In the last quarter of 2023, The growth in the volumes of containerized cargo is accentuated transported by the OOCL fleet of the Chinese group COSCO Shipping, and at the same time the decline continued, attenuating of the revenues generated by this activity. In particular, in the In the fourth quarter of last year, the airline's fleet transported goods in containers for a total of 1.87 million TEU, up +7.2% on the corresponding period of 2022, generated revenues of €1.62 billion with a significant decrease of -49.0% due to the reduction in the value of sea freight rates.

Only on intra-Asian routes and with Australasia, which represent the main market for OOCLs, have been transported 895 thousand TEUs (+6.5%) and the activity produced revenues of $574.4 million (-43.0%). On the transpacific routes, the Volumes transported by ships amounted to 482 thousand TEUs (+19.9%) and related revenues were $598.2 million (-39,9%). On the Asia-Europe routes, volumes amounted to 388 thousand TEU (+1.4%) and revenues at $315.7 million (-60.3%) and Transatlantic routes: volumes totaled 108 thousand TEUs (-11.5%) and revenues of $133.2 million (-65.2%).

In the whole of 2023, OOCL's container ships transported A total of 7.34 million TEUs, an increase of +2.9% year-on-year, including 3.37 million TEUs on routes and Australasia (+1.2%), 1.89 million on transpacific routes (+6.6%), 1.59 million on Asia-Europe routes (+1.1%) and 482 thousand TEUs on transatlantic routes (+7.2%). Last these activities generated revenues totalling to $7.54 billion (-59.6%), of which $2.54 billion deriving from from intra-Asian services and with Australasia (-52.7%), 2.53 billion from transpacific services (-63.2%), 1.63 billion from Asia-Europe services (-67.5%) and $840.7 million from services transatlantic liners (-52.7%).