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[Kadve]

Pretty hilarious of it happening exactly one year to the month later.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/14/ever-forward-container-ship-aground-us

A year to the month after the Ever Given blocked the Suez canal for a week – prompting global fascination and countless memes – the container ship’s cousin has run aground in the Chesapeake Bay.

Officials are now scrambling to refloat that container ship, ironically named the Ever Forward, after it got stuck on Sunday night as it tried to head from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, Bloomberg reported.

The US Coast Guard said it did not know what had caused the stranding, which did not lead to any injuries or harm the vessel, according to CBS Baltimore.

Like the 400-metre Ever Given, the 334-metre Ever Forward belongs to the Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp.

Other ships in the area were told to slow down and use a one-way traffic pattern.

The ship needs water at least 43ft deep to move, but it was stuck in an area that was just 25ft deep. It was not clear when it might be freed. “Everything like this is kind of its own beast,” the coastguard petty officer Steven Lehmann told the Baltimore Sun.

 

[kingfey]

2022 is trying out do both 2021 and 2020.

 

[Rest]

Evergreen needs to spend the money to put sonar on these boats or somthing.