Enviva Partners, LP Announces Chesapeake Terminal’s Return to Full Operation
BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) (the “Partnership” or “we”) today announced that the Partnership’s marine export terminal in the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia has returned to full operation.
“I want to thank our operations and engineering teams for their tremendous work safely returning the Chesapeake terminal back to reliable operations on schedule,” said John Keppler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Enviva.
With the return to full operation following the previously reported fire incident, the business continuity costs associated with the incident have begun to wind down. As previously communicated, the Partnership believes that substantially all of the costs resulting from the incident will be recoverable through insurance or other contractual rights. As was the case for the first quarter of 2018, the financial performance for the second quarter of 2018 will be impacted by business continuity costs related to the incident not recovered during the second quarter, but expected to be recovered later in 2018. The Partnership has continued to meet every customer delivery required under its off-take agreements since the Chesapeake incident and, although specific quarterly timing of shipments have been and likely will be affected by the incident, it expects to meet all of its contractual requirements for the full year 2018.
About Enviva Partners, LP
Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) is a publicly traded master limited partnership that aggregates a natural resource, wood fiber, and processes it into a transportable form, wood pellets. The Partnership sells a significant majority of its wood pellets through long-term, take-or-pay agreements with creditworthy customers in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Partnership owns and operates six plants with a combined production capacity of nearly three million metric tons of wood pellets per year in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida. In addition, the Partnership exports wood pellets through its owned marine terminal assets at the Port of Chesapeake, Virginia, and the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina and from third-party marine terminals in Mobile, Alabama and Panama City, Florida.
To learn more about Enviva Partners, LP, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information in this press release, including those regarding (i) the amounts and timing of the costs the Partnership has incurred and will incur as a result of the Chesapeake incident, (ii) the recoverability of such costs, including the expectation that the Partnership’s claims under its insurance policies and its exercise of other contractual rights are valid and counterparties will perform or continue to perform their obligations thereunder, (iii) the continued effectiveness of the Partnership’s logistics operations to meet customer deliveries, and (iv) the Partnership’s expectation with respect to its performance under its customer contracts, may constitute “forward-looking statements.” The words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “intend,” “foresee,” “should,” “would,” “could,” or other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which are generally not historical in nature. These forward-looking statements are based on the Partnership’s current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effect on the Partnership. Although management believes that these forward-looking statements are reasonable as and when made, there can be no assurance that future developments affecting the Partnership will be those that it anticipates. The forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties (some of which are beyond the Partnership’s control) and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Partnership’s historical experience and its present expectations or projections. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the volume and quality of products that we are able to produce or source and sell, which could be adversely affected by, among other things, operating or technical difficulties at our plants or deep-water marine terminals; (ii) the prices at which we are able to sell our products; (iii) failure of the Partnership’s customers, vendors, and shipping partners to pay or perform their contractual obligations to the Partnership; (iv) the creditworthiness of our contract counterparties; (v) the amount of low-cost wood fiber that we are able to procure and process, which could be adversely affected by, among other things, operating or financial difficulties suffered by our suppliers; (vi) changes in the price and availability of natural gas, coal, or other sources of energy; (vii) changes in prevailing economic conditions; (viii) our inability to complete acquisitions, including acquisitions from our sponsor, or to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; (ix) inclement or hazardous environmental hazards, including extreme precipitation and flooding; (x) fires, explosions, or other accidents; (xi) changes in domestic and foreign laws and regulations (or the interpretation thereof) related to renewable or low-carbon energy, the forestry products industry, the international shipping industry, or power generators; (xii) changes in the regulatory treatment of biomass in core and emerging markets; (xiii) our inability to acquire or maintain necessary permits or rights for our production, transportation, or terminaling operations; (xiv) changes in price and availability of transportation; (xv) changes in foreign currency exchange or interest rates, and the failure of our hedging arrangements to effectively reduce our exposure to the risks related thereto; (xvi) risks related to our indebtedness; (xvii) our failure to maintain effective quality control systems at our production plants and deep-water marine terminals, which could lead to the rejection of our products by our customers; (xviii) changes in the quality specifications for our products that are required by our customers; (xix) labor disputes; (xx) the effects of the anticipated exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union on our and our customers’ businesses; (xxi) our ability to borrow funds and access capital markets; (xxii) our mis-estimation of the amounts and timing of the costs the Partnership has incurred and will incur as result of the Chesapeake incident; and (xxiii) our ability to recover costs associated with the Chesapeake incident fully and on a timely basis, including through claims under our insurance policies and the exercise of our other contractual rights.
For additional information regarding known material factors that could cause the Partnership’s actual results to differ from projected results, please read its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q most recently filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date thereof. The Partnership undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements after the date they are made, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
