In the third quarter of this year the activity of the fleet of container ships of the company Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) of the Chinese shipowning group COSCO Shipping has registered a increase in the volumes of goods transported and an increase in Sharp decline in revenues generated by these operations. In the July-September 2023 the total of cargoes loaded on the ships of the OOCL has been pairs to 1,86 million teu, with a growth of +6.7% on the third trimester last year. The shipping company has specified that in the third trimester of This year the capacity of its fleet is increased by +13.6% and consequently the seat load factor has marked a decrease of -5.1% on the same period of 2022.

The largest increase in transported loads is occurred on the transpacific routes where they were handled 477 thousand teu (+13.8%). Transported containers also rose on the routes Asia-Europe (394 thousand teu, +2.5%), on those transatlantic (118 thousand teu, +3.6%) and on intra-Asian routes and with Australasia (875 thousand teu, +5.5%).

In the third quarter of this year the revenues produced by these Total assets amounted to 1.76 billion dollars, with a decrease of -65,1% that has been due to the significant falls in turnover recorded in all major markets, with transpacific services having totaled 629,1 million dollars (- 67.1%), services Asia-Europe 376.5 million (-71.0%), transatlantic services 160.4 million (-56.7%) and intra-Asian and Australasia 593.7 million of dollars (-59.3%).

In the first nine months of 2023 the OOCL fleet transported Containerized volumes pairs to 5,47 million teu, with a growth +1.5% on the corresponding period last year, activities which has generated revenues pairs to 5,91 billion dollars (- 61.8%).