Fortaleza (BRFOR)

The port consists of a commercial wharf, a fishing wharf and a pier for tankers. The commercial wharf is comprised of five berths which handle general cargo, containers and dry bulk cargoes and is operated by Companhia Docas do Estado do Ceara. The tanker pier is operated by Petrobras and consists of an inner and outer berth which can handle tanker vessels of up to 54,000DWT.

Tropical.

The port of Fortaleza is located on the N Brazilian coast, midway between Recife and Belem, in Mucuripe Bay.

LOA 299.50m, beam 40.0m, draught 11.0m, 71,438DWT.

There are designated anchorage areas within Enseada de Nucuripe. The charted anchorage areas are used as follows: ..... Anchorage Area Use Anchorage Area 1 Vessels with a draught greater than 7.0m Anchorage Area 2 Vessels more than 2,000GT, draught up to 7.0m Anchorage Area 3 Vessels of 200 - 2,000GT Anchorage Area 4 Harbour support craft Anchorage Area 5 Fishing boats and motor boats Anchorage Area 6 Non-powered fishing vessels Anchorage Area 7 Vessels with draught greater than 9.0m Depending on vessel size and description, Anchorage Area 1 and Anchorage Area 2 are also designated Quarantine and Explosive Anchorage Areas.

The approach channel has a length 1,200m, width of 100m, depth 10.0-11.0m, beginning at the external part of the port and extending to the manoeuvring basin. In the buoyed approach channel the depth is 11.0m and leads from the S pilot boarding area to the quays. In the manoeuvring basin and the internal anchorage the depth of water varies from 7.0-11.0m. The manoeuvring basin, width 300m, depth 8.0-10.0m, extends the entire length of the quays.

BA 526, 3955 and 3957. Brazilian Chart 701. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(7).

1025.

Pilotage is provided by Ceara Marine Pilots at Foraleza, who also operate services for Mucuripe. Pilotage is compulsory and should be ordered through the vessel's agent or via Fortaleza coast radio station, VHF Ch 16, 10, 2 hours prior to ETA or ETD. The pilot boards as follows: ..... 1. At the anchorage in position, 03°41.69'S 038°29.88'W, for vessels of less than 9.0m draught. 2. At the anchorage in position, 03°40.10'S 038°29.50'W, for vessels of 9.0m draught or more.

The port of Fortaleza is bounded by the Titan's breakwater to the N, by a line from its extremity bearing 235°, by the meridian 038°29.08'W and by the coast.

Mucuripe Lighthouse 03°43.6'S 038°28.3'W. 4 wind turbines 03°42.1'S 038°28.4'W.

Range 1.64m neaps, 2.82m springs.

There are 6 tugs available with capacity of 1,010-2,406hp. The amount of tugs required depends on the size of vessel, details for which are advised and can also be found in the Port Regulations.

Prevailing winds: SE-E'ly.

FORTALEZA 3°42.91'S 38°31.07'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR FOR For details see: MUCURIPE PILOT REQUIREMENTS ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

MUCURIPE, INCLUDING FORTALEZA 3°42.51'S 38°28.57'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR FOR ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 06/22 Brazilian Notice 23/197/21, (RSDRA2021000354333), 6/22 ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

..... Harbour Master: Tel: +55 (0) 85 32246566. (24 hours) Port Authority: VHF: Ch 16, 09,10, 13. (24 hours) Tel: +55 (0) 85 32668800. Email: cearaportos@cearaportos.ce.gov.br Website: http://www.docasdoceara.com.br Tugs: VHF: Ch 10. (24 hours). Pilots: VHF: Ch 16, 13. Tel: +55 (0) 85 32424638. Fax: +55 (0) 85 32424636. Email: cemap@cearapilots.com.br Website: http://www.cearapilots.com.br 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.

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.

Port without paper programme: The Brazilian Federal Ports Bureau's Porto Sem Papel - PSP (Port Without Paper) programme was implemented at Santos Port in 2011. Initially, this will work alongside the old paper system. Several ports are now using PSP, including Fortaleza. It is planned to introduce this system at all 34 public ports of Brazil. See Country Section for additional information. The following paper 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: ..... 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.

At least two hours notice of ETA should be given to pilots.

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

Vessels may only berth once cargo has been cleared. Once berthed, the vessel is to operate without stopping, reaching a rate of 70tph/gang. Should vessel stop for any reason other than "Force Majeure" of should rate not be attained, the port operator will be fined by the port administration and wharfage will be charged at double the normal rate against the vessel.

Free pratique: Vessels which are not proceeding from infected ports may be granted free pratique, by radio, which does not exempt the ship 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 there 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. Issue of Ship Sanitation Control Certificate and Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificates possible.