Niteroi (BRNTR)

The port is used for ship repairs, maintenance and logistics for offshore activities. Naval activities take place within the port area.

Tropical.

The port of Niteroi is situated on the E shore of Guanabara Bay, near to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Max LOA 190m, beam 35m, draught 7m and 16,000DWT.

Guanabara Bay offers exceptional protection from all the regions prevailing winds. Vessels should pay max attention to the large number of areas and sectors where anchoring is forbidden. In Rio de Janeiro they are numerous designated anchorage areas including: ..... Name Designated Location 1. Quarantine and Customs 22°53.05'S., 43°08.85'W 1A. Platforms 22°54.01'S., 43°08.63'W 2 (Area 1). Naval 22°54.49'S., 43°09.19'W 2 (Area 2). Naval 22°53.57'S., 43°09.43'W 2 (Area 3). Naval 22°51.67'S., 43°08.64'W 3. Barges, containers, and refuelling 22°52.73'S, 43°09.83'W 4. Cargo Vessels 22°52.68'S., 43°10.81'W 5. Barges 22°53.04'S., 43°10.84'W 6. Vessels under repair and working 22°51.13'S., 43°11.23'W 6A. Vessels under repair 22°49.97'S., 43°08.21'W 7. Dangerous Cargo 22°49.45'S., 43°07.28'W 8. Tankers 22°48.87'S., 43°08.36'W 9. Tankers 22°47.97'S., 43°07.98'W 10. LNG Vessels 22°47.34'S., 43°07.60'W 11. Platforms 22°54.56'S., 43°08.38'W 12. Suzano Petrochemical Terminal 22°46.02'S., 43°08.98'W

The port is approached from the dredged channel leading into Guanabara Bay and entered either from SW by passing between Toque-Toque Point (22°52.7'S., 043° 07.9'W) and Mocangue Island, 0.2nm NW; or from NW between Mocangue Island and Viana Island, 0.2nm further NE. Entrance to Guanabara Bay is in front of the Sugar Loaf, (on the Rio de Janeiro side) and the Santa Cruz fort (Niteroi side). It has an average depth of 12.0m except close to the Sugar Loaf where the access channel is situated, which has a depth of over 17.0m.On the Niteroi side there is another access channel, close to the Tabaiba bridge, with depths in excess of 15.0m. The maritime access to the port of Niteroi is via a channel with a width of 70m, which runs between the Ilha do Caju and the continent. This channel is an extension of the access channel to the Rio de Janeiro Naval Base - Mocangue Grande Island. The basin of Niteroi is 430m long, 250m and has a depth of 6m.

BA 566, 3971. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(5).

1025.

Compulsory and pilots board at the quarantine anchorage (22°53.05'S., 43° 08.85'W). Prior to entering, vessels must get approval at the quarantine anchorage. Pilots should be requested via the vessel's agent 24 hours prior to arrival including the vessel's draught.

Lighthouses of Morro do Pao de Acucar and Fortaleza de Santa Cruz.

The vertical clearance of the bridge that runs from Niteroi to Rio de Janeiro Naval Base - Mocangue Grande Island is 19m. It is reported that a wreck lies close N to the berths within the Rio de Janeiro Naval Base - Mocangue Grande Island and has a reported depth of 8.3m.

Range 1.4m.

There are tugs ranging from 310-3,200hp available.

Prevailing winds: S'ly.

NITERУI 22°52.51'S 43°07.74'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR NTR For details see: RIO DE JANEIRO PILOT REQUIREMENTS ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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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: See under Rio de Janeiro. Maritime Authority contact info: Telephone: +55 21 2104 5308 Customs contact info Telephone: +55 24 3364 8250 Pilots contact info Telephone: +55 21 2516 1336 / +51 22 2233 4562 Facsimile: +55 21 2233 9738 Tugs contact info Telephone: +55 21 2107 3554 Facsimile: +55 21 2233 3479

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 Niteroi. It is planned to introduce this system to 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: 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.

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

Vessels arriving from foreign ports will be cleared by the port authorities at the visiting anchorage, or at the docks, or while shifting to the docks. Passenger vessels have priority for clearance. Vessels destined for the oil terminals at the inner part of the bay and with a berth already designated on arrival should keep engines on stand-by at the designated anchorage, where the authorities will board the vessel proceeding immediately to the terminal.

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.