Evergreen time charters all 11 ships from their owner, Shoei Kisen Kaisha, which is a leasing subsidiary of Imabari Shipbuilding.

In 2019, Evergreen announced it would be putting scrubbers on many of their ships in order to lower polluting emissions.

These scrubbers take up a considerable amount of space and the resulting capacity of these ships is slightly reduced to 20,160 TEU.

On 9 February 2019, the Ever Given collided with the ferry Finkenwerder, which was docked at a wharf in Hamburg on the river Elbe at the time.

[4] The ship was freed but then held in the Great Bitter Lake over a declared 900 million dollar compensation claim by the Suez Canal Authority,[5] which they settled with owner Shoei Kisen Kaisha for $540 million in early July.