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Note 19 - Commitments and Contingencies | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements |
Commitments Disclosure [Text Block] |
19. | Commitments and Contingencies
| • | From time to time the Company expects to be subject to legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of its business, principally personal injury and property casualty claims. Such claims, even if lacking merit, could result in the expenditure of significant financial and managerial resources. On August 5, 2015, our Aframax tanker “Spike” (now named “Stealth Berana”) was arrested. This action related to security sought in connection with an arbitration proceeding involving a vessel not in the Company’s fleet that the applicant claims is under common control with the MT “Spike”. On August 20, 2015, the Company in order to secure the vessel’s release, lodged to the court a bank guarantee amounting to $9,837,000. The bank guarantee was finally released on November 17, 2016 and as the Company had anticipated, the outcome of this case did not have any material effect on its operations and financial position.
| • | During 2014 and as amended on November 17, 2016 and July 18, 2017, the Company has entered into separate agreements to acquire four LPG carriers which three of them are currently under construction, and are described in Note 5. The Company has future outstanding commitments for installment payments for these agreements as follows:
| December 31 |  | Amount |  |
| 2018 |  |  | 103,307,820 |  |
| Total |  |  | 103,307,820 |  |
| • | Future minimum contractual charter revenues, gross of commissions, based on vessels committed to non-cancellable, long-term time and bareboat charter contracts as of December 31, 2017, amount to $90,394,968 during 2018, $35,806,235 during 2019, $21,966,407 during 2020, $10,970,170 during 2021 and $3,519,740 during 2022.

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