SSA Marine + COSCO Shipping
SSA Marine
Seattle, Washington · 1 relationship
Active relationship
Joint Venture · 2001–present
COSCO Shipping
Shanghai, Shanghai · 1 relationship
Analysis
Pacific Maritime Services, LLC (PMS) is the operating vehicle created by SSA Ventures and COSCO Terminals America for the Pacific Container Terminal on Pier J at the Port of Long Beach. A filed agreement states that PMS became effective on July 1, 2001 and was formed to operate the marine terminal; a later Federal Maritime Commission filing lists the PMS Cooperative Working Agreement as a marine-terminal joint-venture agreement and records Terminal Link California as an additional party in the 2012 amendment. [1] [2]
The partnership is operational rather than a simple cargo contract. The FMC agreement covers container-terminal operations on Pier J and provides a formal framework for the participating companies to direct the business of PMS, while SSA's current terminal-operations page identifies Pacific Container Terminal as one of its Long Beach container facilities. The public filings do not provide a complete current ownership table for every participant, so the description is limited to the parties and functions that the filed documents verify. [2] [3]
COSCO's role also connects the terminal to trans-Pacific liner services. Its current North America service material lists Pacific Container Terminal as the Long Beach terminal in an Asia–U.S. Southwest Coast rotation, showing that the facility remains part of COSCO's published service network. SSA's materials describe the terminal within a wider container-operation platform that provides terminal management, stevedoring and related cargo-handling services. [4] [3]
The cooperation also has a documented environmental-operating dimension. COSCO's ESG report records 7,842,981 kWh of shore-power use at Pacific Container Terminal in the reported year, while current SSA and COSCO materials continue to identify PCT as an active facility. These disclosures support the partnership's active classification, but they do not establish a terminal-specific annual cargo volume or a current revenue split; the file's scale fields should therefore be read as database estimates rather than reported PMS financial data. [5] [3]
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Seattle, Washington · 1 record in this database
SSA Marine began in 1949 as a family-owned business and says it has grown to more than 20,000 employees worldwide. [1] It is the marine-terminal operating company within Carrix, a privately held transportation-infrastructure group whose other businesses include Tideworks Technology and Rail Management Services. [2]
The company organizes its activities around container, conventional-cargo and cruise operations. [1] Its container division oversees concessions in the United States, Mexico, Panama, Canada, Chile, Colombia and Vietnam, while its conventional division covers bulk, breakbulk, automobiles and project cargo in the United States and Canada. [1]
SSA describes its operating model as a marine-terminal and cruise-port business that works with local expertise inside a global network. [2] Its published service and location pages show activity across container terminals, conventional cargo facilities, vehicle-processing sites, warehouses and cruise terminals, making it an infrastructure operator rather than an ocean carrier that owns or schedules ships. [3]
Its relevance to the directory is especially clear at Long Beach. [4] A Federal Maritime Commission agreement states that Pacific Maritime Services conducts container stevedoring and terminal operations on Pier J and holds the lease for that facility; the West Coast Marine Terminal Operators Association lists Pacific Maritime Services as the Pier J operator and SSA Terminals as a separate member. [4] [5] A public Port of Long Beach financing document describes Pacific Maritime Services as a joint venture between SSA Terminals and China Overseas Shipping Company that operates the Pier J container terminal. [6]
Shanghai, Shanghai · 1 record in this database
China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, commonly branded COSCO SHIPPING, is a Shanghai-headquartered Chinese state-owned maritime group formed in 2016 through the merger of the COSCO and China Shipping groups. An official COSCO-affiliated history records that the merger established China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited and that related companies were subsequently reorganized under the new group. [1]
COSCO SHIPPING’s operating network is organized through specialist businesses rather than a single shipping company. COSCO SHIPPING Lines handles domestic and international container shipping and related services; COSCO SHIPPING Ports operates and manages container terminals and other port assets; and COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation focuses on oil, liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and chemical shipping. These entities are part of the wider group but remain separately identified operating companies. [2] [3] [4]
COSCO SHIPPING Lines was formed by integrating the container businesses of COSCO Container Lines and China Shipping Container Lines and began operating on March 1, 2016. Its stated scope includes maritime container transport, space booking, ship chartering, shipping-related onshore industries, warehousing, cargo through-transport, and related information and service activities; its profile identifies Shanghai as its headquarters and lists domestic and overseas branches. [2]
The port business provides the physical nodes that connect those shipping services with inland and international logistics. COSCO SHIPPING Ports says that, as of December 31, 2025, it operated and managed 387 berths at 40 ports globally, including 238 container berths, with annual handling capacity of approximately 133 million twenty-foot-equivalent units. Its portfolio spans China’s major coastal port regions and locations in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. [3]
COSCO SHIPPING’s relevance to partnership records therefore depends on identifying the correct group company. For the historical Pacific Maritime Services record at Long Beach, a Federal Maritime Commission filing states that COSCO Container Lines was to enter a terminal-services agreement with Pacific Maritime Services for container terminal services in the Port of Long Beach. That filing names a predecessor container-line entity, so it should not be treated as proof that every COSCO SHIPPING subsidiary or the parent corporation is the same contracting party. [5]