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The total cost of the entities acquired.

No definition available.

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Cash consideration for the acquisition of a vessel.

No definition available.

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The fair value of the vessel at the time of the acquisition.

No definition available.

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The fair value of the loan assumed.

No definition available.

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Amount of inventory related to vessel held for sale, expected to be disposed of within one year or the normal operating cycle, if longer.

No definition available.

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Sale price of an asset agreed in a Memorandum of Agreement.

No definition available.

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The vessels' size in deadweight ton (DWT).

No definition available.

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The year that the vessel was built.

No definition available.

Name:	cplp_VesselYearBuilt
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This element represents costs for acquisitions and capitalized improvements of vessels.

No definition available.

Name:	cplp_VesselsAcquisitionsAndImprovements
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Fair value portion of assets classified as held for sale.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=99377789&loc=d3e19190-110258

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Date the entity disposed of a business or a group of assets, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

No definition available.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.

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