Azores
Azores
Azores
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AZORES
CONSULS: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic,
Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, NOTES
Turkey and U.S.A.. Please also advise Shipping Guides Ltd.
REPAIRS: Engine or other repairs can be undertaken. Repairs to electric
installations, motors and refrigerating systems can also be undertaken
as well as repairs to wireless stations (including VHF, radio-telephone
equipment, radar, echo-sounders, direction-finders, gyro-compasses,
steering-gear, Sal logs and cinema projectors).
Workshops duly equipped to undertake hull and engine repairs. Divers
and equipment also available for some underwater work. Small tugs,
motor-launches and lighters. Small slipway for vessels up to 200 ft. long.
No dry docking available. A sea-going salvage tug, owned by Junta
Autonoma is stationed in the port.
REPATRIATION: Can be arranged.
AIRPORT: 3 km. from Ponta Delgada. Daily flights to Lisbon and to all
other islands of the Azores, by SATA Air-Azores.
Daily connections with flights to and from Europe and United States
or Canada.
TIME: GMT minus 1 hour in Winter. GMT in Summer from 0000 hrs.
last Sunday in March to 0100 hrs. (local time) last Sunday in September.
HOLIDAYS: 1st January – New Year’s Day, 25th April (Liberty Day),
1st May (Workers Day), June 10th (Portugual Day), Corpus Christi,
August 15th, October 5th, November 1st, December 1st, Monday before
Ascension Day. Government offices close on afternoon of Maundy
Thursday and on afternoon of Christmas Eve. Most firms close on Shrove
Tuesday and Good Friday.
POLICE/AMBULANCE/FIRE: Police Tel: ␣296 (28) 2022; Fire
Tel: ␣296 (30) 1313; Ambulance Tel: ␣296 (30) 1301 or 112.
TELEPHONES: Any ship moored alongside can be connected to the
city’s telephone network, upon request through the ship’s Agent.
SERVICES: Fresh and dry provisions available all the year round.
SHORE LEAVE: Allowed.
IDENTIFICATION CARDS: Non-EU crew members allowed ashore with
landing cards - supplied by Agents.
REGULATIONS: Ballast: Vessels must arrive with sufficient ballast to
permit safe handling.
Ratguards: It is advisable to use ratguards while moored alongside.
Scupper Covers: Boards or other suitable devices must be used to cover
outlets from lavatory discharges, etc., to prevent fouling of pier or craft
alongside.
Garbage: It is absolutely forbidden to dispose of cinders, garbage, or
any other refuse inside the harbour or within the territorial waters limit.
Non-compliance is subject to heavy fines.
GENERAL: Visual storm signals are shown on Main Signal Tower.
AUTHORITY: Junta Autonoma do Porto de Ponta Delgada, Rua
Teofilo Braga 1, 9500-247 Ponta Delgada, Azores. Tel: ␣296 (28)
5221/6 (6 lines). FAX: ␣296 (28) 3390. Telex: 82287 Portos P.
Email: jappdl@jappdl.pt Contact: Jose Manuel Pacheco Rego Costa,
Port Director.