In the meantime, shippers remain anxious to receive their containers from the ship. It will undergo inspections to determine what if any damage was caused during the grounding and refloating and to reconfirm the vessel’s seaworthiness before it will be permitted to continue its voyage. Coast Guard spokesperson indicated that once the vessel is afloat, they expect it will likely be moved to position possibly near Annapolis, Maryland. She was been stuck in that position since March 13. Two anchored pull barges are set at the stern of the Ever Forward to assist with the new effort to pull the vessel free of the mud. They plan to suspend all traffic when the pulling operation resumes. As such, they are only permitting one-way traffic through the area. They noted that the pull barges and cranes removing the containers are near the channel with some of the anchors encroaching on the edges of the shipping channel. Coast Guard starting this evening, April 13, is expanding the safety zone around the vessel to 1,000 feet. In anticipation of the new schedule, the U.S. While the timing of the next pulling effort has not been confirmed, it is believed that they hope to take advantage of the higher tides.īarges are ferrying the containers to the terminal in Baltimore (William Doyle/Twitter) The next full moon and high tide will occur in the Chesapeake Bay on April 16. It was used to reclaim Poplar Island in the bay. The lifting operation is proceeding during daylight hours although the effort to move containers to the Seagirt Marine Terminal continues around the clock.ĭredging operations at the site removed approximately 210,000 cubic yards of material according to Doyle. Coast Guard reporting the goal is to remove approximately 550 containers in the effort to reduce the weight of the ship. However, with favorable weather and sea conditions on the Chesapeake they have been able to increase the number of boxes coming ashore with the U.S. Crews have to manually attach the lifting frame to each container before the cranes can hoist them and place them on barges alongside the vessel. Doyle noted that the operations were slowed by weather conditions at the location. The lifting operation began on April 9 and during the first two days the crews were averaging just over 20 containers per day. “Shooting for another 100 cans today with additional deck barges arriving yesterday,” William Doyle, Executive Director for the Port of Baltimore wrote in a Twitter update today. The Port of Baltimore where the containers are being offloaded from barges reported that as of this morning, April 13, a total of 180 boxes have come ashore. While the timing of the next effort to pull the containership free has not been confirmed, it is believed they are targeting the full moon and high tides expected this weekend in the Chesapeake Bay. Coast Guard now expecting the container removal to be concluded on Friday, April 15. The maritime app Marine Traffic showed it in the Red Sea on Monday night, headed toward the Suez once again.The pace of the salvage operation at the Ever Forward has accelerated with the U.S. Since then, however, the Ever Given has managed to get through the canal without getting stuck. The vessel was trapped from 23 to 29 March. The effort to rescue the Ever Given, which weighs 220,000 metric tons, required dredging 30,000 cubic meters of sand, with the help of 13 tugboats and a rising tide. “Everything like this is kind of its own beast,” the coastguard petty officer Steven Lehmann told the Baltimore Sun. The ship needs water at least 43ft deep to move, but it was stuck in an area that was just 25ft deep. Other ships in the area were told to slow down and use a one-way traffic pattern. “Efforts have been under way since last night to try and free the ship and will continue today.” The Ever Forward’s grounding, on the other hand, was “not preventing other ships from transiting to the Port of Baltimore”, said William P Doyle, the executive director of the Maryland Port Association, to Bloomberg in a statement on Monday. The Ever Given’s plight caused headaches for more than 400 waiting vessels, costing global trade $6bn to $10bn a day, according to a study. Photograph: Marine Trafficīut the smaller ship’s grounding is unlikely to cause as much trouble as last year’s crisis. The Marine Traffic app listed the ship as ‘aground’.
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