Hard times (1964—1978)
During the 15 years after the founding of New China, the country's foreign trade transportation mainly relied on renting foreign ships. In the 1960s, the rents in the international chartering market kept rising. In order to safeguard China's maritime interests, reduce the transportation cost of imported food, fertilizer and other scarce materials, and support national construction, under the cordial care of President the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President the State Council, President Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, and under the leadership of the Ministry of Communications and China Ocean Shipping Corporation, China Ocean Shipping Corporation Shanghai Branch was established in April 1964 at No.5 Zhongshan East Road, Shanghai.
After the establishment of COSCO Shanghai Branch, it worked hard and made great efforts to develop the ocean shipping fleet at a high speed by investing in new ships, lending new ships and "second-hand ships". In less than 15 years, the fleet size of the company has grown from eight small general cargo ships at the beginning to 1 15 ships, forming a comprehensive ocean transportation fleet composed of general cargo ships, bulk carriers, multi-purpose ships, semi-container ships and ro-ro ships. The routes and navigation areas operated by the company have grown from more than 10 ports in China, Japan and North Korea to 1978 ports in 82 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and North and South America. The company's annual cargo transportation volume increased from more than 800,000 tons at the beginning to more than 8.6 million tons in 1978; The number of employees in the company also increased from 488 at the beginning to 1 120 1 person in 0978, among which, the number of ocean-going crew members increased from 4 10 to more than 9000. Cosco Shanghai Branch has therefore become an important force in national foreign trade transportation.
1964 June 12, "Peace 60" made its maiden voyage to North Korea, opening a route between China and North Korea.
On June 1964 and June 18, the "Liaoyuan" made its maiden voyage to Japan, opening up a Sino-Japanese route.
1968 5438+00 In June, "Red Flag" made its first voyage to Europe, opening up a northwest European route.
On July 1970 and June 18, the "Xiangyang" made its maiden voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, opening up a Mediterranean route.
On August 1970 and August 10, the "Dongfeng" made its maiden voyage to Canada, opening up a route to North America.
197 1 year 1 month 1 day, "Red Flag" made its maiden voyage to Tanzania, opening up an African route.
1971July 16, the "red flag" made its maiden voyage to Chile, starting the South American route.
On August 22nd, 1972, "Anting" made its maiden voyage to the Philippines, opening the route to Southeast Asia.
On September 26th, 1978, "Pingxiang City" opened the international container liner shipping route from China to Australia, which is the first container liner shipping route in China.
All-round development period (1979 ——1997)
The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China blew the horn of China's reform and opening up and accelerated economic construction, and also promoted the all-round development of ocean-going undertakings. 1 979 May1day, approved by the Ministry of Communications, COSCO Shanghai Branch was renamed as Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company. With the development of international maritime container transportation and the progress of shipbuilding technology, the company actively introduces container ships, ro-ro ships and multi-purpose ships with advanced technology and high efficiency, and gradually eliminates general cargo ships, bulk carriers and semi-container ships with aging ships and backward technology. By 1992, the company has 46 ocean-going ships/kloc-0, with a deadweight of more than 3 million tons, of which container ships and ro-ro ships account for more than one third; The annual transportation volume reached 22.25 million tons, of which the transportation volume of container ships and ro-ro ships was 65.438+0.10.62 million tons respectively, accounting for more than half of the total. During this period, the company actively developed liner shipping, and successively opened regular liners covering almost all parts of the world from China to Europe, America, Oceania, Southeast Asia and Africa, and established a container shipping network around the Pacific Ocean, which improved the operational efficiency and economic benefits of ships. While developing the main business of ocean transportation, the company actively builds onshore industries and operates more than 40 small and medium-sized enterprises such as freight forwarding, warehousing and transshipment, ship repair, ship supply, business restaurant, hotel tourism, medical and health care, container repair and real estate. The company sets up the idea of serving the client, reorganizes the enterprise, implements the economic contract responsibility system, and implements policy and target management and total quality management. After the company was rated as a national second-class enterprise on 1989, it successively won the honorary titles of National Enterprise Management Excellence Award (Golden Horse Award), National Excellent Enterprise in Ideological and Political Work, National May 1st Labor Award, and Shanghai Civilized Unit. 1993 after the establishment of cosco (group) corporation, in order to cope with the international shipping competition, container ships and bulk carriers have been managed in a unified and decentralized manner. Cosco Container Transportation Headquarters was established in Beijing, and Shangyuan Company continued to manage the original container ships and bulk carriers, while managing general cargo ships. 1In July, 1997, COSCO Group decided to implement professional management of ocean transportation. 65438+ In February of the same year, CIMC moved its headquarters to Shanghai and merged with Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company to form COSCO Container Transportation Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company).
1979 April 18, Linhai Liu arrived in Seattle, USA, becoming the first China merchant ship to fly a five-star red flag to the United States after the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
1 979 May1day, China Ocean Shipping Company Shanghai Branch was renamed Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company (referred to as Shangyuan Company).
1981February 10, "Zhangjiakou" made its first voyage to the United States, opening up a container liner shipping route between China and the United States.
On June 4th, 198 1, "Fushun City" made its maiden voyage to Japan, opening a container liner shipping route between China and Japan.
1In July, 983, the ship "Liaohe" made its maiden voyage to Europe, opening a container liner route from China to Western Europe.
On June 1 June/9851day, the "Jian Zhen" made its maiden voyage to Japan, opening a liner route for passenger and cargo between China and Japan.
1April, 1986, the company's container ship management office (hereinafter referred to as Guansi) was established; 1987 May, Management 1, Management 2 and Management 3 were established; 1August, 989, the fifth management office was established; 1990 February, the sixth management office was established.
1 September, 9901day, Shangyuan Company held a press conference in Shanghai, announcing the completion of the Pacific Rim container liner transportation trunk line and branch line network.
1In July, 1993, COSCO Group implemented "centralized management and decentralized management" for container ships, and COSCO Container Transportation Headquarters was established in Beijing.
1997 12.29, COSCO Container Transportation Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company), which was formed by the merger of COSCO Container Transportation Headquarters and Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company, began trial operation.
Reform and innovation period (1998 to present)
The establishment of COSCO Container Transportation Co., Ltd. marks that the company has entered a new period of reform and innovation. From September 24th, 1997 to April 5th, 1998, the company handed over 45 general cargo ships and 15 bulk carriers to Guangzhou Ocean Shipping Company and Tianjin Ocean Shipping Company respectively. Meanwhile, from199765438+1October 4th to199865438+1October 30th, the company received 58 container ships handed over by Guangyuan and Tianyuan. After the handover, the company has a total of 65,438+032 container ships with a total capacity of 265,438+00,000 TEUs. In the following six years, under the leadership of COSCO Group, the company implemented a series of reforms, adjustments and innovations around the container management system, fleet structure adjustment, information construction, ship and crew management, and land industry development. Aiming at the goal of building a world-class shipping enterprise, deepening reform, seeking innovation, and fundamentally improving the core competitiveness and anti-risk ability of enterprises have become important tasks of the company in the new period. Accelerate the adjustment of fleet structure, more and more new ships and large ships are put into operation one after another, and more and more characteristic brand routes emerge as the times require; Accelerate the construction of information technology, and the global container transportation information system, financial information system and ship management information system have been put into use one after another to promote the innovation of business sales, management technology and customer service; Implementing the reform of marketing integration, the global marketing service network forms an overall advantage; Expand the export of crew services and ship management, and promote the industrialization of foreign services and ship management. In 2003, COSCO container transportation completed a total of 3.98 million TEUs, with a comprehensive on-time rate of 95.4%, and the monthly transportation production index reached a record high for several months. As of March, 2004, COSCO Container Transportation Company has a total of 1 13 container ships, with a total capacity of 256,000 TEU, an average container space of 2270TEU, an average ship age of 10 years and an average speed of 18 nautical mile/hour or more. In August, 2004, with the launch of 8000TEU super-large container ship, a new round of rapid development of COSCO Container Lines began. At the same time, the new Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company, which mainly focuses on crew management, ship management and land transportation, was successfully established and started operation on September 26th, 2004. Since then, the 40-year-old Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company will embark on a new development journey.
1998 65438+1On October 27th, COSCO Container Transportation Co., Ltd. held an unveiling ceremony in Pudong Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, and Wu Bangguo, Vice Premier of the State Council, unveiled the company.
On September 28th, 1998, COSCO Container Shipping Crew Company was unveiled.
On March 18, 2000, COSCO Container Ship Management Company (hereinafter referred to as COSCO Container Ship Management Department) was formally established by merging COSCO Container Ship Crew Company, Management Department and Shanghai Ocean Education Center.
On August 10, 2000, Shanghai Ocean Real Estate Industry Corporation was established.
200 1 1 12, Shanghai Ocean Shipping Foreign Labor Service Co., Ltd. was formally established.
In February, 20065438+0-65438+,COSCO Group reorganized its liner and logistics business, and its freight system was reorganized into COSCO Container Transportation Company.
On February 10, 2002, Shanghai Ocean Shipping Management Co., Ltd. was incorporated.
In June 2003, COSCO Overseas Container Division was merged into COSCO Container Transportation System.
In September, 2004, the new Shanghai Ocean Shipping Company was reorganized and unveiled, becoming a modern enterprise with independent legal person operation qualification, integrating diversified industries such as ship management, crew service and comprehensive industry.
In September 2009, it was renamed as Shanghai Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. and successfully listed as "China Ocean Shipping".