{"id":1473,"date":"2026-04-11T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/1473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:58:03","slug":"irish-continental-group-delivers-strong-revenue-and-profit-growth-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/1473\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Continental Group delivers strong revenue and profit growth in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group revenue rose 10.4% to EUR 666.7 million from EUR 603.8 million in 2024. EBITDA increased 12.8% to EUR 150.6 million (2024: EUR 133.5 million), while operating profit jumped 23.9% to EUR 85.6 million (2024: EUR 69.1 million). Profit before tax reached EUR 77.5 million, up from EUR 62.2 million the previous year. Basic earnings per share climbed 28.4% to 46.6 cent (2024: 36.3 cent).<\/p>\n<p>The Ferries Division (including Irish Ferries) recorded revenue of EUR 465.5 million, a 7.4% increase on EUR 433.5 million in 2024, with EBITDA rising 9.9% to EUR 120.7 million. Passenger, car and on-board revenues grew 7.3%, while RoRo freight revenue was up 6.7%. The Container and Terminal Division delivered stronger growth, with revenue up 15.3% to EUR 234.6 million (2024: EUR 203.5 million) and EBITDA advancing 26.2% to EUR 29.9 million, driven by a 16.4% rise in container volumes to 370,000 TEU.<\/p>\n<p>Cash generated from operations improved to EUR 162.2 million (2024: EUR 142.5 million). The group deployed EUR 82.6 million in strategic capital expenditure and returned EUR 123.2 million to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. Net debt at year-end stood at EUR 256.1 million (2024: EUR 162.2 million), reflecting fleet investment.<\/p>\n<p>ICG\u2019s board proposed a final dividend of 10.95 cent per share, a 5% increase on the prior year, bringing the full-year dividend to 16.32 cent.<\/p>\n<p>Full report here <a href=\"https:\/\/icg.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ICG-AR-YE25.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/icg.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ICG-AR-YE25.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Group revenue rose 10.4% to EUR 666.7 million from EUR 603.8 million in 2024. EBITDA increased 12.8% to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1280,1281,1279,109,1282],"class_list":{"0":"post-1473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seville","8":"tag-cruise","9":"tag-ferry","10":"tag-ro-ro","11":"tag-seville","12":"tag-statistical-data"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}