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Vopak closes first trimester 2012 with an EBITDA of 186,3 million euros (- 33%)
the EBIT to clearly of the extraordinary voices has grown of 26%
April 26, 2012
In the first trimester of this year the EBITDA of the terminalista group Dutch Vopak is diminished of 33% attesting itself to 186,2 million euros regarding 275,9 million euros in the first three months of 2011. Operating profit (EBIT) is piled to 138,0 million euros, with a decrease of 42% regarding 237,3 million euros in the first trimester of 2011. Al clearly of the extraordinary voices - determined from the reorganization of the divisions Chemicals Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMEA) and Oil Europe, Middle East & Africa (OEMEA), that they are tramutate in the divisions Netherlands and Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) - the operating result of the first trimester of 2012 turns out unchanged, with an increment of 26% regarding the result to clearly of the extraordinary voices of 109,5 million euros of the first three months of 2011.
Vopak work a world-wide net of harbour terminals for liquid bulk that a total ability to 28,3 million cubic metres has on 31 March (). The rate I use of the terminals has been pairs to 93% in the first trimester of this year regarding 92% in the period January-March of 2011.
"Online with the developments of the second half of the year of the 2011 - it has commented the president and managing director of the group, Eelco Hoekstra - Vopak it has recorded a prosecuzione of the remarkable question of services of storage determined from producing the interregional structural exchanges of oil. The current question of storage of chemicals is elevated, in consideration among other things of the optimism that characterizes the chemical field in America North and the increasing consumption of petrochemical in Asia. Although the fact that the flows of biocombustibili continue to being unforeseeable, we have found improvements of the market for storage and handling of biofuel".
Evidencing the increment of 26% of the operating result to clearly of the extraordinary voices achieved in the first trimester of the 2012, Hoekstra continuous Vopak has confirmed that to preview for 2013 an EBITDA of 725-800 million euros (752 million euros in 2011) and has specified that "the possibility that Vopak achieves in the 2013 inferior value of this range cannot be excluded".
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