News / Now Evergreen box ship Ever Forward runs aground – but isn't blocking traffic

A US Coast Guard officer looks on as the operation to free Ever Forward continues Credit US Coast Guard.

Another ship operated by Taiwan liner Evergreen has run aground, almost exactly a year after the Ever Given became jammed and held up traffic in the Suez Canal.

The 12,118 teu Ever Forward, deployed on Evergreen’s East Asia-US east coast service, was departing Baltimore port for Norfolk at 8.40pm on Sunday when it grounded in shallow water.

VesselsValue reports that the ship has a draught of 15.5 metres, but the water at that point in in Chesapeake Bay is just 7.6 metres deep.

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