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| Subject: | CHARLESTON SC DAILY PORT UPDATE | | Date: | Monday, August 22, 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:
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 43'00 MLW - tide neede for anything deeper than
43'01" 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
Veterans Terminal 35' MLW tidal restricted
Nucor - Max draft 25'00 (movements daylight & tidal restricted), Max LOA
550', 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:
BP - TUG RESOLVE & 650-3 - ETA 1400/23RD
KMI4 - BOW ARCHITECT - ETA 1300/22ND
KMI4 - SAKURA PRINCESS - 8/23/11
KMI4 - 650-3 - ETA 8/26/11
KMI4 - BOW RIYAD - 9/2/11
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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:
Docking pilot to hang it up
Summersett to retire after 58 years on docks
He's been handling some of the biggest machines on the planet for the last
40 years, and they keep getting bigger.
Coleman Summersett, 73, is a docking pilot. He maneuvers those mammoth
cargo ships in and out of the Charleston port, a job that requires
concentration and a delicate touch. There's no room for error. Once these
behemoths start moving, it takes a while to change direction.
The job also requires some physical strength and agility. Summersett hops
onto a tugboat to meet a ship coming into harbor, then climbs a ladder
three stories above the water onto the deck.
Once on deck, the bridge is another eight stories up in the air. Some ships
have elevators to get there. Others require another climb.
Summersett has been working tugboats and ships since he was 15 years old,
58 years ago. He loves it, but he's starting to feel his age. He is
retiring at the end of the month.
"The ships are getting higher and higher," he said. "I keep telling myself
I'm as good as I ever was, but ... I know I'm not. You hate to admit
defeat, you know. Everybody gets old, I guess."
It's hard to tell it from looking at him. He jumps on and off a tugboat
like a cat.
There's no mandatory retirement age for a docking pilot. It was up to
Summersett to hang up his hat at McAllister Towing, according to Vice
President and General Manager Steve Kicklighter.
"Coleman is an amazing specimen," Kicklighter said. "To be able to do what
he does and go up the sides of the ships like he does on those ladders at
(almost) 74 years old is amazing. I mean, you shake his hand, there's still
a lot of strength left there, you know what I mean?"
McAllister is one of two companies that provide tugboats and docking pilots
for ships coming in and out of Charleston (Moran is the other one). The
docking pilots work with the tugboats to get the ships docked or pointed
out to sea.
Ships come into and leave the Charleston ports 24 hours a day. Summersett
works 24-hour shifts, a day on and a day off. Eventually, the water becomes
your life -- the hum of the engines, the smell of the salt air mixed with
diesel fuel, the rocking of the waves.
"When you got a job that you like to do, that's wonderful," Summersett
said. "I've always liked being out in the open, out there in the hot sun
and the wind and the thunder and the lightning. Every job is different. You
have different crews and you have different boats, so there's always a
little challenge there."
On the other hand, you've got to be willing to forgo a normal schedule.
"I tell all the young people that come in looking for a job all the time
that it's not really a job; it's a lifestyle," said Kicklighter, who has
been working the water for 34 years.
"Honestly, there's a lot of things you don't get to do with this job. At 3
in the morning ships are coming and you got to get up and do it," he said.
"You miss a lot of stuff. You miss soccer games. You miss the ballet.
Having said that, it gets to the point where that stuff starts to get
irrelevant to you. You know you got to go do your job. It's what you do."
On the average, 11 ships come into or leave the harbor every day, S.C.
Ports Authority spokesman Byron Miller said.
In the 1950s, when Summersett started working on a tugboat, ships would be
in port days at a time. Now, a ship can unload, reload and leave in a day.
Ships didn't start packing their loads into containers for quick transport
until the mid-1960s.
Now, a single ship can hold enough containers to keep a fleet of trucks
busy hauling them off. For instance, Maersk's 958-foot-long Missouri, one
of the ships that Summerset guided out to sea last week, can carry 4,824
containers.
"These guys have seen so much change, and the technology has changed
dramatically," Miller said. "The ships are getting larger and larger,
because we want it cheaper and faster."
Despite the demands of his job, Summersett has been married to the same
woman, Nancy, for 47 years. They have a daughter, Samantha, who lives with
them in Awendaw on a farm that includes horses and cows.
He plans to stay outside after he retires.
"I'm going to fish and hunt, a whole lot of it," he said.
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CURRENT ISSUES:
FUTURE/ONGOING ISSUES:
08/24/11 - 1800 - NOAA WRIGHT WHALE MEETING IN SAVANNAH GARDEN CITY HALL
08/25/11 - 0800 - NAV OPS MEETING
09/20/11 - 1145 - CWIT LUNCHEON
09/23/11 - 1030 - CHS TRAFFIC AND TRANS CLUB GOLF TOURN. AT STONO FERRY
10/06/22 - PM - BBQ AND BLUEGRASS SOCIAL
10/20/11 - 1800 - CWIT ANNUAL AUCTION
2018 - ETA FOR NEW CHARLESTON PORT TERMINAL TO BE COMPLETED
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SECURITY LEVEL: MARSEC 1
CURRENT HURRICANE STATUS - 4 - HURRICANE IRENE
HURRICANE IRENE INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 7A
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL092011
700 AM AST MON AUG 22 2011
...IRENE GRADUALLY MOVING AWAY FROM PUERTO RICO...
SUMMARY OF 700 AM AST...1100 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...18.8N 66.8W
ABOUT 55 MI...90 KM WNW OF SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
ABOUT 105 MI...165 KM E OF PUNTA CANA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...75 MPH...120 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...WNW OR 295 DEGREES AT 14 MPH...22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...987 MB...29.15 INCHES
WATCHES AND WARNINGS
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CHANGES IN WATCHES AND WARNINGS WITH THIS ADVISORY...
NONE.
SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT...
A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* PUERTO RICO...VIEQUES...AND CULEBRA
* NORTH COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM THE HAITI BORDER
EASTWARD TO CABO ENGANO
A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* NORTH COAST OF HAITI FROM LE MOLE ST. NICHOLAS EASTWARD TO THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BORDER
* CENTRAL BAHAMAS
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
* BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
* SOUTH COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM SOUTH OF CABO ENGANO
WESTWARD TO THE HAITI BORDER
* ALL OF HAITI
* SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS AND THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
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Tides for Charleston (Customhouse Wharf) starting with July 21, 2011.
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
M 22 High 2:06 AM 4.6 6:48 AM Rise 12:16 AM 50
22 Low 8:14 AM 0.8 7:57 PM Set 2:48 PM
22 High 2:42 PM 5.4
22 Low 9:09 PM 1.5
Tu 23 High 3:02 AM 4.5 6:48 AM Rise 1:04 AM 40
23 Low 9:10 AM 0.8 7:56 PM Set 3:42 PM
23 High 3:40 PM 5.5
23 Low 10:10 PM 1.4
W 24 High 4:01 AM 4.6 6:49 AM Rise 1:58 AM 31
24 Low 10:10 AM 0.6 7:55 PM Set 4:32 PM
24 High 4:38 PM 5.7
24 Low 11:08 PM 1.1
Th 25 High 5:00 AM 4.8 6:50 AM Rise 2:57 AM 21
25 Low 11:09 AM 0.4 7:54 PM Set 5:19 PM
25 High 5:34 PM 6.0
F 26 Low 12:02 AM 0.8 6:50 AM Rise 4:01 AM 13
26 High 5:56 AM 5.1 7:52 PM Set 6:02 PM
26 Low 12:06 PM 0.1
26 High 6:27 PM 6.3
Sa 27 Low 12:52 AM 0.4 6:51 AM Rise 5:07 AM 6
27 High 6:51 AM 5.5 7:51 PM Set 6:43 PM
27 Low 1:01 PM -0.2
27 High 7:17 PM 6.5
Su 28 Low 1:40 AM 0.0 6:52 AM Rise 6:15 AM 2
28 High 7:43 AM 5.9 7:50 PM Set 7:20 PM
28 Low 1:54 PM -0.4
28 High 8:06 PM 6.6
M 29 Low 2:27 AM -0.3 6:52 AM Rise 7:24 AM 0
29 High 8:35 AM 6.2 7:49 PM Set 7:58 PM
29 Low 2:47 PM -0.5
29 High 8:54 PM 6.6
Tu 30 Low 3:14 AM -0.5 6:53 AM Rise 8:33 AM 0
30 High 9:26 AM 6.4 7:48 PM Set 8:35 PM
30 Low 3:39 PM -0.5
30 High 9:42 PM 6.5
W 31 Low 4:01 AM -0.5 6:54 AM Rise 9:43 AM 4
31 High 10:18 AM 6.6 7:46 PM Set 9:13 PM
31 Low 4:32 PM -0.4
31 High 10:32 PM 6.3
Th 1 Low 4:49 AM -0.5 6:54 AM Rise 10:53 AM 10
1 High 11:12 AM 6.6 7:45 PM Set 9:55 PM
1 Low 5:27 PM -0.1
1 High 11:23 PM 6.0
F 2 Low 5:40 AM -0.3 6:55 AM Rise 12:02 PM 19
2 High 12:09 PM 6.5 7:44 PM Set 10:41 PM
2 Low 6:24 PM 0.2
Sa 3 High 12:17 AM 5.7 6:56 AM Rise 1:09 PM 29
3 Low 6:34 AM -0.1 7:42 PM Set 11:32 PM
3 High 1:09 PM 6.4
3 Low 7:23 PM 0.5
Su 4 High 1:15 AM 5.4 6:56 AM Rise 2:12 PM 40
4 Low 7:31 AM 0.1 7:41 PM
4 High 2:12 PM 6.2
4 Low 8:26 PM 0.7
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OFFSHORE WATERS FORECAST
Synopsis...ATLANTIC HIGH PRESSURE WILL GIVE WAY TO A COLD FRONT FROM THE
NORTHWEST LATE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THE COLD FRONT WILL STALL OVER OR
NEAR THE WATERS TUESDAY...THEN DISSIPATE WEDNESDAY...AS HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS FROM THE NORTH. HURRICANE IRENE COULD IMPACT THE WATERS LATE IN THE
WEEK. REFER TO THE LATEST ADVISORY ON IRENE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER.
Today...SW winds 15 to 20 kt...becoming S in the afternoon. Seas 3 to 4 ft.
Scattered showers and tstms.
Tonight...SW winds 10 to 15 kt...becoming W 5 to 10 kt after midnight. Seas
3 ft...subsiding to 2 ft after midnight. Numerous showers and tstms early
in the evening...then scattered showers and tstms in the late evening and
overnight. Some tstms may be severe early in the evening.
Tue...NE winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft...building to 3 ft in the afternoon.
A slight chance of showers and tstms until late afternoon.
Tue Night...E winds 10 to 15 kt...diminishing to 5 to 10 kt after midnight.
Seas 3 ft. A slight chance of showers and tstms.
Wed...E winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 4 ft...building to 5 ft in the afternoon. A
chance of showers and tstms.
Wed Night...SE winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 5 ft. A chance of showers and tstms
early in the evening...then a slight chance of showers and tstms in the
late evening and overnight.
Thu...E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 5 ft. A chance of showers and tstms.
Thu Night...E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 6 ft. A chance of showers and tstms.
Fri...Tropical storm conditions possible.
Fri Night...Hurricane conditions possible.
| | Notice posted on Monday, August 22, 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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