Kitty Hawk Expects Strong Fourth Quarter Financial Results
04 Janeiro 2007 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Kitty Hawk, Inc. (AMEX:KHK) today reported that its wholly owned
subsidiaries, Kitty Hawk Cargo, Inc. and Kitty Hawk Aircargo, Inc.,
have successfully completed their contracts with the United States
Postal Service (�USPS�). As a result of the successful completion
of the USPS contracts, as well as improved financial performance of
the Company�s expedited ground freight operations, Kitty Hawk
expects to report its highest quarterly revenue since the Company
began trading on the American Stock Exchange as well as solid
profitability for the fourth quarter. The Company expects to report
its fourth quarter and full year 2006 results in mid-March. �The
total revenue generated by Kitty Hawk as a result of this past
year�s C-NET operations has made the USPS our largest single
customer for 2006,� said Robert W. Zoller, President & CEO of
Kitty Hawk, Inc. �Coupled with our acquisition and integration of
Air Container Transport, Inc. in late June of 2006, the growth of
Kitty Hawk�s expedited air and ground network will result in
expected 2006 fourth quarter revenue in excess of $80 million. For
the year, revenue is expected to exceed $220 million, an increase
of more than 41% over the $156 million in revenues recorded for
2005. �We expect to be solidly profitable in the fourth quarter and
currently expect that fourth quarter cash generation from
operations, combined with existing debt financing, will be
sufficient, based on current business conditions and outlook, to
fund the execution of the Company�s 2007 operating plan. Our fourth
quarter financial performance has allowed us to fully repay all the
cash borrowings from our revolving line of credit at year end,� Mr.
Zoller added. Under the USPS contracts, Kitty Hawk managed a
daytime multi-modal air and ground network for the holiday season
mail from November 28 through December 24 through its hub in Ft.
Wayne, Indiana (�C-NET�) as well as provided its own aircraft in
support of C-NET in addition to its scheduled overnight air and
expedited ground networks. The daytime network operated from
approximately 21 cities across the nation with a majority of the
operation transiting through Kitty Hawk�s state of the art 240,000
sq ft Fort Wayne, Indiana hub and sort facility. Kitty Hawk
successfully managed more than 5,000 truck departures, 1,500
aircraft flights, 4,500 cargo containers and approximately seven
(7) million cubic feet of aircraft capacity to meet the USPS�
holiday shipping requirements. �This year�s C-NET was a
significantly larger undertaking compared to recent years and
encompassed multi-modal air and ground operations,� continued Mr.
Zoller. �Kitty Hawk team members, the State of Indiana, the
community of Fort Wayne, Indiana, our industry partner-contractors
and USPS staff in many instances went above and beyond the call of
duty to ensure the successful operation of this year�s C-NET. It is
with enormous pride that we thank all of them and especially our
team members and their families for their dedication, commitment
and extra effort during the operation of the 2006 C-NET,� Mr.
Zoller concluded. About Kitty Hawk, Inc.
(www.kittyhawkcompanies.com) As a recognized leader in customer
service, Kitty Hawk is the premier provider of guaranteed,
mission-critical, time-definite overnight air, second-morning air
and time-definite expedited ground freight transportation to major
business centers, international freight gateways and surrounding
communities throughout North America, including, Alaska, Hawaii,
Toronto, Canada, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kitty Hawk's scheduled
freight network and award-winning, guaranteed overnight
time-definite air or expedited ground products are ideal for
heavy-weight (over 150 lbs.), high-value or high-security, special
goods with unique dimension, perishable, animal and/or other
shipments requiring special handling. With more than 30 years
experience in the aviation and air freight industries, Kitty Hawk
plays a key connecting role in the global supply chain. Kitty Hawk
serves the logistics needs of more than 550 freight forwarders,
integrated carriers, domestic and international airlines and
logistics companies with its extensive integrated air and ground
network, fleet of Boeing 737-300SF and 727-200 cargo aircraft, as
well as a 240,000 square-foot cargo warehouse, U.S. Customs
clearance and sort facility at its Fort Wayne, Indiana hub. In
2005, Kitty Hawk became the North American launch customer for the
fuel-efficient and environmentally-friendly Boeing 737-300SF cargo
aircraft. In late 2005, Kitty Hawk launched its new coast-to-coast
and border-to-border expedited ground network reaching key business
centers throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. In early 2006, to
manage the growing demand for its high customer service ground
freight product Kitty Hawk formed Kitty Hawk Ground, Inc. In June
2006, Kitty Hawk Ground acquired and began integrating the majority
of the assets of 20-year old Air Container Transport (ACT), the
dominant expedited airport-to-airport freight trucking company
operating from Southwestern Canada to San Diego as well as
additional cities as far east as Texas and Illinois. Statement
under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: This report may
contain forward-looking statements that are intended to be subject
to the safe harbor protection provided by Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934. These statements relate to future events or future
financial and operating performance and involve known and unknown
risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or
performance to be materially different from those indicated by any
forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify
forward-looking statements by terminology such as "forecast,"
"may," "will," "could," "should," "expect," "intends," "plan,"
"believe," "potential" or other similar words indicating future
events or contingencies. Some of the things that could cause actual
results to differ from expectations are: economic conditions; the
impact of high fuel prices; our inability to successfully implement
and operate our expanded scheduled airport-to-airport expedited
ground freight network; our inability to successfully operate and
integrate the Air Container Transport operation and to retain their
customers; failure of key suppliers and vendors to perform; our
inability to attract sufficient customers at economical prices for
our expanded ground network; unforeseen increases in liquidity and
working capital requirements related to our expanded ground
network; potential competitive responses from other operators of
nationwide airport-to-airport ground freight networks; the
continued impact of terrorist attacks, global instability and
potential U.S. military involvement; the Company's significant
lease obligations and indebtedness; the competitive environment and
other trends in the Company's industry; changes in laws and
regulations; changes in the Company's operating costs including
fuel; changes in the Company's business plans; interest rates and
the availability of financing; limitations upon financial and
operating flexibility due to the terms of our credit facility;
liability and other claims asserted against the Company; labor
disputes; the Company's ability to attract and retain qualified
personnel; and inflation. For a discussion of these and other risk
factors, see the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K
and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. All of the forward-looking statements are
qualified in their entirety by reference to the risk factors
discussed therein. These risk factors may not be exhaustive. The
Company operates in a continually changing business environment,
and new risk factors emerge from time to time. Management cannot
predict such new risk factors, nor can it assess the impact, if
any, of such new risk factors on the Company's business or events
described in any forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims
any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements after the date of this report to conform them to actual
results.
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