Cosco

China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, (COSCO Group) is a government-owned shipping and logistics services group based in Beijing. The company is one of the largest in the world in terms of the number of container ships, and has several listed arms: COSCO Pacific Ltd, China COSCO Holdings Company Ltd, COSCO International Holdings Ltd, Cosco Investment (Singapore) Ltd, Cosco Shipping Company Ltd.

Greek PM hopes China trip will boost his country’s ailing economy

13 May 2013

Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hopes his four-day trip to China this week will help his country’s ailing economy by attracting investment and promoting the export of Greek products.

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HSBC pays big bonuses while admitting to money laundering

5 Mar 2013

So HSBC paid 204 of its staff more than £1 million (HK$11.7 million) each in bonuses for the financial year just gone, we learned from its results yesterday.

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Business Digest, January 15, 2013

15 Jan 2013

Cosco mulls €1b stake in Greece's biggest port

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Cosco and China Shipping seek closer business ties

18 Oct 2012

The mainland's two largest shipping companies, China Ocean Shipping (Group) and China Shipping, are exploring ways to deepen their business relationship, Cosco president Ma Zehua confirmed...

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Morning Clicks: Vietnam claims South China Sea oil block, demands that bidding stop

4 Sep 2012

The central government will invest a total of 400 billion yuan (HK$489.14bn) in healthcare by the end of China's 13th five-year plan (2016-2020).

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Cosco International seeks acquisitions to boost profits

23 Aug 2012

Cash-rich Cosco International, the shipping services offshoot of China's largest shipping firm Cosco, is eyeing acquisitions both inside and outside its parent as it seeks to develop synergies...

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Opinion

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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China Cosco shares fall as interim net loss set to grow

China Cosco, the listed subsidiary of the mainland's largest shipping firm, saw its share price fall more than 3.6 per cent yesterday after it warned of a first-half net loss of more than 4.14...

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2012 HKMA Quality Award

Board of Examiners

Matthew Yuen (Chairman)

Head and professor, department of mechanical engineering, HKUST

Eric Chow

Head, corporate...

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China's helping hand on cargo 'impractical'

The global shipping industry is facing its worst downturn in three decades, but industry experts say that mainland moves to boost Chinese shipping firms' business by allocating more cargo to them...

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Bank rescue, China data buoy shipping

Shares in a raft of shipping firms soared yesterday amid upbeat investor sentiment following the release of sharply higher mainland export and import figures for May and optimism about a bailout...

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Lai See

SFC chief not trying to win friends at Hong Kong Club

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Expansion at greek container terminal

Cosco Pacific, the marine terminals subsidiary of China's largest shipping company, is going ahead with a Euro120 million (HK$1.18 billion) expansion of Piraeus Container Terminal in Greece months...

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