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🚨COSCO on 9M-2025: Strong Volumes, Weak Pricing!

💡Rates down, margins crushed, but volumes hit record highs.

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Nov 10, 2025
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COSCO SHIPPING Lines — the world’s 3rd-largest container carrier — has delivered a 9M performance that perfectly captures today’s global shipping reality:

✅ Volumes are booming across every major trade lane.
✅ Revenue is shrinking even with higher cargo liftings.
✅ Unit income is falling sharply as oversupply crushes pricing power.
✅ Profitability is under pressure despite strong operational scale.

This is not a COSCO problem — it’s the era the industry has entered: high volumes, weak rates, and an oversupplied market with no immediate relief.

Let’s break down the real picture from COSCO SHIPPING Lines

  • 🔍 Top 10 Facts on 9M 2025

  • 📊 Key Ratios for Decision-Makers

  • 🌍 Why Cosco Is Feeling the Pressure?

  • ⚓ Cosco - Tactical Response

  • ✅ What COSCO Figures Really Means for the Industry?


COSCO SHIPPING Lines
www.lines.coscoshipping.com

🔍Top 10 Facts on 9M-2025

1️⃣ Cargo Volume: 14.31M TEU (+6.6% YoY)

💡COSCO is growing faster than global demand, signaling strong customer stickiness and network scale.


2️⃣ International Volume: 9.88M TEU (+4.2%)

💡All east–west corridors saw positive expansion — rare in 2025’s uneven demand environment.


3️⃣ Mainland China Volume: 4.43M TEU (+12.1%)

💡Domestic–international integration continues to strengthen COSCO’s home-market engine.


4️⃣ Revenue: US$14.31B (–5.8%)

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