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The charter of container CAI records revenues record for the first trimester of the year
In the first three months of the 2019 operating result of the company it has turned out the most elevated than always
May 2, 2019
In the first three months of this year the revenues of the society of chartering and intermodal sale of container CAI International have grown of +16.5% going up to 111,1 million dollars, figure that constitutes the new record for this time of year, regarding 95,4 million dollars in the correspondent period of 2018 when the precedence was recorded record. The revenues generated from the single activity of chartering of the fleet of containers are piled to 75,5 million dollars (+16.8%). The operating profit has been attested to 44,1 million dollars (+27.1%), figure that the new quarterly absolute record for the company constitutes, and the profit clearly to 18,6 million dollars (+8.4%).
Al 31 last March the consistency of the fleet of the American company was pairs almost 1,6 million teu, with a rise of +24.4% on on March 31, 2018, of which beyond 1,5 million teu of property (+26.6%) and 72 thousand teu in management (- 8.6%).
The president and managing director of the CAI, Victor Garcia, have announced that from the beginning of this year the company has already invested or has been engaged to invest about 280 million dollars in container. Garci'a has specified that if at the beginning of this year the prices for new the container were pairs to about 1.750 dollars for a container from 20 ' (teu), at the end of the first trimester the average price was gone up to about 1.900 dollars because of the increase of the prices of the Chinese steel and the increasing asks by the companies of navigation and the societies of chartering. Garci'a has specified moreover that the used prices of the container continue to being high because of the deficiency of containers available all over the world.
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