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Port Penrhyn

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Port Penrhyn

Port Penrhyn, with Bangor Pier and the Menai Straits approaches

Port Authority

Full Style:

Port Penrhyn Plant Ltd

The Dock Office
Port Penrhyn
Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 4HN, UK
Tel: 01248 352525
Fax: 01248 352525

Port Contact:

Location:

The Harbour Master, S.R. Murray

Lat. 53 deg. 14 min. North
Long. 004 deg. 07 min. West
South side of Menai Straits, near Bangor
North Wales

Transport Connections:

Restrictions:

Road: A55 Dual Carriageway
Rail: Bangor (Intercity Station) 1km
Air: Manchester (Int'l) 160km
 

Maximum size of vessel accepted:
LOA: 150m
Beam: 18m
Draft: 5.2m spring tide, 3.66m neaps

Pilotage:

Handling Facilities:

Compulsory for all vessels over 1500gt

Stevedoring provided by private operators, mobile cranes brought in for each job. Maximum 100 tonne crane available locally, larger can be brought in if required.

Principal cargoes:

Other facilities

Sand, general cargo, slate (tiles, powder and granules), aggregates, rock armour, project cargoes (heavy lifts) including power station transformers up to 300 tonnes, windmill tower sections, salt, scrap metal, wood, etc. etc.

Strengthened ro-ro berth (up to 300 tonnes) for power station transformers and stators; a total of over 215m working quayside. Moorings for leisure craft; shiprepair facilities; ship's chandlers; bunkering (by road).