PORT PROFILE / LK
Colombo
Port of Colombo
PORT CODELKCMB
COUNTRYSri Lanka
PORT TYPESeaport
PORT SIZELarge
COORDINATES6.9535 / 79.8465
The port details.
Reference record from the supplied World Port Info archive. Confirm current facilities, restrictions, depths and contacts with the port before operational use.
General
- Local port name
- Port of Colombo
- Type
- Seaport
- Inland (ICD)
- No
- Port authority
- Sri Lanka Ports Authority
- Latitude
- 6.9535
- Longitude
- 79.8465
- Waterway
- Laccadive Sea
- Waterway system
- Arabian Sea Region
- Currency
- LKR
- Port size
- Large
- First port of entry
- Yes
- ETA message required
- Yes
- USA representative
- Yes
- Medical facilities
- Yes
Harbor
- Harbor size
- Large
- Harbor type
- Coastal Breakwater
- Shelter
- Fair
- Max vessel size
- Over 500 feet in length
- Turning area
- Yes
Entrance restrictions
- Tide
- No
- Swell
- Yes
- Ice
- No
- Other
- Yes
Water depth
- Channel
- 41 - 45 feet, 12.5 - 13.7 meters
- Cargo pier
- 11 - 15 feet, 3.4 - 4.6 meters
- Mean tide
- 1 foot
- Anchorage
- 36 - 40 feet, 11 - 12.2 meters
- Oil terminal
- 36 - 40 feet, 11 - 12.2 meters
Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Yes
- Available
- Yes
- Advisable
- Yes
Tugs
- Assist
- Yes
Quarantine / documents
- Pratique
- Yes
- Deratt certificate
- Yes
Contact
- Address
- No. 19, Chaithya Road, P. O. Box 59, Colombo 01, Sri Lanka
- Phone
- 94-11 2421201
- Fax
- 94-11 2440651
- info@slpa.lk
- Website
- www.slpa.lk
Communications
- Telephone
- Yes
- Radio
- Yes
- Radio tel
- Yes
- Air
- Yes
- Telegraph
- Yes
- Rail
- Yes
Loading & unloading
- Wharves
- Yes
- Anchor
- Yes
Lift cranes
- 50-100 ton lifts
- Yes
- 25-49 ton lifts
- Yes
- 0-24 ton lifts
- Yes
- Mobile cranes
- Yes
- Floating cranes
- Yes
Port services
- Longshore
- Yes
Supplies
- Provisions
- Yes
- Fuel oil
- Yes
- Deck
- Yes
- Water
- Yes
- Diesel oil
- Yes
- Engine
- Yes
Other services
- Ship repairs
- Major
- Marine railroad size
- Medium
- Drydock size
- Small
- Dirty ballast
- No
Source: Sri Lanka / LKCMB · Owner-supplied World Port Info archive.
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