News / Ever Forward refloated, but salvage and environmental costs could hit $100m

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The US state of Maryland has urged Evergreen to start a $100m ‘responsibility fund’ to pay for the economic and environmental damage caused by the grounding of its box ship Ever Forward.

The Taiwan carrier reported that the 12,118 teu Ever Forward, stranded in Chesapeake Bay from 13 March, was refloated on Sunday, at just after 7am local time, after some 550 containers were offloaded.

Evergreen employed salvor Donjon-Smit, whose initial attempts to rescue the ship from the Chesapeake mud were unsuccessful, leading to ...