Friday, 13 August 2010

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief


via Khmer NZ

Beer profits frothing up

Friday, 13 August 2010 15:00 Jeremy Mullins

ASIA Pacific Breweries, the producer of Tiger and Anchor beer, saw its Indochina profits for the May to July quarter climb 30 percent to over US$40 million compared to the period last year, according to financial statements released yesterday. Its Indochina business, including its joint ownership stale in Cambodia Brewery Ltd as well as Vietnam and Laos operations, generated 42 percent of the firm’s total $97.4 million global profits and around one-third of its worldwide $462 million revenue for the quarter, it said. Cambodia Brewery officials did not return a request for comment yesterday.

Sihanoukville Port sees 17pc jump in shipments

Friday, 13 August 2010 15:00 Chun Sophal

FREIGHT shipments through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port increased 17 percent in July over the previous month, according to figures obtained yesterday. Some 23,146 twenty-foot equivalent units were shipped through the port last month, a 17.2 percent increase on the 19,750 TEUs shipped in June. Total freight shipments through the port in the first seven months totalled 126,770 TEUs, a 3.2 percent increase on the 122,783 that went through the port in the same period in 2009. The port has seen large increases in shipments in some products such as oil, acacia wood, garments and construction materials, Sihanoukville Autonomous Port deputy director general Ma Sun Hot said yesterday.

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