In the 2015 harbour terminal of HHLA they have enlivened about 6,6 million container (- 12.3%)



In the 2015 harbour terminal managed from the terminalista group Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) they have enlivened a traffic of the container that, second the communicated preliminary data from the German company, has been pairs to about 6,6 million teu, with a bending of -12,3% regarding the 7,5 million one teu in the year precedence. In particular, the three container terminal of the group in the port of Amburgo have enlivened 6,3 million teu (- 6.3%) and the container terminal of HHLA in the Ukrainian port of Odessa about 300 thousand teu, light inferior volume to that enlivened in 2014. Moreover the containerized trade enlivened last year from the group in the intermodal segment has been pairs to 1,3 million teu (+2.7%), with a advanced increment to +5% of the volumes transported on track, that they have totaled 1,0 million teu, and a next decrease to the -5% of the volumes transported via road.

HHLA previews to record exercise 2015 with revenues pairs to about 1,14 million euros, with a decrease of the -5% on the year precedence. It is attended moreover an operating profit pairs to about 157 million euros regarding 169 million euros in 2014. The single section of the harbour activities, that it constitutes Core business of the German group, has generated revenues for about 1,11 billion euros (1,12 billion in a 2014) and operating profit of about 141 million euros (156 million).

The bendings of the revenues and the operating result recorded by HHLA are determined mainly by the most emphasized contraction of the economic performances in the second half of 2015, with the revenues that in the third and fourth trimester of the year have shown decreases respective of the -9% and the -7% about on the third and fourth trimester of 2014 and with the operating result that is dropped respective of -17% and -13% approximately.

The chairman of HHLA, Klaus-Dieter Peters, it has emphasized that the economic results of the 2015 are however of all respect and achieved states in a extremely difficult operating context: "however - it has found - the development of our revenues and the profit demonstrates that we cannot not be influenced from total economic and geopolitical conditions. As well as from the remarkable slow down of the economic increase in China - Peters has explained - we are continuing to accuse the effects of the crisis in Russia and Ukraine, where we operate our container terminal to Odessa. The consequent decrease of the harbour containerized trade - it has evidenced the chairman of the German group - contrasts with the encouraging increase of the volumes in container transported from our railway societies. Even if such increase of the transported volumes has not been sufficient to totally compensate the decrease of the harbour traffic, this constitutes an ulterior confirmation that the strategic expansion of our railway activities was right and now it is supplying an important contribution to the economic stability of our society".