Containership Ever Forward Stuck in Chesapeake Bay
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A year after a giant containership got stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week and disrupted global trade for months, another Evergreen Marine Corp. vessel has run aground, this time near the U.S. capital.
The Hong Kong-flagged Ever Forward got stranded after departing the Port of Baltimore Seagirt Terminal the evening of March 13, according to mapping data compiled by Bloomberg. The 1,096-foot vessel was en route to Norfolk, Va., when it got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay.
“The ship’s grounding is not preventing other ships from transiting to the Port of Baltimore,” Maryland Port Administration Executive Director William P. Doyle said in a statement. “Efforts have been underway since last night to try and free the ship and will continue today. The Coast Guard is monitoring the situation.”
Last year, the 400-meter-long Ever Given, another Evergreen-owned ship that is longer than the Eiffel Tower and weighs 220,000 tons, got stuck in the Suez Canal for six days. The vessel and its 17,600 containers blocked the canal in both directions, resulting in a backlog of more than 400 ships delayed by the incident.
Here are some shots of the Ever Forward aground in Chesapeake Bay pic.twitter.com/sromaivvDp — Mike Schuler (@MikeSchuler) March 14, 2022
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