Itaqui Pt / Sao Luis (BRIQI)

Port Itaqui mainly handles solid and liquid bulk.

Tropical.

Itaqui is located in the municipality of Sao Luis, capital of Maranhao, within Sao Marcos Bay, in the Northeast region of Brazil.

LOA 362m, beam 65.0m, draught 21.5m, 403,880DWT.

Approx. 35,000,000t of cargo, 15,000TEU and 1,100 vessels are handled annually.

..... Point Latitude Longitude Anchorage Area No. 01: Centre Point 1° 53.460'S 44° 2.880'W Anchorage Area No. 02: A. 2° 2.900'S 44° 3.400'W B. 2° 5.400'S 44° 3.400'W C. 2° 6.000'S 44° 7.200'W D. 2° 4.400'S 44° 6.100'W Anchorage Area No. 03: A. 2° 8.300'S 44° 8.700'W B. 2° 10.900'S 44° 9.000'W C. 2° 12.100'S 44° 10.000'W D. 2° 12.100'S 44° 11.000'W Anchorage Area No. 04: A. 2° 19.250'S 44° 12.200'W B. 2° 21.400'S 44° 9.600'W C. 2° 24.400'S 44° 12.800'W D. 2° 27.400'S 44° 17.200'W E. 2° 26.600'S 44° 19.400'W Anchorage Area No. 05: A. 2° 22.200'S 44° 20.300'W B. 2° 25.000'S 44° 21.300'W C. 2° 24.400'S 44° 22.200'W D. 2° 20.100'S 44° 20.400'W Anchorage Area No. 06: A. 2° 26.600'S 44° 24.500'W B. 2° 29.200'S 44° 24.000'W C. 2° 30.600'S 44° 25.400'W D. 2° 29.800'S 44° 26.000'W Anchorage Area No. 07: A. 2° 33.600'S 44° 25.000'W B. 2° 34.000'S 44° 23.600'W C. 2° 35.500'S 44° 24.300'W D. 2° 34.800'S 44° 25.700'W Anchorage Area No. 08: A. 2° 35.400'S 44° 26.000'W B. 2° 34.800'S 44° 25.700'W C. 2° 35.500'S 44° 24.300'W D. 2° 36.800'S 44° 24.800'W E. 2° 36.200'S 44° 26.000'W Anchorage Area No. 01: Not fully loaded, en route to Terminal da Ponta de Madeira, with draughts more than 11.0m (or 80,000GT). Also for vessels under repair or involved in legal proceedings. Anchorage Area No. 02: Intended for loaded vessels with draught above 20.0m awaiting for tidal conditions to pass buoys 2, 4, 10 and 14. Anchorage Area No. 03: Intended for loaded vessels with draught above 20.0m awaiting for tidal conditions to pass buoys 2, 4, 10 and 14 - when Area No. 02 is occupied. Anchorage Area No. 04: Reserved for vessels with max. draught 11.0m awaiting berths. Anchorage Area No. 05: Reserved for vessels with max. draught 11.0m awaiting berths. Anchorage Area No. 06: Reserved for vessels with max. draught 11.0m and 80,000t displacement. Anchorage Area No. 07: Reserved for vessels with max. draught 11.0m and 80,000t displacement. Anchorage Area No. 08: Area used for loading/unloading explosives and fuel. Note: Agreement from the local Port Authority is required before anchoring in Areas 6, 7 and 8. Vessels bound for Porto de Sao Louis should proceed the Outer Anchorage and Pilot Boarding Area for the port. Brazilian government officials may board vessels in the anchorage area to perform clearance formalities. A suitable and adequate accommodation ladder must be provided soon after anchoring.

The approach channel has a width of 1,852m, a length of 1,800m and a min depth of 23.0m. The channel commences abreast of Medo Island and terminates abreast of Guarapira Island. The bar and the approach channel are free from obstacles, depths vary between 16m and 56m, the bottom is sand. The depth of water alongside the Itaqui quays vary from 9.5-19m LW, in the manoeuvring basin and at the anchorage the depth of water is 14m LW.

BA 541, 543, 565, Brazil 400, 310, 411, 412, 413, 414. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(7).

LW 1017, HW 1019 (rainy season); LW 1009, HW 1012 (dry season).

PONTA DA MADEIRA: Dock structures are made of reinforced concrete, supported by concrete piles with metallic sleeves distributed with 4 breasting dolphins (located in front of the shiploader runway, length 170m); 6 mooring dolphins; a shiploader runway; support for the shiploader pilot boat; tug berth and access bridge to service road and walkways. The total distance between the outer mooring dolphins, N to S in direction, is 490m. the elevation of the breasting dolphins is 11.60m and elevation of mooring dolphins 11.00m in relation to CD.

Pilotage is compulsory from No 19 Lightbuoy and should be arranged through the agent giving at least 24 hours and 4 hours notice of ETA and 2 hours notice of ETD. There are two pilotage organisations, Pratimar Pilots and SERVPRAT Pilots, which operate in the area. Itaqui pilotage area is divided into two sections: ..... 1. From Recife Manoel Luis (BF-1) Light Vessel (0°49.00'S 44°16.00'W) to No 190 Light Buoy (2°27.64'S 44°22.17'W). Pilotage is optional and should be ordered in advance. 2. From No 19 Light Buoy to the port and terminals. Pilotage is compulsory in this area and should be arranged through the agent giving 24 hours and 4 hours notice of ETA and 2 hours notice of ETD. Vessels bound for oil berths should advise ETA via agent 24 hours prior to arrival. Pilot boards in following positions: ..... 1. 2°28.90'S 44°22'.20'W for vessels of 11.0m or less draught. 2. 2°22.00'S 44°18'.33'W (between Light Buoys No 17 and 22 for vessels over 11.0m draught). 3. If requested in advance, pilotage can be provided from the Recife Manoel Luis (BF-1) Light Vessel (0°49.00'S 44°16.00'W).

Ponta da Madeira and Porto de Itaqui: Ponta da Sao Marcos Light (2°29.30'S 44°18.12'W). Ilha do Medo Light (2°31.35'S 44°21.93'W).

Vessels arriving at the Itaqui tanker berth should approach approx 1 hour before HW. Vessels with a draught in excess of 7.0m should only manoeuvre when the current is slight. They should only berth at half flood or HW. There are no restrictions for manoeuvring vessels at night, with the exception of occurrences such as adverse weather conditions, light beacons not working or port operations which may require time restrictions. Ponta da Madeira Terminal: Berthing for vessels over 100,000DWT is restricted to tidal stream rates of less than 3kts and to rates of less than 4kts for vessels under 100,000DWT.

Range from -0.3m to 7.1m at springs. During spring tides, approx 3 hours after the start of ebb or flood tide, current rate reaches 5-6kts. Depths at High Water are generally 5.0m higher than at Low Water.

Port Control is carried out by Empresa Maranhense de Administracao Portuaria (Emap).

There are 6 tugs available, bollard pull between 41t and 60t. Contact Consorcio de Rebocadores da Baia de sao Marcos, Tel: +55 98 3235 2349, Fax: +55 98 3235 2488 or Consorcio de Rebocadores da Baia de Sao Marcos (Sao Marcos Bay Tugboating Consortium), Internacional Maritima (Maritime International), and Smith Rebras.

Prevailing winds: SE'ly.

..... Port Captain: VHF: Ch 16 Tel: +55 98 3231 1022 Terminal Control: VHF: Ch 06 Tel: +55 98 3217 3271, Fax: +55 98 3210 3251 Port Authority: Tel: +55 98 3216 6000, Fax: +55 98 3216 6060 Website: http://www.portodoitaqui.ma.gov.br Terminal Operators: Tel: +55 98 3217 3380. (24 hours) Fax: +55 98 3217 3202. Website: http://www.transpetro.com.br Pratimar Pilots VHF: Ch 16 and 14. Call: "Sao Luis Pilot". (Operations) Tel: +55 98 3223 8586 or 8587 or 8588. Email: plantao@pratimar.com.br Pratimar Pilots Tel: +55 98 3223 8585 or 8584 or 8582. (Aministration) Email: pratimar@pratimar.com.br Website: hottp://www.pratimar.com.br SERVPRAT Pilots: VHF: Ch 16 and 06 Tel: +55 98 3223 6666 (Administration) Tel: +55 98 3233 6688 (Operations) 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 and meteorological messages. 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.

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. Alumar Terminal: ..... Document Copies 1. Crew List 6 2. Stores List 3 3. Crew Personal Effects 3 4. Passenger List (or negative) 6 5. Ballast Declaration 1 6. NOR - 7. Bill of Lading (non negotiable) - 8. Cargo receipt - 9. Statement of facts - 10. Draught survey results - 11. Cargo Manifest - Masters shall approve and sign the NOR, Bill of Lading, Draught survey result, statement of facts and cargo receipt as required by the shippers and agents. The following should be available for inspection: ..... 1. Crew and Passenger Vaccination List 2. Ship's Data 3. Fuel, diesel, water quantities on arrival 4. Ship Sanitation Control or Exemption Certificate. EMAP is responsible for inspection during boarding and disembarkation, as well as during the crossing and also for: Crew license check; Inspection of rescue equipment; Inspection of service to the capacity of vessels.

Ponta da Madeira Terminal: Vessel's ETA should be advised 15 days (or on leaving previous port if later), and 8 days (by telex) in advance. Vessels should also send ETA 48 hours (with request for pilot and anchorage instruction) and 24 hours (with gas free condition and any amendments to previous messages) in advance. Vessels should contact the terminal on VHF and confirm request for pilotage 4 hours in advance of ETA.

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

The port, health, police and customs authorities will visit vessels at the anchorage or at the berth. The visits of the above mentioned authorities will be carried out as follows: ..... 1. At any hour of the day or night, Sun and holidays included; 2. Vessels will be visited in the chronological order of their arrival; 3. All vessels arriving from Belem, Manaus and Macapa and also from Amazon regions are subject to a visit from the port health authorities. All vessels leaving the port bound for foreign ports will be visited by the Maritime police, as per current legislation. Note: Vessels over 18 years old visiting Ponta da Madeira terminal are required to have a certificate from a recognised surveyor or Classification Society, attesting that the vessel is in good condition.

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 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 and Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificates possible. Free pratique should be requested by radio 72 hours prior to arrival, by forwarding quarantine message to the port health authorities through the vessel's agent. Ship Sanitation Control and Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificates can be issued.