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Note 5 - Assets Held for Rent | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements |
Assets Held For Rent [Text Block] | 5. Assets held for rent Assets held for rent consist of the following at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
(In thousands) |  | March 31, 2020 |  |  | December 31, 2019 |
Shippers placed in service |  | $ | 3,748 |  |  | $ | 3,073 |
Accumulated deprecation |  |  | (302 | ) |  |  | (174 | )
Net |  |  | 3,446 |  |  |  | 2,899 |
Shippers and related components in production |  |  | 1,429 |  |  |  | 1,023 |
Total |  | $ | 4,875 |  |  | $ | 3,922 |
Shippers and related components in production include shippers complete and ready to be deployed and placed in service upon a customer order, shippers in the process of being assembled, and components available to build shippers. We recognized $128,000 in depreciation expense related to assets held for rent during the three months ended March 31, 2020. We did not have any depreciation expense related to assets held for rent during the three months ended March 31, 2019

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