Next to join the Greek group Attica Holdings through a merger by incorporation ( of 21 and 27 September 2022), the shipping company Anek Lines closed the first half of this year with a deterioration in results financial in the face of an increase in turnover and a growth in the volumes of passenger and cargo traffic handled, worsening that was determined by an accentuated rise in the operating costs that the company specified to have been generated by the rise in fuel prices.

In the first six months of 2022, revenues amounted to 74.2 million euros, with an increase of +27.6% on the corresponding period of 2021, an increase of +34.0% on the first half of 2020 when the activity had been particularly affected by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and with a growth of +2.4% on the first half of 2019 when the health crisis is still it had not begun. Operating costs amounted to € 81.8 million of euro, with increases of +47.0%, +51.7% and +28.3% respectively on the same periods of 2021, 2020 and 2019. EBITDA values, EBIT and post-tax result were all impressive negative and equal respectively to -12.0 million, -16.5 million and -22.6 million euros against negative results for -721 thousand -6.1 million and -12.1 million euros in the first half of the year of 2021.

In the first half of this year the Anek Lines fleet has transported about 257 thousand passengers (+62%, +49% and -30% on the first semesters of 2021, 2020 and 2019), 59 thousand cars (+28%, +90% and -9%) and 59 thousand trucks (-11%, -3% and -12%). Anek has announced that in the first half of 2022 its fleet carried out 15% in fewer trips than in the corresponding period last year.