PILOT/TRAFFIC ADVISORIES
Sabine Pilots advise one daylight restricted vessel started outbound at 0600/03rd. Two daylight restricted vessels are scheduled to start inbound 1100/03rd.
ATTACHED LATEST WEATHER REPORTS.
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COVID-19 Corona Virus Information
Presidential Proclamations have placed entry restrictions from persons arriving from or through the following countries: Iran, China (excluding Hong Kong and Macau), the European states within the Schengen Area
(Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland), and beginning at 11:59 p.m. eastern standard daylight savings time on March 16, 2020, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
USCG:
https://www.uscg.mil/Coronavirus/
CBP:
https://www.dhs.gov/coronavirus
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SABINE/NECHES WATERWAY USER FEE NOTICE
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/28/2021-01828/sabine-neches-navigation-district-user-fee-notice
The Sabine-Neches Navigation District (SNND) anticipates completion of the first usable increment of the Sabine-Neches Waterway Channel Improvement Project (SNWW CIP) in early 2021.
Upon completion of the first usable increment, SNND intends to levy port or harbor dues pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 2236. A public hearing will be held on 15 March. Written comments must be received by 29 March. [2021-01828.pdf
(govinfo.gov)].
The User Fee will be assessed as a tonnage fee on cargo loaded or discharged through a terminal, as follows:
User Fees
Hydrocarbon Cargo:
The Initial User Fee on hydrocarbon cargo is $0.20 per short ton; Maximum User Fee is $0.35 per short ton.
Non-Hydrocarbon Cargo:
The Initial User Fee on nonhydrocarbon cargo is $0.02 per short ton; Maximum User Fee is $0.035 per short ton.
Provision of Records
Terminal operators having custody of any cargo to be loaded on board a vessel while the vessel is on the Waterway shall, within forty-eight hours before departure of that vessel, deliver to the appropriate appointed
authorized representative an export declaration specifying the cargo to be loaded on board each such vessel.
Upon the arrival of a vessel on the Waterway, which the vessel may be subject to the levy of port or harbor dues under this Ordinance, the master of that vessel shall, within forty-eight hours after arrival and before
any cargo is unloaded from that vessel, deliver to the appropriate appointed authorized representative a tonnage certificate for the vessel and a manifest of the cargo aboard that vessel or, if the vessel is in ballast, a declaration to that effect. The Navigation
District may enter into memoranda of understanding with terminal operators or others individually or collectively to facilitate the efficacious provision of records and to modify these requirements as deemed appropriate by the Navigation District.
Responsibility for Payment of User Fee
The vessel and owner of the cargo are each jointly responsible for payment of the entire User Fee to a representative authorized and designated by the Navigation
District. Subject to procedures memorialized in memoranda of understanding, if applicable, invoices for payment of the User Fee will be delivered to vessels and cargo owners from whom User Fees are
due or delivered to their respective agents. Those invoices will contain payment instructions. The Navigation District will not make any duplicate collection of the User Fee.
Finance Charge
All fees are due and payable upon the 15th of the month following the use of the Waterway. Any User Fee incurred, which is unpaid thirty (30) days from that date, shall be deemed to be delinquent. Any amount that is
unpaid on or after thirty (30) days from the date due will be assessed an interest charge of twelve percent (12%) per annum of the amount of the fee due, and shall be due and owing from the date of delinquency until paid. Such interest charges shall be calculated
on a per annum basis of three hundred sixty-five (365) days.
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2021 Channel Closures:
Jan 01st – 1000 Pilot service resumed
Jan 06th – 2300 Pilot service suspended (high winds/seas)
Jan 07th – 0600 Pilot service resumed
Jan 10th – 1642 Pilot service suspended (high winds/seas)
Jan 11th – 1100 Pilot service resumed
Jan 20th – 0430 Pilot service suspended (fog)
Jan 21st – 0900 Pilot service resumed
Jan 21st – 2330 Pilot service suspended (fog)
Jan 23rd – 1000 Pilot service resumed
Jan 23rd – 1515 Pilot service suspended (fog)
Jan 25th – 0530 Pilot service resumed
Jan 25th – 0930 Pilot service suspended (fog)
Jan 26th – 0330 Pilot service resumed
General Channel Restrictions/Info
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Max Safe Draft 40ft FW
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Air Draft above Valero Terminal – Less than 136ft for passing 3 fixed bridges
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">800ft wide channel from 29/30 Buoy to Texaco Island
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">400ft wide channel from Texas Island to Port of Beaumont
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“SB” Buoy is located at Lat. 29-25N Lon. 93-40W
Navigational Charts NOAA 11341, 11342 & 11343 cover the entire waterway<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sabine Pilots
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sabine Pilot Restrictions
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Vessels 85,000 DWT or over, 875 FT LOA or over or 125FT beam or over will transit during daylight hours only above Texaco Island. Only one (1)
of the limitations has to be met to restrict a vessel. <span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Daylight Restriction times are based on the daylight hours and are adjusted according to sun rise/sun set. Current times as follows, the terminals
shown are the ones that handle Aframax size vessels which are typically daylight restricted.
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(INBOUND)
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ExxonMobil 0500-0930 Hrs Approx Transit time “SB” Buoy to Berth – 8hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Enterprise BMW 0500-1000 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sun Terminal 0500-1030 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Phillips 66 0500-1030 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Motiva PN 0500-1130 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Total 0500-1200 Hrs Approx Transit time “SB” Buoy to Berth – 5.5hrs
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(OUTBOUND)
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ExxonMobil 0600-1300 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Enterprise BMW 0600-1330 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sun Terminal 0600-1400 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Phillips 66 0600-1400 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Motiva PN 0600-1500 Hrs
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Total 0600-1530 Hrs
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Vessels with the combined beam of one-half the width of the channel will not meet/pass day or night.
<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Any vessel that meets or exceeds either or both 860FT LOA or 120FT beam will require two pilots.
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<span-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Vessels that do not exceed the above size restrictions can transit day or night consistent with other port traffic movements. Vessels that
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