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CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited

中國船舶(香港)航運租賃有限公司

(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)

(Stock code: 3877)

POLL RESULTS OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

HELD ON 5 MARCH 2020

Reference is made to the circular (the "Circular") to the shareholders of CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited (the "Company") and the notice (the "Notice") of the special general meeting (the "SGM") of the Company both dated 14 February 2020 in relation to the SGM held on 5 March 2020. Unless the context otherwise requires, capitalised terms used in this announcement shall have the same meanings as those defined in the Circular.

The Board is pleased to announce that at the SGM, the resolution (the "Resolution") as set out in the Notice was voted by Shareholders by way of poll. The poll results were as follows:

Number of Votes Cast

Ordinary Resolution

(approximate percentage of

number of votes cast (%))

For

Against

To approve the Novation Agreements, the Bareboat

989,228,000

0

Charters and the transactions contemplated thereunder

(100%)

(0%)

(such terms are defined in the circular of the Company

dated 14 February 2020). (Note)

Note:

Please refer to the Notice for the full version of the Resolution.

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As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of the Resolution, the Resolution was duly passed as an ordinary resolution of the Company at the SGM.

As at the date of the SGM, the total number of issued Shares of the Company was 6,136,066,234 Shares. As disclosed in the Circular, CSSC Group wholly owns the ship builders under the Novation Agreements, and thus it and its close associates (holding 4,602,046,234 Shares in aggregate, representing approximately 74.99% of the issued Shares of the Company as at the date of the SGM) were required to abstain, and had abstained, from voting at the SGM.

Save as disclosed above, there were no Shares entitling any Shareholders to attend and abstain from voting in favour of the Resolution at the SGM pursuant to Rule 13.40 of the Listing Rules and there were no Shareholders that are required under the Listing Rules to abstain from voting on the Resolution at the SGM. None of the Shareholders had stated their intention in the Circular to vote against or abstain from voting on the Resolution at the SGM.

Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, the Company's Hong Kong share registrar, acted as the scrutineer for the vote-taking at the SGM.

By order of the Board

CSSC (Hong Kong) Shipping Company Limited

Yang Li

Chairman

Hong Kong, 5 March 2020

As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. Yang Li and Mr. Hu Kai as executive Directors, Mr. Li Wei, Mr. Zhong Jian and Mr. Zou Yuanjing as non-executive Directors, and Dr. Wong Yau Kar David, Mdm. Shing Mo Han Yvonne and Mr. Li Hongji as independent non-executive Directors.

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