Port profile · LKGAL
Galle
Galle is a small coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Indian Ocean, in Sri Lanka. Its UN/LOCODE is LKGAL. Pilotage is compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Galle offers fuel oil, provisions and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
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Live at Galle
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Port calls and time in port
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Services and supplies
What Galle offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fuel oil
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Provisions
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Limited
- Slipway
- Small
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 190 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Draft
- 7.3 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Galle, 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
- Heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Galle
Other Sri Lanka ports on the same stretch of coast.
- HambantotaSri Lanka · LKHBA
- ColomboSri Lanka · LKCMB
- TrincomaleeSri Lanka · LKTRR
- KankesanturaiSri Lanka · LKKNK
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Questions about Galle
What is the UN/LOCODE of Galle?
The UN/LOCODE of Galle is LKGAL.
Is pilotage compulsory in Galle?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Galle as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Galle?
Yes. Galle offers fuel oil, according to the nautical port index.
What is the largest vessel Galle can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 190 m long, 32 m wide, 7.3 m draft for Galle.
Is Galle a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Galle.
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