In the first quarter of 2024, China's port terminals China Merchants Port Holdings Co. (CMPort) moved a container traffic of 34.4 million TEUs, an increase in +9.0% compared to the same period last year, of which 25.4% Millions of TEUs handled by the group's terminals in Chinese ports (+7.7%) and almost nine million TEUs in foreign terminals (+12.9%), including over 6.6 million TEUs (+11.7%) handled by the Terminal Link, the company 51% owned by the shipping group French CMA CGM and 49% from CMPort.

Meanwhile, today the Chinese terminal group has announced the economic results recorded in 2023, the year in which the CMPort handled 137.5 million TEUs globally, with a Slight increase of +0.7% on 2022, of which 103.4 million TEUs handled in China (+0.7%) and 34.1 million TEUs in terminals (+0.5%), including 25.4 million TEUs handled by the Terminal Link (-1.2%).

Last year, CMPort had revenues of $11.5 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$1.5 billion), with a decline in -8.5% on FY 2022. Ebitda was amounted to €6.6 billion (-3.3%) and net profit to €7.4 billion Hong Kong dollars (-18.2%).