In the third trimester the harbour terminals of German group HHLA have enlivened 1,87 million teu (+8.9%)



In the third trimester of this year the harbour terminals of the German group Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 1,87 million teu, with an increase of +8.9% regarding 1,71 million teu in the period July-september of 2016. To this volume of harbour traffic the traffic enlivened from the group in the intermodal field that has been pairs to 382 thousand teu, with an increment of +5.8% joins last year on the third trimester.

In the third trimester of the 2017 revenues of the group they are piled altogether to 320,0 million euros, +7.6% in more regarding 297,5 million euros in the correspondent period last year. EBITDA and EBIT have recorded a bending and are come down respective to 86,8 million euros (- 6.3%) and to 56,3 million euros (- 6.2%). The profit after the taxes is diminished of the -10,3% to 38,2 million euros.

In the first nine months of this year the harbour terminals of the group have enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 5,45 million teu, with an increase of +10.7% on the same period of 2016. Majority of volume of traffic, pairs to 5,2 million teu, is be enlivened in container terminal Altenwerder, Burchardkai and Tollerortche that group manages in port of Amburgo, in which traffic has recorded increase of +11.3%, while the remaining quota traffic is enlivened in the container terminal that HHLA manages in the Ukrainian port of Odessa, where the enlivened total has turned out stable. In the intermodal field the traffic has been pairs to 1,13 million teu (+6.7%). In this last segment the transport for railway way has marked a rise of +5.4%, while that for street way has grown of +11.5%.

In the first nine months of the 2017 revenues they have been attested to 942,8 million euros (+8.3%), the EBITDA has turned out pairs to 245,3 million euros (+12.3%), the operating profit to 155,2 million euros (+22.3%) and the profit after the taxes to 108,5 million euros (+30.3%).

"Currently - Angela Titzrath has commented, president of the German group terminalista - HHLA is benefitting of the positive trend is of the total economy is of world-wide the commercial exchanges, but also of the aimed business activities and the groundbreaking arguments with our customers who have carried out themselves in the spring of this year and with which there are insured persons, and in some cases has widened, our market position. We - he has specified Titzrath - consider that we will reach the objectives previewed for 2017. Even if the results are very satisfactory - it has specified - continue to operate in a context of difficult market. Permangono uncertainties - the HHLA president has explained - as a volatil trend of the international commerce, than during the last few years has provoked a structural slow down of the increase and the conditions in the port of Amburgo. We - he has remembered - are still waiting for that the work of dredging of the Elba river is started".