Taiwanese shipping conglomerate Evergreen Group has held a naming ceremony for Ever Lovely, the ninth of its L-type container ships to be built by CSBC Corporation in Taiwan, and the penultimate vessel in the thirty strong series.
The naming ceremony for the new 8,508 TEU boxship took place at CSBC’s Kaohsiung shipyard.
Ever Lovely is owned by Evergreen Marine (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The ship is 334.8 meters in length, 45.8 meters wide, and has a draft of 14.2 meters. It can cruise at speeds up to 24.5 knots.
With delivery immediately after the event, the vessel joins Evergreen Line’s Far East – South America route and replaces an older unit on the trade.
The L-type vessels built by CSBC for Evergreen this year have been fitted with a new energy-saving bow. Evergreen is also conducting a bow refitting program on the boxships built prior to 2015.
By the end of this year, fifteen of the company’s L-type ships will be equipped with the new bow.