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| Subject: | SOUTH CAROLINA DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Thursday, November 20, 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 - Max draft 32'6" Low water / Salt
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 MORAGN 4 - COMMANDER N ETA 1900/21ST
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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.
PRIOR TO ARRIVAL - as of 11/15 - Mandatory Right Whale reporting by all
vessels - for information - www.nmfs.noaa/pr/shipstrike.com
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:
MSC to open new office
Firm is Port of Charleston's second-biggest customer
By Allyson Bird (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world's second-largest container carrier
and the Port of Charleston's second-biggest customer, will open its new
South Atlantic corporate headquarters in Mount Pleasant Monday.
Fedelini
Fedelini
The 45,000 square foot space on Watermark Boulevard, off Bowman Road,
will house 215 employees but has the capacity to surpass MSC's
headquarters in New York, according to company Vice President Sergio
Fedelini.
Fedelini said the facility could house more than 400 workers and
become "one of the largest of its kind in the country."
The new site, valued at about $7 million, will oversee MSC's Charleston,
Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla., operations. Company officials said they
expect to provide about 150 new jobs to the area over the next few years.
"It will be very nice to offer jobs to local people in this situation
when the economy is so bad," Fedelini said.
He said MSC doesn't worry about expanding during tough times because it
monitors spending so closely.
"We run on a very tight budget," he said. "We didn't reduce anything,
because we don't have anything to reduce."
The 215 employees starting at the new headquarters Monday will come from
MSC's office on Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, which opened in 1999
with 40 employees.
That property, according to MSC officials, is for sale.
Before announcing plans for the new facility last year, MSC also
considered Houston, Baltimore and several cities in New Jersey.
The expansion comes at a time when the S.C. State Ports Authority's
largest customer, Maersk Line, recently closed down its customer service
center and is threatening to leave Charleston if it can't reach a cost-
saving agreement with the SPA and the International Longshoremen's
Association.
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SPA posts a good October
Container volume up 6% over same month in '07
By Allyson Bird (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Bucking a trend of falling container volume, the S.C. State Ports
Authority Tuesday reported a nearly 6 percent increase for October
compared with the same month last year.
That's especially significant because perennial rival Savannah, which saw
a 15 percent increase in volume in the latest fiscal year, while
Charleston lost 10 percent, dropped more than 6 percent year over year
for October, local officials said.
Bernard Groseclose, the SPA's chief executive officer, said the upswing
last month was reflected in every area of local port business.
"I'm very cautious about a celebration, because it's one month, but I'm
also somewhat encouraged by the fact that we're not seeing quite the
decline being seen in other ports," he said.
SPA officials reported at a board meeting Tuesday that volume is down 2.3
percent between July and October compared with the same time last year,
but that other ports are feeling a greater strain.
Groseclose said the SPA was hurt so much in the fiscal year that ended in
June largely because of the business decline experienced by its largest
customer, Maersk Line.
He said the SPA's advantage now comes from its various trade routes and
the economic buffer created by that diversity. If the agency relied
solely on Asian cargo, for instance, current trends would be less
optimistic, he said.
"My hope is that we've seen in our trade a bottoming out and can prepare
ourselves for some turnaround," Groseclose said. "I'm not suggesting
we're at the beginning of this trend and business is going to continue to
escalate. I think what we're hearing from our customers is it's going to
be some time before we're going to see some real pickup."
He said he doesn't expect any notable changes until "well into next year."
Across the U.S., 2008 is expected to be the slowest year for cargo volume
since 2004, according to the National Retail Federation. Projections put
total volume down more than 7 percent for the year.
In other business, the SPA board said it will begin accepting bids
Thursday for a major security enhancement project at the Wando Welch
Terminal in Mount Pleasant.
The multimillion-dollar project will include new infrastructure and
electronics, such as "intelligent video surveillance." That means cameras
around the terminal would filter out birds flying by but zero in on
individuals walking the perimeter.
Federal maritime security regulations put in place after Sept. 11 are the
impetus for the project, according to port officials. The SPA will
receive $4 million in federal funding.
The board plans to award a contract in December.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
11/15 - MANDATORY RIGHT WHALE REPORT BEGINS
11/20 - 1700 - Charleston Propellor Dinner
11/21 - SAVANNAH PROPELLOR CLUB OYSTER ROAST
11/25 - 1700 - Charlseston City Council Meeting
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
12/10 - CHARLESTON PROPELLOR CLUB HOLIDAY PARTY
12/16 - SCSPA Board Meeting
12/16 - 1700 - Charlseston City Council Meeting
01/08 - 1700 - SAVANNAH PROPELLOR CLUB DINNER
01/13 - 1145 - CWIT LUNCHEON MEETING ON ECEONOMIC CHALLENGES, HOLIDAY INN
01/22 - 0815 - NAV OPS Meeting
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 - NO STORMS PREDICTED
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 20 High 1:41 AM 5.3 6:55 AM Rise 12:12 AM 50
20 Low 7:41 AM 0.6 5:16 PM Set 1:15 PM
20 High 2:01 PM 5.6
20 Low 8:22 PM 0.5
F 21 High 2:43 AM 5.4 6:56 AM Rise 1:14 AM 39
21 Low 8:46 AM 0.6 5:16 PM Set 1:43 PM
21 High 2:57 PM 5.4
21 Low 9:16 PM 0.5
Sa 22 High 3:41 AM 5.6 6:57 AM Rise 2:14 AM 29
22 Low 9:47 AM 0.6 5:15 PM Set 2:10 PM
22 High 3:50 PM 5.3
22 Low 10:07 PM 0.4
Su 23 High 4:33 AM 5.8 6:58 AM Rise 3:12 AM 20
23 Low 10:43 AM 0.6 5:15 PM Set 2:38 PM
23 High 4:39 PM 5.2
23 Low 10:54 PM 0.3
M 24 High 5:21 AM 6.0 6:59 AM Rise 4:11 AM 13
24 Low 11:34 AM 0.5 5:15 PM Set 3:07 PM
24 High 5:25 PM 5.1
24 Low 11:38 PM 0.2
Tu 25 High 6:05 AM 6.1 6:59 AM Rise 5:09 AM 7
25 Low 12:20 PM 0.4 5:14 PM Set 3:40 PM
25 High 6:08 PM 5.1
W 26 Low 12:19 AM 0.2 7:00 AM Rise 6:08 AM 3
26 High 6:46 AM 6.1 5:14 PM Set 4:17 PM
26 Low 1:03 PM 0.4
26 High 6:50 PM 5.0
Th 27 Low 12:58 AM 0.3 7:01 AM Rise 7:06 AM 0
27 High 7:26 AM 6.1 5:14 PM Set 5:00 PM
27 Low 1:44 PM 0.4
27 High 7:29 PM 5.0
F 28 Low 1:36 AM 0.3 7:02 AM Rise 8:01 AM 0
28 High 8:05 AM 6.0 5:14 PM Set 5:48 PM
28 Low 2:24 PM 0.5
28 High 8:08 PM 4.9
Sa 29 Low 2:12 AM 0.4 7:03 AM Rise 8:53 AM 1
29 High 8:42 AM 5.9 5:14 PM Set 6:40 PM
29 Low 3:02 PM 0.6
29 High 8:45 PM 4.8
Su 30 Low 2:48 AM 0.5 7:04 AM Rise 9:38 AM 4
30 High 9:19 AM 5.7 5:13 PM Set 7:36 PM
30 Low 3:39 PM 0.7
30 High 9:22 PM 4.7
M 1 Low 3:24 AM 0.6 7:05 AM Rise 10:19 AM 8
1 High 9:56 AM 5.6 5:13 PM Set 8:33 PM
1 Low 4:17 PM 0.8
1 High 10:00 PM 4.6
Tu 2 Low 4:02 AM 0.8 7:05 AM Rise 10:54 AM 14
2 High 10:33 AM 5.4 5:13 PM Set 9:31 PM
2 Low 4:56 PM 0.9
2 High 10:41 PM 4.5
W 3 Low 4:44 AM 0.9 7:06 AM Rise 11:25 AM 22
3 High 11:13 AM 5.3 5:13 PM Set 10:29 PM
3 Low 5:38 PM 0.9
3 High 11:26 PM 4.6
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MARINE WEATHER FORECAST:
THIS AFTERNOON
W WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT...SUBSIDING
TO 2 FT.
TONIGHT
W WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING NW 15 TO 20 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. SEAS 2 FT...BUILDING TO 2 TO 4 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
FRI
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT.
FRI NIGHT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS 3 TO
4 FT.
SAT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT...BECOMING NE 10 TO 15 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
SEAS 3 TO 4 FT.
SAT NIGHT
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 2 FT.
SUN
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...DIMINISHING TO 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT.
MON
SW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...INCREASING TO 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 2 TO
3 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
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MARINE WEATHER FORECAST:
AMZ350-352-192100-
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM-
958 AM EST WED NOV 19 2008
THIS AFTERNOON
N WINDS 15 KT...BECOMING NW 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 TO
4 FT...SUBSIDING TO 2 FT LATE.
TONIGHT
W WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. SEAS 2 FT...BUILDING TO 2 TO 3 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
THU
W WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.
THU NIGHT
NW WINDS 15 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.
FRI
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT...DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 15 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.
FRI NIGHT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT...BUILDING TO 3
TO 4 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
SAT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT...DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO
4 FT.
SUN
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...DIMINISHING TO 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 3 TO
4 FT.
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| | Notice posted on Thursday, November 20, 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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