Evergreen Marine Corporation (Taiwan) Ltd. () is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group conglomerate of transportation firms and associated companies.
Overview
thumb|left|250px|Ever Uranus at [[Port of Los Angeles]]
Evergreen calls on 240 ports worldwide in about 80 countries, and as of 2023 was the seventh-largest company in the shipping industry.
Its principal trading routes are East Asia to North America, Central America and the Caribbean; East Asia to the Mediterranean and Northern Europe; Europe to the east coast of North America; East Asia to Australia; East Asia to eastern and southern Africa; East Asia to South America; and an intra Asia service linking ports in East Asia to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
The company's activities include: shipping, construction of containers and ships, management of ports, engineering and real estate development. Subsidiaries and divisions include Uniglory Marine Corp. (Taiwan), Evergreen UK Ltd. (UK), and shipping company Italia Marittima S.p.A. (Italy).
In 2007, Hatsu Marine Ltd., Italia Marittima S.p.A., Evergreen Marine Corp. and Evergreen Marine adopted the common name "Evergreen Line." Each of the four divisions were previously owned by Evergreen of Taiwan.
The majority of Evergreen's shipping containers are painted green with the word "Evergreen" placed on the sides in white letters. Uniglory containers are similarly painted and marked, but those containers are bright orange. Evergreen's refrigerated "reefer" containers have a reverse color scheme (white containers with green lettering).
History
The company was founded 1 September 1968 by Yung-Fa Chang. Services began with a single cargo vessel named Central Trust, which operated a "go-anywhere" service. A second vessel was added in 1969, and used on Middle East services.
Since then, Evergreen Marine has expanded to include other shipping companies such as the Uniglory Marine Corp. (Taiwan) in 1984, the Hatsu Marine Ltd. (U.K.) in 2002, and the Italian shipping company Italia Marittima (previously Lloyd Triestino, and founded as "Österreichischer Lloyd" in 1835) in 1993. Uniglory was made a division of the company in 1999.
In 2002, Evergreen Marine operated 61 container vessels, with a total fleet size totaling 130 vessels with 400,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). In 2009, the company announced plans to build 100 additional vessels, in anticipation of a global economic recovery by 2012.
Ever Given
On 23 March 2021, the container ship Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal, leading to a significant impediment in marine shipping world-wide. After nearly a week, tugboats and heavy machinery managed to re-float and free the ship.
Ever Forward
On 13 March 2022, the container ship Ever Forward ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay, near Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. The ship left the dredged navigation channel and became stuck. On 31 March 2022, Evergreen declared general average after two attempts to refloat the vessel had failed. Containers were removed from the ship to lighten the load, and dredging was also underway to allow the ship to be freed. On the morning of 17 April, coinciding with the rising tide, the vessel was finally refloated.
Ever Lunar
On 1 August 2025, the container ship Ever Lunar reportedly lost approximately 50 containers near Port of Callao. Local authorities had previously closed all ports along the coast due to a tsunami warning.<!--
On 23 March 2021, Evergreen's vessel Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal, leading to a significant impediment in marine shipping world-wide. After nearly a week, tugboats and heavy machinery managed to re-float and free the ship.
On 13 March 2022, Evergreen's vessel Ever Forward became stuck in the Craighill Channel of the Chesapeake Bay after leaving the Port of Baltimore. The vessel did not obstruct the channel, but passing vessels were instructed to conduct one-way traffic with reduced speed.
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Operations
thumb|Evergreen Marine Building on Minsheng East Road Sec. 2, Taipei, Taiwan.
Evergreen Marine's operations primarily center around five general routings:
- East Asia to North America/Central America
- East Asia to Northern Europe/Mediterranean
- Europe to North America (transatlantic)
- East Asia to Southern Hemisphere (intercontinental)
- Intra-Asia
The shipping line's busiest routings are in the first category, East Asia to North America and Central America.
- Evergreen UK Ltd. (UK)
- Italia Marittima S.p.A. (Italy)
|-
|Ever C-class
|2020–2021
|1,900
|25
|Long-term charter from Nissen Kaiun.<br />Ever Ace was the world’s largest container ship when it was delivered in July 2021.
|-
|Ever M-class
|2023–2025
|15,000
|20
|To be built by Samsung Heavy Industries.
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|Ever C-class
|2024–2025
|1,800
|2
|To be built by CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding.
|-
|Ever W-class
|2024–2025
|2,300
|11
|To be built by CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding.
|-
|TBD
|2026
|2,400
|6
|To be built by CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding.
|-
|TBD
|2027–2028
|24,000
|11
|To be built by Hanwha Ocean and Guangzhou Shipyard International.
|-
|TBD
|2028–2030
|14,000
|14
|To be built by Samsung Heavy Industries and Guangzhou Shipyard International.
|-
|TBD
|2028–2030
|3,100
|16
|To be built by CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding.
|-
|TBD
|2028–2030
|5,900
|7
|To be built by Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding.
|}
The following are vessels transferred between Evergreen Marine and Uniglory Marine (Taiwanese or Panamanian flag) and subsidiaries:
- Lloyd Triestino / Italy (ship name begins with pre-fix "LT", since 2006 with "Ital
- Evergreen UK Ltd. / UK (ship name begins with pre-fix "Ever"): Hatsu Marine was renamed Evergreen UK (previously, Evergreen UK ships, as Hatsu ships, were prefixed with the word "Hatsu", for example, the Hatsu Sigma is now known as the Ever Sigma.)
- Some vessels delivered as new buildings to these subsidiaries.
thumb|[[Ever Given in the port of Rotterdam 2020.]]
thumb|[[Ever Given obstructing the Suez Canal, March 2021|217x217px]]
See also
- Chang Yung-fa
- Ever Given
- Evergreen Group
- Italia Marittima
- List of companies of Taiwan
- List of largest container shipping companies
- Evergreen Maritime Museum
- EVA Air
- Maritime industries of Taiwan
- Transportation in Taiwan
- 2021 Suez Canal obstruction
References
External links
- Evergreen Marine—official website
- 長榮海運—official website (Mandarin)