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‘Ever Forward’ Container Ship Successfully Refloated After More Than A Month

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A giant container vessel that was stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for over five weeks is on the go, once again. The Ever Forward cargo vessel reached Annapolis at about 10 am on Sunday. Here, it is going to be anchored till it resumes its journey to Baltimore, the US. Coast Guard reported to WBAL-TV.

The 1,096-foot boat had been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay, off the Gibson Island coast, since 13 March. The Ever Given, its sister vessel had infamously blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week in March...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/ever-forward-container-ship-successfully-refloated-after-more-than-a-month/

Containers To Be Unloaded From ‘Ever Forward’ After 3 Weeks Of Being Aground

Ever Forward

It has been a little more than three weeks since a massive cargo vessel had run aground in the Chesapeake Bay and it will have to be unloaded, the US Coast Guard reported. The revised trick to refloat the Ever Forward came after several failed attempts made for dredging it around the vessel and dislodging it with the tugboats.

The vessel, operated by Evergreen Marine Corp based in Taiwan, was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk in Virginia when it had run aground on 13 March.

Now,...

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After Ever Given, Another Evergreen Vessel Is Stuck In Virginia, U.S.

Ever Forward

A 1,095-foot container vessel operated by Evergreen Marine Corp, the company whose vessel had reportedly blocked the Suez Canal in 2021 for almost a week, holding up several billions of dollars in worldwide trade, has remained stuck in the Chesapeake Bay from Sunday night.

The Ever Forward had set sail from Baltimore to Norfolk, Va. when it ran aground in near the Craighill Channel. The information was reiterated by Breanna Centeno, Petty Officer for the US Coast Guard.

The alert from Ever...

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Captain Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For Grounding Vessel

Vera Su

The captain of a cargo vessel named Vera Su that had been stranded close to Kamen Bryag on Bulgaria’s Black Sea in 2021’s September has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He has also been suspended from service for the next five years.

On14 February, the District Court in Dobrich had upheld a plea bargain between the ship’s captain and the prosecutors. The captain pleaded guilty to the charges of massive property damage and for posing risks to other individuals.

The 59-year-old ship...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/captain-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-grounding-vessel/

Shipowners Pay Compensation For Reef Destroyed By Cargo Vessel In The Maldives

The Maldives

The Maldives got a compensation of $10 million in August from a firm whose ship had reportedly run aground in Kaafu Atoll’s Rasfari reef. This was known from reports shared by the local media reports on Monday.

A Panama-flagged cargo vessel named MV Navios Amaryllis had apparently run aground on the Rasfari reef on 19 August while sailing to South Africa from India, per reports from the Xinhua news agency.

Investigations conducted by the Environment Protection Agency disclosed that the vessel had...

https://www.marineinsight.com/marine/shipowners-pay-compensation-for-reef-destroyed-by-cargo-vessel-in-the-maldives/

Grounded Vessel ‘MV Maa’ To Be Converted Into A Floating Restaurant

MV-Maa

Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, Andhra Pradesh’s Tourism Minister, has said that the Bangladesh-based cargo vessel MV Maa had drifted from the anchorage point and had run aground near Tenneti Park, Visakhapatnam, during the second week of October will be converted into a floating restaurant. The restaurant can host 500 guests.

Addressing the media on Thursday, he said that Gill Marines will modernize the ship in the PPP mode. The deadline for delivery is four months.

Image Credits: Raman kaushik –...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/grounded-vessel-mv-maa-to-be-converted-into-a-floating-restaurant/

Crew On Board Cargo Vessel ‘Vera Su’ Evacuated Safely; Ship Now In Stable Condition

Vera Su

On 6 October, the Bulgarian National Television had reported that the crew evacuation on the Vera Su, the cargo vessel that was stranded on northern Black Sea, Bulgaria, has begun.

Due to harsh weather, the crew on board was evacuated using a system of ropes and pulleys. Earlier reports highlighted that evacuation using a helicopter would be too unsafe given the strong winds and nearby cliffs. Prosecutors are investigating the incident in which the Panamanian-flagged and Turkish-owned ship was...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/crew-on-board-cargo-vessel-vera-su-evacuated-safely-ship-now-in-stable-condition/

Real Life Incident: Grounding Leads To Major Listing Of Ship, Declared Total Constructive Loss

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A general cargo ship loaded with grain was in a river waterway and approaching a lock entrance. On the bridge, the pilot was steering the vessel and the Master was controlling the main engine according to the pilot’s instructions. The propulsion/steering consisted of a reversible propeller surrounded by a controllable propeller nozzle/rudder.

As the vessel approached the lock at about 4 knots, the Master initiated a reversing manoeuvre according to the pilot’s instruction, but the reverse order...

https://www.marineinsight.com/case-studies/real-life-incident-grounding-leads-to-major-listing-of-ship-declared-total-constructive-loss/

Ship Runs Aground In Philippines, Several Crew Members Missing

LCT Cebu Great Ocean - Philippine Coast Guard

It has been reported that a cargo ship has run aground near the Philippines due to rough sea and heavy storm. The ship LCT Cebu Great Ocean had been navigating in the water of Surigao del Norte, in the Philippines when a super typhoon “Surigae” brewing in the Catbalogan province in Samar struck them.

Image Credits: Philippine Coast Guard

The ship with 20 member crew was having about 2000 litres of diesel and nickel ore cargo at the time of the incident. The vessel had been abandoned by the crew...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/ship-runs-aground-in-philippines-several-crew-members-missing/

Panamanian-Flagged Cargo Ship ‘Hong Dai’ Aground In Virginia; USCG Responds With Assistance

Panamanian flagged 738-foot bulk coal carrier ran aground on a soft sandy bottom Wednesday

Coast Guard Sector Virginia and the Port of Virginia’s Maritime Incident Response Team are assisting the crew of a cargo ship after it ran aground near Norfolk on Wednesday night.

Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Virginia command center received notification from crewmembers aboard the Hong Dai, a Panamanian flagged 738-foot bulk coal carrier, stating the ship ran aground on a soft sandy bottom approximately one quarter mile Northwest of Sewell’s Point in Norfolk.

Image Credits: USCG

The...

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