Amamapare, Indonesia
Port · IDAMA · -4.81°, 136.80° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 563
About the port
The World Port Index lists Amamapare as a small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 6 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 6 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 7 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
PortWatch estimates 419 port calls at Amamapare from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 35 a month, 35% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 31%, general cargo ships 29% and container ships 26% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.1 million t imported and 379 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (47 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (30).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Amamapare, the earliest issued in 2018; the most common types are incidents (9).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Amamapare is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 39 calls, 93 thousand t in, 46 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Arafura Sea; South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 6 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 7 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- floating
- services
- medical
- supplies
- provisions
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 164 (Enroute) - New Guinea
World Port Index entry Amamapare (No. 53115), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Indonesia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.6%, exports 0.3%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.