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Publication Date : 21-02-2014
For the last couple of years, Malaysia's national airline regularly assured analysts that it would get back into the black this year.
But at its latest conference call with analysts this week to discuss last year's dismal performance, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) stayed pointedly clear of any such assurance.
It was a sign, analysts said, of the pessimistic outlook for the airline, with competition from low-cost carriers and high fuel costs.
MAS, which lost money in most quarters for the past two years, posted a 1.17 billion ringgit (US$353 million) loss last year. Worse, market watchers say its future looks turbulent with no clear skies in sight.
While the impact of low-cost carriers such as AirAsia and newcomer Malindo Air and high fuel costs are felt across the industry, analysts say MAS has other problems - a bloated staff and low productivity.
"It is like the civil service - hardly anyone gets fired because it is too politically sensitive," Aizuddin Pengiran, an analyst at HwangDBS Investment Bank, told The Straits Times.
The airline has 101 aircraft, including six Airbus A-380 planes, and employs about 19,400 people.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has 102 aircraft and employs 23,000 people while Cathay Pacific has 140 planes and 20,000 staff members.
But in terms of productivity, MAS falls behind. SIA generated about S$651,000 (US$515,031) in revenue per employee last year, while MAS' employees generated half as much - about 727,400 ringgit. Cathay's staff generated the most, at US$537,000.
MAS is controlled by state investor Khazanah Nasional, with a 69.4 per cent stake.
Most of MAS' staff are backed by a powerful union, which reversed an alliance between MAS and AirAsia in 2011 on claims that it would lead to massive job cuts.
Last year, MAS cut salaries and reduced contract workers, trimming staff costs by about 9 per cent to about 2.3 billion ringgit. But it also cut ticket prices to compete with low-cost carriers, leading to bigger losses.
Maybank Investment Bank and RHB Investment Bank have since downgraded the airline from "hold" to "sell".
Meanwhile, AirAsia, which has grown to be the largest low-cost carrier in the region in 13 years, is now valued at more than 6.5 billion ringgit, overtaking MAS' market capitalisation of 4.7 billion ringgit.
In several tweets on Wednesday, AirAsia's chief Tony Fernandes said he was "shocked" by MAS' losses and criticised the airline for squandering public funds.
The government bailed MAS out in 2001 and again in 2012, with several business turnaround plans in between.
The airline has tried cutting unprofitable routes and filling empty seats with discounted fares. It has also sold non-core assets, including prized paintings by famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero.
But market watchers are not impressed.
"MAS cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again, and still hope for some magic to come through," analyst Mohshin Aziz told The Straits Times recently.
He thinks MAS needs a more radical strategy, such as hiving off its divisions like its engineering and cargo units into standalone companies and pushing sales of its premium seats.
"Why not?" Mohshin asked. "Year 2013 was disastrous enough for MAS to know there is no subtle way for a turnaround."
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the room was big and was the only positive thing in the hotel.
Let's begin from the staff. When we arrived to the hotel we asked to do an early check in, but Jacob at the reception didn't wanted to help us and told us to come back 6 hours later, after we've been in 12 hours flight to Toronto. This thing made us so mad and our first day was horrible because of that. In Addition, the breakfast is so minimally, only cheap bread and cheese and peanut butter, and also some cereals. While the hotel is consider a downtown hotel, its 15 minutes walk from the center of downtown (eaton center, dundas yange square), the subway is 10 minutes walk. The immediate blocks of the hotel are full of homeless people and other "fruit cake".
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The group said earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) at the European unit were 135 million pounds ($210.4 million) in the year to the end of March, unchanged versus the previous year and at the bottom of the company's 135-150 million pound forecast range.
Revenues at the division were 5.5 percent lower at 3.3 billion pounds.
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Thanks Jaideep and Gokul - this series has been absolutely brilliant - one of the best things I've ever seen on Cricinfo or any sport site. So many interesting interviewees!
the funniest part was when andy was describing kohli bowling lol
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Russia's GCS seeks to expand its activities related to dry and liquid bulk transportation in ISO containers
Novorossiysk's Global Container Service Group (GCS) has announced its intention to expand further into the transportation of bulk cargoes using ISO containers. GCS is already involved in the loading, unloading and transportation of agribulks in standard containers and liquids in flexi-tanks. This business is conducted through partnerships with international manufacturers/ producers and logistics providers with GCS taking care of the landside transport in Russia.
Since 2007, GCS has been investing into the construction of specialised silo facilities for the containerisation of export grains. The annual traffic produced by this facility, which is still a rare concept in Russia, was almost 4800 TEU in 2011 with commodities being shipped to destinations in SE Asia, the ISC and East Med. GCS is sure that there is great potential for the containerisation of grains in Russia given that the country is one of the world largest grain exporters.
Besides food-stuffs in bulk, GCS offers wide containerisation opportunities for fertiliser exporters. Leading Russian producers of nitroammophos, ammonium nitrate and carbamide ship more than 2000 TEU a year via the GCS off-dock terminals. Since 2011, the company has also provided stuffing of containers, notably with sulphur, a waste product from oil refining that is being exported in ever-greater volumes from Russia to China and SE Asia.
Another important investment that has been undertaken by GCS in recent years has been the development of a terminal complex for the loading of bulk liquids into flexi-tanks. The main items handled are motor oils and polymers, exported from Russia to the Far East and East Med. In cooperation with flexi-tank operators, GCS offers containerisation and transportation for high grade and base oil and petrochemical products. Volumes are now running at about 1500 TEU/year.
Andrey Naraevsky, GCS's Director Liner and Business Development, says his company is ready to invest further into facilities such as bulk storage areas, conveyors and pumping and bagging plants:
"We will be capable of handling a variety of bulk commodities moving through various Russian ports including St Petersburg and Novorossiysk."
Potential demand for the containerisation of bulk exports in Russia is enormous, believes Mr Naraevskiy:
"Approximately 70% of Russian non-oil & gas exports consist of dry and liquid bulk products such as ores, coal, fertilisers, petrochemicals etc. We believe there to be a huge growth opportunity in the containerisation of some of these bulk traffics to the benefit of shippers, terminals and shipping lines.
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Conservative Complaint Over Sponsorship At NDP Event 'Groundless,' Union Head Says
OTTAWA — The Conservative Party launched a "groundless, strategic assault" against the labour movement, the head of Canada's largest private sector union said Sunday after the Tories accused the NDP of accepting improper sponsorships from trade unions.
Wayne Hanley, the national president of UFCW Canada, issued a press release Sunday evening after The Huffington Post Canada first reported that the Conservative Party had asked Elections Canada to investigate whether the NDP had broken the law by accepting money from unions to advertise at its national convention in Vancouver last June.
The allegations, Hanley said, are "a groundless, strategic assault on the labour movement, and on ordinary Canadians who are fed up with the vicious, partisan politics the Harper Conservatives are so proud of."
Hanley said the Tories are well aware that ads at fair market value are allowed and there was no election law breach.
"There is nothing amiss here," he said. "UFCW Canada respected every rule and regulation in an open and completely transparent manner. It is cynical timing, so typical of the Conservatives, to launch this smear on working Canadians and their unions on the eve of the annual celebration of the achievements of the labour movement."
Hanley suggested the Tories were reacting to news that support for the NDP was rising following the public outpouring of sympathy after leader Jack Layton's death from cancer on Aug. 22.
The Conservative Party released a letter to the media Sunday morning that its lawyer Arthur Hamilton had written to Marc Mayrand, the chief electoral officer of Canada on Aug. 31, 2011, requesting a review of what it suggested were inappropriate NDP sponsorships.
Hamilton said his client was concerned that prominently displayed signage at the NDP convention suggests sponsorship had been provided by unions, such as USW, UFCW, PSAC and CUPE among others, as well as by Thistle Printing, an incorporated identity.
Posters also suggested the United Steelworkers had sponsored a $300 per-person reception with the NDP leader, Hamilton added.
The Canada Elections Act bans unions and corporate entities from contributing to political parties, riding associations, candidates, leadership contestants or nomination contestants but the rules do not explicitly forbid sponsorships.
According to an excerpt from a 2006 letter the Conservative Party received and shared, the Commissioner of Elections Canada wrote that the provision of money, property or service for a convention, minus the fair market value of any tangible benefit one receives in return, constituted a contribution.
The Tories believe that broad definition of contribution means the NDP and some labour groups bent the rules.
"It appears that the NDP has received what the Commissioner of Elections Canada has deemed to be contributions in contravention of the Elections Act," Hamilton wrote. "The Conservative Part of Canada would therefore request that your office take the steps it deems necessary to review this matter fully and identify any contributions which must be returned."
In an email, the NDP's fundraising and membership director Heather Wilson said the Conservatives' allegation was unfounded.
"This is a bit rich coming from the In-and-Out party. All rules and regulations have been followed by the NDP. And unlike the Conservatives, we stay within both the spirit and letter of the law. Advertisments at fair-market-value is allowed by the law. Elections Canada is fully aware of this practice," she wrote.
Bob Gallagher, a spokesman with the United Steelworkers told The Huffington Post Canada Sunday that Steelworkers are "very aware" that they cannot donate to the party or candidates.
"As far as I know, all the items that were paid were for things like advertising and sponsorship that were paid at a fair market value," he said, later adding in an email that this "is allowed by law."
CUPE also notes in its 2011 election financing fact-sheet, that despite being banned from contributing money, goods or services to any federal political party, "CUPE National, a Division or a CUPE Local can sponsor events and conventions so long as the fair market value is paid for the services that are associated with the sponsorship."
Hamilton concluded his letter by requesting that the rules surrounding contributions by unions and incorporated entities, and on what constitutes a material provision, be clarified.
Elections Canada could not be reached for a comment.
If the rules governing sponsorship change or their interpretation changes, NDP officials may soon want to know. They are currently looking at budgets and planning for next year's leadership convention. The party's senior executives are scheduled to meet Wednesday to recommend the rules that will govern the contest. They will be approve by the NDP's larger federal council on Friday.
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Ranked above the others
They weakened, they deflowered
While she shot sky high
Look at her
Really look
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Only radiance
Only calm
The world is rushing down on everyone
And there she sits
An amber flare in the fog
The fog is me
The fog is you
If shes sending us a message
From her expansive grace
From her differing corner
Of unbalanced civilization
Would we hear?
With all this fog that is all of us
Would we listen?
I Cannot FlySpinning 'round in circles
Do I sparkle, do I dwindle?
Blades of grass are my viewers
Stretching further to the ozone
But I know
I cannot fly
The air races are starting
I am sprinting, I am pulsing
I am jumping, I am flailing
I am crashing
I am down
And lying on this magnet
I am promised to the earth
To gain a set of wings
Would be to seek another birth
To think that evolution
Would create this constitution
Is just as bad as dying
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Watch me
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New Year's Here
It was midnight
I was waiting for
Every second
Moving so slow.
Then suddenly
It was new year
Fireworks heard
From streets outside.
It's new year now
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Electricity Industry: JP Morgan and Market Complexity
I've actually started to write this blog post several times over the last 9 months, but other things come up and I put it on the shelf. Fortunately (or not) the JP Morgan power trading story just keeps coming back, .. and back, so I keep having opportunities to finish this blog. For those not following this story, Morgan has recently settled charges with FERC that its "creative" bidding practices represented market abuse (or manipulation) for just over $400 million.
News of these kinds of abuses, whether legal or not, always brings on search for a deeper meaning in the direction of the electricity industry. Usually this debate centers upon whether we should have deregulated power generation or not. That is a very complex question that is important, but I don't think the Morgan story adds much weight on one side of that or the other. Even if the industry went back to the organization of the 1980s, there would still be lots of non-utility generation, and undoubtedly lots of power trading. Utilities, even regulated ones, still need to buy their power from somewhere and as they figured out about 30 years ago it usually doesn't make sense for them to generate it all themselves. Indeed, within the Midwest ISO footprint, one of the playgrounds for Morgan's shenanigans, there are many old-style vertically integrated utilities co-existing with other forms of ownership.
What the Morgan story may say something about is the trend in US markets for increasingly complex price-setting processes. For example, the California market today is way more complex than the one Enron made infamous 12 years ago. Back then, the California power exchange took bids for price and quantity, but not much else. Today, an offer to sell power from a generation unit can contain all sorts of parameters describing what the plant can and cannot do, from the "ramp rates" to a minimum running time. All these parameters are fed into optimization routines such as mixed integer programs in which the system operator theoretically finds the "best" solution for everyone, taking all these operating constraints as given.
The problem is, the "best" solution when everyone is telling the truth about their costs and capabilities can be very different than the solution when firms are strategically bidding those parameters. One aspect of this is the concept of "make-whole" payments. These are intended as a means to compensate inflexible units who may get stuck in the wrong position in order to help the market in small number of hours – like a plant that gets switched on to help meet demand in one hour but can't be (or says it can't be) turned off very quickly. Because it is not flexible, that plant may end up still operating (at a loss) even after the price crashes back down again. Make-whole payments are supposed to allow plants to recover these costs if market revenues are not sufficient, to avoid discouraging them from participating during the hours when they are really needed.
But as the Morgan case has demonstrated, there are lots of ways strategic firms can twist the good intentions of a market operator. By overstating their costs, or their inflexibility, while at the same time "forcing" themselves into the market through low energy price bids or simply running the plant in a way the operator doesn't expect, plants can grab lots of revenues from these payments.
How did we get here? Unlike say, complex financial securities, these rules are not the concoction of investment bankers with physics training. In other words, the traders themselves did not take the lead on these designs – although they certainly put in their opinions.
This is largely the work of engineers working with the market operators themselves. There was a very legitimate debate about 10 years ago about the pricing of transmission congestion. This was one of the simplifications of early electricity markets. It has been pretty widely acknowledged now that market prices needed to better reflect congestion caused by usage of a network. This is a classic "externality" (congestion imposed on other users) that was not being properly reflected by the old market rules. Fine. We fixed that.
However, at the same time all sorts of smart computer scientists, electrical engineers, and operations researchers went a little crazy trying to solve every other complexity involved in generating electricity. Plants can't just ramp up and down instantly. They can't shut down and start up again right away. Working these kinds of costs into the pricing would lead to more "feasible" solutions that better reflect reality. The problem with this logic is that these costs, unlike transmission congestion, are all "internal" to the owners of a plant. The fact that a price solution coming out of a computer program didn't explicitly model them didn't mean mean that the costs were not represented in the prices. Its just that they were the problem of the plant owners, who had to figure out how to best operate their plants to meet the sales orders being produced by the market.
It's worth pointing out that, while making electricity is complicated, and marginal costs don't look like a nice upward sloping line, this is true of a lot of other stuff also. Refining gasoline is complicated. Running an airline network is complicated. But we don't run a single optimization program that simultaneously tries to clear the market and solve everyone's production schedule for them. These markets run the way power markets used to. If a generator got a sale it couldn't meet, it bought replacement power out of a spot market. If a plant ended up running in a way that lost money over the course of a day, it would change its offer price the next day so that didn't happen again.
The market software does wondrous things, and solves tremendously complicated problems. It's probably true that having a group of plant owners try to manage these complexities in a decentralized way creates some inefficiencies. But its still garbage in – garbage out. If firms monkey with the complicated parameters that these programs are trying to accommodate, strange things can happen to prices, and especially to the types of side-payments earned by JP Morgan. The "best" solution is not always the most complicated one.
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David Bellman says:
I like how you pointed out the issues but I am concerned about your causation conclusions. There is more to the evolution of the electric markets than what you point out. In the beginning, most planned, built, and operate their areas for their OWN load. Most did not deal with outside demand and supply. This allowed simplification of operation. Because of the de-regulation push you now have more potential for outside supply and demand. This throws a wrench in typical planning which requires a more centralized approach. Therefore to ask for decentralized planning in a centralized market is akin to having your cake and eating it to.
There is plenty to say about deregulation vs. regulation. However I will avoid that in this comment space see my blog for more.
The solution to the abuse of power markets from outside players is not dumbing down the system and going back to decentralized planning but to have more active regulators and oversight team who actually understand the market so the garabage gets filtered before the fact. As I noted in my more in-depth response on my blog (http://allenergyconsulting.com/blog/2013/08/16/power-market-complexity/), many of the players captured the policy and rules development in these markets much like the tax code structure. This allowed them to obscure the market and let them believe that they are just in their actions.
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Each year is represented by my top five favorite films of said year :)
Lists that include The Raid 2011
- Good Will Hunting
- Boogie Nights
- L.A. Confidential
- The Game
- Hercules
- Argo
- Django Unchained
- Silver Linings Playbook
- The Avengers
- The Master
2012 - Ranked
This ordered list is for theatrical films only (no HBO or direct to DVD). I reserve the right to make…
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
- American Hustle
- Philomena
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Synecdoche, New York
- No Country for Old Men
- Songs from the Second Floor
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
- There Will Be Blood
Top 50 of the 21st century
the 50 best movies from the 21st century that i've seen. No real order to it, they are all good…
- Children of Men
- Oldboy
- Hunger
- Before Sunrise
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Best long takes on film
You're watching a film and all of a sudden you notice "they haven't had a cut in a long time!"…
- About Time
- Lone Survivor
- Four Christmases
- White House Down
- Kick-Ass
Movies Watched in 2014
Movies that I have watched throughout 2014.
- Lapland Odyssey
- In a Better World
- Likainen pommi
- Veijarit
- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Non-English-Language Movies
These are the films or documentaries I've logged on Letterboxd that have some other language than English as the main…
- Drinking Buddies
- Aliens
- Zodiac
- Rushmore
- Annie Hall
- House of Flying Daggers
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Silenced
- Postman to Heaven
- A Werewolf Boy
All the asian films I've seen
All the films I've seen from the Asian continent.
No asian-european.
- The Thin Red Line
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Children of Men
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Before Sunset
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of…
- The Royal Tenenbaums
100 Favorite Movies
I'm only 18, so there are plenty of films I've yet to see. Most notably are classic films, and foreign…
- Inglourious Basterds
- Dinosaur
- The Emperor's New Groove
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Treasure Planet
Todas las películas que veré y reveré en 2014
En esta lista añadiré absolutamente todo lo que vea o revea del 2014. En cine, en casa, en televisión, en…