CMHI undermines the leadership of HPH as the first global container terminal operator

  Last year the port terminals operated by the Hong Kong China Merchants Holdings (International) Co. group (CMHI) have handled a container traffic amounted to 83,660,000 TEUs, an increase of + 3.5% compared to 80 , 83 million TEUs in 2014. it is a total confirming CMHI in second place in the ranking of the world’s leading terminal operators for container traffic volume.

Also in 2015 the first place in the ranking include the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), division of CK Hutchison Port Holdings of Hong Kong. However last year the gap of the bustling traffic of HPH and CMHI has thinned down to just 140 thousand TEUs of difference from the gap of over two million TEUs in 2014 and the gap of almost 23 million TEUs in 2010. In 2015, in fact, the Hutchison Port Holdings group terminals have handled 83.8 million TEUs, with an increase of + 1% on the previous year. The bustling traffic only by Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (Trust HPH), a subsidiary of HPH, amounted to 24.3 million TEUs, down 2% on 2014.

In 2015 the bustling traffic of the terminal by the Chinese just CMHI Group amounted to 61.47 million TEUs + 3.2 %%, while the foreign CMHI terminals have handled 16.05 million TEUs (+ 14.2%) . In addition to container traffic, in 2015 the port terminals of the group have handled 353 million tons of bulk cargo (-2.8%), of which 348 million tons handled by the Chinese terminal (-3.1%) and 5.2 million tons handled in the port of Djibouti (+ 21.4%).

CMHI closed the financial year 2015 with a net profit of 5.52 billion Hong Kong dollars (712 million US dollars), an increase of + 10.1% compared to 5.02 billion dollars in Hong Kong in 2014. revenues amounted to 8.23 ​​billion Hong Kong dollars (-0.3%) and operating profit to 2.98 billion Hong Kong dollars (+ 15.1%).