The Evergreen L class is a series of 30
container ship
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s built for
Evergreen Marine
Evergreen Marine Corporation () is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group conglomerate of transpor ...
. The ships were built by
Samsung Heavy Industries
Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ( Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the lar ...
in
Korea
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and
CSBC Corporation in
Taiwan
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. These ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 8,500 to 9,500
twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
Some of the ships have been upgraded, starting in 2019 with the ''Ever Laden''. Major changes include the addition of an
exhaust scrubber system and the raising of the
deck house and lashing bridges. This allows containers to be stacked higher on deck, which increases the maximum number of containers which the ships can carry by about 1,000 TEU. The work was carried out at the
Huarun Dadong Dockyard in
China.
List of ships
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Container ship classes
Ships built by Samsung Heavy Industries