Evergreen Ship Tracking: Find Any Vessel Live
In this article 8 sections
Evergreen ship tracking and Evergreen container tracking get typed into the same search bar, but they answer two different questions. One tells you what happened to a booking. The other tells you where a 24,000-TEU hull actually is right now, and that one runs entirely on AIS, the same broadcast system that shows any ship at sea. If what you want is the ship itself moving on a map, this is the shorter path, and it starts with forgetting the company name and finding the ship’s own name instead.
Evergreen Ship Tracking Is Not Evergreen Container Tracking
Evergreen’s own cargo portal is built for one job. Feed it a container number, a booking number or a bill of lading, and it hands back a timeline: gate in, loaded, discharged, each one stamped with a date and a terminal. Our Evergreen container tracking guide walks through that workflow if a shipment reference is what’s in your hand.
A ship tracker does the opposite kind of work, and it does it from a completely different source of truth. It has no idea what’s in the hold, who booked the space, or which terminal the cargo is headed for. What it reads is a radio signal broadcast by the vessel itself, required by law on every commercial ship above a certain size, sent whether or not a customer happens to be watching. If a 400-metre hull moving through the Taiwan Strait is what you’re after, that’s a search, not a customer service ticket.
| Ship tracking | Container tracking | |
|---|---|---|
| Shows you | A hull’s live position, speed and course | A box’s custody status and event history |
| Reads from | AIS radio broadcast from the vessel | Evergreen’s own cargo system |
| You need | A ship name, IMO or MMSI number | A container, booking or BL number |
| Search the whole fleet by company name | No | Only cargo you already booked |
Both searches keep landing on the same results page. They were never answering the same question.
What an AIS Message From an Evergreen Ship Actually Contains
Every Evergreen vessel carries an AIS transponder, and it broadcasts constantly over VHF: position, speed, course, heading, destination, ETA, draught and a navigational status flag, alongside the ship’s name, MMSI and IMO numbers. Coastal stations pick it up near land. Satellites pick it up everywhere else, which is how a ship stays visible once it’s a few hundred miles offshore. Our explainer on how tracking apps receive vessel data covers the receiver side in more depth.
What’s missing from that list matters as much as what’s in it. There is no operator field, no fleet name, nothing that ties a hull back to Evergreen as a company. A ship either broadcasts an AIS signal or it doesn’t, and the message says nothing about whose colours it’s flying. Treat the navigational status flag with suspicion too. Crews set it by hand, and a ship can sit on “under way using engine” for a week whether it’s holding 19 knots in open water or two knots in a queue outside a congested anchorage.
Trust the position and the speed. Doubt the status flag.
How to Track Any Evergreen Ship in Real Time
Once you have a name, this takes under a minute. Nearly all the real work goes into finding that name first, which the later sections cover.
Step 1: Get a Name or an IMO Number
A port call schedule, a news article about a specific sailing, an Evergreen press release, or simply knowing the ship by reputation all work as a starting point. Write down the IMO number whenever you see one. Evergreen names nearly every new ship with some variant of “Ever” followed by a word (Ever Given, Ever Ace, Ever Alot), which is memorable but not unique enough to search on reliably, while the IMO number stays fixed to one hull for its entire working life. Our guide to finding a ship’s MMSI number covers where to look when a name is all you have.
Step 2: Open MarineRadar’s Live Map
MarineRadar tracks vessels worldwide from AIS data gathered by both terrestrial receivers and satellites, on the web and through the iOS and Android apps. That dual coverage is what keeps a ship visible once it’s well past the range of any coastal antenna.
Step 3: Search the Name, Not the Company
Type the vessel’s name, or its IMO or MMSI number, straight into the search bar. There’s no Evergreen filter to switch on beforehand and none to switch off afterward. Searching for an Evergreen ship works the same way as searching for a ship from any other line.
Step 4: Read the Full Vessel Profile
The position dot is the least useful part of the page. Speed, course, destination, ETA and draught sit next to it, and the route history shows the track the ship actually sailed, which is how you tell a vessel holding a straight line at 20 knots from one circling slowly off a port it’s been waiting two days to enter.
Step 5: Set a Zone Alert Instead of Refreshing
Reloading a map tab every hour works. Drawing a zone around a port or a strait and getting notified the moment a ship enters it does the same job without the babysitting.
There Is No "Show Me Every Evergreen Ship" Button
This is the honest limit, and it’s worth stating plainly rather than letting someone discover it mid-search. AIS carries no operator field, so no live map, MarineRadar included, can filter a fleet by company name the way an airline’s app filters by flight number. Typing “Evergreen” into the search bar does not return a shortlist of its roughly 242 ships. It returns nothing, which is exactly the gap that sends people looking for a workaround in the first place.
What you can do instead is work from what you already know. One ship’s name is one search. CMA CGM owners run into the identical wall, and our CMA CGM ship tracking guide covers it from their side. The next two sections give you a way in even without a name in hand.
Where Evergreen's Fleet Actually Sails
Evergreen is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, and Kaohsiung handles more of its container volume than any other port in the region. Five trade lanes carry most of that volume:
- East Asia to North America’s west coast, extending into Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia to the Mediterranean and northern Europe
- Europe to the US east coast
- East Asia to Australia
- Smaller services reaching Africa and South America
Evergreen also sails as part of Ocean Alliance alongside CMA CGM, COSCO and OOCL, a grouping that together carries roughly 37 percent of all Asia-Europe container capacity. MSC’s own ship tracking guide walks through a different alliance’s equivalent gap, if that’s the line you’re actually chasing. None of that needs a dedicated Evergreen mode to exploit, either. Open the live map over the Taiwan Strait, the approaches to Rotterdam, or the Singapore Strait, and container ships cluster thickly enough that an Evergreen hull turns up within a few taps, even starting from nothing, precisely because the line’s own scale makes its ships hard to avoid in those corridors.
The Evergreen Fleet in Numbers
Evergreen ranks 7th among the world’s container lines, operating 242 ships, 168 owned and 74 chartered, for a combined capacity of about 2.023 million TEU. The orderbook keeps growing underneath that figure. A roughly $3 billion order for 11 LNG dual-fuel 24,000-TEU ships, split six to South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean and five to China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International, is due to start arriving from 2027.
| Ship | IMO | Capacity | Delivered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Alot | 9893955 | 24,004 TEU | 2022 |
| Ever Ace | 9893890 | 23,992 TEU | 2021 |
Both ships carry the A-class hull design, and both are searchable on MarineRadar right now by name, IMO or MMSI, the same as any smaller vessel in the fleet. Ever Alot currently holds the title of the world’s largest container ship by capacity.
What Happened to the Ever Given, and Why It Still Comes Up
Ask about Evergreen ships and the Ever Given surfaces before almost anything else, five years on.
On 23 March 2021 the 20,000-TEU container ship ran aground diagonally across the Suez Canal near the village of Manshiyet Rugola, blocking traffic in both directions. It took a combined Egyptian, Dutch and Italian salvage effort six days to refloat her, on 29 March, with more than 200 ships queued on either side of the canal by the time it reopened.
The Ever Given is still sailing today, still flying Evergreen’s colours, and still searchable on MarineRadar by name like any other ship in the fleet. The incident shows what AIS tracking is actually good for. Watching one hull’s position, speed and heading in real time let the rest of the world see the ship had stopped moving in the middle of a canal, well before any official statement went out.
Finding an Evergreen Ship's Name When You Don't Have One
A handful of starting points work when a name isn’t already in hand. Evergreen’s own press releases name specific ships for christenings, maiden voyages and record deliveries, Ever Alot and Ever Ace among them. Port authority call schedules for Kaohsiung, Los Angeles, Rotterdam and Felixstowe list incoming vessel names days ahead, usually with an ETA attached, and news coverage of a canal transit, a labour dispute or weather disruption tends to name the ship directly, the way reporting on the Ever Given did from the first hour. Once a name turns up anywhere, the rest is the five steps above. The harder part was never the search. It was knowing which ship to search for.
Conclusion
Evergreen ship tracking only gets hard at the one step nobody tells you about: there is no company-wide search, so a name or an IMO number has to come first. Once you have either, MarineRadar treats an Evergreen hull exactly like any other vessel on the water, live position, route history and all. Download MarineRadar for Android or iOS and the next Evergreen name you see anywhere becomes a search instead of a guess.
FAQs
Where is the Evergreen ship now?
Depends which one. Search its name or IMO number on MarineRadar’s live map to get an actual position.
How can I track an Evergreen vessel?
Get the ship’s name or IMO number, then search it directly on MarineRadar. There’s no Evergreen-specific mode, just a normal AIS search that works for any line.
What happened to the Evergreen ship?
If this means the Ever Given, it ran aground across the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021 and blocked traffic for six days before a multinational salvage team refloated it on 29 March. It has sailed under Evergreen’s flag ever since, and it’s still trackable by name today.
Does Evergreen shipping still exist?
Yes. Evergreen Marine is one of the world’s largest container lines by capacity, headquartered in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, with a substantial newbuild orderbook still being delivered.
Who is Evergreen shipping?
Evergreen Marine Corporation is a Taiwan-based container line founded in 1968, headquartered in Taoyuan City near its Kaohsiung hub, and a founding member of Ocean Alliance alongside CMA CGM, COSCO and OOCL. Its fleet currently ranks 7th in the world by capacity and includes Ever Alot, currently the world’s largest container ship by TEU.
Where does Evergreen ship from?
Kaohsiung is Evergreen’s main Asian transhipment hub, feeding routes to North America, Europe, Australia and beyond, though individual sailings originate from whichever port is on that ship’s current rotation.
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