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COSCO SHIPPING Lines

Headquartered in Shanghai, COSCO SHIPPING Lines has 27 departments. It has 9 port branches in Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, South China, Hainan, Wuhan, etc. in mainland China; 9 overseas branches in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, West Asia, South America, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Africa Division. As of the end of July 2022, COSCO SHIPPING Lines had a total of 224 domestic and foreign corporate enterprises. There are more than 400 domestic and overseas marketing service outlets and 17,000 employees worldwide, including 5,339 overseas.

Port of Piraeus hosts Chinese promotional event

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 28, 2023 – The Port of Piraeus has hosted a Chinese promotional event organised by Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone...

ICS Chairman Grimaldi meets with CSA and Chinese officials

News Release – Grimaldi Group – April 12, 2023 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Chairman Emanuele Grimaldi met with Mr Feng Bo, the...

AIIA: China’s overseas ports acquisition program

Canberra, Australia (PortSEurope) April 11, 2023 – In recent years, increasing Chinese investments in foreign ports have attracted media attention....

Analysis: Black Sea Container market overview 2022

Odessa, Ukraine (Informall/PortSEurope) April 3, 2023 – The Black Sea region has witnessed a considerable decline in its container market volumes, with...

Turkey’s Safiport to receive Chinese cars

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) March 8, 2023 – Safiport has handled the delivery of 4,000 Chery cars by a Ro-Ro vessel of China’s COSCO Shipping....

Piraeus Port receives award for contribution to Greek tourism

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority has received an award, conferred during a special Greece: 365 – Day...

Piraeus Port Authority starts new car shipment route with COSCO

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 1, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) had jointly launched a new car shipment route and service with COSCO...

Suez Canal Container Terminal S.A.E. – TEU handled 2018-2022

Port Said, Egypt (Ports Europe) January 30, 2023 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited has published the final TEU handling figures for Suez Canal Container...

Batumi International Container Terminal welcomes COSCO’s TBX1 service

Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2022 – Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT)has welcomed the inaugural vessel call of Diamond...

Piraeus Port Authority – basic financial data for Jan-Sep 2022

Piraeus Port Authority – Basic financial data for the nine months of the current period ended 30/09/2022 1.Revenue, Earnings before income tax and...

COSCO’S Diamond Line launches LGX1 service

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 19, 2022 – On September 3, Diamond Line has launched the new service LGX1 (GREECE – LEVANT EXPRESS 1) with...

COSCO links Bosnia with the Chinese Silk Road

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) September 2, 2022 – COSCO Shipping is to link Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with the Chinese Silk Road with a...

COSCO SHIPPING starts Trieste-Slovenia freight rail service

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) June 29, 2022 – COSCO SHIPPING has started Trieste-Slovenia block train freight rail service between the Port of Trieste and...

Valencia port community reinforces its commitment to the ECOPORT II project

València, April 21, 2022.- Valenciaport has a clear objective: 2030 zero emissions. It is the commitment that the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV)...

GSBN’s Cargo Release gains momentum in Europe following successful deployments in China and SEA

GSBN’s Cargo Release gains momentum in Europe following successful deployments in China and Southeast Asia Consortium’s flagship digital solution rolls out...

Cosco Shipping Lines to extend its direct service between Valencia and Algeciras by adding more West African ports

València, Spain (Ports Europe) February 17, 2022 – Cosco Shipping Lines Spain has extended its direct service between Valencia and Algeciras by adding...

Valenciaport and COSCO collaborate in the automation of the delivery of container seals

Valenciaport and Cosco Shipping Lines Spain S.A. are collaborating in a project to provide, through a dispensing machine, the container seals to the carriers...

COSCO SHIPPING Lines reaffirms its commitment to Valenciaport

The managing director of COSCO SHIPPING Lines Spain, Wan Kun, has visited the facilities of the Valencia port complex where he held a meeting with the...

COSCO Shipping representatives visit the port of Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2021 – Management representatives of COSCO Shipping Lines Spain and its agent VASCO have visited the Bilbao Port...

Planning and Optimization of Maritime-Port Operations working group meets in Valencia port

Today a new meeting of the working group on “Planning and Optimization of Maritime-Port Operations” was held, created within the framework of the...

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