Since its establishment in 1968, Evergreen Marine Corporation(EMC) has secured its place in shipping history. It is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company with over 200 container vessels. Both in terms of the magnitude of its fleet and its cargo loading capacity, EMC ranks among the world's leading international shipping companies.

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HISTORY of EMC

Evergreen Marine Corporation was established on September-1st 1968. Although it started with just a secondhand general cargo vessel providing a "go-anywhere" service, Evergreen was intent on building up a business which would provide its customers with scheduled marine transportation services.

Consequently, less than one year after its foundation, Evergreen inroduced its first liner service on the then relatively neglected Far East-Middle East trade route. Subsequently, other regular liner services were successfully established over a relatively shoirt period of time.

Recognizing the new trends in liner shipping, Evergreen launched its first full container service in 1975, sailing from the Far East to the US East Coast. The inauguration of this venture was achieved successfully despite an oil crisis hitting the world economy and, in turn, the liner shipping industry. Following its first move into container transport, Evergreen systematically containerised all of its major liner routes in preparation for its planned Round-the-World full container service.

In July 1984, Evergreen initiated a two-way Round-the-World container service. With highly efficient container vessels and global operations controlled by a well-developed computer network, this unique service provided shippers with a very efficient transportation system and made a major contribution to the development of trade worldwide for 18 years.

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 in 1993. Uniglory was made a division of the company in 1999. Evergreen Marine has also become a partner of EVA Airways, founded in 1989, and Uni Air, founded in 1998.

In 2002, Evergreen Marine operated 61 container vessels, with a total fleet size totaling 130 vessels with 400,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). By 2008, Evergreen Marine operated 178 container vessels. In 2009, the company announced plans to build 100 additional vessels, in anticipation of a global economic recovery by 2012.

In 2007, Hatsu, Italia Marittima, and Evergreen were merged into the single "Evergreen Line."

EVERGREEN'S SHIPPING CONTAINERS

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).

Largest Vessels of EMC

EVER ACE

The Evergreen A class is a series of 12 container ships being built for Evergreen Marine. The largest ships have a maximal theoretical capacity of around 23,992TEU and are the largest container ships in the world. 6 ships are being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. Another 6 will be built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) at two shipyards in China.

EVER GIVEN

Ever Given is one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd, and is time chartered and operated by container transportation and shipping company Evergreen Marine. With a length overall of 399.94 metres (1,312 ft 2 in), Ever Given is one of the longest ships in service. 

This container ship, which carries cargo between Asia and Europe, had blocked the major shipping lane-Suez Cannal in Egypt for almost a week in March of 2021.

EVA AIR CARGO

Founded concurrently with the passenger operations of EVA Air, EVA Air Cargo operates facilities in Europe, Asia, and North America. Its cargo operations have diversified to include transportation of high-tech equipment and special care items such as museum artwork and live zoological specimens. EVA Air has stated its goal of achieving a 50/50 split in revenues between its passenger and cargo operations. The airline's cargo operations are mainly operated via a fleet of Boeing 747-400, MD-11 dedicated freighters, Boeing 747-400 Combi aircraft, and additional belly cargo space on passenger aircraft.