Luanda (AOLAD)

The Port of Luanda is a key hub for Angola's trade, exporting goods such as coffee, palm oil, diamonds, and petroleum products, while importing motor vehicles, machinery, iron, and oil. However, Ro-Ro vessels carrying both container cargoes and used vehicles must use the Port of Lobito due to the current lack of combined discharge facilities in Luanda.

Tropical.

Luanda is the capital and principal port of Angola, and is a natural harbour situated in a bay, protected to seaward by Luanda Island.

Harbour: LOA 348.51m, beam 70m, 147,207DWT. Offshore: LOA 249.9m, draught 13.41m, 109,992DWT.

Approx 17,000,000t of cargo, 650,000TEU and 4,000 vessels handled annually.

Vessels can obtain safe anchorage in Luanda Bay at small and large vessel anchorage areas. Good holding ground, sand and mud bottom. Depth at anchorage between 15.0 and 30.0m. Prohibited anchorage: Anchorage is prohibited within the area which serves as a turning basin for ships berthed at Commercial Quay. Anchoring is also prohibited in the vicinity of the oil berth WSW of Fortaleza de Sao Pedro de Barra.

Approach and entry: The port is approached from N and entered between Morro das Lagostas (08°45.3'S 013°18.4'E) and Ilha do Cabo, 2.25nm WSW. From a position approx 4nm NW of Morro das Lagostas Light (08°45.3'S 013° 18.4'E), the track leads SE for approx 3nm, passing (with positions relative to Morro das Lagostas Light): NE of No 1 Lightbuoy (starboard hand) 2nm WNW, marking the NE extremity of a shoal spit extending 0.65nm NE from the NE end of Ilha do Cobo. From a position 1nm NW of Morro das Lagostas Light, course is adjusted SW for 1.5nm to the vicinity of the pilot boarding position. Caution: Navigation aids are reported to be unreliable; they may be missing, unlit or out of position.

BA 303, 307, 312. Admiralty Pilot NP2, NP286(8).

1025.

Pilotage is compulsory for all national and foreign vessels from 500 gross tonnage vessels over 500GT and available from 0800 to 2200hrs. The pilot boarding area is situated in 08°45.7'S 013°16.2'E, 1nm S of No 1 Lightbuoy. The pilot launch is white in colour, flying pilot flag "H" and is fitted with VHF radio.

Ilha do Cabo Light is established from a white round column with red stripes, 11m in height near the NE extremity of the island. Pedras da Mae-Isabel Light is exhibited on a mooring base with black bands 6m in height, on the rocks of that name, which dry, 0.2nm NNW of the Customs House.

Speed limit in the harbour is 9kts. Berthing during daylight hours only. Unberthing is not permitted after midnight.

Mean spring range 1.4m; mean neap range 0.6m. Tidal stream: Within the bay, the ebb sets NE and the flood SW at rates of approx 0.5kt. Off the Commercial Quay, the flood stream is deflected along the berths fronting the Container Terminal.

Tugs should be ordered through agent with at least 24 hours before arrival/departure/shifting. EPINOSUL provides towing services to vessels across all terminals for operations such as berthing, unberthing, and relocating ships. Additionally, the company offers support in various exceptional circumstances, including: 1. Transporting personnel, supplies, spare parts, and delivering water. 2. Assisting with maintenance on port infrastructure and equipment. 3. Responding to requests for rescue operations or assistance for vessels both inside and outside the port. 4. Collaborating with other entities to perform technical services related to inspecting or maintaining equipment relevant to the port. 5. Assisting in emergency situations such as firefighting or containing spills of hydrocarbons and other hazardous substances.

Prevailing winds: SE'ly. With high SW winds the sea breaks over part of Ilha do Cabo, driving quantities of sand into the harbour. Quantities of soil are washed down from the heights during the rainy season, so that the SW part of the harbour that was at one time sufficiently deep for large vessels now dries.

LUANDA 8°47.56'S 13°15.27'E UNCTAD LOCODE: AO LAD ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 48/22 Portuguese Notice 6/221/22, (RSDRA2022000164986), 48/22

VHF: Port: Ch 16, 09, 12, 13, available 24 hours. Berthing: Ch 16, 09, 12. Marine Safety: Ch 16. Fire, Rescue, Evacuations & Pollution: Ch 08. Oil Terminal: Ch 72.

ETA should be sent to pilots 72 and 6 hours prior to arrival.

Vessels entering without a clean bill of health, or with any contagious sickness onboard, must exhibit a yellow flag at the foremast. The quarantineable diseases are yellow fever, cholera, typhoid fever, smallpox and measles. Health certificates must bear the signature of the Consul of the port at which they have been obtained, failing which a vessel will be placed in quarantine. Intermittent fevers are prevalent throughout the year at Luanda, Feb, Mar and Apr being the worst months. From Oct to Apr inhabitants may be subject to periodical epidemics of smallpox of a virulent kind.