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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Monday, June 21, 2010 | | Priority: | Normal | | Notice: |
URGENT INFORMATION:
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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 - 30'00"
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
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VESSEL TRAFFIC:
NCT - MEDI LAUSANNE - IN ETD 6/24/10
HESS - OVERSEAS ANDROMAR - IN ETD 1800/21ST
KMI - TORM PLATTE - EIN ETD 1800/21ST
BP - TUG INTEGRITY & 650-4 - IN ETD 1300/24TH
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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. All vessels must sumbit
USCG's H1N1 Flu checklist.
24 Hours - advance notice to Pilots
24 Hours - advance fax of crew list and approved visitors required by
Terminal.
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:
SPA, Sanford clash over port deal
By JULIANN VACHON, Beaufort Gazette
Saturday, June 19, 2010
2 Comment(s)
BEAUFORT -- Gov. Mark Sanford says details of a pending $16.75 million
contract for the Port of Port Royal might not be in the best long-term
interest of the town or the State Ports Authority, which is trying to sell
the 51-acre property along Battery Creek.
Town of Port Royal and SPA officials disagreed and reiterated their
confidence in the deal and the potential buyer's plan for the property.
The contract splits the sale into two, $8.375 million phases -- the first
for property along deep water, and the second for marshfront and interior
land, Sanford and Port Royal Town Councilman Joe Lee said this week.
As proposed, the prospective buyer could develop the "valuable deep water"
property and be allowed to opt out of the second phase, leaving the state
with the rest, Sanford said.
"It is arguably a one-sided deal in its new form," Sanford said.
SPA Chairman Bill Stern said he is confident about the contract, which
would require the developer to pay a $250,000 deposit and agree to build
infrastructure that would benefit the second phase. If the buyer opts out
of phase two, he would lose the deposit and infrastructure investment,
Stern said.
"This developer came to us, and we got creative to try and structure a
sale," Stern said. "I'm very comfortable with the contract."
Officials have declined to name the Charleston developer, citing ongoing
negotiations. The Post and Courier has learned the prospective buyer is
affiliated with Ben Gramling of Gramling Brothers Real Estate and
Development, which is spearheading the Cane Bay Plantation project in
Berkeley County.
The governor sits on the five-member S.C. Budget and Control Board, which
must approve the deal before it can move forward.
The board was scheduled to consider it Tuesday. That meeting was pushed
back to Thursday, then postponed again to the week of June 28. Sanford
spokesman Ben Fox said state Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, a board
member, requested the most recent delay because the Senate was in session
Thursday.
Stern said he didn't speak to the prospective buyer Thursday, but added
that "there have been many questions on how fast the parties could get the
contract signed."
"I think we'll start sensing frustration as the comments the governor made
come forward," Stern said. "Especially dealing with the state of South
Carolina, you don't want to go into a process where high officials are
taking shots at you."
State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, a real estate attorney who has followed
the port sale closely, said Sanford's questions are "a legitimate amount of
inquiry by someone who's called to review a contract." Davis added that
based on his preliminary review of an appraisal commissioned by the Ports
Authority, the properties in the first and second phases appear to be of
equal value.
A 2006 development agreement created for the property calls for about 12.8
acres of dedicated civic open space -- about 10.6 acres of which would be a
park at the end of London Avenue overlooking Battery Creek.
The potential buyer, however, wants to deviate from the original agreement
and build houses on that property, Sanford said. One of the greatest
long-term values on South Carolina's coast is public access to the water,
he said, adding that the port's development offers a "once in a generation
opportunity."
"We've been absolutely consistent in believing in the need for open space
and access to the water by regular working families, whether they're from
Burton, Port Royal, you name it, for eight years," Sanford said. "The
newest developer has come up with a plan that doesn't contemplate public
access to the water."
Van Willis, Port Royal's town manager, disagreed. The developer's proposed
plans include a walkway along the water's edge, a one-acre park near the
end of Paris Avenue and a half-acre of open space overlooking water in the
bluff neighborhood, he said. He added the original plan created by Port
Royal citizens didn't include a 10-acre park.
"That was added at the request of Governor Sanford," he said.
Requiring the park could potentially kill the deal, Willis said.
In a town of about 8,000 people with a budget of about $4.6 million, Port
Royal can't afford to maintain a total of 20 acres of open space that are
not on the tax rolls, he added.
State Rep. Shannon Erickson, R-Beaufort, who has followed the sale closely,
said she thinks decisions about the site's design should be up to the town,
the developer and the people of Port Royal.
Erickson said she doesn't think a park should be "foisted upon" the town,
which would have to pay to maintain it.
Any change to the existing development agreement would have to be approved
by the Port Royal Town Council through two readings and a public hearing.
The Ports Authority would also have to approve any changes, Stern said.
"I don't understand how this doesn't make good business sense not to move
this forward," Stern said. "We are going to be given the chance to see the
changes they want to make."
Efforts to sell the port date to 2004, when Sanford ordered it closed and
sold. The shuttered property runs along Battery Creek amid acres of
marshland. At least one deal with a group of investors fell through in 2008.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES
06/18/2010 - PROPELLOR CLUB HARBOR CUISE
06/24/2010 - NAV/OPS MEETING
2014 - ETA FOR NEW CHARLESTON PORT TERMINAL TO BE COMPLETED
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HURRICANE STATUS - ALERT LEVEL 4 - NO STORMS EXPECTED
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT MON JUN 21 2010
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
A LARGE AREA OF DISORGANIZED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA IS ASSOCIATED WITH A WESTWARD-MOVING TROPICAL
WAVE. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS APPEAR CONDUCIVE FOR GRADUAL
DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS
WAVE COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS OVER
PORTIONS OF NORTHERN VENEZUELA...THE LESSER ANTILLES...THE VIRGIN
ISLANDS...PUERTO RICO...THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...AND HAITI OVER THE
NEXT DAY OR SO. THERE IS A LOW CHANCE...20 PERCENT...OF THIS
SYSTEM BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
ELSEWHERE...TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IS NOT EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 48 HOURS.
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Tides for Charleston (Customhouse Wharf) starting with May 28, 2010.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
M 21 High 3:58 AM 5.0 6:12 AM Set 2:13 AM 68
21 Low 10:18 AM -0.3 8:31 PM Rise 4:10 PM
21 High 4:55 PM 6.0
21 Low 11:10 PM 0.3
Tu 22 High 4:55 AM 4.9 6:12 AM Set 2:52 AM 78
22 Low 11:13 AM -0.3 8:31 PM Rise 5:14 PM
22 High 5:50 PM 6.1
W 23 Low 12:07 AM 0.2 6:13 AM Set 3:35 AM 86
23 High 5:51 AM 4.8 8:31 PM Rise 6:17 PM
23 Low 12:07 PM -0.2
23 High 6:43 PM 6.2
Th 24 Low 1:00 AM 0.2 6:13 AM Set 4:23 AM 92
24 High 6:44 AM 4.8 8:31 PM Rise 7:15 PM
24 Low 12:57 PM -0.2
24 High 7:32 PM 6.2
F 25 Low 1:50 AM 0.1 6:13 AM Set 5:16 AM 97
25 High 7:35 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 8:08 PM
25 Low 1:46 PM -0.1
25 High 8:19 PM 6.1
Sa 26 Low 2:37 AM 0.1 6:13 AM Set 6:13 AM 99
26 High 8:23 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 8:55 PM
26 Low 2:31 PM 0.0
26 High 9:03 PM 6.0
Su 27 Low 3:21 AM 0.1 6:14 AM Set 7:11 AM 99
27 High 9:08 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 9:35 PM
27 Low 3:15 PM 0.2
27 High 9:44 PM 5.9
M 28 Low 4:02 AM 0.2 6:14 AM Set 8:09 AM 98
28 High 9:52 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 10:10 PM
28 Low 3:56 PM 0.3
28 High 10:24 PM 5.7
Tu 29 Low 4:42 AM 0.3 6:14 AM Set 9:06 AM 94
29 High 10:34 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 10:41 PM
29 Low 4:36 PM 0.5
29 High 11:02 PM 5.5
W 30 Low 5:20 AM 0.4 6:15 AM Set 10:01 AM 89
30 High 11:16 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 11:09 PM
30 Low 5:17 PM 0.7
30 High 11:39 PM 5.3
Th 1 Low 5:56 AM 0.4 6:15 AM Set 10:56 AM 82
1 High 11:59 AM 4.7 8:32 PM Rise 11:36 PM
1 Low 5:58 PM 0.9
F 2 High 12:17 AM 5.1 6:16 AM Set 11:49 AM 75
2 Low 6:33 AM 0.5 8:32 PM
2 High 12:42 PM 4.7
2 Low 6:43 PM 1.1
Sa 3 High 12:57 AM 4.8 6:16 AM Rise 12:03 AM 66
3 Low 7:12 AM 0.5 8:32 PM Set 12:43 PM
3 High 1:27 PM 4.8
3 Low 7:33 PM 1.2
Su 4 High 1:40 AM 4.7 6:17 AM Rise 12:30 AM 57
4 Low 7:55 AM 0.5 8:32 PM Set 1:39 PM
4 High 2:16 PM 5.0
4 Low 8:29 PM 1.3
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OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST
Synopsis...ATLC HIGH PRES WILL EXTEND W OVER THE WATERS THROUGH FRI.
Today...SW winds 10 to 15 kt...becoming S 5 to 10 kt late this morning and
afternoon. Seas 2 ft. A slight chance of showers and tstms.
Tonight...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft. A slight chance of showers
and tstms after midnight.
Tue...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft. A slight chance of showers and tstms.
Tue Night...SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Wed...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Wed Night...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Thu...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Fri...S winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
| | Notice posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 | |
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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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