


Last year, another ship operated by Evergreen, blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt for six days. The Port of Los Angeles does not expect to resume normal operations until the second half of this year and the number of ships traveling to the area from Asia has decreased from over 100 to 43. and Long Beach, a lot more companies are using ships like Ever Forward to send their cargo directly to the East Coast.' 'This is part of the growth out of the backlog of the supply chain,' Sal Mercogliano, a professor of maritime history at Campbell University in North Carolina told Bloomberg last month. The Coast Guard is providing the Ever Forward with a security zone while the tug boats continue to transport the ship to a location south of the bay where officials will then assess the situationĪlthough Evergreen Marine has been operating its for more than two decades, it is only recently that its U.S.-bound vessels ventured beyond the west coast.ĭiversions to the east coast came in the second half of 2021 amid peak supply-chain disruptions and issues at ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.
