Terminal Congestion At Charleston Wando Terminal and Change in vessel rotation – OC1 Service

Backlog of waiting vessels as Charleston Wando Terminal

The Charleston Wando Terminal is under-going toe wall construction. This will reduce berth availability for up to one year. Since construction start, wait time for all vessels have increased to 5 - 6 days. By waiting for our berth, we risk not having enough buffer time to reach the Panama Canal crossing window.

Updated contingencies

In order to improve the situation, we are strategically calling North Charleston port temporarily to allow for import and export transfer to be closer to anticipated ETA/ETD’s. Rotation updates are below with further structural revisions of the service are under review and will announce in the coming weeks.

Current impacted vessels with details:

Spirit of Auckland/016/N – Full import and export operations at North Charleston. Vessel ATD: May/29
Spirit of Auckland/422/S – Full import and export operations at Philadelphia. Vessel ETA: May/31

Olga Maersk/417/N – Full import and export operations at North Charleston. Vessel ETA Jun/3
Olga Maersk/423/S – Full import and export operations at Philadelphia. Vessel ETA Jun/6
Olga Maersk/423/S - Export operations from Charleston Wando. Vessel ETA Jun/9

Olivia Maersk/418/N – Full import and export operations at North Charleston. Vessel ETA Jun/10**
Olivia Maersk/424/S – Full import and export operations at Philadelphia. Vessel ETA Jun/13**

** All dates for Olivia Maersk are subject to change**

Maersk Buton/419/N & 425/S - TBD

Next steps

Our absolute priority is keeping your supply chain moving, and we hope to have a structural change decision promptly.

Maersk teams are here to serve you, so if you have any questions, please reach out to your local Customer Experience team. We look forward to continuously serving your global logistics needs.