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HPHT.SI - Hutchison Port Holdings Trust
Full Year 2024 Hutchison Port Holdings Trust Earnings Call
Feb 07, 2025 / 10:00AM GMT
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You know, despite interest rate rapidly rising from the low of 1 to 2% to about 5% currently, we have not had the need to do additional, rights issue or capital injection to pay down the debt. We have been, using our own internal cash flow to pay down, almost a HKD billion a year for over the last, 5 to 10 years that has, reduced our gearing that has helped reduce some of the interest rates. But I think, and we were hoping the interest rate would decline a bit faster. But, looking at things right now, it remains to be seen, especially with tariffs being in place, how that would affect the fed in terms of, rate decline over the next 12 to 18 months. So as we are looking to refinance some of our debt last year,
