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Taiwanese shipping line Evergreen has denied that its fleet modernisation programme will significantly affect the supply and demand balance in global liner shipping.

The company wrote to The Loadstar following our report last week on new research by container shipping analysis Alphaliner, which argued that “its [Evergreen’s] capacity expansion has already had a significant impact on the market in the last two years”.

In response, Evergreen said Alphaliner had failed to take into account the line’s plans for the part of its ...