### Report on the Air Leak at the International Space Station

#### Introduction
The International Space Station (ISS) is a collaborative international project involving 14 countries, including Russia and the United States.

It has been operational since 1998 and serves as a multi-purpose space research facility.

The ISS is divided into segments managed by different countries, with Russia managing the Russian segment and the U.

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managing the American segment.

#### Detection of the Air Leak
The air leak in question was detected in the Russian module "Zvezda," which is part of the Russian segment of the ISS.

According to reports, the leak was first identified in September 2019, with a crack in the module's chamber being discovered in October 2020.

However, the most recent significant concern arose in early 2022 when the leak became more pronounced, leading to discussions about potentially isolating the module entirely.

In January 2022, NASA's Director

### Report on the Air Leak at the International Space Station

#### Introduction
The International Space Station (ISS) is a collaborative international project involving 14 countries, including Russia and the United States.

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Content: Caustic smoke, chicken graveyard and oil in the water.
The main environmental events in 2021
Caustic smoke, chicken graveyard and oil in the water.
The main environmental events in 2021
Today, 16: 59Health and environmentAnna GrigorievaPhoto: TagilCity.ru
This year, the environmental agenda in Nizhny Tagil was very rich - because of the EVRAZ accident, caustic yellow-green smoke was thrown into the air, a delegation of the Clean Air project visited the city, and the Chernoistochinsky pond is preparing to clean the bottom.
The editorial office of TagilCity.ru continued to conduct independent air measurements with the Geolan-1P gas analyzer throughout 2021.
And in October, we summed up the results of the research for six months, also including data from stationary posts of the USMS.
As a result, 72 days out of 183 Tagil residents breathed air exceeding the maximum permissible emissions.
Most often, the norm was exceeded by formaldehyde - 51 days, while the concentration of the substance reached 3 MPC.
Most of all, the residents of Vagonka and Sukholozhsky village were not lucky with emissions.
This is where the excess is most often recorded.
TagilCity.ru measurements were interested in the delegation from the Ministry of Economy, which visited Nizhny Tagil to check the progress of the Clean Air project.
Officials visited the automatic air control station near the Presidential Foundation and at the construction site of the bridge across the Nizhnetagilsky pond, as well as visited industrial enterprises of the city and held a meeting.
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During the conversation with the head of the project office of the federal project "Clean Air" Maxim Korolkov TagilCity.ru drew the attention of the official to the data of air measurements for six months.
He, in turn, promised to study the figures and take them into account.
However, not all civil servants took the measurements of the editorial adequately.
For example, TagilCity.ru, the Ural Administration for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, banned air quality measurements at all, citing the incompetence of journalists, their lack of permission for measurements and the alleged discrediting of the UGMS itself.
In general, the conversation with the management staff (to which, by the way, they invited us) turned into bullying and threats to the court.
And the enterprises of Nizhny Tagil in 2021 continued to supply the air of Nizhny Tagil with emissions.
In the summer, several yellow-green and black smoke emissions occurred from the EVRAZ NTMK coking plant.
Later, the environmental prosecutor ’ s office found out that this is the result of technical faults in the operation of the equipment as a result of water accumulation due to heavy rains.
After the audit, the department made a submission to the operational director of EVRAZ NTMK.
Submissions, orders and fines from various supervisory authorities do not prevent EVRAZ NTMK from remaining the main environmental violator in Nizhny Tagil.
In 2020 alone, Rosprirodnadzor recorded 13 violations of environmental legislation on the territory of the enterprise.
The violations affected the discharge of pollutants into small rivers, sources of emissions into the air and waste management.
In total, the department issued fines in the amount of 1.1 million rubles.
But these fines for EVRAZ are “pennies at sea ”.
And the health of Tagil residents becomes the key to huge profits of industrialists, almost as during the era of colonization, when Europeans tried to transfer all the “dirty ” production away from the natives.
After all, it is easy for oligarchs to put the lives of people in the whole city at risk by drinking whiskey on their own yacht somewhere in warm countries.
But at the same time, the owners of the plants are trying to convince Tagilchan that they are not held for “Papuans ”, and as compensation for harm they are invested in the social sphere.
But is it really true?
Meanwhile, Tagil residents themselves began to struggle for the definition of the sanitary protection zone of EVRAZ NTMK.
Rospotrebnadzor, after checking at the enterprise in October 2020, issued an order to “remove ” residential buildings, social facilities and garden plots from the proposed sanitary protection zone.
This had to be done before April 2021.
However, EVRAZ NTMK was able to challenge the decision of the department in the arbitration court, where they considered that the conditions of the order were not enforceable, and the presence of residential buildings in the conditional SPZ was not proven.
Tagilchan, who live at a distance of not more than 1000 meters from the borders of EVRAZ NTMK, was not satisfied with this decision and they filed a cassation appeal in the Arbitration Court of the Ural District.
But to talk about sanitary zones, the leadership of EVRAZ NTMK refuses.
At one of the events not related to the environment, the journalist TagilCity.ru decided to ask Denis Novozhenov why the company is silent about the progress of the SPZ installation in Nizhny Tagil.
But the EVRAZ vice president refused to answer this question, citing the fact that the current event has a different agenda.
Emissions of Tagil plants affect not only humans, but also the climate of the Earth as a whole.
We are talking about greenhouse gases that exacerbate the greenhouse effect and heat the surface of the planet.
The sources of GHG emissions are mainly industrial and mining enterprises.
According to the findings of scientists, since the end of the 19th century, the average temperature on Earth has increased by 1.1 degrees and continues to rise.
This can lead to rising sea levels due to melting glaciers, devastating hurricanes, desertification and soil degradation, as well as human and animal migration.
In Nizhny Tagil, about 48 thousand tons of greenhouse gases enter the atmospheric air per year.
Most of all - from EVRAZ NTMK - 96%.
By the way, our device now measures two greenhouse gases in the air - methane and carbon dioxide.
Well, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko in a report to the President of the Russian Federation said that Nizhny Tagil was excluded from the list of municipalities where the level of air pollution is high.
The reason for this is a 4% reduction in emissions for 2021.
One of the main sources of drinking water in Nizhny Tagil - Chernoistochinsky pond - continues to prepare for global cleaning.
A platform for storing bottom sediments from the reservoir has been prepared.
A temporary road and a technological passage under a ground slurry pipeline for pumping out sediments were poured.
The site itself was covered with two waterproof layers.
The active cleaning phase will take place in 2022.
In addition, the project of the water treatment station "Yuzhnaya", which will provide water to the GGM, Dzerzhinsky district and part of the village of Chernoistochinsk, was commissioned for state examination.
The July leash caused contamination of land and water by oil products with other pollutants in Upper Salda.
For example, in the old channel of the Salda River, aluminum exceeded the norm by 1.6 times, potassium by 1.3 times, sulfur by 3.3 times, and petroleum products by 1.6 times.
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Sverdlovsk region, losses amounted to almost 11 million rubles.
During the trip, journalists TagilCity.ru found a fetid field with bones, feathers, shells and bird droppings a couple of kilometers from the Saldinskoye highway.
The nearest enterprise related to the bird - "Nizhny Tagil poultry factory" - is located in the village of Pokrovskoe.
Local residents in an interview with the editorial office claimed that the waste was brought from there.
After the publication of the material, three departments began checking the fact of dumping the remains of birds at once - the Ural Department of Rosprirodnadzor, the regional Rosselkhoznadzor and the environmental prosecutor's office of Nizhny Tagil.
But the administration of the Gornouralsky mining district owed 18 million rubles to the regional operator "Company" Rifei "for the elimination of landfills on its territory.
The landfills were located along the route between the villages of Brodovo and Petrokamenskoye and between the village of Krasnopolye and the village of Temno-Osinova.
Residents due to the lack of stationary places of accumulation of MSW were brought to the territory household, food waste, as well as large-sized garbage.
Illegal waste disposal sites have been used for 15 years.
“Rifei ” landfills eliminated and issued the GGO administration an invoice for 18 million rubles for the work.
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Roscosmos told the details of the depressurization of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft
In told about the details of depressurization of the contour of the spacecraft "Progress MS-21".
On the air of the Zvezda TV channel, the situation was assessed by the executive director for manned space programs.
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According to him, depressurization could occur in one of the ship ’ s systems.
“According to my information, indirectly, by phone, this is a thermal regulation system, ” Krikalev said.
He added that these are preliminary estimates, and “there is no certainty yet. ”
In the near future, experts will analyze telemetry to more accurately establish the problem.
On Saturday, Roscosmos announced the depressurization of the contour of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship.
The ship was isolated.
The incident did not affect the work of the ISS.
Earlier it was reported that the flooding of Progress MS-21 is scheduled for February 18.

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“Roscosmos ” reported the leakage of coolant on the module“ Science ”
The module “Science ” was launched in 2021.
On the module "Science" of the Russian segment of the ISS there was a leak of coolant from the reserve circuit of the radiator, the press service of "Roscosmos" reports.
It was delivered to the station in 2012.
According to the state corporation, the main circuit of thermoregulation "Science" works normally and provides comfortable conditions in the residential area.
Experts continue to analyze the current situation.
"The crew and the station are not threatened," Roscosmos said.
The thermoregulation system of the spacecraft maintains a balance between the receipt and return of heat, as well as its redistribution between the structures of the spacecraft.
The module "Science" was launched from Baikonur on July 21, 2021 as part of the Proton-M carrier rocket.
The module began to develop in 1995, it was planned to launch in 2007, but the launch dates were repeatedly postponed for technical reasons.
July 29, "Science" docked to the ISS, replacing the old module "Pierce".
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Content: Russian spacecraft began an uncontrolled leak on Wednesday night
Russia ’ s spacewalk was canceled at the last minute on Wednesday night when a spacecraft attached to the International Space Station detected an unexpectedly large leak.
Cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petlin were in spacesuits with a sealed airlock when air traffic controllers told them to prepare to investigate a leak in the Soyuz spacecraft.
The spacewalk was subsequently canceled shortly before 22: 00 ET (03: 00 UTC on Thursday).
The leak appears to have originated from an external cooling circuit located at the back of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.
Public relations officer Rob Navias, commenting on the spacewalk for NASA television, described the spacecraft as "quite dramatic."
In the video of coolant leakage, you can see that particles are constantly pouring out of the Soyuz, which is a pretty cool spectacle.
None of the space station crew were in danger, including Prokopyev and Petlin, their fellow astronaut Anna Kikina; NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada; and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.
The leak occurred outside the station, not inside the orbiting lab.
However, the leak raises questions about the viability of the Soyuz spacecraft, the return flight to Earth by Prokopiev, Betlin and Frank Rubio from NASA.
They went to the space station again in September aboard the Soyuz spacecraft and are scheduled to return to Earth next spring.
Three hours later, Monday night, the leak was still going on and was not going to diminish.
Soyuz is a very tough spacecraft, so it is likely that this will not affect its ability to separate from the space station and return to Earth.
However, if Russian engineers — and engineers from NASA, given Rubio will be on board — determine that the problem exists, a new Soyuz will need to be delivered to the station.
Soyuz ships can be launched and docked independently.
However, this would mean that until the new spacecraft arrives, the three crew members will not have a rescue ship.
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The other four astronauts arrived aboard the station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in October.
This ship cannot accommodate seven people to return to Earth.
Given the duration of the spill, NASA likely also had concerns about the impact of all this ammonia on the surface of the space station and other docked vehicles.
Most of the ammonia is likely to evaporate from the surface of the device over time, but that will certainly complicate operations as the U.S. space agency works on its own spacewalk on Dec. 19 to install new solar panels.

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The depressurization occurred on board the Progress MS-21 cargo ship, which is due to leave the ISS on February 18.
This is reported by the press service of Roscosmos.
“Experts <... > recorded depressurization in the cargo ship Progress MS-21. <... > The transition hatch to the ship is closed, so Progress MS-21 is isolated from the total volume of the station. <... > The reasons for its depressurization are being clarified, ” the report says.
It is noted that all the equipment that should be launched by the spacecraft to Earth has already been loaded.
The incident did not affect the operation of the space station, its crew is not threatened.
Answering a question from RIA Novosti, the state corporation said that the incident will not affect the plans to withdraw the shuttle from orbit.
As planned, undocking and further flooding in the Pacific will take place on February 18.
Earlier on Saturday, the Progress MS-22 cargo ship, which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on February 9, docked to the ISS.
It delivered 1.3 tons of dry cargo, 720 kilograms of fuel, nitrogen, water, scientific equipment, provisions and various materials.
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Russian cosmonauts revealed new problems on the ISS
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Russian cosmonauts revealed new problems on the ISS
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New problems have been identified in the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
They were discovered by cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin said.
“I already know, I know that you seem to have found some problems, and you know how to cure them, ” the head of the state corporation said during a conversation with members of the ISS crew.
Rogozin expressed hope that the astronauts will be able to eliminate the problems on the station.
Recall that in March of this year, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov carried out repairs on the housing of the Zvezda module, where a crack and several possible places of leakage were found.
Later, cosmonaut Ivan Wagner said that air leakage after sealing the cracks decreased three times.
Astronaut Pavel Vinogradov told kp.ru about the main causes of cracks in the body of the ISS.

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Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to return the ISS crew to Earth will be sent to the station on February 20
The Roscosmos State Commission decided to return to Earth the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft with a damaged cooling system in unmanned mode.
According to the head of the corporation Yuri Borisov, for the return of the crew on February 20, a new Soyuz MS-23 will be sent to the station.
Because of this, the expedition of cosmonauts Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Petelin and astronaut Francisco Rubio was extended.
The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, on which a depressurization of the thermoregulation system occurred in December, will be launched from the ISS to Earth without a crew, and the cosmonaut mission at the station will be extended.
This was announced on January 11 by the general director of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov.
"Taking into account the analysis of the state of the ship, technical documentation and thermal calculations, it is concluded that the MS-22 ship should descend in an unmanned version," Borisov said.
He added that in the event of a critical situation at the station, the use of the ship to save the crew will be determined separately by the state commission.
According to Borisov, the specialists of the state corporation have carefully studied the circumstances of depressurization of the circuit in the thermoregulation system.
They came to the conclusion that the cause of the emergency was a collision with a meteoroid - space debris - at a speed of about 7000 m / s.
The State Commission considered several options for evacuating the crew from the ISS.
The first of these was the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 with one pilot and two free seats.
However, for such a flight, it was necessary to refine the ship and issue additional technical documentation.
All this would postpone the launch until at least March 2023.
Therefore, Roscosmos decided to send a ship without a crew to the station - this option is possible already on February 20.
In this regard, the expedition of astronauts on the ISS was extended.
"The flight of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio is extended with the return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft," Borisov explained.
Initially, on the "Suze MS-23" March 16, the station was supposed to go cosmonauts "Roscosmos" Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara.
About the damage to the skin docked to the ISS spacecraft “Soyuz MS-22 ”“ Roscosmos ” reported on December 15, 2022.
The crew reported that the diagnostic sensor had triggered, and pressure began to drop in the ship's cooling system.
External inspection confirmed the leak of the refrigerant, because of this, it was necessary to curtail all work on extra-ship activities.
All other systems of the ship and the station continued to work as normal.
The state corporation from the very beginning assumed that the cause of depressurization could be the ingress of a micrometeorite into the radiator of the thermoregulation system.
On December 16, the media reported that due to the disruption of the cooling system, the temperature at the Soyuz rose to 50 degrees.
However, Roscosmos denied this information, saying that the temperature on the ship increased slightly - up to 30 degrees.
“Changes in the temperature regime are now not critical for the operation of equipment and the comfort of the station crew, including according to the reports of the crew itself, and do not pose a threat to the life and health of astronauts, remaining within the permissible values, ” the state corporation explained.
Experts added that the temperature in the residential compartments of the Soyuz MS-22 remains within normal limits thanks to the cooling system of the Russian segment of the ISS.
Roscosmos noted that there are no threats to the life and health of the station crew, there is no need to evacuate them.
There are also no prerequisites for the urgent descent of the depressurized Soyuz MS-22 to Earth - this can be done in a planned mode.
On December 18, the temperature on the ship began to decrease gradually due to the actions of the MCC.
Borisov said that Roscosmos found the site of damage to the outer skin, there was a hole with a diameter of about 0.8 mm.
Borisov noted that in an emergency situation, the US astronauts behaved very worthily towards their Russian colleagues and extended a helping hand.
According to the head of the state corporation, the ISS crew set an example to the whole world how to work together in difficult situations.
“Let many politicians learn, ” added Borisov.
On December 29, NASA reported that it is not going to involve Elon Musk ’ s Crew Dragon spacecraft in the evacuation of the ISS crew.
NASA and Roscosmos will continue to jointly explore options before making a final decision on how to safely bring the crew home.
The crew of Expedition 68 remains in good condition, carrying out repair and research work, "Kelly Hampfries, a spokesman for the US space agency, said in a statement.
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Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov discovered in the Zvezda module on the International Space Station, presumably the last place of air leakage.
This was reported in the press service of Roscosmos.
The first small leak was discovered on the ISS back in 2019, since then, astronauts have been monitoring the situation and eliminating cracks in the hull.
Experts know how to return the module tightness.
This will be done as soon as Progress delivers the necessary equipment to orbit.
“Russian cosmonauts Peter Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov found a possible last place of air leakage in the intermediate chamber of the service module“ Star ” of the Russian segment of the ISS ”, — stated in the message.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously admitted the possibility of continuing the operation of the ISS after 2024.
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The Russian Zvezda module, which is one of the modules of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, could be permanently isolated due to air leakage.
This was reported by NASA Director for the ISS Robin Gatens, reports “Interfax ”.
She said that the situation with the module does not yet pose a serious threat to the ISS, but in the worst case, is considering the option of complete isolation of the “Star ”.
According to Gatens, NASA and Roscosmos are working together to eliminate air leakage in the module, but due to the small size of the crack, it is difficult to detect detectors and ultrasonic diagnostic tools.
In turn, Roscosmos said that the concern of their colleagues on the ISS “is not justified and is surprising. ”
According to the Russian Ministry, the cosmonauts found the site of the leak at the end of last month.
They promise to fix the problem when the Progress cargo ship delivers materials to the ISS.
Note that in the Russian segment of the space station repeatedly there were problems and other problems.
For the first time, an air leak in one of the modules was detected in September 2019, in October 2020, a crack was detected in the camera of the Zvezda module.
Recall that earlier it was reported that at the end of July 2021, after docking the Russian module “Science ” to the International space station, it turned on the engines, because of which the station began to move chaotically and for a time lost control over the orientation of the ISS.
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The ISS is a joint international project involving 14 countries: Russia, the United States, Japan, Canada and members of the European Space Agency Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, France, Switzerland, Sweden (originally the participants were Brazil and the United Kingdom).
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Leak of coolant occurred on the module "Science" of the Russian segment of the ISS
On the ISS there was a leak of coolant on the module "Science".
The problem occurred on the external circuit of the radiator, which was delivered to the station in 2012.
This was reported in Roscosmos.
The crew and the station were not in danger.
The main circuit of thermal control of the module operates in normal mode, providing comfortable conditions in the residential area, noted in the state corporation.
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HONG KONG, 27 March 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - China International Shipping Container (Group) Co., Ltd (CIMC Group) (stock code: 000039.SZ / 02039.HK) is pleased to announce its audited annual results for the 12 months ended 31 December 2023 (the “Reporting Period ” or the“ Year ”).
Financial summary
Renminbi
For the 12 months ended 31 December
Change
Year 2023
Year 2022
Operating income
1,278.10 billion
1,415.37 billion
(9.70%)
Operating profit
2,832 million
7.505 billion
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4601 million
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3.219 billion
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665 million
4284 million
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Performance Highlights
01.
Container system to overcome the cycle trough, to achieve steady operation, qualitative growth: from the second quarter of 2023, the standard dry box market demand has stabilized and recovered, and the net profit for the whole year of 2023 reached 1.79 billion yuan;
02.
Offshore Engineering segment revenue exceeded 10 billion yuan for the first time, the gross profit margin increased from 6.87 percent to 9.30 percent, and the net loss narrowed sharply to 31 million yuan.
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Road transport, energy and chemical liquid food two core segments of the business stable operation: road transport vehicles net profit increased by 119.80% to 2.448 billion yuan, CIMC Enrico revenue increased by 20.5% to 23.626 billion yuan, net profit attributable to mother increased by 5.6% to 1.114 billion yuan.
CIMC management said: "2023 is a year of economic recovery and development, and various industries are facing many opportunities and challenges. 2023 is the opening year of CIMC's new vision and new five-year strategic plan.
In line with the national policy orientation, CIMC deepens the implementation of its strategic theme of 2023-2027 "Accelerating the construction of new growth momentum and focusing on promoting high-quality development", and actively builds "to become a high-quality and respected world-class enterprise".
This year, the group faced difficulties, although the operating performance compared with the same period last year has dropped significantly, but the new quality of productivity is accelerating the formation, surging momentum is constantly accumulating.
During the period, the Group's scientific and technological innovation forces continued to emerge, and strategic emerging application products such as intelligent manufacturing, green manufacturing and green energy increased significantly, and core technologies continued to break through to deepen the road of promoting the flexible development of independent, controllable, safe and reliable supply chains.
In 2023, thanks to the continuous consolidation of the foundation of the global operating platform, the Group was able to stabilize risk fluctuations in a single region and achieve steady and high-quality development.
During the year, the Group achieved operating income of 127.8 billion yuan, down 9.70% year-on-year, the gross profit margin remained at 13.77%, and the net profit was about 1.863 billion yuan.
Although the overall operating performance is affected by the cycle fluctuations of the main business, the market demand for many businesses has shown a gradual warming trend in the second half of the year.
In terms of core business, the container manufacturing business has realized the improvement of product digitization and intelligent manufacturing operation level; the cumulative value of marine industrial orders increased 35% year-on-year to 5.4 billion US dollars. "The energy, chemical and liquid food equipment business benefited from high growth in the industry and continued cooperation orders," he said.
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Container manufacturing
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23.64%
48.26
27.42%
15.97%
17.94
Logistics services
201.66
15.78%
14.08
8.00%
6.98%
1.87
Road transport vehicles
250.87
19.63%
47.56
27.03%
18.96%
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Circulating vehicles
28.34
2.22%
3.38
1.92%
11.93%
(0.74)
Airports and logistics equipment, fire and rescue equipment
69.61
5.45%
14.66
8.33%
21.06%
2.22
Energy, Chemical
Liquid food equipment
250.26
19.58%
38.81
22.05%
15.51%
8.54
Marine Engineering
104.52
8.18%
9.72
5.53%
9.30%
(0.31)
Above the main plate
1207.40
94.48%
176.48
100.29%
14.62%
54.00
* As CIMC Vehicles and its subsidiaries transfer to the Group the total 100% shareholding of Shenzhen CIMC Special Vehicle Co., Ltd., resulting in non-recurring income of about RMB 848 million after deducting the impact of income tax.
Core business performance
In terms of container manufacturing, it has overcome the cycle trough to achieve stable operation and qualitative growth.
During the year, the consolidation market showed a cyclical adjustment, and at the same time affected by the decline in standard dry box and cold box business, the group's business production and sales fell significantly year-on-year, of which the cumulative sales volume of dry containers was 664,100 TEU (the same period of last year: 1,107,300 TEU), down about 40.03% year-on-year; the cumulative sales volume of refrigerated containers was 92,500 TEU (the same period: 131,400 TEU), down about 29.60%.
In special containers, the demand for open-top containers and frame containers has increased significantly.
During the reporting period, the Group achieved operating income of RMB30.213 billion (same period last year: RMB45.711 billion), down 33.90% year-on-year, and realized net profit of RMB1.794 billion (same period last year: RMB5.258 billion), down 65.88% year-on-year.
During this period, the Group focused on improving the digitalization and intelligence of the production line, improving the efficiency of the production line with innovation, responding to the production organization requirements caused by the fluctuation of production capacity with the large-scale application of robots, developing the industrialization scene of AI technology, improving the intelligent level of the production line, stabilizing product quality, and reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
According to Clarkson's forecast, the global container trade mileage growth rate in 2024 is expected to significantly increase to 8.3% (2023: 1.9%), and the supply and demand situation in the container transport market is expected to significantly ease.
Taking into account the risk of shortage caused by many uncertain events such as global geopolitical conflicts, and the increase in customer demand for spare parts and replacement of old containers, container demand is expected to enter a recovery track in 2024.
In terms of marine engineering, the gross profit margin of the division was increased to 9.3%, and the strategic transformation has achieved remarkable results and won the turnaround battle.
Taking marine energy as the starting point, thanks to the continuous improvement of the global marine and offshore market environment, the target market trend of the group's marine engineering business is stable, and the business strategy transformation has achieved remarkable results.
From the traditional oil and gas gradually expanded to the new energy field, the quality of the Group's marine industrial orders continued to improve, during the reporting period, the Group's business realized operating income of RMB10.452 billion (same period: RMB5.771 billion), up 81.12% year-on-year; net loss narrowed sharply to RMB31 billion (same period: net loss RMB334 million).
Among them, Yantai CIMC Raffles Marine Technology Group Co., Ltd., the operator of the marine engineering business, made a profit this year.
During the year, new signed orders recorded 1.63 billion US dollars, and the cumulative value of in-hand orders increased 35% year-on-year to 5.4 billion US dollars (the same period of last year: 4 billion US dollars), of which oil and gas business, wind power installation vessels and ro-ro vessels accounted for about 4: 3: 3, actively creating an effective business portfolio to stabilize the cycle.
In terms of offshore production operations, as the international oil price stabilizes at around US $80 per barrel and is expected to remain stable in 2024, international oil companies are investing more clearly in the next few years FID (Final Investment Decision), and national oil companies are also increasing production to ensure domestic energy security. Gradually rising.
The Group ’ s marine production operation and management business achieved three platforms to obtain lease contracts during the year.
The high oil price level and the trend towards ultra-deepwater oil and gas exploration and production make the traditional offshore oil and gas business is gradually warming up, among which the FPSO business performance is outstanding; benefiting from the medium and long-term oil production plan, the FPSO market has achieved strong growth.
At the same time, carbon neutrality brings major development opportunities for the industry, offshore wind power, hydrogen energy utilization, offshore photovoltaic, etc., will form an industrial scale, and further consolidate the transformation of global offshore equipment, offshore wind power installation related equipment and operation and maintenance services will be developed rapidly.
In the future, the Group ’ s marine engineering business will continue to actively promote business transformation and layout, actively introduce strategic investors, maintain the fundamentals of continuous qualitative growth of orders, ensure performance delivery, and strictly control risks and lean management to achieve quality and efficiency in enterprise operations.
In the road transport vehicle business, the performance of the good news frequently, and then climb to the peak.
CIMC Vehicles fully opened its third venture in 2023, and the domestic side efficiently deployed the "Star Chain Plan" to promote the structural reform of the semi-trailer business production organization, and the market share remained the first in China; overseas, the North American business developed steadily, and the European business broke out against the trend to achieve qualitative growth.
During the reporting period, CIMC ’ s vehicle performance peaked again, achieving revenue growth of 6.21% to 25.087 billion yuan (year-over-year: 23.621 billion yuan) and net profit growth of 11.980% to 2.448 billion yuan (year-over-year: 1.114 billion yuan). Take the new strategy as the compass, and innovation as the sail, and cross the star sea of the third venture.
Energy, chemical and liquid food equipment business, to achieve steady growth, the core business to maintain the leading advantages at home and abroad.
The business achieved an operating income of 25.026 billion yuan (21.250 billion yuan in the same period of last year), up 17.77% year-on-year, and net profit fell 18.03% year-on-year to 854 million yuan (1.042 billion yuan in the same period of last year).
Among them, Enrico achieved revenue of 23.626 billion yuan (the same period of last year: 19.602 billion yuan), an increase of 20.5%.
Enrico 's clean energy division LNG and LPG business downstream terminal application areas increased significantly, hydrogen business continued to lead the industry breakthrough "card technology" research and development, achieved a 59.0% growth; chemical environment division CIMC (301559.SZ) successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange GEM in 2023, in 2023 special tank demand, sales and operating income maintained a high level.
Based on the acceleration of the global green and low-carbon transformation of energy, the higher requirements of safety, environmental protection and efficiency in the global chemical industry, and the upgrading of differentiated demand in the global liquid food equipment industry, Enrico will fully grasp the global market development opportunities and continue to lead and consolidate the leading position in each segment of the industry.
Future development and outlook
Group management said: "Looking forward to 2024, the global economy and trade still face great challenges and uncertainties.
However, with the improvement of overseas interest rate cuts, there is still moderate room for monetary and financial policies, coupled with container demand is expected to enter the recovery track, and the recovery of the global marine and offshore industries will be expected to form an effective support for the recovery of the global economy and industry.
In 2024, under the leading structure of the global operating platform, the Group will closely follow the national policy guidance, accelerate the formation and consolidation of new quality productivity, deepen the implementation of the strategic theme of “Accelerate the construction of new growth momentum, and strive to promote high-quality development ”, coordinate reasonable growth of“ quantity ” and effective improvement of “quality ”, improve shareholder returns, continuously create new value and new momentum, and achieve leapfrog growth goals of scale.
Actively accelerate the construction of new growth momentum, the Group will consolidate the manufacturing base, give play to the advantages of scale, promote transformation and upgrading, and achieve the expansion of the champion product cluster of core business; create innovative solutions for products, services and models; build the emerging business momentum of CIMC ’ s leap-forward development strategy; and lead the innovative development of logistics and energy industry chains.
While striving to achieve scale growth, the Group focuses on high-quality development, taking into account mergers and acquisitions and asset optimization, strengthening the rational allocation of financial resources, strengthening scientific and technological innovation and digitalization, and promoting intelligent manufacturing, intelligent products and platform services. ”
About China International Shipping Container (Group) Co., Ltd.
CIMC Group is the world ’ s leading supplier of equipment and solutions for the logistics and energy industries. The industrial cluster mainly covers the logistics field and the energy industry, and the leading market position continues to consolidate.
In the field of logistics, the Group still insists on the container manufacturing business as the core, and incubates the road transport vehicle business, the airport and logistics equipment / fire and rescue equipment business, supplemented by the logistics service business and the recycling vehicle business to provide products and services in the field of logistics. Financial and asset management business.
As a diversified multinational industrial group serving the global market, CIMC has more than 300 member enterprises in Asia, North America, Europe, Australia and other regions. CIMC has 3 listed companies, and customers and sales networks are distributed in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. In 2023, CIMC achieved operating income of RMB127.81 billion, gross margin remained at 13.77% and net profit of RMB1.863 billion. The top 500 list is 170.
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