📋 Port Overview
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Port of Tulagi is situated at the Tulagi Island.
🚢 Cargo Capabilities
BreakbulkPassenger
Load line zone
Tropical.
Location
Tulagi is situated on the S coast of Florida Island
Max size
Max LOA 120m, draught 6.0m, 8,000DWT. Largest vessel handled: LOA 172m.
Traffic figures
Approx 5 vessels handled annually.
🔧 Facilities
Bunkering ✗Fresh Water ✓Stores ✗Repairs ✗
🧭 Navigation Information
Anchorages
Good sheltered anchorage can be found in 18.0-22.0m. Caution: Anchoring should be avoided in the vicinity of a disused submarine cable between the NE shore of Tulagi Island and the S side of Makambo Island.
Approaches
Leading lights: Front light (red metal framework tower, 9m in height) (09°06'S 160°10'E) standing on a drying reef. Rear light (red metal framework tower, 12m in height) (0.6nm N of front light). The alignment (009°) of these lights leads from S into the harbour, passing (positions relative to front light): E of Mohawk Bank (2.2nm SSW), then E of Freeman Reef (1.8nm SSW), and close W of a 10m patch (1.7nm S) lying 0.3nm W of Woodford Reef, then E of Soghonangola Island (1.5nm SSW), which is easily identified and which has a light (plinth) on its S end, and Kokomutambu Island, joined to it by a narrow neck of foul ground, then W of Southern Cross Reef (1.3 to 0.5nm SSE), and E of Sylvia Reef (1.0nm SSW) marked on its W side by a beacon (red and white). Then the track leads NW to the main anchorage, passing NE of a beacon (red and white) marking the extremity of a reef extending E from the SE end of Tulagi Island. Caution: The leading lights are not easily distinguished when the morning sun is low, or in poor visibility. A prominent conical hummock on the E shoulder of a low round hill on the skyline N of the lights is of assistance in their identification. Tulagi Harbour may be approached through other channels as follows: Between Mohawk Bank and Freeman Reef, a deep channel 100m wide. Between a 5.9m patch lying 0.25nm N of the shoalest part of Woodford Reef, and the S end of Southern Cross Reef, a deep channel approx 200m wide. Between the N end of Southern Cross Reef and the reefs and foul ground extending 0.25nm SE from the front leading light. This channel leads to Tulagi Harbour from Ghavutu Harbour.
Charts
BA 1766. Admiralty Pilot NP60.
Dock density
1025.
Pilot
Available on request to the Port Authority in Honiara.
Restrictions
Daylight hours only.
Tidal range and flow
Range 1.2m.
Weather
Prevailing winds: Variable.