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Stable in the 2018 traffic of the container enlivened in the terminals of Hutchison Ports
Revenues in increase of +3%
March 21, 2019
In the 2018 containerized trade in the managed harbour terminals from Hutchison Ports Holdings (HPH), societies that are under responsibility of the CK Hutchison Holdings di Hong Kong and that world leader in the segment of the container is the terminal operator, have enlivened a traffic pairs to 84,6 million teu (on 288 docks managed from the group), almost stable regarding 84,7 million teu enlivened in the year precedence (on 287 docks managed). To signal that the total data of 2018 is sum of a traffic volume that in the first half of the year has turned out decreasing of the -1,2%, being piled to 40,6 million teu, and of the new historical semiannual record marked from HPH in the period July-December of 2018 with 44,0 million teu, in increase of +0.9% on the second half of the year of 2017.
In entire the 2018 terminals managed from single branch HPH Trust, that it is quoted to the Stock exchange of Singapore, it has been of 24,3 million teu, down of -1%(on 12 February 2019). The other harbour terminals of group HPH in China (included Hong Kong) have enlivened 13,8 million teu (- 4%), the terminals in Europe 15,8 million teu (+3%) and the other terminals in Asia, Australia and in other regions 30,7 million teu (+1%).
In the 2018 harbour activity of group CK Hutchison they have generated revenues pairs to 35,17 billion dollars of Hong Kong (USA 4,5 billion dollars), with a rise of +3% on the exercise anniversary precedence. The EBITDA has been pairs to 13,39 billion dollars of Hong Kong (+7%) and the EBIT to 8,72 billion (+6%). To the increase of the results it has contributed also to the happened cession last November of the entire participation in the Shantou International Terminals Container, that it was pairs to 70% of the capital, for 1,63 billion dollars of Hong Kong.
About the course of the activity in the harbour field in the course of 2019, group CK Hutchison has specified that the perspectives remain uncertain, in particular for the Chinese ports.
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