Posted on 03/14/2022 11:45:13 AM PDT 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.
While there was no initial impact on marine traffic, Lehmann said on Monday that water access will be restricted when salvage operations begin. He had no indication when that would be.
Lehmann says the Coast Guard is assisting the captain with the salvage, looking into whether there is any pollution or environmental impact, and is also investigating the cause of the incident. Bay Bulletin will update this story as it develops.
Evergreen made international headlines with another of its ships—the supersized container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal a year ago, bringing worldwide shipping trade to a grinding halt.
Ever Forward?
Never Forward!.........
Wow… some bay pilot is gonna get his butt reamed! This should NEVER happen.
Especially empty
Must be global warming and the increase in sea level...oh...wait!
How is this even possible? With life-threatening climate change causing ever-rising sea levels, this ship should be sailing all the way into downtown Baltimore and beyond.
Had to be either a deliberate, or a drunkenness event...
Nationally, Baltimore is ranked 9th for total dollar value and 11th for tonnage of international cargo.
Thousands of container ships with no problems...
Lots of channel space...
IMHO, deliberate or drunkenness...
Haha, anybody see the movie Dragnet? Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer...
Venafafoch hu:
- I'll be leaving you in charge here, Emil.
I'll be joining a very special passenger aboard my private jet for a few restful days
in Acapulco.
Don't forget to leave a P.A.G.A.N. card so the police and Mr. Caesar's next of kin will give us proper credit for returning his magazines.
Oh, and, Emil.. Ever Forward.
***
It's like a fine painting. You mustn't rush up to it. :)
All that wiz-bang supercomputing GPS-powered autopilot technology and we still can’t keep it in the shipping lane? Sounds like some auto drivers I know.
An Evergreen ship ran aground in the Red Sea last year.
Vena*H*afoch hu..
It’s a trap!
Ever Forward ... onto the sandbar.
Shades of the Wisconsin.
Deja’ vu.
PING!
Someone doesn’t want to go back to HK.
The Wisconsin grounded in New York Harbor. the Missouri was the battleship that grounded in the Chesapeake.
Someone needs to go back to ship steering class.
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