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China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd.

Headquarters: Shanghai
Founded: 1961
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Peter Morgan from Beijing, China · CC BY 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

345,473

Summed over 5 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. is

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China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) was a former shipping corporation from 1961 to 2016, owned by the State Council of China and supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. The company merged with China Shipping Group Company to form China COSCO Shipping Corporation in January 2016.
COSCO was founded in 1961 as a state-owned shipping and logistics services supplier company.

COSCO headquarters is in Ocean Plaza in the Xicheng District in Beijing. 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. The fleet calls at over a thousand ports worldwide. It ranks among the largest in both number of container ships and aggregate container volume in the world. In 2012, it was among China's top 15 brands.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: shipping line
Legal form: limited company
Country of registration: People's Republic of China
Headquarters: Shanghai
Formed in: —
Founded: 1961
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 31.2325, 121.4692

Ships on record here: 7
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 5
Average vessel age: 28.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1949
Newest vessel on record: 2018
Largest vessel by tonnage: 194,864
Average tonnage: 69,095
Market share: —
Parent company: China COSCO Shipping
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 7 vessels this registry attributes to China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd.. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

People's Republic of China1

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1

Singapore1

By shipbuilder

Cantieri Navali del Tirreno Riuniti1

Chengxi Shipyard1

Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée1

Hakodate Dock1

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries1

Jiangnan Shipyard1

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 2 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	4
2018	2	194,864	6
2019	0	—	6
2020	0	—	6
2021	0	—	6
2022	0	—	6
2023	0	—	6
2024	0	—	6
2025	0	—	6
2026	0	—	6

Vessel records

Ships on record

7 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
COSCO Shipping Sagittarius	9783473	Container ship	—	2018	194,864	—	399.8 m	Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding
IMO 9448748	9448748	Container ship	Singapore	2010	91,051	—	334.0 m	HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
MV Fu Shan Hai	9056002	Bulk carrier	Denmark	1995	38,603	—	225.0 m	Jiangnan Shipyard
Full City	9073672	Bulk carrier	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1995	15,873	26,758	167.2 m	Hakodate Dock
Julius Fučík	5177054	Unclassified	France	1949	5,082	7,108	129.5 m	Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée
IMO 6930207	6930207	Unclassified	—	—	—	—	—	Cantieri Navali del Tirreno Riuniti
Tian You	9823625	General cargo	People's Republic of China	2018	—	—	—	Chengxi Shipyard

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 7 vessels attributed to it here, China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. is the 123rd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

People's Republic of China is the country of registration for 12 commercial operators in this directory, among which China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 18 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in People's Republic of China.

Founded in 1961, China Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. is 65 years old. This directory holds 76 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q117286, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from COSCO on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.