COSCO Shipping Holdings repurchases over 108m shares for cancellation

COSCO Shipping Holdings Co., Ltd. submitted its Next Day Disclosure Return on December 22, 2025, detailing substantial share repurchases. The company’s ordinary H shares had an opening balance of 2,879,819,500 shares as of December 19, 2025, which remained the closing balance on December 22, 2025.

The disclosure highlighted extensive share repurchases for cancellation that were not yet cancelled as of the closing balance date. On December 22, 2025, the company repurchased 4,150,000 shares on the Exchange at prices ranging from HK$13.58 to HK$13.71 per share, with an aggregate price paid of HK$56,603,360.

Cumulatively, as of December 22, 2025, COSCO Shipping Holdings has repurchased 108,827,000 shares on the Exchange, representing 3.779% of its issued shares as at the date of the resolution granting the repurchase mandate (May 28, 2025), which authorized the repurchase of up to 287,981,950 shares. The moratorium period for any new share issue or sale of treasury shares after these repurchases extends up to January 21, 2026.