Ever-Linking

The "Ever Linking" allided with a quay at the container terminal in Perama, Piraeus, in the early morning of Dec 3 2013, around 3 a.m. The accident happened during mooring operations whilst coming from Tanjung Pelepas, odin.tc reports. The vessel suffered a dent of 10-12 meters length and a crack of some 1.2 meters length and 1.2 – 1.5 meters height on starboard side and wa detained for surveys.

Evergreen Group on Oct. 25 held the naming ceremony for the Ever Linking; the second of its L-type vessels to be built by the CSBC Corporation in Taiwan. The ceremony, held at CSBC's Kaohsiung shipyard, was officiated by Mr. Bronson Hsieh, Second Vice Group Chairman of Evergreen Group and attended by dignitaries from Taiwan and abroad. The official rope-cutting of the new 8,508-TEU vessel was performed by Datin Saisunee Ong, wife of the Chairman of Evergreen Marine Corp. (Malaysia) SDN. BHD, the company said in its press release. Ever Linking is 334.8 meters in length, 45.8 meters wide, with 948 reefer plugs and a draft of 14.2 meters. The vessel can cruise at a speed up to 24.5 knots. The ship, owned by Evergreen Marine UK Ltd, will join Evergreen Line's Far East - Europe route after her delivery on October 30.