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| Subject: | SOUTH CAROLINA DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Monday, December 22, 2008 | | Priority: | Normal | | Notice: | Port: Charleston
Date: 12/22/2008
Subject: SOUTH CAROLINA DAILY PORT UPDATE
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URGENT INFORMATION - NONE
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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Hess - Elka Delos Arrived 12/21 1209 hrs ETS 12/22 1200 hrs
Detyens - Tug Elsbeth II & ARDM-4 ETA 12/22 0930
Kinder Morgan - Marilee ETA 12/26 1400 hrs
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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. All persons wanting unescorted access
to any vessel must have a valid TWIC.
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Maersk’s decision to leave port rattles state
By Molly Parker
mparker@scbiznews.com
Published Dec. 19, 2008
Gov. Mark Sanford’s office says Maersk’s announcement that it is pulling
out of the Port of Charleston is case and point that the S.C. State Ports
Authority’s operating model should be reexamined.
The governor has long been an advocate of the SPA operating like most
other ports across the nation, where the state leases the land to a
private company that operates the terminals.
“It does highlight the importance of moving to a business model where we
can have more private capital infused into the system,” Sanford spokesman
Joel Sawyer said.
Meanwhile, other observers questioned whether Maersk’s decision is part
of a hardball negotiation tactic to sway the International Longshoremen’s
Association. The Denmark company has asked the three local ILA chapters
in Charleston to sign off on a plan that would allow Maersk to operate
out of the SPA’s common-user gates.
Such a move would eliminate several dozen checker and clerk union
positions in exchange for work done by SPA employees. Union members voted
last week to deny Maerk’s request.
In its statement Thursday, Maersk blamed the ILA for its decision to
leave. Today, the union’s national chapter issued a stinging rebuke of
the company, saying that Maersk has made it clear “it places its
dedicated ILA workers at the end of their corporate greed chain, behind
shareholders and profits.”
Hal Johnson, president and CEO of the Upstate Alliance, called Maersk’s
tough stand a “leveraging tool.”
“But if they’ve put it in the press, they’re certainly willing to go that
route,” Johnson said. “If they do leave it will cause some pain at the
port, but I think there will be someone coming right behind them to take
that space.”
Maersk makes more than 400 ship calls at the Port of Charleston every
year and represents about 20% of the SPA’s container business. Unable to
reach an agreement with the ILA to cut costs, Maersk said it will leave
no later than Dec. 31, 2010 when its contract expires.
Hagood Morrison, a commercial real estate broker with Colliers Keenan in
Charleston, also doubted that Maersk would leave in the end, even though
the company said it would start by removing one service in January that
represents about a quarter of its business here.
“We lose track of the fact, the hard cold fact, that the economy will
come back, that the Panama Canal will be widened, and there will be a
tremendous pressure on these Southeastern ports,” said Morrison, who
represents commercial developments tied to the port. “They can’t afford
to close the door from coming into one of these major ports.”
Still, there was no question that Maerk’s announcement on Thursday shook
the local maritime industry that relies on strong trade activity at the
Port of Charleston. Already this fiscal year, between July and November,
container traffic was down 4% compared to last year. In November, it was
off 13% from the same month in 2007.
SPA chief executive Bernard Groseclose said the port would work
tirelessly to lure new shipping lines to replace the business.
“This port, our region and our state will suffer greatly from Maersk’s
departure,” he said. “This will mean great losses for our economy at a
time when we can least afford it.”
The state unemployment rate was higher last month than it has been in 25
years. Thousands of jobs across the state are tied to port activity.
“It’s a say day for South Carolina,” said Pat Barber, president of the
Charleston Motor Carriers Association and the owner of a local trucking
company. “The finger pointing going on today is exactly what got us here
in the first place. Had we collectively come together, I’m sure we could
have found some compromise.”
What’s needed now is leadership from Columbia to “pull together and show
a collective consensus” that the state stands behind the port system
instead of losing focus on attempts to rewrite the business model, Barber
said.
Sawyer said that the governor also would support moving the SPA directly
under his purview if the appetite doesn’t exist for a private operating
model. That would mean scrapping the SPA’s board and making port
executives directly responsible to him, Sawyer said. That concept was
introduced last week in legislation filed by Rep. Jim Merrill, a
Charleston Republican.
“This particular news is a reminder that the global shipping game has
changed,” Sawyer said.
Reach Molly Parker at 843-849-3144
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CURRENT ISSUES:
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
01/07 - 0815 - Maritime Association Board Meeting
01/08 - 1700 - SAVANNAH PROPELLOR CLUB DINNER
01/13 - 1145 - CWIT LUNCHEON MEETING
01/13 - 1700 - Commissioners of Pilots meeting
01/16 - 1000 - SCSPA Board Meeting
01/22 - 0815 - Maritime Association NAV OPS Meeting
01/25-27 - GA FOREIGN TRADE CONVENTION
02/06 - Maritime Association Banquet
2014 - ETA FOR NEW CHARLESTON PORT TERMINAL TO BE COMPLETED
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HURRICANE ALERT - 5 - OUT OF SEASON
SEAPORT SECURITY ALERT CURRENTLY AT YELLOW/ELEVEATED - MARSEC 1
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Tides for Charleston (Customhouse Wharf) starting with December 22, 2008.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
M 22 High 4:03 AM 5.4 7:19 AM Rise 3:04 AM 26
22 Low 10:17 AM 0.6 5:18 PM Set 1:42 PM
22 High 4:04 PM 4.5
22 Low 10:20 PM 0.3
Tu 23 High 4:53 AM 5.5 7:19 AM Rise 4:03 AM 18
23 Low 11:09 AM 0.5 5:19 PM Set 2:17 PM
23 High 4:54 PM 4.5
23 Low 11:07 PM 0.3
W 24 High 5:40 AM 5.6 7:20 AM Rise 5:00 AM 11
24 Low 11:56 AM 0.4 5:20 PM Set 2:58 PM
24 High 5:41 PM 4.5
24 Low 11:51 PM 0.2
Th 25 High 6:23 AM 5.7 7:20 AM Rise 5:56 AM 6
25 Low 12:40 PM 0.3 5:20 PM Set 3:44 PM
25 High 6:25 PM 4.6
F 26 Low 12:33 AM 0.1 7:21 AM Rise 6:49 AM 2
26 High 7:05 AM 5.7 5:21 PM Set 4:35 PM
26 Low 1:21 PM 0.3
26 High 7:07 PM 4.6
Sa 27 Low 1:13 AM 0.1 7:21 AM Rise 7:36 AM 0
27 High 7:45 AM 5.7 5:21 PM Set 5:30 PM
27 Low 2:00 PM 0.3
27 High 7:47 PM 4.6
Su 28 Low 1:50 AM 0.1 7:21 AM Rise 8:18 AM 0
28 High 8:23 AM 5.7 5:22 PM Set 6:27 PM
28 Low 2:37 PM 0.3
28 High 8:25 PM 4.6
M 29 Low 2:27 AM 0.1 7:21 AM Rise 8:55 AM 1
29 High 8:59 AM 5.6 5:23 PM Set 7:25 PM
29 Low 3:13 PM 0.3
29 High 9:01 PM 4.6
Tu 30 Low 3:03 AM 0.2 7:22 AM Rise 9:28 AM 5
30 High 9:32 AM 5.5 5:23 PM Set 8:23 PM
30 Low 3:49 PM 0.3
30 High 9:36 PM 4.6
W 31 Low 3:41 AM 0.3 7:22 AM Rise 9:57 AM 10
31 High 10:05 AM 5.3 5:24 PM Set 9:20 PM
31 Low 4:25 PM 0.3
31 High 10:13 PM 4.6
Th 1 Low 4:20 AM 0.4 7:22 AM Rise 10:24 AM 16
1 High 10:36 AM 5.1 5:25 PM Set 10:18 PM
1 Low 5:00 PM 0.3
1 High 10:52 PM 4.7
F 2 Low 5:06 AM 0.5 7:22 AM Rise 10:51 AM 24
2 High 11:15 AM 4.9 5:26 PM Set 11:16 PM
2 Low 5:42 PM 0.2
2 High 11:39 PM 4.8
Sa 3 Low 5:59 AM 0.6 7:23 AM Rise 11:19 AM 33
3 High 12:01 PM 4.8 5:26 PM
3 Low 6:29 PM 0.2
Su 4 High 12:33 AM 5.0 7:23 AM Set 12:17 AM 43
4 Low 7:01 AM 0.7 5:27 PM Rise 11:48 AM
4 High 12:57 PM 4.6
4 Low 7:23 PM 0.1
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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
439 PM EST SUN DEC 21 2008
AMZ330-350-352-354-220400-
/X.NEW.KCHS.MA.S.0010.081221T2139Z-081222T0400Z/
CHARLESTON HARBOR-
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT
20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY-
439 PM EST SUN DEC 21 2008
...BLOW OUT CONDITIONS POSSIBLE ALONG THE COAST THIS EVENING...
STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE COASTAL AREAS OF
SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TONIGHT IN THE WAKE
OF A STRONG COLD FRONT. THESE WINDS WILL LIKELY PEAK AROUND THE
TIME OF LOW TIDE THIS EVENING WHICH MAY RESULT IN BLOW OUT
CONDITIONS ALONG THE COAST.
NEGATIVE TIDAL DEPARTURES OF 1 TO 2 FEET ARE EXPECTED WITH TIDE
LEVELS DROPPING TO -0.5 TO -1.5 FEET MEAN LOWER LOW WATER BOTH IN
THE CHARLESTON HARBOR AND AT FORT PULASKI. THESE UNUSUALLY LOW
TIDE LEVELS MAY PRODUCE HAZARDOUS NAVIGATION IN SOME WATERWAYS...
INCLUDING PORTIONS OF THE INTRACOASTAL...CHARLESTON HARBOR AND THE
TIDAL REGIONS OF SOME RIVERS AND MARSHES. VESSELS MAY BOTTOM OUT
OR BECOME GROUNDED. NORMALLY SUBMERGED STRUCTURES MAY ALSO BECOME
UNCOVERED WHICH COULD POSE A HAZARD TO NAVIGATION.
LOW TIDE WILL OCCUR IN THE CHARLESTON HARBOR AT 930 PM...IN THE
BEAUFORT RIVER NEAR BEAUFORT AT 1038 PM AND AT FORT PULASKI 947 PM.
CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THE PASSAGE OF LOW
TIDE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS OR COAST GUARD
BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST MARINE WEATHER INFORMATION FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON.
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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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