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In the first Wärtsilä trimester has recorded an sensitive increment of the new orders
bending of contracts in the naval field
April 26, 2017
Emphasized
In the first three months of this year the group Wärtsilä Corporation, that it develops to solutions and systems for the generation of energy in the naval field and that earthling, has recorded a turnover clearly of 1,0 billion euros, with an increment of +4.1% regarding 967 million euros in the first trimester of 2016. The operating profit and the profit clearly are piled respective to 60 million and 57 million euros, with decreases of the -3,6% and of -5,0%.
In the first trimester of the 2017 Finnish group has obtained new orders for a value total of beyond 1,4 billion euros, with an increase of +11.2%, and the 31 value of the orderbook to past March has attested almost 5,6 billion euros, 31 analogous value to that recorded to March 2016.
In the single naval field the group has totaled a turnover clearly of 279 million euros, in decrease of the -16,7% regarding the first trimester last year. The Marine Solutions division has confiscated new orders for 322 million euros (- 15.0%) and the value of the pocketbook 31 orders to past March turned out pairs at less than 2,1 billion euros (- 20.5%). Of 145 relative contracts to new acquired ships from the group in the first trimester of 2017, 29% have reached from Chinese ship yards, 23% from Korea of the South and 16% from Italy.
Emphasizing the elevated consistency of the acquired orders from the group in the first trimester of this year, the president and managing director of Wärtsilä Corporation, Jaakko Eskola, has specified that the level of the orders obtained from the Marine Solutions division turns out acceptable and is reached mainly thanks to the development of the activity in the segments of the ships from cruise, the ferries, the ships ro-ro and the Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU). Contracted the Finnish company has observed that the low level of new is also consequence of the consolidation in existence in the shipbuilding field of the naval one in the nations that are the main manufacturers of ships. "Even if the level of contracts in the naval field has been maintained limited - it has specified Eskola - signs of improvement of the situation indicates a gradual resumption of the question towards last part of the year".
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