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Leases - The Company as Lessee
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Time charterin contracts [Abstract]  
Leases - The Company as Lessee
18. Leases – The Company as Lessee
Time
charter-in
contracts
For the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company chartered in vessels to supplement its own fleet and employed them both on time charters and voyage charters. The time
charter-in
contracts ranged in lease terms from 1 year to 5 years. No
charter-in
contracts were entered into during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022.
The Company had one time
charter-in
contract with a monthly charter hire of $130,000 relating to the vessel Gas Cathar, which was greater than 12 months at January 1, 2019 i.e. the date of adoption of ASC 842. This contract expired in March 2020. Lease payments relating to this charter amounted to $318,606 for the year ended December 31, 2020 and are included in Charter hire expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
Office lease
In January 2019, the Company renewed its contract to lease office space from a related party for a period until December 2020 at an amount of EUR 6,500 ($7,345) per month. In January 2021, the Company entered into a new agreement to lease office space from a related party for a period until December 2022 at an amount of EUR 7,000 ($8,279) per month. The Company determined these office leases to be operating leases and recorded the related
right-of-use-assets
within operating lease
right-of-use-assets
and the lease liabilities within operating lease liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the lease expense within General and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statement of
operations (Note 3).
 
Lease Disclosures Under ASC 842
Operating lease
right-of-use
assets and lease liabilities as of December 31, 2021 and 2022 as follows:
 

Description
 
Location in balance sheet
 
December 31,
2021
 
 
December 31,
2022
 
Non current assets:
                      
Office leases
   Operating lease
right-of-use
assets
   $ 104,168        —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
 
          $ 104,168        —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
 
Liabilities:
                      
Office leases
   Current portion of operating lease liabilities    $ 104,168        —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
 
Lease liabilities – current portion
        $ 104,168        —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
 
The Operating lease
right-of-use
asset and Operating lease liabilities represent the present value of lease payments for the remaining term of the lease.
The table below presents the components of the Company’s lease expenses and
sub-lease
income on a gross basis earned from
chartered-in
contracts greater than 12 months:

Description
  
Location in statement of
operations
  
2020
 
  
2021
 
  
2022
 
Lease expense for
chartered-in
contracts greater than 12
months
   Charter hire expenses      318,606        —          —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
     Total charter hire expenses      318,606        —          —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Lease expense for office leases
   General and administrative expenses      90,121        97,726        88,326  
         
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Sub lease income from
chartered-in
contracts greater than 12 months *
   Revenues      860,227        —          —    
         
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
*
The
sub-lease
income represents time charter revenue earned on the
chartered-in
contracts greater than 12 months.
The cash paid for operating leases with terms greater than 12 months for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022 amounted to $408,727, $97,726 and $88,326,
respectively.
The
table below provides the total amount of lease payments on an undiscounted basis on our office lease greater than 12 months as of December 31, 2021:
 

Year
  
Office
leases
 
 
Total
Operating
leases
 
Discount rate upon adoption
     5.6     5.6
2022 (undiscounted lease payments)
   $ 107,520     $ 107,520  
     $ 107,520     $ 107,520  
Present value of lease liability
     104,168       104,168  
Lease liabilities - short term
     104,168       104,168  
Total lease liabilities
     104,168       104,168  
Discount based on incremental borrowing rate (Difference between undiscounted lease payments and present value of lease liability)
   $ 3,352     $ 3,352