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Finance Expense (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Finance Expenses |
|  | Fiscal Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Interest expense - preference share dividend |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1.3 | )
Interest expense |  |  | (90.7 | ) |  |  | (68.6 | ) |  |  | (60.3 | )
Total finance expense |  |  | (90.7 | ) |  |  | (68.6 | ) |  |  | (61.6 | )
Capitalized interest |  |  | 18.3 |  |  |  | 13.0 |  |  |  | 9.3 |
|  |  | (72.4 | ) |  |  | (55.6 | ) |  |  | (52.3 | )

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