Natal (BRNAT)

Exports consist of sisal fibre, kaolin and agricultural produce. Approx 30% of the port's cargo is the shipment of fruit. Offshore drilling for petroleum is also served.

Tropical.

Natal is situated on the right bank of the Portengi River, 3km from the beginning of the estuary.

LOA 190m, beam 30m. Max draught 9.3m, 2,100TEU.

Approx 570,000t of cargo, 39,000TEU and over 200 vessels handled annually.

Vessels awaiting a pilot should anchor and area 0.5nm E of Recife de Natal Light structure in depths of 10.0m to 12.0m, sand. The area is designated for vessels awaiting pilot or a berth. Maximum waiting time is 48 hours. This anchorage may also be used for up to 24 hours by vessels in transit provided the port captain is advised 24 hours before arrival. There is anchorage on good holding ground off the city, however as the SE wind blows constantly vessels usually anchor close off the wharf, in the certainty that they will not swing towards it. A fairway anchorage lies close to the E shore, 1nm SW of Recife de Natal Light. There are 3 submarine cables extending E then SE from Praia do Meio, approx 2nm S of Recife de Natal Light; vessels are prohibited from anchoring in their vicinity.

The S side of the entrance is formed by Recife de Natal, which borders the coast for 1.75nm to the S, at the head of which is Recife de Natal Light. Masters of vessels approaching Natal from the North will avoid all dangers by keeping at least 2.0nm offshore and should not steer for the harbour entrance until Recife de Natal Light (Fl(1).G.5s) a green square masonry tower, 12m in height and visible from 17.0nm (5°45.095'S 35 11.679'W) bears 235°. The port is entered through a gap 0.15nm wide, in the barrier reef, which forms a natural breakwater trending N and S, abreast the mouth of the river. The approach channel is approx 10.0m in depth with a width of 100m (wider upriver where the channel bends). On the N side of the entrance, Cabeca de Negro, an above water rock forms the extremity of the reef, from which depths of less than 5.5m extend 0.05nm S; to the end of it, the reef converges on the coast. The sea breaks continually on this part of the reef and the shoals between it and the coast.

BA 504, 3979. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(7). US 24230, 24233, 24234 and 24235. US Sailing Directions No 124 (East Coast of South America). Brazil: BR_802_ (Porto de Natal).

1025.

Turning Basin Length 540m, width 250m, depth 10.0m. It is recommended that berthing be carried out port side-to on the ebb tide and unberthing be done on the flood tide.

Compulsory. Pilot boards 1.25nm E of Recife de Natal Light (5 45.06'S 35 10.30'W) (approx and should be requested 2 hours before arrival. Pilotage is normally available 24hours (Vessels are advised to confirm this before entering the area). Includes Oil tankers, propane carriers, explosive cargo carriers and others with a gross tonnage of more than 2000. Pilotage is optional for vessels of less than 2,000GT, provided the Master is a Brazilian seafarer, with appropriate certification.

The Natal Light is a good landmark, near Ponta Mae Luiza. A conspicuous Television tower is located approx 2nm SSW of the Natal Light. There is also a water tower near the coast, approx 5nm S of Morrow do Pinto.

Controlling Depth: From the entrance bar to the main city wharf there is a least charted depth in the buoyed channel of 8.7m. However, depths alongside are 12.0m. Ponte de Todos bridge (05°45.36'S 035°12.15'W): Vertical clearance 55m. Horizontal clearance 184m.

Mean Spring Range 1.9m, Mean Neap Range 0.9m. The tidal streams are felt above Cidade de Natal. In the rainy season, approx Apr to Aug, the out-going tidal stream attains a rate of 2.5kts and tends to set an incoming vessel on to Cabeca de Negro, 05°45'S 035°12'W and Recife Baixinha; great caution is necessary when entering the river under these conditions. The in-going tidal stream attains a rate of 1.5kts. When making the port due allowance should be made for the currents which set very strongly onshore at times, especially during SE winds when the current is N-going. During NE winds the current is S-going. Currents set very strongly onshore at times, especially during SE winds when the current is N-going, due allowance should be made for these when making the port. During NE winds the current is S-going.

Tugs: Must be used for vessels over 160m in length and 8.m draught.

Prevailing winds: SE'ly.

NATAL 5°46.05'S 35°12.30'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR NAT ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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The port is a Bonded Port, allowing immediate recording in the SISCOMEX loading system and beginning of Customs Clearance. 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.

ETA should be advised 48hrs and 24hrs in advance. Pilots require 2 hours notice of ETA. The Port operates a Port Without Paper programme (see Country 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 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.