After more than a month of salvage work, the container ship "EVER FORWARD" (long-haul ship) finally got out of trouble.
Rescue operations
On March 13, the long-haul ship deployed on the Evergreen Asia-US East AUE route ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay. After multiple salvage failures, the salvage team unloaded more than 500 containers from the vessel and successfully towed the vessel away from shore using high tide on Sunday morning.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the long-distance ferry has become a local tourist attraction in the past few weeks. Tourists drove miles to a small park on the Maryland coast to watch the stranded container ship and its rescue efforts.
Ever Forward will be towed to Annapolis Anchorage for inspection, the release said. There, it will reload containers offloaded from the hull and continue on to its next port of call, Norfolk, Virginia.
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"The breadth and complexity of this response is historic because an event like the Forever Forward stranding is rare in its type and duration," said Capt. David O'Connell, commander of the Coast Guard in the National Capital Region of Maryland. Say. "It was the collaboration of each response agency, Evergreen Marine Corporation and dedicated responders that allowed Ever Forward to successfully refloat while keeping the public and responders safe, reducing the potential for contamination, and minimizing economic impact
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Evergreen issued a thank you announcement
On April 17, Evergreen issued an announcement that "the long-distance wheel was successfully rescued". The announcement stated:
Evergreen expressed its sincere thanks to the rescue team, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maryland State Government and all walks of life for their assistance and concern. After more than a month of hard work, they finally overcome all difficulties and the freighter successfully escaped.
In addition, Evergreen has declared general average for this stranding accident. The owner of the cargo on the ship and the joint operating partner using the space must provide the necessary guarantees and documents to the general average adjustment company in accordance with the general average adjustment rules, so that the delivery of the goods can be smoothly handled after the goods arrive at the port.
