Puerto Sandino (NIPSN)

Puerto Sandino is a lighterage port with no alongside berthing facilities for ocean-going vessels. The main cargo handled at the port is fertiliser and there is a CBM arrangement for crude oil handling at an offshore pipeline berth SW of the river entrance. Dry Cargo Berth: Cargo loaded and discharged into lighters to and from small dock located at 12° 12.094'N 86° 45.854'W. Length 150m and 22m width, with a total area of 3,300mІ. Four barges can work at the wharf simultaneously.

Tropical.

Puerto Sandino is a small cargo and oil discharging facility, situated on the E bank of the Rio Tamarindo, approx. 0.86nm within the entrance.

Esso CBM: LOA 213.4m, draught 12.2m, 60,960DWT. Lighterage anchorage: Draught approx 8.5m.

Approx. 718,000t of cargo and 25 vessels handled annually.

Anchorage can be taken in depths of 7.0 - 13.0m, coral and sand, about 1.12nm W of the S point of the river, although it is very dangerous between June and October. Anchoring and trawling near the pipeline is prohibited.

Rio Tamarinda is entered between Punta Tiscuco and Punta Estacada, 1nm NNW; Penas de Tiscuco, a rocky shoal, lies 0.15nm N of Punta Tiscuco. The river entrance is shallow, with depths of less than 1.8m and it is further obstructed by a large sandbank which lies between 0.15nm and 0.7nm N of Penas de Tiscuco. A buoyed channel, for use by boats and lighters, leads between the sandbank and Penas de Tiscuco and then E of the sandbank to the wharf and warehouses at Puerto Sandino.

BA 1022, 1969. Admiralty Pilot NP8.

1025.

Pilotage is compulsory and available during daylight hours only. Pilot boards vessel 0.43nm W of sea berth.

Range 0.91m.

Three tugs, 2 x 408hp, 1 x 260hp available.

Prevailing winds: W'ly.

PUERTO SANDINO 12°09.25'N 86°47.66'W UNCTAD LOCODE: NI PSN ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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VHF: Ch 16.

..... Documents Copies 1. Cargo Manifest 9 2. Cargo List 4 3. Bill of Lading 9 4. Crew's Personal Effects List 9 5. Crew List 9 6. Passenger List 9 7. Stores List 9 These documents will be distributed to the Immigration Office, Harbour Master, Customs Office, Port Authority and agent.

Vessels send their ETA five days, 72hrs, 48hrs and 24hrs prior to arrival. If transiting the Panama Canal, the ETA should be sent through the agent for transfer to the port.