Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge
The 20,000 TEU container freighter "Ever Given", wedged diagonally into the embankment in the Suez Canal with the prominent white inscription of the shipping company EVERGREEN (Taiwan) on the frog-green side of the ship, is still a fond memory for anyone involved in shipping. Less spectacular and also having a much smaller impact on international goods traffic was an accident that occurred on 13 March 2022 to the "Ever Forward", a container ship from Hong Kong with a capacity of 11,850 TEU, which was also unmistakably labelled EVERGREEN, after a missed course change before entering Norfolk/Virginia: it ran squarely into the really sticky silt of the Chesapeake Bay at full speed and was unable to...
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