Posted on 3/14/2022, 11:45:13 AM by algore
A nearly 1,100-foot-long container ship ran aground Sunday night on its way out of the Port of Baltimore, and as of Monday the ship was still stuck with no indication of when it could be moved.
Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Stephen Lehmann tells Bay Bulletin the container ship Ever Forward, which sails under the Hong Kong flag, ran aground before 11 p.m. Sunday. No one was injured. The Evergreen Marine Corp. (also based in Hong Kong) ship was headed for Norfolk when it got stuck near the Craighill Channel. Ever Forward was built in 2020, is 1,050 feet long, and reportedly draws about 42.6 feet of water.
Ship aground-—Baltimore-—Everforward? WHOA! Wouldn’t that be really really close to WDC? These Evergreen guys are the same ones who stuck the Evergiven in Suez. Keep your fingers in your ears-—there is liable to be a boom.
Loaded in or near Hong Kong? This is way too close to our biggest Naval Shipyard, Norfolk.
And where the bleep is the Evergiven? Still cruising the Atlantic.? The Chesapeake channel is plenty deep enough for our super carriers so what is the problem with the Evergreen drivers? And didn’t they have a Coastie aboard?
This is dangerous times a bunch.
ransomnote wrote:
Container Ship Aground Outside Patapsco River
chesapeakebaymagazine.com ^
Maybe she was a bit heavier than the manifest showed, sitting a bit deep, eh? Second, who was the harbor pilot?
I think we need to unload it and inspect ALL the cargo.
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