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Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam is a medium coastal harbour behind a breakwater on the Bay of Bengal, in India. Its UN/LOCODE is INVTZ. Pilotage is compulsory, tugs are available and it is a first port of entry. Visakhapatnam offers fuel oil, ship stores, fresh water, moderate repairs and a medium dry dock. Vessel Hunter tracks its live arrivals and the vessels heading its way.
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Services and supplies
What Visakhapatnam offers a visiting ship, as the port index records it. Lines the index does not state are left out.
Supplies
- Fuel oil
- Yes
- Fresh water
- Yes
- Deck stores
- Yes
- Engine stores
- Yes
Repair
- Ship repairs
- Moderate
- Dry dock
- Medium
- Slipway
- Large
Harbour
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Stevedores
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Lifts of 100 t+
- Yes
Waste and health
- Garbage reception
- Yes
- Dirty ballast reception
- Yes
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Largest vessel
- Length
- 390 m
- Beam
- 50 m
- Draft
- 18.1 m
Approach and berths
Shelter, entrance, clearance and cargo berths at Visakhapatnam, 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
- Tide, heavy swell, other
- Pilotage available
- Yes
- Pilotage advisable
- Yes
- Tug assistance
- Yes
- Salvage tugs
- No
- ETA message required
- Yes
- Good holding ground
- Yes
- Turning area
- Yes
- Overhead limits
- Yes
Entry
- First port of entry
- Yes
Cargo and berths
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchorage
- Yes
- Container
- Yes
- Ro-ro
- No
- Dry bulk
- Yes
- Liquid bulk
- Yes
- Breakbulk
- Yes
- Oil terminal
- Yes
- Fixed cranes
- Yes
- Container cranes
- Yes
Connections
- Airport nearby
- Yes
- Rail connection
- Yes
Ports near Visakhapatnam
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- KrishnapatnamIndia · INKRI
- DhamraIndia · INDMQ
Questions about Visakhapatnam
What is the UN/LOCODE of Visakhapatnam?
The UN/LOCODE of Visakhapatnam is INVTZ.
Is pilotage compulsory in Visakhapatnam?
Yes. The nautical port index lists pilotage in Visakhapatnam as compulsory.
Can ships take bunkers in Visakhapatnam?
Yes. Visakhapatnam offers fuel oil, according to the nautical port index.
Does Visakhapatnam have a dry dock?
Yes. Visakhapatnam has a medium dry dock and moderate ship repairs.
What is the largest vessel Visakhapatnam can take?
The nautical port index gives a largest vessel of 390 m long, 50 m wide, 18.1 m draft for Visakhapatnam.
Is Visakhapatnam a first port of entry?
Yes. Ships arriving from abroad can clear in at Visakhapatnam.
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