No cargo pickups or drop-offs were occurring throughout the South Carolina Ports Authority\u2019s (SC Ports\u2019) network Tuesday morning as SC Ports faced a second day dealing with a software issue that has disrupted its operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cSC Ports has made further progress on our gate issue, but it is not entirely resolved,\u201d the port authority said in an advisory posted on its website at 10 am local time Tuesday. \u201cWe understand the impact that this issue is having on our partners in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
SC Ports planned to resume full operations at its marine terminals and inland ports at 5 am Tuesday after it was forced to close all terminal gates to truckers on Monday in Charleston and at inland ports Dillon and Greer because of the software malfunction. But with the issue not entirely resolved, the 5 am restart time was scuttled.<\/p>\n
\u201cSC Ports is working diligently to resume all operations as quickly as possible following a vendor software issue that impacted a server,\u201d it said. \u201cWork is progressing, and many systems have been restored.\u201d<\/p>\n
The port authority said Monday the issue did \u201cnot appear to be a cybersecurity issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Few details are known about the extent of the software issue and whether it impacts only the truck gates or all operations inside the terminals such as ship-to-shore cranes, yard hostler vehicles and container stacks.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for SC Ports, in response to questions from the Journal of Commerce on Monday, said: \u201cFor security reasons, we are not going to detail our systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
A source with knowledge of the problem, however, called the software issue \u201ctemporary,\u201d and added that \u201cother operations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to continue working vessels over the weekend and today and will continue to do so as able,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n
Rail ramps affected<\/p>\n
The closure affects the 6,000 to 8,000 truck transactions per day that the port authority handles, including the 500 to 650 containers outgated on trucks that are taken to terminals run by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS). If the situation is not cleared up shortly, CSX and NS will have to develop a plan to prevent its terminals from being overrun with exports.<\/p>\n
The closures of Inland Port Dillon and Inland Port Greer might have a cascade effect on Memphis business if SC Ports doesn\u2019t reopen on Tuesday morning. On an average day, about 100 ocean containers travel between Charleston and Memphis in either direction.<\/p>\n
SC Ports was also beginning to see a backlog of vessels, with eight container ships docked outside Charleston as of Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Ashe, A. (2024, May 21). Gates remain closed at Charleston, inland ports amid ongoing software issue<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/gates-remain-closed-charleston-inland-ports-amid-ongoing-software-issue_20240521.html<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No cargo pickups or drop-offs were occurring throughout the South Carolina Ports Authority\u2019s (SC Ports\u2019) network Tuesday morning as SC Ports faced a second day dealing with a software issue that has disrupted its operations. \u201cSC Ports has made further progress on our gate issue, but it is not entirely resolved,\u201d the port authority said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-maritime","tag-us-ports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}