A huge container ship stranded in the Chesapeake Bay on the US east coast for a month United States of AmericaAccording to the local press, he was refloated this Sunday (17th).
The Ever Forward ship owned by the Evergreen company Taiwanran aground hundreds of meters offshore in about six meters of mud on the night of March 13 after failing to advance to deeper waters.
American press outlets reported that the boat set off again around 7 a.m. (8 a.m. in Brasília) on Sunday (17) after nearly 500 of the 5,000 containers that were on board the ship were removed to reduce the weight and the highest tide to enjoy month.
The US Coast Guard had been trying to free Ever Forward for weeks using tugboats and dredgers when the massive ship and efforts to extricate it from the swamp became a spectacle for tourists watching the scene from shore.
2 of 2 The Ever Forward ship is propelled by tugboats after being undocked near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Pasadena, Maryland — Photo: Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP
The Ever Forward ship is propelled by tugboats after being undocked near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Pasadena, Maryland — Photo: Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP
The nearly 12,000container capacity, 1,200footlong cargo ship is one of many that cruise the busy Chesapeake waters daily.
The Bay is a gigantic estuary, the largest in the country, and its shores are home to both the city of Baltimore and the Port of Virginia, two of the three most important ports on the east coast of the United States.
The Ever Forward incident on the Chesapeake is reminiscent of a similar episode involving another freighter of the same name, the Ever Given, which became stuck on a sandbar in Egypt’s Suez Canal in March 2021, blocking traffic on that important route in the world, for almost one Week.
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