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COSCO SHIPPING ENERGY TRANSPORTATION CO., LTD.*
(A joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 1138)
POLL RESULTS OF THE EGM AND THE CLASS MEETINGS
POLL RESULTS OF THE EGM AND THE CLASS MEETINGS
The Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the Notices were duly passed at the EGM and the Class Meetings by way of poll.
Reference is made to (a) the announcements of COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation Co., Ltd. (the "Company") dated 30 October 2019, (b) the respective notices dated 1 November 2019 convening the EGM and the H Shares Class Meeting (together, the "Notices"), and (c) the circular dated 25 November 2019 (the "Circular") issued by the Company in relation to, among other things, the Proposed Amendments and the Extension Resolutions.
Unless otherwise specified, capitalized terms used herein have the same meanings as ascribed to them in the Circular.
POLL RESULTS OF THE EGM AND THE CLASS MEETINGS
The Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the Notices were duly passed by way of poll at the EGM and the Class Meetings, which were held on 17 December 2019 at 3rd Floor, Ocean Hotel, No. 1171 Dong Da Ming Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
Mr. Liu Hanbo, the chairman of the Board and an executive Director of the Company was the chairman of each of the EGM and the Class Meetings. BDO Limited, a firm of practicing accountants, was appointed as the scrutineer in respect of the EGM and the Class Meetings for the purpose of vote-taking.
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As at the date of the EGM and the Class Meetings, the total number of issued Shares in the Company was 4,032,032,861, comprising 2,736,032,861 A Shares and 1,296,000,000 H Shares. As disclosed in the Circular, COSCO Shipping and parties acting in concert with it, which control 1,554,631,593 A Shares, representing approximately 38.56% of the total number of issued Shares and voting rights in the Company as at the date of the EGM and the Class Meetings, were required to (and they did) abstain from voting at the EGM and/or the Class Meetings on the resolutions in relation to the Extension Resolutions. Accordingly:
- the total number of Shares entitling Shareholders to attend and vote for or against resolutions no. 1 to 4 at the EGM was 4,032,032,861 Shares, and in respect of resolutions no. 5 to 6 at the EGM was 2,477,401,268 Shares;
- the total number of A Shares entitling A Shareholders to attend and vote for or against resolutions no. 1 to 2 at the A Shares Class Meeting was 1,181,401,268 A Shares; and
- the total number of H Shares entitling H Shareholders to attend and vote for or against resolutions no. 1 to 2 at the H Shares Class Meeting was 1,296,000,000 H Shares.
Save as disclosed above, there were no Shares entitling Shareholders to attend the EGM and the Class Meetings and abstain from voting in favor of the resolutions proposed at the EGM and/or the Class Meetings as set out in Rule 13.40 of the Listing Rules and no Shareholders were required to abstain from voting at the EGM and/or the Class Meetings.
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ATTENDANCES AT THE EGM AND THE CLASS MEETINGS
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Attendance at the EGM
Set out below are details of the Shareholders and their authorized proxies present at the EGM or participating in the online voting:
Number of Shareholders and authorized proxies | 93 |
Including: Number of A Shareholders | 92 |
Number of H Shareholders | 1 |
Total number of Shares carrying voting rights (shares) | 2,079,449,279 |
Including: Total number of Shares carrying voting rights held by | |
A Shareholders | 1,655,001,823 |
Total number of Shares carrying voting rights held by | |
H Shareholders | 424,447,456 |
Percentage of the total number of Shares of the Company carrying voting | |
rights (%) | 51.5732 |
Including: Number of A Shares as a percentage of the number of Shares | |
of the Company carrying voting rights (%) | 41.0463 |
Number of H Shares as a percentage of the number of Shares | |
of the Company carrying voting rights (%) | 10.5269 |
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(II) Attendance at the A Shares Class Meeting
Set out below are the details of the A Shareholders and authorized proxies present at the A Shares Class Meeting or participating in the online voting:
Number of A Shareholders and authorized proxies | 92 |
Total number of A Shares carrying voting rights (shares) | 1,655,001,823 |
Number of A Shares as a percentage of the total number of A Shares of | |
the Company (%) | 60.4891 |
- Attendance at the H Shares Class Meeting
Set out below are the details of the H Shareholders and authorized proxies present at the H Shares Class Meeting:
Number of H Shareholders and authorized proxies | 1 |
Total number of H Shares carrying voting rights (shares) | 424,047,456 |
Number of H Shares as a percentage of the total number of H Shares of | |
the Company (%) | 32.7197 |
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Poll results of the EGM
The results of the poll conducted at the EGM were as follows:
For | Against | Abstain | |||||||||
Number of | Number of | Number of | |||||||||
No. | Shares | % | Shares | % | Shares | % | |||||
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS | |||||||||||
1. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the | A Shares | 1,654,992,498 | 99.9994 | 4,615 | 0.0003 | 4,710 | 0.0003 | |||
Proposed Amendments to the Articles of Association. | H Shares | 423,577,456 | 99.7950 | 870,000 | 0.2050 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
Total | 2,078,569,954 | 99.9577 | 874,615 | 0.0421 | 4,710 | 0.0002 | |||||
2. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the | A Shares | 1,654,992,498 | 99.9994 | 4,615 | 0.0003 | 4,710 | 0.0003 | |||
Proposed Amendments to the Rules and Procedures of | H Shares | 423,577,456 | 99.7950 | 870,000 | 0.2050 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
Shareholders' General Meetings. | Total | 2,078,569,954 | 99.9577 | 874,615 | 0.0421 | 4,710 | 0.0002 | ||||
3. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the | A Shares | 1,654,992,498 | 99.9994 | 4,615 | 0.0003 | 4,710 | 0.0003 | |||
Proposed Amendments to the Rules and Procedures of Meetings | H Shares | 423,577,456 | 99.7950 | 870,000 | 0.2050 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
of the Board of Directors. | Total | 2,078,569,954 | 99.9577 | 874,615 | 0.0421 | 4,710 | 0.0002 | ||||
4. | To consider and approve the resolution in relation to the | A Shares | 1,654,992,498 | 99.9994 | 4,615 | 0.0003 | 4,710 | 0.0003 | |||
Proposed Amendments to the Rules and Procedures of Meetings | H Shares | 423,577,456 | 99.7950 | 870,000 | 0.2050 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
of the Supervisory Committee. | Total | 2,078,569,954 | 99.9577 | 874,615 | 0.0421 | 4,710 | 0.0002 | ||||
5. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of | A Shares | 118,050,503 | 99.9774 | 22,015 | 0.0186 | 4,710 | 0.0040 | |||
the shareholders' resolutions relating to the Proposed Non- | H Shares | 421,907,456 | 99.4016 | 2,540,000 | 0.5984 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
public Issuance of A Shares. | Total | 539,957,959 | 99.5269 | 2,562,015 | 0.4722 | 4,710 | 0.0009 | ||||
6. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of | A Shares | 118,050,503 | 99.9774 | 22,015 | 0.0186 | 4,710 | 0.0040 | |||
the authorisation granted to the Board and any person authorised | H Shares | 421,907,456 | 99.4016 | 2,540,000 | 0.5984 | 0 | 0.0000 | ||||
by the Board to handle all matters relating to the Proposed Non- | Total | 539,957,959 | 99.5269 | 2,562,015 | 0.4722 | 4,710 | 0.0009 | ||||
public Issuance of A Shares. |
Please refer to the Circular for details of each of the above resolutions. As more than two-thirds of the votes were cast in favour of the resolutions no. 1 to 6 set out above at the EGM, such resolutions were duly passed as special resolutions of the Company.
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Poll results of the A Shares Class Meeting
The results of the poll conducted at the A Shares Class Meeting were as follows:
For | Against | Abstain | ||||||||
Number of | Number of | Number of | ||||||||
No. | A Shares | % | A Shares | % | A Shares | % | ||||
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS | ||||||||||
1. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of the | 118,050,503 | 99.9774 | 22,015 | 0.0186 | 4,710 | 0.0040 | |||
shareholders' resolutions relating to the Proposed Non-public | ||||||||||
Issuance of A Shares. | ||||||||||
2. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of the | 118,050,503 | 99.9774 | 22,015 | 0.0186 | 4,710 | 0.0040 | |||
authorisation granted to the Board and any person authorised by the | ||||||||||
Board to handle all matters in connection with the Proposed Non- | ||||||||||
public Issuance of A Shares. |
Note: percentage figures in respect of A Shares expressed in the table above represent the proportion as a percentage of all the voting A Shares.
Please refer to the Circular for details of each of the above resolutions. As more than two-thirds of the votes were cast in favour of the resolutions no. 1 to 2 set out above at the A Shares Class Meeting, such resolutions were duly passed as special resolutions of the Company.
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Poll results of the H Shares Class Meeting
The results of the poll conducted at the H Shares Class Meeting were as follows:
For | Against | Abstain | ||||||||
Number of | Number of | Number of | ||||||||
No. | H Shares | % | H Shares | % | H Shares | % | ||||
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS | ||||||||||
1. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of the | 421,507,456 | 99.4010 | 2,540,000 | 0.5990 | 0 | 0.0000 | |||
shareholders' resolutions relating to the Proposed Non-public | ||||||||||
Issuance of A Shares. | ||||||||||
2. | To consider and approve the extension of the validity period of the | 421,507,456 | 99.4010 | 2,540,000 | 0.5990 | 0 | 0.0000 | |||
authorisation granted to the Board and any person authorised by the | ||||||||||
Board to handle all matters in connection with the Proposed Non- | ||||||||||
public Issuance of A Shares. |
Note: percentage figures in respect of H Shares expressed in the table above represent the proportion as a percentage of all the voting H Shares.
Please refer to the Circular for details of each of the above resolutions. As more than two-thirds of the votes were cast in favour of the resolutions no. 1 to 2 set out above at the H Shares Class Meeting, such resolutions were duly passed as special resolutions of the Company.
Shareholders and potential investors are advised to exercise caution when dealing in the Shares, and are recommended to consult their stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor or other professional adviser if they are in any doubt about their position and as to actions they should take.
By order of the Board
COSCO SHIPPING Energy Transportation Co., Ltd.
Yao Qiaohong
Company Secretary
Shanghai, the People's Republic of China
17 December 2019
As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. Liu Hanbo and Mr. Zhu Maijin as executive Directors, Mr. Feng Boming, Mr. Zhang Wei and Ms. Lin Honghua as non-executive Directors, Mr. Ruan Yongping, Mr. Ip Sing Chi, Mr. Rui Meng and Mr. Teo Siong Seng as independent non-executive Directors.
* For identification purpose only
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