While the vessel’s bow remained stuck on one side of the waterway this morning, the high spring tide this afternoon allowed salvors to re-float the entire ship and unblock the waterway after a week of closure. According to the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), the vessel will now be towed to the Bitter ...

According to VesselsValue’s ship tracking data, Evergreen’s 20,400 teu Ever Greet, deployed on the Ocean Alliance’s NEU6 service (the same string as the stuck sister ship Ever Given), which had been en route from the Malaysian transhipment hub of Tanjung Pelepas to Suez, changed course yesterd...

Evergreen said today Japanese shipowner Shoei Kisen Kaisha had appointed Dutch specialist Smit Salvage and compatriot Nippon Salvage to re-float the vessel after two days of unsuccessful attempts involving all available tugs and equipment at the disposal of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) It said it ...

However, tugs were unable to free the stricken vessel at high tide today and dredging vessels have been deployed to help the refloating attempts. A statement late last night from the vessel’s manager, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), said: “Dredgers are working to clear sand and mud from a...

On Tuesday the ship registrar of Bangladesh ordered all concerned to comply with VGM requirements as per the SOLAS convention, and port state control officers have been asked to verify loading conditions in three stages during a container’s transfer to vessel. In August last year, the 1,700 teu OE...

The Japanese carrier said that, by the end of last week, 940 containers had been removed from the vessel at the Japanese port of Kobe, adding: “Based on the latest assessment, ONE Apus is aimed to depart on or around 15 March. “If that can be achieved, the estimated date to arrive Long Beac...

“Maersk Eindhoven is currently in Japanese waters, awaiting clearance for transit into APM Terminals Yokohama on 25 February,” an advisory from the carrier said, explaining that the next three days in Japan are a public holiday. It added: “Company surveyors and salvors are on the ship today, r...

The vessel was en route from the Chinese port of Xiamen to Los Angeles when it encountered heavy weather on Wednesday evening, which is understood to have caused an engine failure.  “We are in the process of conducting an investigation into the accident – our preliminary findings indic...

This latest box spill in the north Pacific will add urgency to a review of lashing practices on ULCVs, and could lead to an interim restriction on the height of container stacks on the route.  2M alliance partner MSC said the preliminary advice from Maersk “suggests that several hundred conta...

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