Melilla (ESMLN)

The port itself is sheltered with an entrance over 600m wide, which it shares with Port Nador (see separate entry), and good holding ground is available to the E. The port handles container, Ro-Ro passenger and liquid petroleum vessels. Cargo handled: Major exports: fruits, vegetables, tobacco, coffee and machinery. Major imports: Fuel oil, wheat, iron, steel products, chemical products, cement and clinker, construction materials, grains, fruits, vegetables, wine, beverages, canned products, tobacco, coffee, oil, lubricants, frozen fish, fodder, paper paste, machinery, mineral products and car parts.

Summer.

Melilla is a port under Spanish jurisdiction on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, close to Port Nador.

LOA 141.6m, 23.2m Beam, 13,125DWT.

Approx 850,000t of cargo, 18,000TEU, 1,600 vessels and 840,000 passengers handled annually.

Large vessels can anchor, in depths of 25.0-40m, mud and sand, good holding ground, in a rectangular area centred 0.8 mile E of the harbour entrance, but this roadstead is exposed to NE and E winds. Vessels carrying dangerous goods may anchor in a circular area centred 1.2nm NE of the head of the N breakwater.

Depth in entrance channel 12.5m LLW.

BA 580, 2437. Admiralty Pilot NP45, NP286(3).

1025.

Compulsory for vessels over 50GT and available 24 hours a day. The pilot requires 1 hour advance notice and boards near the harbour entrance. A vessel requiring a pilot should hoist the customary signal by day and at night should exhibit a white flashing light. In addition 4 long blasts followed by 4 short blasts may be sounded on the whistle or siren.

Melilla Light is exhibited from a dark grey tower with a gallery surmounting a building, 12m in height, with the top of the lantern an aluminium colour and the lower part covered with green tiles, standing on the NE bastion of the ramparts of Torreon de las Cabras at the NE end of the peninsula.

Range 0.4m (springs), 0.2 (neaps).

One tug, "Paula S", 2,200hp, available.

Prevailing winds: NW'ly. Dominant winds: NE'ly.

MELILLA 35°16.92'N 2°55.79'W UNCTAD LOCODE: ES MLN ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 20/25 Spanish Notice 15/121/25, (RSDRA2025000236074), 20/25

VHF: Ch 16. Port Authority: Tel: +34 952 673600. Fax: +34 952 674838. Email: sac@puertodemelilla.es. Pilots: Ch 16, 12, 14. Tel: +34 952 681650. Fax: +34 952 686101. Email: pracmeli@practicos.e.telefonica.net.

Crew List, Cargo Manifest, Health Declaration.

At least 24 hours notice to be given prior to arrival.

According to the EU regulations.