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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | | Priority: | Normal | | Notice: |
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 40'00, tide needed for anything
deeper than 38'00
BP - Max draft 30'00" 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 38'00 or less may transit at anytime Drafts of 38'01 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:
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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.
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:
Study: New cruise terminal will have $43 million impact
By Allyson Bird
abird@postandcourier.com
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The S.C. State Ports Authority's new cruise ship terminal will make a $43
million economic impact and create 336 jobs, according to new research from
the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber released the numbers today at a meeting at the Francis Marion
Hotel.
Chamber officials particularly lauded the new terminal for its direct
spending in the construction industry.
The SPA should select its design firm this month, with work set to begin
this year. The new cruise terminal should open in the third quarter of 2012
at the north end of Union Pier.
The site of the existing passenger facility will be redeveloped.
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Maritime leaders stall work on Georgia shipping terminal
By Allyson Bird
abird@postandcourier.com
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
GARDEN CITY, Ga. -- South Carolina maritime leaders managed to stall work
on a shipping terminal planned for Jasper County after hours of
often-heated discussion Tuesday at the Georgia Ports Authority.
The agency set up to oversee the two-state project adopted a budget not to
exceed $500,000 for the year, which provides the money needed to proceed
with work approved last year. But it does not fund two new key studies
necessary to move the terminal forward.
"It's lower than we would like to see it," said Georgia Ports Authority
Executive Director Curtis Foltz after the meeting of the Jasper Ocean
Terminal Joint Project Office.
The members of the office also gave direction for their leaders to
determine whether the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will complete those next
two studies in its own work so that they don't duplicate effort and expense.
Tensions between maritime leaders in South Carolina and Georgia became
obvious last month when S.C. State Ports Authority Chairman Bill Stern sent
a letter to his counterpart to the south, Alec Poitevint, saying he can't
support spending any more Palmetto State money on a project that seems less
and less likely to happen as time goes on.
That doubt comes from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project.
After devoting more than a decade and tens of millions of dollars to the
plan to deepen the Port of Savannah's shipping channel, the Corps of
Engineers released a draft report in mid-November and asked for public
comment from late November until early January.
Interested groups on both sides of the jointly owned river asked for more
time to read through the reams of paper, and the corps granted a few weeks.
South Carolina environmental experts have said that the channel, if dredged
too deep, could cause tremendous ecological damage. Also, South Carolina
navigation experts said the channel must go deeper or else the new
generation of container ships would run aground most days of the year.
And though Georgia hopes to take the channel to 48 feet, Stern said it must
go to 50 feet to support two-way shipping.
"Let me make it clear: On the South Carolina side, we are in no way trying
to kill the Jasper port," Stern said. "We're trying to protect the Jasper
port."
He said after the meeting that the decision to approve a slimmed-down
Jasper budget for now accomplished his goal he sought in sending Poitevint
the February letter.
Poitevint, eager to proceed with the Jasper terminal, instead highlighted
the national importance of the task that the two sides debated Tuesday.
"We're dealing with something that's a lot bigger than any of us here," he
said. "Governors come and go, and members of ports authorities come and go,
but what we have here is a mission of long term."
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CURRENT ISSUES:
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
03/24/2011 - NAV/OPS MEETING
04/12/2011 - CWIT ANNUAL BANQUET
2014 - ETA FOR NEW CHARLESTON PORT TERMINAL TO BE COMPLETED
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SECURITY LEVEL: MARSEC 1
HURRICANE STATUS - 5 - OUT OF SEASON
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Tides for Charleston (Customhouse Wharf) starting with March 4, 2011.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
W 9 Low 4:25 AM 0.5 6:38 AM Rise 8:48 AM 13
9 High 10:24 AM 4.6 6:23 PM Set 10:58 PM
9 Low 4:30 PM 0.2
9 High 10:36 PM 5.2
Th 10 Low 5:05 AM 0.6 6:37 AM Rise 9:27 AM 21
10 High 11:00 AM 4.4 6:24 PM Set 11:55 PM
10 Low 5:10 PM 0.3
10 High 11:18 PM 5.2
F 11 Low 5:51 AM 0.8 6:35 AM Rise 10:11 AM 29
11 High 11:44 AM 4.3 6:24 PM
11 Low 5:57 PM 0.4
Sa 12 High 12:08 AM 5.1 6:34 AM Set 12:51 AM 38
12 Low 6:46 AM 0.9 6:25 PM Rise 11:02 AM
12 High 12:38 PM 4.2
12 Low 6:54 PM 0.5
Su 13 High 1:09 AM 5.1 7:33 AM Set 1:44 AM 48
13 Low 8:48 AM 0.9 7:26 PM Rise 12:59 PM
13 High 2:42 PM 4.3
13 Low 8:59 PM 0.4
M 14 High 3:16 AM 5.2 7:31 AM Set 3:34 AM 59
14 Low 9:55 AM 0.7 7:27 PM Rise 2:01 PM
14 High 3:51 PM 4.5
14 Low 10:07 PM 0.2
Tu 15 High 4:24 AM 5.4 7:30 AM Set 4:21 AM 69
15 Low 10:58 AM 0.4 7:27 PM Rise 3:07 PM
15 High 4:58 PM 4.8
15 Low 11:13 PM -0.1
W 16 High 5:28 AM 5.7 7:29 AM Set 5:03 AM 79
16 Low 11:56 AM 0.0 7:28 PM Rise 4:16 PM
16 High 6:00 PM 5.3
Th 17 Low 12:15 AM -0.5 7:28 AM Set 5:43 AM 88
17 High 6:27 AM 5.9 7:29 PM Rise 5:26 PM
17 Low 12:49 PM -0.4
17 High 6:57 PM 5.8
F 18 Low 1:13 AM -0.9 7:26 AM Set 6:20 AM 94
18 High 7:21 AM 6.1 7:29 PM Rise 6:36 PM
18 Low 1:39 PM -0.8
18 High 7:52 PM 6.2
Sa 19 Low 2:07 AM -1.1 7:25 AM Set 6:57 AM 98
19 High 8:13 AM 6.2 7:30 PM Rise 7:48 PM
19 Low 2:28 PM -1.0
19 High 8:44 PM 6.5
Su 20 Low 3:00 AM -1.2 7:24 AM Set 7:35 AM 99
20 High 9:03 AM 6.1 7:31 PM Rise 8:59 PM
20 Low 3:16 PM -1.1
20 High 9:35 PM 6.7
M 21 Low 3:52 AM -1.2 7:22 AM Set 8:15 AM 98
21 High 9:52 AM 6.0 7:32 PM Rise 10:11 PM
21 Low 4:04 PM -1.1
21 High 10:26 PM 6.7
Tu 22 Low 4:45 AM -0.9 7:21 AM Set 8:59 AM 93
22 High 10:42 AM 5.7 7:32 PM Rise 11:20 PM
22 Low 4:53 PM -0.8
22 High 11:19 PM 6.5
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OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST
Synopsis...A WEAK COASTAL TROUGH ACROSS THE WATERS WILL SHIFT N OF THE
WATERS TODAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL ADVANCE THROUGH THE WATERS
THU...FOLLOWED BY HIGH PRES INTO THE WEEKEND.
Today...NE winds 15 to 20 kt...becoming SE this afternoon. Seas 4 to 6 ft.
Tonight...SE winds 20 to 25 kt...becoming S. Seas 5 to 7 ft. A chance of
showers in the evening...then showers likely with a chance of tstms after
midnight.
Thu...S winds 20 to 25 kt...becoming SW. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Showers likely
with a chance of tstms.
Thu Night...W winds 20 to 25 kt...diminishing to 15 to 20 kt after
midnight. Seas 3 to 5 ft.
Fri...W winds 15 to 20 kt...diminishing to 10 to 15 kt in the afternoon.
Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Fri Night...NW winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft.
Sat...SW winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Sun...W winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
| | Notice posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | |
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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