General Description
Location: Montevideo is the principal port in Uruguay and is situated on the River Plate, central on the S coast, within Montevideo bay.
General overview: The port has been built inside of a bay that shelters the installation. Basically the port can be divided in two sections: one, on the eastern side of the bay, is dedicated to the dry cargo, containers and passengers vessels; the second one on the northwestern side, called La Teja, is the oil and gas terminal. The port has 3 basins and 14 piers and also included in this is the Government owned oil facility ANCAP, located on the N side of the bay. The port has two private terminals: Terminal Granelera Montevideo (TGM), specialized in the movement of bulk, and Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP), specialized in containers. On the other hand, it has the public terminal managed by the National Port Administration (ANP).
Berths:
-Muelle de Escala: length: 288 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: Containers;
-Muelle Fluvial: length: 353 m; depth: 5.0 m; remarks: Containers, naval vessels;
-Rinconada Fluvial Dock: length: 87 m; depth: 5.0 m; remarks: Containers;
-Muelle Maciel: length: 382 m; depth: 5.0 m; remarks: Passengers;
-Cabecera Muelle A: length: 50 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: General cargo
-Muelle A (Dock 1 – 2): length: 303 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: General cargo
-Muelle Central Dock 1 (Berths 3 – 5): depth: 492 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: Reefers, Ro-Ro
-Muelle B, Dock 1 (Berths 6 – 7): length: 294 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: Bulk, containers, Ro-Ro
-Cabecera Muelle B: length: 148 m; depth: 10.0 m
-Muelle B, Dock 2 (Berths 8 – 9): length: 327 m; depth: 10.0 m; remarks: Bulk, containers, reefers
-Muelle Central Dock 2 (Berths 10 – 11): length: 392 m; depth: 5.0; remarks: Reefers
-Muelle Florida: length: 53 m; depth: 5.0 m; remarks: Tankers, general cargo
-Mantaras Terminal Pesquero: length: 600 m; depth: 5.0 m; remarks: Fish port
-La Teja Oil N; length: 96 m; depth: 9.02 m; remarks: Crude, products
-La Teja Oil S: length: 248 m; depth: 6.70 m; remarks: Crude, products, LPG
-La Teja Oil W: depth: 4.27; remarks: Coasters
●Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP):
Facilities: 1x45 ton and 1x55 ton gantry cranes, 1x100 ton mobile crane, 11x55 ton straddle carriers, 2 front end loaders/reachstackers, 12x3.5 – 12 ton forklifts, 556 reefer points, total area 160,000 sq.m. handling 9,700 TEU.
●Terminal ANP:
Facilities: One quay, Muelle B, Dock 1 (Berths No. 6 and 7), three gantry cranes (up to 40 tons), 7x2 – 15 ton front end loaders/reachstackers, 1x45 ton and 1x40 ton yard tractors, total area 160,000 sq.m. handling 3,800 TEU.
Traffic figures: Approx 4,800 vessels and 588,000TEU with a total cargo tonnage of 7,596,000t handled annually.
Load line zone: Summer.
Max size: Cargo vessels: LOA 272m, beam 30-40m, max draught 8.5m., 50,721 g.t. La Teja Tankers: LOA 242m, beam 32m, max draught 10.8m.; Passengers: 70,327 g.t., LOA 293 m