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INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS |
INTEREST RATE SWAP AGREEMENTS | 11 - 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, 2016 and 2015, the Company did not have any interest rate swap agreements. 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 9 — Debt. 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 was 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 was $2,580. 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 Predecessor Company
|  | Amount of |  |  |  | Amount of |  |  |  | Amount of
|  | Gain (Loss) |  | Location of |  | Gain (Loss) |  | Location of |  | Gain (Loss)
|  | Recognized |  | Gain (Loss) |  | Reclassified |  | Gain (Loss) |  | Recognized in
|  | in AOCI on |  | Reclassified |  | from AOCI |  | Recognized in |  | Income on
|  | Derivative |  | from AOCI |  | into income |  | Income on |  | Derivative
Derivatives in Cash |  | (Effective |  | into income |  | (Effective |  | Derivative |  | (Ineffective
Flow Hedging |  | Portion) |  | (Effective |  | Portion) |  | (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 Period from January 1 to July 9, 2014 Predecessor Company
|  |  |  | Amount of
|  |  |  | Gain (Loss)
|  |  |  | Recognized in Income in
|  |  |  | Derivative
|  | Location of |  | For the Period
|  | Gain (Loss) |  | from January 1 to
Derivatives not designated |  | Recognized in Income |  | July 9,
as Hedging Instruments |  | on Derivative |  | 2014
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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