Wan Hai Lines (WHL), the container shipping company Taiwanese that, with a fleet of the capacity of 455 thousand teu, is the third nationally and the eleventh worldwide, has closed the second quarter of this year with revenues equal to 24.47 billion Taiwanese dollars (770 million US dollars), with a decrease of -67.4% on the same period of 2022. The result operational, although positive with respect to performance negative of the previous quarter, amounted to 820.0 million Taiwanese dollars, down by -97.9%. The period April-June of 2023 was filed with a loss Clearly of -2,34 billion regarding a profit clearly of 30,17 billion in the corresponding period of the previous financial year.

In the first half of this year, WHL posted revenues of to 50,03 billion, in bending of the -67,9% on the first half of 2022. Operating result and net economic result were both negative and equal respectively to -2.38 billion and -4.45 billion Taiwanese dollars compared to profits of 88.16 billion and 70.80 billion in the first six months of last year.

Meanwhile, WHL has announced the rental of six container ships for an investment of between 400 and 900 million Taiwanese dollars for each ship. The duration of the rental is triennial.