Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Compensation And Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee benefit plans

Note 11 – Employee benefit plans:

The components of net periodic defined benefit pension cost are presented in the table below.

	Three months ended						Nine months ended
	September 30,						September 30,
	2018			2019			2018			2019
	(In thousands)
Interest cost	$	372		$	474		$	1,116		$	1,422
Expected return on plan assets		(590	)		(477	)		(1,770	)		(1,431	)
Recognized actuarial losses		365			406			1,095			1,218
Total	$	147		$	403		$	441		$	1,209

We currently expect our 2019 contributions to our defined benefit pension plans to be approximately $3.3 million.