Westports - 1Q18 Update - Acquisition of Land for Terminal Expansion, Investors Remain Unimpressed

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Infrastructure Analyst - Ports & Terminals, Drewry Maritime Financial Research

Victor Wai, CFA

Infrastructure Analyst - Ports & Terminals

Maritime Sector, Equity & Credit Research

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Equity Bottom-Up

<p><strong>Westports finds solace in gateway cargoes:</strong> Transhipment throughput losses continued to play out in the 3Q17 report card of Westports. Revenue contracted 6.4% y/y from MYR 449.9m to MYR 421.2m as volumes declined 14.1% y/y to 2.14 mteu in the quarter, largely driven by a 23.7% y/y tumble in transhipment boxes to 1.42 mteu. Westports’ shareholders are not mourning the transhipment volumes that moved to Singapore port as the quarterly profit due to them dinged just 0.1% from the year-ago results…</p>

Westports finds solace in gateway cargoes: Transhipment throughput losses continued to play out in the 3Q17 report card of Westports. Revenue contracted 6.4% y/y from MYR 449.9m to MYR 421.2m as volumes declined 14.1% y/y to 2.14 mteu in the quarter, largely driven by a 23.7% y/y tumble in transhipment boxes to 1.42 mteu. Westports’ shareholders are not mourning the transhipment volumes that moved to Singapore port as the quarterly profit due to them dinged just 0.1% from the year-ago results…

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