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Chinese CMHI has bought 50% of the society that will realize the Lomé Container Terminal
The quota is yielded by Terminal Investment Ltd. (group MSC), that it maintains remaining 50%. In the first semester the 2012 profit clearly of CMHI is diminished of 45.3%
August 30, 2012
The terminalista group China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CMHI) has acquired 50% of the capital of the Thesar Maritime Ltd. (TML), society that has adjudicated the concession of the duration 35-year-old (with ulterior option for ten years) in order to realize and to manage the Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) of the port African of Lomé. The quota is yielded by the Terminal Investment Ltd. (TIL), society that the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC is under responsibility of) and that it maintains remaining 50% of TML.
The terminal of the port of Lomé will have a line of dock of 1.050 meters and a surface of 53 hectares. According to the forecasts, the first phase of the project for the construction of the terminal, that it includes the realization of the first 400 meters of dock, will be completed in December 2013. To project carried entirely to term, the system will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 2,2 million teu.
MSC has signed an agreement with Lomé Container Terminal based on which the terminal African will receive the ships of the shipowning group in the first 15 years from the inauguration of the harbour port of call.
While group CMHI has concluded the first half of 2012 with a profit clearly of 2,46 billion dollars of Hong Kong (USA 318 million dollars) on revenues for 19,61 billion dollars of Hong Kong, with decreases respective of 45.3% and 6.0% on the first semester last year. The EBITDA is piled to 6,04 billion dollars of Hong Kong (- 5.7%) and the operating profit to 2,05 billion dollars of Hong Kong (- 37.6%).
In the first six months of this year the harbour terminals of group CMHI have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 29,18 million teu, with a progression of 5.6% on the first half of 2011.
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The terminalista group China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CMHI) has acquired 50% of the capital of the Thesar Maritime Ltd. (TML), society that has adjudicated the concession of the duration 35-year-old (with ulterior option for ten years) in order to realize and to manage the Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) of the port African of Lomé. The quota is yielded by the Terminal Investment Ltd. (TIL), society that the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC is under responsibility of) and that it maintains remaining 50% of TML.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
