Welcome
The Newport Harbour Commissioners is a body created by Statute and covered by the Newport (South Wales) Harbour Acts and Orders 1836 to 2003.
Area of Jurisdiction
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.
Responsibilities
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
- To make and enforce byelaws relating to the conduct of vessels and promulgate that information by appropriate means, as required to ensure all harbour users are aware of the requirement for safe navigation in the harbour area
- To act upon observations of contracted Marine staff and stakeholders to ensure compliance with byelaws
- Advising stakeholders port waste reception facilities
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
