In the third quarter of this year, port terminals that make part of the network of the Chinese COSCO Shipping Ports have handled container traffic of 32.6 million TEUs, volume that represents a new quarterly historical record and a increase of +9.2% over the corresponding period of 2025. The new record was achieved thanks to absolute peaks in volumes traffic handled both in China and in the foreign terminals of the which amounted to 11.0 million TEUs respectively (+4.5%) and 32.6 million TEUs (+19.9%).

In the period July-September 2026, port terminals of the other Chinese terminal operator group China Merchants Port (CMPort) handled a containerized traffic of over 39.8 million TEUs, a volume that is lower only than the historical record of 40.2 million TEUs recorded in the second quarter of this year and is +2.4% higher than in the third quarter of 2025. Chinese terminals alone handled 29.5 million TEUs (+1.6%) and foreign terminals 10.4 million TEUs (+4.8%).

In the first nine months of 2026, COSCO Shipping Ports' terminals handled a total of 93.9 million TEUs, with a increase of +8.5% over the same period last year, of which 62.4 million TEUs handled in China (+3.9%) and 31.5 million TEUs in foreign terminals (+18.9%). It is necessary to highlight whereas much of the growth in overseas terminals has been effect of the new acquisitions made by the Group, net of which the increase in traffic is +2.3%.

In the period January-September of this year, the terminals of CMPort handled a total of 118.1 million TEUs (+3.8%), of which 88.3 million TEUs in Chinese terminals (+4.3%) and 29.8 million TEUs in Chinese terminals TEUs in foreign terminals (+2.4%).