In 2011 Anek Lines it has recorded a net loss of 22,9 million euros



Last year the traffic of the passengers and the motor vehicles transported from the fleet of the Greek Anek Lines has been reduced considerably regarding 2010. The company has boarded in fact 2,4 million passengers regarding 2,7 million in the year precedence. The trucks and the motors vehicle are piled respective to 193 thousand and 380 thousand unit against 255 thousand and 447 thousand in 2010.

Anek has explained that in 2011 lasting of the recession in the eurozona, and in particular in Greece where the government has assumed severe measures in order to cut the public expense that have produced to an increase of unemployment and therefore a reduction of the consumption, it has had a strong impact negative on the marine field of the transport of passengers. To this the continuous increase of the cost of the fuel has been added, with an average price gone up more of 28% from 2010 to 2011, and a decrease of the determined commercial traffic from the economic crisis and the contraction of the consumption.

Such serious difficulties are reflected in budget 2011 of the Greek company, that a decrease of 7.4% of the revenues come down to 243,6 million euros regarding 263,1 million euros in exercise 2010 shows. The revenues of national the marine transport have attested to 122,1 million euros (137,1 million euros in 2010), while those of the international transportation, that they include entered extraordinary from the chartering of ships, have been pairs to 116,2 million euros (121,0 million).

The groos profit of 2011, in spite of the bending of the volume of transactions and the increase of the cost of the fuel, has grown from 22,4 million euros in 2010 to 36,7 million euros in 2011 thanks to the considerable decrease of the cost of the sales, come down to 206,9 million euros regarding 240,8 million euros in 2010. Anek has specified that the cut of the cost of the sales is mainly attributable to the economies of scale realized by the joint venture activities in on the drafts for Heraklion and Ancona (in existence from May 2011 with the Greek group Attica for the international route Patrasso - Igoumenitsa - Ancona and for the national route Pireo - Heraklion) and graces to a more effective management of the burdens in order to operate the fleet.

In the 2011 EBITA it has been positive for 12,3 million euros respect to liabilities of 11,4 million euros in 2010. Anek has archived item the 2011 with a net loss of 22,9 million euros respect to a net loss of 89,7 million euros in the year precedence (exercise that included extraordinary proceeds for 47,5 million euros).