A massive container ship owned by the same company whose vessel infamously blocked the Suez canal has run aground off the American coast.
The Ever Forward is not, as its name might suggest, going anywhere – and is in fact stuck near the port of Baltimore, US officials confirmed on Monday.
The incident comes almost exactly a year on from the MV Ever Given getting wedged in the Egyptian waterway, sparking global trade chaos.
The ship, measuring 1,096-foot (334-meter), ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay shortly after leaving a Baltimore port Sunday night, the executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, William Doyle, said in a statement.
He explained: ‘There have been no injuries or spills.
‘The ship’s grounding is not preventing other ships from transiting to the Port of Baltimore’.
Mr Doyle added that efforts had been underway since Sunday night to free the stranded vessel.
The accident came almost exactly a year after the 200,000-ton container ship MV Ever Given became wedged in Egypt during a sandstorm, blocking the key waterway for six days, badly impacting global trade.
The Suez Canal is a vital artery from Asia to Europe that carries 10 percent of global maritime trade and provides Egypt with vital revenues.
Both vessels are owned by the Evergreen Marine Corp., which is based out of Taiwan.
The Ever Forward was bound for Norfolk, Virginia, when the accident happened, US media reported.
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