Coleraine Harbour Commissioners
Schedule of Charges 2025
Operative 1st June 2025
Coleraine Harbour Commissioners
Schedule of Charges 2025
Operative 1st June 2025
Contents
Settlement Terms of Port Charges
Statutory / Bank Holidays for 2025/2026
Port charges on Ships
Other Charges
Charges for Fresh Water
Port Charges on Ship Generated Waste
Port Security Charges
Pilotage Charges
Pilotage Examination Certification
Port Charges on Goods
Quay Rent and Storage Regulations and Charges
Settlement Terms for Port Charges
All invoices are to be paid within 30 days from date of invoice.
Coleraine Harbour Commissioners reserve the right at their discretion, to request full payment of any and all Port Charges in advance of ship arrival.
Statutory / Bank Holidays for 2025/2026
14th July 2025
15th July 2025
25th August 2025
25th December 2025
26th December 2025
1st January 2026
17th March 2026
6th April 2026
7th April 2026
4th May 2026
25th May 2026
Port Charges on Ships
Operative form 1st June 2025
Charges are based on GT, ascertained in accordance with the requirements for the International Convention of Tonnage Measurement of Ships 1969.
Charges are payable at a rate appropriate to either the inward or outward voyage.
A ship on which the appropriate charge has been paid and which is obliged from stress or weather or other sufficient cause after leaving the Port to return with the same cargo and which does not break bulk or load additional cargo is exempt from payment for the second entry.
Interpretation
In this schedule:
“ship includes every description of vessel used in navigation
the charges are “ship dues” for the purposes of the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.
“EEA” means member states of the European Economic Area.
Class of Ship GT
(Charge per Tonne)
1. On every ship from a European Economic Area (EEA) 70p
2. On every ship from a port outside the EEA 75p
Other Charges
Weighbridge Charges £12.50 per weigh
Mooring Charges £85.00 per Vessel Inside Working Hours
Mooring Charges £145.00 per Vessel Outside Working Hours
Cargo Dues for Recycled Metal 95p per tonne
Cargo Dues for Blocks and General Cargo 85p per tonne
Shoring Charges £4.00 per tonne
Charges for Fresh Water
A charge is payable for fresh water during the following hours:
Monday to Thursday 8.00am – 4.30pm £175.00
Friday 8.00am – 3.30pm £175.00
Outside the above hours £235.00
Port Charges on Ship Generated Waste
The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels
(Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 2003)
Coleraine Harbour Commissioners are required by law as a Port Authority to levy a compulsory ship generated waste charge.
NOTES
These regulations do not apply to:
Any warship, naval auxiary or other ship owned or operated by a State and used for the time being, only on government non-commercial service.
Fishing Vessels
Recreational craft authorised to carry, or designed to carry, no more than 12 passengers.
Charging Bases All Vessels £60.00
Port Security Charges
International Ship and Port Facility (ISPS) Charges
All Vessels £50.00
Pilotage Charges
Operative from 1st June 2025
Pilotage Directions
These Pilotage Directions are laid down by the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners in pursuance of their obligations under Section 7 of the Pilotage Act 1987 to provide pilotage in the Port of Coleraine and its approaches.
Limit of Compulsory Pilotage Area
Compulsory pilotage will apply to all ships navigating inside the Port limits, i.e Barmouth to Millennium Footbridge subject to the following exemptions:-
Any warship, naval auxiary or other ship owned or operated by a State and used for the time being, only on government non-commercial service.
Fishing Vessels
Recreational craft authorised to carry, or designed to carry, no more than 12 passengers.
NOTES – Interpretation
For the purposes of this Schedule:
“Ships” includes every description of vessel used in navigation
Charges are based on “Gross Tonnage” ascertained in accordance with
The Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1982 or
The Regulations previously in force
Pilotage Charges and Boat Rates etc:
Applicable to ships entering or leaving the Port of Coleraine
For the services of a Pilot from the seaward limit of the Port to any berth in the Port or vice versa:
Pilotage In £275.00
Pilotage Out £275.00
There will be a 50% additional charge on Pilotage should an additional pilot be required onboard the ship by the discretion of the Harbour Master.
Boat Rate (Includes In and Out) £275.00
Charge for Shifting a ship from one berth in the Port to another berth in the Port
A charge equivalent to 50 per cent of the appropriate pilotage charge will be applied on each occasion on which a Pilot is required to shift a ship.
Pilotage Exemption Certificate
A Pilot Exemption Certificate for the Port of Coleraine will be granted by the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners to a person who is the bona fide Master or First Mate of a ship, provided be satisfies the following criteria:
He has made, within the twelve months prior to his application, at least six voyages inwards and six voyages outwards, of which four such voyages shall have been made within the six months previous to such application.
He produces a written assurance satisfactory to the Commissioners from the Owner of the ship or ships to which the Certificate is to relate that he is the bona fide Master or First Mate of such ship or ships, that he is of sober habits and that he is of good conduct.
He holds a Certificate of competency issued by an International Maritime Organisation entitling him to act as Master or First Master of such ship or ships.
He has sufficient command of English.
He produces both a Medical Certificate that he is of sound health and an Eyesight Certificate acceptable to the Commissioners.
He passes an oral examination before the Harbour Master in the following subjects:-
the course and distance between any two places;
the rise and sets of tides;
the depth and character of soundings;
the best anchorages;
the sand banks; mud banks; rocks; shoals and other dangers;
the land-marks; bouys; beacons; perches and lights;
the channels; wharves; quays within the Port limits.
Pilotage Certificates granted shall not continue in force beyond the last day of February following the date of that Certificate, but the Certificate may be renewed annually on the 1st day of March, provided the Certificated Officer has made at least four voyages to the Port of Coleraine within the twelve months immediately preceding the expiry of his Certificate.
A Pilotage Certificate shall not be renewed without re-examination unless application for renewal is made within one month of the expiry of such Certificate.
Contributions from Masters and Mates
The owner of every vessel, the Master or Master of which for the time being holds a Pilotage Certificate, shall, on every occasion that such Master or Mate shall navigate his vessel within the limits of the Port, pay to the Commissioners 20 per cent of the Pilot Dues which would have been payable in respect of such vessel form the seaward limit of the Port to any berth in the Port or vice versa.
Charges for Pilotage Exemption Certificates
Operative 1st May 2025.
(a) For examination or re-examination for a Certificate £365.00
(b) For the grant of a Certificate £75.00
(c) For the annual renewal of a Certificate £75.00
(d) For the grant of a duplicate Certificate £40.00
(e) For the addition of names of vessels to a
Certificate – per vessel £40.00
Any Certificated Officer who has lost his Certificate shall forthwith give notice to the Harbour Master stating the circumstances under which the Certificate was lost and the Harbour Master may, if he thinks fit, issue to such Certificate Officer a duplicate Certificate.
Charges for Local Knowledge Certificate
Operative 1st June 2025.
A Local Knowledge Examination will be required for the person in charge of commercially operated MCA coded Leisure Craft operating to/from a berth or through the harbour area.
For examination and for the grant of a Certificate £140.00
Contact – info@coleraineharbour.com
Port charges on goods
Operative from 1st June 2025.
NOTES
1. Application
Port charges on Goods:-
are ‘goods dues’ for the purposes of the Harbours Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.
Apply to all goods whether imported or exported except where otherwise provided.
Are payable on gross weight including packaging.
Are not payable on the tare weights of carriers, wheeled and unwheeled, used solely and regularly to covey goods in unit loads, when loaded.
Are not payable outward on bunker fuel.
Statutory Returns
Under the provisions of the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners and the Acts incorporated therewith, full details of all goods are required to be given to the Commissioners immediately after importation or before exportation.
3. Goods at Owner’s Risk
All goods laid down on, or passing over, the quays of the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners or placed in any shed of the Commissioners are at the Owner’s sole risk in every respect. The Commissioners have no custody of such goods and will not be responsible for loss thereof or damage thereto from whatever cause arising.
Persons in charge of goods should protect them from loss, damage or injury, Special care is necessary in the case of goods susceptible to taint or stain or damage from other goods.
Quay rent and storage regulations and charges
Operative for 1st June 2025.
Provided the reasonable use and enjoyment of any quay, wharf or shed is not interfered with or business obstructed, goods place thereon or therein will remain free of quay rent for the following periods:-
Note: Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory holidays, when falling within the permitted free period, will be discounted.
After the expiration of the permitted free period, the following quay rent charges are payable for the area occupied:
It however, after the permitted free period, the area occupied by goods discharged on open quays is not required for other goods, and the goods do not, in the opinion of the Harbour Master cause any obstruction to the use or constitute an abuse of the sheds or quays. He may at his discretion remit one half of the amount due.
When any goods placed upon any quay or wharf, or in any shed, are or become, in the opinion of the Harbour Master, an obstruction to the working of such quay, wharf or shed, the goods must be removed upon notice being received from the Harbour Master.
Goods, whether import or export, shall be placed in sheds or on the quays in such a manner as to occupy the least possible space and, in this connection the Harbour Master may direct such piling of cargo as, in his opinion, is necessary.
Notice: – Goods at owner’s risk
All goods laid down on or passing over the quays of the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners or placed in any shed of the Commissioners are at the Owner’s sole risk in every respect. The Commissioners have no custody of such goods and will not be responsible for loss or damage thereto from whatever cause arising.
Person in charge of goods should protect them from loss, damage or injury. Special care is necessary in the case of goods susceptible to taint or stain or damage from other goods.