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China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (branded as COSCO Shipping) is a Chinese state-owned multinational marine transportation service conglomerate, headquartered in Shanghai. [2] It was established in January 2016 by the merger between China Ocean Shipping Company and China Shipping Group Company .
In 1978, COSCO Shanghai's MV Ping Xiang Cheng transported 162 TEU from Shanghai to Sydney, Australia, which was the first international container voyage by a Chinese company. [1]: 56 [2] [3] [1] [4] Thereafter, COSCO Shanghai commenced a monthly container service running two 200 TEU container ships between Shanghai, Xingang, Sydney, and Melbourne.
COSCO was founded in 1961 as a state-owned shipping and logistics services supplier company. [1] COSCO headquarters is in Ocean Plaza in the Xicheng District in Beijing. [2] [3] It owns 1114 ships, including 365 dry bulk vessels, a container fleet with a capacity of 1,580,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), and a tanker fleet of 120 vessels ...
At that time, COSCO International was the second largest shareholder of Sino-Ocean Group for 16.85% stake. [14] In 2015, the ultimate parent company, COSCO, merged with China Shipping Group to become China COSCO Shipping, or known as COSCO Shipping. Thus, the listed company was renamed into COSCO Shipping International (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.. [15]
The company is formerly known as COSCO Pacific Limited and was an indirect subsidiary of COSCO and now part of its successor, COSCO Shipping. It is mainly engaged in container terminal operations, container manufacturing and leasing, shipping agency and freight forwarding. COSCO Pacific was a Hang Seng Index constituent from 2003 [2] to 2014. [3]
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Ship Built DWT TEU Flag IMO Notes Chuan He: 1997: 69,285: 5,446 China 9120798: Jin He: 1997: 69,283: 5,446 Panama 9120786: Scrapped in 2017 Lu He: 1997: 69,285: 5,446 ...