Praia Mole (BRPRM)

Praia Mole comprises a coal pier and a quay dedicated to the export of steel products including slabs, billets, coils and plates.

Tropical.

Praia Mole is situated on the N side of Baia do Espirito Santo, 12km NE of Vitoria, adjacent to the port of Tubarao.

LOA 300m, beam 50m, draught 17.0m, 250,000DWT.

Approximately 25,000,000t of cargo handled annually.

Anchorage positions are as follows: ..... Latitude Longitude 20°17.30'S 040°13.26'W 20°18.24'S 040°13.19'W 20°19.01'S 040°14.01'W 20°18.06'S 040°14.13'W

The approach channel is the same as is used for vessels heading for Tubarao, turning starboard just beyond Buoy No 5, then rotating in the turning basin, with a diameter of 500m and a depth of 18m. Vessels should approach with caution.

Brazilian DHN 1401, 1410. BA 598, 599, 3972. USAHO 24171. Admiralty Pilot NP5, NP286(7).

No coastguard service available.

1025-1028.

Compulsory and vessels should give 2 hours prior notice by VHF. Based at Vitoria, available throughout 24 hours. The pilot boards in position 20°20.00'S 040°14.12'W, or at the waiting anchorage 2nm from the channel entrance. Vessels with more than 15.5m draught proceeding to the coal terminal will require two pilots.

The channel is marked by illuminated buoys.

Range 1.7m.

Tugs and mooring boats are provided from Vitoria and are compulsory.

Prevailing winds: NE'ly throughout the year, but sometimes SW'ly in winter.

PRAIA MOLE 20°17.72'S 40°14.16'W UNCTAD LOCODE: BR PRM For details see: VITУRIA-TUBARГO PILOT REQUIREMENTS ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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..... Port: VHF: Ch 16 and 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28. Tel: +55 27 3333 5624, Fax: +55 27 3333 5293. Website: http://www.vale.com Pilots (24hrs): VHF: Ch 16, 10, 12, 13, 14. Callsign: "Vitoria Pilots" Tel: +55 27 3200 3898. Fax: +55 27 3224 3866. Email: praticagem@practicagem.com.br Website: http://www.praticagem.com.br Tugs: VHF: Ch 13. 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. The immigration authorities require the Revenue Tax Levy Document, (DARF) of the "Funapol", (tax paid to the police equipment maintenance and renewal fund), upon berthing, arranged by the agent.

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 Y - 5. Transit Passengers List Y Y Y - 6. Negative Passenger List Y - - - 7. Passenger List - - Y 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. Cargo documentation: The Bill of Lading and corresponding manifest is to be surrendered to Customs prior to discharging of coal.

Vessel's ETA should be sent 15, 8, 7, 3, 2 days and 24 hours prior to arrival.

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 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.

NOR to be tendered/accepted as per relevant charter party.

Masters are required to cable COMCONTRAMAR, or via Telex: 2153213, 2153218 MMAR BR while navigating in compliance with normal circumstances.