Stuck Container Ship in Chesapeake Bay Finally Refloated

Evergreen Marine's Ever Forward container ship is taken to an anchorage south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on March 13, 2022. Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP

BALTIMORE—A container ship the length of more than three football fields has finally been pried from the muddy bottom of the Chesapeake Bay more than a month after it ran aground.

After two unsuccessful attempts to dislodge it, and the subsequent removal of roughly 500 of the 5,000 containers it was carrying, the Ever Forward was refloated just before 7 a.m. Sunday by two barges and five tugboats.