Orascom Construction reports consolidated backlog of $6.9bln in 9 months

Orascom Construction Plc posted a consolidated backlog, excluding BESIX, of $6.961 billion for the first nine months of 2023, up by 14.1% year on year (YoY), as per an emailed press release.

Consolidated new awards rose by 26.1% YoY to $3.856 billion in the January-September period of the current year.

New awards signed in Egypt and the UAE during the first nine months of the year stood at $2.531 billion, while the group’s subsidiaries in the US inked $1.325 billion of new awards over the same period.

Meanwhile, Orascom Construction’s net income attributable to shareholders surged 98.6% YoY from January through September to $114.8 million, up from $57.8 million.