In the first quarter of 2024, container traffic handled by the port terminals of the Chinese group COSCO Shipping Ports amounted to 25.6 million TEUs, a volume that represents an increase of +9.2% over the same period of 2019. 2023 is the new record for this time of year. Traffic in the Chinese terminals alone amounted to 17.6 million TEUs (+11.3%), while traffic handled in the foreign terminals operated from the group amounted to 8.0 million TEUs (+5.0%), volume which represents a record for the first quarter of the year.

Among the group's terminals in the Mediterranean region, in the In the first three months of 2024, traffic was down in the Greek port of Piraeus where the company is wholly subsidiary Piraeus Container Terminal handled 931 thousand TEUs (-11.4%), in the Turkish port area of Istanbul, where the investee Kumport Liman handled 297 thousand TEUs (-9.4%) and in the port of Vado Ligure where the investee APM Terminals Vado has handled 52 thousand TEUs (-24.8%), while growth in the Egyptian port of Port Said, where the subsidiary Suez Canal Container Terminal handled 1.0 million TEUs (+4.2%), in Spanish ports where the subsidiary COSCO Shipping Ports (Spain) Terminals handled 765 thousand TEUs (+4.3%) and in the port of Vado Liguria, where the investee Reefer Terminal has handled more than 18 thousand TEUs (+27.9%).

In the first three months of this year, the group's revenues amounted to $332.7 million (+1.4%). Operating profit €50.7 million (-11.1%) and net profit €76.5 million dollars (-1.4%).