1. Corporate guarantees given on behalf of Aegis Gas (LPG) Private Limited (AGPL) and Hindustan Aegis LPG Limited (HALPG), without charging any fee is recognised at a value which represents a fee which would have been charged by a bank for issuing a similar guarantee to the subsidiary. Such value determined is recognised as deemed investment in the Company with the corresponding liability amortised to the Statement of Profit and Loss over the term of the guarantee.
2. Interest free loans given to the subsidiaries are recognised at fair value on initial recognition and consequently the difference between the transaction value and fair value is recognised as deemed investments by the Company.
3. In terms of the Shareholders Agreement dated January 05, 2018 entered between the Company, its subsidiary Aegis Gas (LPG) Private Limited (AGPL), AGPL's subsidiary Hindustan Aegis (LPG) Limited (HALPG) and Itochu Petroleum Co. (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., the Company and AGPL shall not transfer, dispose of or create any encumbrance over its investment in AGPL and HALPG respectively which would result in a change in control of AGPL and HALPG.
[d] Rights, preferences and restrictions attached to equity shares:
a) Right to receive dividend as may be approved by the Board of Directors / Annual General Meeting.
b) The Equity Shares are not repayable except in the case of a buyback, reduction of capital or winding up in terms of the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013.
c) Every member of the Company holding equity shares has a right to attend the General Meeting of the Company and has a right to speak and on a poll shall have the right to vote in proportion to his share in the paid-up capital of the Company.
Note 22.1: Description of nature and purpose of each reserve:
1. Securities premium is used to record the premium on issue of shares. The reserve is utilised in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013. No dividend can be distributed out of securities premium.
2. Capital reserve represents reserve created pursuant to upfront payment for equity warrants forfeited in the year 1996-97
3. Capital reserve (Demerger) represents reserve created pursuant to scheme of amalgamation and demerger.
4. General reserve is created from time to time by transferring profits from retained earnings and can be utilised for purposes such as dividend payout, bonus issue, etc.
Terms of borrowings
D Current Loans from banks are secured by way of:
(i) Overdraft facility taken from banks are secured by lien on Fixed Deposits placed by the Company.
2) Unsecured Loans
(i) Term Loans from Kotak Mahindra Bank are repayable within 180 days and carry an interest rate upto 8.25% p.a
(ii) Term Loans from Qatar National Bank are repayable within 180 days and carry an interest rate range from 7.70% to 8.30% p.a
(iii) Term Loans from HSBC are repayable within 365 days and carry an interest rate from 7.70% to 8.60% p.a
(iv) Term Loans from IndusInd Bank are repayable within 180 days and carry an interest rate up to 8.25% p.a.
(v) Suppliers credit from Axis Bank Ltd. is availed for a period up to 180 days and interest is charged at the rate agreed with the Bank for each bill discounted.
(vi) Suppliers credit from Kotak Mahindra Bank is repayable within 180 days and carries an interest rate between 8.00%-8.40% p.a.
(vii) Buyer's credit from Banks are repayable within 90 days.
Note 39
Contingent Liabilities and commitments:
(All amounts are in Rs. lakh, unless stated otherwise)
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Sr. Particulars No.
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As at March 31, 2025
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As at March 31, 2024
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5 Estimated amount of contracts remaining to be executed on Capital Account and not provided for (Net of Capital Advances)
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4,856.63
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2,214.49
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6 Guarantees given to Banks against repayment of Term Loans, NCD and working capital facilities advanced from time to time to Aegis Gas LPG Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company to the extent of
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2,400.00
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2,400.00
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The amount of such facilities availed against guarantee
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322.87
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928.00
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7 Corporate guarantee given to Sealord Containers Limited for framework agreement which were entered by them with Aegis Vopak Terminal Limited.
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39,600.00
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39,600.00
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Segment Information
Information reported to the chief operating decision maker (CODM) for the purpose of resource allocation and assessment of segment performance focuses on the types of goods and services delivered or provided. The directors of the Company have chosen to organise the segments around differences in products and services. No operating segments have ben aggregated in arriving at the reportable segments of the Company.
Specifically, the Company's reportable segments under Ind AS 108 are as follows:
a. Liquid Terminal Division undertakes storage & terminalling facility of Oil & Chemical products.
b. Gas Terminal Division relates to imports, storage & distribution of Petroleum products viz. LPG, Propane etc.
Geographical information:
In view of the fact that customers of the Company are mostly located in India and there being no other significant revenue from customers outside India, there is no reportable geographical information.
Employee Benefits Defined contribution plan
The Company makes provident fund and pension fund contributions to defined contribution retirement benefit plans for eligible employees. Under the schemes, the Company is required to contribute a specified percentage / fixed amount of the payroll costs to fund the benefits. The contributions as specified under the law are paid to the provident fund set up by the government authority. The Company's contribution to the provident and pension fund is Rs. 362.63 lakh (Previous year Rs. 328.84 lakh)
Defined benefit plan - Gratuity
The Company makes annual contributions to the Employees' Group Gratuity-cum-Life Assurance Scheme of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, a funded defined benefit plan for eligible employees. The scheme provides payment to vested employees at retirement, death or on resignation/termination of employment of an amount equivalent to 15 days salary for each completed year of service or part thereof in excess of six months. Vesting occurs upon completion of five years of service.
The present value of the defined benefit plans and the related current service cost were measured using the Projected Unit Credit Method, with actuarial valuations being carried out at each balance sheet date.
1. Discount rate
The discount rate is based on the prevailing market yields of Indian government securities for the estimated term of the obligations.
2. Salary escalation rate
The estimates of future salary increases considered takes into account the inflation, seniority, promotion and other relevant factors.
3. Assumptions regarding future mortality experience are set in accordance with the statistics published by the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
The above sensitivity analyses have been calculated to show the movement in defined benefit obligation in isolation and assuming there are no other changes in market conditions at the reporting date. In practice, generally it does not occur. When we change one variable, it affects to others. In calculating the sensitivity, project unit credit method at the end of the reporting period has been applied.
The weighted average duration of the defined benefit obligation is 3.10 years.
The Company makes payment of liabilities from its cash balances whenever liability arises.
Expected contribution to post employment benefit plans for the year ending March 31, 2026 is Rs. 50 lakh.
Capital Management
The Company manages its capital to ensure that the Company will be able to continue as going concern while maximising the return to stakeholders through the optimisation of the debt and equity balance.
For the purpose of the Company's capital management, capital includes issued capital and other equity reserves. The primary objective of the Company's Capital Management is to maximise shareholders value. The Company manages its capital structure and makes adjustments in the light of changes in economic environment and the requirements of the financial covenants.
The Company monitors capital using Adjusted net debt to equity ratio. For this purpose, adjusted net debt is defined as total debt less cash and bank balances.
In order to achieve this overall objective, the Company's capital management, amongst other things, aims to ensure that it meets financial covenants attached to the interest bearing loans and borrowings that define capital structure requirements. Breaches in financial covenants would permit the bank to immediately call loans and borrowings.
Note 48
Financial instruments
Set out below, is a comparison by class of the carrying amounts and fair value of the Company's financial instruments, other than those with carrying amounts that are reasonable approximations of fair values:
C. Financial risk management
The Company has exposure to the following risks arising from financial instruments:
Ý Credit risk;
Ý Liquidity risk; and
Ý Market risk (including currency risk and interest rate risk)
i) Risk management framework
The Company has established the Risk Management Committee, which is responsible for developing and monitoring the Company's risk management policies. The committee reports to the board of directors on its activities.
The Company's risk management policies are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Company, to set appropriate risk limits and controls and to monitor risks and adherence to limits. Risk management policies and systems are reviewed regularly to reflect changes in market conditions and the Company's activities. The Company, through its training and management standards and procedures, aims to maintain a disciplined and constructive control environment in which all employees understand their roles and obligations.
ii) Credit risk
Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Company if a customer or counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations, and arises principally from the Company's receivables from customers.
The carrying amount of following financial assets represents the maximum credit exposure. Trade and other receivables
The Company's exposure to credit risk is influenced mainly by the individual characteristics of each customer. However, management also considers the factors that may influence the credit risk of its customer base, including the default risk of the industry and country in which customers operate.
The average credit period on sale of goods and for rendering of services ranges from 30 days to 90 days. No interest is charged on trade receivables which are overdue. The Company has a credit management policy for customer onboarding, evaluation, credit assessment and setting up of credit limits.
Credit risk on its receivables is recognised on the statement of financial position at the carrying amount of those receivable assets, net of any provisions for doubtful debts. Receivable balances are monitored on a monthly basis with the result that the Company's exposure to bad debts is not considered to be material. The Company reviews the recoverable amount of each individual trade debt at the end of the reporting period to ensure that adequate impairment losses are made for irrecoverable amounts.
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will encounter difficulty in meeting the obligations associated with its financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or another financial asset. The Company's approach to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when they are due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Company's reputation.
Ultimate responsibility for liquidity risk rest with the management, which has established an appropriate liquidity risk framework for the management of the Company's short term, medium-term and long term funding and liquidity management requirements. The Company manages liquidity risk by maintaining adequate reserves, banking facilities and reserve borrowing facilities, by continuously monitoring forecast and actual cash flows, and by matching the maturity profiles of financial assets and liabilities.
The Company has undrawn lines of credit of Rs. 58,804 lakh as of March 31, 2025 (Rs. 42,999 lakh as of March 31, 2024), from its bankers for working capital requirements. The Company has the right to draw upon these lines of credit based on its requirement and terms of draw down.
Exposure to liquidity risk
The following table details the Company's remaining contractual maturity for its financial liabilities. The table has been drawn up to reflect the undiscounted cash flows of financial liabilities based on the earliest date on which the Company can be required to pay.
The following are the remaining contractual maturities of financial liabilities at the reporting date. The amounts are gross and undiscounted, and include estimated interest payments and exclude the impact of netting agreements.
The Company's activities expose it primarily to the financial risks of changes in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates. The Company has entered into derivative financial instruments to manage its exposure in foreign currency risk.
(a) Currency risk
The Company undertakes transactions denominated in foreign currencies; consequently, exposure to exchange rate fluctuations arise. The Company is exposed to currency risk significantly on account of its trade payables, borrowings and other payables denominated in foreign currency. The functional currency of the Company is Indian Rupee. The Company currently hedge its foreign currency risk by taking foreign exchange forward contracts.
Sensitivity analysis
The Company is exposed to the currencies as mentioned above. The following table details the Company's sensitivity to a 5% increase and decrease in the Rs. against the relevant foreign currencies. 5% is the sensitivity rate used when reporting foreign currency risk internally to key management personnel and represents management's assessment of the reasonably possible change in foreign exchange rates. The sensitivity analysis includes only outstanding foreign currency denominated monetary items and adjusts their translation at the period end for a 5% change in foreign currency rates. A reasonably possible strengthening (weakening) of the Indian Rupee against other currencies at March 31 would have affected the measurement of financial instruments denominated in US dollars and affected equity and profit or loss by the amounts shown below. This analysis assumes that all other variables, in particular interest rates, remain constant and ignores any impact of forecast sales and purchases.
(b) Interest rate risk
The Company is exposed to interest rate risk because company borrow funds at both fixed and floating interest rates. The risk is managed by the Company by maintaining an appropriate mix between fixed and floating rate of borrowings.
The Company's borrowings which are contracted at a fixed rate (excluding those which are hedged), are carried at amortised cost. Further these borrowings are not affected due to interest rate risk as defined in Ind AS 107 as neither the carrying amount nor the future cash flows will fluctuate in the event of a change in market interest rates.
Exposure to interest rate risk
The Company's exposures to interest rates on financial assets and financial liabilities are detailed in the liquidity risk management section of this note.
Interest sensitivity analysis for Variable-rate instruments:
The Company is exposed to interest expense - interest rate risk in relation to variable-rate loan borrowings.
A reasonably possible change of 50 basis points (bp) in interest rates at Reporting Date would have impacted (profit) or loss by the amounts shown below. The indicative 50 basis point (0.50%) movement is directional and does not reflect management forecast on interest rate movement. This analysis assumes that all other variables remaining constant.
Note 52
A Share Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) dated June 14, 2024 has been entered into between Aegis logistics Limited (“ALL”), ALL's subsidiary Aegis Vopak Terminals Limited (“AVTL”) and Vopak India B.V. (“Vopak”) for the transfer of 3.27% shares held by Company in AVTL to Vopak i.e 36,000 (Thirty Six thousand) Equity shares for an aggregate consideration of Rs. 180,00,00,000 (Indian Rupees One Hundred and Eighty Crore only). Accordingly, the ALL has transferred 3.27% of its shareholding of AVTL to Vopak on June 24, 2024 as per the terms and conditions of SPA.
Note 53
During the previous year the Company has entered into Business Transfer Agreement (“BTA”) with Aegis Vopak Terminals Limited (“AVTL”) for the transfer of Pipavav LPG storage business. Accordingly, the Company has recognised profit of Rs.331.46 lakh in respect of the said business transfers which is included under other income in these financial statements.
Note 54
Other Statutory Information
(i) There are no balances outstanding with struck off companies as per section 248 of the Companies Act, 2013.
(ii) The Company has not advanced or loaned or invested funds to any other person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (Intermediaries) with the understanding that the Intermediary shall:
(a) Directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company (Ultimate Beneficiaries) or
(b) Provide any guarantee, security or the like to or on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(iii) The Company has not received any fund from any person(s) or entity(ies), including foreign entities (Funding Party) with the understanding (whether recorded in writing or otherwise) that the Company shall:
(a) Directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (Ultimate Beneficiaries) or
(b) Provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(iv) The Company has not any such transaction which is not recorded in the books of account that has been surrendered or disclosed as income during the year in the tax assessments under the Income-tax Act, 1961.
(v) There are no proceedings initiated or pending against the Company for holding any benami property under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988 and rules made thereunder.
(vi) The quarterly returns / statements including updations thereto, if any, filed during the year with banks or financial institutions in relation to working capital loans are in agreement with the books of account.
(vii) No bank, financial institution or other lender has declared the Company as a wilful defaulter.
Note 55
Initial Public Offer (“IPO”) of fresh issue of equity shares of a subsidiary company
Subsequent to the year ended March 31, 2025, Aegis Vopak Terminals Limited, a subsidiary company has completed IPO of fresh issue of 119,148,936 equity shares of face value of Rs.10 each at an issue price of Rs.235 per share aggregating to Rs.280,000 lakh. Pursuant to the IPO, the equity shares of Aegis Vopak Terminals Limited were listed on the National Stock Exchange (“NSE”) and Bombay Stock Exchange (“BSE”) on June 2, 2025.
Note 56
Dividend declaration and payment
The Company has declared and paid:-
The Company has declared and paid Interim dividend of 125% i.e. '1.25 per share of face value of '1 each for FY 2024-25 to the shareholders of the Company as on record date April 22, 2024.
The Board of Directors of the Company has recommended a final dividend of Rs.6 per equity share for the year ended March 31, 2025 (Previous Year Rs. 2 per equity share). The said dividend will be paid after the approval of shareholders at the Annual General Meeting.
The Company has declared an Interim dividend of 200 % i.e. Rs.2 per share of face value of Re. 1 each for FY 2025-26 to the shareholders of the Company as on record date June 25, 2025.
Note 57
Approval of financial statements:
The financial statements were approved for issue by the Board of Directors on June 19, 2025
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