Overview:

      Peru's northwest coastal port.The maximum draft is 4.57m and the load density of water is 1025.The maximum tidal range is 1.06M and the average tidal range is 0.82M.The prevailing wind direction is variable.Compulsory pilotage, VHF channel 16 for communication.May 1 is a port holiday, working 24 hours a day.Port services are limited to small boats and repatriations.Chicama port is a barge port. In the past, it mainly exported sugar. Now the export of bulk sugar has been transferred to salafrey port, so it mainly exported fish meal.There are 20 barges with a gross tonnage of 900 tons.The breakwater is 800 meters long, and only the north end can be used by barges, because there are swell and northward tidal current nearby.Tugboats are laid on the breakwater. Two cranes with a lifting capacity of 2 tons, one crane with a lifting capacity of 4 tons and one crane with a lifting capacity of 6 tons are used to unload goods from the train wagon.Red signal lights are installed in front of the breakwater, which can be seen within 6.43 km.Raising the red flag at the front of the breakwater means that the port is closed due to big waves or broken waves, which is usually the most serious in June, July and August every year.There are 10 groups of loading and unloading porters in the port, who also perform the work of opening and closing cabins.The loading rate of packed fish meal is 25 tons per hour.