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Among Piers: South Carolina Ports COO Woman of the Year Berthing announcements and other good news from ports coast to coast 0 1,056 8 minutes read Two ship-to-shore cranes arrived at the Port of Charleston in late February. (Photo: English Purcell/South Carolina Ports Authority) Barbara Melvin, the South Carolina Ports Authority’s chief operating officer, has been named the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance’s 2021 Woman of the Year. Melvin is one of the few female port COOs. She manages such critical infrastructure projects as the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal, set to open th...

Golden Ray Update: Work shifts to removing Section Two after cutting chain fails Golden Ray Update: Work shifts to removing Section Two after cutting chain fails By WTOC Staff | February 28, 2021 at 10:15 PM EST - Updated March 1 at 12:09 AM BRUNSWICK, Ga. (WTOC) - Responders have shifted their focus to Section Two of the Golden Ray wreck in St. Simons Sound after a link in the cutting chain failed on February 26, according to an update from St. Simons Sound Incident Response. Last month workers began preparations to remove Section Seven of the Golden Ray. The failure of the cutting chai...

Crews working on the wreck removal of the Golden Ray have resumed cutting operations after a slight delay to conduct maintenance to the cutting apparatus. Cutting operations resumed early Wednesday morning to separate Section Seven, which will be the third section of the wreck to be cut off and removed. Cutting of the section began in late January, but the operation was put on hold after a joining link connecting the cutting chain to the pulley system failed, causing the chain to fall into the cutting groove on the topside of the wreck. No injuries were reported as a result of the failure.

Crews complete cutting operations to separate stern from Golden Ray Removal of bow, stern of cargo ship creates more concerns for Altamaha Riverkeeper Updated:  Tags:  The next section of the Golden Ray is ready to be put on a barge and taken away. Crews completed cutting operations to separate the stern from the Golden Ray on Saturday evening, the St. Simons Sound Incident Response said Sunday. Once lifting preparations are complete, a barge will move into position to receive the section of the cargo ship that became stranded off the Georgia coast. “The barge will then transit to Mayor�...

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