The second quarter of this year continued its continued operations in the second quarter of this year. growth in the economic performance of the Cargotec group, trend positive that is particularly sustained from the beginning of 2022. In the period April-June 2023 the company's revenues Finnish amounted to 1.20 billion euros, with a increase of +25.2% on the same period last year, of which 552 million generated by the Kalmar brand that markets handling and lifting for the port, intermodal sectors, logistics and industrial (+29%), 485 million from the Hiab brand that sells vehicles for the construction, transport sectors and other industrial segments (+20%) and 164 million from the brand MacGregor which markets handling equipment and systems for ships and offshore structures (+29%). Operating profit is amounted to EUR 150.5 million (+216.8%), with a contribution of EUR 78.4 million. million from Kalmar (+493.9%), 81.5 million from Hiab (+30.2%) and 8.2 million from MacGregor compared to a negative contribution for -15.0 million in the second quarter of 2022. Net profit is State of 107.7 million euros (+164.0%).

If the financial results have recorded a significant further improvement, not so for the value of new orders acquired by Cargotec in the second quarter of this year which stood at 999 million euros, down of -28.1%. Referring to the orders acquired by the group, the President and CEO of Cargotec, Casimir Lindholm, specified that "the orders received have returned to the pre-Covid level, down from the all-time high of the period comparison that included significant orders of a non-profit nature recurrent. However, our order book is clearly above the historical average level'. Order book whose value at 30 June last was 3.24 billion euros, the -9.8% less than at 30 June 2022.

In the second quarter of this year, decrease in the values of new orders obtained by all three brands of the group, with those for Kalmar totalling 437 million euros (-23%), those for Hiab 375 million (-28%) and those for MacGregor 187 million (-38%).