Port profile · TNSFA
Sfax
Sfax is a small coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Mediterranean Sea, in Tunisia. Its UN/LOCODE is TNSFA. Pilotage is compulsory and tugs are available. Sfax 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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Arrival profile
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Port calls and time in port
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Services and supplies
What Sfax 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
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Floating cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Sfax, 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
- Other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- Salvage tugs
- No
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- No
- Free pratique
- Yes
- Sanitation inspection
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
Ports near Sfax
Other Tunisia ports on the same stretch of coast.
- AshtartTunisia · TNASH
- SkhiraTunisia · TNLSK
- MahdiaTunisia · TNMAD
- DjerbaTunisia · TNDJE
- GabesTunisia · TNGAE
- SousseTunisia · TNSUS
- ZarzisTunisia · TNZRZ
- DidonTunisia · TNDID
Questions about Sfax
What is the UN/LOCODE of Sfax?
The UN/LOCODE of Sfax is TNSFA.
Is pilotage compulsory in Sfax?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Sfax as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Sfax?
Yes. Sfax offers fuel oil and diesel, according to the nautical port index.
Does Sfax have a dry dock?
Yes. Sfax has a small dry dock and moderate ship repairs.
Is Sfax a first port of entry?
No. The nautical port index does not list Sfax as a first port of entry.
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