It earned $312.9m in 2014 compared to $717.3m the year before.

The profit of 2013 includes a net gain of $293.4m from the disposal of an asset.

Revenue grew almost one tenth from $798.6m to $870m with the company’s terminal business climbing 13.6% to post turnover of $517m.

The Chinese giant operator mainly attributed this increase to the operations of the terminals in Piraeus, Guangzhou and Xiamen.

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