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Evergreen denies it was sued over Suez blockage By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter Evergreen Marine Corp (長榮海運) on Friday dismissed a foreign news report that it was being sued by the Japanese owners of the Ever Given container ship, saying that Evergreen is just “an involved party” listed in the lawsuit. Evergreen chartered the Panama-flagged vessel from Japan’s Shoei Risen Kaisha Ltd. The 400m-long ship last month blocked the Suez Canal for six days after it ran aground 6 nautical miles (11km) from the southern end of the estuary. Evergreen Marine Corp president Eric Hsieh speaks at an investors’ conference in Taipei on Thursday. The company on Friday dismissed a foreign news report that it was being sued by the Japanese owners of the Ever Given container ship, saying that Evergreen is just “an involved party” listed in the lawsuit.

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