General Description
Location: Rijeka is located in the N of the Adriatic Sea in Kvarner Bay.
General overview: The port offers a sheltered harbour, protected by 2 breakwaters, with safe anchorage outside the harbour limits. The port handles a wide variety of cargo including, containers, ore, timber, grain, phosphate, crude and refined petroleum products. All types of vessels are handled at a total of 39 berths including tankers, bulk carriers, container carriers, general cargo, passenger and Ro-Ro vessels. The INA Oil Refinery has terminals at Urinj, Mlaka and Omisalj, all within the bay area. See separate entries for Omisalj Oil Terminal, Sepen Bay Petrochemicals terminal and Rasa port.
Berths:
● Rijeka Port Basin:
○De Franceschiev Gat (East): Length: 150m; depth: 7.3m; remarks: General cargo
○De Franceschiev Gat (Head): Length: 80m; depth: 6.0m; remarks: General cargo
○De Franceschiev Gat (West): Length: 135m; depth: 6.3m; remarks: General cargo
INFO: the 32 ton crane is for loading/unloading heavy lifts with the possibility of using grab for loading/unloading smaller quantities of bulk cargo in direct operation.
East Quay: 1x32 ton Ganz crane.
○Budimpestansko Pristaniste East: Length: 110m; depth: 7.8m; remarks: General cargo
○Budimpestansko Pristaniste West: Length: 257m; depth: 12.95m; LOA: 250m; draft: 12.95m; remarks: Grain, seed
INFO: East quay is mainly used for working vessels carrying general cargo. West quay’s silo has a 57,000 tons storage capacity for grain and oleiferous seeds and is equipped with two shiploaders with a total capacity of 600 t.p.h. Vessels of maximum LOA 250 m. handled, provided that the ship lies 8 – 10 m. distant from the quay, berthed by dropping port bow anchor, stern line being moored to the buoy.
○Becko Pristaniste: Length: 246m; depth: 9.6m; LOA: 200m; draft: 10.00m; remarks: General cargo
INFO: 7x3 ton dockside cranes.
○Bratislavsko Pristaniste: Length: 160m; depth: 7.9m; LOA: 180m; draft: 9.75m; remarks: Fertiliser
INFO: This pier includes a covered storage for fertilisers, single storage capacity 15,000 tons, and is equipped with handling and bagging facilities for all types of fertilisers.
○Orlandov Gat (East): Length: 195m; depth: 8.5m; LOA: 195m; draft: 9.60m; remarks: Bulk, general cargo
○Orlandov Gat (Head): Length: 84m; depth: 7.5m; remarks: Perishable goods,general cargo
○Orlandov Gat (West): Length: 169m; depth: 8.0m; remarks: Perishable goods, general cargo
INFO: 3x5 ton dockside cranes.
○Visinov Gat (East): Length: 120m; depth: 7.3m; remarks: General cargo
○Visinov Gat (Head): Length: 79m; depth: 7.2m; remarks: General cargo
○Visinov Gat (West): Length: 120m; depth: 7.3m; remarks: General cargo
○Prasko Pristaniste (East): Length: 161m; depth: 7.3m; remarks: General cargo, bulk
○Prasko Pristaniste (West): Length: 200m; depth: 7.5m; LOA: 180m; draft: 9.60m; remarks: General cargo, bulk
INFO: 4x3 ton and 2x6 ton Ganz dockside cranes
○Zagrebacko Pristaniste: Length: 158m; depth: 6.25m; remarks: General cargo
○Adamicev Gat/Gat Karoline Rijecke: Length: 450m; depth: 6.0m; remarks: Ro-Ro, passenger andfishing vessels, smaller craft
○Riva Boduli: Length: 189m; depth: 6.5m; remarks: General cargo, Ro-Ro
○Lukobran Rijeka: Length: 1,768m; depth: 7.2m
INFO: 4x5 ton dockside cranes.
●Susak Port Basin (search in Susak)
●Rasa Port Basin (search in Rasa)
●Bakar Port Basin (search in Bakar)
●Urinj Tanker Terminal (search in Urinj)
●Kirk Island:
●Sepen (search in Sepen)
●Srsica (search in Srsica)
●Omisalj-Krk Island (Adriatic Pipeline Terminal (Janat Terminal)) (search in Omisalj)
Cranes: at respective berths except at The Orlando Pier – West side, Visin Pier, Zagreb Quay, Boduli Quay, Vinodol Quay and Ruzic Pier, where vessel’s own gear must be used. Floating cranes of 30 and 100 tons. At shipyard 3 Maj Berth 6 m. 1x300 tons bridge crane available.
Traffic figures: Approx 9,300,000t of cargo and 145,000TEU handled annually.
Load line zone: Summer.
Max size: Largest vessel handled: "Gold Star" (bulk carrier), 160,000DWT, draught 18.0m.