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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | | Priority: | Normal | | Notice: |
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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KINDER MORGAN 4 - OCEAN CYAN - IN 2006/26TH ETD 0001/28TH
HESS - HIGH NEFELI - ETA 0430/28TH
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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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NEWS ARTICLES:
How Bernard S. Groseclose Jr. got it wrong (and what we can learn from it)
PointBlank Everyone called him “Bernie,” and yet his name always appeared
in formal port publications as Bernard S. Groseclose Jr.
A minor thing, but it starts there.
Perception is powerful — far more so than reality.
And the perception was that Bernard was the stuffy type you assume
preferred martinis to beer and probably had soft hands. That’s dandy if
you are the CEO of a toilet paper company, but the waterfront is a
calloused-hands, working man’s business.
Those who called him Bernie and knew him in a more personal setting would
defend him as misunderstood. He tried to reach out — speaking to civic
organizations all around town — but fought a losing battle, they argue.
At the recent 75th anniversary celebration of the Propeller Club, I sat
beside a woman in the shipping business who said she had at first assumed
Bernard was unapproachable. After becoming acquainted with him, she
changed her mind about Bernie.
But for a dozen years, the vast public knew the public face of the S.C.
State Ports Authority as Bernard S. Groseclose Jr.
What he had — and what the SPA continues to have — is a supersized public
relations problem.
For that, Groseclose is not all to blame — if he is to blame at all. He
was a product of the culture, evidenced by the way he was ushered into
his position in 1996 and out of it in 2009: in secret.
Groseclose reportedly (I wasn’t here) assumed the role after the only
public advertising for the position was posted inside the SPA
headquarters. When he resigned, it was during a closed-session meeting of
the board. There was no public vote to accept his resignation (perhaps
because it has yet to be finalized) or to name his interim replacement.
The SPA board is not known for its candor. It prefers to make big
decisions behind closed doors, shutting out the media (generally just two
reporters) and the public that doesn’t even bother showing up.
In June, for instance, the SPA board approved a $160 million budget for
the 2009 fiscal year without any public debate whatsoever.
As history has revealed, the port is wrong to assume it can do whatever
it wants, when it wants. And yet, somehow — all these years after the
Global Gateway project failed to impress Daniel Island or the rest of the
region — it doesn’t seem to have heeded this lesson.
The SPA was/is wrong to discount Dana Beach & Co. as just a few nutty
environmentalists. It was wrong to discount the unions and then expect
the local chapters of the International Longshoremen’s Association to
play along when Maersk Line asked for concessions at the workers’
expense.
It was wrong to accept bonuses in 2008 — with Groseclose getting the
biggest one at nearly $28,000 — when most other businesses in the world,
including those that make up the local maritime industry, were tightening
their belts.
And it could not be more wrong — I mean, it’s so wrong, the SPA board is
the hands-down winner of this week’s Wrong Award — to consider tacking
even more incentives onto the already lucrative six months’ separation
pay owed to Groseclose under a contract penned in 1998. The former chief
executive (who, by the way, is still technically an SPA employee but on
leave) stands to gain at least $132,000 under that deal. While some might
argue the merits of parting on amicable terms, why is it that the SPA
board feels the need to send him out in a golden parachute — especially
since Groseclose jumped off willingly? That is, if you believe the board
members’ claims they did not push him.
Right now, the SPA could have the keys to both turning this recession on
its head and to curing cancer and I’m not sure anyone would buy it.
That’s unfortunate, given all the issues up in the air — including
construction of a new terminal on the former Navy Base and ongoing
discussions with Maersk Line aimed at persuading the company to stay in
Charleston.
Groseclose’s resignation has presented the SPA with opportunities. This
is an opportunity to change the SPA’s relationship with the community.
This is an opportunity to help people understand the port’s vital role to
economic development in South Carolina. This is an opportunity for the
SPA to become more open and inclusive with its decision-making. This is
an opportunity to shut up busybody politicians, some of whom are using
the port to deflect their own inability to govern through a recession.
It would be a shame if the SPA squanders it all.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
01/29/09 1200-1330 CWIT Propeller Club Lunch
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
02/06/09 - Maritime Association Banquet
02/10/09 - 1145-0130 CWIT Luncheon
02/25/09 - Propeller Club Oyster Roast
03/10/09 - 1145-0130 CWIT Luncheon
04/14/09 - 1830 CWIT Soiree
05/12/09 - 1145-0130 CWIT Luncheon
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 January 16, 2009.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Tu 27 Low 2:06 AM -0.1 7:17 AM Rise 8:00 AM 0
27 High 8:33 AM 5.4 5:48 PM Set 7:15 PM
27 Low 2:42 PM -0.1
27 High 8:37 PM 4.8
W 28 Low 2:44 AM -0.1 7:17 AM Rise 8:29 AM 2
28 High 9:05 AM 5.3 5:49 PM Set 8:13 PM
28 Low 3:16 PM -0.1
28 High 9:11 PM 4.9
Th 29 Low 3:22 AM 0.0 7:16 AM Rise 8:56 AM 6
29 High 9:36 AM 5.2 5:50 PM Set 9:11 PM
29 Low 3:52 PM -0.2
29 High 9:46 PM 5.0
F 30 Low 4:03 AM 0.1 7:16 AM Rise 9:23 AM 12
30 High 10:09 AM 5.0 5:51 PM Set 10:11 PM
30 Low 4:29 PM -0.2
30 High 10:25 PM 5.1
Sa 31 Low 4:49 AM 0.2 7:15 AM Rise 9:51 AM 19
31 High 10:47 AM 4.9 5:52 PM Set 11:13 PM
31 Low 5:10 PM -0.2
31 High 11:11 PM 5.2
Su 1 Low 5:40 AM 0.3 7:14 AM Rise 10:23 AM 28
1 High 11:33 AM 4.6 5:53 PM
1 Low 5:58 PM -0.1
M 2 High 12:04 AM 5.2 7:14 AM Set 12:17 AM 38
2 Low 6:39 AM 0.5 5:53 PM Rise 10:59 AM
2 High 12:28 PM 4.5
2 Low 6:53 PM -0.1
Tu 3 High 1:06 AM 5.3 7:13 AM Set 1:25 AM 49
3 Low 7:47 AM 0.6 5:54 PM Rise 11:42 AM
3 High 1:33 PM 4.3
3 Low 7:56 PM -0.1
W 4 High 2:16 AM 5.4 7:12 AM Set 2:33 AM 60
4 Low 8:59 AM 0.5 5:55 PM Rise 12:34 PM
4 High 2:45 PM 4.3
4 Low 9:04 PM -0.2
Th 5 High 3:30 AM 5.6 7:11 AM Set 3:41 AM 71
5 Low 10:08 AM 0.3 5:56 PM Rise 1:35 PM
5 High 3:58 PM 4.5
5 Low 10:12 PM -0.5
F 6 High 4:40 AM 5.8 7:11 AM Set 4:43 AM 81
6 Low 11:11 AM 0.0 5:57 PM Rise 2:44 PM
6 High 5:05 PM 4.8
6 Low 11:15 PM -0.8
Sa 7 High 5:43 AM 6.1 7:10 AM Set 5:37 AM 89
7 Low 12:08 PM -0.4 5:58 PM Rise 3:57 PM
7 High 6:06 PM 5.1
Su 8 Low 12:14 AM -1.1 7:09 AM Set 6:23 AM 95
8 High 6:40 AM 6.3 5:59 PM Rise 5:11 PM
8 Low 1:00 PM -0.6
8 High 7:03 PM 5.4
M 9 Low 1:10 AM -1.2 7:08 AM Set 7:03 AM 99
9 High 7:31 AM 6.3 6:00 PM Rise 6:22 PM
9 Low 1:49 PM -0.8
9 High 7:55 PM 5.7
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MARINE WEATHER FORECAST
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM-
1025 AM EST TUE JAN 27 2009
DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON
THIS AFTERNOON
N WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING NE 10 KT. SEAS 2
TO 3 FT. AREAS OF DENSE FOG. VSBY 1/2 NM OR LESS.
TONIGHT
E WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING S AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS
3 TO 4 FT. PATCHY DENSE FOG.
WED
SW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT...
BUILDING TO 4 TO 6 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
AREAS OF FOG.
WED NIGHT
SW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 KT...BECOMING
NW 10 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS 4 TO 6 FT...SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 4 FT
AFTER MIDNIGHT. SHOWERS LIKELY.
THU
NW WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT...SUBSIDING TO 2 FT IN
THE AFTERNOON. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
THU NIGHT
W WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 FT.
FRI
NW WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT.
SAT
NW WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT.
| | Notice posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | |
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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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