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Pre Arrival:  Overview | Location | Charts | Limits   ...
Arrival:  Approaches | Pilotage | Anchorages
Communications:  Pratique | Pre-Arrival | VHF | VTS/Radar
Berthing Ops:  Tugs | Berths
Cargo:  Breakbulk | Bulk | Containers | Cruise | Tankers   ...
Pollution:  Ballast | Pollution | Waste | Slops
Facilities:  Medical | Water | Fuel | Chandlery | Storing   ...
Security:  Police etc | Emergency | Fire | Security   ...
Local Info:  Holidays | Weather | Congestion
Report:  Report

Summary

Max. Size:  Breakbulk:  Draft 14.5 m. (tidal). Containers:  200,000 d.w.t., LOA 320 m., beam 42.0 m., draft 14.5 m. (tidal). Bulk:  200,000 d.w.t., LOA 300 m., beam 42.0 m., draft 16.5 m. (tidal). Tankers:  Draft 17.0 m. Crude:  LOA 280 m., beam 48.0 m., draft 17.0 m. (tidal). Products:  LOA 280 m., beam 48.0 m., draft 17.0 m. (tidal). Chemicals:  Beam 32.5 m., draft 14.5 m. (tidal). Gas:  LOA 230 m., beam 48.0 m., draft 14.0 m. (tidal).
Fuel:  Available.
Airport:  Visakhapatnam Int'l, 14 km.
Repairs/Drydocks:  244 x 38 m., capacity 70,000 d.w.t.
Medical:  Facilities available.
Visakhapatnam
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INVTZ

Also known as Vizag
OVERVIEW:  One of India’s regional ports that has been undergoing extensive progressive growth Inner port handles breakbulk, bulk ores, chemicals, edible oils, fertiliser, finished metal products, heavy lift, petroleum products and project cargoes. Outer harbour handles breakbulk, bulk ores, containers, crude oil, LPG and petroleum products. Further offshore the SPM handles crude oil and to the north is the fishing harbour. The port also has a large naval base.
LOCATION:  East coast of India, about 600 km. NE of Chennai.
CHARTS:  Digital: IN3308OV, IN3308OV, IN43002P, IN63012P and IN63035V.
Paper: BA IN3002, IN3012, IN3035, IN308 and 319.
US 63291, 63293 and 63295.
Publications:  NP21, Bay of Bengal Pilot.
PORT LIMITS:  9 n.m. east of, and parallel to, 10.0 m. line of soundings may be taken as the seaward boundary of the port within which a vessel is considered to be an ``arrived vessel''.
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