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Basis of Presentation and General Information
9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Basis of Presentation and General Information  
Basis of Presentation and General Information

1. Basis of Presentation and General Information

Dorian LPG Ltd. (“Dorian”) was incorporated on July 1, 2013 under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is headquartered in the United States and is engaged in the transportation of liquefied petroleum gas (“LPG”) worldwide. Specifically, Dorian and its subsidiaries (together “we”, “us”, “our”, or the “Company”) are focused on owning and operating very large gas carriers (“VLGCs”), each with a cargo carrying capacity of greater than 80,000 cbm, in the LPG shipping industry. As of December 31, 2020, our fleet consists of twenty-four VLGCs, including nineteen fuel-efficient 84,000 cbm ECO-design VLGCs (“ECO-VLGCs”), three 82,000 cbm VLGCs and two time chartered-in VLGCs. As of December 31, 2020, ten of our ECO-VLGCs are equipped with exhaust gas cleaning systems (commonly referred to as “scrubbers”) to reduce sulfur emissions. We have commitments related to scrubbers on an additional two of our VLGCs. We provide in-house commercial management services for all of our vessels, including our vessels deployed in the Helios Pool (defined below), which may also receive commercial management services from Phoenix (defined below). Excluding our time chartered-in vessels, we provide in-house technical management services for all of our vessels, including our vessels deployed in the Helios Pool (defined below).

On April 1, 2015, Dorian and Phoenix Tankers Pte. Ltd. (“Phoenix”) began operations of Helios LPG Pool LLC (the “Helios Pool”), which entered into pool participation agreements for the purpose of establishing and operating, as charterer, under variable rate time charters to be entered into with owners or disponent owners of VLGCs, a commercial pool of VLGCs whereby revenues and expenses are shared. Refer to Note 3 below for further description of the Helios Pool.

The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and related Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. In our opinion, all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring items, necessary for a fair presentation of financial position, operating results and cash flows have been included in the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes. Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified for consistency with the current year presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on the reported results of operations or cash flows. The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes for the year ended March 31, 2020 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on June 12, 2020.

Our interim results are subject to seasonal and other fluctuations, and the operating results for any quarter are therefore not necessarily indicative of results that may be otherwise expected for the entire year.

Our subsidiaries as of December 31, 2020, which are all wholly-owned and are incorporated in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (unless otherwise noted), are listed below.

Vessel Subsidiaries

    

Type of

    

    

    

 

Subsidiary

vessel

Vessel’s name

Built

CBM(1)

 

CMNL LPG Transport LLC

 

VLGC

 

Captain Markos NL(2)

 

2006

 

82,000

CJNP LPG Transport LLC

 

VLGC

 

Captain John NP

 

2007

 

82,000

CNML LPG Transport LLC

 

VLGC

 

Captain Nicholas ML(2)

 

2008

 

82,000

Comet LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Comet

2014

84,000

Corsair LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Corsair(2)

2014

84,000

Corvette LPG Transport LLC

 

VLGC

 

Corvette(2)

 

2015

 

84,000

Dorian Shanghai LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Cougar

2015

84,000

Concorde LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Concorde(2)

2015

84,000

Dorian Houston LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Cobra

2015

84,000

Dorian Sao Paulo LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Continental

2015

84,000

Dorian Ulsan LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Constitution

2015

84,000

Dorian Amsterdam LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Commodore

2015

84,000

Dorian Dubai LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Cresques(2)

2015

84,000

Constellation LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Constellation

2015

84,000

Dorian Monaco LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Cheyenne

2015

84,000

Dorian Barcelona LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Clermont

2015

84,000

Dorian Geneva LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Cratis

2015

84,000

Dorian Cape Town LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Chaparral

2015

84,000

Dorian Tokyo LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Copernicus

2015

84,000

Commander LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Commander

2015

84,000

Dorian Explorer LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Challenger

2015

84,000

 

Dorian Exporter LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Caravelle

2016

84,000

Management and Other Non-vessel Subsidiaries

 

Subsidiary

 

Dorian LPG Management Corp.

Dorian LPG (USA) LLC (incorporated in USA)

Dorian LPG (UK) Ltd. (incorporated in UK)

Dorian LPG Finance LLC

Occident River Trading Limited (incorporated in UK)

Dorian LPG (DK) ApS (incorporated in Denmark)

Dorian LPG Chartering LLC

Dorian LPG FFAS LLC

(1)CBM: Cubic meters, a standard measure for LPG tanker capacity
(2)Operated pursuant to a bareboat charter agreement. Refer to Note 6 below for further information.

COVID-19

The outbreak of COVID-19, which originated in China in December 2019 and subsequently spread to most nations of the world, has resulted in the implementation of numerous actions taken by governments and governmental agencies in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus. These measures have resulted in a significant reduction in global economic activity and extreme volatility in the global financial markets. The reduction of economic activity has significantly reduced the global demand for oil, refined petroleum products (most notably aviation fuel) and LPG. We expect that the impact of the COVID-19 virus and the uncertainty in the supply and demand for fossil fuels, including LPG, will continue to cause volatility in the commodity markets. We have experienced and may continue to experience additional costs to effect crew changes. Although to date there has not been any significant effect on our operating activities due to COVID-19, other than an approximately 60-day delay associated with the drydocking of one of our vessels in China that left drydock in April 2020, the extent to which COVID-19 will impact our results of operation and financial condition will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including among others, new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the virus and the actions to contain or treat its impact or any resurgence or mutation of the virus, the availability of vaccines and their global deployment, the development of effective treatments, the imposition of effective public safety and other protective measures and the public’s response to such

measures. There continues to be a high level of uncertainty relating to how the pandemic will evolve, how governments and consumers will react and progress on the approval and distribution of vaccines. An estimate of the impact cannot therefore be made at this time.