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Contractual charter revenue (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Contractual charter revenue [Abstract]

Minimum Future Time Charter Revenues

The minimum future revenues to be received from time charters in place as of December 31, 2013 (before Ardmore’s share of profit / loss under the time charter participation and assuming no offhire) which are accounted for as operating leases is as follows:

	As at
	Dec 31,2013
2014			22,361,045
2015			1,032,857

Time Charter Lease Agreements

As of December 31, 2013, seven of Ardmore’s vessels are part of time charter agreements. The leases expire as follows:

Name	Lease expiry	Lease option
Ardmore Seavaliant	Feb, 2014	No
Ardmore Seaventure	Jun, 2014	No
Ardmore Seatrader	Aug, 2014	Yes
Ardmore Seamaster	Jul, 2014	Yes
Ardmore Seafarer	Jul, 2014	Yes
Ardmore Seavantage	Jan, 2015	Yes
Ardmore Seavanguard	Feb, 2015	Yes

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Tabular disclosure of vessels under time charter agreements.

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Tabular disclosure of future minimum payments required in the aggregate and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years for operating leases having initial or remaining noncancelable lease terms in excess of one year and the total minimum rentals to be received in the future under noncancelable subleases as of the balance sheet date.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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-Section 50

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