The Ever Forward ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay north of Washington during the night of March 13/14 after a failed tack. It is operated by the company whose other ship, the Ever Given, blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021.
According to US media, a gigantic container ship that had been stranded in a bay on America’s East Coast for more than a month was finally refloated on Sunday. The ship Ever Forward was stranded in the Chesapeake Bay north of Washington on the night of March 13/14 after a failed tack.
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334 meters long and capable of transporting almost 12,000 containers, this giant of the seas, operated by the Taiwanese company Evergreen, has attracted many curious people who have come to observe the operations aimed at getting it back afloat close. It’s finally done. It started moving again just before 7 a.m. local time (11 a.m. GMT), pulled by five tugs and two barges, thanks to the high tide, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The Coast Guard, who had been busy removing the sand from her for more than three weeks and had decided to relieve her of as many containers as possible to lighten her, could not be reached immediately by AFP. Stretching from the state of Virginia in the south to Maryland in the north, the Chesapeake Bay is a gigantic estuary with heavy shipping traffic. The Ever Given, another evergreen container ship, got stuck over the Suez Canal in March 2021, blocking traffic for almost a week.