Richards Bay
ZARCBSouth AfricaAfrica
Richards Bay (ZARCB) is a sea port in South Africa. What follows is what an exporter checks before booking: how the port handles cargo, what it requires on arrival, and who works there.
Agri-food handling
- First port of entry
- Yes
- Quarantine and pratique
- Yes
- Container handling
- Yes
Port facts
- Harbour size
- Medium
- Harbour type
- Coastal (breakwater)
- Shelter
- Fair
- Channel depth
- 18.9 m
- Cargo pier depth
- 19 m
- Anchorage depth
- 18.6 m
- Maximum vessel length
- 300 m
- Maximum vessel beam
- 50 m
- Maximum vessel draft
- 17.5 m
- Pilotage
- Compulsory
- Tugs
- Yes
- Cranes
- fixed, mobile
- Repairs
- Limited
- Supplies
- provisions, potable water, fuel oil
Source: NGA World Port Index (Pub 150). A row is absent where the dataset records nothing for this port.