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| Subject: | SOUTH CAROLINA DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | | Priority: | Normal | | Notice: |
URGENT INFORMATION: NONE
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PORT LIMITS/INFORMATION
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Maximum Depths - (Fresh)
Harbor Entrance - 47.0 ft
Main Channel - 45.0 ft
BERTH LIMITS/INFORMATION:
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Current maximum drafts allowed at berths:
Amerada Hess - Max draft of 40'00
Kinder Morgan - berth 1 - 40'00
Kinder Morgan - berth 2 - 40'00
Kinder Morgan - berth 3 - TBA
Kinder Morgan - berth 4 - Max draft 39'00, tide needed for anything
deeper than 36'00
BP - TBA Wando Terminal - Max draft 46'00 - Max BM 187'00
North Charleston Terminal - Max 42'00 - Max BM 187'00
CST - Max draft 47'00 - Max BM 187'00
Nucor - Max draft 25'00 (movements daylight & tidal restricted), Max LOA
450', Max Beam 52'
Per pilots - restrictions for Tanker movements:
Drafts of 36'00 or less may transit at anytime Drafts of 36'01 to 40'00 -
window: Start in 1 Hour before low water until 2 hours before high water
Drafts of 40'01 to 41'00 - window: start in 2 hours after low water until
2 hours before high water
Drafts of 41'01 to 42'00 - window: start in 3 hours after low water until
3 hours before high water
VESSEL TRAFFIC:
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KINDER MORGAN 4 - STENA CONCEPT - ANCHORED EST IN 1800/30TH ETD 0800/31ST
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FEDERAL, STATE & LOCAL FILING REQUIREMENTS:
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96 Hours - advance notice of arrival required by USCG
48 Hours - advance receipt of crew list by Immigration for any vessel
arriving from a foreign port, or arriving coast wise with detained crew.
24 Hours (minimum) - Foreign cargo must have manifest submitted to
Customs & Border Patrol AMS. Bond must be filed for Foreign flag vessels
or U.S.
flag arriving with foreign cargo aboard.
24 Hours - advance notice to Pilots
24 Hours - advance fax of crew list and approved visitors required by
Terminal.
72 Hours - post port call, the Port Authority requires bill of lading
figures for all bulk cargo.
Port Security - All persons doing business within Port Authority property
must have security pass from SCPA.
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NEWS ARTICLES:
Maersk: Port of Charleston’s biggest customer
By Molly Parker
mparker@scbiznews.com
Maersk Line’s attempt to rewrite its contract with the S.C. State Ports
Authority is threatening to dust up a labor dispute that could span the
East Coast.
Grappling with budget woes, the Danish shipping line, the world’s
largest, has been in negotiations for the past year with the SPA, seeking
a reprieve from its current five-year license agreement, which expires in
2010.
Maersk accounts for almost a quarter of the SPA’s container business,
making it the largest shipping line calling on the port. If the company
stopped calling on the Port of Charleston, it would have a major impact
on the Lowcountry.
One option SPA executives have offered is to move Maersk to a “common-
user gate” utilizing SPA employees. Maersk is a licensed private operator
on the Wando Welch Terminal, and its labor is supplied by the
International Longshoremen’s Association, according to an international
labor agreement.
This is controversial because it would eliminate several dozen union
jobs, and further shrink the union’s role at the publicly-owned port.
“We understand that the ILA does not wish to see a reduction in their
numbers, however any impact on the ILA from a move to the common yard
would be far less than the impact of Maersk Line’s withdraw from
Charleston,” Maersk spokesman Dana Magliola wrote in an e-mail.
Maersk estimates the loss of union jobs from such a move to be 33, while
the ILA says it would be closer to 50.
ILA labor works roughly 3,400 hours weekly, servicing both the dedicated
and common yard facilities at the Port of Charleston, Magliola said. That
number could shrink considerably without Maersk, which accounts for
nearly a quarter of the SPA’s container business.
ILA Local 1422 President Ken Riley said his organization would fight any
move that would take away union jobs.
“It also would be in violation of an international contract,” Riley
said. “This is a national law. It would actually jeopardize the
relationships between Maersk and the ILA up and down the coast.”
Magliola said Maersk officials are currently in negotiations with the ILA
to work out a compromise, and that it favors the common-user gate to
the “alternative higher-cost, noncompetitive dedicated facility.”
Riley remained unfazed by Maersk’s public statement. He said that, at the
end of the day, Maersk is unlikely to move to the common-user gate. He
chalked up the company’s statement to political posturing. The SPA, he
said, could eliminate the problem if it dropped the “shortfall fees”
Maersk’s contract calls for when the company fails to hit certain volume
numbers.
“We work with these people every day. We sit across the table on a daily
basis,” Riley said. “They do not want to move to the common-user gate. I
can tell you that’s not the case.”
Riley said SPA executives have made this a union issue by attempting to
force Maersk into the common yard.
Bernard Groseclose, chief executive of the SPA, denied that was the case.
The SPA also offered Maersk the option to remain as a licensed user on
the terminal if the company agreed to shrink the space it utilizes and
return some of the equipment the SPA provides the company per its
contract, he said.
The company does not have a deadline for reaching an agreement, Magliola
said, but he noted that reaching accord quickly is essential.
The union issue is particularly sensitive in the Southeast, where ports
generally are operated by government entities utilizing a chunk of
nonunion labor. Across the country, most ports are operated by private
companies using ILA labor.
At the Port of Charleston, most of the labor is unionized, but about 370
SPA employees who don’t belong to a union handle half of the terminal
gate operations — those in common-user yards — and all container-lifting
equipment.
Riley said the Port of Savannah has agreed to drop its “shortfall fees”
against Maersk, but Maersk declined to verify this statement, saying any
discussions with other ports are separate from talks with the SPA.
“Regardless of any contractual situations in Savannah, the only issue
facing an agreement between the S.C. SPA and Maersk Line regarding our
continued presence in the Port of Charleston is the approval by the
Charleston ILA of a plan to move our operations to the common yard,”
Magliola said.
The company does not have a deadline for reaching an agreement, Magliola
said, but he noted that reaching accord quickly is essential.
CURRENT ISSUES
10/30 - PROPELLOR CLUB 75TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
11/2 - 0815 - MARITIME ASSOCIATION MEETING
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
11/11 - 1145 - CWIT LUNCHEON MEETING ON US / CHINA TRADE
11/18 - 1000 - SCSPA BOARD MEETING
11/21 - SAVANNAH PROPELLOR CLUB OYSTER ROAST
12/10 - CHARLESTON PROPELLOR CLUB HOLIDAY PARTY
01/25-27 - GA FOREIGN TRADE CONVENTION
2013 - ETA FOR NEW CHARLESTON PORT TERMINAL TO BE COMPLETED
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CURRENT HURRICANE ALERT STATUS - 4
SEAPORT SECURITY ALERT CURRENTLY AT YELLOW/ELEVEATED - MARSEC 1
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Tides for Charleston (Customhouse Wharf) starting with October 6, 2008.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Th 30 Low 3:03 AM 0.5 7:36 AM Rise 9:16 AM 0
30 High 9:28 AM 6.3 6:30 PM Set 7:19 PM
30 Low 3:47 PM 0.6
30 High 9:32 PM 5.2
F 31 Low 3:39 AM 0.7 7:37 AM Rise 10:13 AM 3
31 High 10:05 AM 6.1 6:29 PM Set 8:04 PM
31 Low 4:27 PM 0.8
31 High 10:10 PM 5.1
Sa 1 Low 4:14 AM 0.8 7:38 AM Rise 11:08 AM 7
1 High 10:43 AM 5.9 6:28 PM Set 8:53 PM
1 Low 5:06 PM 1.0
1 High 10:48 PM 4.9
Su 2 Low 3:50 AM 1.0 6:39 AM Rise 10:57 AM 13
2 High 10:23 AM 5.7 5:28 PM Set 8:47 PM
2 Low 4:47 PM 1.2
2 High 10:28 PM 4.7
M 3 Low 4:29 AM 1.2 6:40 AM Rise 11:42 AM 20
3 High 11:06 AM 5.5 5:27 PM Set 9:43 PM
3 Low 5:30 PM 1.4
3 High 11:13 PM 4.6
Tu 4 Low 5:14 AM 1.3 6:41 AM Rise 12:20 PM 29
4 High 11:54 AM 5.4 5:26 PM Set 10:41 PM
4 Low 6:17 PM 1.4
W 5 High 12:03 AM 4.6 6:42 AM Rise 12:55 PM 37
5 Low 6:05 AM 1.4 5:25 PM Set 11:40 PM
5 High 12:45 PM 5.3
5 Low 7:08 PM 1.4
Th 6 High 12:59 AM 4.7 6:42 AM Rise 1:26 PM 47
6 Low 7:04 AM 1.4 5:24 PM
6 High 1:40 PM 5.3
6 Low 8:00 PM 1.2
F 7 High 1:58 AM 4.9 6:43 AM Set 12:38 AM 57
7 Low 8:08 AM 1.3 5:24 PM Rise 1:55 PM
7 High 2:34 PM 5.3
7 Low 8:53 PM 1.0
Sa 8 High 2:56 AM 5.2 6:44 AM Set 1:38 AM 67
8 Low 9:12 AM 1.1 5:23 PM Rise 2:23 PM
8 High 3:28 PM 5.4
8 Low 9:44 PM 0.7
Su 9 High 3:51 AM 5.6 6:45 AM Set 2:40 AM 76
9 Low 10:13 AM 0.8 5:22 PM Rise 2:52 PM
9 High 4:20 PM 5.5
9 Low 10:33 PM 0.3
M 10 High 4:44 AM 6.1 6:46 AM Set 3:44 AM 85
10 Low 11:10 AM 0.5 5:21 PM Rise 3:23 PM
10 High 5:11 PM 5.6
10 Low 11:22 PM 0.0
Tu 11 High 5:35 AM 6.5 6:47 AM Set 4:51 AM 92
11 Low 12:05 PM 0.2 5:21 PM Rise 3:58 PM
11 High 6:01 PM 5.7
W 12 Low 12:11 AM -0.3 6:48 AM Set 6:03 AM 97
12 High 6:26 AM 6.8 5:20 PM Rise 4:40 PM
12 Low 12:57 PM 0.0
12 High 6:51 PM 5.7
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MARINE WEATHER FORECAST:
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-
1038 AM EDT THU OCT 30 2008
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON
TODAY
NE WINDS 20 TO 25 KT...DIMINISHING TO 15 TO 20 KT LATE.
SEAS 3 TO 4 FT.
TONIGHT
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO
5 FT.
FRI
NE WINDS 15 TO 20 KT...DIMINISHING TO 15 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT.
FRI NIGHT AND SAT
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT.
SAT NIGHT
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS.
SUN
NE WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT...BUILDING TO 4 TO 6
FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
MON
NE WINDS 20 TO 25 KT. SEAS 6 TO 8 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
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| | Notice posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 | |
Disclaimer
For quality assurance purposes please note well that while the above information is regularly vetted for accuracy it is not intended to replace the local knowledge or expertise pertaining to port conditions of our marine operations personnel. Port précis should always be verified by contacting the corresponding marine department of a particular location for the most up-to-date information.
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