In the third quarter of this year, revenues from containerized maritime transport activities operated by the OOIL of the Chinese group COSCO Shipping, which are made with the Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) brand, amounted to 3.06 billions of dollars, a figure that represents a marked increase by +73.7% over the same period in 2023 and is lower, with regard to the July-September period, only those recorded in the third quarters of 2022 and 2021 when the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic on global supply chains there was the rapid and exceptional increase in the value of freight rates seafarers who had set historical records.

The surge in revenues in the third quarter of 2024, as well as recent and significant recovery in the value of freight rates, also determined by the increase in the volumes of containerized cargo transported by the OOCL fleet which in the period were equal to to 1.93 million TEUs (+3.6%), a quantity that for this quarter of the year is lower only than the record of the third quarter of 2015. 2020.

In the period July-September of this year on the routes only transpacific OOCL ships carried 552 thousand TEUs (+15.6%), an activity that generated revenues of 1.25 billion dollars (+99.4%). Containerized goods transported on Asia-Europe routes fell by -12.0% as they amounted to 347 thousand TEUs, while the revenues generated by these transactions totaled the largest increase having amounted to $777.8 million (+106.6%). On the routes volumes in the hold decreased having been equal to to 112 thousand TEUs (-5.5%) and the relative revenues of $143.8 million (-10.4%). On the routes and with Australasia the container carriers of the Chinese company transported 992 thousand TEUs (+5.3%), activities which produced revenues of $880.1 million (+48.2%).