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It returns to clearly grow the economic result of the terminalista group Vopak
In the first six months of this year the Dutch company has recorded revenues for 700,7 million euros (+8.3%)
August 21, 2015
After four archived item consecutive semesters with a contraction of the economic result clearly, the terminalista group Dutch Vopak, than work 72 cisternieri terminals in 26 nations for a total ability to beyond 32,5 million cubic metres, has closed the first half of 2015 with an increment of the trading profit after tax that has been attested to 165 million euros, in increase of +11.0% regarding 148,7 million euros in the first semester last year.
In the first six months of this Vopak year it has recorded revenues for 700,7 million euros (+8.3%). The EBITDA is piled to 411,5 million euros (+17.2%) and the operating profit to 284,7 million euros (+20.6%), voices budgetary that with the exclusion of extraordinary proceeds have totaled increments pairs respective to +11% and +12%.
"In the first semester of 2015 - the managing director of Vopak has commented today chairman and, Eelco Hoekstra - we are relieved by performance considerable financial institutions with a generalized improvement of the results. This performance is supported by an important question in confronts of our services, mainly in Europe and the Americas, and from a positive development of the monetary exchange rates. In Asia - it has specified Hoekstra - we have recorded the effects of the slow down of the economic increase in China and a complicated competitive scene more".
Hoekstra has specified that the group is proceeding as from program to the plan of dismissione of announced activity in July 2014 ( on 3 July 2014) that it has involved the cession of terminal and areas in the United States, in Turkey, in Sweden and Finland and - it has emphasized "we will continue in the long term to adapt our total terminalistico Network with the trends in the fields of the energy, chemistry and the gas".
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