Port profile · NIPUZ
Puerto Cabezas
Puerto Cabezas is a very small open roadstead on the Caribbean Sea, in Nicaragua. Its UN/LOCODE is NIPUZ. Pilotage is compulsory and it is a first port of entry. Puerto Cabezas offers diesel and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Puerto Cabezas
What members see for Puerto Cabezas, updated as vessels move.
Heading here
MembersEvery vessel bound for Puerto Cabezas, with ETA, owner, operator and the contact who decides.
In port now
MembersThe vessels alongside or at anchor at Puerto Cabezas right now, and who runs them.
Arrival profile
MembersHow many vessels arrive at Puerto Cabezas day by day over the next two weeks, by type.
Port calls and time in port
MembersRecent calls at Puerto Cabezas and how long each vessel stayed.
Services and supplies
What Puerto Cabezas 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
- Slipway
- Small
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- No
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- No
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 120 m
- Draft
- 6.5 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Puerto Cabezas, 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
- Tug assistance
- No
- Salvage tugs
- No
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
- Overhead limits
- No
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Breakbulk
- Yes
Connections
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Puerto Cabezas
Other Nicaragua ports on the same stretch of coast.
- BluefieldsNicaragua · NIBEF
- El BluffNicaragua · NIELB
- Puerto SandinoNicaragua · NIPSN
- CorintoNicaragua · NICIO
Questions about Puerto Cabezas
What is the UN/LOCODE of Puerto Cabezas?
The UN/LOCODE of Puerto Cabezas is NIPUZ.
Is pilotage compulsory in Puerto Cabezas?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Puerto Cabezas as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Puerto Cabezas?
Yes. Puerto Cabezas offers diesel, according to the nautical port index.
What is the largest vessel Puerto Cabezas can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 120 m long, 6.5 m draft for Puerto Cabezas.
Is Puerto Cabezas a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Puerto Cabezas.
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