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Dec. 31, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
General Information | GENERAL INFORMATION Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company” or “Pangaea”) provides seaborne drybulk logistics and transportation services. Pangaea utilizes its logistics expertise to service a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of drybulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite and limestone. The Company addresses the logistics needs of its customers by undertaking a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management. At December 31, 2020 the Company owned two Panamax, two Ultramax Ice Class 1C, and seven Supramax, and financed four vessels under finance lease obligations. On September 28, 2020, the Company acquired an additional one-third equity interest in its partially-owned consolidated subsidiary Nordic Bulk Holding Company Ltd. (“NBHC”) from one of NBHC’s shareholders. The Company owns two-thirds of NBHC after the acquisition. NBHC owns a fleet of six Panamax Ice Class 1A drybulk vessels. The Company also owned 50% interest in the owner of a deck barge. The Company sold two vessels in the first quarter of 2020 and sold one vessel in the second quarter of 2020.

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