After Five Weeks, Container Ship Is Freed in the Chesapeake (Published 2022) (2024)

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Over a month after running aground in the murky waters of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the 1,096-foot Ever Forward container ship has been freed. The ship, operated by a Taiwanese company, became stuck in water just 25 feet (7.5m) deep on 13 March after leaving Baltimore.

15, 2022. The Suez Canal Authority said Monday that a cargo ship carrying corn that went aground in the Egyptian waterway was refloated and canal traffic was restored. Canal services firm Leth Agencies said the vessel, MV Glory, ran aground near the city of Qantara, in the Suez Canal province of Ismailia.

It took 14 tugboats conducting pulling maneuvers from three directions to achieve, according to the SCA. Their task was made easier by dredgers that worked over the weekend to dislodge the stranded vessel, shifting some 27,000 metric tons of sand to a depth of 60 feet.

The ship was extricated after crews spent the last week using two large cranes on barges to offload around 500 of the nearly 4,900 containers aboard to make the vessel buoyant enough for the tugboats to pry it loose, officials said.

Since 1850, Tangier Island has lost two-thirds of its landmass and surrounding neighbors. "I've seen islands disappear, some islands around Tangier," Eskridge said. "We've lost about six or seven other smaller communities that used to be around Tangier. They're just underwater now.

Ship #1 MSC Irina

This is currently the largest container ship in the world, with a capacity of 24,346 TEU. Her maiden voyage was in April 2023 from Guangzhou Port in China.

Some progress has been made in the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, mainly through upgrades to wastewater treatment plants, but much work remains. When it comes to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, it is time for a change.

In March 2021, the Suez Canal was blocked for six days by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal.

Today's largest container ship can carry about 24,000 TEUs. The carrying capacity of today's largest container vessels is equivalent to no less than a 44 miles long freight train. A large container ship engine has about 1,250 times more power than a family car and is similar in size to a typical six-story building.

The ship is owned by Shoei Kisen Kaisha (a ship-owning and leasing subsidiary of the large Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding), and is time chartered and operated by container transportation and shipping company Evergreen Marine, headquartered in Luzhu, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

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After a month stuck in Chesapeake Bay, the container ship Ever Forward is back on the move, the US Coast Guard announced in a news release. With the removal of hundreds of containers, the Ever Forward was freed on Sunday around 7 a.m. ET by two pulling barges and six tugboats.

The Ever Given Has Set Sail From The Suez Canal, Months After It Blocked The Waterway. The Ever Forward had just loaded up with cargo in Baltimore and was heading south to Norfolk, Va., when it ran aground on March 13.

The Ever Forward container ship, over 300-meter-long carrying almost 5,000 containers on board, ran aground after leaving Baltimore for Norfolk, Virginia.

It was finally dislodged on Sunday. It took five weeks and three attempts, but around 7 a.m. on Sunday the Ever Forward, a 1,095-foot container ship operated by the same company whose vessel blocked the Suez Canal last year, was finally freed in the Chesapeake Bay.

Evergreen container ship runs aground in Chesapeake Bay nearly a year after Suez Canal blockage | CNN Business.

The Ever Forward had just loaded up with cargo in Baltimore and was heading south to Norfolk, Va., when it ran aground on March 13. The container ship reportedly missed a turn leaving Baltimore, causing it to end up in the shallow waters off Pasadena. Crews worked for weeks to pluck the ship free.

Introducing the Evergreen Ever Ace – the biggest container ship in the world (for now) The capacity of the Ever Ace is quite astonishing, with a capacity of 23,992 to 24,004 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit). So in theory that's as many as 24,000 20ft containers!