Visibility and wind speeds. Vessels may not navigate in the entrance channel when visibility is less than 5 cables or wind speeds are 29 kn or more.

Draught permitted within the harbour area will be promulgated by the harbour authorities.

Speed limit in entrance channel is 6 kn.

Overtaking in the entrance channel is prohibited.

Harbour

General layout 8.88

Berdyans'k consists of an inner and outer roadstead. The inner roadstead, which is approached by the entrance channel, is protected by a breakwater and a mole. The anchorage in the outer roadstead is situated on both sides of the entrance channel.

Natural conditions 8.89

Currents are usually weak and depend on the wind. They do not exceed 1 kn.

Winds. Strong winds from S and SW are rare, but when they occur, they make anchorage in the outer roads uncomfortable.

Water level. Prolonged NE and N winds lower the water level in the bay and S and SW winds raise it. The maximum fall in level is about 0-5 m and the maximum rise 1 m.

Principal marks 8.90

Landmark:

Television mast (46°46'N, 36°47E).

Major lights:

Berdyanskiy Nizhniy Light (46°38'N, 36°46'E).

Berdyanskiy Verkhniy Light (white 8-sidcd tower, red bands, 33 m in height) (46°46'N, 36°46'E).

Other navigational aids 8.91

Racon:

Berdyanskiy Nizhniy Light — as above. See Admiralty List of Radio Signals Volume 2 for details.

Directions

Recommended routes Nos 55 and 56

8.92

Initial position. In the vicinity of 46°32'N, 36°46'E, NW of the traffic roundabout.

Recommended route No 55, is for vessels of draught 6 m or more; Recommended route No 56 is for vessels up to 6 m draught, these routes lead NW and NNW, respectively, for about 8 miles to the buoyed entrance channel. Recommended route No 55 joins the channel at Nos 1 and 2 Light-buoys (starboard and port hand) and Recommended route No 56 joins the channel at Nos 9 and 10 Buoys (starboard and port hand).

Recommended route No 56 passes SW of a buoy (W cardinal) that marks the edge of the bank that fringes Berdyans'ka Kosa.

Buoyed entrance channel 8.93

Podkhodnogo Kanal Leading Lights:

Front light (white rectangle, black stripe, on metal framework structure, 29 m in height) (46°45'N, 36°47'E).

Rear light (white diamond over square, black stripe, 20 m in height) (7 cables from front beacon).

The alignment (040³/4°) of these lights leads NE for about 11 miles from Nos 1 and 2 Light-buoys to Berdyans'k inner roads through a dredged channel, 80 m wide, which is marked by pairs of light-buoys (port and starboard hand).

Recommended route No 54, for vessels of ess than 3 m draught, leads NE from a position between Nos 8 and 10 light-buoys. It runs 1 1/4 cables SE of and parallel to the dredged channel.

Cautions. Dredging is carried out periodically in the entrance channel and vessels must navigate with caution when in the vicinity of these operations.

The leading lights are difficult to distinguish on account of intervening buildings.

Berths

Anchorage in outer roadstead 8.94

Good anchorage, well protected from N, may be obtained either side of the entrance channel in depths of up to 7 m. Holding ground shell and mud.

Caution. At times of strong SW winds, vessels at anchor in the outer roads will be affected by swell and plenty of cable should be paid out.

Alongside berths 8.95

There are 10 alongside berths. Berths 1 and 2 are the general cargo berths and have depths of between 6-5 and 7 7 m. Berth No 6 is 132 m in length with depths alongside of 7-4 to 81 m and handles tankers.

Port services

Repairs 8.96

Only minor hull and engine repairs.

Other facilities 8.97

Deratting; hospital; Ro-Ro berth.

Supplies 8.98

Fuel is available in limited quantities and should be ordered in advance; fresh water at quays; provisions.

BERDYANS'KA KOSA TO BILOSARAYS'KA KOSA

General information

Chart 2234

Topography

8.99

Between the root of Berdyans'ka Kosa (46°42'N, 36°50'E) and Bilosarays'ka Kosa (20 miles NE), the coast is backed by rising ground with bare reddish coloured landslips, intersected by a number of valleys. Villages lie in these valleys and some are prominent from offshore.

Bilosarays'ka Kosa is similar in formation to Berdyans'ka Kosa (8.67) and extends about 5 miles S from the high land within it.

Traffic regulations 8.100

A traffic separation scheme, which is shown on the chart, leads NE for about 20 miles from the traffic roundabout (8.74) S of Berdyans'ka Kosa.

This traffic separation scheme is not IMO-adopted but the Ukrainian authorities advise that the principles for the use of the routeing system defined in Rule 10 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972), apply.

A Recommended route, which is shown on the chart, leads NE from the traffic separation scheme towards the approach channel to Port Mariupol.

Area periodically dangerous for navigation:

Area No 761 extends about 10 miles offshore between Berdyans'ka Kosa and Bilosarays'ka Kosa and occupies the greater part of Bilosarays'ka Zatoka.

Principal marks 8.102

Major lights:

Berdyanskiy Nizhniy Light (46°38'N, 36°46'E). Novopetrovskiy Light (46°49'N, 36°55'E).

Other navigational aids 8.103

Racon:

Bilosarays'ka Light (46°53'N, 37° 19^). See Admiralty List of Radio Signals Volume 2 for details. Radar reflectors have been erected on 3 metal structures near the end of Bilosarays'ka Kosa.

Directions

(continued from 8.75)

8.104

Initial position. In the vicinity of 46°31'N, 36°51E, within the traffic roundabout.

Route. A traffic separation scheme (8.100) and thence Recommended route No 30 lead NE for 33 miles to the S entrance of the approach channel to Port Mariupol', which lies about 5 miles E of Bilosarays'ka Light (46°53'N, 37°19'E). This route passes (with positions from Bilosarays'ka Light):

Clear of an obstruction with a depth of 9 m over it,

(17 miles SW), which lies in the middle of the traffic lane, thence: NW of a wreck (16 miles SW) with a depth of 7-2 m over it, thence:

SE of a buoy (S cardinal) (2'/2 miles S) which marks an obstruction with a depth of 5-6 m over it. This obstruction lies off a bank, with depths of less than 5 m over it, that extends nearly 2 miles S from Bilosarays'ka Kosa. Thence:

(Directions for W part of Gulf of Taganrog continue at 8.191)

SE of Bilosarays'ka Light (white 8-sided tower on one storey building, 21 m in height), thence:

NW of the N extremity of a shoal, with depths of less than 5 m over it, that extends from the outer extremity of Dolgaya Kosa (8.168). See caution.

Cautions. Less water than that shown on the chart is reported in the NE part of the traffic separation scheme.

The extremity of Dolgaya Kosa is subject to considerable annual change due to the action of currents and ice. (Directions for Port Mariupol' continue at 8.123)

Anchorage

Bukhta Taran'ya 8.105

Bukhta Taran'ya is entered between the SW extremity of Bilosarays'ka Kosa and the NW shore of Bilosarays'ka Zatoka. the whole of the bay is filled with a bank which has a depth of less than 5 m.

Good anchorage, with shelter from winds between N and E may be found in a depth of 5 m, mud, 1 ½ miles W of Bilosarays'ka Light.

PORT MARIUPOL' AND APPROACHES

General information

Chart 3303 with plan of Port Mariupol'

Position

8.106

Mariupol' (47°05'N, 37°34'E) is situated on the N shore of Gulf of Taganrog about 18 miles within the entrance of the gulf. The town stands partly on a hill on the W bank of Richka Kal'mius and partly on the low coast W of the river mouth.

Function 8.107

Mariupol' is a major port and large industrial town, which in 2002 had a population of 492 000. Its chief industries arc metallurgy, chemicals, fishing and fish processing.

Approach 8.108

Port Mariupol' is approached by a buoyed channel, 9 miles in length, that has been dredged through the coastal bank. This coastal bank is backed by a shoreline consisting of steep level topped cliffs.

Harbour limit 8.109

The harbour limit, shown on the chart, consists of the arc of a circle, radius6 ½ miles, centred on Middle leading light, Ugol'naya Havan' approach channel (47°04'-2N, 37°30'-7E) (8.123).

Traffic 8.110