Unlike last year when Ever Given blocked 400 ships from both sides of the Suez Canal, Ever Forward is not stopping other ships from visiting the port of Baltimore
Unlike last year when Ever Given blocked 400 ships from both sides of the Suez Canal, Ever Forward is not stopping other ships from visiting the port of Baltimore
A giant container ship named Ever Forward, owned by Evergreen Marine Corp based out of Taiwan, whose ship blocked the Suez Canal for six days last year, detoured near a US port, US officials said on Monday. has been put.
A spokesman for the US Coast Guard’s 5th District confirmed that a pilot was on board the ship.
Maryland Port Administration executive director William Doyle said in a statement that Ever Forward, a 1,096-foot (334-metre) ship ran aground shortly after leaving Baltimore port on Sunday night.
The 334-metre (1,096-foot) ship was en route to Norfolk, Virginia, when it got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay.
“There is no injury or contamination,” Doyle clarified.
“The grounding of the ship is not preventing other ships from approaching Baltimore harbor,” he said, noting that efforts were underway to free the stranded ship since Sunday night, with two tug boats at work .
The accident occurred exactly a year after the 200,000-ton container ship Ever Given’s Suez Canal blocked major waterways for six days during a sand storm. The 400-metre-long Ever Given, taller than the Eiffel Tower, which held 17,600 containers, completely blocked the canal, resulting in the incident delaying a backlog of more than 400 ships.
An animation of the ship initially moving at about 12 knots per hour until it gets stuck can be seen in the tweet.