Tag: grounding

A bulk carrier vessel loaded with logs from Papua New Guinea has been grounded in the China Strait passage of Milne Bay, according to the National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA).

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published a report regarding a captain's decision to leave the wheelhouse unattended as the vessel transited the St. Marys Entrance on autopilot, resulting in the vessel's  grounding and sinking off Cumberland Island, Georgia.

Two days after being pulled free, the Ever Forward containership was reported to be in a good condition. At this moment, the vessel remains anchored off Annapolis, Maryland as of Wednesday afternoon.

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot urges Evergreen to start a $100m responsibility fund for any economic or environmental impact caused by the Ever Forward's grounding at Chesapeake Bay. 

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB provides lessons learned from an incident where a vessel came to a juddering stop as it grounded on a well-charted and marked shoal.

The Ever Forward containership was successfully refloated on Sunday, 17 April 2022, from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay more than a month after it ran aground.

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB provides lessons learned from an incident where a Ro-Ro freight lost track while navigating in fog, resulting in grounding at the edge of a channel and damaging the port side of the hull, port propeller and rudder. 

On March 31st, 2022, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published a report regarding a tanker pilot’s decision to overtake a tow in a large bend on the Mississippi River with multiple nearby vessels and during high-water conditions, leading to the tanker’s grounding.

The lightering operations of the containership Ever Forward which still remains firmly aground in the Chesapeake Bay has began on April 9 and continues during the daylight hours each day.

The German Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU) released its report on the grounding of the bulk carrier RUBINA on the River Weser, on 27 August 2020.