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| This positions us well to pursue growth opportunities while maintaining very important financial flexibility |
| And our liquidity profile remains strong with significant availability under our revolving credit facility |
| Our aviation business benefited from increased international airline passenger demand, as many parts of the world were still experiencing pandemic related travel restrictions, which did not fully ease into the latter part of the year |
| And finally, we remain confident in our ability to continue to navigate challenges and capitalize on opportunities |
| We experienced continued growth of our diversified business in general aviation offerings, including products and services ancillary to our core fuel supply, such as trip support services and de-icing fluid, which also contributed meaningfully to the year-over-year increase in aviation profitability |
| And we therefore remain confident in our ability to achieve or even surpass our longer term articulated goals for operating margin improvement |
| So feel strongly about the fact that we're modeling those offers and the business and the processes against our well run marine and aviation business |
| We believe that by expanding our portfolio of digital offerings across all of our businesses, we can not only engage more deeply with our customers, but also improve the readability of our revenue sources and reduce the capital intensity of our offerings to deliver enhanced returns |
| In terms of our land business you asked the question earlier, and, so off to, a bit of a bit of a storm with weather, but it's a well-run business, the flyers team is great addition |
| And we are now entering our seasonally strongest second and third quarters and remain optimistic about our opportunities to deliver strong results for the full year |
| These actions have positioned our business to be able to weather the inevitable cyclicality of the global shipping industry through a lower cost structure that enables us to generate respectable financial returns in down markets, while preserving the ability to provide value in volatile and credit constrained markets, especially when demand strengthens |
| Marine continued to outperform historical averages with very strong operating margins |
| Both our aviation marine businesses have benefited from our ability to leverage our strength and stability as a preferred reliable counterparty to support our customers fuel and financial requirements amidst an increasingly constrained and costly credit environment, and a continued period of heightened supply and logistical uncertainly |
| Aviation delivered very strong performance what is in what is traditionally the weakest quarter for air travel, or land liquid fuels activity in North America was impacted by extreme weather on natural gas and power businesses continued to perform well |
| So despite it being a seasonally weak quarter for us in the first quarter, we delivered solid overall results |
| I continue to be optimistic about our liquid land, gas power and sustainability businesses becoming a larger and very complementary contributor to our overall business |
| While not the easy to repeat the strong results in the second quarter with average fuel prices already up 67% from the first quarter, we remain focused on delivering solid cash flow for the full year, contributing to overall liquidity and returns |
| I already mentioned our first quarter adjusted EBITDA earlier, but our year-over-year adjusted trailing 12-month EBITDA was also up significantly increasing 56% year-over-year to $392 million, our highest level of trailing 12-month EBITDA since the first quarter of 2020 |
| As we look ahead to the second quarter, margins are expected to remain well ahead of historical averages |
| That's a good, excellent explanation |
| But overall, we've clearly, we clearly gotten the the offset in marine, we have a chance to get some higher margins in aviation the second half of the year |
| land results and partially offsetting these declines were strong increases in profitability in our Connect natural gas power and sustainability related offerings |
| We also have benefited from strong growth in our business and general aviation activities |
| While bunker fuel prices have declined, marine benefited from a significantly higher interest rate and credit constrained credit environment in the first quarter |
| Our strong balance sheet combined with our continuing commitment to profitable growth positions as well for continued success |
| It's growing at a pretty good clip, we'd like to continue to supersize that a bit more |
| And thanks to the fantastic team that we have |
| While the high fuel prices witness throughout much of 2022 began to ease the first quarter of 2023 submarine visitors nevertheless benefited from the elevated interest rate environment and continued fuel price volatility, which together with our prudent allocation of working capital enabled marine to again deliver outstanding financial performance during the quarter |
| So we are in parts of that business able to achieve a higher margin |
| So, so good job on that |
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| That's a 9% decrease year-over-year, driven principally by a softening container market |
| Consolidated operating expenses were $198 million in the first quarter below the low end of the guidance provided on last quarters call |
| As already mentioned extreme weather events during the first quarter resulted in both volume and gross profit declines in our core liquid fuel activities in North America |
| Reduced volatility and somewhat warmer weather also negatively impacted the year-over-year comparison of our U.K |
| However, gross profit is expected to decline sequentially driven principally by flattening prices and reduce market volatility |
| So we generally see a drop off obviously, the heating oil business drops off dramatically in Q2 |
| That's a slight decline of 1% compared to the first quarter of last year |
| That's a decline of $4 million or $0.06 per share, compared to the first quarter of 2022 |
| Our aviation segment contributed $101 million of gross profit in the first quarter, an increase of $36 million, or 57% compared to last year's first quarter results, when as you recall, we were negatively impacted by the backward at jet fuel market that commenced in a significant way in the latter half of last year's first quarter |
| That's a decrease of $10 million, or 8% year-over-year |
| But obviously, that's waned, and many of those types of customers have reverted back to commercial travel |
| One of the reasons I mentioned on in my remarks, that volume may be tempered a little bit where we can't do that, in some cases, we may forego some volume upon renewal |
| So I just wanted to sort of emphasize that, obviously, we can't control the weather, but that business will start to produce some |
| Looking forward and considering the significantly higher interest rate environment we are placing an even greater emphasis on generating commensurate returns, which may temper volume growth over the next few quarters |
| So we'll probably be a little bit lighter in Q2, and then hopefully come down a little bit more in the second half of the year, as I mentioned, last quarter |
| For the second quarter, we anticipate land gross profit to be flat sequentially, but down from the second quarter of 2022 when our U.K |
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