Port profile · GBPLN
Port Ellen
Port Ellen is a very small open roadstead on the North Atlantic Ocean, in the United Kingdom. Its UN/LOCODE is GBPLN. Pilotage is not compulsory. Port Ellen offers provisions and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Port Ellen
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Heading here
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In port now
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Arrival profile
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Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Port Ellen and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Port Ellen offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Provisions
- Yes
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Not compulsory
- 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 Port Ellen, 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
- Poor
- Entrance restrictions
- Other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- No
- Salvage tugs
- No
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- No
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
Ports near Port Ellen
Other United Kingdom ports on the same stretch of coast.
- CampbeltownUnited Kingdom · GBCBT
- ColeraineUnited Kingdom · GBCLR
- CrinanUnited Kingdom · GBCNC
- TarbertUnited Kingdom · GBTAR
- Ardrishaig BasinUnited Kingdom · GBASG
- LarneUnited Kingdom · GBLAR
- Craignure PierUnited Kingdom · GBCNU
- LochalineUnited Kingdom · GBLOL
Questions about Port Ellen
What is the UN/LOCODE of Port Ellen?
The UN/LOCODE of Port Ellen is GBPLN.
Is pilotage compulsory in Port Ellen?
No. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Port Ellen as not compulsory.
Is Port Ellen a first port of entry?
No. The nautical port index does not list Port Ellen as a first port of entry.
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