The consistency of the fleet in Bureau Veritas class is gone up to the quota record of 123,1 million tsl



In the first semester of this year the revenues of the society of classification and certification Bureau Veritas (BV) are piled to 2,48 billion euros, with an increment of +5.9% on the first half of 2018. The operating profit has been pairs to 326,2 million euros (331,2 million taking into consideration the effect of the application of accounting principles IFRS 16 from on January 1°, 2019), with an increase of +12.1%. The profit clearly has been pairs to 173,6 million euros (171,1 million), with a rise of +16.0% on the first six months last year.

In the single Offshore segment Marine & the group has totaled revenues pairs to 180,9 million euros (+6.2%) and a rectified operating profit of 38,2 million euros (+5.2%). In the first half of the 2019 new acquired orders in the naval field pairs to 3,5 million tons of tonnage have turned out stable being are. Al 30 last June the orderbook of the Offshore division Marine & has been attested to 14,1 million tons of tonnage regarding 14,0 million tsl on December 31, 2018 and 13,4 million tsl on June 30, 2018. On 30 June the consistency of the fleet in Bureau Veritas class has reached the quota record of 123,1 million tsl regarding 118,7 million tsl on December 31, 2018 and to 119,1 million tsl on June 30, 2018.

Bureau Veritas among other things previews an ulterior improvement of the performances in the naval field graces to the resumption of the new constructions guided from China, to the measures necessary in order to adapt the fleets to norms IMO 2020 on the emissions of the ships and to the increasing ask of I use of liquified natural gas and gas of liquified oil as naval fuel.

As for the general perspectives for the development of the activity of the group in Italy, Ettore Pollicardo, managing director of Bureau Veritas Italia, has remembered that currently the company "has flood responsibility on 19 Countries and therefore on the development of the activities of verification, inspection and certification in these geographic areas to high strategic value. The results recorded in 2018 and the first semester of this year - it has found Pollicardo - I am of great encouragement for the implementation of an ulterior development plan, that it previews, for how much concerns Bureau Veritas Italia, the income in new industrial and technological fields, also through acquisitions that we count breviums can be realized in times".