Evergreen A-class container ship
The Evergreen A class is a series of 13 container ships being built for Evergreen Marine. The largest ships have a maximal theoretical capacity of around 24,004 TEU and are among the largest container ships in the world. Six ships were built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. Another seven will be built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation at two shipyards in China.
As of August 2021, the record for most containers loaded onto a single ship is held by the Ever Ace, which carried a total of 21,710 TEU of containers from Yantian to Europe.