Evergreen Expands Fleet with $3B Order for 24,000 TEU Behemoths

By Alison Koo (The Loadstar) –

Evergreen is to spend more than $3bn on another series of 24,000 teu ultra-large containerships.

The Taiwanese mainline operator says it had commissioned 11 ships, priced between $265m and $295m each; six to be built by South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean and five at Guangzhou Shipyard International in China.

Evergreen’s orderbook is now at 821,423 teu, the fifth-largest, behind MSC, CMA CGM, Cosco, and Maersk, and equates to 46% of its active fleet.

The newbuilds will join a dozen 24,000 teu ships already in the Evergreen fleet and, while no delivery dates were confirme…