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INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS |
INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS | 12 - INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS As of March 31, 2014, the Company was in default under covenants of its 2007 Credit Facility due to the default on the scheduled debt amortization payment due on March 31, 2014. Refer to Note 1 — General Information for additional information regarding defaults relating to the swap. The default under the 2007 Credit Facility required the Company to elect interest periods of only one-month, therefore the Company no longer qualified for hedge accounting under the original designation and hedge accounting was terminated effective March 31, 2014. Additionally, the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases by the Company on the Petition Date constituted an event of default with respect to the outstanding interest rate swap with DNB Bank ASA. As a result, DNB Bank ASA terminated all transactions under the remaining swap agreement effective April 30, 2014 and filed a secured claim with the Bankruptcy Court of $5,622. The claim was paid to DNB Bank ASA by the Successor Company during the period from July 9 to December 31, 2014. As of December 31, 2013, the Company had four interest rate swap agreements outstanding with DnB Bank ASA to manage interest costs and the risk associated with changing interest rates related to the Company’s 2007 Credit Facility. The total notional principal amount of the swaps at December 31, 2013 is $306,233 and the swaps had specified rates and durations. Three of the swaps that were outstanding as of December 31, 2013 expired during 2014 prior to the Petition Date. The swap agreements held by the Predecessor Company synthetically converted variable rate debt to fixed rate debt at the fixed interest rate of the swap plus the Applicable Margin, as defined in the “2007 Credit Facility” section above in Note 10 — Debt. The following table summarizes the interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges that were in place as of December 31, 2013 for the Predecessor Company:
|  | Predecessor |
|  | December 31, 2013 |
Interest Rate Swap Detail |  | Notional |
Trade |  | Fixed |  | Start Date |  | End date |  | Amount |
Date |  | Rate |  | of Swap |  | of Swap |  | Outstanding |
9/6/05 |  | 4.485 | % | 9/14/05 |  | 7/29/15 |  | $ | 106,233 |
3/29/06 |  | 5.25 | % | 1/2/07 |  | 1/1/14 |  | 50,000 |
1/9/09 |  | 2.05 | % | 1/22/09 |  | 1/22/14 |  | 100,000 |
2/11/09 |  | 2.45 | % | 2/23/09 |  | 2/23/14 |  | 50,000 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 306,233 |
The following table summarizes the derivative asset and liability balances at December 31, 2013 for the Predecessor Company:
|  | Liability Derivatives |
|  | Balance |  | Fair Value |  | Balance |  | Fair Value |
|  | Sheet Location |  | December 31, 2013 |  | Sheet Location |  | December 31, 2013 |
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest rate contracts |  | Fair value of derivative instruments (Current Assets) |  | $ | — |  | Fair value of derivative instruments (Current Liabilities) |  | $ | 6,975 |
Interest rate contracts |  | Fair value of derivative instruments (Noncurrent Assets) |  | — |  | Fair value of derivative instruments (Noncurrent Liabilities) |  | — |
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 6,975 |
Total Derivatives |  |  |  | $ | — |  |  |  | $ | 6,975 |
The differentials to be paid or received for these swap agreements were recognized as an adjustment to Interest expense as incurred. The Company utilized cash flow hedge accounting for these swaps through March 31, 2014, whereby the effective portion of the change in value of the swaps was reflected as a component of AOCI. The ineffective portion is recognized as Other expense, which is a component of Other (expense) income. On March 31, 2014, the cash flow hedge accounting on the remaining swap agreement was discontinued. Once cash flow hedge accounting was discontinued, the changes in the fair value of the interest rate swaps were recorded in the Consolidated Statement of Operations in Interest expense and the remaining amounts included in AOCI were amortized to interest expense over the original term of the hedging relationship for the Predecessor Company. The interest expense pertaining to the interest rate swaps for the Predecessor Company for the period from January 1 to July 9, 2014 and the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 was $2,580, $9,963 and $13,440, respectively. The following tables present the impact of derivative instruments and their location within the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Predecessor Company: The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Consolidated Statement of Operations For the Period from January 1 to July 9, 2014
Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in AOCI on Derivative (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective Portion) |
Relationships |  | 2014 |  | Portion) |  | 2014 |  | Portion) |  | 2014 |
Interest rate contracts |  | $ | (179 | ) | Interest Expense |  | $ | (2,580 | ) | Other Income (Expense) |  | $ | — |
The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Consolidated Statement of Operations For the Year Ended December 31, 2013
Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in AOCI on Derivative (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective Portion) |
Relationships |  | 2013 |  | Portion) |  | 2013 |  | Portion) |  | 2013 |
Interest rate contracts |  | $ | (882 | ) | Interest Expense |  | $ | (9,963 | ) | Other Income (Expense) |  | $ | (4 | )
The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Consolidated Statement of Operations For the Year Ended December 31, 2012
Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in AOCI on Derivative (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into income (Effective Portion) |  | Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative (Ineffective Portion) |
Relationships |  | 2012 |  | Portion) |  | 2012 |  | Portion) |  | 2012 |
Interest rate contracts |  | $ | (4,252 | ) | Interest Expense |  | $ | (13,440 | ) | Other Income (Expense) |  | $ | 100 |
The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Consolidated Statement of Operations For the Period from January 1 to July 9, 2014 and for the Years Ended December 31, 2013 and 2012
|  |  |  | Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative |
|  | Location of |  | For the Period |  |  |  |  |
|  | Gain (Loss) |  | from January 1 to |  |  |
Derivatives not designated |  | Recognized in Income |  | July 9, |  | For the Year Ended December 31, |
as Hedging Instruments |  | on Derivative |  | 2014 |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |
Interest rate contracts |  | Interest Expense |  | $ | (225 | ) | $ | — |  | $ | — |
The Company was required to provide collateral in the form of vessel assets to support the interest rate swap agreements, excluding vessel assets of Baltic Trading. Prior to the termination of the 2007 Credit Facility on the Effective Date, the Company’s 35 vessels mortgaged under the 2007 Credit Facility served as collateral in the aggregate amount of $100,000.

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