2/2/2024 0 Comments March ever forward![]() The ship was outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days. The Coast Guard has said it hasn’t determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. "If you ever been in a marsh, and you've stepped in the marsh with your boot, and then you try to pull it out and your foot comes out, but not the boot – kind of the same thing on a grander scale here," Coast Guard Captain David O'Connell said. ![]() worked together in the operation.Īfter removing the containers, a full moon and high spring tide helped provide a lift to the salvage vessels as they pulled and pushed the massive ship from the mud, across a dredged hole and back into the shipping channel. Each year the dunes march forward, and the villagers can only watch and wait before their homes disappear forever. ![]() The Coast Guard, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Evergreen Marine Corp. Tugboats align a barge near the container ship Ever Forward, which ran aground last month, as workers remove containers from the vessel to lighten the load and refloat the vessel near Pasadena, Md.Īfter two attempts to free the vessel, on April 4 the Coast Guard decided to unload 500 of the nearly 4,900 containers from the ship in an effort to get it floating once again. Tugboats pull on the Ever Forward container ship in Pasadena, Maryland, on March 29, 2022, trying to free the cargo ship as it sits in the Chesapeake Bay after it ran aground near Baltimore. The Ever Forward departed Baltimore March 13 en route to Norfolk, Virginia when it grounded with 4,964 containers aboard.
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