![]() 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. Ever Given stuck in Suez Canal afloat, traffic resumes after almost a week After hauling the fully laden 220,000-ton vessel over the canal bank, the salvage team was pulling the vessel toward the. ![]() 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. Human error is considered in cause of ship’s grounding. 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. The Coast Guard, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Evergreen Marine Corp. ![]() After 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.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |