Puerto de Avilés - Avilés, Asturias, España - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

It is bathed by the Cantabrian Sea and has several docks for berthing boats of different drafts, among which the San Agustín Dock, the Roots Dock and the San Juan de Nieva Dock are the most extensive.

The amount of goods loaded here grows year after year, but the enormous quantities of aluminum for the Alcoa factory (formerly Inespal), of steel and scrap for the Arcelor Mittal factory and of zinc for the Asturiana factory are of special interest. of Zinc , belonging to Xstrata , that land here every year. It is also the most important fishing port in the entire region, surpassing El Musel de Gijón in unloaded catches.

Likewise, the Avilés Port Authority also controls the uses of the Avilés marina, which is attached to the fishing dock, more specifically in the part closest to the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Center .

Facilities:
Docks
Dock of San Agustín.
Fishing pier, where the fish market is located.
Roots Pier.
Inespal Pier
Dock of San Juan de Nieva.
Cranes and tanks
12 Electric cranes from 6 to 30 Tm. of strength
1 63 Tm car crane. of strength
Uncovered deposits: 271,631 m²
Deposits covered: 27,000 m²

Physical characteristics
Tides:
Maximum tidal area 4.60 m
Height of the BMVEE with respect to the zero of the port 0.00 m
Elevation of the PMVEE with respect to the zero of the port 4.60 m
Input channel:
Northwest Orientation (NW)
Width 103 m
Draft of BMVE 12.80 m
Bottom nature: Sand, hard clay and rock
Length 920 m
Entrance mouth:
Northwest Orientation (NW)
Width 160 m
Draft of BMVE 12.80 m
Maximum registered current 2.25 knots

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