On May 16th, Capt. Wei Jiafu, Chairman of COSCO Group met with the state-visiting Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras and his senior delegation in Diaoyutai State Guest House. Both parties thoroughly exchanged views on collaboration between COSCO Group and the Port of Piraeus. At the meeting, Prime Minister Samaras said that COSCO Group enjoys [...]
COSCO Shipping Europe B.V. held its official opening ceremony in its Rotterdam offices at Strevelsweg 700 on Tuesday the 14th of May 2013. COSCO Shipping Company’s CEO, Capt. Han Guomin, had specially flown in from Guangzhou to chair the event. It was attended by clients of his company’s fleet of semi-submersible heavylift vessels. Executives of [...]
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co. Ltd.), has signed and made effective a contract with a Malaysian shipowner to build a floatover launch barge at a contract value over US$23 million. The floatover [...]
Caterpillar Global Petroleum announced that the Cat® 3516C (HD) and 3512B generator sets have been selected to power a jackup and a tender barge newbuild for COSCO Shipyard Group in China. Six Cat 3516C (HD) generator sets, each with rated power of 1603 bkw @ 1200 rpm, will be used as the prime power for [...]
Cosco Shipyard in Guangdong, China, has held a launching ceremony for Galloway Express, first livestock carrier being built for Vroon B.V, the Dutch company’s news release said. The launching took place in two stages. On April 6, the vessel was pulled from the slipway to the floating dock, a process that took six hours. The [...]
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited today announced that subsidiaries of the Company ’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd have made the following deliveries: COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered a bulk carrier of 57.000 DWT, named OCEAN LOVE, to its European buyer. The bulk carrier measures 189.99 meters [...]
The Cosco Belgium, the latest container carrier in the fleet of the Chinese shipping company Cosco, moored in the port of Antwerp on Sunday. The Cosco Belgium scored an important first: with a capacity of 13,350 TEU the Cosco Belgium is a new record for the state-owned Chinese company. The Cosco Belgium is the 55th [...]
The Norwegian shipowner, Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT), recently finalized a deal for a 152,000-DWT DP2 shuttle tanker to be built by COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard. The vessel will be 276.3 metres in length, 46 metres in width and have a design draft of 17.5 metres. Additionally, COSCO (Zhoushan) has won another order to build a [...]
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd , a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered a bulk carrier of 57000DWT, “OCEAN MASTER”, to its European buyer. The delivery documents were signed by and between COSCO Zhoushan and the buyer [...]
On February 28, the Christening ceremony of 13,386-TEU container ship MV. COSCO BELGIUM was grandly held at Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co.,Ltd (NACKS) . Mr. Li Yunpeng, Executive Vice President of COSCO Group, Mr. Wan Min, Managing Director of COSCON, Mr. Gao Ping, Secretary of Party Committee of COSCON, Mr. Nobumitsu Kambayashi, the Senior [...]
