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After arduous a 2015, the Russian terminalista group Global Ports previews a 2016 pregnant anchor of difficulty
Last year the terminals in Russia have enlivened 1,6 million container (- 35%)
March 15, 2016
Last year Global Ports, the main Russian terminalista group, has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to beyond 1,8 million teu, with a decrease of the -31,0% regarding 2,6 million teu enlivened in 2014. The bending is determined by the contraction of the -35,0% of the traffic enlivened from the managed harbour terminals from the group in Russia, that it is piled at less than 1,6 million teu, decrease - Global Ports has explained - that is caused mainly by the reduction of the volumes of traffic recorded from the entire market let alone from the business strategy of the group. Global Ports in fact has remembered to have increased in the course of 2015 uses it of the areas available in the terminals of the group assigning them to the traffic of the bulk, traffic that the slid one they have therefore has recorded an increment of +81.7% going up almost 1,4 million tons. In the 2015 containerized trade enlivened from the Finnish terminals of the group instead it has grown of +8.6% to 272 thousand teu.
Between the other types of traffic enlivened by the group, last year car handling is diminished of the -11,5% coming down to 101 thousand cars. Down also the traffic ro-ro, that it has been pairs to 13 thousand unit (- 42.0%). The containerized trade in inland the terminals managed from Global Ports has been pairs to 217 thousand teu (+21.3%).
Global Ports has closed the exercise anniversary 2015 with a net loss of -33,7 million dollars respect to a net loss of -197,3 million dollars in the exercise precedence. The revenues are diminished of the -27,9% attesting itself to 405,7 million dollars and the operating profit has turned out pairs to 184,8 million dollars (- 33.7%).
With respect to the perspectives for this year, the managing director of Global Ports, Vladislav Baumgertner, has explained that the group previews that 2016 will be a year still characterized from difficulty: "up to now - it has specified - we have not seen signs of a resumption of the market and meanwhile the competition in our field is being intensified".
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