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Note 7 - Long-term Debt
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Long-term Debt [Text Block]
7.
Long-Term Debt
 
Long-term debt represents bank loans of the Company. Outstanding long-term debt as of
December 31, 2019
and
September 30, 2020
is as follows:
 
Borrower   December 31,
2019
    September 30,
2020
 
Alterwall Business Inc. / Allendale Investments S.A. / Manolis Shipping Ltd. / Joanna Maritime Ltd. / Jonathan John Shipping Ltd. / Athens Shipping Ltd. / Oinousses Navigation Ltd. / Corfu Navigation Ltd. / Bridge Shipping Ltd. / Noumea Shipping Ltd. / Gregos Shipping Ltd.    
37,650,000
     
28,375,000
 
Diamantis Shipowners Ltd.    
3,507,220
     
3,106,300
 
Spetses Shipowners Ltd., Kea Shipowners Ltd., Hydra Shipowners Ltd.    
12,050,000
     
11,150,000
 
Antwerp Shipping Ltd. / Busan Shipping Ltd. / Keelung Shipping Ltd. / Oakland Shipping Ltd.    
32,000,000
     
28,500,000
 
     
85,207,220
     
71,131,300
 
Less: Current portion    
(12,541,840
)    
(10,306,380
)
Long-term portion    
72,665,380
     
60,824,920
 
Deferred charges, current portion    
246,520
     
246,520
 
Deferred charges, long-term portion    
477,595
     
261,301
 
Long-term bank loans, current portion net of deferred charges    
12,295,320
     
10,059,860
 
Long-term bank loans, long-term portion net of deferred charges    
72,187,785
     
60,563,619
 
                 
 
Loan from related party, current            
Euroseas Ltd.    
5,000,000
     
4,375,000
 
 
The future annual loan repayments are as follows:
 
To September 30:      
2021    
10,306,380
 
2022    
21,674,690
 
2023    
19,450,230
 
2024    
19,700,000
 
Total    
71,131,300
 
 
Details of the loans are discussed in Note
8
of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended
December 31, 2019
included in the
2019
Annual Report.

 
During the
second
quarter of
2020
and within
July 2020,
the Company agreed with certain of its lenders to defer a portion of its
2020
loan repayments to be repaid together with the respective balloon instalments. A total of
$5.2
million was rescheduled to
December 2021
or within
2022.
 
The Company's bank loans are secured with
one
or more of the following:
 
·
first
priority mortgage over the respective vessels on a joint and several basis.
 
·
first
assignment of earnings and insurance.
 
·
a corporate guarantee of Euroseas Ltd.
 
·
a pledge of all the issued shares of each borrower.
 
The loan agreements contain covenants such as minimum requirements regarding the security cover ratio (the ratio of fair value of vessel to outstanding loan less cash in retention accounts ranging from
120%
to
140%
), restrictions as to changes in management and ownership of the ship-owning companies, distribution of profits or assets (i.e.
not
permitting dividend payment or other distributions in cases that an event of default has occurred), additional indebtedness and mortgage of vessels without the lender's prior consent, sale of vessels, maximum fleet-wide leverage, sale of capital stock of our subsidiaries, ability to make investments and other capital expenditures, entering in mergers or acquisitions, minimum cash balance requirements and minimum cash retention accounts (restricted cash). The loan agreements also require the Company to make deposits in retention accounts with certain banks that can only be used to pay the current loan installments. Minimum cash balance requirements are in addition to cash held in retention accounts. These cash deposits amounted to
$4,410,376
and
$2,008,593
as of
December 31, 2019
and
September 30, 2020,
respectively, and are included in "Restricted cash" under "Current assets" and "Long-term assets" in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of
September 30, 2020,
the Company satisfied all its debt covenants.
 
Interest expense, including loan fee amortization for the
nine
-month periods ended
September 30, 2019
and
2020
amounted to
$2,272,181
and
$3,320,074,
respectively.