PANL Company Profile

Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. and its subsidiaries is a provider of seaborne drybulk transportation services. Pangaea utilizes its logistics expertise to service a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of drybulk cargoes, including grains, coal, iron ore, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite and limestone. The Company addresses the transportation needs of its customers by undertaking a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management.

The Company utilizes its logistics expertise to service a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of drybulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite and limestone. The Company derives substantially all of its revenue from contracts of affreightment, also known as COAs, voyage charters, and time charters. In particular, the Company has historically focused on backhaul routes. Backhaul routes or ballast legs, position vessels for discharge in loading areas. Backhaul routes allow us to reduce ballast days and instead, earn revenues at times and on routes that are typically traveled without paying cargo.

Contracts of affreightment (“COAs”), are contracts to transport multiple shipments of cargo during the term of the contract between specified load and discharge ports, at a fixed or variable price per metric ton of cargo. Voyage charters are revenue streams under which a vessel carries a shipment of cargo for a customer on a specified route for a fixed price per metric ton of cargo.Time charters are agreements during which the vessel is dedicated solely to the charterer for the term of the agreement. A majority of the Company’s revenue is from COAs and voyage charters, as our focus is on transporting cargo for our customers. The Company’s COAs typically extend for a period of one to five years, although some extend for longer periods. A time charter may vary from a single trip to longer-term charters, whenever we determine such use to be in our commercial interest. The length of a voyage depends on the number of load and discharge ports, the time spent in such ports and the distance between the ports. The Company attempts, through selecting COAs and voyage contracts on what would normally be backhaul or ballast legs, to enhance vessel utilization and its profitability because these contracts and charters position vessels at or near loading areas where spot cargoes are typically obtained. This reduces ballast time and expense as a percentage of the vessel’s total revenue and increases expected earnings for the vessel.

The Company uses a mix of owned and chartered-in motor vessels ("m/v") to transport more than 18.3 million deadweight tons (“dwt”) of cargo to more than 100 ports around the world, averaging over 40 vessels in service. The majority of our fleet is chartered-in on short-term charters of less than 9 months. The Company believes that these shorter-term charters afford us more flexibility to match our variable costs to our customers’ service requirements, allowing us to respond to changes in market demand and limiting our exposure to changes in prevailing charter rates. In addition to the Company’s chartered-in fleet, we currently have interests in 14 dry bulk carriers and have orders for the construction of two additional vessels. These vessels are and will be used to serve the Company’s customers’ cargo transportation needs. The Company believes that a combination of owned and chartered-in vessels helps it to more efficiently match its customer demand than it could with an entirely owned fleet or an entirely chartered-in fleet.

The Company is a holding company incorporated under the laws of Bermuda as an exempted company on April 29, 2014. Bulk Partners, which following the Mergers is wholly owned by the Company, is also a holding company that was incorporated under the laws of Bermuda as an exempted company on June 17, 2008, by three individuals who are collectively referred to as the Founders.

The Company owns its vessels through separate wholly-owned subsidiaries and through joint venture entities, which the Company consolidates as variable interest entities, incorporated in Bermuda and Denmark. Certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries that are organized in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Panama, and Delaware provide it with vessel management services and administrative support.

The Company’s principal executives operate from the offices of Phoenix Bulk Carriers (US) LLC, which is located at 109 Long Wharf, Newport, Rhode Island 02840.The phone number at that address is (401) 846-7790. The Company also has offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, Athens, Greece, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Singapore. The Company’s corporate website address is http://www.pangaeals.com.

The Company is a service business and its customers use its services because they believe the Company adds and creates value for them. To add value, the Company works with its customers to provide a range of logistics services beyond the traditional loading, carriage and discharge of cargoes. For example, the Company works with certain customers to review their contractual delivery terms and conditions, permitting those customers to reduce costs and risks while accelerating payments. As another example, one of its customers is heavily dependent upon a port that was insufficiently supported by port pilots for the approach to port. To permit a large expansion of its services for this client, the Company formed a separate pilots association to increase the number of available pilots and improve access to the port. As a result of efforts such as these, in some cases the Company is the de facto transportation department for certain clients.

The Company’s core offering is the safe, reliable, and timely loading, carriage, and discharge of cargoes for customers. This offering requires identifying customers, agreeing on the terms of service, selecting a vessel to undertake the voyage, working with port personnel to load and discharge cargo, and documenting the transfers of title upon loading or discharge of the cargo. As a result, the Company spends significant time and resources to identify and retain customers and source potential cargoes in its areas of operation. To further expand its customer base and potential cargoes, the Company has developed expertise in servicing ports and routes subject to severe ice conditions, including the Baltic Sea and the Northern Sea Route. The Company’s subsidiary, Nordic Bulk Carriers A/S (“NBC”), is an adviser to the European Commission on Arctic maritime issues.