In the second quarter of this year, the port terminals of the German Eurokai handled container traffic equal to 3.87 million TEUs, a volume that represents an increase of +7.8% on the same quarter of 2025, is the highest of always for this time of year and is second only to the An all-time high of 3.89 million TEUs set in the third quarter of 2014. In the period April-June of 2026, both in terms of traffic handled by German terminals and in terms of the total amount of the Italian terminals (post exit from MCT) which of the traffic handled by the Group's terminals in the other nations.

In particular, in the second quarter of 2026 in Germany there were a total of 2.38 million TEUs (+6.7%) were handled, of which 1.32 million TEUs in the port of Bremerhaven (+6.5%), 597 thousand TEUs in Hamburg (+0.4%) and 459 thousand TEUs in the port of Hamburg Wilhelmshaven (+17.3%). In Italy, the total was 477 thousand TEUs, a volume that represents a growth of +1.6% on the second quarter of 2025 and is the highest since when the subsidiary Contship Italia left the management of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of the port of Gioia Tauro in following the signing in April 2019 of the agreement to sell to the Terminal Investment Limited (TiL) of the Mediterranean Shipping Group Company (MSC) its 50% of MCT ( of 1 April 2019). In the second quarter of 2026 in the port of La Spezia, 307 thousand TEUs were handled (-0.3%), in that of Salerno 112 thousand TEUs (+4.6%) and in the port of Ravenna 58 thousand TEUs (+7,0%). In the remaining world ports, traffic amounted to to 1.02 million TEUs (+13.7%), of which 841 thousand TEUs in the port Moroccan port of Tanger Med (+10.9%), 137 thousand TEUs in the Cypriot port of Limassol (+1.5%) and 38 thousand TEUs in the Egyptian port of Damietta in which the activity began last February through the Damietta Alliance Container Terminal joint venture by the German group through Eurogate Damietta and Contship Damietta ( of 13 February 2026).

The total containerized traffic handled in the first half of 2026 amounted to 7.41 million TEU, a volume that represents an increase of +8.3% on the first last year's semester and is lower only than those totalled in the second half of 2014 (7.50 million TEUs) and in the first half of 2016 (7.48 million TEUs) due to mainly the exit from the management of the container terminal of Gioia Tauro. In the first six months of 2026 in Germany it was reached a new all-time high of 4.64 million TEUs (+9.6%), of which 2.57 million TEUs in the port of Bremerhaven (+5.4%), 1.17 million TEUs in the port of Hamburg (+3.6%) and 898 thousand TEUs in the port of Hamburg Wilhelmshaven (+35.1%). In Italy, 898 thousand TEUs were handled (+4.4%), of which 574 thousand in La Spezia (+3.35), 213 thousand in Salerno (+6.2%) and 111 thousand in Ravenna (+7.3%). In other countries it is record traffic of 1.87 million TEUs (+7.2%), of which 1.56 million in Tanger Med (+3.6%), 258 thousand in Limassol (+7.9%) and 53 thousand in Damietta.

The Eurokai group closed the first half of 2026 with revenues of €149.6 million, with an increase of 14.4% driven by from the highest volumes of goods handled, from the highest revenue from storage fees, performance growth of the intermodal activity and the first consolidation of the Genoese STS, which was acquired in the middle of last year, year from the Rail Hub Milano of the subsidiary Contship Italiana and which brought in 10.6 million in revenues. Costs grew to a similar pace. Material costs rose to €48.6 million (+22%), especially for diesel and road and rail transport; the personnel costs rose to €44.1 million (+13%), for the contractual increases and for the increase in the workforce which goes from 950 to 1,060 employees. Despite this, EBIT improved by +11.3% to €32.5 million. The picture changes below the line operating position. The result of investee companies valued at equity decreased from €32.3 million to €27.5 million, mainly for the lower share of profit of the Eurogate equal joint venture with his compatriot BLG (23.2 million against 25.2), to which are added the losses of goodwill of the Damietta terminal. The result before taxes therefore fell slightly, to 59.8 million euros (-2,1%). Income taxes rose to €15.0 million (€12.2 million) million in the first half of 2025), then the incidence has increased from 20% to about 25% and consequently the value of consolidated net profit fell to €44.8 million (-8,3%).

Announcing these results today, Eurokai announced a upward revision of forecasts. At the beginning of the year, the group expected a consolidated profit for 2026 significantly lower than that of 2025, while it now estimates it in line, thanks to the volumes and to the still high storage fees both in Contship Italia and in Eurogate. The estimate does not include the agreement with APM Terminals on the North Sea Terminal in Bremerhaven, which provides for investments of about one billion euros ( of 13 February 2026). The closing of the agreement is expected in fourth quarter and would be worth - Eurokai specified - about 20 million in additional profit. Equity investments are also left out 20% each in the Hamburg terminal for CMA Terminals and Hanseatic Global Terminals (Hapag-Lloyd), with expected effect "significantly positive". Among the risks the group indicates the crisis in the Middle East, with the blockades in the Strait of Hormuz and the tensions in the Red Sea, and energy costs.