![]() The general average statement from Evergreen put its cargo clients on notice that their costs will go up. The Coast Guard is now estimating the entire operation make take another two weeks to complete – depending on weather and any unforeseen variables. The barges will be used to shuttle containers back to their original onboarding facility at Seagrit Marine Terminal in Baltimore, to be offloaded there by shore-based handling gear.Īfter the ship is relieved of its containers, tugs and pull barges will try again to pull the ordinarily 42.6’ draft Ever Forward free and back into deeper water. “The containers will be removed in daylight hours only for safety purposes from both the port and starboard sides and placed on receiving barges,” the Coast Guard said. ![]() Containers will start being removed as soon as two crane barges with suitable lifting heights can be put into position. The dredges Dale Pyatt and Oyster Bay continue to work near the ship and will keep digging to a depth of 43’ according to the Coast Guard. "Salvage experts determined they would not be able to overcome the ground force of the Ever Forward in its current loaded condition,” according to the statement from the Coast Guard 5 th District. On Monday afternoon the Coast Guard announced the plan now is to first bring in barge cranes to lift containers and lighten the ship. issued a “general average” notice, alerting cargo interests they will be subject to additional costs for delivery of cargo, given the expense of the recovery operation.Īfter two unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the vessel with dredging and up to seven tugs pushing and pulling, the next backup plan whas been to employ a pair of anchored barges to apply additional pulling power to the ship. On March 31 ship operators Evergreen Marine Corp. The Coast Guard says it’s still investigating the cause of the incident. The ship was outbound from Baltimore heading down the bay to Norfolk, Va., March 13 when it strayed out of deep water and ran aground. A 500-yard safety zone around the ship remains in effect, and marine traffic can still transit the shipping channel in one direction at a time while lightering is under way.Eighteen days after it went astray in Chesapeake Bay, the 1,095’ container vessel Ever Forward remained aground near the Craighill Channel, defying the best efforts of tugboat and dredge crews to refloat the ship. The operation is expected to take about two weeks, depending upon the weather. Once the containers are removed, the salvage team will attempt to pull Ever Forward free again. As shipowner Evergreen has declared general average for the casualty, cargo owners may have to post a GA bond before they can recover any of the boxes that are returned to Seagirt. ![]() These barges will shuttle the containers back to Seagirt Marine Terminal in Baltimore - the same place where they were originally loaded onto the ship.Īccording to the Baltimore Sun, the plan calls for removing a few hundred of the 4,964 containers aboard Ever Forward, but the majority of the cargo will stay on board. The containers will be removed during daylight hours from both sides of the ship and will be lowered onto deck barges for lightering. They will continue a dredging operation to dig out around the ship to a depth of 43 feet, and they will bring in two crane barges to hoist off containers from Ever Forward's decks. The salvage team has determined that they are not able to overcome the ground force of the Ever Forward in her current loaded condition, even with half a dozen tugs and two pulling barges at their disposal, the Coast Guard said in a statement Monday. An initial assessment determined that it would be a challenging refloat operation because the vessel had driven her bow deep into the mud when she left the shipping channel. Coast Guard supervising a unified command for the response. Donjon Smit was appointed to undertake the salvage, with the U.S. The 1,100-foot Ever Forward grounded on March 13 while transiting south in the Chesapeake Bay towards Norfolk, Virginia. After multiple attempts to tow the grounded container ship Ever Forward to deeper water, salvors have decided to give up the attempt and lighter off cargo to reduce the ship's displacement.
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