In 2023, the revenues of the containerized shipping company Regional Container Lines (RCL) amounted to €27.14 billion baht ($754 million), a decrease of 49.0% compared to the previous year, which represents the first decline in the previous year. Six years of revenue growth. The reduction, in the face of a volume of container cargoes transported by the fleet that - such as in 2022 - amounted to 2.2 million TEUs, was determined by the significant lowering of the value of freight rates seafarers, with an average freight rate of 2023 was $343/TEU compared to $662/TEU for the year previous. In 2023, operating profit stood at 1.98 billion baht (-92.0%) and net profit at 1.50 billion (-93.9%).

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, the reduction in revenues eased to -32.5% to 6.72 billion baht compared to 9.95 billion in the same period of 2019. 2022. In the last quarter of 2023, for the first time since 2019, Operating profit and net profit were negative and equal to 440.7 million and -571.3 million baht, respectively compared to positive figures of €2.64 billion and €2.61 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022.