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Changes in Operations
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Significant Changes in Operations [Abstract]  
Changes in Operations
CHANGES IN OPERATIONS:
North American Operations
Heart of Georgia Railroad, Inc.: On May 31, 2017, the Company completed the acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Atlantic Western Transportation, Inc., parent company of Heart of Georgia Railroad, Inc. (HOG), for $5.6 million in cash and contingent consideration valued at $5.7 million. The contingent consideration is payable to the sellers upon satisfaction of certain conditions, which the Company expects to be paid in 2021. The results of operations from HOG have been included in the Company's consolidated statement of operations since the acquisition date.
HOG was founded in 1999 and operates 219 miles of track that runs across the State of Georgia. The track is leased from the Georgia Department of Transportation. It connects with the Company’s Georgia Southwestern Railroad at Americus, Georgia, and with the Company’s Georgia Central Railway at Vidalia, Georgia. HOG serves an inland intermodal terminal at Cordele, Georgia, providing five days per week, direct rail service via the Georgia Central Railway to the Port of Savannah for auto, agricultural products and other merchandise customers. HOG has Class I railroad connections with CSX Corp. at Cordele and with Norfolk Southern at Americus and Helena, Georgia. HOG transports approximately 10,000 annual carloads of agricultural products, feed, fertilizer, and lumber and forest products, of which approximately 2,000 carloads are interchanged with the Company’s Georgia Central Railway.
Providence and Worcester Railroad Company: On November 1, 2016, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding common stock of Providence and Worcester Railroad Company (P&W) for $25.00 per share, or $126.2 million. The Company funded the acquisition with borrowings under the Company's Second Amended and Restated Senior Secured Syndicated Credit Facility Agreement, as amended (the Credit Agreement). The results of operations from P&W have been included in the Company's consolidated statement of operations since the acquisition date. The Company incurred $3.1 million of integration costs associated with P&W during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, of which $2.7 million was included within labor and benefits expense primarily for severance costs and $0.4 million was included within other expenses in the Company's consolidated statement of operations.
P&W is headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts, and operates in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. P&W is contiguous with the Company’s New England Central Railroad (NECR) and Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSO). As of the acquisition date, rail service was provided by approximately 130 P&W employees with 32 locomotives across 163 miles of owned track and over approximately 350 track miles under track access agreements. P&W has exclusive freight access over Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and trackage rights over Metro-North Commuter Railroad, Amtrak and CSX Corp. between New Haven, Connecticut, and Queens, New York. P&W interchanges with the Company’s NECR and CSO railroads, as well as with CSX Corp., Norfolk Southern, Pan Am Railways, Pan Am Southern, the Housatonic Railroad and the New York and Atlantic Railroad, and also connects to Canadian National and Canadian Pacific via NECR.
P&W serves a diverse mix of aggregates, auto, chemicals, metals and lumber customers in southeastern New England, handling approximately 44,000 carloads and intermodal units annually. In addition, P&W provides rail service to three ports (Providence, Davisville and New Haven) and to a United States Customs bonded intermodal terminal in Worcester, Massachusetts, that receives inbound intermodal containers for distribution in New England.
The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting under U.S. GAAP. The acquired assets and liabilities of P&W were recorded at their acquisition-date fair values and were consolidated with those of the Company as of the acquisition date. The following acquisition-date fair values were assigned to the acquired net assets (dollars in thousands). The $27.9 million of fair value assigned to goodwill will not be deductible for tax purposes.
 
Amount
Cash and cash equivalents
$
1,529

Accounts receivable
4,011

Materials and supplies
1,048

Prepaid expenses and other
648

Property and equipment
129,473

Goodwill
27,938

Total Assets
164,647

Accounts payable and accrued expenses
9,759

Deferred income tax liabilities, net
27,464

Other long-term liabilities
1,273

Net assets
$
126,151


Australian Operations
Glencore Rail (NSW) Pty Limited: On December 1, 2016, a subsidiary of the Company completed the acquisition of Glencore Rail (NSW) Pty Limited (GRail) for A$1.14 billion (or approximately $844.9 million at an exchange rate of $0.74 for one Australian dollar) and concurrently issued a 48.9% equity stake in G&W Australia Holdings LP (GWAHLP) (collectively, the Australia Partnership), which is the holding entity for all of the Company’s Australian businesses, including GRail, to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), a large infrastructure investment firm. The Company, through wholly-owned subsidiaries, retained a 51.1% ownership in GWAHLP. As the Company maintained control of its Australian Operations, it continues to consolidate 100% of the Company's Australian Operations in its financial statements and reports a noncontrolling interest for MIRA’s 48.9% equity ownership. The acquisition of GRail was funded through a combination of third-party debt and contributions from the Company and MIRA in the form of equity and partner loans.
The Company and MIRA contributed a combined A$1.3 billion in the form of cash, partner loans and contributed equity, and the Company's recently established subsidiary, GWI Acquisitions Pty Ltd (GWIA), entered into a five-year A$690 million senior secured term loan facility that is non-recourse to the Company and to MIRA. The proceeds were used to acquire GRail for A$1.14 billion, repay Genesee & Wyoming Australia’s (GWA) existing A$250 million term loan (under the Company’s Credit Agreement) and pay A$19.8 million in debt issuance costs and A$13.2 million of acquisition-related costs (collectively the GRail Transactions). The foreign exchange rate used to translate the transaction amounts to United States dollars (USD) was $0.74 for one Australian dollar (AUD).
GRail’s coal haulage business was established in 2010 as an alternative rail service provider to the incumbent railroads in the Hunter Valley and has grown to be the third largest coal haulage business in Australia. The Company’s Freightliner Australia subsidiary (acquired by the Company in March 2015) has been the rail operator of GRail since inception and presently provides haulage and logistics services for approximately 40 million tonnes per year of steam coal that is among the lowest cost and highest quality coal in the world sold principally to customers in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. These services have continued following the GRail transaction.
    In conjunction with the GRail acquisition, the Company entered into a 20-year rail haulage contract with the seller, Glencore Coal Pty Limited (GC), to exclusively haul all coal produced at GC’s existing mines in the Hunter Valley to the Port of Newcastle. The contract has minimum guaranteed volumes over the first 18 years.
The GRail transaction included the acquisition of nine train sets (30 locomotives and 894 railcars). Rail haulage service is operated on government-owned, open-access track that is coordinated by a neutral third party. Track access fees will continue to be paid directly by GC.
The Company paid GC, the seller of GRail, A$1.14 billion in cash at closing and received A$3.8 million (or $2.9 million at the exchange rate on the date the cash was received) from the seller for the final working capital adjustment during the three months ended March 31, 2017. The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting under U.S. GAAP. The acquired assets and liabilities of GRail were recorded at their acquisition-date fair values and were consolidated with those of the Company as of the acquisition date. The foreign exchange rate used to translate the balance sheet to United States dollars was $0.74 for one Australian dollar, the exchange rate on December 1, 2016. The results of operations from GRail have been included in the Company's consolidated statement of operations since the December 1, 2016 acquisition date.
The following acquisition-date fair values were assigned to the acquired net assets (amounts in thousands):
 
 
AUD
 
USD
Accounts receivable
 
A$
1,556

 
$
1,153

Materials and supplies
 
411

 
305

Property and equipment
 
279,592

 
207,206

Goodwill
 
415,959

 
308,267

Intangible assets
 
635,000

 
470,599

Total assets
 
1,332,518

 
987,530

Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 
5,796

 
4,296

Deferred income tax liabilities, net
 
190,551

 
141,217

Net assets
 
A$
1,136,171

 
$
842,017


The A$635.0 million (or $470.6 million at the exchange rate on December 1, 2016) of fair value assigned to intangible assets relates to an amortizable customer contract associated with the 20-year take-or-pay rail haulage contract with GC. The A$416.0 million (or $308.3 million at the exchange rate on December 1, 2016) of fair value assigned to goodwill will not be deductible for tax purposes.
Pro Forma Financial Results (Unaudited)
The following table summarizes the Company's unaudited pro forma operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 as if the GRail Transactions had been consummated as of January 1, 2015. As such, these results include pro forma results from the GRail Transactions for the period from January 1, 2016 through September 30, 2016. The following pro forma financial information does not include the impact of any costs to integrate the operations or the impact of derivative instruments that the Company has entered into or may enter into to mitigate foreign currency or interest rate risk (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts):
 
 
Nine Months Ended
 
 
September 30, 2016
Operating revenues
 
$
1,526,122

Net income attributable to Genesee & Wyoming Inc.
 
$
122,779

Basic earnings per common share
 
$
2.15

Diluted earnings per common share
 
$
2.11


The unaudited pro forma operating results included the acquisition of GRail adjusted, net of tax, for depreciation and amortization expense resulting from the determination of fair values of the acquired property and equipment and amortizable intangible asset, the inclusion of interest expense related to borrowings used to fund the acquisition, the amortization of debt issuance costs related to the Australian Credit Agreement, noncontrolling interest related to MIRA's 48.9% ownership and the elimination of Australia's interest expense related to debt under the Credit Agreement. Prior to the GRail acquisition, the Company's Australian subsidiary, Freightliner Australia Pty Ltd (FLA), provided rail operator services to GRail, which has been eliminated in the pro forma financial results. Since the pro forma operating results assume the acquisition was consummated on January 1, 2015, the unaudited pro forma operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 excluded $4.6 million ($4.4 million, net of tax) of costs incurred by the Company related to the GRail Transactions.
The unaudited pro forma operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 were based on the Company's consolidated statement of operations and GRail's historical operating results for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The foreign exchange rate used to translate GRail's 2016 historical operating results to United States dollars was $0.74 for one Australian dollar (which was calculated based on the weighted average monthly exchange rates for the first nine months of 2016).
The pro forma financial information does not purport to be indicative of the results that actually would have been obtained had the GRail Transactions been completed as of January 1, 2015 and for the periods presented and are not intended to be a projection of future results or trends.
Arrium Limited: Between 2011 and 2014, GWA invested a total of $78 million to purchase locomotives and railcars, as well as to construct a standard gauge rolling-stock maintenance facility to support iron ore shipments from Arrium's Southern Iron mine and Whyalla-based operations, which include the Middleback Range iron ore mines and the Whyalla steelworks. Arrium mothballed its Southern Iron mine in April 2015, citing the significant decline in the price of iron ore, while the mines in the Middleback Range continued to operate. 
On April 7, 2016, Arrium announced it had entered into voluntary administration. As a result, the Company recorded a $13.0 million non-cash charge related to the impairment of GWA's now idle rolling-stock maintenance facility, which was recorded to net (gain)/loss on sale and impairment of assets within operating expenses, which represented the entire carrying value of these assets, and an allowance for doubtful accounts charge of $8.1 million associated with accounts receivable from Arrium, which was recorded to other expenses within operating expenses, during the first quarter of 2016. Also, as a result of the voluntary administration, all payments to GWA associated with the Southern Iron rail haulage agreement ceased.
On August 31, 2017, Arrium was sold to GFG Alliance. The steel making business was rebranded as Liberty OneSteel and the mining business was rebranded as SIMEC Mining. GWA continues to provide service and receive payments under the remaining rail haulage agreement. Pursuant to the rail haulage agreement, GWA serves several iron ore mines in the Middleback Range and the Whyalla steelworks operations, which the Company expects will represent A$40 million (or approximately $32 million at the exchange rate on September 30, 2017) of annual revenue, prospectively.
U.K./European Operations
Pentalver Transport Limited: On May 3, 2017, the Company's subsidiary, GWI UK Acquisition Company Limited, purchased for cash all of the issued share capital of Pentalver Transport Limited (Pentalver) from a subsidiary of APM Terminals (a subsidiary of A P Møller-Maersk A/S) for £97.8 million (or $126.2 million at the exchange rate on May 3, 2017) or £77.5 million (or $100.1 million at the exchange rate on May 3, 2017) net of £20.2 million (or $26.1 million at the exchange rate on May 3, 2017) of cash received in connection with the sale. The Company funded the acquisition with borrowings under the Credit Agreement. The foreign exchange rate used to translate the total consideration to United States dollars was $1.29 for one British pound (GBP).
Headquartered in Southampton, U.K., Pentalver operates off-dock container terminals (most under long-term lease) strategically placed at each of the four major seaports of Felixstowe, Southampton, London Gateway and Tilbury, as well as an inland terminal located at Cannock, in the Midlands, near many of the nation’s largest distribution centers. In addition to providing storage for loaded and empty containers on over 100 acres of land, Pentalver also operates a trucking haulage service with more than 150 trucks, primarily providing daily service between the seaports of Felixstowe and Southampton and its inland terminal at Cannock. Pentalver also provides services related to container maintenance and repair (including refrigerated containers) and is one of the largest sellers of new and used containers in the U.K.
Pentalver’s operations are complementary to those of the Company's Freightliner subsidiary, which is the largest rail maritime intermodal operator in the U.K. The logistics of maritime container transportation in the U.K. are highly competitive, whether by road, rail or short-sea, with a premium placed on timely, efficient and safe service. The Company expects that the Pentalver acquisition will enable it to (i) enhance its U.K. services by providing rail and road transportation solutions, as well as offering storage options at the ports and inland, and (ii) unlock efficiencies from shared services and enhanced asset utilization from Pentalver’s trucking fleet and Freightliner’s existing fleet of approximately 200 trucks that currently provide local collection and delivery haulage from Freightliner’s inland terminals. With approximately 600 employees, Pentalver will operate as part of the Company’s U.K./Europe Region.
The results of operations from Pentalver have been included in the Company's consolidated statement of operations since the May 3, 2017, acquisition date within the Company's U.K./European Operations segment. Pentalver contributed $64.7 million of total revenues and $3.1 million of operating income, which included $2.1 million of depreciation and amortization expense, to the Company's consolidated results since the acquisition date. The Company incurred $3.7 million of acquisition and integration costs related to Pentalver during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, of which $3.6 million was included within other expenses and $0.1 million was included in labor and benefits expense in the Company's consolidated statement of operations.
The Company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting under U.S. GAAP. The acquired assets and liabilities of Pentalver were recorded at their preliminary acquisition-date fair values and were consolidated with those of the Company as of the acquisition date. The preliminary acquisition date fair values are subject to further adjustment for the final determination of the fair values of the acquired assets and liabilities. The foreign exchange rate used to translate the balance sheet to United States dollars was $1.29 for one British pound.
The preliminary acquisition date fair values were assigned to the acquired net assets as follows (amounts in thousands):
 
 
GBP
 
USD
Cash and cash equivalents
 
£
20,224

 
$
26,117

Accounts receivable
 
16,847

 
21,756

Materials and supplies
 
13,360

 
17,253

Prepaid expenses and other
 
3,238

 
4,182

Property and equipment
 
22,403

 
28,931

Goodwill
 
9,368

 
12,098

Intangible assets
 
41,000

 
52,947

Total assets
 
126,440

 
163,284

Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 
21,214

 
27,396

Deferred income tax liabilities, net
 
6,876

 
8,880

Deferred items-grants from outside parties
 
601

 
776

Net assets
 
£
97,749

 
$
126,232


The $52.9 million of intangible assets relate to amortizable operational rights with contractual terms spanning up to 50 years and a weighted average amortization period of 33 years. The $12.1 million of goodwill will not be deductible for tax purposes.
Continental Europe Intermodal Business: During 2016, the Company explored ways to enhance the long-term viability of ERS Railways B.V. (ERS), the Continental Europe intermodal business Freightliner acquired from Maersk, which the Company acquired in 2015 with the Freightliner acquisition. Due to its limited history of profitability and competitive dynamics in the market in which it operates, the Company ascribed little value to it at the time of acquisition.
Despite a significant and focused effort by the Company, the performance of ERS reached unsustainable levels during 2016 and a restructuring plan was initiated. In conjunction with that plan, in 2017, the Company ceased all "open" train services from the port of Rotterdam, closed the ERS offices in Rotterdam and Frankfurt and the ERS customer services function in Warsaw. The Company is in the process of redistributing ERS’s leased locomotives and railcars, which have lease termination dates ranging from 2017 to 2019. These steps will enable the Company to focus on the deep sea intermodal sector. The Company's subsidiary, Rotterdam Rail Feeding B.V., will continue its existing services and not be affected by the restructuring of ERS.
As a result of the ERS restructuring plan, the Company recorded impairment and related charges of $21.5 million in December 2016. These charges primarily included $14.5 million for an impairment of goodwill and $4.1 million for an impairment of a customer-related intangible asset, which were both recorded to net (gain)/loss on sale and impairment of assets within operating expenses, which represented the entire carrying value of these assets. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company recorded $5.2 million of restructuring costs related to ERS, primarily for severance costs and costs associated with surplus locomotive and railcar leases.