Port of Rio de Janeiro, Belize

Port Overview

Latitude	22 ° 54 ' S	Longitude	43 ° 12 ' W
Time Zone	GMT -3	UNCTAD Code	BRRIO
Breakbulk Facilities	√	Container Facilities	√
Dry Bulk Facilities	√	Liquid Facilities	√
Gas Facilities	√	RoRo Facilities	√
Passenger Facilities	√	Multipurpose Facilities	√
Credits	Data supplemented by Wilson, Sons & Co (Shipping & Agency) Ltd, port agents.

Port Map

Port description

Location: Rio de Janeiro is situated on the S and W part of Guanabara Bay.
General overview: The port mainly handles containers, general and bulk cargo, there are also private terminals specialising in containers, Ro-Ro vessels, steel products, sugar, paper and bulk products.
Traffic figures: The port handles approx 1,772 vessels with a total of 48,818,081DWT and 13,638,000t of cargo.
Load Line zone: Tropical.
Max size: Harbour: Largest vessel handled 60,000dwt. Draught 12m.
Tankers at Gegua: Max 130,000DWT, draught 15.8m.

Pre Arrival Information

ETA's: ETA should be sent via telex, fax, cable or telephone, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 day prior to arrival.
The message should include the date and time of arrival at the sea pilot station and the estimated fresh water draft.
Documentation required: The following documents must be ready for visiting authorities on arrival at Brazilian ports. Such documents will vary in the number of copies required depending on the type of vessel and the peculiarities of the port. The Master should check with the agent, prior to the vessels arrival, precisely what documents are required:

	Document	FRB	HA	MP	PC	PA
1.	General Declaration	Y	Y	Y	-	Y
2.	Crew List	Y	Y	Y	Y	-
3.	Crew Personal Effects List	Y	-	-	-	-
4.	Disembarking Passenger List	Y	Y	-	-	Y
5.	Transit Passengers List	Y	-	Y	-	Y
6.	Negative Passenger List	Y	-	-	-	Y
7.	Passenger List	-	-	-	Y	-
8.	Stores List	Y	-	-	-	Y
9.	Dangerous Cargo Declaration	-	-	-	-	Y
10,	Cargo Manifest	Y	-	-	-	Y
11.	Maritime Health Declaration	-	Y	-	-	-
12.	Health certificate (from last port)	-	Y	-	-	-
13.	Maritime Police Pass	-	-	Y	-	-

FRB = Federal Revenue Bureau; HA = Health Authorities; MP = Maritime Police; PA = Port Authority;.
The documents required by the Port Captaincy are on special forms: Crew List (form Fal 5) and Passenger List (form Fal 6).
Documents required on sailing:

1.	Request for Clearance or Visa (original)
2.	Passenger List (form Fal 6)
3.	Embarkation Pass, issued by the Federal Internal Revenue Office (required from all vessels proceeding abroad)
4.	Departure (sailing) Pass issued by the Federal Police (required from all vessels proceeding abroad)
5.	General Declaration (form Fal 1)
6.	Copy of the payment form of the Federal Internal Revenue Tax Levy Document (DARF) of the Tariff for Utilising Lighthouses (TUF)
7.	Outgoing Pass.

Communications: National Coastal Radio Stations Network (RENEC):
The National Coastal Stations Network offers free communication facilities for messages concerning the safety of human life at sea such as: Distress calls, urgent medical advice, notices to mariners, meteorological messages, etc. The network comprises of 39 stations along the coast of Brazil and in the Amazon River, distributed as follows:

1.	One main station at Rio de Janeiro (PPR), with facilities available for communication via radio telegraphy (WT) and radio telephony (RT), with vessels sailing in almost every sea and ocean.
2.	Three regional stations located at Belem (PPL), Olinda (PPO) and Rio Grande (PPJ), able to communicate via WT and RT with vessels up to approx 600nm distant.
3.	Three local stations at Manaus (PPM), Santarem (PPT) and Itajai (PPC) responsible for communications via RT with vessels approx 200nm distant.
4.	Seven restricted local stations at Santos (PPS), Paranagua (PPG), Porto Alegre (PPP), Vitoria (PPV), Natal (PPN), Fortaleza (PPF) and Salvador (PPA) able to communicate via RT with vessels sailing in the immediate vicinity.
5.	The remaining 25 stations handle local RT communications.

VHF: Rio Radio: Callsign "PPR". Ch 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28.
General call: Ch 16.
Pilot: Ch 14 and 12.
Rio de Janeiro Port Authority: Ch 5.
Coastal radio station: Ch 64 and 65.
Health regulations: Free pratique: Vessels which are not proceeding from infected ports may be granted free pratique by radio, but this does not exempt the ship owner or his agent from the delivery, to the Port Health Authority, of the Advice of Arrival. A vessel with free pratique is permitted to proceed directly to the berth.
A vessel coming from an infected port which has obtained free pratique at a Brazilian port is exempted from further inspection for mosquitoes at other Brazilian ports of call, unless it has called at an infected port en route.
Free pratique does not exempt the vessel from being visited by the Port Health Authority when the latter considers this to be necessary, but such visits will always be carried out subsequent to berthing without jeopardising vessel operations.
When there is a sick passenger or crew member to be landed, the vessel must fly Interco flag "Q".
For granting free pratique the following documentation is required:

1.	Vessel details:
	a.	Name, class and flag.
	b.	Name of port and country (or Brazilian state) where voyage started and date of departure.
	c.	Port(s) of call, country(ies) (or Brazilian state(s)) with respective dates. Mention the last 5 ports.
2.	Sanitary conditions on board:
	a.	The occurrence of a death on board.
	b.	The occurrence of any sickness.
	c.	The occurrence of any sickness with one of the following symptoms: Fever (temperature over 37.5°C) during a period in excess of 48 hours accompanied by skin eruption, jaundice or ganglia inflammation; acute moderate to serious diarrhoea.
	d.	The occurrence of great morality of rodents.
	e.	The occurrence of medicine consumption during the voyage, indicate the name and quantity supplied per person.
	f.	Amount of fresh water available on board. Indicate where the last supply of fresh water took place.
	g.	In case of a vessel in ballast, advise where the ballast water was loaded and the quantity.
3.	Operational conditions of the systems of ejection and used water:
	a.	Is there a possibility that faecal objects which had not been treated could be expelled in to the waters of the port?
	b.	Description of drainage system and sanitary treatment.
	c.	The cubic capacity of the ejecting/used water tank and its capacity in number of days of retention.
	d.	The stock of disinfectant material, if this is the case.
A Letter of Guarantee to comply with the following:
1.	Confirmation of exact time of arrival of the vessel, one hour ahead of arrival.
2.	Definition of vessel berthing position.
3.	Deballasting of ejection/used water tank 12nm from the coast and its immediate sealing.
4.	Not to jettison waste collected on board during the vessel's stay in port.
5.	Absence of infestation by vermin (mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats) in vessel compartments.
6.	Absence of cargo accidents with risk to public health and the environment.
To present, on berthing, the following documents:
1.	Maritime Health Declaration
2.	Crew List
3.	Passenger List
4.	List of psychotropics and other drugs
5.	List of cargo to be discharged and loaded
6.	List of yellow fever International Vaccination Certificates of crew members and passengers.
7.	Derat Certificate
8.	Free pratique document issued by sanitary authority in another Brazilian port.

Customs and immigration: Contraband: Brazilian laws are very strict with respect to smuggling and Masters are requested to instruct their crews not to take more than 2 packets of cigarettes and other articles ashore. Cigarettes in cartons, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, narcotics, souvenirs, explosives, firearms, etc should be collected prior to arrival in port and listed with the items in the Crew's Personal Effects List and placed in the custody of the Master.
Immigration: All a vessels passengers and/or crew members may enter the national territory only after their documents have been inspected by the Federal Police Department, the Revenue Authorities and the Port Health Authorities.
Vessel owners are responsible for the disembarkation and the embarkation of transit passengers as well as crew members who fail to join a vessel before it sails. Such responsibility includes maintenance and other expenses until repatriation. In the event of non existence of a compulsory deposit as a guarantee to cover such expenses, owners will sign, at the Federal Police Department, a form of responsibility inherent to such obligations as therein expressed.
Flags: All vessels, while in Brazilian ports, must fly the Brazilian national flag from 0800hrs to sunset.
Notices of readiness: Unless otherwise agreed, NOR can be tendered during usual office hours at Rio de Janeiro.
To be valid the NOR should be given in writing, (letter, telegram or fax). It is recommended that the receiver of the NOR by fax should acknowledge receipt.

Navigation

Sea buoys, fairways and channels: The approach channel to the port has a least width of 200m and a total length of 18.5km, with depths of 20-37m. The turning basin has diameter of 1,150m with depths of 10-37m. The approach channel to the public port is dredged to the following depths:

ID	Quay	Depth (m)	Width (m)
		Depth (m)	Width (m)
1	Pier Maua	6.0-12	300
2	Gamboa	6.0-12	300
3	Sao Cristovao	6.0-12	100
4	Caju	5.8	80
5	Container	11.0	150

Pilot: Pilotage is compulsory from the waiting zone in the anchorage, (approx 2nm N of Rasa Island) for any anchorage within Guanabara Bay.
Pilot Station, Tel: +55 21 516 0054, Fax: +55 21 233 9738.
The pilot station operates throughout 24 hours, requisitions are accepted by telephone, fax or VHF forwarded to any shipyard, terminal or port in Rio de Janeiro State, including Arraial do Cabo, (Forno Harbour), Ilha Grande Bay, Sepetiba Bay and Guanabara Bay.
At Rio de Janeiro pilots boards vessels from the N at position 22°59.8'S 043°06.2'W and vessels from the S and entering the dredged channel 22°59.8'S 043°08.6'W.
The following information is required when ordering a pilot:

1.	Agents name
2.	Name of ship
3.	Type of ship
4.	GT
5.	Length
6.	Breadth
7.	Draft
8.	Where vessel is coming from
9.	Category of order
10.	Cargo

Anchorages:

Area	Latitude	Longitude	Depth (m)	Location, Near to:-
1	22°53.0'S	043°08.8'W	15.0	Ponta da Armacao
2A	22°54.4'S	043°09.1'W	24.0	Santos Dumont Airport
2B	22°53.5'S	043°09.4'W	28.0	Fiscal Island
2C	22°51.6'S	043°08.6'W	13.0	Mocangue Island
3A	22°52.6'S	043°10.8'W	6.0	Enxadas Island
3B	22°51.4'S	043°09.9'W	6.0	Lage Barroso
4	22°52.6'S	043°09.8'W	13.0	Parcel Feiticeiras
5	22°53.0'S	043°10.9'W	6.0	Enxadas Island
6A	22°58.5'S	043°04.6'W	17.0	Between Pai Island and Mae Island
6B	22°51.3'S	043°10.8'W	5.0	Lage do Pao
6C	22°50.1'S	043°08.3'W	12.0	Engenho Island
7	22°49.2'S	043°07.1'W	6.0	Tavares Island
8A	22°48.8'S	043°08.3'W	13.0	Comprida island
9	22°50.9'S	043°11.5'W	5.0	Lage Corcunda

Vessels having to anchor outside the harbour should do so 1.75nm N of Ilha Rasa in depths of approx 32m.
Vessels awaiting a pilot or quarantine officials should anchor in the quarantine anchorage, 1.25nm NE of Ilha Fiscal. No vessel is allowed to remain in this anchorage more than 2 hours after the last official has left.
Vessels intending to remain at anchor for long periods should use the anchorage, 0.15nm to 0.75nm NW of Ilha das Enxadas. There are also anchorages N of the bridge on each side of the channel.
The Naval anchorage lies E of Santos Airport and NE of Ilha Fiscal.
There is an explosives anchorage 5nm NNE of Ilha Fiscal
A and B anchorages for LASH vessels and their lighters lie 0.7nm ENE and 0.3nm W respectively of Ilha das Enxadas.
There are 2 anchorages for tankers NE of Alte Tamandare Oil Terminal.
There are numerous areas in the harbour where anchorage is prohibited, the following of which are the most important:

1.	The dredged channel. Vessels anchoring in the quarantine anchorage and elsewhere in the vicinity of this channel must take care that they are not liable to swing so that they may intrude on it.
2.	An area between Ponta de Sao Joao and Ponta de Jurujuba.
3.	An area between Santos Dumont Airport and Ponta de Gragoata and an area S of Santos Airport.
4.	The vicinity of the Rio de Janeiro - Niteroi bridge which crosses the bay along the parallel of Lat 22°52.2'S.
5.	An area extending N from Santos Dumont Airport and an area S of Ilha das Enxadas.
6.	The vicinity of Alte Tramandare tanker terminal.
7.	An area between the NE extremity of Ilha do Governador and Ilha Paqueta 2.5nm ENE.

Vessels must avoid anchoring near the tracks used by ferries running between Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi. The vicinity of a number of underwater pipelines and cables which lie outside the area given above must be avoided by vessels anchoring.
Tidal range and flow: Range 1.2m.
Dock density: 1020.
Weather: Prevailing winds: E'ly Jan – May and SW May - July. Winds reach approx Beaufort Scale Force 3.
Principal navigation aids: Feticeiras Light is exhibited from a red round concrete tower with black bands, 9m in height, situated in the N end of the shoal.
Charts: Brazilian, 1501, 1511 and 1512 from MM/DHN, BA553, 566.USNOO 24161, 24162. Admiralty Pilot NP5.
Traffic schemes: A compulsory reporting system is in operation.
Vessels must report as follows:

a.	When entering Guanabara Bay	On crossing the alignment Lage-Santa Cruz
b.	When leaving the port	On passing abeam of Fiscal Island
c.	When changing berth or anchorage

Restrictions: The main span of the bridge between Piers 100 and 101 has a vertical clearance of 63m and a width of 269m; the adjacent spans between Piers 101 and 102, have a vertical clearance of 61m. The centres of the spans and the piers on each side of them are marked by lights. Close northward of the bridge the channel between Piers 100 and 101 is marked on each side by a lightbuoy.
Passage under the main span of the bridge is restricted to vessels of more than 500dwt or with a draft greater than 12.2m. Other vessels should pass under the spans adjacent to the main span; between Piers 99 and 100 when S bound; between Piers 101 and 102 when N bound.
Vessels are warned against passing at high speed near naval vessels anchored in the harbour and when under way should keep their anchors hanging above water level in order to avoid the risk of damage to submarine cables and pipelines.
The numerous ferries which cross the harbour between Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi will give way to ocean going vessels if they sound one long blast on their whistle or siren.
Tugs: Towage available up to 3,200bhp.

Berths and Cargo

Names/Nos: The following berths are available:
PIER MAUA: Length of quay 883m, max draft 9.5-11m. Total 5 Berths using both sides of Pier. 2 open storage spaces of 12,000m².
CAIS DA GAMBOA: Length 3,150m, depth alongside 8.0-11m for 20 berths. There are 18 warehouses with a total storage capacity of 60,000m², of which 12,000m²is refrigerated and open storage of 16,000m² is available.
The dock is used for handling various types of cargo. There are gantry cranes with a lifting capacity of 3.0-40t and an unloading capacity of 300tph for cereals.
There are 2 private installations for handling steel products and sugar as follows:
TRIUNFO TERMINAL: Land area 2ha, length of quay 450m, max draft 10.0m, ship to shore crane 2 x 10-12.5t.
SERVPORT TERMINAL: Land area 2ha, length of quay 250m, max draft 8.0m, ship to shore crane 2 x 6.3t and 2 x 3.2t.
CAIS DE SAO CRISTOVAO: Length 1,525m, depth alongside from 7.5-9.5m for 6 berths . There are 2 warehouses with a total storage capacity of 12,100m² and open storage of 23,000m² is available.
The dock is used for handling various types of cargo. There are 11 x 10-12.5t gantry cranes and 2 x 120tph unloading gantry crane for cereal.
There is 1 private installation for handling steel products as follows:
TRIUNFO TERMINAL: Land area 4ha, length of quay 350m, max draft 10.0m and there are 2 x 16t ship to shore cranes available.
CAIS DO CAJU: Length 1,300m, depth alongside from 6.0-7.5m with 6 berths. There are 3 warehouses with a total storage capacity of 21,000m² and a total open storage of 69,900m² available.
LIBRA -T1 and MULTI -T2: 2 private Container Terminals, 765m of quay with 2 berths to each terminal, depth 11.5-12.0m. Open storage area of 81,500m².
Tanker berths: There is only 1 tanker berth in the port, the other facilities are available outside the port:

Berths	Length	Depth	Use
	(m)	(m)
Manguinhos Sea Buoy Facility:
Manguinhos Buoy CBM	-	10.5	Crude, max 100,000DWT, draft 10.5m. 8in & 12in hoses, rate 500tph.
Commercial Quay North:
Shed 30 Rio docks	200	7.3	Additives, Lubricants, chemicals 4in & 6in hoses, rate 80-600tph
DTSE- GEGUA:
Main Pier (PP1)	270	17.0	Crude, petroleum products, max draft 15.8m, 135,000DWT. 5 x 8in & 3 x 12in arms, rate 1,000-2,600tph.
Main Pier (PP2)	270	17.0	Crude. petroleum products, max draft 12m, 135,000DWT. 5 x 8in & 3 x 12in arms, rate 1,000-2,600tph.
Seconday Pier (PS1)	200	11.8	Crude, petroleum products, max draft 10.3m, 35,000DWT. 3 x 8in & 3 x 12in arms, rate 1,000-1,500tph.
Secondary Pier (PS2)	200	9.6	Crude, petroleum products, max draft 8.5m, 35,000DWT. 3 x 8in & 3 x 12in arms, rate 1,000-1,500tph.
Ilha Redonda (IR)	200	8.8	LPG, max 18,000DWT. 3 x 10in arms, rate 200-800tph.
Governors Island:
Shell Jetty (P1)	180	8.9	Additives, Lubricants , chemicals, max 30,000DWT, 22 x 6in & 22 x 8in hoses. Rates 200tph.
Esso	200	8.0	Additives, Lubricants, chemicals, max 45,000DWT, 10 x 4in & 14 x 6in hoses, rates 80-200tph.

Ballast/slop reception: Available.

General
Repairs: Available.
Bunkers/water/stores: Fresh water: Available.
Bunkering: Supply by barge, pipeline or road tanker.
Medical facilities: Rio de Janeiro.
Transport: Nearest airport: Santos Dumont (4km), and Galeao International Airport (15km).
Nearest railway: The port is connected to RFFSA (Brazilian Railroad).
Consuls: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, British Consulate, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.
Public holidays: Requests for operational services on the following days must be made at least 24 hours prior to arrival. The only holidays where work is not undertaken is Dec 25 and Jan 1.
Fixed holidays: Jan 1, Jan 20, Apr 21, May 1, Sep 7, Oct 12 and Dec 25.
Movable holidays: Monday and Tuesday of the carnival, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Working hours: Normally 0700-1600hrs, 1600-1900hrs, 1900-0400hrs and 0400-0700hrs.
Surveyors: Surveys available.
Garbage: Dirty ballast reception available.

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