2013 Full Year Overview
Challenging year with strong performance
2013 was a challenging
year yet APAC witnessed
a year with very strong
performance to deliver
an increase in the total
Economic Profit of 29%
compared to 2012 and
APAC outperformed the
target by 61%, including
the partial Brigantine sale.
We must highlight that
the underlying APAC ROIC
without the Brigantine sale
achieved a satisfactory 16%
improvement over 2012 and
3% ahead of the challenging
2013 target, despite the
slow market volume growth,
overall increased cost inflation
pressure and tough challenges
of TAMP in India.
It means the good result
comes substantially from
tremendous effort on three key
initiatives:
• Take-Cost-Out to remove
USD19.3M cost out of the
system
• Project-Fit to execute
USD110M assets right sizing
• Net-Working-Capital to
optimize the invested capital
by USD38.4M
We are very proud to see APAC
delivered all of those initiatives
in 2013 and ready to continue
the strong drive in 2014.
Safety holds absolute
importance for our
business and no effort
shall be relaxed to
achieve Zero fatality,
which we unfortunately
had 2 in 2013. APAC
carried out all GMR
cross-audits as planned
in 2013 and will stress
on follow up of timely
GMR actions for 2014.
Operation productivity
keeps improving to end
up at 29.7 crane moves/
Hour vs. 29.5 in 2012.