In the first six months of the 2023 revenues of the shipowning group Chinese COSCO Shipping Holdings amounted to 91.84 billion yuan (12,6 billion dollars), with a decrease of -56,4% on the first half of last year that took place and in the first quarter of 2023, when turnover is result down by -55.1% on the same period of 2022, both in the next quarter, when the decrease was -57.7%, and was generated essentially by the reduction of -57.4% of half-yearly revenues from maritime transport services containerized, which constitute the main activity of the Group, while revenues from activities terminals operated by the subsidiary COSCO Shipping Ports are results up by +5.1%.

In particular, in the first half of this year revenues products from containerized shipping stood at 88.24 billion yuan (-57.4%), of which 20.73 billion yuan generated from maritime services with America (-67.9%), 19.76 billion from those with Europe (-64.6%), 23.60 billion from services in the Asia-Pacific region (-52.0%), €10.11 billion from services Chinese nationals (-16.8%) and 14.08 billion yuan from others international services (-44.7%). The turnover generated from the activity of the port terminals of the group has been of 3,60 billion yuan (+5.1%%), of which 2,35 billion generated by the Chinese terminals (+3.3%), 2.26 billion from terminals in Europe (+1.1%) and 223.0 million from terminals in Asia-Pacific (+111.7%).

In the first six months of 2023, the group's operating costs totaled 72,06 billion yuan (- 36.1%), including 18,57 billion related to expenditure on equipment and cargo handling (-54.9%), €18.57 billion in travel costs (-11.1%), €16.81 billion billion in fleet costs (+1.3%), 5,26 billion in other costs operating (-35.5%) and 560.7 million in taxes (-59.0%). The profit Group operating was 18.13 billion yuan (-80.3%), with a contribution of €17.26 billion from the containerized sea transport (- 81.0%) and 932.6 million terminal activities (+54.6%). Net profit is piled to 19,68 billion yuan, with a decrease of the -74,4% on the first half of 2022 and a contribution of 16.78 billion from shipping containerized (- 78.4%) and 1,25 billion from the harbour terminals (-9,8%).

In the first half of this year the fleet of ships container ship belonging to the COSCO Shipping Holdings group has transported volumes of containerized cargoes of 11.39 million of teu, with a bending of the -8,6%, of which 7,79 million teu transported by the vessels of the wholly owned company COSCO Shipping Lines (-11.8%). The remaining 3,60 million teu (-1.0%) were transported by the ships of the OOCL, company of navigation owned by OOIL, which in turn is controlled by COSCO ( of 5 July 2023).

In the second quarter of 2023 alone, the COSCO fleet Shipping Holdings transported containerized goods amounting to one Total of 5,94 million teu, with a decrease of -5,8% on the same period last year, of which 4,08 million teu transported by COSCO Shipping Lines container ships (-8.7%). On the transpacific routes alone they were transported Altogether 1,12 million teu (- 10.3%), of which 637 thousand teu on COSCO Shipping Lines ships (-17.9%). Scheduled services Asia-Europe of the group have transported 1,15 million teu (+0.6%), of which 722 thousand teu transported by COSCO Shipping Lines (-2,0%). On the intra-Asian lines, the volumes transported were pairs to 1,94 million teu (- 6.4%), including 1,11 million teu on COSCO Shipping Lines ships (-8.8%). On other routes international are transported 666 thousand teu (- 0.3%), of which 537 thousand by COSCO Shipping Lines (- 3.2%), while on the routes Chinese national traffic was 1.07 million teu (- 9.5%) and is entirely transported from the fleet of COSCO Shipping Lines.

Revenues generated by the group's transpacific maritime services they have attested to 9,97 billion yuan (- 71.0%), of which 5,39 billion deriving from COSCO Shipping Lines services (-73.9%). The revenues from Asia-Europe services totalled 8.75 billion (-65.6%), including 5.97 billion from COSCO Shipping Lines (-64,9%). Intra-Asian services revenues were 10.97 billion (-53.6%), of which 6.59 billion from COSCO Shipping Lines (-53.6%), and those from other international services at 6.59 billion (-46.1%), of which 5.31 billion from COSCO Shipping Lines (-47,7%). Revenues from China's domestic services, for almost all generated by COSCO Shipping Lines, were equal to 2.96 billion yuan (-9.9%).

COSCO Shipping Holding closed the second quarter of 2023 with revenues pairs to 44,49 billion yuan (- 57.7%), of which 42,54 billions generated by containerized shipping (-58.8%). The profit operating has been of 8,28 billion (- 84.2%), with a contribution of 7,97 billion from containerized marine services (- 84.5%), and The profit clearly has been of 11,09 billion (- 74.9%), with a contribution of 9.19 billion from containerized shipping (- 79.4%).