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Contraction of the economic results of the Eimskip
Emphasized increase of the transported volumes
May 30, 2012
In the first trimester of the 2012 Eimskip Icelandic the volume of transactions has increased that is piled to 93,7 million euros regarding 90,2 million euros in the correspondent period last year. The increase is determined by the increase of 9.7% of the transported cargo volumes from the services of line of the marine company and from the increase of 4.3% of the volumes in the field of cooled shipments of.
The EBITDA instead has almost been halved coming down to 6,8 million euros regarding 12,9 million euros in the first three months of 2011. The profit after the taxes has been of 600 thousand euros regarding the correspondents 5,8 million euros last year.
"The operating profit of the first trimester - it has commented the president and managing director of the Icelandic company, Gylfi Sigf ússon - is online with our expectations. There are slows improvements of the volumes from and for Iceland, but on the other hand the items of expenditure are increased, as those of the salaries and the fuel. The activity of the Eimskip in the other regions has been important, is in the North Atlantic that in the total logistics of the cold. The new broken between northern Norway and the America has recorded a success".
Eimskip has in program to make own income share Nasdaq OMX within the end of this year at the market.
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