Two subsidiaries of Evergreen Marine Corporation; Greencompass Marine and Evergreen Marine (Hong Kong), will own four of the new vessels each and separately charter six of them each.
According to Evergreen, the shipyards to construct the new vessels will be chosen among CSBC (Taiwain), Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries (both South Korea), Japan Marine United, and Imabari Shipbuilding (both Japan). Evergreen has not set a delivery date yet.
The new vessel orders will give Evergreen’s pipeline 48 container ships and in total 490,132 teu. In terms of capacity, the order book would then stand for 46% of its existing fleet. Also meaning, that Evergreen would have the largest container ship order book of all ocean carriers.
