In the second quarter of this year, the port terminals of the Chinese group COSCO Shipping Ports have handled a traffic of container record of 31.61 million TEUs, with an increase of +7.4% over the same period in 2025 which was generated by volumes never before achieved by both the Chinese terminals of the group and from the overseas terminals that are Results of 21.09 million TEUs (+3.3%) and 10.52 million TEUs (+16.7%).

A new historical record was also set by the total traffic handled by COSCO Shipping terminals Ports in the first quarter of 2026 which was equal to 61.30 million TEUs, with an increase of +8.2% on the first half of last year. Half-yearly traffic handled in the foreign terminals alone, it set a new record of 20.50 million TEU (+18.4%), while traffic in Chinese terminals, amounting to 40.80 million TEUs (+3.7%), is the third highest In absolute terms, being lower only than the record of 41.81 million TEUs of the fourth quarter of 2016 and the 41.28 million TEUs handled in the last quarter of 2025.

In the first six months of this year, traffic handled in the Italian port of Vado Ligure by the investee APM Terminals Vado and Reefer Terminal amounted to 227 thousand respectively TEUs (-19.9%) and 20 thousand TEUs (-23.3%). In the second quarter of 2014 alone, 2026 the two Italian terminals handled 121 thousand TEUs (-10.6%) and 9 thousand TEUs (-21.0%).

Among the group's other main terminals in the Mediterranean, in the first half of this year, the Piraeus Container Terminal handled 1.99 million TEUs in the Greek port of Piraeus (-2.9%) and the Suez Canal Container Terminal handled 3.04 million TEUs in the Egyptian port of Port Said (+22.9%).