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Last month, the container ship Ever Given <\/em>arrived at a shipyard in Qingdao, China for repairs to her bulbous bow, which was damaged when she ran aground in the Suez Canal in March. That infamous grounding delayed billions of dollars worth of trade for six long days, prompting a billion-dollar fine from the Suez Canal authority (later negotiated down) and a brief backlog of supply-chain disruption. <\/p>\n Shipping scholar Sal Mercogliano, associate professor of history at Campbell University, has obtained photos from the Ever Given's <\/em>yard period showing the damage to the vessel in detail. The images show that the impact pushed the bottom of the bulbous bow upwards, inside the hull, folding the shell plating inwards. <\/p>\n The repair plan is a full "nose job," cutting out and replacing the bulbous bow with newly-built steel sections – all the way back past the bow thrusters. The sections have already been pre-built in anticipation of the ship's arrival. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n