Textainer has closed 2010 with an increase of 32.2% of the result clearly



Last year the chartering society Textainer container has confiscated revenues for 303,9 million dollars, with an increase of 27.2% regarding 239,0 million dollars in 2009. The operating result is piled to 171,8 million dollars (+64.4%) and the profit clearly to 120,0 million dollars (+32.2%).

In the last trimester of the 2010 society it has totaled revenues for 84,0 million dollars (+24.8% on the correspondent period of 2009), an operating profit of 50,5 million dollars (+73.5%) and a profit clearly of 40,0 million dollars (+58.0%).

Emphasizing as the achieved results last year confirm the success of the which got ahead business strategies from management of the company, the president and CEO of Textainer, John A. Maccarone, has announced that in the course of the 2010 total new society he has acquired container for 214,000 teu, an investment that has contributed to the increase of the revenues and of the profits to which the determined positive effect from the deficiency of container has been added on the world-wide market.

Maccarone has confirmed that the forecasts indicate a prosecuzione of the positive trend of the results: "with 1.683.779 teu, pairs to 72.8% of our fleet, places under chartering contracts in the long term - it has explained - we consider to be able to certainly to offer to our shareholders and consisting a flow of revenues". According to Textainer, in the 2011 world-wide production of new container it will be of about 3,5 million teu regarding about 2,4 million in 2010, and is attended for this year an increase of 6.8% about of the ability to the fleet of container vessels and an increase of 9.7% about of the transported containerized volume of goods.

The company has remembered that in the 2010 society of chartering container they have bought the two third party about of the entire world-wide production of new container as the shipowning societies have carried out little investments in the field because of the crisis financial institution. Textainer previews that in the 2011 charters they will be newly the main new purchasers of container also in consideration of the fact that the shipowning societies continue to entrust themselves to the societies of chartering for their new necessities of container. Such scene induces Textainer to consider that in the 2011 rate I use of own fleet of container will remain elevated and around 90%. According to the company, this year the market of the container sale will continue to being particularly dynamic also used.

Currently the fleet of Textainer is constituted by 1,5 million container for a volume pairs to about 2,3 million container teu.