Evergreen’s Second 24,000-plus TEU Boxship Floated Out
PUBLISHED MAY 20, 2022 2:19 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE
The second in a new class of ultra-large containerships was floated out from the drydock at CSSC’s Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard. Being built as part of Evergreen Line’s large newbuilding program, it is the second vessel was a capacity of more than 24,000 TEU built by the Chinese yard for the Taiwanese shipping company and is being celebrated as the Shanghai based-shipyard returns to work after a month-long shutdown due to China’s COVID-19 policies.
The new vessel named Ever Aria was floated out on May 19 and in the background you can see her sister ship Ever Alot which was floated at the end of 2021 and is completing fitting out. Hudong-Zhonghua is building a total of six ULCVs, based on an independently developed design that permitted the ships while the same dimension as Evergreen’s other ULCVs to increase their rated container capacity. Evergreen’s South Korean-built A Class ships have a capacity of 23,992 TEU while the Chinese ones are reporting a slightly larger rating at 24,004 TEU.
Like the other vessels of the A Class, the new Ever Alot and Ever Aria will measure 1,312 feet in length with a 202-foot beam. The total height will be 109 feet. The South Korean-built Ever Ace is 241,960 dwt and the new Chinese-built vessels are expected to have a similar tonnage. To give a sense of the mammoth size of the vessels, the shipyard says that the cargo hold has a depth of approximately 109 feet and a deck area of more than 250,000 square feet, making the A Class vessels nearly 200 feet longer than the world’s largest aircraft carrier. They report the vessels can carry 240,000 tons of cargo.