A.P. Møller-Mærsk brings a consisting adjustment to the decrease of the profit previewed for the exercise anniversary 2015



Shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk has communicated today that it previews to clearly record the exercise anniversary 2015 with a profit of the activities currents to cessions and the devaluations pairs to 1,6 billion dollars rather than pairs to 2,2 billion dollars as announced to half August in occasion of the presentation of the results of according to trimester. We remember that in the exercise anniversary the 2014 result to clearly of cessions and the devaluations has been pairs to 4,5 billion dollars, of which beyond 2,3 billion dollars of profit from the running activities.

The group has explained that the examination on the course of the performances in last the six months has found a total decrease of the value of the hires pairs to 100 dollars for container from 40 ', decrease that will have an impact negative on the economic result of the 2015 pairs to about 500 million dollars, and has evidenced also a reduction of the volumes transported from the fleet of portacontainer of the group pairs to 100 thousand container from 40 ', bending that will have an ulterior impact negative pairs to about 100 million dollars.

"It is unpleasant - it has explained the A.P managing director. Møller-Mærsk, Nils S. Andersen - to have to rectify our forecasts for the result of 2015. In the third trimester - it has emphasized - all our segments of business have achieved turned out positive in spite of the difficult conditions in all the fields". The Danish group has specified to have instead found a advanced deterioration to the expectations of the market of the containerized marine transport in particular in last part of the third trimester and in the current month of October, and moreover a resumption of the market in recent months of this year is not previewed.

Andersen has remembered that Maersk Line, the company of the group that work in the segment of the containerized marine transport of which he is world leader, "over the years has assumed measures in order to assure that the activities are flexible and efficient from the point of view of the costs, but - it has specified - the current deterioration of the market of the marine transport of the container is having an impact also on our activity".

Maersk Line has announced that the recorded medium hire in the third trimester of 2015 has been pairs to 2.163 dollars for container from 40 ' (feu), with a decrease of the -19,3% respect to a value of 2.679 dollars/feu in the correspondent period of 2014. Moreover the transported containerized cargos from the fleet in the quarter conclusosi 30th September have turned out pairs to 2.427.000 feu, with an light increase of +1.1% regarding 2.401.000 feu in the third trimester last year. We remember that to half last August the Danish group had explained to attend a total increase of the total question of containerized marine transport pairs to the +2-4% respect to a precedence increase esteem pairs to +3-5%.