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PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2012
PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS |
Schedule of prepaid expenses and other current assets |
|  | September 30, 2012 |  | December 31, 2011 |
Lubricant inventory, fuel oil and diesel oil inventory and other stores |  | $ | 2,044 |  | $ | 1,603 |
Prepaid items |  | 1,001 |  | 730 |
Insurance receivable |  | — |  | 16 |
Other |  | 131 |  | 118 |
Total |  | $ | 3,176 |  | $ | 2,467 |

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