Transpac benchmark Kerry Logistics: a mixed bag? Or…?

You may be forgiven for thinking that the first-half trading update by Kerry Logistics Network, out a couple of days ago*, was really, really good..

(*Released on 28 August: full report here)

… despite a “slight drop” in earnings (click to expand the table above) – on a comparable H1 24 versus H1 23 basis – for its integrated logistics (IL) unit, which was responsible for just less than one-third of group sales in the first half.

With almost US$2.4bn in H1 24 …