# COSCO SHIPPING HOLDINGS CO-A

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## Overview

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd. is a China-based company focused on container shipping, port terminals and related logistics supply chains. Its shipping operations include the COSCO SHIPPING Lines and OOCL brands, while its terminal business operates and manages container terminals. The company describes its vision as becoming a digital and intelligent supply-chain enterprise centered on container shipping. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213040)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213130)

The company has a global shipping network. At the end of 2025, its self-operated fleet comprised 590 vessels with capacity of approximately 3.60 million TEUs, and its services called at 654 ports across about 146 countries and regions. For 2025, it reported revenue of approximately RMB219.5 billion and 32,768 employees. [3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213029)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135213031)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214237)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214120)
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## Products & services

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings’ principal service is container shipping on international and domestic routes. Its network combines long-haul and regional services with feeder connections, while its supply-chain offerings extend transport through sea–rail intermodal links, road haulage, customs clearance and warehousing. These services include container stuffing and unstuffing, distribution and water-to-water transshipment. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135206215)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212849)

The company offers digital supply-chain products through SynCon Hub. Named offerings include Customer-Defined Services, Talent Thomas and Global Talent Pegasus, alongside tailored service bundles that combine shipping with other logistics steps. Its separate terminal business provides container-terminal handling and storage services. Container shipping accounted for approximately 96.6% of external-customer revenue in 2024, versus 3.4% for terminals; these are business-segment shares rather than sales shares for individual products. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135215774)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135205916)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135205975)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15463048)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15462943)
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## Geographic presence

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings is registered in Tianjin and lists its place of business in Shanghai. Its container-shipping revenue is reported by trade lane: America corresponds to trans-Pacific services; Europe to Asia–Europe services, including the Mediterranean; Asia Pacific to intra-Asia services, including Australia; and Mainland China to domestic services. Other international markets include Atlantic routes. [14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212758)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214920)

In 2025, container-shipping external revenue was RMB55.63 billion from the America trade lane, RMB55.51 billion from Asia Pacific, RMB41.55 billion from Europe, RMB32.95 billion from other international markets and RMB25.01 billion from Mainland China. These represented approximately 26%, 26%, 20%, 16% and 12%, respectively, of container-shipping external revenue. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214921) Terminal external revenue was concentrated in Europe (RMB4.25 billion) and Mainland China (RMB3.84 billion), with smaller contributions from Asia Pacific (RMB0.44 billion) and other international markets (RMB0.33 billion). The company’s terminals handled 114.8 million TEUs in China and 38.2 million TEUs overseas in 2025. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135214921)[17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135212998)
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## Business segments

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings reports two principal operating segments: **Container shipping business** and **Terminal business**. Container shipping covers container transportation, including operations associated with COSCO SHIPPING Lines and OOIL; terminal business encompasses container-terminal operations associated with COSCO SHIPPING Ports. It also reports corporate and other operations, primarily investment holding, management services and financing. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207668)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207669)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207670)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207671)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207748)

On a 2024 external-customer revenue basis, container shipping contributed approximately **96.6%** of group revenue (RMB225.9 billion), while terminals contributed **3.4%** (RMB8.0 billion). Within container shipping, the reported geographic breakdown corresponds to trade lanes: Trans-Pacific accounted for about **29%** of shipping revenue; intra-Asia, including Australia, **24%**; Asia–Europe, including the Mediterranean, **22%**; other international routes, including the Atlantic, **15%**; and routes within mainland China, **10%**. These trade-lane percentages are shares of container-shipping revenue, not additional group segments. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15462943)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207693)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207694)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207695)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15462948)
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## Company history

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings was incorporated in China on 3 March 2005. It issued H shares in 2005 and A shares in 2007, establishing its presence in both the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese equity markets. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135207938)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T15462348)

A major restructuring approved in 2016 reshaped the group’s container-shipping and related businesses through asset disposals, acquisitions and vessel and container leasing arrangements with companies in the COSCO and China Shipping groups. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P136557038) In 2017, the company joined an offer to acquire Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL); it obtained control of OOIL in July 2018, marking a major expansion of its container-shipping business. [31](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P135203522)
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