COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Achieves New Breakthroughs in Yangpu Route Network Layout

Since 2025, COSCO SHIPPING Holdings has intensified its layout around Yangpu Port in Hainan, launching 10 new foreign trade routes and adding 454,000 TEUs of shipping capacity. The total capacity involving Yangpu has reached 491,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 12 times.

To date, COSCO SHIPPING Holdings has cumulatively opened and operated 17 foreign trade routes at Yangpu Port, initially establishing a route network covering multiple countries and regions in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Australia, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

To accelerate the construction of Yangpu as an international regional container hub port and a "two-way dual hub", COSCO SHIPPING Holdings has fully implemented the overall plan for the "east-west-north-south" route network layout.

• Eastbound Routes: Relying on two trunk routes – the West Coast of the US (SEA) and the East Coast of the US (AWE4) – COSCO SHIPPING Holdings has realized direct sailings from Yangpu to gateway ports such as Long Beach, New York, and Savannah in the United States, constructing a fast channel connecting the North American market with Yangpu as the hub. In addition, via the West Coast of South America (WSA3) route, it provides direct shipping services from Yangpu to countries on the west coast of South America such as Mexico, Chile, and Peru, with Callao Port in Peru as a regional hub to further radiate more destinations in western South America.
• Westbound Routes: The MEX6 route empowers the sister ports of "Yangpu and Abu Dhabi". Leveraging Abu Dhabi's regional feeder network, it radiates the entire Middle East, forming a three-dimensional service pattern of "direct sailing between two points + regional distribution".
• Southbound Routes: The stability of the CAP route service has been continuously improved, providing stable capacity support for Yangpu Hub Port to connect resource-rich Australia and the South Pacific region. Meanwhile, the South Asia (India-Pakistan) corridor has been strengthened: the CI1 and YCX routes realize direct coverage of South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, significantly reducing transshipment time and improving logistics efficiency. In addition, relying on China-Southeast Asia short-sea routes and Yangpu regional feeder routes, it fully connects countries and regions including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar, further consolidating Yangpu Port's hub status in the ASEAN region.
• Northbound Routes: Utilizing the route network of Pan-Asia Shipping, a professional domestic trade brand under COSCO SHIPPING Holdings, high-frequency connections between Yangpu and North China, East China, South China, and Southwest China have been achieved. This supports the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor and smooths the "domestic and international dual circulation".

COSCO SHIPPING Holdings stated that as the "14th Five-Year Plan" draws to a close and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is about to start, as an important participant and firm promoter of the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port and Yangpu International Hub Port, it will uphold the mission of "Shipping the Globe · Connecting the World". Relying on its large-scale, globalized, intelligent, and green modern fleet as well as Yangpu International Hub Port, the company will densify the route network, strengthen the efficient connection between the Free Trade Port and ports along the "Belt and Road", lay a solid foundation for trade facilitation after the whole-island closure of Hainan, support the high-standard construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, and build an important gateway for national opening-up.