Kochi (JPKCZ)

The port has extensive public and private berthage. The main cargoes handled are cement, oil, steel and general household goods, There are also passenger/cruise facilities located at the port.

Summer.

Kochi is located midway along the S coast of Shikoku Island, in the estuary of Kagami Kawa.

LOA 294m, beam 37.5m, draught 14m, 56,874DWT.

Approx 4,400,000t of cargo and 14,000TEU handled annually.

Anchorage basin with a depth of 4.0-9.0m is sand or mud bottom. Quarantine anchorage: A quarantine anchorage is centred 1nm SSE of Shimo-Ryuzu Saki. There is a spoil ground, marked by bamboo poles with white lights attached, close NE of the quarantine anchorage. There is a disused spoil ground farther to the NE.

Draught limitation in the channel: Actual depth of water: 7.0m (7.5m at high tide). The main channel has a depth of 7.5m, length 4,945m and width 100m. Approaches to Shimo-Ryuzu Saki: Shimo-Ryuzu Saki (33°30'N 131°34'E) is on the SE extremity of the promontory forming the S side of the entrance to Kochi Ko. Kochi Lighthouse stands near the top of the point. A red lookout tower stands on the summit of Shiro Yama, 60m high, situated 0.17nm NW of Shimo-Ryuzu Saki. Two radio towers. each 13m in height and marked by a red obstruction light, stands on high ground 3nm N of Shimo-Ryuzu Saki. The port is entered between a breakwater extending E from Kami-Ryuzu Saki and a breakwater extending SE from Tanezaki Hama, which lies on the N side of the harbour entrance. A light tower stands at the head of each breakwater. No 1 and No 2 Lightbuoys mark the fairway entrance and the harbour entrance is spanned by a fixed bridge with a vertical clearance of 38m. Katsura Hana signal station is situated near the root of the breakwater on the S side of the entrance and Urado signal station stands on the S side of the channel 0.35nm W of the bridge. The former displays by means of shapes, traffic signals to vessels entering the harbour and the latter to vessels leaving the harbour. Urado Ko, a shallow basin, approx 1nm in diameter, lies inside and N of the entrance channel; there are several islets in the W part of the basin. A channel, marked by lightbuoys, leads across Urado Ko and through a narrow passage at its N end. Overhead cables span the narrows of the N part of Urado Ko; the S of these cables, which is the lowest, has a vertical clearance of approx 40m. A submarine pipeline is laid across the narrows close S of the overhead cables. Caution: The fairway in the vicinity of the harbour entrance is regularly dredged but the channel is long and narrow and the tidal streams are strong. On occasions, in bad weather, silt is washed down from Tanezaki Hama and depths in the fairway may sometimes be less than charted. On the S and W sides of the channel, W of the bridge, there are three shallow bays enclosed by breakwaters. Light towers stands at the head of some of these breakwaters. A light tower stands on the SE extremity of Mima Se, a reef extending from the point of the N end of the W side of the entrance channel. A submarine pipeline and cable cross the fairway a short distance N of Mima Se Light Tower. A beacon (white triangle topmark) marks each end.

BA 995, 652. Admiralty NP42A. NP286(6).

1025.

Not compulsory but, due to strong currents, pilots are recommended. Pilots board in position 33°29.0'N 133°36.0'E, for vessels requiring pilot services.

There are no restrictions to sailing after sunset. Leading lights, 40m apart, are exhibited from white round concrete towers (red triangular topmarks), situated approx 1nm NNE of Shimo-Ryuzu Saki. The lights in line bearing 309°, lead to a position 0.5nm E of the harbour entrance.

Range max 2.15m; min -0.29m. There is very little current in the bay but at the narrow bay mouth the max current is 6kts. In the approaches to Kochi Ko, the flood stream is SW going and the ebb stream is NE going. The rate does not exceed 0.5kt. In the harbour entrance the ebb stream is E going turning at the time of the HW and LW with a maximum rate of 3-4kts

There are 3 tugs available; 2 x 2,200hp, 1 x 280hp.

Prevailing winds: SW'ly.

KOCHI, SHIKOKU 33°30.01'N 133°34.11'E UNCTAD LOCODE: JP KCZ ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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WEEKLY CORRECTIONS FROM UKHO NtM WEEK 09/23 Japan Coast Guard Publication 301/21, (RSDRA2022000061889), 09/23

VHF: Call "Kochi-Ho-An" on Ch 12, 16. Coastguard: Calling Ch 12, 16. Working Ch 12.

See Country information.

Vessels over 1,000GT and tankers over 500GT intending to navigate in the fairway between the entrance and the parallel of Mima Se Light should send ETA at entrance (inbound) or ETD from berth (outound) to Captain of the Port by noon on the day prior to entry. Any amendments should be notified immediately.

See Contact information for radio pratique. Free Pratique: Formalities will be carried out at anchor in position 33°29'N 133°35.5'E.