NYK Line reported a leap in third-quarter profit across its ocean shipping businesses that overshadowed an extraordinary loss in its air freight division.

The Japanese shipping giant booked a profit of JPY 7.6bn ($69.8m) for the third quarter of the fiscal year, which is an improvement from the JPY 1bn in profit in the same period a year earlier.

That took its profit for the first nine months to JPY 18.7bn,