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Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | Date: | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 | Priority: | Normal | Notice: |
URGENT INFORMATION - NONE
PORT LIMITS/INFORMATION ------------------------ Maximum Depths - (Fresh) Harbor Entrance - 47.0 ft Main Channel - 45.0 ft
BERTH LIMITS/INFORMATION: ------------------------- 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: --------------------------------------------- HESS: ALIAKNON - IN ETD 1900 KMI #4 - STENA CONSUL - IN ETD 1800/5TH
============================================= FEDERAL, STATE & LOCAL FILING REQUIREMENTS: --------------------------------------------- 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:
Maersk ‘quickly closing in on’ port decision Tuesday, 05 May 2009 By Molly Parker mparker@scbiznews.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
CHARLESTON -- The S.C. State Ports Authority board was expected to hear details Monday of the staff’s final offer aimed at keeping Maersk Line’s business at the Port of Charleston. And the Danish company is likely to make a decision about its local operations within the next two weeks, said Sen. Larry Grooms, chairman of the S.C. Senate Transportation Committee.
“Maersk is quickly closing in on exactly their business plan for the East Coast, and a large component of what they do depends on what happens in Charleston,” he said.
The board was scheduled to meet in executive session via teleconference at 2 p.m., according to a public announcement the SPA sent out Monday morning. No public comments or debate were expected from the board, SPA spokesman Byron Miller said.
Miller declined further comment, saying he “cannot speak to the nature of negotiations with our customers.”
Maersk spokesman Dana Magliola said he would check to find out whether the company had any news to report, but he had yet to respond by early Monday afternoon.
Grooms: Decision coming Grooms said he is confident a decision will come soon, perhaps in the next week or two.
The Republican from Bonneau said his involvement has been to help “facilitate conversations that have gotten us to this point so far.”
“I think the ports authority is very close to a final offer,” Grooms said.
After months of discussions between the parties, the SPA executive team has a proposal that says, “This is it, we can’t do any better,” Grooms said.
The meeting was scheduled because the SPA executive team needs “board approval on a final offer,” Grooms said.
“That way the Maersk board knows this is not just management talking, and that they may or may not be able to back it up,” he said. “What’s taking place is the final steps as to whether Maersk stays in Charleston or whether they will leave. What they do here affects what they do up and down the East Coast.”
Grooms said how Maersk reacts to the offer will have a profound impact on the Port of Charleston for years go come. The economy is forcing shipping lines to retool their business strategies, and Grooms said he believes the outcome will be similar to what airlines did 10 years ago when they consolidated lines into a hub-and-spoke model.
The negotiations among the SPA, Maersk Line and APM Terminals, the company’s stevedoring arm, have been ongoing since late December and have spanned two chief executives at the SPA. Former CEO Bernard Groseclose resigned in January, and John Hassell took over as interim director.
Longshoremen: ‘We’re excited about it’ On Dec. 18, Maersk Line — the SPA’s largest shipping customer and the world’s largest shipping company — announced that it would leave the Port of Charleston when its contract expires at the end of 2010.
At the time, Maersk blamed the International Longshoremen’s Association. The three local chapters of the ILA had voted late last year to deny Maersk’s request to operate from the Wando Welch Terminal’s common-user yard, a move that would have eliminated several dozen checker and clerk positions in exchange for work done by SPA employees.
Maersk is currently a licensed private operator, and that labor is therefore supplied by the ILA, according to an international labor agreement. Moving to the common-user yard would have been in violation of that agreement, ILA Local 1422 President Ken Riley had said. And the ILA’s national chapter issued a stinging rebuke of the company, saying it put workers “at the end of their corporate greed chain.”
Those acrimonious relationships seem to have dissipated.
Riley said Monday that the ILA has “watched from the sidelines” and has every indication the negotiations “are moving in the right direction.”
“It wasn’t about us to begin with, and it’s not about us now,” he said. “The people who have our contractual relationships are working it out, and we’re excited about it. I’m certain the offer will not negatively impact the ILA. If it was going to, we would be in the room.”
Until this year, Maersk was making more than 400 ship calls annually to the Port of Charleston and represented almost a quarter of the port’s container business.
The company has already moved its South Atlantic Express and WestMed services — representing a combined three ship calls per week — to neighboring states’ port terminals.
Published May 5, 2009
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CURRENT ISSUES:
05/05/09 - Charleston National Transportation Banquet 05/12/09 - 1145-0130 CWIT Luncheon 05/13/09 - VA Prop Spring Cruise
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
05/14/09 - VA Trade Symposium 05/22/09 - National Maritime Day 05/26/09 - 1100 - VPA Board Meeting 06/09/09 - NC Port Advisory Quarterly meeting 06/11/09 - VA Prop Golf outing 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 May 4, 2009. Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon /Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Tu 5 High 5:35 AM 5.3 6:28 AM Set 4:07 AM 81 5 Low 11:52 AM -0.2 8:04 PM Rise 4:57 PM 5 High 6:18 PM 6.0
W 6 Low 12:29 AM 0.0 6:28 AM Set 4:36 AM 88 6 High 6:26 AM 5.2 8:05 PM Rise 5:59 PM 6 Low 12:39 PM -0.2 6 High 7:06 PM 6.2
Th 7 Low 1:20 AM 0.0 6:27 AM Set 5:07 AM 94 7 High 7:13 AM 5.2 8:06 PM Rise 7:00 PM 7 Low 1:24 PM -0.2 7 High 7:51 PM 6.3
F 8 Low 2:08 AM -0.1 6:26 AM Set 5:41 AM 98 8 High 7:57 AM 5.1 8:07 PM Rise 8:02 PM 8 Low 2:06 PM -0.1 8 High 8:33 PM 6.3
Sa 9 Low 2:53 AM 0.0 6:25 AM Set 6:19 AM 99 9 High 8:40 AM 5.0 8:07 PM Rise 9:02 PM 9 Low 2:46 PM 0.0 9 High 9:13 PM 6.2
Su 10 Low 3:35 AM 0.1 6:24 AM Set 7:02 AM 99 10 High 9:21 AM 4.8 8:08 PM Rise 9:59 PM 10 Low 3:25 PM 0.2 10 High 9:53 PM 6.0
M 11 Low 4:16 AM 0.2 6:23 AM Set 7:51 AM 97 11 High 10:01 AM 4.7 8:09 PM Rise 10:52 PM 11 Low 4:03 PM 0.4 11 High 10:32 PM 5.8
Tu 12 Low 4:57 AM 0.4 6:23 AM Set 8:43 AM 93 12 High 10:42 AM 4.6 8:10 PM Rise 11:39 PM 12 Low 4:41 PM 0.6 12 High 11:11 PM 5.5
W 13 Low 5:37 AM 0.6 6:22 AM Set 9:38 AM 87 13 High 11:23 AM 4.5 8:10 PM 13 Low 5:20 PM 0.8 13 High 11:52 PM 5.3
Th 14 Low 6:17 AM 0.8 6:21 AM Rise 12:20 AM 80 14 High 12:07 PM 4.4 8:11 PM Set 10:35 AM 14 Low 6:02 PM 1.0
F 15 High 12:35 AM 5.1 6:20 AM Rise 12:56 AM 72 15 Low 7:00 AM 0.8 8:12 PM Set 11:31 AM 15 High 12:54 PM 4.4 15 Low 6:50 PM 1.1
Sa 16 High 1:22 AM 5.0 6:20 AM Rise 1:28 AM 63 16 Low 7:45 AM 0.8 8:12 PM Set 12:28 PM 16 High 1:46 PM 4.4 16 Low 7:44 PM 1.2
Su 17 High 2:11 AM 4.9 6:19 AM Rise 1:57 AM 54 17 Low 8:33 AM 0.8 8:13 PM Set 1:24 PM 17 High 2:40 PM 4.6 17 Low 8:45 PM 1.2
M 18 High 3:03 AM 4.8 6:19 AM Rise 2:25 AM 44 18 Low 9:22 AM 0.6 8:14 PM Set 2:22 PM 18 High 3:35 PM 4.9 18 Low 9:48 PM 1.1
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OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- 1038 AM EDT TUE MAY 5 2009 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 244 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING
THIS AFTERNOON S WINDS 15 TO 20 KT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS EARLY... THEN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS LATE. SOME TSTMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
TONIGHT S WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 2 TO 4 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN THE EVENING...THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. SOME TSTMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IN THE EVENING.
WED S WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN THE AFTERNOON.
WED NIGHT S WINDS 10 TO 15 KT...INCREASING TO 15 TO 20 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
THU SW WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS.
THU NIGHT S WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN THE EVENING.
FRI AND SAT SW WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. SEAS 3 TO 4 FT. MARINERS ARE REMINDED THAT WINDS AND SEAS CAN BE HIGHER IN AND NEAR TSTMS.
| Notice posted on Tuesday, May 05, 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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