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Wärtsilä closes 2015 recording an increase of the economic results
the new orders are diminished of the -3%, with a -8% in the single naval segment
January 27, 2016
The Wärtsilä Finn, group that between the world leaders in the field of the systems of propulsion for the marine transport and of the realization of systems for the energetic section, has closed 2015 with a turnover clearly of 5,03 billion euros, with an increase of +5% regarding the exercise anniversary precedence. The operating profit is piled to 612 million euros (+8%) and the profit clearly to 451 million euros (+28%).
Last year the Finnish group has confiscated new orders for a total of 4,93 billion euros (- 3%) and the value of the orderbook on December 31, 2015 has been attested to 4,88 billion euros (+8%).
In the 2015 single division of systems of propulsion for the naval field it has recorded a turnover clearly of 1,72 billion euros (+1%). In this segment of activity the value of the new orders is diminished of the -8% coming down to 1,60 billion euros and the value of the pocketbook orders at the end of the 2015 has been attested to 2,56 billion euros (+16%). In particular, last year the division has obtained 1,371 relative contracts to new ships (1,711 in 2014), of which 230 in the solo fourth trimester (191).
In the solo fourth trimester of the 2015 Wärstilä group has totaled a turnover clearly of 1,59 billion euros, with an increase of +3% on the period October-December of the year precedence. The operating profit has grown of +10% to 215 million euros and the profit clearly has been pairs to 159 million euros regarding 121 million euros in the last trimester of 2014.
In the fourth trimester last year the group has obtained new orders for a value pairs to 1,40 billion euros (- 8%), of which 465 million euros relatively to the single division Marine Solutions (+1%).
Wärstilä previews that in the 2016 situation of the market in which work the group will be analogous to that last year. "The positive development of the service activities - it has explained the president and managing director of the Finnish group, Jaakko Eskola - is destined to continue, while the conditions of the energetic markets will remain difficult and the question of new ships will turn out limited because of the excess of ability and the low prices of the oil".
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