China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. provided earnings guidance for the year ended December 31, 2014. The company expects to record a net profit attributable to equity holders of the company for the year ended December 31, 2014 as compared with the net loss recorded by the company for the year ended December 31, 2013.

The company expects net profit attributable to equity holders of the company to be approximately RMB 1.05 billion based on China Accounting Standard for Business Enterprises. The net loss recorded by the Company attributable to equity holders of the company prepared based on China Accounting Standard for Business Enterprises amounted to RMB 2,646,141,600 and loss per share amounted to RMB 0.2265 for the year ended 31 December 2013. Such expected profit is mainly attributable to the following reasons: during the report period, the overall global economy showed slow recovery while supply of and demand for shipping capacity in the container transportation market was still unbalanced.