Port profile · TWHUN
Hualien
Hualien is a medium coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Taiwan Strait, in Taiwan. Its UN/LOCODE is TWHUN. Pilotage is compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Hualien offers fuel oil and diesel, provisions, fresh water, moderate repairs and a small dry dock. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
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Port calls and time in port
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Services and supplies
What Hualien offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fuel oil
- Yes
- Diesel
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Provisions
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Moderate
- Dry dock
- Small
- Slipway
- Small
- Electrical repair
- Yes
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Floating cranes
- Yes
- Lifts of 100 t+
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 285 m
- Draft
- 15.5 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Hualien, 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
- Excellent
- Entrance restrictions
- Tide, heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- Salvage tugs
- Yes
- Traffic separation scheme
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
- Overhead limits
- No
- Ice breaking
- No
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Container
- Yes
- Dry bulk
- Yes
- Liquid bulk
- Yes
- Breakbulk
- Yes
- Oil terminal
- Yes
- LNG terminal
- Yes
- Med mooring
- Yes
- Ice mooring
- No
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
- Container cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Hualien
Other Taiwan ports on the same stretch of coast.
- SuaoTaiwan · TWSUO
- TaichungTaiwan · TWTXG
- KeelungTaiwan · TWKEL
- TaipeiTaiwan · TWTPE
- MailiaoTaiwan · TWMLI
- KaohsiungTaiwan · TWKHH
- MagongTaiwan · TWMZG
Questions about Hualien
What is the UN/LOCODE of Hualien?
The UN/LOCODE of Hualien is TWHUN.
Is pilotage compulsory in Hualien?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Hualien as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Hualien?
Yes. Hualien offers fuel oil and diesel, according to the nautical port index.
Does Hualien have a dry dock?
Yes. Hualien has a small dry dock and moderate ship repairs.
What is the largest vessel Hualien can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 285 m long, 15.5 m draft for Hualien.
Is Hualien a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Hualien.
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