APM Terminals Pipavav announces financial performance of September ended quarter 2019

MUMBAI: APM Terminals Pipavav (Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd) recently announced the financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2019. 

 

The company reported a net profit of INR 671 million for Q2FY20 as against INR 552 million in Q2FY19. 

 

Revenue from operations for the quarter under consideration stood at INR 1,992 million as against INR 1,711 million in Q2FY19. EBIDTA for the quarter was at INR 1,267 million as against INR 975 million during the same quarter last year. EBIDTA margin stood at 64% in Q2FY20 as against 57% in Q2FY19. 

 

The container cargo business for the quarter stood at appx. 224K TEUs, Bulk business was at 674K MT and Liquid business was at appx. 235K MT, RoRo business handled appx. 20K cars for the quarter under review. 

The Board Members during their meeting held recently, announced appointment of Mr. Jakob Friis Sorensen as the Managing Director of APM Terminals Pipavav effective from 1st January, 2020.

MANSA congratulates PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminal for handling its one-millionth TEU

MUMBAI: Maritime Association of Nationwide Shipping Agencies – India (MANSA) has joined the maritime fraternity in congratulating PSA’s Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals (BMCT) at JNPT in handling its one millionth TEU.

 

 “It goes to the credit of the BMCT to achieve this milestone in a span of just 20 months since it commenced operations in February last year. 

We wish that the next milestone will continue to come up much faster than expected and our ship-agent members will also play their small but significant role in taking the terminal to great heights,” said Captain Amit Wason, President, MANSA.

 

Rising trade and cargo movement augurs well for container terminals and our fellow intermediary ship-agents as also the Indian economy at large, he said.

 

Located at India’s largest and premier container gateway – BMCT is the fourth container terminal at the port with a quay length of 1000 meters in its phase-1 development and to be extended to 2000 meters berth length on completing expansion.

Commerce Ministry holds discussions with Export Promotion Council : MEIS, Credit, IGST refund issues discussed

NEW DELHI: Exporters raised several issues such as credit and IGST refund at a meeting called by the Commerce Ministry recently amid dip in the Country's outbound shipments. Exports contracted for the consecutive second month in September.

The meeting was Chaired 

by Commerce Secretary 

Anup Wadhawan and was attended by Export Promotion Councils.

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said they flagged issues related to stoppage of filing of MEIS (Merchandise Exports from India Scheme), problems being faced by exporters at credit front and list of risky exporters.

"These issues are impacting exports. We urged the Government to take action on this," FIEO Director General Ajay Sahai said.

Trade Promotion Council of India Chairman Mohit Singla, who participated in the meeting, said India's export needs strategic thrust to come out of the plateaued growth.

"We suggested harnessing GI (geographical indication) products globally for enhanced acceptability across geographies, a national trade portal to address the trade enquiries generated globally and incentivising on the degree of value addition a player in SEZ (special economic zone) brings to a product, so that they remain advantageous compared to foreign exporter," he said.

 

India's exports remained in the negative zone for the second consecutive month in September, contracting by 6.57 per cent to USD 26 billion mainly on account of significant dip in shipments of petroleum, engineering, gems and jewellery and leather products.

 

Imports also declined by 13.85 per cent to USD 36.89 billion in September, narrowing the trade deficit to a seven-month low of USD 10.86 billion, according to the government data. Out of the 30 key sectors, as many as 22 segments showed negative growth in exports in September. The country's outbound shipments have remained subdued so far this year. It may have a bearing on the overall economic growth, which fell to over six-year low of 5 per cent in the first quarter of the current financial year.

 

Industrial output declined by 1.1 per cent in August due to poor performance by manufacturing, power generation and mining sectors.

 

Ludhiana-based Exporter S C Ralhan has called for immediate release of foreign trade policy by the Government to arrest the downfall.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate 150th year celebrations of KoPT

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the sesquicentenary celebrations of the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), Mr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State for Shipping (Independent Charge) and Chemicals & Fertilisers, said in Kolkata recently.

 

During his visit to KoPT, the Minister inspected the CCTV control room in the dock area and port operations at Netaji Subhas Dock (NSD). He also inaugurated four important projects.

 

“The Minister inaugurated RFID operations at Kolkata Dock System (KDS) that was set up at a total cost of Rs 17 crore. Under this project, 12 gates of NSD and Kidderpore Dock (KPD) are being fitted with RFID-based PSES System. It will provide single window system to port users for obtaining permits/passes through cashless transactions. He also inaugurated CCTV operations at KDS, including at the KPD and NSD Gates and yards, Bascule Bridge, Swing Bridge and entire Rabindra Setu. Installation and commissioning of this project with four years’ annual maintenance contract has cost neatly Rs 3 crore,” a senior KoPT official said.

 

The Minister also unveiled three truck parking terminals at KDS on nearly 30,000 sq m of its own land at Sonai, Coal Dock Road and Bhut Ghat. This has cost nearly Rs 6 crore. Mr. Mandaviya also inspected the Green Wall Project at BISN extension of NSD. He visited the Indenture Memorial and probable river front development sites.

 

In the afternoon, the Minister headed a review meeting at the KoPT headquarters, during which Chairman Vinit Kumar briefed him about the performance of the Port Authority, various developmental projects being undertaken or to be handled in the near future.

The Minister emphasised that the work culture in the port sector needs to be changed to turn State-run ports more efficient. He also asked the management to encourage efficient employees. Mr. Mandaviya also gave away prizes to meritorious wards of port employees and met port users to discuss various issues.

Bahri’s Q3 Net Profit jumps 81% driven by Logistics Services Sector

RIYADH: Bahri, a global leader in logistics and transportation, announced strong financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019, on the back of solid growth in the logistics services sector. The company’s net profits soared 80.52 percent to SAR 146.73 million, from SAR 81.28 million in the corresponding quarter in 2018, primarily due to an increase in returns of several operating segments. 

 

Bahri’s revenues during the three-month period between July and September jumped 6.28 percent to SAR 1.48 billion, from SAR 1.39 billion reported in the same period last year. Gross profits surged 45.24 percent year-over-year to SAR 296.11 million from SAR 203.87 million and operational profits rallied 85.51 percent to SAR 259 million from SAR 139.61 million in the year-ago quarter.

 

As compared to the second quarter of 2019, net profits for the quarter under review saw a staggering increase of 221.98 percent and revenues improved 2.86 percent. 

 

Commenting on the results, Mr. Abdullah Aldubaikhi, CEO of Bahri, said: “Bahri’s superior performance with sustained revenue growth and profitability expansion illustrates the robustness of our long-term business strategy and signifies the strength of our market position. Resulting from solid growth in the maritime logistics sector and higher transportation rates underpinned by a thriving oil sector, our business units delivered substantial returns giving us the competitive advantage to continue to outperform. We expect the market to keep up the momentum in the remainder of 2019 and into 2020 and are well-positioned to capitalize on opportunities arising from strong client demand for our industry-leading services worldwide."

 

For the first nine months of the year, Bahri posted total revenues of SAR 4.63 billion, up 6.4 percent from SAR 4.35 billion recorded in the same period of the previous year. Net profits for the January-September period stood at SAR 371.62 million. Gross profits rose 14.29 percent year-over-year to SAR 962.42 million from SAR 842.12 million and operational profits went up 19.73 percent for the first three quarters to SAR 840.47 million from SAR 701.97 million of the year-ago period.

A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S upgrades EBITDA expectation for 2019

COPENHAGEN: Based on the financials for the third quarter and the updated outlook for freight rates, volumes and bunker fuel prices for the rest of the year, A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S (APMM) has upgraded its expectation for the 2019 result.

 

APMM’s new expectation for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) is in the range of USD 5.4-5.8bn. The previous expectation for EBITDA was around USD 5bn. The remaining part of the guidance is unchanged.

 

APMM has in the third quarter, despite slower global demand growth and lower freight rates, recognized better than expected performance in Ocean driven by strong reliability and capacity management combined with lower fuel prices and continued margin improvements in Terminal & Towage, which has resulted in stronger than expected financial performance in the quarter.

 

Revenue was USD 10,055 mill. for APMM in Q3 2019 and EBITDA was USD 1,656 mill. and for the first nine-months revenue was USD 29,222 mill. and EBITDA USD 4,249 mill.

 

APMM will detail its revised full year outlook in the interim report for Q3 2019 that will be published on 15 November 2019.

Portall Infosystems launching PortalleVGM

MUMBAI: Portall Infosystems Pvt. Ltd., is set to launch PortalleVGM, a cloud-based application which would provide easy solutions to daily VGM activities as per guidelines of VERMAS and abide by the SOLAS regulations. 

 

PortalleVGM enables all stakeholders to carry out eVGM process seamlessly right from placing Weighment request at weighbridges to approval from shipping line.

Portall will simplify the process of VGM electronically with single window access thereby helping reduce turnaround time for export shipments and give better user experience.

 

For more information please call toll free 1800 11 5055 or write to – info@portall.in, contact SPOC: vinitp@portall.in.