Cabedelo (BRCDO)

The Port of Cabedelo, with its privileged position and perfect integration of maritime transportation, rail and road, have set up in the best logistical option of Northeast Central region, extending their area of ??influence beyond the state of Paraiba currencies. The port handle general cargo, tanker and Ro-Ro. Minor vessel repairs are possible.

Tropical.

Cabedelo is located on the E bank of the estuary, Northern Paraiba River and is situated approx 200km N of Recife.

LOA 200m, draught 11m.

Anchorage may be obtained NE of the entrance to the approach channel, with Pedra Seca Light tower bearing 207°, distance 2nm. Anchorage may also be obtained in the harbour entrance 0.5nm SW of Ponta do Molhe, in depths of 6.0m to 8.0m, swinging room is limited by proximity to the 5.5m depth contour. The quarantine anchorage which is also designated for vessels less than 5,000GT, is established 0.2nm S of the S end of the quay in depths of 5.0m to 6.0m, mud. Small craft may also anchor in Canal de Porto Velho. Anchorage No. 1 used by vessels of more than 5m draught.

The mouth of Rio Paraiba lies between Ponta de Mato and Ponta de Santo Antonio 1.5nm W. The river is approached through a gap in the Barrier Reef 1.5nm wide, within this gap the channel leading to the mouth of the river is narrowed by submerged rocks and sandbanks. Caution: The sandbanks are constantly shifting and the approach must not be attempted without a pilot. The entrance to the approach channel to Rio Paraiba lies 1.2nm NNE of Pedra Seca and is marked by No 2 Lightbuoy. Thereafter the channel is marked by lightbuoys in accordance with the IALA Maritime Buoyage System, (Region "B"). The approach channel passes between isolated shoal banks, with depths over them of from 4-5.5m, lying close S and shoals extending over 1nm ENE from Pedra Nova. Between No 1 and No 4 Lightbuoys the channel narrows to a width of less than 0.1nm.

BA 960, 3978, 3979. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(7).

1020-1025.

Compulsory. Vessels must wait ENE, 0.75nm off Pedra Seca Light. Vessel's ETA should be sent to the pilotage authority 12 hours prior to arrival. Only daytime berthing and unberthing available at Cabedelo. Pilots must be contacted during daytime. Pilots make contact with vessel 1hr before arrival on VHF Ch 16.

Only daytime berthing an unberthing at Cabedelo.

Range 2.2m (springs), 1m (neaps). The current must be considered when the river mouth is approached. In winter when the SE winds are strongest, the predominant current sets N or NW, in summer when the wind backs, it sets S or SW. An ebb stream of up to 5kts at spring tides may be experienced when inside the river mouth.

The port has two tugs available. Ship's line used for tugs.

Prevailing winds: SE'ly.

CABEDELO 6°58.22'S 34°50.46'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR CDO ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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Radio: National Coastal Radio Stations Network (RENEC): The National Coastal Stations Network offers free communication facilities for messages concerning the safety of human life at sea such as: Distress calls, urgent medical advice, notices to mariners, meteorological messages, etc. The network comprises of 39 stations along the coast of Brazil and in the Amazon River, distributed as follows: ..... 1. One main station at Rio de Janeiro (PPR), with facilities available for communication via radio telegraphy (WT) and radio telephony (RT), with vessels sailing in almost every sea and ocean. 2. Three regional stations located at Belem (PPL), Olinda (PPO) and Rio Grande (PPJ), able to communicate via WT and RT with vessels up to approx 600nm distant. 3. Three local stations at Manaus (PPM), Santarem (PPT) and Itajai (PPC) responsible for communications via RT with vessels approx 200nm distant. 4. Seven restricted local stations at Santos (PPS), Paranagua (PPG), Porto Alegre (PPP), Vitoria (PPV), Natal (PPN), Fortaleza (PPF) and Salvador (PPA) able to communicate via RT with vessels sailing in the immediate vicinity. 5. The remaining 25 stations handle local RT communications. VHF: Ch 14, 16.

Contraband: Brazilian laws are very strict with respect to smuggling and masters are requested to instruct their crews not to take more than 2 packets of cigarettes and other articles ashore. Cigarettes in cartons, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, narcotics, souvenirs, explosives, firearms, etc should be collected prior to arrival in port and listed with the items in the Crew's Personal Effects List and placed in the custody of the master. Immigration: All a vessel's passengers and/or crew members may only enter the national territory after their documents have been inspected by the federal police department, the revenue authorities and the port health authorities. Vessels owners are responsible for the disembarkation and the embarkation of transit passengers as well as crew members who fail to join a vessel before it sails. Such responsibility includes the maintenance and other expenses until repatriation. In the event of non existence of a compulsory deposit as guarantee to cover such expenses, owners will sign, at the federal police department, a form of responsibility inherent to such obligations as therein expressed.

The following documents must be ready for visiting authorities on arrival at Brazilian ports, such documents varying in the number of copies required and the nature, depending on the type of vessel and the peculiarities of the port, should be ascertained by the master, through the agent, prior to the vessel's arrival: ..... Document FRB HA MP PC 1. General Declaration Y Y Y 2. Crew List Y Y Y Y 3. Crew Personal Effects List Y 4. Disembarking Passenger List Y Y 5. Transit Passengers List Y Y 6. Negative Passenger List Y 7. Passenger List Y 8. Stores List (by department) Y 9. Cargo Manifest Y 10. Maritime Health Declaration Y 11. Health Certificate (from last port) Y 12. Maritime Police Pass Y FRB = Federal Revenue Bureau; HA = Health Authorities; MP = Maritime Police; PC = Port Captaincy. The documents required by the port captaincy are on special forms: Crew List (form Fal 5) and Passenger List (form Fal 6). Documents required on sailing: The following are required: ..... 1. Request for Clearance or Visa (original) 2. Passenger List (form Fal 6) 3. Embarkation Pass, issued by the Federal Internal Revenue Office (required from all vessels proceeding abroad) 4. Departure (sailing) Pass issued by the Federal Police (required from all vessels proceeding abroad) 5. General Declaration (form Fal 1) 6. Copy of the payment form of the Federal Internal Revenue Tax Levy Document (DARF) of the Tariff for Utilising Lighthouses (TUF) 7. Outgoing Pass.

Vessels ETA should be sent to the agent 48 hours in advance for berthing and cargo information.

All vessels, while in Brazilian ports, must fly the Brazilian national flag from 0800hrs to sunset.

Free pratique: Vessels which are not proceeding from infected ports may be granted free pratique, by radio, which does not exempt the vessel owner or his agent from the delivery, to the port health authority, of the Advice of Arrival. A vessel with free pratique is permitted to proceed directly to berth. A vessel coming from an infected port which has obtained free pratique at a Brazilian port, is exempted from further inspection for mosquitoes at other Brazilian ports of call, unless it has called en route to another infected port. The free pratique does not exempt the vessel from being visited by the port health authority when the latter considers this to be necessary, but such visits will always be carried out subsequent to berthing without jeopardising vessel operations. When their is a sick passenger or crew member to be landed, the vessel must fly Interco flag "Q". For granting free pratique the following documentation is required: ..... 1. Vessel details: a. Name, class and flag. b. Name of port and country (or Brazilian state) where voyage started and date of departure. c. Port(s) of call, country(ies) (or Brazilian state(s)) with respective dates. Mention the last 5 ports. 2. Sanitary conditions onboard: a. The occurrence of a death onboard. b. The occurrence of any sickness. c. The occurrence of any sickness with one of the following symptoms: Fever (temperature over 37.5°C) during a period in excess of 48 hours accompanied by skin eruption, jaundice, or ganglia inflammation; acute moderate to serious diarrhoea. d. The occurrence of great morality of rodents. e. The occurrence of medicine consumption during the voyage, indicate the name and quantity supplied per person. f. Amount of fresh water available onboard. Indicate where the last supply of fresh water took place. g. In case of a vessel in ballast, advise where the ballast water intake took place and the quantity. 3. Operational conditions of the systems of dejection and used water: a. Is there a possibility that faecal objects which had not been treated could be expelled in to the waters of the port. b. Description of drainage system and sanitary treatment. c. The cubic capacity of the dejecting/used water tank and its capacity in number of days of retention. d. The stock of disinfectant material, if this is the case. A Letter of Guarantee to comply with the following: 1. Confirmation of exact time of arrival of the vessel, one hour ahead of arrival. 2. Definition of vessel berthing position. 3. Deballasting of dejection/used water tank 12nm from the coast and its immediate sealing. 4. Not to jettison waste assembled onboard during the vessel's stay in port. 5. Absence of infestation by vermin (mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats) in vessel compartments. 6. Absence of cargo accidents with risk to public health and the environment. To present, on berthing, the following documents: 1. Maritime Health Declaration 2. Crew List 3. Passenger List 4. List of psychotropics and drugs 5. List of cargo to be discharged and loaded 6. List of yellow fever international vaccination certificates of crew members and passengers. 7. Ship Sanitation Control Certificate 8. Free pratique document issued by sanitary authority in another Brazilian port.