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In the first nine months of 2021 the revenues of Global Ports Holding increased by +19%
Global Ports Canary Islands has been selected as the preferred bidder for the assignment of the management of the cruise activities of the port of Las Palmas
November 12, 2021
The Turkish group has announced that in the first nine months of this year the traffic of cruise passengers in their port terminals grew by +679%, with 499 thousand passengers enlivened in the only third quarter of 2021 compared to 64 thousand in the quarter previous thanks to the progressive resumption of activities cruises that last September allowed all the GPH's terminal to register cruise ship stopovers. GIH has specified that, on a like-for-like consolidation basis, September 2021 the group's cruise terminals received 53% of stopovers and 30% of passengers compared to September 2019.
Confirming the resumption of cruise traffic, the group specified that in the third quarter of this year the terminals passengers have started to generate a positive EBITDA that is result of 1.2 million Turkish Lira compared to a result negative sign for -17.2 million in the period July-September of 2020.
Meanwhile, the Global Ports Canary Islands (GPCI), a joint venture 80% and 20% owned respectively by Global Ports Holding and from the Spanish Sepcan of Las Palmas, was selected as a preferential tenderer in the tendering procedure for task management assignment cruises of the port of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, with contracts of concession that, in addition to the airport of Las Palmas, will include also the cruise activities of the ports of Arrecife (Lanzarote) and Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) and which will have respectively a duration of 40, 20 and 20 years.
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The Turkish group has announced that in the first nine months of this year the traffic of cruise passengers in their port terminals grew by +679%, with 499 thousand passengers enlivened in the only third quarter of 2021 compared to 64 thousand in the quarter previous thanks to the progressive resumption of activities cruises that last September allowed all the GPH's terminal to register cruise ship stopovers. GIH has specified that, on a like-for-like consolidation basis, September 2021 the group's cruise terminals received 53% of stopovers and 30% of passengers compared to September 2019.
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