Embraer beats record of deliveries in the first semester
Exame - 07/07/2008
Embraer delivered 97 aircraft jets in the first semester. The volume is record-breaking and represents an increase of 59% over the shipped equipments in the same period last year. The company also closed June with another record - the firm orders in its portfolio were 20.7 billion dollars, including all segments in which it works: commercial, executive and defense aviation. In the second quarter, Embraer delivered 43 aircrafts to the commercial segment and nine in the executive one. According to the company, the performance in the first half of the year reaffirms the estimation of delivering 195 to 200 jets this year, with a trend to reach the forecast's ceiling. Besides, 10 to 15 jet units of Phenom 100 should be delivered. The company affirms that the firm orders of jet units of the Phenom family are close to 800. Between April and June, Embraer signed purchase contracts of seven jet units of Embraer 170 with the ETA Star Group, form Dubai, and of five jet units of Embraer 175 with Trip Linhas Aéreas, Brazil's biggest regional flight company. The new has stimulated investors. Around 11:00 a.m., the ordinary shares of the company (EMBR3, with voting rights) showed a high of 3.94%, and were negotiated at R$ 10.02. At the same instant, the Ibovespa, the main index of the São Paulo stock exchange, worked in high, but in a lower rhythm - 2.34%, at 60,757 points.