Ever Given

Ever Given at the ECT Delta terminal (Amazonehaven) 29 July 2021 in the Port of Rotterdam
History
Name	Ever Given
Owner	Shoei Kisen Kaisha[2][3]
Operator	Evergreen Marine
Port of registry	Panama City, Panama
Builder	Imabari Shipbuilding (Japan)
Yard number	S-1833
Laid down	25 December 2015[1]
Launched	9 May 2018[1]
Completed	25 September 2018[1]
Identification	IMO number: 9811000 MMSI number: 353136000 Call sign: H3RC
Status	In service
General characteristics
Type	Container ship
Tonnage	220,940 GT 99,155 NT 199,629 DWT[1]
Displacement	265,876 t (261,677 long tons)[1]
Length	399.94 m (1,312 ft 2 in)[1]
Beam	58.8 m (192 ft 11 in)[1]
Draught	14.5 m (47 ft 7 in) (design)[1] 16.0 m (52 ft 6 in) (maximum)[1]
Depth	32.9 m (107 ft 11 in)
Installed power	Mitsui–MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9 (59,300 kW)[4]
Propulsion	Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller Two bow thrusters[4]
Speed	22.8 knots (42.2 km/h; 26.2 mph)
Capacity	20,124 TEU[5]
Crew	25

Ever Given (simplified Chinese: 长赐轮; traditional Chinese: 長賜輪; pinyin: Cháng Cì Lún^[6]) is one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha (a ship-owning and leasing subsidiary of the large Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding), and is time chartered and operated by container transportation and shipping company Evergreen Marine, headquartered in Luzhu, Taoyuan, Taiwan.^[7] Ever Given is registered in Panama and her technical management is the responsibility of the German ship management company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement.^[8]

On 23 March 2021, while traveling from Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia^[9] to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking the channel. She remained in place for six days before salvage crews freed her on 29 March 2021.^[10] The vessel was impounded by the Egyptian government on 13 April 2021 for refusing to pay a reported $916 million in fees demanded by the government, including $300 million in "loss of reputation".^[11][12] The compensation claim was later cut down to $600 million.^[13] In early July 2021, the ship was released by the Egyptian authorities following an agreement on compensation.