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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 20 JANUARY 2016 12 Regular market closed – 19/1/2016 Symbol Code Volume Traded Value Traded Trades High Price Low Price Open Price Close Price Change ▲ BOV 101,790 228,840.530 36 2.257 2.238 2.250 2.250 0.002 ▲ HSB 1,700 2,994.600 3 1.790 1.750 1.750 1.790 0.050 ▲ MIA 28,640 123,152.000 16 4.300 4.300 4.300 4.300 0.070 ● MLT 20,000 19,000.000 2 0.950 0.950 0.950 0.950 0.000 ▲ MPC 37,510 21,484.680 7 0.580 0.570 0.575 0.580 0.005 ▲ MTP 100 192.000 1 1.920 1.920 1.920 1.920 0.070 ▲ RS2 87,794 286,466.700 11 3.330 3.260 3.330 3.265 0.005 ● SFC 2,900 17,400.000 2 6.000 6.000 6.000 6.000 0.000 ▲ TML 20,000 19,095.000 3 0.960 0.950 0.950 0.960 0.010 ▲ G16A 11,647 11,801.910 1 101.330 101.330 101.330 101.330 0.140 ● G20A 20,965 25,346.690 1 120.900 120.900 120.900 120.900 0.000 ▲ G20B 10,000 11,791.000 1 117.910 117.910 117.910 117.910 0.060 ▲ G21A 9,989 12,379.370 2 123.930 123.930 123.930 123.930 0.030 ▲ G24A 5,000 5,844.000 1 116.880 116.880 116.880 116.880 0.610 ● G29BA 14,000 14,807.800 2 105.770 105.770 105.770 105.770 0.000 ▲ G31A 20,000 28,414.000 1 142.070 142.070 142.070 142.070 0.040 ▼ G32A 24,500 33,101.950 2 135.110 135.110 135.110 135.110 -0.050 ▲ G32B 10,000 13,235.370 3 132.360 132.150 132.150 132.360 0.210 ▼ G34A 150,000 190,740.000 1 127.160 127.160 127.160 127.160 -0.030 ▼ G40A 15,500 16,681.000 3 107.870 107.500 107.870 107.500 -0.520 ● BV30A 70,000 70,000.000 5 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 0.000 ▲ GC16A 5,000 4,825.000 1 96.500 96.500 96.500 96.500 0.400 ▲ HP25A 18,400 19,571.620 5 106.490 106.000 106.000 106.490 0.490 ● IG24A 4,500 4,905.000 1 109.000 109.000 109.000 109.000 0.000 ● IH21A 8,500 9,221.650 1 108.490 108.490 108.490 108.490 0.000 ● MD18A 20,000 20,700.000 1 103.500 103.500 103.500 103.500 0.000 ▲ MD18B 33,800 34,219.120 3 101.240 101.240 101.240 101.240 0.020 ● MF24A 8,000 8,849.600 2 110.620 110.620 110.620 110.620 0.000 ● MI17A 5,000 5,000.000 1 100.000 100.000 100.000 100.000 0.000 ▲ MS23A 6,000 6,661.200 3 111.020 111.020 111.020 111.020 0.010 ● PG20A 8,800 9,680.000 1 110.000 110.000 110.000 110.000 0.000 ▼ TI20A 3,000 3,165.000 1 105.500 105.500 105.500 105.500 -0.500 Market Summary as at January 19 , 2016 Equity Offi cial List Session State ................................................................... Market Closed Number of trades ............................................................. 124 Volume Traded ................................................................. 783,035 Value of € denominated securities .................................... 1,245,347.670 Value of US$ denominated securities ................................ 0.000 Value of GBP£ denominated securities .............................. 34,219.120 Current Index ................................................................... 4,500.949 Previous Index ................................................................. 4,469.318 Change in Index (%) ......................................................... 0.708% 6pm Holdings plc .......................... 0.700 0.00% MaltaPost plc ................................. 1.850 -2.58% Bank of Valletta plc ........................ 2.248 0.81% Medserv plc .................................. 1.680 0.00% FIMBank plc .................................. 0.630 0.00% Mapfre Middlesea plc .................... 2.200 -5.58% GlobalCapital plc ........................... 0.450 0.00% MIDI plc ........................................ 0.363 0.00% GO plc ........................................... 3.100 0.00% Plaza Centres plc ........................... 1.000 0.00% Grand Harbour Marina plc ............. 1.030 0.00% RS2 Software plc............................ 3.260 -2.10% HSBC Bank Malta plc ..................... 1.740 0.52% Simonds Farsons Cisk plc ............... 6.000 0.00% International Hotel Investments plc 0.740 0.00% Tigné Mall plc ................................ 0.950 0.00% Island Hotels Group Holdings plc ... 1.101 0.00% Pefaco International plc ................. 2.240 0.00% Lombard Bank Malta plc ................ 2.485 0.00% Santumas Shareholdings plc ......... 1.818 0.00% Malita Investments plc ................... 0.950 0.00% Malta Properties Company plc ........ 0.575 0.88% Malta International Airport plc ....... 4.230 -1.63% MSE Index Business Today 346,918 licensed vehicles on the road at the end of 2015 At the end of December 2015, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 346,918, up by 0.7 per cent over the previous quarter. At the end of December last year, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 346,918. Of these, 79.4 per cent were passenger cars, 13.7 per cent were commercial vehicles, 5.8 per cent were motorcycles, while buses and minibuses accounted for less than one per cent. New licences issued during the period under review amounted to 5,445. The majority of new licences (4,360 or 80.1 per cent of the total) were issued to passenger cars, followed by motorcycles with 528. Newly licensed 'new' motor vehicles amounted to 2,342, or 43.0 per cent of the total, and newly licensed 'used' motor vehicles totalled 3,103. In the fourth quarter last year, 106 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,139, while scrapped vehicles totalled 3,431. As at the end of December last year, 210,289 vehicles, or 60.6 per cent of the total, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines reached 135,150, or 39.0 per cent of the total. Three new airlines to start fl ying to Malta next summer Martina Borg Three new airlines are expected to start flying to Malta next summer – Volotea from Catania, Iberia Express from Madrid and Czech Republic from Prague. Addressing a news conference, Malta International Airport CEO Alan Borg also presented the traffic results for 2015: a total of 4,618,642 passengers passed through MIA in 2015. The airport also expects at least 4.73 million passengers during this year – a 2.4% increase over last year. Borg added that EasyJet will launch a new route to Geneva and Ryaniar will be expanding their operations by another 10 routes in summer, including Poznan, Baden-Baden and Cologne. Flights will be added to Athens, Budapest and Helsinki through Aegean, Wizzair and Finnair respectively. The top markets for 2015 remained the United Kingdom – which saw an increase of 4.7% – and Italy and Germany. Borg explained that the increases in the UK market had been attributed to increased activity by British Airways, and that Air Malta and Ryanair had both increased their flights to Italy. He added however that the increase in Germany had been mostly due to more tour cruises, and that there were plans to further focus on the sector. Substantial increases were also registered from Turkey (82.7%), Poland (50.1%) and Switzerland (18.7%). Commenting on the results, Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis said he was "not impressed" by results achieved in the German sector and he felt that more could go into connectivity and marketing in the country. Borg explained that added flights and destinations in the country were a reaction to these figures, and that MIA had also identified strategic routes it wanted to work on in the future, namely, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Portugal, Spain and possibly even Russia. Zammit Lewis said the MIA had achieved extremely positive results, and that it had managed to retain positive results despite the stumbling blocks that the Libyan and Russian markets had presented over the year. "The past year has already proved effective in fighting the issues of seasonality, with October, a usually rather weak month, registering some 421,723 arrivals last year," Zammit Lewis said, adding that the shoulder months in particular had registered a 7.4% increase. 'The government's plan for Air Malta is to open up to as many different markets as possible' – Minister Commenting on the performance of Air Malta in particular, Zammit Lewis said the airline had suffered due to the conflict in Libya and the political uncertainty around Russia, but the national airline had secured a minimal drop of 0.6% in spite of this. "The airline managed to capitalise by adding more flights to Amsterdam, as well as increasing destinations in Italy," Borg said. Zammit Lewis commented that the national airline would follow a similar business plan to the one followed by the MIA; that of expanding to other locations and not relying merely on staple markets. "We want a strategic partner that guarantees a bigger network for the airline," he said. Speaking to MaltaToday later on, Zammit Lewis said that talks held last week had established a team run by President Emeritus George Abela to discuss the future of Air Malta employees in light of the upcoming agreement.