Evergreen Marine Corporation’s 236,228gt Ever Alot, with a capacity for 24,004 TEUs, is the world’s largest container ship.
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The latest ‘World’s Largest Container Ship’ is the 24,004TEU capacity Ever Alot, completed by China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding at Shanghai for Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corporation. The 241,000dwt ship measures 400m by 61.5m and sails on a loaded draught of 17m. She is the seventh of Evergreen’s A class ships and has the same dimensions as the first ship of the class, Ever Ace, which previously held the title of ‘world’s largest’, but the latest newbuild is capable of carrying 12 more TEU.
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