貿易通2019 年年報

Chairman’s Statement (Continued) 主席報告書 （續） Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited Annual Report 2019 08 Review (Continued) As for the GETS business sub-segment, aside from factors affecting its operating environment which are outside our control (global and local economic and/or social issues), we successfully achieved higher average prices for most of our services and effectively reduced our costs without compromising our high service quality through various measures introduced since last year in anticipation of the upcoming touch business environment. And for our Supply Chain Solutions sub-segment, 2019 was also a challenging year following its success in securing the mega- warehouse automation project last year from a major retail chain store in Hong Kong. While several new orders were received during the year and the related development work started, a significant amount of resources were deployed in executing and/or coordinating with subcontractors on different aspects of the implementation work of this mega-warehouse automation project. The successful delivery of this project is of paramount importance and key strategic value to us as being the biggest and most sophisticated automated warehouse project of its kind in Asia (ex-China). The project would become our key reference site for those who are looking for similar solutions to address their warehouse operation issues, not only in Hong Kong but also in the region. We are pleased that the work to date has proceeded smoothly and was close to completion as at the time of my writing this Statement. At the same time, we are reasonably confident of the successful deployment of the project to the satisfaction of our retail chain store client during early 2020. The performance of our PRC associate, Guangdong Nanfang Haian Science & Technology Service Company Limited (“Nanfang”) during the year was rather disappointing as the Group’s share of profit in 2019 from Nanfang dropped to HK$0.8 million compared with the share profit in 2018 at HK$1.5 million, down 48.2%. Given our share of profit for the first half of the year was HK$1.4 million, Nanfang was actually running in the red in the second half of the year with relatively more costs incurred for research and development work conducted in the latter part of the year and hence causing a reduction of the Group’s share profit for the year. With the uncertainty about the Nanfang’s business prospect, we decided to write down part of this investment during 2019, by HK$4.5 million. 回顧（續） 至於 GETS 業務子分部，除我們受制於其控制以外 經營環境的因素（全球及本地經濟及╱或社會問 題）外，因我們早預計到未來營商環境艱難，自去 年起已實施多項舉措，使大部分服務成功達致較 高平均價，並有效降低成本，而不影響我們的優 質服務。於供應鏈應用方案子分部，去年成功獲 得香港主要零售連鎖店的大型倉庫自動化項目 後，二零一九年亦挑戰重重。年內接獲數項新訂 單並開始相關的開發工作，同時間我們亦需投放 龐大資源來執行及╱或與分包商進行協調，以在 這個大型倉庫自動化項目的不同方面實施工作。 此為亞洲（不包括中國）同類自動化倉庫項目中屬 最大型及最複雜的，成功交付此項目對我們而言 至關重要，並具關鍵策略價值。項目會成為香港 乃至區內物色類似解決方案以解決倉庫經營問題 者的主要參考場地。迄今，我們樂見工作順利進 行，且於本人編寫此報告書之時，已接近竣工。 同時，我們有合理信心，項目可於二零二零年初 成功部署，滿足零售連鎖店客戶。 年內，中國聯營公司廣東南方海岸科技服務有限 公司（「南方」）的表現令人失望，此乃由於本集團 於二零一九年分佔南方的溢利減少 48.2% 至港幣 800,000 元，而二零一八年則為分佔溢利港幣 1,500,000 元。鑒於我們於上半年的分佔溢利為港 幣 1,400,000 元，下半年進行的研發工作所產生的 成本相對較多，實際上，南方於下半年錄得赤 字，故此，本集團於本年度分佔的溢利減少。南 方業務前景不明，於二零一九年，我們決定減少 部分投資港幣 4,500,000 元。