Port profile · CRPAS
Puntarenas
Puntarenas is a very small open roadstead on the North Pacific Ocean, in Costa Rica. Its UN/LOCODE is CRPAS. Pilotage is compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Puntarenas offers fuel oil and diesel, provisions, fresh water and moderate repairs. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
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In port now
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Arrival profile
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Port calls and time in port
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Services and supplies
What Puntarenas 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
- Slipway
- Small
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- Yes
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Puntarenas, 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
- Fair
- Entrance restrictions
- Heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- No
- Overhead limits
- No
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Puntarenas
Other Costa Rica ports on the same stretch of coast.
- Puerto CalderaCosta Rica · CRPTC
- QueposCosta Rica · CRXQP
- MoinCosta Rica · CRPMN
- LimonCosta Rica · CRLIO
- Golfito BayCosta Rica · CRGLF
Questions about Puntarenas
What is the UN/LOCODE of Puntarenas?
The UN/LOCODE of Puntarenas is CRPAS.
Is pilotage compulsory in Puntarenas?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Puntarenas as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Puntarenas?
Yes. Puntarenas offers fuel oil and diesel, according to the nautical port index.
Is Puntarenas a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Puntarenas.
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