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Cargotec records a decrease of 10% of the new orders
In the first operating and useful useful trimester clearly they are diminished respective of 26% and 28%
April 30, 2012
In the first trimester of this year the Cargotec group, that it produces means of handling with the marks Hiab, Kalmar and MacGregor, has obtained new total orders for 737 million euros, down of 10% regarding 819 million euros in the first three months of 2011. The value of the pocketbook orders of the group on 31 March piled to 2.342 million euros, with a bending of 1% regarding 2.373 million euros on March 31, 2011.
"In the course of the first trimester - it has specified the president and managing director of the group, Mikael Mäkinen - the activity of the market is supported even if the orders have been inferior regarding those of the period of confronts. If the low level of orders of new ships is mirrored in obvious way on the acquired orders in the field Marine, in compliance up to our expectations the heart of the orders is moving from the mercantile ships to the offshore section. The orders for the first trimester in the field Load Handling have grown of 22%". In the first three months of 2012, in fact, the division Marine has totaled new total orders for 178 million euros, with a decrease of 38% regarding the same period last year, while the division Load Handling, than work also to service of the offshore industry, it has acquired new orders for 246 million euros regarding 202 million in the first trimester of 2011. The new orders of the Terminals division I am piled to 313 million euros (- 6%).
"Because of consisting orderbook and of the success of the deliveries by the fields Terminals and Load Handling - it has added Mäkinen - our turnover has had a favorable evolution". In the first trimester of 2012, in fact, the volume of transactions of Cargotec has been of 793,1 million euros, with an increase of 4% regarding the same period last year. Operating and useful profit clearly instead is diminished respective of 26% and 28% to 37,6 million and 26,2 million euros.
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