Note 11.    Related Party Transactions

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Services Agreement—The Partnership is a party to a services agreement with various entities which own limited partner interests in the Partnership and interests in the General Partner and which are 100% owned by members of the Slifka family (the “Slifka Entities Services Agreement”), pursuant to which the Partnership provides certain tax, accounting, treasury, and legal support services and such Slifka entities pay the Partnership an annual services fee of $20,000, and which Slifka Entities Services Agreement has been approved by the Conflicts Committee of the board of

directors of the General Partner. The Slifka Entities Services Agreement is for an indefinite term and any party may terminate some or all of the services upon ninety (90) days’ advance written notice. As of June 30, 2025, no such notice of termination had been given by any party to the Slifka Entities Services Agreement.

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General Partner—Affiliates of the Slifka family own 100% of the ownership interests in the General Partner. The General Partner employs substantially all of the Partnership’s employees, except for most of its gasoline station and convenience store employees, who are employed by GMG, and for substantially all of the employees who primarily or exclusively provide services to SPR, who are employed by SPR Operator. The Partnership reimburses the General Partner for expenses incurred in connection with these employees. These expenses, including bonus, payroll and payroll taxes, were $55.2 million and $50.8 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $132.8 million and $110.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Partnership also reimburses the General Partner for its contributions under the General Partner’s 401(k) Savings and Profit Sharing Plan.

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Spring Partners Retail LLC—The Partnership, through its subsidiary, SPR Operator, is party to an operations and maintenance agreement with the Partnership’s joint venture, SPR (see Note 10). Pursuant to this agreement, certain employees of the Partnership provide SPR with services including administrative and support functions, such as operations and management support, accounting, legal and human resources and information technology services and systems to SPR for which SPR pays SPR Operator, and therefore the Partnership, an annual fixed fee. The Partnership received approximately $0.5 million and $0.9 million from SPR associated with the operations and management agreement for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $1.2 million and $1.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, which are included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. In addition, SPR Operator employs substantially all of the employees who primarily or exclusively provide services to the Partnership’s joint venture. SPR reimburses the Partnership for direct expenses incurred in connection with these employees, which amounted to $3.3 million and $4.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $6.9 million and $8.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

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Accounts receivable–affiliates consisted of the following (in thousands):

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BIG GRP 275 Grove JV LLC—On January 23, 2025, the Partnership, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Global HQ 2 LLC, entered into a Limited Liability Company Agreement, as amended, of BGRP, a Delaware limited liability company formed as a joint venture with unrelated third parties to acquire and operate an office building located in Newton, Massachusetts. Also on January 23, 2025, the Partnership signed a 12-year lease arrangement for space in this property that will serve as the Partnership’s principal executive office at the termination of its existing leased space in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2026. See Note 10.

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Everett Landco GP, LLC—On October 23, 2023, the Partnership, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Global Everett Landco, LLC, entered into the Everett LLC Agreement of Everett, a Delaware limited liability company formed

as a joint venture with the Everett Investor, an entity controlled by an affiliate of The Davis Companies, a company primarily involved in the acquisition, development, management and sale of commercial real estate. See Note 10.

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Sale of the Revere Terminal—On June 28, 2022, the Partnership completed the sale of its terminal located on Boston Harbor in Revere, Massachusetts (the “Revere Terminal”) to Revere MA Owner LLC (the “Revere Buyer”) for a purchase price of $150.0 million in cash. In connection with closing under the purchase agreement between the Partnership and the Revere Buyer, the Partnership entered into a leaseback agreement, which meets the criteria for sale accounting, with the Revere Buyer pursuant to which the Partnership leases back key infrastructure at the Revere Terminal, including certain tanks, dock access rights, and loading rack infrastructure, to allow the Partnership to continue business operations at the Revere Terminal. The Partnership terminated the leaseback agreement on September 30, 2024.

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Pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreement the Partnership entered into with affiliates of the Slifka family (the “Initial Sellers”), related parties, in 2015 to acquire the Revere Terminal, the Initial Sellers were entitled to an amount equal to fifty percent of the net proceeds (as defined in the 2015 purchase agreement) (the “Initial Sellers Share”) from the sale of the Revere Terminal. At the time of the 2022 closing, the preliminary calculation of the Initial Sellers Share was approximately $44.3 million, which amount was subject to future revisions.

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The final calculation of the Initial Sellers Share, including a sharing of any additional expenses in order to satisfy outstanding obligations under the Partnership’s then current government storage contract at the Revere Terminal and potential operating losses or profits relating to the operation of the Revere Terminal during the initial leaseback term, was expected to occur upon the expiration of such storage contract. The Partnership recorded $0 and approximately $21.5 million of such additional expenses due to the Initial Sellers which are included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.

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On January 17, 2025, the Partnership preliminarily settled its obligations under the purchase agreement and the storage contract at the Revere Terminal and paid an additional $22.1 million relating to the final calculation of the Initial Sellers Share, as adjusted for shared expenses and potential operating losses or profits. On May 6, 2025, the final calculation of the Initial Sellers share was determined and resulted in an amount due from the Initial Sellers of $0.7 million which was reimbursed to the Partnership.