Yep, Evergreen’s done it again, this time in Chesapeake Bay. At least this time, they’re apparently not causing a major traffic jam.
I am enjoying the ship being named “Ever Forward”.
We can all use a chuckle or two these days, and Evergreen’s at least good at delivering that. 
Must be a world tour. Where to block next?
Site for status updates on ships, unlucky and otherwise, including the Ever Forward and Felicity Ace:
I’m surprised it’s not the Black Sea yet.
The Ever Forward is owned and operated by Evergreen, a Taiwanese company that owns and operates ships and uses them in its container line business. However, Evergreen don’t own and operate all the ships they use to carry containers. They also charter ships owned and operated by others and use them to carry containers.
The Ever Given is such a ship. It is owned and operated by Higaki Sangyo Kaisha Ltd, a Japanese ship owning and operating company. HSK does all the day-to-day operating of the vessel including hiring crew, conducting maintenance, training, etc. Evergreen has no more to do with operating the Ever Given than you have to do with operating a taxi when you get in the back seat.
Not only that but a marine pilot had the con during both recent incidents involving the above ships.
So there is no relevant connection between the incidents.
I WAG this is really a non-issue and may happen often enough, but for the relation of the ship that blocked the canal. I know from pleasure boating that it happens enough of the time, and I have done it myself with a small enough boat that it didn’t matter. Now pro’s with navigation should be better at it but the sea is a wee beastie and shit happens. Wait for high tide and sail off.
Check the schedule to see when we’ll be running aground in your area!
April 2022 Crosswise under the Golden gate Bridge
June 2022 Gets grounded on a sunken WWII ship in Tokyo Bay
July 2022 Grounded on the Great Barrier Reef
Aug 2022 Runs around on the Hong Kong airport
Sept 2022 Finds to only large rock in the Straight of Gibralter and gets stuck on it
I wonder if the pilots were unfamiliar with the properties of those very large ships.
Ah, yes, the “tempting fate” factor here is to be savoured.
Ships of this size aren’t uncommon.
I haven’t seen a report on the cause of the Ever Given incident but early reports suggested it may have been caused by a wind gust. Fully loaded container vessels can be wind affected.
The Ever Forward incident is highly likely to have been either an error at the helm or steering failure and size is not relevant to either of those causes.
We saw this ship from the Bay Bridge yesterday, and we have a chart pack of the Chesapeake, so I was able to look up roughly where it was. Wind from the west and/or a mechanical failure could easily cause a ship to be pushed out of the relatively narrow channel. According to the news, USCG is still investigating what caused the grounding, and bids for salvage are being handled, so however long that process takes will determine when the ship is finally removed.
You don’t get to be a pilot if you don’t know the ships and the waters you’re piloting them in. As I understand it, it’s a very competitive field, so you’ve pretty much got to be the best of the best, and I would imagine a company isn’t going to risk a lawsuit over a less-than-stellar pilot. I do know there are requirements of years of experience in large vessels.
And as of today, they’re estimating at least another week to get it unstuck. Seems like freeing the Ever Given took less time. Anyone know why the Never Forward is taking longer, besides the “OK, they’re not blocking traffic, not as big a deal”?
Hello, I’ve waited for you, Everlong.
Tonight, I throw myself into and out of the red…
Out of her head, she sang…
here it is
All ship casualties are not the same, by a massive margin. There is no reason to think that refloating would take the same length of time from one grounding to the next.
The Ever Given was only a minor casualty. The vessel went aground relatively softly in a calm location, and only by the bow. As I said at the time, it was never going to take long to refloat her, and it didn’t. The only reason you’ve even heard of the Ever Given casualty is because it blocked the Suez and various insanely sensationalist claims were made about how many bazillion dollars it was going to cost and how it was going to destroy the world’s economy, etc.
I haven’t really looked into the Ever Forward but last I heard she was aground full length and a long way out of draft ie in water much shallower than her required draft. A much more difficult proposition.
Foo Fighters song is being referenced, if anyone is curious.
(It’s me. I was curious.)
Yes it is. ,
Local news report yesterday showed a couple in lawn chairs on the shore with binoculars watching the goings-on with this ship. Slow news day?