Earnings Release • Oct 17, 2024
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17 October 2024
➢ Group revenue for the third quarter of 2024 reached €475 million (-0.4%1 due to the normalisation of ElecLink's contribution)
Yann Leriche, Chief Executive Officer of Getlink, commented: "Apart from the expected normalisation of ElecLink's contribution, the historical activities are growing in the third quarter of 2024, which is a real satisfaction. Based on a re-entry into service of ElecLink mid-November, the Group confirms its guidance."
1 All comparisons with revenue for the first nine months of 2023 are made at the average exchange rate for the first nine months of 2024 of £1 = €1.180.
2 Target set based on the current scope of consolidation and an exchange rate of £1 = €1.15, assuming a constant regulatory and fiscal environment.
• Appointment of Didier Cazelles who joined Eurotunnel on 1 October 2024, to take on the role of Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Reporting to Yann Leriche, he is a member of the Group's Executive Committee and assumes operational and managerial responsibility for Eurotunnel, including the management of railway operations, infrastructure management, safety, commercial and human resources.
• Suspension of activity since 25 September following a fault detection. The investigations into the incident have enabled the identification of the defect located outside the Tunnel in France. The current date for re-entry into service is estimated on 16 November. The suspension of activity up to 16 November will have a commercial impact estimated at approximately €46 million4 .
3 Calculated using a similar methodology to 2024.
4 Estimated commercial impact, composed of the contracted revenues for the period from 25 September to 15 November 2024 that will not be delivered representing €36 million, the short-term capacity auctions revenues that could have, based on current market spreads, generated €2 million and the costs and penalty risks (in particular related to
• Continued participation in auctions. At 30 September, ElecLink had secured nearly €308 million in revenue for 20245 (representing 95% of capacity) after taking into account the suspension of activity announced until 16 November. For 2025, more than €160 million in revenue (65% of capacity) has been secured, subject to effective delivery of the service.
| € million | Q3 2024 unaudited |
Q3 2023 restated* |
Variation | Q3 2023 published** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shuttle Services | 237 | 235 | 1% | 231 |
| Railway Network | 111 | 101 | 10% | 100 |
| Other revenue | 11 | 7 | 57% | 7 |
| Sub-total Eurotunnel | 359 | 343 | 5% | 338 |
| Europorte | 40 | 38 | 5% | 38 |
| ElecLink | 76 | 96 | -21% | 96 |
| Revenue | 475 | 477 | -0.4% | 472 |
* Restated at the average exchange rate for the first nine months of 2024: £1 = €1.180.
** Average exchange rate for the first nine months of 2023: £1 = €1.154.
The Group's consolidated revenue for the third quarter were overall stable at €475 million (-0.4% vs Q3 2023), at a constant exchange rate.
At €359 million, Eurotunnel's revenue was up 5% compared to the third quarter of 2023, representing a record quarter.
Shuttle revenue totalled €237 million, up 1% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year.
Railway Network revenue was up 10% at €111 million.
Revenue growth of 5% to €40 million.
capacity markets rules) related to the suspension of the activity for €8 million. These elements do not take into account the profit-sharing mechanism provision.
5 Subject to effective delivery of the service.
In the third quarter, ElecLink reported revenue of €76 million, down 21%, impacted by the expected normalisation of electricity markets and to a lesser extent by the suspension of activity since 25 September.
The Group confirms its EBITDA target for 2024 of between €780 and €830 million6 .
This target takes into account:
| € million | 9M 2024 unaudited |
9M 2023 restated* |
Variation | 9M 2023 published** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange rate €/£ | 1.180 | 1.180 | 1.154 | |
| Shuttle Servcies | 565 | 578 | -2% | 570 |
| Railway Network | 304 | 282 | 8% | 279 |
| Other revenue | 30 | 20 | 50% | 20 |
| Sub-total Eurotunnel | 899 | 880 | 2% | 869 |
| Europorte | 123 | 111 | 11% | 111 |
| ElecLink | 261 | 426 | -39% | 426 |
| Revenue | 1,283 | 1,417 | -9% | 1,406 |
* Restated at the average exchange rate for the first nine months of 2024: £1 = €1.180.
** Average exchange rate for the first nine months of 2023: £1 = €1.154.
For the first nine months of the year, Group revenue reached €1,283 million, down 9% compared to 2023.
6 Target set based on the current scope of consolidation and an exchange rate of £1 = €1.15, assuming a constant regulatory and fiscal environment.
| Q3 2024 | Q3 2023 | Variation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truck Shuttles | Trucks | 288,849 | 283,655 | 2% |
| Passenger Shuttles | Passenger vehicles* |
777,705 | 779,966 | -0.3% |
| High Speed passenger trains (Eurostar)** |
Passengers | 2,981,812 | 3,011,519 | -1% |
| Rail freight trains*** | Trains | 297 | 366 | -19% |
| 9 months 2024 |
9 months 2023 |
Variation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Truck Shuttles | Trucks | 890,559 | 908,090 | -2% |
| Passenger Shuttles | Passenger vehicles* |
1,745,667 | 1,789,865 | -2% |
| High Speed passenger trains (Eurostar)** |
Passengers | 8,359,894 | 8,103,170 | 3% |
| Rail freight trains*** | Trains | 967 | 1,099 | -12% |
* Including motorbikes, vehicles with trailers, caravans, motorhomes and coaches.
** Only passengers travelling through the Channel Tunnel are included in this table, which excludes journeys between continental stations (Brussels-Calais, Brussels-Lille, Brussels-Paris, etc..).
*** Trains operated by railway companies (DB Cargo on behalf of BRB, SNCF and its subsidiaries, and GB Railfreight) using the Tunnel.
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Disclaimer: All forward-looking statements in this report are Getlink SE management's present expectations of future events and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. For a detailed description of these factors and uncertainties, please refer to the section "Risk Factors" in our Universal Registration Document and documents filed by the Group with the French securities regulator (AMF) (available on the Group's website https://www.getlinkgroup.com). Getlink SE undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements.
Getlink SE (Euronext Paris: GET), through its subsidiary Eurotunnel, is the concession holder until 2086 for the Channel Tunnel infrastructure and operates Truck Shuttles and Passenger Shuttles (cars and coaches) between Folkestone (UK) and Calais (France). Since 31 December 2020 Eurotunnel has been developing the smart border to ensure that the Tunnel remains the fastest, most reliable, easiest and most environmentally friendly way to cross the Channel. Since it opened in 1994, close to 500 million people and more than 102 million vehicles have travelled through the Channel Tunnel. This unique land link, which carries a quarter of trade between the Continent and the United Kingdom, has become a vital link, reinforced by the ElecLink electricity interconnector installed in the Tunnel, which helps to balance energy needs between France and the United Kingdom. Getlink completes its sustainable mobility services with its rail freight subsidiary Europorte. Committed to "low-carbon" services that control their impact on the environment (through its activities, the Group avoids the equivalent of 1.9 million tonnes of CO2 per year), Getlink has made the place of people, nature and territories a central concern.
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