Port de Galle: clearing in by boat
Port of entry of Sri Lanka.
Check with the authorities before you leave (last checked on 28 October 2026).
Services
Clearing out possible here
- VHF
- 16 (autorité portuaire) ; agents 69 / 71
- Opening hours
- Autorité portuaire lun-ven 8h-12h et 13h-16h ; entrée de nuit interdite
Good to know
Officials board (Navy, port, Customs, Health) with the agent; after 18:00 anchor behind Watering Point. Approx. US$300-400 per month excluding visas (2024).
Offices to visit
In the usual order of the formalities. Addresses can change: ask the harbour office when you arrive.
Sécurité portuaire, marine, douane et santé – visite à bord (port de Galle)
CustomsHealthautre
Port security boards first, then the agent, Navy, Port Authority, Customs and Health; the agent then takes the crew to the nearby immigration office. Customs and Immigration at the port gate in an emergency.
Galle Port Control (Sri Lanka Ports Authority)
Harbour office
Opening hours : Entrée de nuit interdite
VHF : 16
Call your agent, then Port Control (VHF 16) about 1.5 NM outside the inner harbour; after 18:00 anchor behind Watering Point. Without an agent, the Port Authority will appoint one.
GAC Shipping Ltd (GAC Sri Lanka)
Agent
No. 284 Vauxhall Street, Colombo 02, Sri Lanka
An agent is mandatory to enter any Sri Lankan port; GAC covers Colombo, Galle, Trincomalee and Hambantota.
Windsor Yacht Services (Windsor Reef)
Agent
6 Closenburg Road, Magalle, Galle, Sri Lanka
VHF : 69
Long-standing Galle yacht agent, offices about 100 m from the harbour entrance.
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Sources
This information is gathered from public sources and sailors’ experience. It does not replace the country’s authorities, whose word is final: check before you leave.