In 2023, the year in which the vessels in the Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) have transported volumes of containers up +2.9% on the previous year ( of 9 January 2024), Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (OIL), a company which owns the entire share capital of OOCL and is part of the of the Chinese shipping group COSCO Shipping, reported revenues equal to $8.34 billion, a decrease of -57.9% on the 2022 financial year determined by the impairment of the of freight rates. The reduction in turnover is almost similar in the first and second quarters of 2023, with the second quarter concluded with revenues of €3.80 billion, with a decrease of -56.6% on the second half of 2022, of which €2.81 billion revenues in the Asian market (-57.9%), €510.7 million products from services with Europe (-63.9%), 302.6 million from those with North America (-34.7%) and €178.4 million from services with Australia (-13.0%). In the second half of 2023, EBITDA was amounted to $688.0 million (-85.6%), operating profit at €271.4 million (-93.7%) and net profit at €239.7 million (-94.4%).

EBITDA for the full year 2023 stood at 2.26 billion (-79.4%), operating profit at €1.41 billion (-86.1%) and net profit at €1.37 billion (-86.3%).