OREANDA-NEWS.  August 30, 2012. COSCO International is pleased to announce that its 2011 Annual Report won two awards in the 26th International ARC Awards, i.e. Silver Awards in Chairman's Letter and Interior Design respectively in the category of shipping services, reported the press-centre of COSCO.

This is the fifth consecutive year that COSCO International received honours from this largest and most prestigious international competition of annual reports, which fully demonstrates that the quality of the Company's annual report maintains at world class standard.

The theme of COSCO International's annual report is Accumulating, Innovating and Exploring, which precisely captures the company's plan for the future development during the past year. The annual report adopted simplicity as its major style of the overall design with eye-catching and vivid colors for inside pages. The content was comprehensive and clearly structured, in which the Chairman's Statement introduced the Company's business performance, management effectiveness and prospect during the year in a concise way as it has been in previous years, which allowed the shareholders and investors to completely grasp the company's overall performance and future development strategy. This brought higher readability and visual enjoyment to the readers.

International ARC Awards is organised by MerComm, Inc., an American financial public relations company. The awards is dedicated to honoring the outstanding annual reports around the globe and it is renowned for its openness, independence and fairness and earned the name of "Academy Awards of Annual Reports" from financial media. This year, a record breaking number of entries of 2,200 annual reports from enterprises in 32 countries and regions participated in the competition.