Chang said that the company will negotiate with interested bidders over specifications, price and number of these new containers due 2013 at an interview by Kaiji Press, a Japan media focusing on marine news and service. The report said that shipbuilding plants such as Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp and China’s NACKS have casted their bids in the hope of winning the big contract, which has been seen as a shot in the arm for the dull marine industry in Taiwan.According to the latest statistics by AXS-Alphaliner, a French marine consulting organization, the Evergreen has dropped to No.5 from the top 4 of world’s biggest marine companies for lack of capacity replenishment recently. With these freshly-built troops, the marine giant is expected to back on one of the top 3 in the world, the report added.Other local marine operators noted yesterday that Evergreen’s move carries an auspicious sign for the recovery of the industry and will bring a wave of freight charge surge from the unprecedented nadir before.