The Hong Kong-listed firm sold its 21.8% stake in ChinaInternational Marine Containers (CIMC) to China Cosco Holdings earlier thisyear and booked a gain of just under $400m from the sale.
It meant earnings tripled to $560.3m in the sixmonths to 30 June from $179m a year earlier, the company said in an earningsstatement today.
Revenue rose 7.6% to $395m.
China Cosco Holdings is restructuring assets in a bidto return to profitability as a third straight annual loss may result in itsshares being delisted in Shanghai.
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