Wärtsilä records a bending of the economic performances and an increase of the orders



The Finnish group Wärtsilä Corporation has archived item the first trimester of this year with a bending of 13% of the result before taxes attested to 107 million euros regarding 93 million euros in the first three months of 2011. The turnover clearly is piled to 1,0 billion euros, down of 7% regarding almost 1,1 billion euros in the first trimester last year, and the operating result is diminished of 7% to 109 million euros regarding 117 million euros (included not recurrent burdens for 7 million and the amortization of immaterial activities for 8 million) in the first trimester of 2011.

In the first three months of the 2012 group it has acquired new orders for a value of 1.109 million euros regarding 979 million in the same period of 2011. The value of orderbook on 31 March the era of 4.409 million euros regarding 3.669 million on March 31, 2011.

The single division Ship Power has obtained new orders for 276 million euros (173 million in first trimester 2011) closing the period with a pocketbook orders of 2.060 million euros regarding 1.699 million on March 31, 2011. Wärtsilä has announced that in the first trimester of 2012 contracts for the new 200 constructions they have been respect to an average quarterly of 353 contracts recorded in the course of 2011: the bending - it has found the group - reflects the minor level of store clerks in the traditional segments of the commercial ship, as rinfusiere, oil tankers and portacontainer, while the section of the ships LNG - with 11 contracts in the first three months of 2012 - has remained to a high level so as the offshore field, where has shown particular dynamicity the segment of the Offshore Service Vessel (OSV).

"The year - it has commented the president and CEO of the Finnish group, Björn Rosengren - is begun rather well, with the increase of 13% of the new orders. Our profit has been of 10.1% and is on the good road in order to reach in order to reach our objectives of this year. The evolution of the turnover clearly is online with our total expectations of a level of deliveries rather low of the divisions Power Plants and Ship Power in the course of the first trimester. The turnover clearly of the Services division is increased of 12%, with an increase deriving from all the service activities. In the course of the first trimester - Rosengren has remembered - we have signed a contract of service with the American Prestige Cruise Holdings so as an agreement of operations and management with Energética Suape II IT KNOWS in Brazil for the larger headquarters never delivered from Wärtsilä".