Rating Rationale
March 31, 2022 | Mumbai
Sarjak Container Lines Private Limited
Ratings Reaffirmed and Withdrawn
 
Rating Action
Total Bank Loan Facilities RatedRs.30 Crore
Long Term RatingCRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
Short Term RatingCRISIL A3 (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
1 crore = 10 million
Refer to Annexure for Details of Instruments & Bank Facilities

Detailed Rationale

CRISIL Ratings has reaffirmed its rating on the bank loan facilities of Sarjak Container Lines Private Limited (Sarjak) and subsequently withdrawn the ratings at the company's request and on receipt of a no-objection certificate from the bankers. The withdrawal is in line with CRISIL Ratings’ policy on withdrawal of bank loan ratings.

Analytical Approach

To arrive at the ratings, CRISIL Ratings has combined the business and financial risk profiles of Sarjak with its subsidiaries Anand Shipping Lines Private Limited, Krish Shanghai International Logistics Co Ltd, Sarjak Container Lines Singapore Pte Ltd, Bulk Oil and Liquid Transport Pte Ltd, Pwl Sarjak Europe GmbH and Sebert Shipping Inc. This is because all the entities are in similar line of business and there are operational and financial linkages between the entities.

 

Please refer Annexure - List of Entities Consolidated, which captures the list of entities considered and their analytical treatment of consolidation.

Key Rating Drivers & Detailed Description

Strengths:

  • Established market position marked by geographical diversification: Sarjak commenced business in 2003 and is an established ODC/OOG player with operations spread across 83 countries and an operational fleet of 6000 different types of containers. Apart from India (which contributes around 35-45% to revenue), there is no other country which contributes more than 10% in the revenue. Owing to the group's established market position in the niche business of shipping Over-dimensional Cargo/Out of Gauge cargo on flat racks and open top containers, revenue for the group is healthy at around Rs 1065 crore during 9M FY 2022.

 

  • Efficient working capital management: As the company is in the services business there is no inventory, while receivables are being managed at 30-50 days. Against this, credit of around 30 days is received from shipping lines; this helps to manage working capital and maintain healthy cash flow from operations. Accordingly, gross current assets have ranged between 45-70 days over the last five fiscals ended 2021. GCA days are expected to be around 45-60 days over the medium term.

 

  • Comfortable financial risk profile: Group has a strong networth, expected at around Rs 119 crore as on March 31, 2022 supported by healthy accretion to reserves over the years. Group has a low gearing, expected at 0.77-0.80 times as on March 31, 2022. Debt-protection metrics are average, reflected in interest cover and net cash accruals to adjusted debt ratios expected at around 10 times and 0.67 time, respectively for fiscal 2022.

 

Weakness:

  • Vulnerability to the cyclical nature of the ODC segment: The ODC handling business involves large engineering equipment and caters to the power, steel, capital goods, refinery, and white goods industries. Demand for engineering equipment and white goods is highly cyclical, and depends upon the capital expenditure (capex) plans of companies and overall economic cycles. Despite a diversified geographical presence, an overall slowdown in global trade could result in lower demand. However, this risk is partially mitigated by the fact that the company has started diversifying in tankers segment, which would support revenue growth, over the medium term.

Liquidity: Adequate

The working capital lines have been utilized at an average of 78.32% over the last 12 months ended Feb-2022. Liquidity is also supported by available liquid funds (unencumbered cash & bank balance and unencumbered FDs) of Rs 19.7 crore as on Feb 28, 2022. The Net cash accruals are expected to be in the range of Rs 60-72 crore and will be more than adequate against repayments of Rs 14-18 crore over the medium term.

Outlook: Stable

CRISIL Ratings believes Sarjak will continue to benefit over the medium term from its established market position in the ODC/OOG segment.

Rating Sensitivity factors

Upward factors:

  • Sustained and healthy improvement in the scale of operations with operating margin over 7% on a sustained basis
  • Sustenance of working capital cycle and financial risk profile

 

Downward factors:

  • A decline in revenue or operating margin below 5%
  • Substantial debt-funded capex/ or investments in subsidiaries, leading to weakening of financial risk profile specially liquidity

About the Company

Sarjak was founded in 2003 by Mr Ashish Sheth, based in Mumbai. The company is a non-vessel-operating common carrier handling and transporting ODC/OOG cargo. It provides sea transport services by booking space with various shipping lines.

Key Financial Indicators – Consolidated

As on/for the period ended March 31

Unit

2021

2020

Operating income

Rs crore

631.49

476.79

Reported profit after tax (PAT)

Rs crore

36.21

-11.50

PAT margin

%

5.7

-2.4

Adjusted debt/adjusted networth

Times

1.26

2.55

Interest coverage (Adjusted)

Times

7.9

1.8

Any other information: Not applicable

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Annexure - Details of Instrument(s)

ISIN Name of instrument Date of Allotment Coupon Rate (%) Maturity Date Issue Size (Rs.Cr) Complexity level Rating Assigned with Outlook
NA Foreign Currency Term Loan NA NA Jun-2025 16.5 NA CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
NA Cash Credit & Working Capital demand loan NA NA NA 12 NA CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
NA Bank Guarantee NA NA NA 1.5 NA CRISIL A3 (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)

Annexure – List of entities consolidated

Names of Entities Consolidated

Extent of Consolidation

Rationale for Consolidation

Sarjak Container Lines Private Limited

100%

All the entities are in similar line of business and there are operational and financial linkages between the entities

Sarjak Container Lines Singapore Pte Limited

Anand Shipping Lines Private Limited

Bulk Oil and Liquid Transport Pte Limited

Pwl Sarjak Europe GmBH

Sebert Shipping Inc

Krish Shanghai International Logistics Co Ltd

Annexure - Rating History for last 3 Years
  Current 2022 (History) 2021  2020  2019  Start of 2019
Instrument Type Outstanding Amount Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Date Rating Rating
Fund Based Facilities LT 28.5 CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)   --   -- 29-12-20 CRISIL BBB-/Stable 27-09-19 CRISIL BBB-/Stable CRISIL BBB-/Stable
      --   --   --   -- 31-07-19 CRISIL BBB-/Stable --
Non-Fund Based Facilities ST 1.5 CRISIL A3 (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)   --   -- 29-12-20 CRISIL A3 27-09-19 CRISIL A3 --
All amounts are in Rs.Cr.
Annexure - Details of Bank Lenders & Facilities
Facility Amount (Rs.Crore) Rating
Bank Guarantee 1.5 CRISIL A3 (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
Cash Credit & Working Capital Demand Loan 12 CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
Foreign Currency Term Loan 13 CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
Foreign Currency Term Loan 3.5 CRISIL BBB-/Stable (Rating Reaffirmed and Withdrawn)
Criteria Details
Links to related criteria
CRISILs Approach to Financial Ratios
Rating criteria for manufaturing and service sector companies
CRISILs Bank Loan Ratings - process, scale and default recognition
Assessing Information Adequacy Risk
Rating Criteria for Engineering Sector
CRISILs Criteria for rating short term debt
CRISILs Criteria for Consolidation

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