Port profile · GLJHS
Sisimiut
Sisimiut is a small natural coastal harbour on the Davis Strait, in Greenland. Its UN/LOCODE is GLJHS. Pilotage is not compulsory and tugs are available. Sisimiut 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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Services and supplies
What Sisimiut 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
- Not compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Draft
- 7.6 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Sisimiut, 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
- Ice, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- No
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Container
- Yes
- Liquid bulk
- Yes
- Breakbulk
- Yes
- Med mooring
- Yes
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
Ports near Sisimiut
Other Greenland ports on the same stretch of coast.
- ManiitsoqGreenland · GLJSU
- AasiaatGreenland · GLJEG
- KangerlussuaqGreenland · GLSFJ
- QasigiannguitGreenland · GLJCH
- NuukGreenland · GLGOH
- IlulissatGreenland · GLJAV
- MaarmorliikGreenland · GLMML
- PaamiutGreenland · GLJFR
Questions about Sisimiut
What is the UN/LOCODE of Sisimiut?
The UN/LOCODE of Sisimiut is GLJHS.
Is pilotage compulsory in Sisimiut?
No. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Sisimiut as not compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Sisimiut?
Yes. Sisimiut offers fuel oil and diesel, according to the nautical port index.
What is the largest vessel Sisimiut can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 7.6 m draft for Sisimiut.
Is Sisimiut a first port of entry?
No. The nautical port index does not list Sisimiut as a first port of entry.
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