$4.266 billion (2018)[4] Evergreen Marine Corporation (Chinese: 長榮海運; pinyin: Chángróng Hǎiyùn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tióng-êng Hái-ūn) is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
[5] With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group conglomerate of transportation firms and associated companies.
Evergreen calls on 240 ports worldwide in about 80 countries, and is the sixth largest company in the shipping industry.
In 1992, almost 29,000 rubber ducks called "Friendly Floatees" were unintentionally dumped into the Pacific Ocean from a container lost overboard by the Evergreen ship Ever Laurel.
[9] In 2009, the company announced plans to build 100 additional vessels, in anticipation of a global economic recovery[10] by 2012.
[11] On December 14th 2014, the container ship Ever Luna collided with the oil tanker Cordelia Moon in Manzanillo, Mexico.
[14] On 13 March 2022, the container ship Ever Forward ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay, near Baltimore, Maryland.
[19] Within this area, common traffic is between Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and China with the U.S. West Coast, along with routings to the East Caribbean via Panama.