The shipping platform

Location: Seville is situated 50nm from the sea, on the E bank of the River Guadalquivir in SW Spain. General overview: It is the only commercial river port in the country. The port is navigable as far as Seville for vessels with dimensions that can be accepted by the entrance lock. Vessels reported up to 6.5m draught can be handled, however draughts are affected by frequent floods. The bottom of the river is sand and sludge. The port handles many types of cargo and is the main link in the transport chain between the Canary Islands and mainland Spain. The port is managed by the port authority of the same name. It has a dock for cruise ships, the Muelle de las Delicias. The dársena del Batán comprises two docks: the Centenario Dock (featuring a container terminal, a ro-ro ramp) and the Batán Norte Dock (also with a ro-ro ramp), both of them prepared for the charge and discharge of solid bulk.The Tablada dock in the Dársena de Alfonso XIII operates bulk cargo. Further dowstreams there is shipyard dock. The Port of Seville covers over 106 hectares of water surface and 660 hectares of land area. It contains 38 hectares of quays and an industrial zone of 247 hectares. Its quays total five kilometers, and the port is served by 18 kilometers of roads. Railways connect the wharves and industrial zone with Spain’s rail network and the rest of Europe. The Port of Seville contains over 186 thousand square meters of open storage space, almost 62 thousand square meters of covered storage space, and more than eight thousand square meters of cold storage. Further, the Avda. de la Raz Warehouse has capacity for 38 thousands square meters of cargo and almost 12.3 thousand square meters of cold stores. The Port of Seville contains over 2.7 thousand meters of berths for public use and 1.1 thousand meters of private berths. These docks and berths are used for solid and liquid bulk cargoes, roll-on/roll-off cargoes, containers, and cruise lines. Traffic figures: Approx 1,400 vessels, 4,850,000t of cargo, 135,000TEU and 151,000 passengers handled annually. Load line zone: Summer. Max AIRDRAFT = 42m; Max arriving draft Fresh water = abt 7,0 meters, sub to speed and DWT size, tide timing; Max departure draft Fresh water = abt 6,4 meters, sub to speed and DWT size, tide timing; ANCHORAGE AREA SEVILLA port = CHIPIONA: On arrival – Vessels are allowed to drop anchor due to wait of tide for the Entrance. On departure – Vessels are not authorized to drop anchor at the anchorage area for Seville port called “El Pozo”. Pilots Station: CHIPIONA (VHF channels 12 and 74). Pilot boarding point: Boya del Perro (Lat 36º46'N Long 06º27'W). River Channel entrance name: Sanlucar/Bonanza roads. Distance fm Chipiona PILOTS to PORT/BERTH : 50 miles/94 kms. UNDER KEEL CLEARANCE: Regarding the UKC, it varies along the different sections of the river, since its depth is changing. On the other hand, the ships are assigned the start time of navigation according to their characteristics, speed that develops, tidal coefficient and time of high tide in such a way that the resulting UKC is always within the safety margins. The maximum draft in fresh water must be equal to or less than that indicated on the draft table in force for the day the ship is due to sail on enter/depart passages, all tidal factors have been taken into account for the preparation of the chart/tables both astronomical and meteorological.