# COSCO SHIPPING HOLDINGS CO-A

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T10:08:55.792132Z
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## Overview

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd. is a global container-shipping and port-logistics group. Its core businesses are container shipping, port investment and operations, and logistics supply-chain services, including intermodal transport, trucking, rail, warehousing and distribution. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213130)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212847)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212849)

The company serves international trade through a global network of shipping and port operations, with presence in China and overseas markets including Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. Its stated vision is to build “a world-class digital and intelligent supply chain enterprise centered on container shipping with high-quality standards.” [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213130)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213136)

The group’s scale is reflected in port throughput of 153.0 million TEUs in 2025 and consolidated revenue of US$7.4 billion in Q1 2026. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212998)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15466077)
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## Products & services

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings’ principal service is container transportation through its global liner network. Its Q1 2026 fleet comprised 598 vessels with operating capacity of approximately 3.62 million TEU, including owned or bareboat-chartered and externally chartered ships; vessels ranged from under 2,000 TEU to 15,000 TEU and above. The company also reported an orderbook of 72 vessels totaling about 1.06 million TEU. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135230842) Its Ocean Alliance DAY10 product offers shared capacity of more than 5.3 million TEU across 42 East–West services and more than 500 direct port-to-port services. [10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135231001)

Its service network spans Trans-Pacific, Asia–Europe and Mediterranean, intra-Asia and Australia, other international routes, and Mainland China. Q1 2026 container cargo volume was 6.916 million TEU; the reported route mix by volume was 34% intra-Asia/Australia, 22% Mainland China, 18% Trans-Pacific, 15% Asia–Europe/Mediterranean and 11% other international/Trans-Atlantic. [11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135230859) Beyond ocean freight, logistics offerings include global trailer services across nearly 170,000 routes in 56 countries and regions, rail services across nearly 2,000 routes in 26 countries and regions, and warehousing services such as container stuffing and unstuffing, distribution and drop shipping. Named solutions include “one-box-to-door” transcontinental transport, “one-click express” cross-border e-commerce, and customized end-to-end logistics for automotive, home-appliance and photovoltaic customers. Supply-chain revenue excluding shipping fees was RMB44.888 billion in 2025. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212849)

The group also provides port-terminal services and digital tools supporting shipping and logistics. Named digital offerings include its Smart Rate and Smart Space Management Platform, Smart Container Deployment System, transport and warehousing management systems, and Supply Chain Control Tower; it also reported issuing more than 800,000 blockchain electronic bills of lading through GSBN across over 90 countries and regions. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212854) In 2025, container shipping accounted for approximately 96% of external-customer revenue and terminal operations approximately 4%, calculated from disclosed segment revenue. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15463654)
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## Geographic presence

COSCO SHIPPING HOLDINGS’ geographic footprint spans shipping routes and port operations across Asia, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. Its 2025 report identifies strategic hubs at Chancay Port in Peru, Piraeus Port in Greece and Abu Dhabi Port, alongside network centers at Yangpu and Chancay. It also reports operations involving Laem Chabang Terminal in Thailand and Sukhna Red Sea Terminal in Egypt, and subsidiaries established in Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213136)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212847)

For 2025, the company reported shipping revenue by route—not by customer country or sales destination. As a share of reported route revenue, Asia routes including Australia represented about 25.1%, Trans-Pacific 24.1%, other international routes including the Atlantic 21.4%, Asia–Europe including the Mediterranean 19.1%, and Mainland China routes 10.3%. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15463545) Its terminals handled 152,994,965 TEUs in 2025, of which overseas terminals accounted for 38,158,491 TEUs, or about 24.9%. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212998)
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## Business segments

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings reports three operating segments: Container shipping business, Terminal business, and Corporate and other operations. Its 2025 annual report identifies container shipping and associated supply-chain services as the focus of the Container shipping business; it includes sea–rail intermodal, transshipment and trucking services, and the company classifies supply-chain revenue other than shipping fees within this segment rather than as a separate segment. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214886)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212847)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212849)

On an external-customer revenue basis, Container shipping business generated RMB210.6 billion in 2025, approximately 96% of group revenue; Terminal business generated RMB8.9 billion, approximately 4%. Corporate and other operations—primarily investment holding, management services and financing—reported no external-customer revenue. The percentages are calculated against 2025 consolidated revenue of RMB219.5 billion and are rounded. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15463654)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214889)
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## Company history

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings was established as China COSCO Holdings on 3 March 2005. It listed in Hong Kong on 30 June 2005 and on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 26 June 2007. [17](https://en.hold.coscoshipping.com/col25398/art/2022/art_25398_289043.html) The company’s lineage is connected to China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), founded in 1961; in 1978, COSCO’s *Britta Kruger* sailed from Shanghai to Australia with 162 containers, inaugurating China’s first international container-liner route. [18](https://en.coscoshipping.com/col/col6922/index.html) [19](https://en.coscoshipping.com/api-gateway/jpaas-web-server/front/document/download?fileName=2018.pdf&fileUrl=n9s7FT%2FT21J6Ntg6aan3xP%2F81nJKPga1QOcxzRKe1FSmHJh00ZaYDhkTukutpVqY6l9Z%2FiB9zJpOjTbnGB2RYF29gu2EzJ6yOBFTwN6XxQP%2BFrwlxr51wkiQYW1A9ODy)

In 2016, COSCO and China Shipping merged at the parent-group level to form China COSCO SHIPPING; later that year, the listed company changed its name from China COSCO Holdings to COSCO SHIPPING Holdings. [18](https://en.coscoshipping.com/col/col6922/index.html) [20](https://en.hold.coscoshipping.com/module/download/down.jsp?colID=25417&i_ID=291108) In 2017, COSCO SHIPPING Holdings and Shanghai International Port Group announced a proposed acquisition of Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL); the purchase from OOIL’s controlling shareholders was completed in July 2018, and OOIL was consolidated in the group’s 2018 financial statements. [21](https://lines.coscoshipping.com/home/News/detail/14996783529648277100/50000000000000232) [22](https://world.lines.coscoshipping.com/home/News/detail/15331729524365822881/50000000000000232) [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135202329)
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