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Leases - Schedule of Future Minimum Lease Payments Required under Finance Leases (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Disclosure of finance lease by lessee [line items]
Future minimum lease payments	$ 620,623	$ 558,027
Interest	97,934	96,230
Present value of minimum lease payments	525,187	466,367
Up to one year [member]
Disclosure of finance lease by lessee [line items]
Future minimum lease payments	46,274	39,016
Interest	16,180	14,524
Present value of minimum lease payments	45,416	38,407
One to five years [member]
Disclosure of finance lease by lessee [line items]
Future minimum lease payments	186,344	152,880
Interest	54,830	48,979
Present value of minimum lease payments	169,383	139,322
Over five years [member]
Disclosure of finance lease by lessee [line items]
Future minimum lease payments	388,005	366,131
Interest	26,924	32,727
Present value of minimum lease payments	$ 310,388	$ 288,638

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The amount of payments over the finance lease term that the lessee is or can be required to make, excluding contingent rent, costs for services and taxes to be paid by, and reimbursed to, the lessor, together with any amounts guaranteed by the lessee or by a party related to the lessee.

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The present value of minimum finance lease payments payable. [Refer: Minimum finance lease payments payable]

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