2024-06-28 19:31:21
The port of Thessaloniki data a rise in operations once more this yr, regardless of the battle disaster in Gaza and the issues within the Crimson Sea, which have induced a lower in cargoes in different ports of the broader area, following the upward charges of 2023.
OLTH, in actual fact, in accordance with its administration, began this yr with an excellent begin, whereas this yr the dry ports of OLTH S.A. are being put into operation once more. within the Balkans.
As introduced on the firm’s common annual common assembly of shareholders in mid-Could, rail providers to and from Nis (Serbia) and Skopje have already resumed, whereas the corporate’s CEO, Arie Koppelaar, has set a timetable for the re-operation of the rail hyperlink OLTH with the dry port it has in Sofia inside eight weeks.
Investments 71.3 million
For the reason that privatization of THA, in 2018, till immediately, investments of 71.3 million euros have been realized in gear, infrastructure, providers offered and specialization of the human assets of the Group, with which, because the Govt President of D emphasizes in “N” .S. of OLTH SA, Thanos Liagos, “we reach strengthening the belief of our companions, creating new milestones for the Port of Thessaloniki. Living proof, the best container dealing with ever recorded on the port (520,048 TEUs).
As well as, in 2023 we strengthened our extroversion with the dynamic participation of OLTH SA. in nationwide and worldwide prestigious exhibitions and with initiatives to carry occasions in Thessaloniki, such because the seventh “Posidonia Sea Tourism Discussion board” and the first “Southeast Europe Connectivity Discussion board”.
With a imaginative and prescient to function as greater than a port and with a world orientation, we’re repeatedly strengthening the position of the Port of Thessaloniki within the international port business, as a number one supplier of multi-gateway mixed transport community and provide chain options for the Balkans and the broader area of the South-East, Central and Japanese Europe”.
The “key” in fact for the “take-off” of the port of Thessaloniki and its evolution right into a port of important strains, is none apart from the massive funding for the extension and deepening of the sixth pier.
The port administration, as Mr. Liagos underlines, is working for the issuance of the Presidential Decree on the up to date grasp plan and the ΟΛΤΟΣ ΣΠΠΕ as rapidly as doable, in order that the challenge can start, for which the METKA Consortium has been chosen because the contractor -TEKAL S.A. within the newest related competitors.
A sensible timetable for the issuance of the stated P.D. and the beginning of labor on the sixth pier is taken into account to be within the 4th quarter of the yr, with an anticipated completion time of 36 months from its begin, whereas numerous eventualities are being thought of for the financing of the challenge, with the most certainly mixture of fairness with financial institution borrowing, on condition that the S.A. is an organization with zero debt.
Measurement improve in 2023
This yr’s common common assembly of the shareholders of OLTH S.A. authorized the administration’s proposal to distribute a gross dividend of 1.30 euros per share, i.e. a web dividend of 1.235 euros per share, for the yr 2023. It’s value noting that the group’s whole consolidated revenue for the yr 2023 elevated to 85.9 million. from 85.3 million in 2022.
Within the container terminal there was a big improve of greater than 12% (to 59.8 million), additionally within the areas of house exploitation and passenger visitors (cruise – coastal delivery) there have been important will increase of 18.2% and 31.3% respectively (to three, 9 million and 0.9 million respectively), whereas the contract cargo terminal recorded a 21.5% lower in income (to twenty.2 million) and the income from the subsidiary in Sofia was at insignificant ranges.
Concerning the group’s efficiency, there was a web improve in profitability in any respect ranges: Gross Income elevated by 1.9% to 37.6 million, Working Income (EBITDA) elevated by 3.4% to 34.1 million .and Web Income after taxes elevated by 8.9%, to twenty.3 million euros.
The capital expenditure program for the entire of 2023 exceeded 9.2 million and primarily associated to the brand new “Alexander the Nice” Cruise Terminal, grade restoration, platform restore and improve, energy substation upgrades, buy of loading and unloading gear and ISPS safety programs. Good Ports In his capability and as President of ELIME (Hellenic Ports Affiliation), Mr. Liagos additionally locations particular emphasis on the evolution of the town’s ports into Good Ports and on attracting essential worldwide business occasions to Greece.
On this path, initially of Could 2025, the annual main European convention of ESPO (European Sea Ports Group) might be held for the primary time in Thessaloniki, with anticipated a number of advantages for the town and its port.