More than a month after the Ever Forward ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay, the container ship was successfully refloated Sunday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Salvage experts had determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the Ever Forward when it was loaded with 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, had said in a news release. Unloading the ship offered the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
After more than a month stuck in the Chesapeake Bay, the more than 1,000 foot long container ship Ever Forward is on the move again. The ship was refloated on Easter Sunday. Salvage crews were offloading containers from the Ever Forward until 10:30 p.m. Saturday. The containers were placed onto barges and taken to Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal.The Coast Guard has said it hadn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship was outside the shipping channel and did not block 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.
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