Also in the period October-December 2023, as in the previous ones four quarters, the reduction in the value of sea freight rates followed by the historical peaks marked by the worldwide spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the financial performance of the Israeli containerized shipping ZIM have experienced a strong decrease starting from revenues which, having amounted to 1.20 billion dollars, decreased by -44.9% compared to the last quarter of 2019. 2022. Ebitda stood at €186 million (-80.9%) and the operating result was negative for -€53.6 million compared to an operating profit of €584.7 million million in the fourth quarter of the previous year. The Last quarter of 2023 was closed with a net loss of -€146.6 million compared to a net profit of €416.5 million dollars in the fourth quarter of 2022.

In the October-December quarter of last year, the fleet of the The company transported 786,000 TEUs, with a decrease of -4.5% due to the halving of volumes transported on the Asia-Europe routes, 54 thousand TEUs (-53.0%), and the significant reduction in volumes transported on the intra-Asian routes, which amounted to 206 thousand TEUs (-17.5%), while The number of cargoes transported on the routes increased transpacific (319 thousand TEUs, +9.6%), on transatlantic ones (116 thousand TEUs, +7.4%) and those with Latin America (91 thousand TEUs, +54,2%). In the fourth quarter of 2023, the average value of freight rates was state of $1,102/TEU (-48.1%).

In the whole of 2023, the ZIM fleet transported A total of 3.29 million TEUs, a reduction of -2.6% compared to the previous year, of which 1.26 million TEUs handled on the transpacific routes (+8.5%), 917 thousand TEUs on intra-Asian routes (-13.3%), 429 thousand TEUs on transatlantic routes (-13.5%), 384 thousand TEUs transported by Asia-Europe services (-9.8%) and 290 thousand TEUs by those with Latin America (+21.8%). In 2023, the average value of Noli amounted to 1,203 dollars/TEU (-62.9%).

Last year, after six consecutive years of growth, revenues of the Israeli company decreased by -58.9% to $5.16 billion compared to $12.56 billion in 2022. EBITDA and EBIT were both negative and equal to -1.04 billion (-113.8%) and -2.51 billion respectively (-140.9%), and the result was also negative net income, which totalled -2.69 billion compared to a Net income of $4.63 billion in 2022.