News / Evergreen orders 60,500 new containers for growing liner fleet

Evergreen has ordered 60,500 new containers at a cost of nearly $187m.

Filings to the Taiwan Stock Exchange say 23,000 containers have been ordered from CXIC Group, 21,000 from Guangdong Fuwa Equipment Manufacturing and 16,500 from Dong Fang International, the latter a unit of Cosco Shipping Development.

Container manufacturers, predominantly in China, have reported surging orders as the Red Sea crisis absorbs shipping and equipment supply, with many factories occupied until year-end.

It is Evergreen’s ...