By 2025, Luka Koper aims to achieve a revenue increase of 24% and a throughput of 27.3m tons.
Luka Koper published a document on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange announcing their 2020 – 2025 plan. According to it, in the coming years, Luka Koper will focus on increasing port capacities. By the time the renovated double-track railway line will be operational, the company states that they will be ready to satisfy their clients’ needs with an increased number of berths and storage areas, road and rail infrastructure and projects in the field of digital transformation.
At the same time, with a determined commercial approach, the company aims to ensure an increase in throughput volumes, thereby maintaining primacy among the ports in the northern Adriatic and the Mediterranean.
Luka Koper Group has set the following targets:
| wdt_ID | Target | Target value in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Net sales | EUR 279.4m |
| 2 | Total throughput | 27.3m tons |
| 3 | Container throughput | 1.227m TEUs |
| 4 | Car throughput | 0.886m units |
| 5 | ROE | 8.10% |
| 6 | EBIT | EUR 47.8m |
| 7 | EBITDA margin | 32.10% |
| 8 | Investments (2020 - 2025) | EUR 576.5m |
Revenues
By 2025, the Group shall increase revenue by 24% through exploiting synergies in the logistics chain, acquiring new strategic markets, renewing long-term and targeted commercial policies, and providing a revenue structure targeted at higher value-added groups.
Throughput
In 2025, total throughput will total 27.3m tons of cargo that the Group shall achieve through comprehensively addressing their clients’ needs. Luka Koper also targets 1.227m TEUs in the commodity group Containers and 0.886m car units in the commodity group Cars.
Investments
The Group shall invest EUR 576.5m into increasing the capacity and throughput of the port. This will allow the Group to be prepared for the opening of the double-track railway line and to increase the advantages and opportunities of this logistics route. At the same time, by the time the renovated double-track line is open, the Group will pursue the goal of transporting at least 60% of the cargo from/to the Port of Koper by rail, after which the share will be increased to 70%.
In the period up to 2025, 29% of investments will be earmarked for warehouses and storage areas, 28% for construction and reconstruction of quaysides, 33% for equipment and the remaining 10% for road and rail infrastructure.
The company will invest EUR 213.5m in public infrastructure (road and rail infrastructure, quayside/seabed depth) and EUR 363m in non-public infrastructure (storage areas and warehouses, equipment).
Significant investments in the road network within the port include the construction of a new, third gate to the port and the relocation of the town approach road to the port periphery. This will prevent the crossing of the main port bypass road with railway tracks and increase traffic flow and safety.
