Customer Advisory: Hurricane Dorian Disruption on the U.S. East Coast
Further to our initial advisory on September 3, 2019 regarding Hurricane Dorian, the storm continues to travel northward along the United States east coast.
Due to the current conditions in the Carolinas, our Charleston, SC office will remain closed through Friday, September 6th.
All payments that have been sent to our Freight Cashiers in the Charleston and New York offices will continue to be rerouted to our Freight Cashiers in Salt Lake City, and could experience a short delay in release.
Our OOCL Customer Service staff continues to be available to service your shipping needs in other US locations at 888-388-6625.
In addition, we have included a list below of known gate closures related to the storm. Due to changing weather conditions, this list is subject to change and it may become necessary to restrict export shipments at inland rail terminals moving to ports in the mid-Atlantic.
Port Closures
- Miami, FL – South Florida Container Terminal – Reopened on Wednesday, 9/4.
- Savannah, Ga – Georgia Ports Authority – Remains closed today, 9/5. Expected to open on Friday, 9/6, contingent upon on US Coast Guard port assessments.
- Charleston, SC – Wando Terminal/North Charleston Container Terminal – South Carolina State Ports
- Will remain closed through at least Thursday, 9/5.
- Contingent upon US Coast Guard port assessments, expecting to open the harbor sometime on Friday, 9/6. Intentions are for the marine terminals to work Friday night and for the terminal gates to be open on Saturday & Sunday, 9/7 & 9/8.
- Norfolk, VA – Norfolk International Terminal/Virginia International Gateway
- No vessel movements will be permitted, within the port, after 1600 hours today, 9/5.
- All terminal truck gates in Hampton Roads will be CLOSED on Friday, 9/6.
- Assuming Hurricane Dorian clears the region on Friday, and barring any extraordinary service restoration needs, on Saturday, 9/7, NIT, VIG and the RSA Chassis Yard in Portsmouth will open at 0700 hours, with portal closure at 1700 hours.
Norfolk Southern Rail
- The Norfolk Southern remains closed for all in-gates for export loads and empties destined to Charleston & Savannah. Effective 6:00am Friday, September 6th all origin-facility gates will re-open to shipments billed to Charleston and Savannah.
- Memphis to Miami, which interchanges to the Florida East Coast railroad, has reopened.
CSX Rail
- The CSX has advised they will begin accepting loaded containers to Charleston and Savannah at 5pm local time today, 9/5. Delays should be expected as CSX crews remove storm debris from the tracks.
For current information on Hurricane Dorian, please visit this link.
