CHINA OCEAN SHIPPING (GROUP) CO.

The group funnel introduced in the early 1990s has a yellow or gold body, black top and broad blue band with the white COSCO logo. Blue and yellow shades vary. C67 is generally supported on container and vehicle ships; C1270’s lighter blue is seen on bulkers and tankers, including Mu Lan Wai, also written Mu Lan Wan elsewhere in the source. Rosanoski suggests a type-based dark/light-blue distinction but allows that it may be a gradual colour change. Registration-based explanations are likewise tentative, with exceptions. Earlier reports described the band as mid-blue.

C936 follows chartered COSCO Damman on 3 July 2006. The visible flags were Columbia Shipmanagement’s and an obscured orange-field flag, not evidence of a COSCO house flag.