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In the 2014 harbour terminal of the HPH Trust they have enlivened 24,2 million container (+6.3%)
Hutchison Whampoa would be in negotiations in order to yield a quota consisting of own terminalistiche activities
February 6, 2015
Last year the harbour terminals of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust), society quoted to the Stock exchange of Singapore that has been born in 2011 as spin-off of the terminaliste activities in the ports of Hong Kong and Yantian of the Hutchison Whampoa Ltd group. (HWL) of which he is filial, have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to beyond 24,2 million teu, with a progression of +6.3% regarding 22,8 million teu in 2013.
In the 2014 single containerized trade enlivened from the HPH Trust in the port of Hong Kong through the societies integrally HIT) and Asia controlled Hongkong International Terminals (Container Terminals (ACT) (acquired in March 2013) and from the participated COSCO-HIT Terminals (of which HPH Trust it possesses 50%) has been pairs almost 12,6 million teu (+4.7%), while the traffic enlivened in the port of Yantian from the branch Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) has been pairs to 11,7 million teu (+8.1%).
HPH Trust clearly has archived item the exercise anniversary 2014 with a net loss of -16,0 billion dollars of Hong Kong (USA 2,1 billion dollars) on revenues pairs to 16,6 billion dollars of Hong Kong respect to a profit of 3,0 billion dollars of Hong Kong on revenues pairs to 12,6 billion dollars of Hong Kong in the exercise precedence. To find that in the fourth trimester of the 2014 adjustments of value of the goodwill are recorded for -19,0 billion dollars of Hong Kong. Without the impact of such reduction of value the profit clearly of 2014 is piled almost three billions of dollars of Hong Kong, down of the -0,7% on 2013. The operating profit has been attested to 4,2 billion dollars of Hong Kong (+5.8%).
While the Chinese daily paper "South China Morning Post" has revealed that Them Ka-shing, president of the Hutchison Whampoa group, would be in negotiations with a consortium of Chinese companies that operate also in the harbour field in order to yield they a quota the terminalistiche activities of the group pairs to a value of 160 billion dollars of Hong Kong (USA 20,6 billion dollars). As well as with HPH Trust, group HWL work in the harbour section with Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) that it manages a net of harbour terminals in China and other Asian nations, in Centro and South America, Europe (in Italy is present through the Taranto Container Terminal of the port of Taranto) and in Middle East. The Chinese companies that participate to the negotiation would be China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. (CMHI) of the group Lowers Merchants Group, the COSCO Pacific of shipowning group COSCO, China Shipping Terminal Development Co. of the shipowning group It lowers Shipping Group and It are Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC), than work in the harbour field through the society integrally controlled SDIC Communication Co.
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