In the third quarter of 2026, the company's revenues of South Korean shipping HMM increased by +52.5% compared to the previous year. same period last year, having risen to 4,127.1 billion won ($3.1 billion). The strong growth was generated by the significant increase in the value of the turnover of the the Group's containerized maritime transport activities, which totaled 87% of the total turnover, but also from bulk shipping activities operated by HMM, which accounted for 12% of total revenues.

The quarterly turnover generated by the activities of the container ship of the company's fleet amounted to 3,595.9 billion won (+53.6%), of which 1,369.8 billion were generated from scheduled services with America (+68.5%), 1,181.2 billion from those with Europe (+48.8%), 356.7 billion from Asian services (-7.0%) and 688.2 billion won from North-South maritime services (+103,0%). The marked increase in turnover contributed to the mainly the sharp increase of +54.9% in the average value of freight rates which was equal to 1,953 dollars/TEU, but also the Growth in volumes of containerized goods transported by ships of the HMM which amounted to 1.11 million TEUs (+8.4%), of which 430 thousand TEUs transported on transpacific routes (+18.4%), 321 thousand TEUs on Asia-Europe routes (+12.5%), 189 thousand TEUs on routes (-22.2%) and 165 thousand TEUs on North-South routes (+23,6%).

In the bulk transport segment, which HMM is significantly strengthening with the objective - set by the Strategy approved last July by the Board of Directors - of Elevate this specific fleet to 110 ships for a capacity of 13.52 million deadweight tonnes by 2030, revenue stood at 489.7 billion won (+54.9%), of which 252.9 billion produced by bulk transport liquid (+93.6%) and €236.7 billion from the transport of dry bulk (+27,7%).

In the third quarter of this year, total operating costs marked a smaller increase of +16.7% rising to 2,604.9 billion won. Operating profit was 1,394.6 billion (+369.8%), with a contribution of 1,251.5 billion from container ships (+335.3%) and 139.1 billion from bulk cargo (+2.991,1%). Net income was 1,535.2 billion won (+405,3%).

In the first nine months of 2026, HMM reported sales of 10,247.8 billion won, up +25.2% on the corresponding last year, of which 8,669.6 billion produced by the containers (+24.3%) and 1,451.0 billion from bulk (+38.4%). Operating profit amounted to €2,017.9 billion (+76.4%) and net profit at €2,300.2 billion (+51.8%).