The Ever Forward is finally free from the Chesapeake Bay one month later

 After a month of being lodged in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the Ever Forward cargo ship is finally free.

Thanks to the help of a high tide, several tug boats and barges — and perhaps a little Easter Sunday miracle — crews plucked the the 1,095-foot ship free from the shallows off Pasadena, Md., on Sunday.

William P. Doyle, the executive director at the Maryland Port Administration, announced the update on social media.

"A tremendous team effort with a little help from the Easter Sunday rising tide in the Chesapeake Bay. The Evergreen, Ever Forward has been [refloated]", he said.

The push to free the massive ship was a team effort including aid from Donjon-Smit, LLC, the salvage manager and the U.S. Coast Guard, he said.

The Ever Forward had just loaded up with cargo in Baltimore and was heading south to Norfolk, Va., when it ran aground on March 13. The container ship reportedly missed a turn leaving Baltimore, causing it to end up in the shallow waters off Pasadena.

Crews worked for weeks to pluck the ship free. They used "every facet of the sector including dredging, marine construction, tugs, barges (deck barges, crane barges, and pull barges)," Doyle said.

The saga of the Ever Forward was reminiscent of the Ever Given, which is also owned by the Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp. The Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal for six days last March, causing major shipping disruptions.

A giant container ship that was stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than five weeks is on the move again.

The Ever Forward cargo ship reached the Annapolis area around 10am Sunday where it will remain anchored until it continues its journey to Baltimore, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to WBAL-TV.

The 1,096-foot boat had been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay, off the coast of Gibson Island, since March 13. Its sister vessel the Ever Given infamously blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt for six days during March 2021.

Although the ship, which traveled to the States from Hong Kong, was stuck for more than a month, officials told Bloomberg it has not disrupted trade.

It was on a brief sailing from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, when it got stuck on muddy ground, with 330 cargo containers since lifted off using barges to help refloat it more easily.

Video footage showed seven tug boats towing the Ever Forward boat under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge around 9.10 am Sunday.

This was the third time crews had tried to free the ship.

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 situation.

Crews will need to set up a designated time slot to on-load the hundreds of containers that were removed from the ship this past week to lighten the ship and free it. Two barges were used to take the containers back to the Port of Baltimore.

It is unclear when the on-loading will occur and the Coast Guard did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.

The Ever Forward was supposed to call at four east coast ports after departing China on February 2. The vessel had been carrying about 5,000 containers.

Crews removed 500 containers and dredged about 20 feet of material on both of its sides to lighten the load and pull it back into the channel.

As of 10.30am Sunday, the ship was traveling at a speed of 5.6 knots, according to tracking website MarineTraffic.