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Ever Given

Ever Given is one of the largest container ships in the world. The ship can carry 20.124 TEU's.[clarification needed]

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Ever Given in March 2020 at the ECT Delta terminal in the Port of Rotterdam
Career (Panama)
Name: Ever Given[note 1]
Owner: Shoei Kisen Kaisha[1][2]
Operator: Evergreen Marine
Port of registry: Panama City
Builder: Imabari Shipbuilding (Japan)
Yard number: S-1833
Laid down: 25 December 2015[3]
Launched: 9 May 2018[3]
Completed: 25 September 2018[3]
Identification:
General characteristics
Class and type: Golden-class container ship
Tonnage:
Length: 399.94 m (1,312 ft 2 in)[3]
Beam: 58.8 m (192 ft 11 in)[3]
Draught: 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in)[3]
Installed power: Mitsui–MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9 (59,300 kW)[4]
Propulsion:
Speed: 22.8 knots (42.2 km/h; 26.2 mph)
Capacity: 20,124 TEU[5]
Crew: 25

Ever Given is owned by Imabari Shipbuilding, which has a branch that leases ships. It is operated by Evergreen Marine, a container transportation and shipping company.

The ship is registered in Panama. A German ship management company called Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM) does Ever Given's technical management.[6]

On 23 March 2021, while traveling from Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia[7] to Rotterdam, Netherlands, the ship became stuck in the Suez Canal and blocked it.

Description

Ever Given is one of 13 container ships built to the Imabari 20000 design developed by Imabari Shipbuilding. With a length of 399.94 metres (1,312 ft 2 in), it is one of the longest ships in service. Its hull has a beam of 58.8 metres (192 ft 11 in), a depth of 32.9 metres (107 ft 11 in), and a fully laden draft of 14.5 metres (47 ft 7 in).

Ever Given has a gross tonnage of 220,940; a net tonnage of 99,155; and a deadweight tonnage of 199,629 tons.

2019 collision

On 9 February 2019, the ship struck and heavily damaged a 25-meter-long HADAG ferry boat at Blankenese, near the harbour of Hamburg, Germany.[8] Two minutes after the collision, a traffic ban on the Elbe river was issued due to high winds.[9]

2021 Suez Canal grounding

See the main article: 2021 Suez Canal incident

At 07:40 Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) on 23 March 2021, the Ever Given was passing through the Suez Canal on its way to Rotterdam from Tanjung Pelepas.[7][10] It got stuck near the village of Manshiyet Rugola (at coordinates 30.01761, 32.58018)[11] and blocked the canal.[6] The ship ended up with its bow wedged in one bank of the canal and stern nearly touching the other.[12]

Background

Satellite image of Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal

The ship had been running fifth in a northbound convoy, with fifteen vessels behind it when it ran aground. Traffic in both directions was blocked for at least five days, leading to a traffic jam of over two hundred vessels.[1][13] On 24 March, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), the technical manager of the ship, denied earlier reports that it had been partially refloated.[10] Trade experts worried about a supply chain delay, and tension due to the indefinite delay to the trapped ships as well as other vessels that planned to cross the Suez Canal.[14]

Re-floating the ship

Eight tugboats worked to re-float the vessel in collaboration with a Komatsu excavator removing sand from the side of the canal where the bow of the vessel was wedged.[10][15] After an overnight break, the salvage work resumed in the morning of 25 March.[16]

On 25 March, an unnamed Egyptian official said refloating the ship would take days if not weeks, according to reports. Lt. Gen. Ossama Rabei, head of the SCA, announced, "The Suez Canal will not spare any efforts to ensure the restoration of navigation and to serve the movement of global trade."

All 25 crew were safe and accounted for. They remained on board while the ship was stuck, and there were "no reports of injuries or pollution".[17][18] Egyptian meteorologists reported that high winds and a sandstorm had affected the area on the day the ship got stuck, with winds reaching as much as 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph).[19]

Causes

Addressing a press conference on 27 March, Rabie, Chairman of the SCA, said that weather conditions were "not the main reasons" for the ship's grounding. He added that there may have been technical or human errors and that these would be shown in the investigation.[20]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The name "EVERGREEN" written in large capital letters on the hull refers to the name of the Taiwanese firm that operates the ship, Evergreen Marine.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wang, Cindy. Suez Canal Snarled With Giant Ship Stuck in Top Trade Artery. Bloomberg News (23 March 2021). Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  2. ↑ Gambrell, Jon (23 March 2021). "Massive cargo ship turns sideways, blocks Egypt's Suez Canal". The Seattle Times. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/massive-cargo-ship-turns-sideways-blocks-egypts-suez-canal/. [dead link]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 'Ever Given (18265351). ABS RecordAmerican Bureau of Shipping. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 'Ever Given (9811000)Sea-web. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  5. ↑ ShipmentLink – Vessel Particularswww.shipmentlink.com. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Farrer, Martin; Safi, Michael (24 March 2021). "Suez canal blocked by huge container ship after 'gust of wind'". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/huge-container-ship-blocks-suez-canal-evergreen. Retrieved 24 March 2021. 
  7. ↑ Gentle touch of a giant – mega container ship brushed ferry (in en). FleetMon.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  8. ↑ Gessner, Nina. Frachter rammt Fähre in Hamburg-Blankenese: Hat der starke Wind den Elbe-Crash verursacht? (in de-DE). MOPO.de (2019-02-10). Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  9. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Egypt's Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship" (in en-GB). BBC News. 24 March 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56505413. Retrieved 24 March 2021. 
  10. ↑ Yee, Vivian (2021-03-27). "'A Very Big Problem.' Giant Ship in the Suez Remains Stuck." (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/suez-canal-ship-stuck.html. Retrieved 2021-03-27. 
  11. ↑ Paris, Costas; Malsin, Jared (24 March 2021). "Suez Canal Is Blocked by Container Ship Causing Huge Traffic Jam". The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-suez-canal-is-blocked-by-a-giant-container-ship-11616560437. Retrieved 26 March 2021. 
  12. ↑ Maritime traffic jam grows outside blocked Suez Canal. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  13. ↑ 'Anything you see in the stores' could be affected by Canal logjam, shipping experts say (in en). NBC News. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  14. ↑ NBC News. Komatsu Excavator Attempts to Dislodge One of World's Largest Shipping Containers. ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com (25 March 2021). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  15. ↑ Ship rescue efforts suspended until Thursday (in en). The Independent (2021-03-25). Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  16. ↑ MV EVER GIVEN aground in the Suez Canal (March 25, 2021).
  17. ↑ M.V. EVER GIVEN スエズ運河座礁事故に関して (in ja) (25 March 2012). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  18. ↑ Massive cargo ship becomes wedged, blocks Egypt's Suez Canal. Associated Press News (2021-03-24). Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  19. ↑ Suez Canal: Effort to refloat wedged container ship continues. BBC News (28 March 2021). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
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