COSCO Shipping Ports: 92.17m TEUs handled in I-IX 2019 (+5.3% yoy)

The Hong Kong-based terminal operator, handling containers over 206 berths worldwide, noted increases across all the regions it’s active in.

Specifically, its main market, the Greater China region, rose by 3.2% year-on-year to a total of 25,208,454 TEUs, followed by the Bohai Rim sub-market (+4.4% yoy to 10,634,378 TEUs), Pearl River Delta (+1.1% yoy to 7,399,838 TEUs), Overseas (+12.9% yoy to 7,196,552 TEUs), Yangtze River Delta (+3.1% yoy to 5,287,580 TEUs), Southeast Coast (+0.5% yoy to 1,453,456 TEUs), and Southwest Coast (+27% yoy to 433,202 TEUs).

In Europe, COSCO’s container terminal in the Greek Piraeus advanced by 15.1% yoy to altogether 1,342,395 TEUs. At the same time, CSP Spain’s volumes contracted by 6.1% yoy down to 886,065 TEUs.