{"id":310,"date":"2018-10-10T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2018\/10\/10\/hurricane-shutdown-for-florida-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:10:40","slug":"hurricane-shutdown-for-florida-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2018\/10\/10\/hurricane-shutdown-for-florida-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane shutdown for Florida ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zulu is set when gale-force winds are possible within 12 hours. As of 9 October, all commercial port operations from Cedar Key to Tarpon Spring have been suspended and commercial and recreational vessel operators are urged to seek safe harbour.<\/p>\n<p>X-ray condition ports and facilities, including Savannah and Charleston, are open to all commercial traffic but all ocean-going commercial vessels and oceangoing barges greater than 500 gross tonnes should make plans for departing the port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaritime and port facilities are reminded to review and update their heavy weather response plans and make any additional preparations needed to adequately prepare in case of a potential impact to the area,\u201d warned USCG in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Homeport website showed the Port of Cedar Key as closed and Edgmont Key as open with restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has set port condition Zulu for northern Florida Gulf Coast ports and port condition X-ray for ports in Georgia, South Carolina, and all other terminals and facilities, in preparation for the impact of Hurricane Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}