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- Viet Nam Ocean Shipping Joint Stock Company (VOSCO) is a Vietnam-based maritime transportation and logistics company primarily engaged in ocean freight shipping, vessel chartering, and comprehensive marine support services. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Hai Phong, Vietnam, the company operates as a key subsidiary of Vietnam National Shipping Lines (VIMC). VOSCO organizes its operations across three primary business segments: Maritime Transport, Shipping Services, and Commercial Trading. The company's core services and offerings include: dry bulk cargo transportation for commodities such as agricultural products, coal, iron ore, clinker, cement, fertilizer, and steel; liquid cargo transportation via crude oil, refined petroleum product, and chemical tankers; container liner and feeder shipping services connecting major domestic seaports and regional Asian hubs; ship agency and brokerage services; multimodal freight forwarding, customs clearance, and supply chain logistics; maritime crew management, training, and seafarer labor supply; technical ship management, vessel maintenance, and repair operations; warehousing, container depot operations, and inland container trucking; and the commercial trading of marine fuels, lubricants, technical materials, and vessel spare parts. VOSCO serves industrial manufacturers, commodity traders, energy enterprises, and global logistics providers across domestic shipping routes and international sea lanes spanning Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Australia, the Americas, and Africa. In recent operational developments, VOSCO has accelerated its fleet renewal and restructuring program by divesting older, less fuel-efficient bulk carriers and expanding its commercial capacity through bareboat and time-charter additions of modern Ultramax dry bulk vessels and Medium Range (MR) product and chemical tankers. In addition, the company has expanded its chemical tanker operations across international spot and period charter markets to capitalize on global freight rate trends, upgraded fleet operational standards to comply with evolving International Maritime Organization decarbonization mandates, and optimized its domestic feeder network to support growing industrial trade volumes between northern and southern Vietnamese ports.