Cheng Cheng-mount Credit Elaine Chiang
Cheng Cheng-mount. Credit Elaine Chiang.

Yang Ming management is urging staff not to compare their bonuses with those of fellow Taiwanese line Evergreen, some of whom received cash equivalent to 40 months wages.

A hasty press conference was arranged by the liner operator yesterday, as local media continued to report on the bonus disparity, despite net profits for the first nine months of 2021 at Yang Ming and Evergreen being $3.95bn and $5.69bn, respectively.

The bumper windfalls were revealed after an Evergreen employee shared a screenshot of ...

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  • Martyn Benson

    January 06, 2022 at 2:55 pm

    This all makes Maersk’s $ 1,000 bonus look distinctly mean spirited. Even CMA-CGM at two months bonus must be feeling fairly hard done by.

    • Jason Cook

      January 08, 2022 at 12:01 am

      40 months is pretty life changing.