Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

We enter into transactions and agreements with certain of our non-consolidated companies and other related parties from time to time. As of March 31, 2020, the net amount due to our non-consolidated companies totaled $133.7 million. As of December 31, 2019, there was a net amount due from our non-consolidated companies totaling $23.2 million. These amounts include a long-term indemnification asset of $24.1 million from Vale S.A. for reimbursement of pension plan obligations.

The Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings included the following transactions with our non-consolidated companies:



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2020		2019
Transactions with non-consolidated companies included in net sales	$	148.6	$	262.5
Transactions with non-consolidated companies included in cost of goods sold	177.1		251.0

As part of the MWSPC joint venture, we market approximately 25% of the MWSPC production, for which approximately $2.4 million and $2.7 million of marketing fees is included in revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019, respectively.

In 2015, we agreed to provide funds to finance the purchase and construction of two articulated tug and barge units, intended to transport anhydrous ammonia for our operations, through a bridge loan agreement with Gulf Marine Solutions, LLC (“GMS”). GMS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf Sulphur Services Ltd., LLLP (“Gulf Sulphur Services”), an entity in which we and a joint venture partner, Savage Companies (“Savage”), each indirectly own a 50% equity interest and for which a subsidiary of

Savage provides operating and management services. GMS provided these funds through draws on the Mosaic bridge loan and through additional loans from Gulf Sulphur Services. We are the primary beneficiary of GMS, a variable interest entity, and consolidate GMS’s operations in our Phosphates segment.

On October 24, 2017, a lease financing transaction was completed with respect to the completed tug and barge unit, and, following the application of proceeds from the transaction, all outstanding loans made by Gulf Sulphur Services to GMS, together with accrued interest, were repaid, and the bridge loans related to the first unit’s construction were repaid. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, there were outstanding bridge loans of $74.7 million and $74.7 million, respectively, relating to the cancelled second barge and the remaining tug, which bridge loans are eliminated in consolidation. Reserves against the bridge loans of approximately $54.2 million were established in 2018 and remain unchanged. The construction of the remaining tug, funded by the bridge loan advances in excess of the reserves, is recorded within construction in-progress within our consolidated balance sheet. Several subsidiaries of Savage operate vessels utilized by Mosaic under time charter arrangements, including the ammonia tug and barge unit.