Port profile · TWTXG
Taichung
Taichung is a large natural coastal harbour on the Taiwan Strait, in Taiwan. Its UN/LOCODE is TWTXG. Pilotage is compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Taichung offers fuel oil and diesel, provisions, ship stores and fresh water. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
Port profile
Live at Taichung
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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 Taichung 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
- Deck stores
- Yes
- Engine stores
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Limited
- Slipway
- Medium
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Floating cranes
- Yes
- Lifts of 100 t+
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- No
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 300 m
- Beam
- 50 m
- Draft
- 14.5 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Taichung, 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
- Excellent
- Entrance restrictions
- Tide, heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- Salvage tugs
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
- Overhead limits
- No
- Ice breaking
- No
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Free pratique
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Dangerous cargo anchorage
- Yes
- Container
- Yes
- Dry bulk
- Yes
- Liquid bulk
- Yes
- Breakbulk
- Yes
- LNG terminal
- Yes
- Med mooring
- No
- Beach mooring
- No
- Ice mooring
- No
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
- Container cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Taichung
Other Taiwan ports on the same stretch of coast.
- MailiaoTaiwan · TWMLI
- HualienTaiwan · TWHUN
- MagongTaiwan · TWMZG
- TaipeiTaiwan · TWTPE
- SuaoTaiwan · TWSUO
- KeelungTaiwan · TWKEL
- KaohsiungTaiwan · TWKHH
Questions about Taichung
What is the UN/LOCODE of Taichung?
The UN/LOCODE of Taichung is TWTXG.
Is pilotage compulsory in Taichung?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Taichung as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Taichung?
Yes. Taichung offers fuel oil and diesel, according to the nautical port index.
What is the largest vessel Taichung can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 300 m long, 50 m wide, 14.5 m draft for Taichung.
Is Taichung a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Taichung.
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