Operations and port services

The Port services are the provision activities needed to ensure the running of the Port, aimed at enabling the operations associated with maritime traffic to be carried out in conditions of safety, efficiency, regularity, continuity and non-discrimination. They are classified into:

 

Nautical Services

 

 

Piloting service

 

This is an advisory service for captains of vessels and floating equipment, provided on board these, to aid their entry into and exit from the Port and the nautical manoeuvres within this and the geographical limits of the area of pilot services, in conditions of safety and under the terms established in the Law concerning ports, in the regulatory rule of this service and in the schedule of particular specifications.

 

 

Port tug service

 

Its purpose is the nautical operation of helping a vessel to manoeuvre, called tugging, following the instructions provided by its captain, with the aid of another vessel or other vessels, called tugs, that provide the traction, or, where appropriate, the support or availability within the limits of the waters included in the Port service area.

 

 

Mooring and unmooring service

 

Its function is to pick up a vessel’s mooring lines, take them and attach them to the elements arranged on the docks or moorings for this purpose, following the instructions of the vessel's captain, in the mooring sector designated by the Port Authority, and in the order and layout convenient for facilitating docking unmooring and undocking operations. The unmooring service is understood as being the function whose aim is to detach the mooring lines of a vessel from the fixing elements to which it is moored, following the sequence and instructions provided by the captain and without affecting the conditions of the vessels moored next to it.

 

Passangers Services

 

 

Passenger embarkation and disembarkation service

 

This includes organising, controlling and, if necessary, managing the means required for passengers to access the passenger vessels from the cruise terminal or the dock and vice versa.

 

 

Passenger baggage loading and unloading service

 

This includes organising, controlling and, if necessary, managing the means required for receiving baggage on land, identifying it and transferring it on board the vessel, and placing it in the location or locations that are established, as well as for collecting the baggage on board the ship from the location or locations that are established, transferring in to land and delivering it to each of the passengers.

MARPOL Services

 

 

Service for receiving the waste generated by vessels / MARPOL

 

Envisages the reception of refuse and waste from Appendices I, IV, V or VI of the MARPOL Convention 73/78.

This service includes collecting the waste generated by vessels, transferring it to a treatment facility authorised by the competent authorities, and, where applicable, the previous storage, classification and treatment of these in the area authorised by the competent authorities.

MARPOL operations

Further information about the Port of Tarragona’s Plan for a System for Receiving and Handling Ship-generated Waste and Cargo Residues.
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Goods handling service

  

 

Goods handling service

 

This consists of the loading, stowing, unloading, unstowing, maritime transit and trans-shipping of goods. This Port service is considered as including the activities of, loading, stowing unstowing, unloading and trans-shipping of goods, the aim of maritime traffic, which allow its transfer between vessels or between them and the land or other means of transport. To be considered as activities included in this service, they must be carried out entirely within the service area of the Port and be directly and immediately connected to a specific operation of loading, unloading or trans-shipping of a particular vessel.

 

 

 

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OPERATIONS AND PORT SERVICES

 

 Related documents

REGULATORY SIGNS

  • EPPE Resolution. PORT STEVEDORE SERVICE

  • Private Prescriptions [BOE]-RECEPTION SERVICES FOR VESSEL WASTE

  • Private Prescriptions [BOE]-RECEPTION SERVICE FOR WASTE GENERATED BY VESSELS

  • Private Prescriptions. PORT TUG SERVICE 2021 OCTOBER

  • Private Prescriptions. PORT PILOTING SERVICE

  • Private Prescriptions. VESSEL MOORING AND UNMOORING SERVICE

  • Prescripcions Particulars del Servei Portuari al Passatge en règim de creuers al Port de Tarragona

  • Correction of Errors in Private Prescriptions [Approval of TPA Board]- WASTE GENERATED BY VESSELS

  • Correction of Errors in Private Prescriptions [BOE - Approval of TPA Board]- SERVICE FOR RECEIVING THE WASTE GENERATED BY VESSELS

  • ACORD D'ADJUDICACIÓ PER PRESTAR EL SERVEI PORTUARI DE PRACTICATGE AL PORT DE TARRAGONA

 

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PORT SERVICES

 

The Port services are the provision activities needed for the operation of the Port unrelated to operations associated with maritime traffic.

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REQUESTING SERVICES

Access the tools for formally requesting or communicating the services required for the vessel, the goods or the passage during your stay in the Port.

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COMMERCIAL SERVICES

You can access the schedules of conditions and application forms for carrying out these activities.

Go to Commercial Services

 

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Access the section describing and detailing the activities related to the Port’s public domain.

Go to Public Domain

 

TARIFFS AND CHARGES

Access the documents and regulations related to the settlements, charging and payment of the Port activities and procedures.

Go to tariffs and charges

 

PORT COMMUNITY

Access the duly classified directory of companies that are providing Port services and other organisations related to various Port activities.

Go to Port Community

 

 

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