BELAWAN, PORT AND TERMINAL INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500410135-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: March 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Indonesia (Sumatra)
THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
DATE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
Port Information
to lE OoturtntCoNiAIN^ INFORMATION ATRECtINS Ent NAtIONAL OIFEN'I
OF tilt UNITED STASES, .ITNIN THE NSANINO O. TITLE It. EEC110n2 T'I
AND TEA. OF TNI U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED, ITI TAANSSIIE10N OR ALOE.
L,ATIOn Or ItS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT St AN UNAUTNOAICEO REASON IE
General Description of Port
Entrance
Outside Anchorage
Controlling depth (MLW)
Mea
tid
l
27'
25'
6o'
n
a
range
Velo
it
f
27 to 30'
25 to
60 to 62'
c
y o
tide
Up to 3 knots
Up to 2 knots
Up to 2 knots
li
S
i
per hour
per hour
er h
a
n
ty of water
Nature
f b
1.065
1.065
p
our
i
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o
ottom
sludge
sludge
.
sludge
Belawan, Port and Terminal Information
Due to a oazdbank in the channel, the depth is 25' at low tide and 27' at
high tide.
Max size of vessel - 450' length, unlimited beam, 27' draft.
Limiting conditions :- 10,000 BIRT
Vessels are not permitted to enter port or depart during hours of darkness
due to government regulations.
Continuous dredging is required due to silting. This was started on 3 November
1952.
Pilotage is compulsory due to strong currents, wear Jetty, dredger.
There are special harbor regulations regarding entering or leaving the port due
to the strong currents, weak Jetty, dredger and government regulations. There
are no special harbor regulations regarding anchoring.
Navigational difficulties are encountered when entering or leatring the port
due to the narrow entrance.
Two tugs of 4500 HP are available.
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There are no oil barges available.
Bunker fuel is supplied by Standard Vacuum Sales Co/Petroleum Board
Diesel fuel is supplied by Standard Vacuum Sales Co/Petroleum Board
Fresh water is supplied by Djawatan Pelabuhan Belawan
There is a machine shop for minor repairs only and a foundry for small. parts
only.
No drydock is available.
Petroleum Pier
Sheds 18 - 19
Terminal - Belawan
Owner - Djawatan Pelabuhan Belawan - Indonesian Government
Used by - Petroleum Pier for all ships carrying white oils.
Sheds 188 and 19: Public general cargo berths
Berths and Approaches
Berth
Approaches
. Jetty Sheds 1,3/19
Controlling deptii
(14W)
27' 27'
2~'
Mean tidal rxzni;e
27' -30' 2'(1-3c' '
25' - 2'(1
Velocity of tide
Up to 3 knots per hour
Up to 3 knots per hr
Salinity of water
1.06
.L.065
Nature of bottom
sludge
sludge
Max si.e of vuosel - 450' length,, unlimited beam, 27' draft.
Limiting conditions :- length 11.50, draft 2'(' .
Vessels cannot dock or undock during hours of darkness due to regulations of
ilar'oor master. Pilots are furnished to incoming ships between 0600 and 1600
hours and for outgoing ships between 0600 and 1800 hours.
Vessels can dock or undock at all stages of, tide.
There is one tug available for docking but none for unlocking.
Fires must be extinguished under ships boiler for white oil tankers but not
for black oil tankers.
Loading (discharging) is permitted during hours of darkness for kero and black
oil but not for mogas and avigas.
Shore electricity is available; 220 volts, 50 amperes, 50 cycles, 3 phase.
Fuel oil is available only at Sheds 18 and 19 - 8" line, 480 bble/hr.
Diesel oil is available only at Sheds 18 and 19 - 2" line. Max delivery
rate:- by railroad tank care.
Fresh water is piped up to 5 tons/hr during daytime only.
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Shore Facilities
Grade
No
El
(ft)
Cap
bbls
No & Diam
in
Length
(f~2
Cap
B /hr
Hose Conn
No & Size
Max All'd
Press
Mogan
1
21
20,000
_
4030
1000
2
- 8"
+20
Mogas
2
21
20,000
2
- 8"
4030
1000
2
- 8"
40
Kero
3
21.06
21,250
3
- 8"
4030
1000
2
- 8"
40
ADO
4
13.92
15,676
4
- 8"
4030
1000
2
- 8"
40
(Empty)
5
.16.29
11,562
5
- 8"
4030
-
2
- 8"
40
Fuel oil
6
21.18
22,504
6
- 8"
4600
1000
2
- 8"
40
Ind Diesel
7
1386
15,000
7
- 8"
4600
1000
2-
8"
40
Mogas, kero, ADO and in .future Avigaa are handled by common pipeline.
Manner and Position in which vessel is moored:-
Petroleum Pier,
Mooring with
bow against
tidal current
Shore moorings
post
Buoy
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Jety
? Shore mooring post
Sheds 18 and 19 moor along long concrete wharf with mooring posts.
In view of the narrow harbor entrance, which repeatedly becomes silted up,
regular dredging has become necessary; the channel has been dredged from 27
to 30 feet.
Ships must remain at anchor outside the harbor to await their turn to enter,
for in view of the narrow entrance only one ship may be piloted at a time
into or out of the harbor.
White Oil Pier; There in at present only one 8" p1pe~.1,ne lea4i. from this
pi.efi to t fie Bel.Awan '. VM;LxM],. This line is for tex*or receipt only and
h r4].es Magri, kern, Al)A, wA, in the future, Avigae.
Black Oil kaiar - Shed 191 There are two 8" pipelines hero, one for he ndling
a aee1 oil and the other fuel oil. These lines serve for tanker
rseo1,pt as well as for bunkering.
As this pier is used for loading and unloading cargoes of all other sh!.ps,
it often happens that B 0 tankers must await outside till this particular
wharf is unoccupied or allotted to them, because the wharf capacity is
too small for the large number of chips that call at Belawan.
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756.548.
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756.547
122T
i 5.543
1227
71F5.5115
1221
756.51+6
122T
756 5'
122T
Dolphin
(old)