Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. Terminal Wharf

Owner: South Carolina State Ports Authority
Cost: $50M
Completion Date: April 2020

Scope of Services:

Dredging and upload disposal of approximately 141,000 cubic yards of spoil material
Removal and replacement of existing stone revetment
Setting and driving approximately 581 pre-cast concrete piles with steel stingers
Erection of pre-cast concrete pile caps and deck panels
Cast in place concrete deck topping
Installation of cone fenders, bollards and ship’s water service stations
Installation of Ship to Shore container crane rails, pin sockets and tie-downs

Cape Romain Contractors entered into a Joint Venture with McLean Contracting Company headquartered in Glen Burnie, MD, to construct The South Carolina State Ports Authority’s Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. Wharf facility in North Charleston, SC. The first section of wharf is 1,400 feet long by 122 feet wide and was designed to support the modern port cranes that SCSPA purchased to offload the much larger "Post-Panamax" ships that now traverse the widened Panama Canal. The project will begin with dredging operations in the Cooper River, followed by pile driving, and then the erection of the precast concrete pile cap and deck system. Toward the end of the project, crane rails and fixtures, as well as fenders will be installed to prepare the wharf to receive the new cranes in the Spring of 2020.