Thanks to the recent rise in the value of sea freight rates caused by the crisis in the southern Red Sea, where attacks on ships by the Houthi rebels, after a period of 15 and 16 months respectively in negative trend in January 2024 the monthly revenues of the Taiwanese containerized shipping companies Evergreen and Yang Ming are back to growth. Last month, in fact, Evergreen recorded Taiwanese revenues of $28.3 billion ($903 million US dollars), up +8.0% on January 2023, while Yang Ming had revenue of $14.0 billion Taiwanese, up +10.1%.

Last month, on the other hand, it continued, although significantly attenuated, the downward trend in WAN's revenues Hai Lines, which is the third largest shipping company Taiwanese containerized by fleet capacity. The Carrier operates a network of scheduled services marginally affected by the crisis in the Red Sea, as it transited through the region only the service of the company that connects Asia with the east coast of the USA, which previously crossed the and has now been diverted to the Cape of Good Hope, while WHL's India-Middle East service continues to call at the Egyptian port of Sokhna, in the Mediterranean Sea. Northern red. After 17 consecutive months of two-way downturn turnover figures, in January 2024 the monthly turnover of WHL decreased by -2.6% to €9.2 billion Taiwanese dollars.