In the first quarter of this year, container traffic in the port terminals controlled or participated by the Chinese COSCO Shipping Ports amounted to 29.7 million TEUs, with a increase of +9.0% over the first three months of last year. The suns terminals in Chinese ports handled 19.7 million TEUs, with growth of +4.0%, while the increase in traffic in the terminals foreign affairs was more sustained having been moved almost ten million TEUs (+20.4%).

In the first quarter of 2026, the terminals of the Chinese group in the Mediterranean handled almost 3.9 million TEUs globally, with an increase of +14.7%. In the region, traffic handled in the Greek port of Piraeus, activities which is directly operated by COSCO Shipping Ports through the wholly owned subsidiary Piraeus Container Terminal, recorded a decrease of -5.6% having been equal to 961,600 TEU. Exceptional, however, is the increase in traffic in the Egyptian port of Port Said from the Suez Canal Container terminal Terminal, which is 20% owned by the Chinese company but is controlled and managed by APM Terminal of the shipping group Danish Maersk, which amounted to 1,519,600 TEUs, with a increase of +48.2% on the first quarter of 2025. Strong growth also the traffic handled by the Turkish subsidiary (20% of the Capital) Kumport Terminal which was 401,100 TEUs (+17,6%). Traffic handled in Spanish ports by the COSCO SHIPPING Ports (Spain) Terminals which is amounted to 874,200 TEUs (+0.8%). On the other hand, there was a sharp decrease in the traffic in the Italian port of Vado Ligure from the subsidiaries (40% of the capital) Reefer Terminal and APM Terminals Vado, subsidiaries of APM Terminals, which has been equal to 11,300 TEUs (-25.0%) and 106,000 TEUs (-15.3%) respectively.