Communications

Buenaventura is linked to the inner land cities by "Autopista Simon Bolivar"
Buenaventura is served by The Gerardo Tobar Lopez Airport which handles domestic flights only.

Customs

Customs regulations now in force in Colombia as per decree 2685 and Muisca regulations
The Customs Authorities now stipulate that:

A) All cargo on board a vessel, with destination Colombia must be manifested.
B) The manifest and bills of lading have to be registered to Customs systems (Muisca) 12 hours prior ship's arrival.
C) Cargo not covered by manifest may not be discharged. If discharged it will be immediately confiscated by Customs.

Documents

Crew

6

Stowaways

4

Ports Of call

6

Tobacco/spirits/personal effect

2

Vaccination List

2

Stores

3

Ship's Particulars

3

Arms and ammunition

2

Passengers

6

Health documents or certificate

3

NIL declaration

5

Certificate of Deratting

1

Entrance

Once vessel enter Colombian Territorial water or alternatively, positioned 20 nautical miles from the port of destination, vessel should establish contact on VHF channel 16 with the port terminal and with the Harbour Master. The port agency should give full assistance to facilitate the communications process.

ETA: 72, 48 and 24 hours in advance.

Port Of Buenaventura which has 12 piers
                                                                               
*For containers ships, the port has 4 gantry cranes of 40,6 tons/ three shore crane of 100 tons and 6 RTG of capacity 40 tons (Yard Gantry Crane).
                                                                                    
*For Bulk Carriers: one suction machine for pier #10 the this machine can disc. 300 mt per hour. It has 10 silos with a total of 30.000 metric tons of capacity to store wheat, corn, sb and aditionaly a small warehouse to sotre 5,000 metric tons of soy bean meal. They have a warehouse to store fertiklizer with 20,000 metric tons of capacity.
                                          
* One suction machine for pier #11 the this machine can disc. 400 mt per hour.  The silos  capacity to store wheat, corn, sb is of 45,000 metric tons for soy bean meal and  9,000 metric tons for fertilizer.
                                                                            
* One suction machine for pier #12 the this machine can disc. 200 mt per hour.  The silos  capacity to store wheat, corn, sb is of 32,000 metric tons.                             

Restrictions

The deep of the channel in low tide cero is 10,3m.      

The draft restrictions  in the channel in low tide cero is 9,3m in order to keep 1 m clearence.     

The average range of the tide is 3m between  low tide and hight tide.

The range of the tide per day could be know using the tide tables.

Our port is NAABSA (Not always afloat but safely aground) and the piers No.2 to No.10 in low tide is 10,0m, the pier No.11, 12, 13 is 9,3and 14(discharging liquids only) is 8,50m depend of the draft vsl can be berthed during high tide. But every three month must be verify by batimetric sounding carry out by port control.

Pilotage

Pilotage is compulsory for all ships of more than 200 tons. Pilotage is available on a 24 hour basis.

The pilot will board the vessel one (1) mile from shore sea bouy #1.

Approx. Duration of whole maneuver, 2 hours

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Port Facility Security

According to code ISPS Buenaventura is  considered level #1
Port Facility Security Officers: Name: Captain Norberto Castañeda/ phone :57 2 2411570 / mobil: 3157669298.

Working hours

Port works without interruption  Monday - Sunday: 24 hours per day.

Web Links
Port Buenaventura
www.puertobuenaventura.com