A new all-time record for quarterly traffic has just been set of containers in the last period April-June, in the third quarter of 2025 the container terminals of the Chinese group COSCO Shipping Ports have exceeded an even higher bar at the top having handled a record traffic of to 29.85 million TEUs, with an increase of +3.6% on the third quarter of last year. When the new peak is reached the new traffic record handled by the foreign terminals of the group, which amounted to 9.16 million TEU (+7.8%), while the company's terminals in Chinese ports handled 20.69 million TEUs, a volume that represents a increase of +1.9% over the April-June period of 2024 and the third highest ever being lower than the record of 20.94 million TEUs handled in the third quarter of 2016 and 20.87 million TEUs handled in the fourth quarter of the same year.

In the first nine months of 2025, total traffic was 86.52 million TEUs, up +5.2% on the same period of last year, of which 60.05 million TEUs handled in China (+3.9%) and 26.47 million TEUs abroad (+8.2%). The traffic in the Italian port of Vado Ligure alone from the APM Terminals Vado and Reefer Terminal participated in Attested to 442 thousand TEUs (+93.9%) and 28 thousand TEUs respectively (-40,5%). In the third quarter of 2025 alone, APM Terminals Vado e Reefer Terminals handled 181 thousand TEUs (+67.6%) and less than 2 thousand TEUs (-88.2%).