Summary
Max. Size:
Draft 10.5 m.
Containers:
Draft 11.7 m.
Passengers:
Draft 10.5 m.
Bulk:
LOA 250 m., draft 12.1 m.
Tankers:
LOA 203 m., draft 9.4 m.
Gas:
Draft 9.4 m.
Fuel:
Fuel and gas oil.
Airport:
Port Elizabeth Domestic, 4 km. Cape Town Int'l, 720 km.
Repairs/Drydocks:
Slipway capacity 1,200 tons, depth over blocks 7.5 m. (HWOS). LOA 82 m., beam 12.0 m.
Medical:
Facilities available.
Port Elizabeth
ZAPLZ
OVERVIEW:
The fifth largest port in southern Africa, based on tonnage handled, and the third
largest in terms of revenue earned. Port has one container terminal, bulk and oil
terminals
LOCATION:
In Algoa Bay, on the SE coast of Africa, 384 n.m. NE of Durban and 423 n.m. west of
Cape Town.
CHARTS:
BA Charts No. 4156, 4157 and 4158.
Publications:
BA Africa Pilot, Vol. 3, NP 3.
PORT LIMITS:
Bounded on the southward by a line drawn from Cape Recife, east (true) to a point
in the Indian Ocean, distant 1,609 m. on the northward by a line drawn from the extreme
point of the east bank of the Swartkops River, east (true) distant 1,609 m. on the
eastward by a line drawn between these two points, and shall embrace the foreshore
between high and low water marks from Cape Recife lighthouse to the aforesaid line
at east bank…
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