On 2 August 2002, Evergreen Marine's container vessel "Ever Diamond" arrived at YICT to commence a new weekly service WAE. This is a US service jointly operated by Evergreen and Lloyd Triestino (LT).
WAE is scheduled to call at YICT on Friday. The routing follows a sequence of Hong Kong, Yantian, Hong Kong, Osaka, Tokyo, Tacoma, Vancouver, Kaohsiung and Hong Kong. The vanguard vessel "Ever Diamond" is 294 metres long with the shipping capacity of 4,211 TEU.
Evergreen Marine is one of the largest shipping lines in the world. Including this new service, it has already opened up two US and one EU services at YICT.