The Shareholders Meeting of Fincantieri, which met today in Trieste, has approved the balance sheet for the operating year 2003 which recorded a net profit of 90.7 million Euro compared to 76.9 million Euro the previous year.
The profit was allocated as follows: 4.5 million Euro (5%) to the legal reserve fund and the remainder, 86.2 million Euro, is carried forward.
Fincantieri Group results have also improved considerably: production value, at 2,342.8 million Euro, is up 7.1%; the operating result, at approximately 122.0 million Euro, is equivalent to 5.2% of production value; net profit, at 93.1 million Euro is up 16% from 80.2 million Euro in 2002. Moreover, liquid assets and net financial credits stand at 113.5 million Euro compared to 74.8 for the previous year, confirming the generation of a positive cash flow.
The current workload – on the basis of orders acquired in early 2004 as well - is approximately 5,000 million Euro.
Today Fincantieri has a market share of approximately 50% of the world cruise shipbuilding market.