Evergreen Container Tracking

Four of the five codes read like the brand: EGHU, EGSU, EISU and EMCU all resolve to Evergreen entities in the BIC register. The fifth, EITU, is formally registered to Gaining Enterprise S.A. — a special-purpose vehicle inside the Evergreen group. Prefix lists that only match on names routinely misfile it as an unknown lessor; in practice an EITU box is Evergreen equipment and tracks on ShipmentLink like any other.

Evergreen also carries substantial leased tonnage, so a Triton or Textainer prefix on an Evergreen sailing is unremarkable — search ShipmentLink by the number on the door and the events appear as long as Evergreen booked the move.

Evergreen documents carry the SCAC EGLV at the front of the bill-of-lading number — note that it matches none of the five container prefixes, which trips up anyone trying to guess one identifier from the other. The ShipmentLink search accepts the EGLV document number, a booking reference or a container number from the same page.

We verified the form in a real browser: it submits via POST with no query-string route, so there is no way to deep-link a result — any site promising a one-click Evergreen link is opening a blank form. Validate the number above, copy it, and paste it into the cargo-tracking page. The ShipmentLink mobile app carries the same data with sailing schedules alongside.

Not from the container. A standard dry box has no power, no radio and no satellite receiver — it is a steel case with a number painted on it, and it reports nothing about itself. Every position you see against a Evergreen shipment was reported by something else: a terminal crane, a gate reader, or the ship.

A live map on a carrier’s tracking page is almost always plotting AIS, the transponder every large vessel broadcasts with its position, course and speed. That is genuinely useful at sea: it is a real position rather than a schedule, and an ETA recalculated from actual movement. It is also the ship’s position, not your box’s, and the two part company the moment the container is discharged.

On land the map goes quiet. Between the gate-out and the delivery there is no vessel to follow, and the road leg appears only as whatever events the terminal and the trucker report. A container sitting on a chassis in a yard shows the last position of a ship it left days ago. Only specialised IoT equipment reports its own location, and wherever that exists it is a paid product sold to the shipper, not something a tracking page gives away.

How long a container spends at sea on Evergreen services, port to port. Each figure below is stated by two documents for the same service and the same pair of ports — the line’s own schedule and one more — and both are linked beside it. Where we could not find two, the pair is not listed.

These are schedule figures between two ports, not delivery times: add the days before the vessel sails and after it discharges, and expect the real voyage to drift by a few days either way. A line can change a rotation at any time, so check the date on each source.

The Asia–Europe figures are for the route around the Cape of Good Hope. On 18 October 2026 the lines’ own pages still sent these services that way; only ONE named services back through the Suez Canal (FE1, IOX). A return to Suez shortens the voyage by roughly ten days, so a figure here is out of date for any service that moves.

Evergreen runs its cargo tracking on shipmentlink.com, a separate domain from the corporate evergreen-line.com. People who start at the company homepage often never find the tracker, and search results for "Evergreen tracking" are crowded with aggregators who have noticed the same gap. The link on this page goes straight to the real one.

We opened it with a container number in the URL and the page ignored the parameter, loading an empty search form instead. That is a tested negative, not an assumption — so copy the number and paste it there. Any site offering a one-click Evergreen result is opening the same empty form you would.

Confirm you are on ShipmentLink at all. The most common Evergreen failure is searching the corporate site, which has no tracker. The result page lives at ct.shipmentlink.com, and nowhere else.

EITU is not a stranger. That prefix is registered to Gaining Enterprise S.A. rather than to an Evergreen-named entity, so prefix lists elsewhere file it as unknown and people conclude they have the wrong line. It is Evergreen equipment and it tracks there like any other box.

Check the digit. Five prefixes that all begin with E make a misread first letter easy and a misread serial easier. The checker here catches a single wrong character before the search.

Too new, or archived. The first event lands at gate-in or loading, not at booking, and completed shipments drop out of the live system after some weeks.