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Basis of Presentation and General Information
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Basis of Presentation and General Information  
Basis of Presentation and General Information

Dorian LPG Ltd.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Expressed in United States Dollars)

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 through the ownership and operation of LPG tankers. Dorian LPG Ltd. 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. As of March 31, 2022, our fleet consists of twenty-two VLGCs, including nineteen fuel-efficient 84,000 cbm ECO-design VLGCs (“ECO VLGCs”), one 82,000 cbm VLGC, and two time chartered-in VLGCs. Thirteen of our ECO VLGCs, including one of our time chartered-in ECO-VLGCs, are fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems (commonly referred to as “scrubbers”) to reduce sulfur emissions. Additionally, on March 31, 2021, we entered into a bareboat agreement to charter-in a newbuilding dual-fuel VLGC for which construction commenced in December 2021 and is expected to be delivered in March 2023 (see Note 19 for further details). 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).

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and include the accounts of Dorian LPG Ltd. and its subsidiaries.

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. See Note 3 below for further description of the Helios Pool relationship.

Our subsidiaries, which are all wholly-owned and all are incorporated in Republic of the Marshall Islands (unless otherwise indicated below), as of March 31, 2022 are listed below.

Vessel Subsidiaries

    

Type of

    

    

    

 

Subsidiary

vessel

Vessel’s name

Built

CBM(1)

 

CJNP LPG Transport LLC

 

VLGC

 

Captain John NP

 

2007

 

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(2)

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(2)

2015

84,000

Dorian Cape Town LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Chaparral(2)

2015

84,000

Dorian Tokyo LPG Transport LLC

VLGC

Copernicus(2)

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(2)

2016

84,000

Dorian Sakura LPG Transport LLC(3)

VLGC

Hull No. 1755

2023(4)

84,000

Management 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 10 and 24 below for further information.
(3)Upon delivery, will be operated pursuant to a bareboat charter agreement. Refer to Note 19 below for further information.
(4)The applicable vessel is expected to be delivered in calendar year 2023.

Customers

For the years ended March 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 the Helios Pool accounted for 90%, 93%, and 89% of our total revenues, respectively. No other individual charterer accounted for more than 10% of total revenues.

COVID-19

Since the beginning of calendar year 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected economic conditions, the supply chain, the labor market, the demand for certain shipped goods regionally as well as globally and has also negatively impacted and may continue to impact our operations and the operations of our customers and suppliers. Measures taken to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus, including travel bans, quarantines, and other emergency public health measures, and a number of countries implemented lockdown measures resulted in a significant reduction in global economic activity and extreme volatility in the global financial markets. The extent of COVID-19’s future impact on the global economy, the shipping industry and our financial and operational results, which could be material, will depend on the development of the pandemic, vaccination rates among the population, the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against COVID-19 and its variants, and the extent to which measures such as those referenced above are reinstituted. Any new uncertainties regarding the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may likely result in market turmoil, which could also negatively impact our business, financial condition and cash flows. Over the course of the pandemic, governments approved large stimulus packages to mitigate the effects of the sudden decline in economic activity caused by the pandemic; however, we cannot predict the extent to which these measures will be sufficient to continue to sustain the business and financial condition of companies in the shipping industry. To date, we have experienced increases in crew wages and related costs, particularly in crew travel and medical costs, as a result of COVID-19.