Taiwan - Evergreen Marine Corporation has approved a container procurement programme covering 18,000 units at a total cost of up to US$65.51m, with all boxes to be manufactured by its Malaysian affiliate, Evergreen Heavy Industrial Corporation. The average unit cost of approximately US$3,417 indicates the order consists predominantly of 40-foot standard containers. Sourcing from Evergreen Heavy Industrial — one of the few large-scale container manufacturers operating outside China — keeps the entire procurement within the group's own supply chain and diversifies manufacturing geography away from Chinese yards that dominate global box production. The order . . .