The seaport of Novorossiysk is situated in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea, at the top of the Novorossiyskaya (Tsemesskaya) Bukhta (Bay).

Navigation is year-round. In winter, strong, gusty NE winds (called “Bora”), reaching hurricane force at times, blow from the coastal mountains. Due to these winds, vessels lying at anchor in Novorrossiysk Bay may very quickly become covered with ice when the temperature of the air is cooled below freezing point.

It is impossible to enter the port when “Bora” blows, therefore, all vessels are recommended to leave the Novorossiysk Bay for the open sea beforehand or lay at anchor in the Yuzhnaya Ozereika Roads, at the distance of 8.5 miles westward of the entrance to the port of Novorossiysk.

The port consists of two harbours: Dry Cargo Harbour and Sheskharis Oil Harbour.

The inner roads are situated at the head of Novorossiysk Bay and divided from the outer roads by the Western and Eastern Moles. The outer roads are situated between the moles and the Southern border of the port.

The Dry Cargo Harbour situated inside the inner roads is protected by
2 (western and eastern) moles.

Pilotage is compulsory. Vessels must give the ETA, name of the vessel, gross tonnage, exact draft, description and quantity of cargo, location and weights of heavy lifts (if any), type of engine 96 hours prior arrival.

The quays of the Dry Cargo Harbour with depths alongside of up to 11.5 m are equipped to handle general cargo, 20 - 40ft containers and bulk cargoes (coal, ore), metals, timber, sugar, grain, cement, fruit and vegetables.

Berths of the port are equipped with modern cargo handling facilities. There are portal cranes of up to 40 tons capacity, floating cranes with lifting capacity of up to 100 tons, automatic and electric cargo lifters and other equipment.

Opening and closing of hatches is usually done by ship’s crew with the help of portal cranes of up to 40 tons capacity at dry cargo berths if ordered by Master, grain berth excluded.

All necessary services including stevedoring work are available under Port Authority guidance. Port cargo handling regions where ships berth are managed by Port Authority and used for stevedoring, tallymen service, storage, etc.

The Sheskharis Oil Harbour situated in the Eastern part of the outer roads is protected by a mole from the South and oil jetty from the North. The base of the jetty is used as a berth for fire-fighting boats.

Depths at the berths of the Sheskharis Oil Harbour are from 4.5 up to 19.0 m. To ensure safe loading \ unloading of oil products every tanker should be equipped with cargo manifolds[3] capable of fitting 8 in.-16in. shore-loading connections.

Deepwater berth №1 accepts vessels of 80,000 to 250,000 dwt. Arrival and departure draft does not exceed 19.0 m

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