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water transport

Reported fleet size
554
Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Container capacity
3,593,746 TEU
Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30
Gross tonnage on record
310,982
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
This company reports 554 ships while this registry holds individual records for 2. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.
In brief
COSCO SHIPPING Lines Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 中远海运集运) is a Chinese international container transportation and shipping company. It is a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Holdings, and its parent company is China's state-owned COSCO Shipping.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to COSCO Shipping Lines. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
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 | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 94,623 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 216,359 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9795646 | Container ship | Hong Kong | 2019 | 216,359 | 196,000 | 399.8 m | Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding | |
| 9731949 | Container ship | Hong Kong | 2017 | 94,623 | 111,401 | 299.9 m | — |
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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 2 vessels attributed to it here, COSCO Shipping Lines is the 341st 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.
Japan is the country of registration for 69 commercial operators in this directory, among which COSCO Shipping Lines ranks 13th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 153 vessels here. 2 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Japan.
Founded in 1964, COSCO Shipping Lines is 62 years old. This directory holds 88 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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14 on record · est. 1885
Japanese National Railways
9 on record · est. 1949
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8 on record · est. 2004
K Line
7 on record · est. 1919
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
7 on record · est. 1964
JR Kyushu Jet Ferry
5 on record · est. 2005

Shinnihonkai Ferry
4 on record · est. 1969
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q2677734, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from COSCO Shipping Lines on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresAlphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia), as of 2026-04-30. These are the industry’s numbers, not this directory’s.