• Al Hudaydah Governorate Introduction :-
•port description :
- The coastal city of Hodeidah and its sea port on the Red Sea coast occupies an intermediate geographical position between the northern governorates with ahigh population density that enables it to play an important and vital role in accelerating the development process to become, through this role, one of the most important Yemeni ports and the main gateway to the Red Sea, which Through it, Yemen overlooks the outside world and passes through it and through it various exports and imports and all that the process of growth and prosperity that Yemen has witnessed and is witnessing in the past and present.
Hodeidah port:-
•basic information:-
-Time zone: GMT + 3 hours .
-Router Code ( VHF ) 14-16 C.H
•The port complies with the international code ( ISPS ) :
-Identification Number :4-2010
-approval date 13 FUB 2010
•Natural Characteristics :_
The climate of the Red Sea is deserted throughout the year, and the average temperature is 22 degrees Celsius in winter, and the relative humidity ranges between 60-80% throughout the year. .A - Weather: relatively warm in the summer and mild in the winterb- Relative density of water: 1.025 tons/mC- Rainy season: rain falls in small quantities, and the rainy season falls in the month (January, July, August, December) and its average ranges between 60-150 mm annually.D - average tides 0.8m
•port description :
The coastal city of Hodeidah and its sea port on the Red Sea coast occupies an intermediate geographical position between the northern governorates with a high population density that enables it to play an important and vital role in accelerating the development process to become, through this role, one of the most important Yemeni ports and the main gateway to the Red Sea, which Through it, Yemen overlooks the outside world and passes through it and through it various exports and imports and all that the process of growth and prosperity that Yemen has witnessed and is witnessing in the past and present.
• Geographical description:
•Location..
The port of Hodeidah is located in the southeast of the Red Sea, approximately in the middle of the Yemeni coast of the Yemeni Red Sea - north of the equator, at latitude 14 degrees and 50 minutes north and longitude 42 degrees and 56 minutes east. Port waiting areas.
•Advantages ..
- Hodeidah port is unique in a number of advantages that are specific to it from other ports in terms of:
1. Its strategic location and proximity to international shipping lines
2. Natural protection from waves and water currents.
3. Not exposed to monsoons.
• Special Ingredients :
- Total area .. (314,955,726) square meters.
The water area.. (307,455,726) meters 2.
The floor area is 7.5 million square metres.
•Productive ingredients :
The maximum design capacity is (9.000.000) tons.
For merchandise:
(general 1,000,000) tons
(1,500,000) tons . (dry casting)
(4,000,000) tons
(Cargo containing 2,500,000) tons
For containers:
(280,000) TEUs.
Tourism and passenger activity:
The number of passenger and tourism ships (10) ships annually.
- Number of passengers (1000 passengers) annually.
The number of tourists (3000 tourists) annually.
• Navigational properties :
A- Navigational lanes:
-The corridor is 10,433 nautical miles long.
-Width is 200 metres.
- Depth 10 meters
b- Circle of rotation:
- Diameter 400 meters.
-Depth of 10 meters.
c-approach area ..
-The first area is located on either side of the first with a guide face to enter the navigational channel (F.W.B) designated for ships of large draft.
-The second region is located to the northeast of the navigation channel.
d-Guidance ..
Compulsory from the private area to wait for the guides to the port and vice versa
c- The largest ship that can be received:
A ship with a tonnage of (31,000) tons.
- Submersible (9.75 meters).
Length (200 meters).
H- Working hours: 24 hours .
