A 334-meter containership owned by Evergreen Marine is aground in Chesapeake Bay not far from the Port of Baltimore on the U.S. East Coast.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard’s 5th District confirmed that the M/V Ever Forward grounded Sunday night as she departed with one pilot on board.
Automatic identification system (AIS) ship tracking data shows the Hong Kong-flagged Ever Forward, with a draft of 13 meters, had just got underway from Baltimore to her next port of call in Norfolk, Virginia when the grounding occurred near Gibson Island.
