（吉隆坡14日讯）森那美（Sime，4197，主板贸服股）投资14亿令吉、未来3年拓展中国山东的潍坊码头业务。
森那美总裁兼总执行长拿督莫哈末巴基沙烈在记者会上表示：“我们的码头业务是拓展中国市场的主要策略。我们会加速发展这业务。”
他说，除了上述投资案，森那美也拨出了3亿5000万令吉资金建设码头设施。
根据潍坊森那美码头5年发展计划书，森那美计划2017年前倍增码头船只停泊位和提高货物承接能力，即从现在的每年
1800万吨，增至5年后的5000万吨。
签6了解备忘录
资料显示，潍坊森那美码头去年营业额和税前盈利分别录得9000万令吉和5000万令吉。
同时，森那美向马交所报备，潍坊森那美码头与6家公司签署6份有关发展潍坊码头的了解备忘录。
6家公司分别为Downstream物流、DHL Global Forwarding管理、Changshu Westerlund Warehousing、ShanDong LuZhong分销、Huadian Coorperation潍坊电力和潍坊政府。
其中5份了解备忘录内容为合作使用码头设施，与潍坊政府的了解备忘录则是支持码头未来拓展计划。
成都设宝悦二手车中心
森那美也宣布，正式成立成都宝悦（Chengdu Bow Yue）二手车中心有限公司。
集团透过文告表示：“我们在6月13日收到营业执照，正式开业。”
资料显示，注册资本为3500万人民币（约1702万令吉）的成都宝悦持有人，为森那美独资子公司——BMW Concessionaires（香港）有限公司。
“成都宝悦的核心业务为展示和销售二手车，同时也有汽车买卖质询服务。”
森美那也预料成都宝悦的成立，将不会为截至6月30日财年的盈利和净资产造成影响。
文章转引自马来西亚《南洋商报》，2012年6月16日。
WEIFANG: Sime Darby Bhd plans to invest RM1.4bil in the next three years to expand its port operations in Weifang, China. The investment is for a five-year development plan for the port to increase the terminal annual handling capacity to 50 million tonnes of cargo by 2017 from the current 18 million. The total number of berths at the port is expected to be nearly double of what are available today.
On top of the earmarked RM1.4bil, a further RM350mil investment is being considered depending on economic factors. Sime Darby chairman Tun Musa Hitam said the expansion highlighted the growing importance of China to the group.
“We have come a long way in struggling to grow the port for the past seven years. But after the hard work we are now ready to expand and develop Weifang Port into a modern terminal,” he said before the signing of memorandum of understanding between Weifang Port and its five new customers committed to use the port facilities as well as with the Weifang City authority in facilitating all related documentation process on June 14.
Tun Musa added that China was now the strongest growth engine of the global economy and its economic status has a significant impact on the rest of the world and there is no doubt that it could become the world’s largest economy in the near future.
“China has attractive incentives and policies that create a conducive business environment for foreign investors like Sime Darby and we are certainly glad to be a part of its growth,” he said.
The Sime Darby group has operations in over 13 provinces in China. Weifang Port is established by the incorporation of Weifang Sime Darby Co Ltd, a joint venture between Sime Darby (HK) Ltd (80.6%), Sime Darby Utilities Sdn Bhd (18.4%) and Weifang Port Co Ltd (1%).
For the financial year ended June 30, 2011 (FY11), Sime Darby’s pretax profit from its China operations doubled to some RM600mil from RM300mil in FY10.
Weifang Sime Darby Port posted a turnover of RM90mil in FY11, more than double of what was achieved in FY07. Its profit before interest and tax rose to RM50mil in FY11 from RM25mil in 2007. This was mainly due to the rise in throughput handled by the port.
Sime Darby president and group chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Bakke Salleh noted the group’s commitment to China, particularly in the ports business where prospects remained bright.
“Our ports business is one of our key expansion strategies in China. We have ambitious plans to grow and we will double our efforts to make speedy progress. We want to be a leading port player in Shandong,” he said.
In general, Sime Darby has invested some RM10bil in China from 2007 until 2011. As of last year, the group specifically invested some RM1bil in its ports and utilities businesses in China.
Weifang Sime Darby Port is located in the prime region of Bohai Sea’s economic belt. It is 50km away from Weifang City, a prefecture-level city in central Shandong Province.
SOURCE: The Star
