In the third trimester the harbour terminals of Eurokai have enlivened 2,92 million container, with a decrease of -18,6% (- 3.0% excluding the realized traffic to Gioia Tauro)



In the third trimester of this year the harbour terminals of the terminalista group German Eurokai have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 2,92 million teu, with a decrease of the -18,6% regarding the third trimester of 2018, bending that turns out of the -3,0% excluding the traffic enlivened in the Italian port of Gioia Tauro, port of call that gives the slid spring does not make more part in the Network of the Eurokai as the controlled Contship Italy has yielded own participation in the MCT that manages the container terminal of the harbour port of call calabro to the Terminal Investment Ltd. (TIL) of the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)(on 1° April 2019).

In the third trimester of the 2019 single German terminal of Eurokai they have enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 1,91 million teu (- 4.7%), of which 1,24 million teu enlivened in the port of Bremerhaven (- 11.0%), 535 thousand teu in the port of Amburgo (+16.4%) and 137 thousand teu in the harbour port of call of Wilhelmshaven (- 11.8%). The reduction of the recorded traffic to Bremerhaven and the obtained increment to Amburgo is effect mainly of the transfer from first to according to port of the landings place of services of line of shipowning consortium THE Alliance(on 23 October 2018).

The Italian terminals of the group, that they are managed by the Contship Italy, have enlivened 450 thousand teu, with a contraction of the -59,2% on the third trimester of the 2018 that turns out of the -14,5% excluding the enlivened traffic to Gioia Tauro. The reduction of the volumes is generated mainly by drastic decrease (- 98.5%) of the traffic enlivened in the port of Cagliari that is come down to single 800 teu because of the loss of the ports of call of the ships of the German company Hapag-Lloyd, that it takes part of THE Alliance and that was the main customer of the Sardinian terminal, situation that has carried to the total cessation of the activities of the branch Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) and to the resource to the extraordinary redundancy fund for business closing for beyond 200 dependent of the company. In the third trimester of this year it has turned out in sensitive bending also the traffic enlivened in the port of that has been attested to 318 thousand teu (- 9.7%). In increase, instead, the activity in the ports of Salerno and Ravenna where pairs respective to 83 thousand teu (+10.9%) and 48 thousand teu (+7.3% are enlivened traffic volumes).

In the period July-september of the 2019 other terminal foreign countries of Eurokai they have totally enlivened 555 thousand teu (+17.3%), of which 396 thousand teu enlivened in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med (+21.8%), 103 thousand teu in the Cypriot port of Limassol (+5.5%), 37 thousand teu in the portuguese port of Lisbon (+17.5%) and 18 thousand teu in the Russian port of Ust-Luga (- 0.4%).

In the first nine months of the 2019 terminal of Eurokai they have enlivened altogether 8,92 million teu, with a decrease of the -15,3% on the same period last year that it is translate in an increment of +1.4% not taking into consideration the traffic enlivened in the port of Gioia Tauro. In the single German terminals the traffic has been of 5,85 million teu (+1.5%), of which 3,74 million teu enlivened to Bremerhaven (- 8.8%), 1,62 million teu to Amburgo (+32.4%) and 498 thousand teu to Wilhelmshaven (+11.4%). In Italy the traffic has been of 1,45 million teu (- 6.9%), of which 986 thousand teu enlivened to La Spezia (- 2.2%), 274 thousand teu to Salerno (+9.8%), 138 thousand to Ravenna (+0.6%) and 53 thousand teu to Cagliari (- 67.4%). In the other ports the total has been of 1,62 million teu (+9.7%), of which 1,16 million teu enlivened to Tanger Med (+15.2%), 303 thousand to Limassol (+3.2%), 108 thousand to Lisbon (- 8.8%) and 47 thousand teu to Ust-Luga (- 16.9%).

Eurokai previews to close the fiscal year anniversary 2019 with a meaningfully advanced profit to that of the exercise precedence thanks to the improvement of the performances of Contship Italy and in spite of a deterioration of the profits generated from the activities of the other terminals that are operated through joint venture Eurogate of which Eurokai it stops 50% of the capital, total improvement - it has specified the German group - than however will be in great part attributable to the cession of the participation in the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of Gioia Tauro.