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Cash and Cash Equivalents (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
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Schedule of Cash and Cash Equivalents |
|  | CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Cash at bank and on hand |  |  | 399.7 |  |  |  | 479.0 |
|  | Total cash and cash equivalents |  |  | 399.7 |  |  |  | 479.0 |

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