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Sustained Efforts to Increase Repurchases | COSCO SHIPPING Development Announces a New Share Repurchase Plan


Time: 2025-04-08

To safeguard the company's value and shareholders' rights and interests, strengthen investors' confidence in the company, and promote the company's long-term, sustainable, and high-quality development, COSCO SHIPPING Development announced a new share repurchase plan on April 8, 2025.

A-share Share Repurchase

Number of shares to be repurchased: 40 million to 80 million shares

Maximum repurchase price: RMB 3.53 per share

Repurchase amount: Estimated to be RMB 141.2 million to RMB 282.4 million

Repurchase method: Centralized bidding transaction

H-share Share Repurchase

The Company intends to simultaneously implement the H-share share repurchase under the general authorization for repurchasing H-shares granted at the 2023 Annual General Meeting of stockholders and 2024 First A-share Class Meeting of stockholders and the 2024 First H-share Class Meeting of stockholders, in accordance with the Listing Rules of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, the Company's articles of association, and other applicable laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, the Company successfully completed the previous A-share and H-share repurchase plan on April 8, 2025: a total of 72,220,500 A-shares and 147,101,000 H-shares were repurchased, with a total of 219,321,500 shares repurchased and a total repurchase amount of approximately RMB 323 million.

Currently, the global economic landscape is evolving at an accelerated pace, China's economy is steadily advancing toward high-quality development, new quality productivity is thriving, and the foundation for steady progress is more solid. COSCO SHIPPING Development actively responds to market challenges, proactively embraces market opportunities, strengthens its development conviction, builds a foundation for development, and enhances shareholder returns with the strategic positioning of industry-finance integration, the driving force of digital and intelligent innovation, and the sustainable drive of green and low-carbon development. The Company's continuous implementation of share repurchases fully demonstrates its strong confidence and solid determination in its future steady and sustainable development and is a positive practice of the Company's long-standing philosophy of continuously creating value for investors.

In the future, COSCO SHIPPING Development will stay true to its original aspiration in the global economic tide, continue to focus on "new" initiatives on the path of promoting its own high-quality development, clarify new market trends, lay out a new industry-finance landscape, forge new quality productivity, expand new paths for value return, continue to create greater value for shareholders, and effectively interpret corporate responsibility.

Focused on Investor Returns

Continuously enriching value return channels

Sustained and stable dividend distribution

Implemented an interim dividend for the first time in 2024 and proposed a final dividend

Annual cash dividend of RMB 0.38 per 10 shares

A-share + H-share repurchases (as of April 8)

Total repurchased shares: 219 million shares

Total repurchase amount: Approximately RMB 323 million

2024 annual cash dividend total

(including A-share repurchase amount during the reporting period)

Total: RMB 619 million

Accounting for 36.70% of net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company

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