global ports holding plc on tuesday said that its firsthalf pretax loss narrowed boosted by strong recovery across its ports and cruise operations the cruiseport operator posted a pretax loss of 44 million for the six months ended sept 30 compared to a loss of 294 million in the same period a year ago in line with the figures the group reported last month revenue rose to 1183 million from 611 million while adjusted earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortizationa metric which strips out exceptional and other oneoff itemsswung to 404 million from a loss of 500000 in the yearprior period global ports said it saw a faster recovery in occupancy rates across its network and higherthanexpected passenger volumes and reported a rise to 435 million passengers in the period from 56000 the year before this was driven by the easing of travel restrictions the impact of seasonality and a higher cruise fleet deployment it said the londonlisted company said it expects adjusted ebitda of more than 600 million for the year ending march 31 which it said is ahead of current market expectations it also sees fullyear passenger volumes topping 8 million