Evergreen Line and China Shipping will start a new intra-Asia service linking China with the Philippines and Thailand.

The new service represents a continued partnership with Taiwan-based Evergreen and China’s two state-owned lines -- China Shipping and COSCO Container Lines -- since relations between Taipei and Beijing started improving in 2008.

Meanwhile, Evergreen Line has launched its environmental excellence website (http://www.evergreen-line.com/enviro).

The new site highlights the company's role since its founding in 1968 as environmentally, socially, economically and commercially responsible and viable.

Evergreen Group's Vice Group Chairman Bronson Hsieh, who is also Chairman of Evergreen Marine Corporation, said: "We recognize the obligation to conduct affairs as a constructive corporate member of society and have established an occupational Safety, Quality and Environmental Protection Management System for our cargo ships (Container Carriers) and our shore-based personnel."