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Area of Jurisdiction
The Newport Harbour Commissioners is a body created by Statute and covered by the Newport (South Wales) Harbour Acts and Orders 1836 to 2003.
As defined in the Newport (Monmouthshire) Harbour Act 1890. Those parts of the Bristol Channel and Rivers Usk and Ebbw which lie between an imaginary line drawn in a S.79°W. true direction from Goldcliff until it meets the shore of the Bristol Channel eastward of the Peterstone Wentlooge Church and the bridge over the River Usk at Newbridge and the bridge carrying the South Wales Railway of the Great Western Railway Company over the River Ebbw and the banks and shores of such parts of the said channel and rivers and any works on such banks and shores and all streams, pools, creeks, havens, bays and inlets within those limits.
Safety and navigation
Safety and navigation
(as required by Port Marine Safety Code and various statutes and regulations):
- Regulation of navigation within statutory harbour limits
- Provision of a pilotage service
- Local lighthouse authority establishing and maintaining lights and marks
- Removal of wrecks
- Hydrographic surveying of harbour area
Recently issued Notices to Mariners can be accessed HERE
Enforcement
Newport Harbour Authority will monitor and, where appropriate, actively enforce compliance with the bye laws and directions. It should be noted that an apparent contravention of such bye laws or directions may result in the prosecution of the offender
Pollution
Development of harbour oil spill contingency plans as required by the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness Response and Co-operation Convention) Regulations 1998
Environmental Management
Duties under Habitats Directive to review consents
Other
- Prepare Ports Contingency Plans
- Comply with Guide for Good Governance for Trust Ports
HARBOUR DUES
Dues for Vessels Entering or Leaving the Harbour
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that from the first day of January 2020 the Newport Harbour Commissioners as the Harbour Authority for Newport, South Wales will levy on all vessels entering and using the Harbour the Dues set out hereto.
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Harbour dues are payable in accordance with this schedule
by all vessels transiting or remaining within the Newport Harbour area. The dues are levied in order to fund NHC in the exercise of its duties and compliance with statutory responsibilities and the Port Marine Safety Code.
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