Evergreen G-class container ship

The Evergreen G class is a series of eleven container ships built for the Taiwanese carrier Evergreen Marine by Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan. They are among the largest container ships in service, with a maximum theoretical capacity in the range of 20,124 to 20,388 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). The ships follow the Imabari 20000 TEU containership design, of which they make up eleven of thirteen hulls built. Evergreen does not own them but time charters all eleven from Shoei Kisen Kaisha, a leasing subsidiary of Imabari Shipbuilding. The first ship, Ever Golden, was delivered on 30 March 2018 with a capacity of 20,338 TEU. From 2019 Evergreen announced scrubbers would be fitted to many of its ships to cut polluting emissions; Ever Glory and all later ships were built with scrubbers, and the earlier ships were retrofitted, which reduced capacity slightly to 20,160 TEU for new builds and 20,124 TEU for retrofitted ships. The class is best known through Ever Given, which collided with the ferry Finkenwerder in Hamburg in February 2019 and in March 2021 ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days.