Port of MONTEVIDEO (Uruguay)
The port of Montevideo is located on the River Plate mouth, left margin, and is the port of the capital city of the República Oriental del Uruguay. The port has been built inside of a bay that shelters the installation. Basically the port can be divided in two sections: one, on the eastern side of the bay, is dedicated to the dry cargo, containers and passengers vessels; the second one on the northwestern side, called La Teja, is the oil and gas terminal. The Montevideo entrance channel is dredged to 11,50 m at zero datum.
-The available berths for dry cargo/containers and passengers are the following, from west to east:
Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP)
the terminal is operated by a state/private mix company (ANP and Messrs. Katoen Natie, from Belgium). Container ships have priority at this berth, which is 640 m long. Can accommodate ships up to 320 m LOA and 42 m beam and is fitted with eight gantry cranes and other equipment for the container handling.
River basin:
where the cruise and ferry terminal is located, lies on the eastern side of the basin, between the container terminal and pier A. The west side of the basin is used by the Uruguayan navy.
Basin 1:
is located between pier A and pier B, has three berths, the western one is 306 m long, the southern one is 494 m long and the eastern is 294 m long. The depth alongside is dredged up to 10,5 m at zero datum.
Basin 2:
located eastward of pier B, has two berths, the western one, alongside pier B, is 394 m long and the southern one is 394 m long. The depth alongside is 10,00 m at zero datum.
Basin 1 and 2 are the berths of a private terminal operated by Messrs. Montecon. Container vessels as well as RoRo, passenger, reefer and bulk carrier ships can be attended at this terminal.
Eastward of the basin 2 it is located the new pier C, where sites a multipurpose terminal.
Following the coast line there are various coastal and fishing vessels berths.
floating dock owned by Messrs. Tsakos,
is also located at the area of Basin 2. The lifting capacity of the dry dock is 20.000 metric tons.
The new TGM terminal
is located immediately to the north side of the coastal vessel berths. Originally named Obrinel and projected for wood chip exports, have extended the services to grain and grain products and will be operative by the end of 2015. The silo capacity is about 120.000 mt and the terminal will be able to load vessels up to 80.000 mt DWT and 250 m l.o.a. The main channel will be dredged up to 12,6 m at zero datum, so vessels will be able to sail on maximum draft 13,2 m, during high tides.
DRAFT(feet) ALONGSIE
(m)
DWT
LOA
BEAM
LOADING RATE
HSS
42
12
N/A
N/A
1,200MT/HR
La Teja
is the tanker and gas terminal of Montevideo operated by the government owned company A.N.C.A.P. The terminal has two berths, the northern one for oil tankers and the southern for gas carriers. Depth at the oil pier is about 8,50 m at zero datum and at the gas pier is about 6,70 m at zero datum.
PIER 3, 4, 5, 8 N 9
DRAFT(feet) ALONGSIE
(m)
DWT
LOA
BEAM
LOADING RATE
HSS
34
10,36
N/A
N/A
38
ABT 8,000MT PER DAY
PIER 6 N 7
DRAFT(feet) ALONGSIE
(m)
DWT
LOA
BEAM
LOADING RATE
HSS
33
10,06
N/A
N/A
38
ABT 8,000MT PER DAY
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