One year ago today, the ultra-large container ship Ever Given ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days. The grounding resulted in a traffic jam of roughly 400 ships and cost an estimated $10 billion per day in lost … Continue reading
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Almost one year ago, the container ship Ever Given ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal for six days. Now, another ship operated by the same shipping company, Evergreen Marine Corporation, has run hard aground. The Ever Forward, a 1,095-foot, 12,000 … Continue reading
Despite challenges created by the pandemic, the ongoing chaos in the supply chain, and the six-day closure of the canal by the grounding of the ultra-large container ship Ever Given last March, larger volumes of cargo were shipped through the … Continue reading
Photographs have come out of the bow damage to the container ship Ever Given after she ran hard aground in the Suez Canal, blocking the critical waterway for six days last March. The images were taken in Qingdao, China, where … Continue reading
Ever Ace, the newest world’s largest container ship capable of carrying the 23,992 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) transitted the Suez Canal at the beginning of this month. The Ever Ace is notionally 28 TEU larger than the previously largest container … Continue reading
Reuters is reporting that an Egyptian court has lifted the detention order on the Ever Given container ship, allowing its expected release from the Suez Canal on Wednesday, according to a lawyer and judicial sources. The Ever Given’s owners and … Continue reading
The American Bureau of Shipping completed its survey and concluded that the ultra-large container ship Ever Given, which had blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week at the end of March, was fit for onward passage. Unfortunately, the ship … Continue reading
The Ever Given no longer blocks traffic in the Suez Canal but, in a very real sense, the ship is still stuck in the canal. The ultra-large container ship ran aground for about a week in late March, blocking ships transiting … Continue reading
The combination of a peak high tide, excavation by dredgers, and the combined pull of more than a dozen tugs has finally freed the ultra-large container ship Ever Given. The 400-meter long container ship carrying 18,000 containers ran aground last … Continue reading
Tugs and dredgers have been making some progress in refloated the stranded ultra-large container ship, Ever Given, that has blocked traffic in the Suez Canal since last Tuesday. The next best hope of freeing the stranded ship will come on … Continue reading
The saying goes that the tide floats all boats. The current hope is that a peak high tide on Monday may allow salvors to refloat the ultra-large container ship Ever Given that has been blocking all traffic in the Suez … Continue reading
The Ever Given, the 20,000 TEU container that has been blocking all traffic on the Suez Canal since Tuesday, is one of the largest container ships in the world and one of the largest ships allowed to transit the Canal. … Continue reading
Despite optimistic estimates yesterday, the Suez Canal remains blocked in both direction by the ultra-large container ship Ever Given. The 20,000 TEU, 400-meter long ship, operated by Evergreen Marine Corp, ran aground during a dust storm and high winds on … Continue reading
On Tuesday morning, Ever Given, an ultra-large container ship capable of carrying 20,000 TEU, ran aground in the Suez Canal suffering a blackout in high winds during a dust storm. The ship became stuck sideways in the canal blocking both … Continue reading