Evergreen Marine

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Evergreen Marine Corporation (or Evergreen Group)(LSE: [EGMD]) , based in Taipei, Taiwan, is a containerized-freight shipping company, mainly serving the east coast of Asia and the west coast of North America, with over 100 container ships. Evergreen calls on 240 ports worldwide in about 80 countries, and is the fourth largest company of its type, ranked behind Maersk, Mediterranean and CMA CGM.

The company was founded 1 September 1968 by the chairman of the company, billionaire Dr. Yung-Fa Chang, and has expanded to include other shipping companies such as the Uniglory Marine Corp. (Taiwan), the Hatsu Marine Ltd. (UK), and the Italian shipping company Italia Marittima (previously Lloyd Triestino, and originally founded as "Österreichischer Lloyd" in 1835). Evergreen is also a partial owner of EVA Airways and Uni Air. The company's activities include: shipping, construction of containers and ships, management of ports, and engineering and real estate development.

The majority of Evergreen's containers are unsurprisingly 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).

The Fleet

Evergreen Marine (incl: Uniglory, Lloyd Triestino & Hatsu) operated 153 container ships with 439,538 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) on 1 May 2005.

Evergreen containership classes since 1975:

"Ever Spring"-class, 4 ships, 646 TEU, built 1975 - 1976
"Ever Valor"-class, 7 ships, 1214 TEU, built 1977 - 1979
"Ever Level"-class, 6 ships, 1800 TEU, 1979 - 80, 1983
"Ever G"-class, 3 ships, 2240 TEU, built 1983
"Ever G"-class, 17 ships, 2728 TEU, built 1984 - 1985
"Ever GL / GX"-class, 11 ships, 3428 TEU, built 1986 - 1988 some by China SB Corp.; Kaoshiung
"Ever Racer"-class, 10 ships, 4229 TEU, built 1993 - 1995
"Ever Dainty"-class, 10 ships, 4163 TEU, built 1997 - 1998
"Ever Ultra"-class, 18 Post-Panamax-ships, 5364 TEU, built 1996 - 2001 built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; Nagasaki and Kobe
"Ever A"-class, 14 ships, 1162 TEU, built 1996 - 1999
"Ever P"-class, 16 ships, 1618 TEU, built 1999 - July 2003 by Evergreen Shipyard; Nagasaki
"Hatsu Eagle"-class, 5 Post-Panamax-ships, 6332 TEU, built Dec. 2001 - Dec. 2002 by Mitsubishi H. Ind.
"Hatsu Shine"-class, 10 Post-Panamax-ships, 7024 TEU, built Sept. 2005 - 2008 by Mitsubishi H. Ind.,Kobe
"LT Cortesia"-class, 8 Post-Panamax-ships, 8100 TEU, built May 2005 - May 2006 by Samsung (long-time chartered from Conti-NSB/Germany)

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")
*Hatsu Marine Ltd. / UK (ship name begins with pre-fix "Hatsu")
*Some vessels delivered as new buildings to these subsidiaries.

External link

[Evergreen Marine website]

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