Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 .
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 ...
Open competition also brought an end to the pattern of long distance subsidizing local service, bringing per-minute charges down to levels where any business could afford to take orders using an 800-number. Originally, 800 service in the US and 800 service in Canada were isolated from each other, but in 1984, an agreement between carriers in ...
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]
It was known as China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and was among the world's largest container liner companies. It exited the container shipping business and was renamed to COSCO SHIPPING Development because of the COSCO-China Shipping merger in 2016. [1] As CSCL, the company was ranked 1503rd in 2012 edition of Forbes Global 2000. [2]
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]
In 2002, China Shipping Group, via the subsidiary, China Shipping Container Lines, placed orders on new container ships. [7] The deal was partnered with fellow Government owned company (and future sister company), China Ocean Shipping (Group) Corporation (COSCO Group) and worth more than US$700 million. [7]