News / Bullish APM Terminals accelerates towards billion-dollar profit target

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APM Terminals produced another above-budget sterling performance in the second quarter of the year, achieving a very impressive 14.2% return on invested capital, comfortably ahead of the 10.8% ROIC contributed by its ocean carrier sibling, Maersk Line.

Indeed, AP Møller-Maersk chief executive Nils Andersen said in his commentary to the group’s H1 interim report, it was “a very positive result” and “to the upside of our expectations”.

Net operating profit for APMT soared by 25%, on the same period of 2013, to ...