In the fourth quarter of 2024, the strong growth in revenues recorded by the shipping company Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) in Hong Kong A smaller increase in freight volumes transported by the Chinese carrier's fleet. In the quarter October-December of last year, revenues amounted to 2.51 billion, up +55.0% over the same period of 2023. In the last quarter of 2024, the OOCL fleet transported containerized volumes of 1.99 million TEUs (+6,1%).

On the transpacific routes alone, 552 thousand were transported TEU (+14.5%) and this activity generated revenues of 967.5 million dollars (+61.7%). Growth was also activity on transatlantic routes, on which 120 thousand TEUs (+11.3%) were transported with related revenues of $163.7 million (+22.9%), and on intra-Asian and with Australasia, where traffic was 951 thousand TEUs (+6.3%) with related revenues of $828.9 million (+44,3%). On the Asia-Europe routes, on the other hand, the volumes transported were decreased to 363 thousand TEUs (-6.5%), while revenues generated by this activity have increased sharply, to which the effects of the diversion of services have contributed seafarers on the route that circumnavigates Africa to avoid the area of the Red Sea crisis, having stood at 553.8 million dollars (+75.4%).

In the entire year 2024, OOCL's fleet transported cargo equal to 7.59 million TEUs, with an increase of +3.5% on the year previous, an activity that produced revenues of 9.81 billion dollars (+30.2%). In the transpacific market, volumes transported amounted to 2.08 million TEUs (+9.9%) and revenues to $3.88 billion (+44.0%). Transport and transport are also on the rise. revenues in the intra-Asian and Australasia markets, results of respectively to 3.62 million TEUs (+7.4%) and 2.98 billion TEUs dollars (+17.1%). On the Asia-Europe routes, the volumes transported were decreased by -10.9% to 1.42 million TEUs, while the revenue increased by +44.0% to $2.34 billion. In the transatlantic market, both volumes and transported, with 479 thousand TEUs (-0.6%), and revenues, with 616.3 million dollars (-26.7%).