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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 ...
COSCO Shipping Shengshi, a vehicles carrier ship, Sète, 2018. China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (branded as COSCO Shipping) is a Chinese state-owned multinational marine transportation service conglomerate, headquartered in Shanghai. [2]
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 ...
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]
In 2003, COSCO Pacific is a co-investor of a phase of Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal, for 20% shares of the SPV that carry the actual investment. [9] [10] In the same year, COSCO Pacific also formed a joint venture with PSA. [11] In 2008, COSCO Pacific made a bid for a 35-year concession to operate the container port of Piraeus.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of February 2024, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1] In January 2022, MSC overtook Maersk for the container line with the largest shipping capacity for the first time since 1996. [ 2 ]
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 ...
CSCL Globe is a container ship owned and operated by COSCO Shipping and previously, China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL). The first of a class of five ships intended for Asia-Europe trade routes, [5] she was the largest container ship in the world at the time of her launch in November 2014, [6] with a maximum capacity of 19,100 twenty-foot containers.