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Bureau Veritas clearly has archived item the first half of 2016 with a profit of 166,9 million euros (- 8.4%)
The new orders in the naval field have been pairs to sun 1,3 million tons of tonnage (- 69% about)
July 28, 2016
The society of classification and certification Bureau Veritas (BV) has concluded the first half of this year with a profit clearly of 166,9 million euros on revenues for 2,2 billion euros, with decreases respective of the -8,4% and the -4,2% on the first semester of 2015. The operating profit is dropped of the -9,5% to 303,5 million euros.
"The first semester of 2016 - it has found the managing director of the French group, Didier Michaud-Daniel - has confirmed a beginning of year to the rilento. This - it has explained - is determined mainly by the slow down of the activities connected to the field Oil & Gas and from the ulterior weakening of the market of the mining extraction". Michaud-Daniel has specified that the company previews that, after this difficult beginning of year, in the second half of the year of 2016 will be recorded a progressive acceleration of the organic increase.
The single Offshore division Marine & of the French company has closed the first semester of this year with revenues pairs to 203,7 million euros, in increase of +0.7% on the first half of the 2015 (organic increase has turned out of +3.0%). , and with an operating profit rectified pairs to 54,5 million euros (- 0.4%). The field of the new constructions has constituted 42% of total revenues (41% in first semester 2015). In the first half of this year the division has recorded a drastic decrease of the new orders that have totaled 1,3 million tons of tonnage regarding 4,2 million tsl in the first six months of 2015. Al 30 last June the fleet in Bureau Veritas class was constituted by 11.382 ships for a total of 112,4 million tsl, with an increment of] 4.9% regarding on June 30, 2015. The group previews that in the second half of the year of this year it will continue the trend of the reduction of the activity in the segment of the new constructions.
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The society of classification and certification Bureau Veritas (BV) has concluded the first half of this year with a profit clearly of 166,9 million euros on revenues for 2,2 billion euros, with decreases respective of the -8,4% and the -4,2% on the first semester of 2015. The operating profit is dropped of the -9,5% to 303,5 million euros.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
