A year after the Suez Canal blockade, another Evergreen ship runs aground in the US

In late March 2021, an Evergreen container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, halting international trade for almost a week. A year later, history repeats itself. Another ship operated by the same company has been since Sunday 13 stuck in the chesapeake bayin Baltimore.

The 1,095-foot Ever Forward was en route to Norfolk, Virginia, from Baltimore when it ran aground in the bay near Craighill Channel around 9 p.m. Sunday. Since then, a salvage team, naval architects and divers have been working to free the ship. There have been no injuries or “pollution-related spills”. The Coast Guard has not yet determined how the Ever Forward got stuck.

Unlike the Ever Given, this container ship is not preventing other boats from entering or leaving of the port of Baltimore and, therefore, is not affecting international trade, says William P. Doyle, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, in a statement that collects The New York Times.

The maneuvers to refloat the mega-container ship stranded in the strategic Suez Canal lasted six days. Under normal conditions, this 190-kilometer-long waterway flows just over 10% of world trade. The jam left more than 360 container ships unable to continue their route. According to initial estimates by the Suez Canal Authority, losses and damages were around 13 million euros per day.