Port profile · NZAKA
Akaroa
Akaroa is a very small natural coastal harbour on the South Pacific Ocean, in New Zealand. Its UN/LOCODE is NZAKA. Akaroa offers diesel and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Akaroa
What members see for Akaroa, updated as vessels move.
Heading here
MembersEvery vessel bound for Akaroa, with ETA, owner, operator and the contact who decides.
In port now
MembersThe vessels alongside or at anchor at Akaroa right now, and who runs them.
Arrival profile
MembersHow many vessels arrive at Akaroa day by day over the next two weeks, by type.
Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Akaroa and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Akaroa offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Diesel
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Limited
Harbour
- Tugs
- No
- Stevedores
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Akaroa, as the nautical port index records them. Depths are not shown: the index gives them as broad bands for one point in the port, too coarse to plan a call on.
Approach
- Shelter
- Good
- Entrance restrictions
- Tide, heavy swell
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- No
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
Entry
- Free pratique
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Akaroa
Other New Zealand ports on the same stretch of coast.
- LytteltonNew Zealand · NZLYT
- TimaruNew Zealand · NZTIU
- GreymouthNew Zealand · NZGMN
- WestportNew Zealand · NZWSZ
- NelsonNew Zealand · NZNSN
- PictonNew Zealand · NZPCN
- TarakoheNew Zealand · NZTKH
- Otago HarbourNew Zealand · NZORR
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Questions about Akaroa
What is the UN/LOCODE of Akaroa?
The UN/LOCODE of Akaroa is NZAKA.
Can ships take bunkers in Akaroa?
Yes. Akaroa offers diesel, according to the nautical port index.
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