貿易通 2020 年年報

Chairman’s Statement 主席報告書 二零二零年年報 貿易通電子貿易有限公司 05 Dear Shareholders, Review With the rapid worldwide propagation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) devastating the global market in 2020, Hong Kong’s economic activities shrank drastically and the region fell into a deep recession during the year. In the second half of 2020, Mainland China was the first to resume economic activities after containing the pandemic through the introduction of strong restrictive measures. Many other countries are still facing highly restricted production capacity issues owing to the pandemic, thus they have increased their dependence on Chinese products. Having benefited from the strong rebound of trade activities in Mainland China and the gradual revival of import demand in many major markets, Hong Kong’s trading activities began to recover in the second half of 2020. The Group’s operating environment, which has close ties to Hong Kong’s external trade and the local economy, also improved modestly in the second half of 2020. A low base due to the local social issues in the second half of 2019 also helped. This improvement caused the decline of the whole year’s results, in terms of turnover, operating profit and after-tax profit, to be somewhat lessened. The Group’s turnover in 2020 was HK$261.2 million. Excluding the exceptional revenue recorded last year mainly from the supply of goods for one of our major customer projects, the Group’s turnover in 2020 saw a drop of around just 3% compared to the turnover in 2019, vis-à- vis the 4% decrease from the first half of the year. 致各位股東： 回顧 在 二 零 二 零 年，隨 著 2019 冠 狀 病 毒 病 （「 COVID-19 」）於世界各地迅速傳播，破壞全球市 場，香港的經濟活動急劇萎縮，年內陷入嚴重衰 退。二零二零年下半年，在實施強而有力的限制 措施遏制疫情蔓延後，中國內地率先恢復經濟活 動。許多其他國家仍然因疫情而面臨產能嚴重受 限制的問題，因此更為依賴中國產品。受惠於中 國內地貿易活動的強勁反彈以及許多主要市場的 進口需求逐漸恢復，香港在二零二零年下半年貿 易活動開始復甦。本集團的業務與香港的外圍貿 易及本地經濟息息相關，因此經營環境於二零二 零年下半年亦略有改善，再加上本地社會問題導 致二零一九年下半年的比較基數較低，致使全年 業績（按營業額、經營溢利及除稅後溢利計）的跌 幅有所減輕。 本集團於二零二零年的營業額為港幣 261,200,000 元。經扣除去年錄得主要來自為我們主要客戶項 目之一供應貨品的特殊收益後，本集團於二零二 零年的營業額較二零一九年的營業額僅下跌約 3% ，對比上半年減少 4% 。