Chang Yung-fa did what many officers and masters dream of aspiring to, he founded his own shipping company - Evergreen Marine Corporation. Born in Taiwan in 1927, which was then under Japanese rule, his family moved to Keelung when he was 7 and at the age of 18 after completing High School he went to work with a Japanese shipping line and continued his education by taking night classes. After World War Ⅱ he joined a local shipping line as Third Officer and in subsequent years he progressed to Captain. In 1961 with some friends he established a shipping company and having helped the company to develop, he decided to branch out on his own establishing Evergreen Marine Corporation in 1968 with one second-hand 15,000 ton vessel the' Central Trust'. In the space 4 years he built up a fleet of 12 ships, and within a year was operating to the Middle East, then the Caribbean. In 1975 realising that containerization was the way forward he built 4 S-type container ships and launched first a service to the US East Coast, then a US West Coast service followed.
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机译：张永发做了许多官兵梦dream以求的梦想，他创立了自己的船务公司-Evergreen Marine Corporation。他的家人于1927年出生于台湾，当时是日本的统治。他的家人7岁时移居基隆，高中毕业后18岁，他去了日本的航运公司工作，并通过夜校继续学业。第二次世界大战后，他加入了当地的航运公司，担任三等兵，并在随后的几年中晋升为船长。 1961年，他与一些朋友成立了一家船运公司，并在帮助该公司发展之后，决定在1968年以一艘二手15,000吨二手船“ Central Trust”成立自己的长荣海洋公司。在四年的时间里，他建立了由12艘船组成的舰队，并在一年之内向中东，然后是加勒比海地区航行。 1975年，意识到集装箱化是前进的道路，他建造了4艘S型集装箱船，并首先向美国东海岸提供服务，然后向美国西海岸提供服务。
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