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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Monday, March 23, 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 - 40'00
Delfin - Max Draft - 42'00
Chem Marine - Max Draft - 38'00 MLW
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 45'00 MLW - Max BM No restriction
North Charleston Terminal - Max draft 45'00 MLW - Max BM No restriction
CST - Max draft 45'00 MLW - Max BM No restrictions
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 - MARE DE VENEZIA - ETA 1400/23RD
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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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CURRENT ARTICLES:
Detyens Shipyards to help Gallatin, Dallas get shipshape
By Allyson Bird (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A seaman salutes at the close of the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin's change
of command ceremony Friday in which Capt. John Davis assumed command from
Capt. Robert Wagner.
Grace Beahm
The Post and Courier
A seaman salutes at the close of the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin's change
of command ceremony Friday in which Capt. John Davis assumed command from
Capt. Robert Wagner.
Rust holes in the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin will be repaired while the
ship is in dry dock along with the cutter Dallas as part of a project to
restore the vessels' structural integrity and upgrade their electrical
and weapon systems.
Grace Beahm
The Post and Courier
Rust holes in the Coast Guard cutter Gallatin will be repaired while the
ship is in dry dock along with the cutter Dallas as part of a project to
restore the vessels' structural integrity and upgrade their electrical
and weapon systems.
Capt. John Davis assumed command Friday of the Charleston-based Coast
Guard Cutter Gallatin.
USCG Photo
Capt. John Davis assumed command Friday of the Charleston-based Coast
Guard Cutter Gallatin.
The Coast Guard's Atlantic commander called two Charleston-based cutters
the most capable in the national fleet, but both ships docked months ago,
too deteriorated to chase drug runners or deliver humanitarian supplies.
Cutters Dallas and Gallatin both move to Detyens Shipyards on the Cooper
River on Monday, where they will receive up to $15 million in repairs
over the next six months. That leaves only 10 ships, all based in the
Pacific Ocean, in their class of the largest, 378-foot cutters.
Presiding over a change-of-command ceremony for the Gallatin, Vice Adm.
Robert Papp Jr. told its crew, "I'm going to ask you to dedicate
yourselves to making the ship the absolute best that you can."
Though designed to last 25 years, both ships entered service more than 40
years ago. Officials noticed problems with the Gallatin after it finished
a counter-drug patrol off the coast of Colombia. The Dallas returned from
deployment in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea looking even
worse.
Through corroded holes, water seeped into compartments over the years,
wearing down major structural components of the ships. The cutters also
need mechanical repairs to piping and ventilation systems, antennae and
weapons systems.
Papp said the Coast Guard chose Detyens after a "robust" bidding process.
The improvements could tack another decade onto the cutters' service
lives.
"We're happy for these ships and the Charleston community," he said.
While at Detyens, including a period in dry dock, some crewmembers from
both ships will remain on board, he said, adding, "It's not just the
shipyard doing work."
Crew will help make repairs, and others will train onboard throughout the
dock time. Some will train on other ships during the overhaul.
Normally, both ships are deployed six months out of the year, when in
working order. Each carries a crew of 165.
Eventually, eight national security cutters will replace the 12 existing
378-foot cutters, according to Papp, as part of the Coast Guard's
controversial Deepwater program. Government audits have heaped criticism
on the program, which began in 2002 and aims to replace all Coast Guard
ships and aircraft over 20 years.
"It's tough to get the shipbuilding money, but we're hopeful," Papp said.
He said the country's current emphasis on defense makes a good case for
the spending.
The Dallas and the Gallatin intercept drug shipments and rescue wayward
refugees hoping to float from their native countries to the U.S. They
also enforce fishing regulations and conduct homeland security missions.
When Russia invaded the country of Georgia, Dallas was the first ship to
bring in humanitarian supplies. Gallatin spent two months in New Orleans
salvaging schools after Hurricane Katrina.
"These ships are showing the battle scars of 40 years of service," said
Capt. John Davis, who took over as Gallatin commanding officer Friday.
Davis replaced Capt. Robert Wagner, commanding officer of the Dallas, who
assumed control of both ships after Papp announced a loss of confidence
in previous Gallatin commanding officer Mike Christian. Davis said his
primary goal in his new assignment is getting the ship mission-ready by
fall.
Addressing his new crew, Davis pointed out that Friday marked the first
day of spring.
"It represents a change in seasons," he said, "and a change in seasons on
Coast Guard cutter Gallatin."
Reach Allyson Bird at 937-5594 or abird@postandcourier.com.
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By Molly Parker
mparker@scbiznews.com
Published March 20, 2009
The S.C. State Ports Authority received eight bids for the construction
of a 5,000-foot-long containment structure for its new terminal being
built in North Charleston.
Fourteen companies had originally expressed an interest in the project,
estimated by the SPA to cost about $60 million.
Of the eight companies responding to the request for proposals, the
apparent low bid came in at a little more than $55 million, SPA spokesman
Byron Miller said. The bidding opened and closed Tuesday.
The board is expected to consider awarding a contract to one of the firms
at its April meeting. The structure is to be built out 850 feet from the
existing shoreline to the main shipping channel. It will be built in
preparation for the placement of fill material in the tideland area of
the planned 280-acre terminal.
Construction of the containment wall is expected to begin in the summer
and take 15 months to complete. The wall is the first major piece of the
project that turns the land into a port. Thus far, the work has been
focused on preparation of the land for construction, a massive
undertaking because Charleston’s land is so soft, particularly so at this
location.
Project manager Len Dillinger with Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. said the
land is “softer than we expected” but “not beyond reasonable.”
Dillinger said he believes the port project is progressing on a
responsible timeline and that the past several years of site preparation
have ensured no environmental “showstoppers” are lurking under the
surface of the land.
Crews have been working for months to drain the moisture out of the soil
and compress the pluff mud that would otherwise sink under the weight of
heavy trucks and containers — or any development, for that matter.
Because the land has been an industrial site since the early 1900s,
Dillinger said another concern was that environmentally hazardous waste
could be discovered. Crews also had to be extremely careful when digging
a retention pond because the Navy might have lost two aerial torpedoes on
the construction site during World War II.
“They never found them,” Dillinger said. “I don’t think we have any
substantial unknowns on the ground remaining.”
He called the construction of the containment structure the “next logical
step” in the project.
“We can’t do anything else until we put the containment structure in,” he
said.
Reach Molly Parker at 843-849-3144.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
03/26/09 - 0815 - Charleston Nav/Ops Maritime Association
03/26/09 - 1730 - Charleston Prop Club Dinner
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
04/01/09 - 1715 - Savannah Prop Club After Hours
04/09/09 - 1200 - Savannah Prop luncheon
04/14/09 - 1830 CWIT Soiree
04/16/09 - 1100 - Georgia Logistics Summit
04/23/09 - VA Prop Dinner - Oyster Roast
05/05/09 - Charleston National Transportation Banquet
05/12/09 - 1145-0130 CWIT Luncheon
05/13/09 - VA Prop Spring Cruise
05/14/09 - VA Trade Symposium
05/22/09 - National Maritime Day
06/09/09 - NC Port Advisory Quarterly meeting
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 March 13, 2009.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
M 23 Low 12:08 AM 0.6 7:19 AM Rise 5:31 AM 14
23 High 6:31 AM 5.1 7:33 PM Set 4:53 PM
23 Low 12:38 PM 0.4
23 High 6:42 PM 5.0
Tu 24 Low 12:56 AM 0.3 7:18 AM Rise 6:00 AM 8
24 High 7:14 AM 5.3 7:34 PM Set 5:52 PM
24 Low 1:18 PM 0.1
24 High 7:25 PM 5.4
W 25 Low 1:40 AM 0.1 7:16 AM Rise 6:27 AM 3
25 High 7:55 AM 5.4 7:35 PM Set 6:52 PM
25 Low 1:57 PM -0.1
25 High 8:06 PM 5.7
Th 26 Low 2:24 AM -0.1 7:15 AM Rise 6:56 AM 0
26 High 8:33 AM 5.4 7:36 PM Set 7:54 PM
26 Low 2:36 PM -0.3
26 High 8:45 PM 5.9
F 27 Low 3:07 AM -0.2 7:14 AM Rise 7:27 AM 0
27 High 9:11 AM 5.3 7:36 PM Set 8:59 PM
27 Low 3:15 PM -0.4
27 High 9:24 PM 6.1
Sa 28 Low 3:51 AM -0.2 7:12 AM Rise 8:01 AM 1
28 High 9:50 AM 5.2 7:37 PM Set 10:06 PM
28 Low 3:56 PM -0.4
28 High 10:05 PM 6.2
Su 29 Low 4:37 AM -0.1 7:11 AM Rise 8:40 AM 6
29 High 10:32 AM 5.1 7:38 PM Set 11:15 PM
29 Low 4:40 PM -0.4
29 High 10:50 PM 6.2
M 30 Low 5:26 AM 0.0 7:10 AM Rise 9:26 AM 12
30 High 11:18 AM 4.9 7:38 PM
30 Low 5:28 PM -0.3
30 High 11:40 PM 6.0
Tu 31 Low 6:19 AM 0.2 7:09 AM Set 12:23 AM 20
31 High 12:10 PM 4.8 7:39 PM Rise 10:20 AM
31 Low 6:22 PM -0.1
W 1 High 12:38 AM 5.9 7:07 AM Set 1:27 AM 30
1 Low 7:17 AM 0.4 7:40 PM Rise 11:22 AM
1 High 1:12 PM 4.6
1 Low 7:22 PM 0.1
Th 2 High 1:43 AM 5.7 7:06 AM Set 2:24 AM 41
2 Low 8:21 AM 0.5 7:41 PM Rise 12:30 PM
2 High 2:21 PM 4.6
2 Low 8:30 PM 0.2
F 3 High 2:54 AM 5.6 7:05 AM Set 3:13 AM 53
3 Low 9:27 AM 0.5 7:41 PM Rise 1:39 PM
3 High 3:33 PM 4.8
3 Low 9:40 PM 0.2
Sa 4 High 4:03 AM 5.6 7:03 AM Set 3:56 AM 64
4 Low 10:31 AM 0.3 7:42 PM Rise 2:48 PM
4 High 4:41 PM 5.1
4 Low 10:48 PM 0.0
Su 5 High 5:07 AM 5.6 7:02 AM Set 4:32 AM 75
5 Low 11:29 AM 0.1 7:43 PM Rise 3:55 PM
5 High 5:43 PM 5.4
5 Low 11:50 PM -0.2
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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-
344 AM EDT MON MAR 23 2009
TODAY
NE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING SE. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT.
TONIGHT
SE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT.
TUE
E WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 4 FT IN THE AFTERNOON.
TUE NIGHT
E WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 4 TO 5 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS.
WED
SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 4 TO 5 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
WED NIGHT
S WINDS 15 KT. SEAS 4 TO 5 FT...BUILDING TO 4 TO 6
FT AFTER MIDNIGHT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
THU
S WINDS 15 TO 20 KT...DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 4 TO
6 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.
FRI
SW WINDS 10 KT...BECOMING S. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS.
MARINERS ARE REMINDED THAT WINDS AND SEAS CAN BE HIGHER IN AND
NEAR TSTMS.
| | Notice posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 | |
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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