The Sungai Kurau enters the sea about 5 miles SSE of Tanjong Piandang. The Sungai Kurau is navigable at HW by craft drawing 1.8m, about 15 miles upstream.
Selinsing Bay is shallow and forms the entrance to the Sungai Sangga Besar, the main approach to Port Weld, and the SungaiSelinsing. The bay is bounded by Tanjong Pasir to the N, and a point about 3 miles SW. Tanjong Pasir may be recognized by the sandy beaches on the N and S sides of it. The shores of the bay are fringed with wide, drying mud banks which reduce the width of the channels into the two rivers to 0.75 mile and the two separate river channels to 0.25 mile.
The extent and shape of these banks are subject to frequent change.
The main bar at the entrance to Selinsing Bay lies close S of Tanjong Pasir with depths of from 0.3 to 0.6m.
Port Weld is the port for Taiping the former capital city of Perak. It is situated about 5 NM above the entrance of the Sungai Sangga Besar, and is connected by rail and a good road. Once the busiest port in the region, its facilities were mainly for
exporting of processed ...
Pinang Harbor is one of Malaysia’s largest ports and handles most of the trade for the cultural, industrial, and agricultural regions of Northern Peninsular Malaysia. The port complex includes facilities on Pulau Pinang at Georgetown and on the mainland at Butterworth and Perai ...
E-Gate anchorage lies , after proceeding south down the Western Channel from the Junk
Anchorage. Anchor offshore from either the E-Gate building (prominent
cupola) or the blue-roofed building housing the Jabatan Laut
headquarters for the northern region of peninsula Malaysia. Be ...
Tanjong City Marina based around the century-old Church Street Pier.
Tanjung City Marina is an abandoned marina off Weld Quay within George Town's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built in the early 2000s by the Malaysian federal government to rejuvenate ...
The Junk Anchorage, just south of the Tanjong City Marina, lies off the
clan jetties (the New, Yeoh, Lee, Tan, Chew and Lim jetties). Diesel
fuel is usually available from a fuel barge nearby. The Junk Anchorage
is exposed to weather from the north and east.
The Sungai Muda is located about 6 miles S of the Sungai Merbok entrance. It is obstructed by a sandy bar which dries from 0.6 to 1.2m at LW. Small craft, drawing 1m, can enter at half tide and proceed about 4 miles upstream.
The Sungai Kurau enters the sea about 5 miles SSE of Tanjong Piandang. The Sungai Kurau is navigable at HW by craft drawing 1.8m, about 15 miles upstream.
