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As a result of the merger, COSCON acquired the assets of CSCL and was renamed COSCO SHIPPING Lines. Meanwhile, CSCL acquired the container leasing subsidiaries of China Shipping Group and COSCO Group, and became a container leasing company. The newly created COSCO Shipping Lines has 502 container ships with 3.0 million TEU.
The group was a Chinese state-owned multinational transportation conglomerate. By May 2014, China Shipping's container shipping subsidiary – China Shipping Container Lines – operated 156 container vessels with 656,000 TEU capacity. [6] China Shipping Container Lines' container ship CSCL Globe was the world largest in 2014. [7]
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]
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]
Yard number IMO number Delivery Status ref COSCO Belgium: NE111 9516404 28 Feb 2013 In service [2] COSCO France: NE112 9516416 24 May 2013 In service [3] COSCO England: NE113 9516428 30 Aug 2013 In service [4] COSCO Netherlands: NE114 9516430 18 Nov 2013 In service [5] COSCO Spain: NE115 9516442 14 Feb 2014 In service [6] COSCO Italy: NE116 ...
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 number of container units handled by Chinese ports in 2011 reached more than 150 million. The country also manufactures 90% of the world's containers. The throughput of cargo and containers at China's ports has been the largest in the world for the past five years, with an annual growth rate of 35%.