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Evergreen marks 50th anniversary

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Evergreen Group celebrated its 50th Anniversary over the weekend at the Chang Yung-Fa Foundation, home of the charity set up by Evergreen Group founder and chairman YF Chang. In addition to senior executives and employees of the Group’s businesses, the event was also attended by public officials including key ministers, customers and business agents from both the shipping and airline industries as well as representatives of supply chain partners from more than fifty countries.

In his welcome address, Evergreen International Corp’s KH Chang thanked business partners and all employees for working hand in hand with Evergreen Group for the past 50 years and expressed his gratitude to the general public for support and encouragement, which helped Evergreen to achieve it current scale of business. In addition he encouraged all staff to remain true to the founder’s values, keep pace with the times, and work together toward achieving the next milestone of the centennial anniversary in the next fifty years.

Taiwan Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-Mo, noted in his remarks that Evergreen Group has  built a comprehensive shipping network and international flight routes, providing quality transportation service to facilitate world trade and serve the general public, and wished the group prosperous development and a long-lasting future.  

Founder and chairman YF Chang, established Evergreen Marine Corporation on the 1st of September 1968, overcoming hurdles along the way such as a devastating fire, a lack of lending support from financial institutions and competitive monopoly of freight conferences. All these obstacles were overcome under Chang’s leadership and with the ‘Evergreen Spirit’ embodied in all his employees. 

The line began Taiwan’s first Far East-Middle East liner service in 1972, helping local shippers transport their cargoes to the fast-developing Middle East region. This was followed by the first Far East to Europe full container service as an independent carrier, breaking the monopoly of the Far Eastern Freight Conference in 1979.

Chang went on to build on the solid foundation in the shipping industry to expand Evergreen’s transportation service into the airline industry, setting up EVA EVA Air in 1988.

The group has now grown into a global conglomerate across sea, land and air, expanding its business scope into aviation technologies, international hotel chains and steel production.