RESCHEDULING OF VESSEL DELIVERIES
29 September, 2009
Further to the announcement made by the Company on 23 January 2009, the Board
of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited (the “Company”) wishes to
announce that COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd. (“COSCO Dalian”) and COSCO
(Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd. (“COSCO Guangdong”) (being two subsidiaries of
the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd), have
agreed, following requests from the European ship owner, to reschedule the delivery
dates of 5 units of bulk carriers contracted by the ship owner.
The agreement on the rescheduling of vessels’ deliveries has been acceded to
upon the request of and after negotiations with the ship owner.
Pursuant to the rescheduling, the delivery dates for those five vessels will now take
place between four and thirteen months after their announced delivery dates, the
last of which will now take place by 2012.
The above reschedulings are not expected to have any material impact on the net
tangible assets (NTA) and earnings per share (EPS) of the Company and the Group
for the year ending 31 December 2009.
For and on behalf of the Board
Jiang Li Jun
Vice Chairman / President
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) Limited
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