Water levels on the Mississippi River have been rising near Memphis, Tennessee, and that’s good news for barge movements.
Nicole is forecast to move through Florida to Georgia on Thursday and then to the Carolinas on Friday.
Crowley Maritime’s Isla Grande Terminal suffered no significant damage when Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico on Sunday.
Five hundred containers were removed from the Ever Forward to lighten its load and help salvage crews refloat the vessel stuck in Chesapeake Bay.
Maritime authority Lars Jensen says the “reality is that vessels do at times get stuck and this is not an event with major global ramifications.”
The Coast Guard said it is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment to refloat the grounded Ever Forward.
A Coast Guard commanding officer says the main goal of icebreaking is to “keep industry afloat and keep people employed.”
“The NTSB determined the probable cause of the capsizing of the Golden Ray was the chief officer’s error entering ballast quantities into the stability calculation program.”
Some ports remain off-limits to incoming and outgoing vessels as Tropical Storm Elsa gets closer to a Florida landfall (forecast video included).
A mid-May blaze inside the roll-on/roll-off vessel was just the latest incident that halted removal of the Golden Ray, which capsized in September 2019.
