Evergreen Marine has decided to spend 5.5 billion US dollars building 100 container ships before the anticipated recovery of the global economy in 2012, thereby becoming the world's third largest container shipper, up from the fourth place now. Some 30 of the new ships will boast 8,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of capacity, with the remainder including 40 ships with 5,500 TEUs, 10 ships with 3,900 TEUs, and 20 ships with 2,800 TEUs, in line with the company's policy of avoiding ultra-large ships of over 10,000 TEUs. Evergreen is likely to place orders with Japanese and Korean shipbuilders for the new ships.
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