measurements are those derived from valuation techniques that include inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).

 

17. Non-Cash Items on Statements of Cash Flows

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were capital expenditures before dropdown of $37,299 paid through capital contributions (December 31, 2015: $10,050, December 31, 2014: $10,050).

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As of December 31, 2016, there were capital expenditures of $21 which had not been paid during the year ended December 31, 2016 and were included in current liabilities (December 31, 2015: $822, December 31, 2014: $182).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were capital expenditures for vessels paid through related parties of $0 (December 31, 2015: $1,303, December 31, 2014: $1,100).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were financing costs of $0 which had not been paid during the year ended December 31, 2016 and were included in liabilities (December 31, 2015: $45, December 31, 2014: $377).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were financing costs of $1,378 paid through capital contributions (December 31, 2015: $0, December 31, 2014: $0).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were financing costs paid by related parties of $0 (December 31, 2015: $2,251, December 31, 2014: $0).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were offering costs of $5 which had not been paid during the year ended December 31, 2016 and were included in liabilities (December 31, 2015: $0, December 31, 2014: $87).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were offering costs paid through related parties of $0 (December 31, 2015: $26, December 31, 2014: $0).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were dividends declared of $0 which had not been paid during the year ended December 31, 2016 and were included in liabilities (December 31, 2015: $7,800, December 31, 2014: $8,810).

 

As of December 31, 2016, there were loan repayments of $1,708 made through capital contributions (December 31, 2015: $0, December 31, 2014: $0).

 

18. Earnings Per Unit

 

The Partnership calculates earnings per unit by allocating reported profit for each period to each class of units based on the distribution policy for available cash stated in the Partnership Agreement as generally described in Note 6 above.

 

Basic earnings per unit is determined by dividing profit for the year reported at the end of each period by the weighted average number of units outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per unit is calculated by dividing the profit of the period attributable to common unitholders by the weighted average number of potential ordinary common units assumed to have been converted into common units, unless such potential ordinary common units have an antidilutive effect.

 

On May 12, 2014, GasLog Partners completed its IPO and issued 9,822,358 common units, 9,822,358 subordinated units and 400,913 general partner units. On September 29, 2014, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 4,500,000 common units. In connection with this offering, the Partnership issued 91,837 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0%. On June 26, 2015, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 7,500,000 common units and issued 153,061 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0%. On August 5, 2016, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 2,750,000 common units and issued 56,122 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0%. Earnings per unit is presented for the period in which the units were outstanding, with earnings calculated as follows:

 

     For the year ended December 31, 
     2014   2015   2016 
  Profit for the year   49,035    77,629    87,633 
  Less:               
  Profit attributable to GasLog’s operations*   (34,491)   (12,589)   (10,363)
  Partnership’s profit   14,544    65,040    77,270 
  Partnership’s profit attributable to:               
  Common unitholders   8,713    43,197    49,886 
  Subordinated unitholders   5,540    18,136    21,049 
  General partner   291    1,302    1,545 
  Incentive distribution rights**       2,405    4,790 
  Weighted average units outstanding (basic)               
  Common units   11,618,495    18,185,372    22,934,380 
  Subordinated units   9,822,358    9,822,358    9,822,358 
  General partner units   437,569    571,587    668,505 
  Earnings per unit (basic)               
  Common unitholders   0.75    2.38    2.18 
  Subordinated unitholders   0.56    1.85    2.14 
  General partner   0.66    2.28    2.31 
  Weighted average units outstanding (diluted)               
  Common units   11,618,495    18,185,372    22,963,214 
  Subordinated units   9,822,358    9,822,358    9,822,358 
  General partner units   437,569    571,587    668,505 
  Earnings per unit (diluted)               
  Common unitholders   0.75    2.38    2.17 
  Subordinated unitholders   0.56    1.85    2.14 
  General partner   0.66    2.28    2.31 
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*Includes profits of: (i) GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd. earned prior to the Partnership’s IPO on May 12, 2014, (ii) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. for the period prior to their transfer to the Partnership on September 29, 2014, (iii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. for the period prior to their transfer to the Partnership on July 1, 2015, (iv) GAS-seven Ltd. for the period prior to its transfer to the Partnership on November 1, 2016 and (v) GAS-eleven Ltd. for the period prior to its transfer to the Partnership on May 3, 2017. While such amounts are reflected in the Partnership’s financial statements because the transfers to the Partnership were accounted for as reorganizations of entities under common control (Note 1), (i) GAS-three Ltd., GAS-four Ltd. and GAS-five Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to the IPO, and accordingly the Partnership was not entitled to the cash or results generated during the pre-IPO period, (ii) GAS-sixteen Ltd. and GAS-seventeen Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to their transfer to the Partnership in September 2014, (iii) GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd. were not owned by the Partnership prior to their transfer to the Partnership in July 2015, (iv) GAS-seven Ltd. was not owned by the Partnership prior to its transfer to the Partnership in November 2016 and (v) GAS-eleven Ltd. was not owned by the Partnership prior to its transfer to the Partnership in May 2017 and accordingly the Partnership was not entitled to the cash or results generated in the period prior to such transfers.
  
**Represent the right to receive an increasing percentage of quarterly distributions of available cash from operating surplus after the minimum quarterly distribution and the target distribution levels have been achieved. GasLog holds the incentive distribution rights following completion of the Partnership’s IPO. The IDRs may be transferred separately from any other interests, subject to restrictions in the Partnership Agreement (please refer to Note 6). Based on the nature of such right, earnings attributable to IDRs cannot be allocated on a per unit basis.

 

19. Share-based Compensation

 

On April 1, 2015, the Partnership granted to its executives, 16,999 Restricted Common Units (“RCUs”) and 16,999 Performance Common Units (“PCUs”) in accordance with its 2015 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”). The RCUs and PCUs will vest on March 31, 2018:

 

          Fair value at 
Awards  Number   Grant date  grant date 
RCUs   16,999   April 1, 2015  $24.12 
PCUs   16,999   April 1, 2015  $24.12 

 

On April 1, 2016, the Partnership granted to its executives, 24,925 RCUs and 24,925 PCUs in accordance with its 2015 Plan. The RCUs and PCUs will vest on March 31, 2019:

 

          Fair value at 
Awards  Number   Grant date  grant date 
RCUs   24,925   April 1, 2016  $16.45 
PCUs   24,925   April 1, 2016  $16.45 

 

In accordance with the terms of the 2015 Plan, the vesting of the RCUs and the PCUs is subject to the recipients’ continued service and to the achievement of certain performance targets in relation to total unitholder return. Specifically, the achieved performance is calculated as the total unitholder return achieved by the Partnership during the performance period, divided by the target unitholder return for such performance period. Total unitholder return between 50th-75th percentile will result in a vesting of 50% of the granted award while total unitholder return above 75th percentile will result in a vesting of 100% of the award. The holders are entitled to cash distributions that are accrued and will be settled on vesting.

 

The awards will be settled in cash or in common units at the sole discretion of the board of directors or such committee as may be designated by the board to administer the 2015 Plan. These awards have been treated as equity settled because the Partnership has no present obligation to settle them in cash.

 

Fair value

 

The fair value per common unit of the RCUs and PCUs in accordance with the Plan was determined by using the grant date closing price of $24.12 for the 2015 grant and of $16.45 for the 2016 grant, and was not further adjusted since the holders are entitled to cash distribution.

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Movement in RCUs and PCUs during the period

 

The summary of RCUs and PCUs is presented below:

 

       Weighted     
   Number of   average   Aggregate 
   awards   contractual life   fair value 
RCUs               
Outstanding as of January 1, 2015            
Granted during the period   16,999        410 
Outstanding as of December 31, 2015   16,999    2.25    410 
Granted during the period   24,925        410 
Outstanding as of December 31, 2016   41,924    1.84    820 
PCUs               
Outstanding as of January 1, 2015            
Granted during the period   16,999        410 
Outstanding as of December 31, 2015   16,999    2.25    410 
Granted during the period   24,925        410 
Outstanding as of December 31, 2016   41,924    1.84    820 

 

The total expense recognized in respect of share-based compensation for the year ended December 31, 2016 is $480 ($205 for the year ended December 31, 2015; $0 for the year ended December 31, 2014). The total accrued cash distribution as of December 31, 2016 is $182 (December 31, 2015: $46; December 31, 2014: $0) and is included under “Other non-current liabilities”.

 

20. Taxation

 

Under the laws of the countries of the Partnership’s incorporation and the vessels’ registration, the Partnership is not subject to tax on international shipping income. However, it is subject to registration and tonnage taxes, which are included in vessel operating costs in the consolidated statement of profit or loss.

 

Under the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), the U.S. source gross transportation income of a ship-owning or chartering corporation, such as the Partnership, is subject to a 4% U.S. Federal income tax without allowance for deduction, unless that corporation qualifies for exemption from tax under Section 883 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. U.S. source gross transportation income consists of 50% of the gross shipping income that is attributable to transportation that begins or ends, but that does not both begin and end, in the United States.

 

The Partnership did not qualify for this exception for the three years ended December 31, 2016. During the year ended December 31, 2016, the estimated U.S. source gross transportation tax is $60 and is included under “Vessel Operating Costs” (December 31, 2015: $55 and December 31, 2014: $0).

 

21. Subsequent Events

 

In January 2017, Simon Crowe, GasLog Partners and GasLog’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) informed the board of directors of his intention to step down from the position of CFO. As GasLog’s CFO for four years and GasLog Partners’ CFO since its inception, Mr. Crowe has been instrumental in supporting the company’s growth, with a focus on the balance sheet and capital structure. His numerous successful financing activities have put GasLog Partners and GasLog in a strong financial position.

 

On January 26, 2017, the board of directors of GasLog Partners approved and declared a quarterly cash distribution, with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2016, of $0.49 per unit. The cash distribution was paid on February 10, 2017, to all unitholders of record as of February 6, 2017. The aggregate amount of the declared distribution was $19,549.

 

On January 27, 2017, GasLog Partners completed an equity offering of 3,750,000 common units at a public offering price of $20.50 per unit. In addition, the option to purchase additional units was partially exercised by the underwriter on February 24, 2017, resulting in 120,000 additional units being sold at the same price. The aggregate net proceeds from this offering, including the partial exercise by the underwriter of the option to purchase additional units, after deducting underwriting discounts and other offering expenses, were $78,176. In connection with the offering, the Partnership also issued 78,980 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $1,619.

 

On February 1, 2017, GasLog Partners and GasLog announced that, following Simon Crowe’s decision to step down from his position as CFO, the board of directors appointed Alastair Maxwell to serve as CFO beginning in March 2017.

 

On April 3, 2017, GasLog Partners signed a deed of termination with respect to the Old Sponsor Credit Facility. On the same date, GasLog Partners entered into a new unsecured five year term loan of $45,000 and a five year revolving credit facility of $30,000 with GasLog (together, the “New Sponsor Credit Facility”). Subsequently, on April 5, 2017, an amount of $45,000 under the term loan facility and an amount of $15,000 under the revolving credit facility were drawn by the Partnership and were used on the same date to prepay $60,125 of the outstanding debt of GAS-nineteen Ltd., GAS-twenty Ltd. and GAS-twenty one Ltd., which would have been originally due in April 2018.

 

On April 26, 2017, the board of directors of GasLog Partners approved and declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.50 per common unit for the quarter ended March 31, 2017. The cash distribution was paid on May 12, 2017, to all unitholders of record as of May 8, 2017. The aggregate amount of the declared distribution was $20,121.

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On May 15, 2017, GasLog Partners completed a public offering of 5,750,000 8.625% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Fixed to Floating Rate Preference Units (the “Series A Preference Units”), including 750,000 units issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional Series A Preference Units, liquidation preference $25.00 per unit, at a price to the public of $25.00 per preference unit. The net proceeds from the offering, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and other offering expenses, were $138,782. The Series A Preference Units are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GLOP PR A”. The initial distribution on the Series A Preference Units was paid on September 15, 2017. The preference units issued have been accounted for as equity instruments based on certain characteristics such as the discretionary nature of the distributions by our board of directors, which can be deferred and accumulate, as well as the redemption rights at the option of the Partnership only. These units have preference upon liquidation and the holders would receive $25.00 per unit plus any accumulated and unpaid distributions.

 

On May 16, 2017, GasLog Partners commenced an “at-the-market” common equity offering programme (“ATM Programme”) under which the Partnership may, from time to time, raise equity through the issuance and sale of new common units having an aggregate offering price of up to $100,000 in accordance with the terms of an equity distribution agreement, entered into on the same date. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC have agreed to act as sales agents. From establishment of the ATM Programme through September 29, 2017, GasLog Partners had issued and received payment for 2,351,885 common units at a weighted average price of $22.91 per common unit for total net proceeds of $52,763. In connection with the issuance of common units under the ATM Programme during this period, the Partnership also issued 47,998 general partner units to its general partner in order for GasLog to retain its 2.0% general partner interest. The net proceeds from the issuance of the general partner units were $1,100.

 

On May 16, 2017, the subordination period of the subordinated units held by GasLog expired and consequently all 9,822,358 subordinated units converted into common units on a one-for-one basis and now participate pro rata with all other outstanding common units in distributions of available cash.

 

On July 3, 2017, GasLog Partners completed the acquisition from GasLog of 100% of the shares in the entity that owns and charters the GasLog Geneva, a 174,000 cbm TFDE LNG carrier built in 2016 which is chartered to Shell through September 2023, for an aggregate purchase price of $211,000.

 

On July 12, 2017, GasLog Partners entered into a new interest rate swap agreement with GasLog with a notional value of $80,000, maturing in June 2022.

 

On July 26, 2017, the board of directors of GasLog Partners approved and declared a quarterly cash distribution of $0.51 per common unit for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. The cash distribution was paid on August 11, 2017, to all unitholders of record as of August 7, 2017. The aggregate amount of the declared distribution was $21,001.

 

On August 21, 2017, GasLog Partners and GasLog announced that, following Graham Westgarth’s retirement from his position as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), the board of directors appointed Richard Sadler to serve as COO beginning in September 2017.

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EXHIBIT 99.4

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statements No. 333-204616 on Form F-3 and No. 333-203139 on Form F-8 of our report dated September 29, 2017, relating to the consolidated financial statements of GasLog Partners LP and subsidiaries (the “Partnership”) appearing in this Current Report on Form 6-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, and to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in the Registration Statements.

 

DELOITTE LLP

London, United Kingdom

September 29, 2017