The Thai shipping company Regional Container Lines (RCL) has ordered South Korea's Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (KSOE) building two container ships from 14,000 TEU. KSOE announced that the total value of the The contract amounts to 435.3 billion won ($299 million) and that the new ships will be delivered by October 2028.

Meanwhile, after five quarterly periods of increase in the turnover, in the third quarter of 2025 RCL's turnover recorded a decrease of -14.3% having been equal to 9.51 billion baht ($293 million) compared to 11.10 billion baht in the corresponding period last year. The value of operating profit stood at 2.53 billion (-40.3%) and profit after tax at 2.30 billion baht (-43.6%).

RCL has announced that the average value of freight rates of the third quarter of 2025 was 440 baht/teu, in growth compared to 406 baht/teu in the previous quarter. In the third quarter of 2024, the average value was 516 baht/teu.

In the first nine months of this year, the company's turnover was 28.35 billion baht (+10.3% on the same period of 2015) 2024), operating profit of €6.91 billion (+11.6%) and net profit of 6.36 billion (+8.8%).