Evergreen to Try a Third Time to Free Stuck Ship
- General average declared, stakeholders to share damages
- It carried out two unseccessful refloating attempts this week
Tugboats pull on the Ever Forward container ship in Pasadena, Maryland, on March 29.
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Evergreen Marine Corp. plans another effort to free its stuck container ship near Baltimore as early as Sunday, a cargo claims agency said, after two unsuccessful attempts led the company to take a legal step requiring the owners of cargo on board to share damage costs.
The 334-meter (1,096-foot) Ever Forward ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay after departing the Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal on March 13 and hasn’t moved since, according to mapping data compiled by Bloomberg. Its capacity is almost 12,000 20-foot containers.