In the 2010 profit clearly of Bureau Veritas it is piled to 315,2 million euros (+15.2%)



2010, in spite of the persistent criticality of the economy and the world-wide finance, have been a fruitful year for the society of classify Bureau Veritas (BV). "In a situation of slow economic resumption - the president has confirmed and managing director of the French company, Frank Piedelièvre - with a riacquisizione of meaningful activity in the second half of the year, our results in the 2010 have been important and advanced to the expectations. Between the more meaningful events they figure the acquisition of Inspectorate that us places between the total leaders in the controls and test on the commodities and adds to our pocketbook a segment a lot interesting. This strengthens our exposure regarding the economies in fast increase and of the international traffics: in 2010 Bureau Veritas has generated almost the half of its revenues in the emergent nations and manufacturers of raw materials, a percentage that continues to increase".

The Bureau Veritas group has closed 2010 with a profit clearly of 315,2 million euros on revenues for 2,929, 7 million euros, in increase respective of 15.2% and 10.6% on the year precedence. The operating result is piled to 490,5 million euros (+13.2%).

The single division Marine has last year archived item with revenues for 313,5 million euros (- 0.4% on a 2009) and operating profit of 90,5 million euros (- 9.2%). BV has specified that in the segment of the new constructions, that generates 53% of the entire volume of transactions of the division, an organic decrease of 12.6% of the revenues is recorded because of the bending of the activity of the Asian yards, with a decrease of 15% recorded in the first semester and a contraction of 10% in the second half of 2010.

Last year the division Marine has confiscated 747 orders for new ships, for a total of 9,5 million tons of tonnage (the double quantity regarding 2009). Al 31 last December the pocketbook orders of the new constructions piled to 28,8 million tsl regarding 31,0 million tsl at the end of 2009. In the 2010 revenues generated from the fleet in service (pairs to 47% of the total) have seen an organic increase of 5.0%. Al 31 Decembers 2010 the fleet in Bureau Veritas class was constituted by 9.493 ships (+6.3% on on December 31, 2009) for a total of 76,5 million tons of tonnage (+11.8%).

For this Bureau Veritas year it attends an ulterior progression of the economic performances: "the revenues and the operating profit - Piedelièvre has explained - would have to record a strong increase in 2011 thanks to the impact of the consolidation of the recent acquisitions and a advanced organic increase to that of 2010 and online with that of the second half of the year. This forecast collimates with our objectives 2006-2011 in spite of a more difficult economic context regarding that attending at the moment of our initial public offer".

For the division Marine an light increment of the results on the wake of the orders obtained in 2010 and of the continuous increase of the fleet in service is attended for this year.