A container ship from the same shipping company is hit again: the "Ever Forward" ran aground on the east coast of the USA.
As can be seen from "Vesselfinder", the huge container ship is stranded on the way from Baltimore to Norfolk in the state of Virginia.
It got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay on Sunday evening, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
About a year ago, the container ship "Ever Given" got wedged in the Suez Canal, causing a traffic jam and global delivery problems for days.
The American Coast Guard is now trying to free the ship, it said.
The cause of how the freighter could run aground is still unclear.
On the other hand, one thing is clear: the ship needs water at least 13 meters deep.
Where it is now, the depth is only 7.5 meters.
According to media reports, no one is injured and the ship is undamaged.
A crucial difference to its sister ship, the "Ever Given", this time is the location: The Hong Kong flagged "Ever Forward" does not block any trade routes.
The Suez Canal is a bottleneck in the world economy, and there is significantly more room to avoid it on the North American coast.
"The ship's grounding does not prevent other ships from calling at the Port of Baltimore," William P. Doyle, director of the Maryland Port Authority, said in a statement.
The "Ever Forward" is 334 meters long and belongs to the Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Marine Corp.
The “Ever Given” also belongs to the same group.
Last year, the 400-meter-long container ship, an Evergreen-chartered vessel that is longer than the Eiffel Tower and weighs 220,000 tons, got stuck in the Suez Canal for six days.
The ship and its 17,600 containers blocked the canal in both directions, resulting in a backlog of more than 400 ships.
Against the "Ever Given"