Aug 14 (Reuters) - Chilean industrial conglomerate

Empresas Copec on Thursday posted an 21% drop in

second quarter profit, landing at $228 million, from revenues

that edged down 1% to $7.18 billion.

Revenues for the firm, which owns a large forestry business

as well as fuel distribution, mining and fishing operations,

nevertheless landed comfortably ahead of those expected by

analysts polled by LSEG, who had forecast just $6.84 billion.

Profits landed in line with their estimates.