COSCO SHIPPING Holdings today announced its 2025 annual results. In 2025, COSCO SHIPPING Holdings maintained strategic focus and emphasized the optimization of resource allocation. It made targeted efforts on the development of new businesses, continuously strengthened its risk management capability, and leveraged operational resilience to achieve stable financial results.

Our 2025 financial results are highlighted as follows:

l  Outperforming operating results. In 2025, the Company achieved operating revenue of RMB 219.50 billion. It realized an EBIT of RMB 45.01 billion; the net profit of the Company amounted to approximately RMB 35.23 billion; and the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the Company was approximately RMB 30.87 billion.

l  Resilient growth of core businesses. During the reporting period, the container shipping business segment handled shipping volume of 27.43 million TEUs, representing an increase of 5.76% year-on-year, and the container shipping business generated revenue of RMB 210.73 billion with a gross profit margin of 19.44%. Meanwhile, the container terminal business segment handled a total throughput of 153 million TEUs, representing an increase of 6.22% year-on-year. Of which, the throughput of the terminals controlled by the Company was 33.25 million TEUs, representing an increase of 1.81% year-on-year. The container terminal business generated revenue of RMB 12.04 billion with a gross profit margin of 25.91%

l  Retention of sound financial position. As of the year end of 2025, the Company’s gearing ratio further declined to 41.42%, representing a decrease of approximately 1.28 percentage points from a year ago. The cash and cash equivalents amounted to RMB 150.88 billion; investment and net finance income reached RMB 7.94 billion.

l  Orderly implementation of shareholder return plan. COSCO SHIPPING Holdings steadily carried out the dividend return plan for 2025-2027. The Board of Directors announced the distribution of a final cash dividend of RMB 0.44 per share (tax inclusive). Taking into account the distribution of an interim cash dividend paid for 2025, the total cash dividend for the full year accounts for 50% of the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the Company.

l  Continuation of share repurchase plan. The Company continued to implement the share repurchase plan. In recent years, it has completed four rounds of share repurchases and has bought back a total of 866 million A shares and H shares with a total repurchase value of more than RMB 9.8 billion.