Last month, the trend of Rapid decline in shipping companies' revenues Taiwanese containerized vessels Evergreen, Yang Ming and Wan Hai Lines in from the summer-autumn of 2022 and following a phase of Exceptional revenue growth from overtime increase in the value of sea freight rates. In October 2023 Evergreen, which is the world's seventh-largest airline in terms of container fleet, recorded a turnover of 23.4 billion Taiwanese dollars (US$723 million), with a -48.8% down on October last year, while revenues of Yang Ming, which is the ninth largest company in the world market, amounted to 11.3 billion Taiwanese dollars (-52.9%) and those of WHL, which is the eleventh largest company in the sector, totaled 8.2 billion Taiwanese dollars (-45.5%).

In the first ten months of this year, Evergreen's revenues 230.4 billion Taiwan dollars, with a decrease in -59.0% over the corresponding period of 2022, those of Yang Ming to €119.2 billion (-64.9%) and WHL's revenues to €83.2 billion (-64,5%).