Wednesday 20th March 2024
    Difficulty: Very easy

    Evergreen (Quiz #488)

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    Evergreen Marine Corporation is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company with over 150 container ships.

    1. Evergreen's A-class container ships are among the largest container ships in the world. How many twenty-foot containers is each one capable of carrying (in round numbers)?

    2. Which Evergreen container ship blocked the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021?

    3. In 1992, a container was lost overboard by the Evergreen ship Ever Laurel, releasing almost 29,000 bath toys called "Friendly Floatees" into the Pacific Ocean. What was the unexpected benefit of this disaster?

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