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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Wärtsilä Corporation Results Presentation 2019. Here, this morning in Wärtsilä Campus here in Helsinki, I have the whole Board of management, and then I have Natalia Valtasaari and Emilia Rantala from Investor Relations. I may have a short presentation with the slides and then we have the possibility to ask questions.
And I start with the note that 2019, it was a year marked by difficult market conditions and project-related challenges. And when you look at the markets first Marine, I have to say that despite some pickup we saw in the vessel contracting towards the end of 2019 market sentiment remains cautious. And that's due to the continued concerns over global economic and geopolitical developments.
At the same time, the fuel price development in the next months as well as your capacity to install retrofits will determine the level of demand for scrubber retrofits. And then when you look at the Energy, everybody knows that the energy landscape is evolving rapidly as the technological development, the political agenda and public opinion. And this is and has been making investment environment complex and is creating uncertainty among our customers.
And the macro environment is further slowing decision-making particularly in emerging markets. Also, market conditions are expected to remain challenging in the short term. We do have several good prospects in our pipeline, which is they finally materialize will of course support the recovery in order intake from the very low levels of 2019.
When you look at the key figures from 2019 order intake fell 60%. We saw some recovery on the fourth quarter compared to the third one, which is very low. Order book is 5% down. Net sales was stable compared to 2018, book-to-bill a bit over one still. And the comparable operating result quite close to what was also earlier announced.
I will come back to the numbers – number a bit later on the presentation. Earnings per share €0.37; and cash flow finally over €200 million. The dividend proposal for the AGM is €0.48 the same what we had last year.
As said, the sequential improvement in Q4 didn't help finally when you look at the whole year. Fourth quarter development very good in Marine and the recovery in Energy. So that's a good sign that at least there is some good activity in the market. And the net sales growth in Marine was helping us. And Services of course has been growing quite well during the year. But unfortunately, because of the lower order intake in Energy, it has affected to our net sales.
Marine is now on if you look at the fourth quarter 61%; then Energy 39%. And then, if you look at the Services and equipment we had a good development on Services on the fourth quarter.
Book-to-bill as I said a bit over one. And when you look at the order book distribution, you can see that the order book at the moment for this year is a bit lower than at the same moment last year. So we still need orders both in Marine and Energy for this year for the development of our net sales.
The comparable operating result has been discussed quite thoroughly during the last months. And here, the numbers where we finally ended were a bit lower than originally thought and there were a couple of impacting factors. First, the volumes were a bit lower. Finally, some of the deliveries in the Marine were moved for this year and the Energy order book and order intake didn't develop exactly as expected. But almost half of those – that difference is also coming from the effect of the strike which happened in December.
Cash flow, less than previous years. And the cash flow was really affected also how the -- because of the working capital development. But it's -- when you look at now in building the inventories, they finally have to go out.
And of course, we expect this year to be the cash flow to be better than previous, during last year. So because of that on the gearing today, at this moment is 0.3. As said, earnings a bit lower than previous year, but the dividend proposal is €0.48.
And when you look at the different -- two different businesses now and we all saw some development on vessel contracting specifically in December. But I have to say that the whole market sentiment is still cautious. And the same sectors are thriving.
And there we see positive developments, but the whole merchant fleet is still quite cautious and our customers. At the same time, there hasn’t been any major positive development in offshore.
Order intake in Marine still for fourth quarter, on the equipment side, very good and you can see it also from the pie chart that, it's heavily has been geared to cruise and ferry. And of course special vessels is represented quite well also in our order intake figures.
When we talk about the long-term service agreement and this was also touched quite well and discussed, three months ago. We have seen there, a small dip. And this is now when you look at the megawatts.
And in Marine you always need to remember that, the megawatts are coming from the engines. And the bigger the engine, the bigger the megawatts. And here you have some customers, on the merchant side where big 2-stroke engines are not under the long-term agreement.
But we service our customers, on a transactional basis. So, if you would turn this slide to be in euros, I wouldn't see there, so big difference. Net sales development also Marine developed well, both in equipment and Services, on the fourth quarter. And that has of course helped the whole Wärtsilä’s net sales development during the year.
One major achievement, during the last quarter has really been our relationship and solution, we can offer to one of our customers which is Anglo-Eastern. We have -- we are rolling out a Wärtsilä Fleet Operations Solution for all their 600 vessels.
I think this is one of the biggest software, transaction ever done in the maritime sector. So the solution is integrating the different individual processes, to optimize the voyage planning, weather routing, fuel consumption, speed of vessels.
So, really the efficiency of the ships and of course this is quite important when you look at our latest acquisitions, regarding the navigation and operations, competencies we have done.
Moving on to energy, the market I mean, you can see very well here the market is really going down. At the same time our market share has improved a bit. And here it's good to know that this is always three months lack, here on these numbers.
And when you look at the overall the order intake, it has been going down. But then we had a quite nice pickup on the fourth quarter. It has also helped when you look at our services, order intake development. We have been very successful on long-term agreements, which you will see later on.
If you look at the world, Asia is today the biggest for us and Americas, the second one. And here you see the installed base covered by long-term agreements in Energy side.
So, very good development great work from our people and being able to show the value to our customers. There was one significant transaction in Dominican Republic where we have an existing customer, who now basically signed all the power plants they own and operate in DR. So it's approximately 400-megawatt Wärtsilä deal specifically predict the spare parts and maintenance costs and help them to run the power plants more efficiently.
Net sales development, a good development also in the fourth quarter and similar kind of setup where equipment today is 61% of the fourth quarter sales development. We have been able to develop a so-called modular setup in our Energy business. We call it Modular Block and it can be sold in a -- as a fast-track project to our customers. And this example is for a customer in Mali. It's really an off-grid gold mine good example of those case is where Wärtsilä can provide savings and facilitate the integration of renewables and all the other ones to the mine's energy system.
So these blocks are -- basically you can then multiply and easily build and provide a decentralized solution to our customers. And finally the prospects; first of all, the demand for Wärtsilä's services and solutions in 2020 is expected to be somehow below 2019.
I would highlight here that the whole Services development, I mean taking out of -- looking at Wärtsilä this year, I would say the service is stable. And when you look at the business areas the demand are at the moment as I highlighted at the beginning are soft.
With this slide, I will end my presentation and we can move on to questions and answers. And as previously I hope you can ask and you speak to the way which is fair to everybody that you ask one question and then a follow-up and then you go back to the line.
But I would like to start here in Helsinki. There is at least one question here. I don't know, do we have a microphone? Yes please.
It's Erkki Vesola from Inderes. Clarkson still remains apparent positive in the 2020 contracting estimates in the segments that are important for you gas carriers special vessels even container vessels. And even when considering the lead lag to your orders, why are you still so cautious regarding Marine outlook?
Thank you, Erkki. I mean I will start and I will ask Roger to join me here, but I start at Clarkson. Clarkson numbers are always a little bit the question mark. And then I hand over to Roger because Roger follows the market carefully. Please Roger Holm the Head of Marine.
Thank you. And thank you for the question. There are several aspects to this one. We have seen now over quite many years, we have had the same trend that every year we start the year with Clarkson saying that next year will be slightly better. And every year, we have been disappointed. So also for last year. So we clearly during the year took down the estimates on vessel contracting.
This year also starts with the fact that Clarkson says, we will increase, but also Clarkson has been a bit cautious to see now what will happen and when new updates comes in March.
I myself believe that we will see some downgrading on those estimates. How much is still to be seen? December was good, but I think it's too early to draw to longer-term conclusions yet based on one month. And there are a lot of uncertainties in the world and the trade at the moment, which impact our guidance.
The other fact then looking at our guidance is that, we need to carefully follow what happens on the scrubbers and order intake coming from the scrubbers. All sentiments are there. They are good. The fuel spread shows that this is a good business case.
We haven't yet still seen a huge uptake on activities even if the sentiments are good, but this is also more coming from the fact that installations for retrofit scrubbers takes much longer than anticipated. So there is a shortage especially for large vessels on your capacity.
So we are still in the second half of this year to get your capacity for scrubber installations for the big gas vessels. Having said that, I believe, we will see some more activities in scrubbers' order intake this year compared to 2019, but still to be seen.
Thank you, Roger. You answered almost every following question probably at the same time. But now we can call -- or anybody else in the audience here? No. Enrique [ph] and you can have your follow-up question.
Thank you so much. And even the business on a different subject. Cost inflation drivers going forward, I mean, steel, hydraulics, electronics way it is especially, how do you see that developing? And what's your capability to pass them on to your price?
If you look at the history, we have been quite well doing that one. But we have highlighted that one earlier. I mean, of course, the whole pricing of -- and how the market is changing that has affected and will affect our numbers. But of course that inflation is another one. But that remains to be seen also how the market now develops.
Okay. Thanks.
Then we move on to the lines, please?
Our first question from the line is coming from Max Yates. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Thank you. Just my first question is on the power opportunities that you talked about. Could you give a little bit of regional color runway you're expecting, how way you see the pipeline? And when I look at the sort of megawatts ordered, it looks like the Americas has come under pressure. Do you see some opportunities in the U.S. in the coming months?
And maybe just the final part to this question is, do we still see opportunities in the 100 megawatts to 200 megawatts size power plants, or are what you're quoting on some of the smaller power plants in the sort of zero to 100 range? Thank you.
Thank you, Max. I will let Marco Wirén, the Head of Energy to answer those questions. Please Marco.
Thank you. Thank you, Max. If you look at the different markets, we definitely see 100-megawatt size that you mentioned is pretty normal size. And specifically if you take Americas, we have in the pipeline there are several projects that we are working with.
And let's hope that we can have a good first half year and show that that market is active as well. Then the other market that is very active is still Asia and we have also there a good pipeline that we are working with.
Okay. And just my second question was around Energy's -- well around the Services business. So I wanted to check effectively, have we seen any pricing pressure starts to spread to the Energy and Services business? Obviously, you've talked about pricing pressure in the Energy OE business, but how is pricing in Services?
And any sort of extension of that question on Marine services is, could you just give a brief comment on whether there is any impact on the engines from using low-sulfur fuel, and whether that does sort of a -- that puts any greater wear and tear or pressure on the engines in vessels and potentially provides service servicing opportunities?
Okay. I can start with the engine side. The pricing pressure that we have mentioned is on the equipment side, the needle side. When it comes to Services, as you saw actually our service order intake was plus 13% last year. And if you look we have signed the largest order ever in our history in the Energy side in last year as well. And also look agreements, we have all-time high increase in our agreements.
Order intake, it was actually plus 50% last year, which makes that all-time high on agreement order intake. And this was something that we literally focused on in the beginning of the year that when we have a new organization, let's focus on the Energy Services, because before we had one service organization and we basically didn't divide customers based on if they're Energy or Marine.
But with this new organization, we definitely have done very specific actions and focus on Marine with respect to the Energy side. And we haven't seen any price pressure. Reliability is extremely important in Energy side. And to secure that output it's there when it's needed. So I think this is giving a very good flavor and reflecting our order intake as well. When it comes to the Marine side, I would let Roger to take that one.
Thank you. So if I first comment on the price pressure same as Marco said, the heavy pressure is on the newbuild side. Of course, the overall sentiment impacts the total picture but heavy pressure is really on the newbuild side.
As such, I don't see a major impact on our Service business due to the low-sulfur fuel as such. So that's normal business for us. Thank you.
But just I just wanted to understand whether the actual usage of low-sulfur fuel in engines caused more wear and tear in customers' engine and actually potentially creates sort of greater service opportunity, because they're using a range of fuels in their engine. Is this the case, or is that not right?
No. The short answer to that one is no, no, no significant impact.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
The next question is from the line of Manu Rimpelä. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Good morning. My first question would be on the Services' value content in this Energy orders, which are increasingly moving towards this kind of battery and different types of Modular Block solutions. So can you talk about how do you see it kind of service per megawatt euro value, or how do you want to kind of quantify the service opportunity in the battery compared to traditional combustion engines?
Thank you, Manu.
Yeah. Thank you, Manu. Of course, when it comes to the engine-based power plants, it is actually how they're utilizing the engine or the power plant, which is determining how much services they will need. If it's running flat out of course Service continues is high. If it's only a backup power and usually capital factor could be 25% then of course Service revenues will be lower as well.
When it comes to storage, usually per megawatt sold the Service content is much lower than in the engine side. The reason is that, there's less moving parts and it's more on the software side that we secure that the software is working properly we have the updates and we can continuously have an understanding of -- if there's a replacement need of any cells and then we do that.
Are you in any way able to help us to kind of understand that I was talking about half 50% less service content in the storage solution compression engine running at full speed for instance?
Yeah. It's less than 50% definitely.
Okay. Then my second question would be on the Services' growth in the fourth quarter. So I mean, I think that was on a -- at least on a reported basis it turned out to be quite low and the same was the case in the third quarter. So, are you seeing that -- is that just a reflection of the overall market uncertainty, or are there any kind of increased competition or insourcing of services given the weak side of the market?
Actually Services and Energy -- are you talking about Energy now or?
No. Group as a whole.
Because Energy side actually I think the same -- Services has been developing extremely well during 2019 and on both Marine and Energy side. And as I mentioned earlier, especially on the Energy side, the reliability is getting more and more important because when the Energy is needed and that happens usually when you have some kind of renewables content in your system, you have much higher variability and volatility and that's why it's important that when you need electricity that you can count on that it's working.
But also many customers have seen that when they have a reliable very good service provider, there actually the returns are higher. And this is something that we've been able to illustrate during 2019, and we've been able to increase our treatment sales our order intake by 50%. When it comes to Marine, you want to comment that?
Same comment. I think the Marine Service has developed well. And here a recommendation, please look at the sales, which grew 5% in the quarter versus quarter. Order intake is a bit different here on the Service side because this is impacted by the IFRS rules as well and how you impact -- take in order and take on -- especially on performance-based agreements. So, if you have lower cost you see that impacting also the total impact figure. So, please look at the sales figure.
If I may just quickly follow-up on that. If I look at the group Service growth, so it was 1% in Q4 and it was probably 1% in Q3 as well. So, what am I missing because that's not really a good growth rate?
Yeah. It's the group Services.
Yeah. On the sales side in four quarters specifically in the Energy side, we actually didn't have growth on the sales side. And the reason is that last year fourth quarter we have one big sales on the Service side. So that's why its comparison is a tough comparison. But it goes up and down. But if you just look the order intake and agreement sales that we've done that gives extremely good understanding how the Service is developing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Next question is from the line of Sven Weier. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Yeah. Good morning from my side. Two questions please. The first one is on the Energy backlog, because if I do an Energy backlog order bridge for the fourth quarter I would have normally ended up €250 million higher. So, can you confirm that you've taken out orders off the backlog and maybe can give us a reason why and how likely they are to come back into the backlog maybe?
First of all, we have taken out of our order book some of the orders -- older orders and we have a more strict rule than we used to have when we look at orders and old orders how they have been coming into the books. And that's why the backlog is – specifically in the Energy side is lower. And I wouldn't -- I mean there has been also a couple of kind of smaller cancellations. So I don't expect them to come back. We need to get more deals with our existing rules.
And so the €250 million around about makes sense yeah?
Yes.
And is it fair that those orders didn't probably carry a high-margin anyhow, or…
I don't start commenting on the margins. But I mean, they are now out of the books and probably good that they are. You never know about those customers.
Okay. Thank you. And the second question is just when we think about 2020 you obviously you didn't give an EBIT guidance for this year. But when I think about the different building blocks here right so is it fair to assume that you're not seeing any further cost overruns? So that seems to be under control? That's – maybe, it's the first part of that question.
It's important to remember now couple of facts. First of all, we shouldn't have any overruns and those issues we have thoroughly controlled the order book and how we now take also new transactions in – I mean, they are carefully analyzed as much as possible. The risk management is better. But you need to remember that some of those projects which were on the list of this €150 million which is now €152 million they will be still delivered out this year. And when they go out they go with zero margin. And so –
Yeah. That will be the second part of the question, because I think IN [ph] quantified that impact that €20 million to €30 million on EBIT, if I remember correctly. I was just wondering, what do you see as a total headwind to EBIT if you combine the zero margin and the price pressure? Are we talking about 50? Are we talking 100s? Is there any kind of guide you can give us?
I can give you an approximate number and that's €100 million sales around, where probably half of that will be already in Q1.
So that's under zero margin contracts, right?
Yes.
But how should we look at the pricing pressure impact on EBIT? I mean, it's not like 1% of your backlog. I mean is it just…
I mean, it's – let's not go too deeply in trying to analyze the EBIT effect. We have the pricing pressure and so on but that's as far as we can go.
Okay. Thanks, Jaakko.
Thank you.
Next question is from the line of Andreas Willi. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Yeah. Good morning. Thanks for your time.
Good morning.
My question is on the Energy business on the service activity. If you take away the benefit of the service contracts where you're increasingly successful in getting and you just look at the normal day-to-day transactional service business and your installed base what's your view on – in terms of the utilization of your engines? And is that changing as we move for more base to more peak use? And how do you monitor that? What's kind of the rate of decline that is happening or we could see from the change in utilization rates on your installed base in the Energy business?
Thank you, Andreas. It's Marco. It's Marco.
Yeah. Thank you. Very good question here. Definitely when we see that more and more of our customers are buying – balancing power for the renewables that of course will impact our Services sales. It doesn't mean that they start utilizing that as balancing power immediately. We have customers that buy flexible power from us, because they believe that in the future they will need the flexibility. So it's not immediate impact, but we will definitely going forward this coming five to 10 years we will see, a decline on running hours.
And a follow-up question maybe on what Sven asked earlier about the Energy backlog the €250 million roughly that left the backlog. Did you book that in Q4 against the order number, or was that just removed in backlog? So basically, would the orders have been €250 million higher in the quarter if you've not removed €250 million?
No. That's – these orders are actually – they were not taken recently. There's been delays on the down payments and that's why we decided that let's take them out. And if customer will get back then we take those in again. And there were no plan to have deliver on those orders in quarter four.
But the order intake that we see the euro amount for Q4 that's a fair representation of the market level that's not artificially reduced by your reassessment of the backlog.
No. Okay. It's the fear in understanding the process.
Yeah. Yeah. You can see order intake this order intake that we had in Q4. So it's not impacted.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Next question is from the line of Antti Kansanen. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Yeah. Hi. It's Antti from SEB. Thanks for taking the question. Coming back to the comment on pricing pressure and the gross margin on the backlog that you are delivering for 2020 still could you give me some guidance on how we should expect the margin developing year-over-year if you look at what you have in your backlog for 2020? So how has the pricing pressure evolved throughout, let's say, last 12 months is the -- is kind of the worst still ahead in terms of what you are delivering out of there, or how much worse?
Yes. As you remember last year we started talking about the pricing pressure. And specifically you saw it when the energy market also has been going down. At the same time there is -- I mean if you have less vessel contracting all the players are eager to get any means some of the transactions. So I cannot kind of quantify the number, but it has been there at least the last two, three quarters. But if you see -- further down. I mean we cannot predict the market so well.
But if you think about the pricing right now that you are taking orders to be delivered in 2021 should be should we be worried about kind of impacts on 2021 compared to 2020 when you are delivering these orders?
As said I don't start guiding now the margins at least not the 2021.
Okay. And the second question will be on scrubbers. Could you comment a little bit how much did you deliver on Q4 and how much you have left for this year? And how did the scrubber delivery impacted your margins or mix during the Q4?
Thanks, Antti. Roger will have quite exact numbers.
Yes. I can. We put this one on scales as well. Yes if we look at the sales figures we had around €370-plus million of sales for scrubbers last year and €129 million in Q4. We from a sales point of view we expect we might be slightly higher this year. But then of course there's still orders to come and also how did the deliveries and the yard times and the installation times are impacted but this is where we are.
Did you mean that you expect to be slightly higher if you see a comeback in order intake, or is it based on the backlog that you have right now?
It's -- we still need orders to come especially for the second half of the year to get the to the figures that I just mentioned. But it's -- for the first half of the year it's based on the backlog and then for the second half we still need orders.
Right. And how about the mix impact or the profitability impact compared to other Marine OE business in Q4?
I will not comment on product profitability, but I can comment that we have been satisfied with the profitability of the scrubbers.
But it's good to remember that in scrubbers there is not too much services. So...
Exactly. So you need to look at this from a mix point of view as well newer build versus life cycle. And on the scrubber side this needs to come through the newer build phase.
All right. Fair enough. That’s all from me.
Thank you.
Next question is from the line of Antti Suttelin. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Thank you. This is a big picture question on the Energy side. Clearly the world has been going your way in the sense that wind and solar are becoming a bigger and bigger part of production. Despite this the backup story hasn't really played out at least not in 2019. What could change this? What should we see in order for your orders to really take off?
Thank you. And Marco?
Thank you. Very good question. This is pretty much according to Bloomberg and the International Energy Agency's predictions as well that it will take some time before systems come to a point that they actually need balancing power and that flexibility that we are offering. And Australia is good example. They started deploying lot of renewables and then when they have done that they said that okay, let's take down the coal power plant.
What happened was that they didn't calculate probably that what could happen if wind is not blowing continuously and sun is not shining so they got blackouts. And immediately when that happened they realized that they need backup power and flexibility. So they ordered both engine-based and storage-based solutions and this is pretty much what we see in other countries as well. But it will take some time. And especially when they start taking down the thermal and flexible solutions they have then they come to a point that they need to order the flexible backup power and balancing power.
Okay. And do you expect this takeout of coal to happen in 10 years or two years? What is the timeframe that you are thinking of?
Different countries have different schedule for that. But if you see actually the country that has taken down most coal in the past two, three years is United States. And that's why we've seen also in the past years that the United States has been ordering balancing power from us.
Australia is the second one now we see that it's happening. But each country will do their plans individually and it's usually a political decision because it's both government and private companies that have to come to a conclusion.
Germany.
Germany is a very good example.
We got the deal.
Yes. We just announced a deal in Germany in quarter four as well and it's because of preparing themselves to the fact that they will take down the coal. And I know the schedule is now by 2038. But remember if you look at the assets that they have in Germany quite a lot of those coals that they have the lifetime is not until 2038.
And when I talk to utility heads which are owning these coal assets, they are saying that we will take down those actually much earlier than 2038. So, it depends where you are and what assets you have and when you take it down because it's not profitable to invest in an asset when you know that you're going to have to take it down anyway. And these are the lifetime of coal power plants we talk about 50 years.
Yes. Thank you. And then finally is the battery a competitive solution these days compared to your engine? How do you assess now today the competitive balance between battery storage and an engine?
And that's a very good point as well. I would say that these two different technologies are complementing each other well. Storage is perfect for frequency balancing but also daily shifting. So, when a sun is shining in the countries or regions where you have PVs. And the wind side is a little bit more difficult to utilize storage on the battery side.
But when you have PVs you know that sun is shining in the daytime and then most of the electricity needs are in the evening times, so that's very simple way to shift that energy to the evenings. But then, of course, just like you've seen in Australia, you have days when sun is not shining every day in that capital factor that is need so you need something else as well. So, that's why these two technologies are complementing.
Okay, that's all from me. Thank you very much.
Okay. Thank you, Antti.
[Operator Instructions] Our next question is from the line of Alexander Virgo. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Thanks very much. Morning gentlemen. So, I guess, just a couple of quick framing questions really. The first one would be if I think about how you've described demand for 2020 and then the support for 2020 from the current backlog being a little bit lower year-on-year. I'm just trying to understand where you think the infra out is going to come from and can we see sufficient demand? So, obviously, equipment is weak if services are stable. Can we see sufficient growth for -- in that infra out to see revenue flat in 2020?
And then second question which I suppose is a follow-up because ultimately that will drive your operating profit bridge. Just trying to think about the margin progression in 2020, I appreciate you don't want to give guidance specifically, but you've talked before about feeling that the progress year-on-year is going to be quite difficult because of the dilutive effect of all that equipment being delivered.
I'm just trying to think a little bit more about the moving parts. You've obviously got some cost savings coming through as well. So, I guess, how confident can we be that margins should expand in 2020? Thank you.
Thank you. Quite a question. First of all when you look at the sales and now when -- first of all, the demands, we say that demand is expected to be somewhat below. That's now, of course, based on -- partly on what is our order book at the moment and that of course, then still needs to develop this year. So, we need orders both in Marine and Energy. The markets are as we say soft which means that there is uncertainty in the market and let's see how that develops.
At the same time, it's good to remember that -- I mean you can still develop quite a lot. For example our service activities and then margin is pretty much also determined how we sell spare parts compared to anything else. But we also have a portfolio today we call portfolio of businesses. So, we have highlighted that we have businesses which we are basically selling out of Wärtsilä. And depending on now when those actually happen will finally affect also to the final sales number. So that's why today it's very difficult to say, I mean what -- around what would be the final numbers.
And then on margin side, it's also pretty much then dependent on all the other factors we have discussed today, but also how the Services is developing. So what is going to be the mix between the new equipment and the Service sales? And then again, how within Services we are able to develop spare parts or agreements and projects where spare parts are also included.
So, last year we saw very good development the first year -- first part of the year. And then I mean Marine also continued during the whole year extremely well. Energy got orders agreements in. So, I mean let's see how this year develops. And -- but the visibility is not out there. So we need to work with our customer get them to understand what is the value, and then we can finally then we move on we can see how the year develops.
I think it's also always good to remember, and I want to highlight again Wärtsilä is a company where most of the sales and profit which are coming on the fourth quarter. So, this year is not going to be different than earlier year. So, when you are analyzing us, remember the first quarter has always been -- we have a slow start and then we make the year. And that's as much as we can talk about this year.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Our next question is from the line of Jack O'Brien. Thank you. Please ask your question.
Hi. Good morning. Just want to come back to this cost overruns point and just to check I understand correctly. So, you had €152 million of above the line charges in 2019. In 2020, you're expecting maybe some €100 million of sales to be delivered at a zero margin, so maybe some tens of millions impact. But specifically on the cost overruns if we think about the 2020 EBIT bridge, could we assume that the year-on-year headwinds will -- you can add some of that back in 2020 and that is clearly before we then consider things like pricing pressure and infra out. But am I looking at that the right way?
I mean first of all you should always look at where the sales end and what is the sales number, how much of the sales is Services, when you start looking at the EBIT. And then, of course, you have the deliveries of the equipment. And as said, some of the equipment are carrying a zero margin. So that will affect to that one. And then we will -- as I said many times, we need orders this year and then it depends also on what will be the margin of those orders. So, unfortunately this is the only way how we can try to open the bridge to -- for the EBIT development.
And I suppose thinking about EBIT a different way do you feel comfortable that we won't see further cost overruns? Because I suppose this came as a bit of a surprise to us with the 3Q, 4Q profit warning. Do you now feel that's sort of taken appropriate provisions?
Yeah. Profit warning is always a surprise and -- but we have done huge amounts of work, of course, to understand what happened and that we know. We have done huge amount of work and changes within the organization and how we analyze the projects, how we look at the risks and how we elevate all those discussions within the organization. So, of course we might have mistakes here and there, but at least we have learned our lesson now. And these kind of mistakes shouldn't happen anymore.
Thank you. And just one final question on the Marine business. It sounds like scrubbers could potentially be up year-on-year for order intake, but I just want to ask about cruise and LNG, which is roughly 50% of your Marine order intake typically. Do you expect cruise and LNG to be up in 2020 year-on-year?
That's a good question. Roger, please.
Well, if you look at the activity in the segment and starting from vessel contract, we don't see any trend changes as such on both cruise and LNG or gas carrier. So we expect that those two segments will continue to play a strong role both in general as well as for us.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Next question is from the line of Tomi Railo. Thank you. Please ask the question.
This is Tomi from DNB. Just to clarify how much were the scrubber orders in 2019?
The full year order intake for scrubbers €184 million for full year.
And then in terms of the Energy order backlog calculations or how do you want to call them can you just give and understand because Jaakko comment that how much were really canceled or how much was your own decisions due to delays in down payments and so on?
Mainly our own decisions couple of cancellations. That's a minor number. So it's more our own decisions.
And then still on the overall outlook if you say that the demand is expected to somewhat below you are also commenting that Energy orders should see some recovery. Are you saying that the Marine equipment orders could be down in 2020 compared to last year?
Let's not make too much conclusions. I mean soft can be also -- I mean the demand is a little bit below, but the demand in the business areas is soft and then I cannot make a conclusion. This one is bit bigger or smaller.
Okay. Then finally how is the capacity situation at the moment? Are you happy with the order intake level in Energy, what you got in fourth quarter and then the pipeline outlook for 2020, or do you see a need for further capacity adjustments in 2020?
I'm happy that we got an increase in the Energy orders. I'm not happy what happened the whole year. Of course market is pretty much challenging. Capacity situation at the home and this is okay. But as I said earlier, we need orders this year. So to be happy also going forward.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Tomi.
Next question is from the line of Tom Skogman. Please ask the question.
Yes. This is Tom from Carnegie. You mentioned you have order prospects for power plants in Central America and Asia and I wonder how many kind of projects on backup power to the Western world are you working on at the moment? What's the sales funnel there? That's very important for the sales team.
Thank you, Tom. Marco. Marco will answer this one.
Thank you, Tom. Yes. And actually the pipeline we definitely see both a mix of backup power plants, but also flexible baseload plants. So it's a mixed basket of both customers. And then of course, we have the intermediate customers as well which will run perhaps 4000 hours per year. So it is the whole pallet.
But do you have order prospects in these kind of big Western countries like Germany and the U.S. now for this year, or is it totally empty the backup -- the backlog for these markets in backup power?
No. We are continuously working on both in these countries that you mentioned, but also in many other countries. So it's never like totally empty. There's always -- just like we now signed one big order in Germany. So the pipeline is there and we are working with several different projects.
And -- but the timing is very difficult to say because it could be so that permit could take a longer time then the customer has amputated or it could be something else that could cause that they have to delay the decision-making.
And especially in the United States usually when it's a city that is ordering, the rules are that city council they usually have 1.5 years time to actually ask the people, if they -- if there's any opponents on the decision, they're making.
So even they might award the power plant to us or somebody else. But before it's effective, it takes perhaps a year. So that's why it's very difficult to predict exactly when that power plant is coming. And that of course makes the communication towards you as well a bit tricky from our part.
So to make it simple, are you more optimistic for this year, compared to one year ago 2019 on these backup orders? I mean, is the market showing any signs of picking up and taking up?
Yeah. I would say that as we saw market went down 44%. And just like our order intake as well, in the equipment side. So it was extremely heavy drop, in orders in 2019. And I would say that, we shouldn't see that kind of drop during 2020.
So, if you just look the pipeline there's lot of activity. So there's potential in the market. But as I said, it's very difficult to predict right now, how the year will end. And how much orders we will get in 2020.
Okay. Then over to another subject at least in my EBITDA have cost savings of €50 million for 2020. Please confirm that, that is still the accurate number. And then you said that, the capital market, the pricing pressure will hit you, return is by some €10 million. But my understanding is €10 million equal to €50 million. So it's kind of on-balance sheet here is that still the situation?
So my -- I will ask Arjen Berends, our CFO to open up that one. So, he can also answer your question. Please, Arjen.
Thanks for the question. Yes. We have done our restructuring program, as you all have done.
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Now you can hear me better. Yes. We have done a restructuring program, during 2019. And basically, the restructuring program is going pretty well according to plan. Savings are coming through. But I said also earlier in communication, all the savings are stayed bottom-line.
Many of the savings and cost reductions are also related to volume adjustments. Big impact for example is the joint venture in Korea that has really taken quite significant costs. But it's not really showing up on the bottom line. It's more avoiding absorption losses in the future.
And to your question about let's say margin will it offset? For sure savings will partly offset. We are not guiding on the margin, so I don't know the exact numbers. But yes there is a part of offsetting there.
Okay. And then finally, as you're on the line, can you confirm that these power plants order where you had not got a down payment that was booked in Q4? It's hard, when you have so large inventories now at the end of the year. Is this order still expected to come, or was it booked in Q4?
Which one are you referring to? Can you clarify once more?
Yeah. The one you had mentioned in the group analyst meetings, that you said that you have -- you're waiting for -- you have already made the engines for a power plant where we have not got the down payments.
That's what you informed us at the group analyst meeting. So I'm wondering was it booked in the fourth quarter or not?
Yes, partly. Okay. Now I get your question. Yes we said earlier in -- also I think in Q3 and also in CMD, that we would still need orders in the Energy side to support let's say the sales and the margin in 2019.
Partly that came through partly it did not come through. So the timing was a bit off. But let's say in general, we got some other order as well instead.
Okay, thank you.
All right. Thank you. And now we are two minutes over 11, so we need to stop here. Thank you for your questions. Thank you for being here in Helsinki Wärtsilä Campus. And see you in April. Thank you. Bye-bye.