Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due. The Company’s approach to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will always have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when due, under both normal and abnormal conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Company’s reputation.
In 2023, the Company again conducted various liquidity scenarios, financial stress tests and sensitivity analyses. The conclusion remained that the Company’s lease portfolio and the existing financing facilities and overall financing capacity are sufficient to ensure that the Company will continue as a going concern in the foreseeable future and it can sustain future growth plans. Furthermore, under its Lease and Operate contractual arrangements with clients, the Company has considerable time under charters in which to deal with disruptions from events outside the Company’s control, thus providing it with considerable financial protection.
Liquidity is monitored using rolling forecasts of the Company’s liquidity reserves, based on expected cash flows. Flexibility is secured by maintaining availability under committed credit lines.
The table below analyses the Company’s non-derivative financial liabilities, derivative financial liabilities and derivative financial assets into relevant maturity groupings, based on the remaining period at the statement of financial position date to the contractual maturity date. The amounts disclosed in the table are the contractual undiscounted cash flows. The future interest cash flows for borrowings and derivative financial instruments are based on the USD LIBOR/SOFR 3-month rates as at the reporting date.
Liquidity risk 2023
Note | Less than 1 year | Between 1 and 5 years | Over 5 years | Total | |
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31 December 2023 | |||||
Borrowings | 436 | 7,327 | 6,176 | 13,939 | |
Lease liabilities | 11 | 44 | 61 | 116 | |
Derivative financial liabilities | 80 | 10 | - | 90 | |
Derivative financial assets | (302) | (539) | (468) | (1,310) | |
Trade and other payables | 1,347 | - | - | 1,347 | |
Total | 1,572 | 6,841 | 5,769 | 14,182 |
Liquidity risk 2022
Note | Less than 1 year | Between 1 and 5 years | Over 5 years | Total | |
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31 December 2022 | |||||
Borrowings | 2,110 | 5,885 | 2,908 | 10,902 | |
Lease liabilities | 13 | 25 | 8 | 46 | |
Derivative financial liabilities | 201 | 52 | - | 253 | |
Derivative financial assets | (365) | (254) | (185) | (805) | |
Trade and other payables | 1,501 | - | - | 1,501 | |
Total | 3,459 | 5,708 | 2,730 | 11,897 |