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A container ship that had been stranded in Chesapeake Bay for more than a month was finally returned to the water, officials said.
Ever Forward, run by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., was shot down just before 7 a.m. Sunday by two barges and five tugs.
Evergreen Marine’s Ever Forward is passing under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after being cleared of mud outside the shipping canal near Pasadena, Maryland (Jerry Jackson / The Baltimore Sun via AP / AP Newsroom)
Officials made two failed attempts to displace the ship and removed about 500 of the 5,000 containers it was carrying. A full moon and a high spring tide helped lift the lifeboats as they pulled and pushed the massive ship out of the mud and back into the canal.
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Once surfaced, the ship’s water tanks weighed heavily to ensure its safe passage under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on its way to the anchorage near Annapolis, reports The Baltimore Sun.
The cargo ship was traveling from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. (Jerry Jackson / The Baltimore Sun via AP / AP Newsroom)
Maritime inspectors will inspect the ship’s hull before the Coast Guard allows it to return to the port of Baltimore to retrieve the unloaded containers.
The reasons for the grounding remain unclear. The ship was traveling from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia last month when it ran aground north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
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The ship ran aground outside the supply channel. It does not block maritime navigation, like last year’s high-ranking grounding of its sister ship, Ever Given, in the Suez Canal, disrupting shipping and the global supply chain for days.
After two failed attempts to free the ship, which is more than 1,000 feet long, rescue experts found earlier this month that unloading some containers offered the best chance of re-raising it. Crews also continued dredging to a depth of 43 feet around the ship.
Evergreen Marine’s Ever Forward container ship passes under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after being freed from mud outside the shipping canal near Pasadena, Maryland, where it spent the last month on land. (Jerry Jackson / The Baltimore Sun via AP / AP Newsroom)
Rescue crews continued to unload containers from Ever Forward until 10:30 p.m. on Saturday. The containers were towed to the Seagirt Naval Terminal in Baltimore. The grounding did not result in reports of injuries, damage or contamination, officials said.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan called the ship’s departure “great news this Easter morning.”
“Thanks to all the captains and crews involved in this operation,” the Republican governor tweeted.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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