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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Tuesday, March 31, 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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KMI 4 - VELOPOULA - IN ETD 1100/31ST
KMI 4 - ANTIKEROS - ETA 1100/31ST
HESS - MARCELLA LADY - IN ETD 1300/2ND
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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:
EPA aims to reduce ship emissions
By Allyson Bird (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
In a move welcomed locally by both environmental activists and the State
Ports Authority, the federal government aims to create a 230-mile
emissions buffer zone around the nation's coastlines to improve air
quality.
The new program announced in New Jersey by Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson calls for ships that operate in the so-
called "emissions control areas" to use fuel with a maximum sulfur
content of 1,000 parts-per-million beginning in 2015. Also, new ships
would be required to use advanced emission-control technologies beginning
in 2016.
Ship fuel currently contains about 40,000 parts-per-million for sulfur,
according to EPA senior press officer Cathy Milbourn.
Sulfur content is directly related to the soot, or pollution, emitted
after fuel is burned.
Nancy Vinson, program director for the Charleston-based Coastal
Conservation League, called the EPA's move "long overdue."
"Shipping traffic is predicted to double or triple, and already people
who live around ports have significantly increased rates of cancer, heart
disease and stroke," she said. "I hope the economic situation won't allow
this to be delayed."
EPA officials estimated the standards would raise the cost of
transporting a 20-foot-long shipping container by about $18. The agency
estimates the total cost to be $3.2 billion in 2020.
Charleston, according to the most recent EPA data, meets federal
standards for both ozone and particulate matter. The SPA last month
launched a public-private rebate program, supported by federal funding,
to help make trucks cleaner.
SPA spokesman Byron Miller said Monday's announcement was not much of a
surprise for the maritime industry because Congress passed a bill last
summer under which the United States would join in an international
treaty to reduce pollution from ships.
"It's generally understood and anticipated that ocean-going vessels are a
source of transportation-related emissions, and efforts to reduce those
are supported here by the port and international shipping community," he
said.
The EPA is under a federal court order to issue regulations to reduce
emissions from oceangoing ships by December.
The agency made its proposal Friday to the International Maritime
Organization, a United Nations agency responsible for safety, security
and pollution prevention in international shipping. No country previously
has asked the organization for an emissions-control area.
The EPA estimates the buffer would spare more than 8,000 lives in the
United States and Canada each year by 2020. The standards would cut
sulfur in fuel by 98 percent, particulate matter emissions by 85 percent
and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 percent, when compared with current
regulations.
The IMO will begin reviewing the proposal in July with approval possible
as early as next year.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
04/01/09 - 1715 - Savannah Prop Club After Hours
04/09/09 - 1200 - Savannah Prop luncheon
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
04/14/09 - 1830 CWIT Soiree
04/16/09 - 1100 - Georgia Logistics Summit
04/23/09 - 0815 - NAV OPS meeting
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 27, 2009.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
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
M 6 High 6:04 AM 5.7 7:01 AM Set 5:04 AM 84
6 Low 12:21 PM -0.2 7:43 PM Rise 5:00 PM
6 High 6:38 PM 5.8
Tu 7 Low 12:47 AM -0.3 7:00 AM Set 5:35 AM 91
7 High 6:55 AM 5.7 7:44 PM Rise 6:04 PM
7 Low 1:09 PM -0.4
7 High 7:29 PM 6.1
W 8 Low 1:39 AM -0.5 6:58 AM Set 6:04 AM 96
8 High 7:43 AM 5.6 7:45 PM Rise 7:07 PM
8 Low 1:54 PM -0.5
8 High 8:15 PM 6.3
Th 9 Low 2:28 AM -0.5 6:57 AM Set 6:35 AM 99
9 High 8:27 AM 5.5 7:46 PM Rise 8:09 PM
9 Low 2:37 PM -0.4
9 High 8:58 PM 6.3
F 10 Low 3:14 AM -0.4 6:56 AM Set 7:07 AM 99
10 High 9:09 AM 5.4 7:46 PM Rise 9:12 PM
10 Low 3:17 PM -0.3
10 High 9:39 PM 6.2
Sa 11 Low 3:58 AM -0.2 6:55 AM Set 7:43 AM 98
11 High 9:49 AM 5.1 7:47 PM Rise 10:14 PM
11 Low 3:56 PM -0.1
11 High 10:19 PM 6.1
Su 12 Low 4:41 AM 0.0 6:53 AM Set 8:23 AM 94
12 High 10:29 AM 4.9 7:48 PM Rise 11:13 PM
12 Low 4:34 PM 0.2
12 High 10:59 PM 5.8
M 13 Low 5:23 AM 0.3 6:52 AM Set 9:08 AM 89
13 High 11:09 AM 4.7 7:48 PM
13 Low 5:12 PM 0.5
13 High 11:40 PM 5.5
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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-
350 AM EDT TUE MAR 31 2009
TODAY
VARIABLE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING SE 10 KT. SEAS
1 TO 2 FT.
TONIGHT
SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING S 15 TO 20 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 4 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT. A
SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE EVENING...THEN SHOWERS LIKELY WITH A
CHANCE OF TSTMS AFTER MIDNIGHT.
WED
S WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT. SHOWERS WITH A CHANCE
OF TSTMS.
WED NIGHT
SW WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...BECOMING W 5 TO 10 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. SEAS 4 TO 5 FT...SUBSIDING TO 2 TO 4 FT AFTER MIDNIGHT.
TSTMS LIKELY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE EVENING...THEN A
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT.
THU
VARIABLE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING S 10 TO 15 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT. SHOWERS LIKELY WITH A CHANCE OF TSTMS.
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE.
THU NIGHT
SE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 KT AFTER
MIDNIGHT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. SHOWERS AND TSTMS LIKELY.
FRI
SW WINDS 20 TO 25 KT...BECOMING W 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 5 TO
7 FT...SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 4 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
SAT
NE WINDS 5 TO 10 KT...BECOMING E. SEAS 2 TO 3 FT...THEN
1 FOOT OR LESS.
MARINERS ARE REMINDED THAT WINDS AND SEAS CAN BE HIGHER IN AND
NEAR TSTMS.
| | Notice posted on Tuesday, March 31, 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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