In the first three months of 2026, the Swedish group Cavotec, which is specialized in automation and automation technologies decarbonisation of ports, ships, mines and activities has recorded a marked deterioration in industrial performance, in the face of exceptional performance growth commercial transactions. In the period, revenues amounted to 32.8 million euro, with a decrease of -15.3% on the first quarter of 2025, of which €16.5 million in the maritime-port sector (-25.7%) and €16.3 million in the industrial sector (-1.4%). EBITDA values and operating profit were both negative and equal to respectively at -1.3 million and -2.8 million euros, against positive results of 2.3 million and 754 thousand euros in the first three months of last year. Cavotec closed the first quarter of 2026 with a net loss of -4.0 million compared to a profit net of 56 thousand euros in the same period of 2025.

In the first quarter of this year, Cavotec recorded a doubling of the value of orders acquired in the period that has result of over €59.7 million (+109.0%), including a Record value of 41.2 million in the maritime-port sector (+243.3%) and 18.5 million in the industrial sector (+11.7%). The commercial result in the maritime-port sector was driven by an order worth approximately 13 million euros for the North American supply of automated mooring systems MoorMasters developed by Cavotec, with deliveries in October 2027 and March 2028. An order was also added to this order worth approximately three million euros for the supply of shore power supply to be installed in different ports of southern Italy. The value of the order book of the company as at 31 March was 151.1 million (+30.0%), of which 128.6 million in the maritime-port segment (+39.6%) and 22.4 million million euros in the industrial sector (-6.8%).

Cavotec's CEO, David Pagels, explained that, if during 2025 customers had shown a strong interest in the electrification solutions proposed by the company driven by the need to reduce their impact and increase operational efficiency, however last year "customers in the maritime-port sector, in particular - Pagels announced - had hesitated to make decisions due to uncertainty about the global situation and economic developments. However, in the first quarter of 2026, many customers hired these decisions and the acquisition of orders has been especially for shore power systems and motorized cable reels, both for ports and industry mining'. Pagel specified that in the first quarter of 2015 2026 revenues declined due to the uncertainty that characterized customers during 2025.