Baie Ugué, New Caledonia
Port · NCBUG · -21.15°, 165.56° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 11
About the port
The World Port Index lists Baie Ugué as a very small open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 14 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
PortWatch estimates 17 port calls at Baie Ugué from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 1 a month, 42% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 94% and general cargo ships 6% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 0 t imported and 488 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (3 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Baie Ugué, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are exercises (2), incidents (1) and derelicts (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Baie Ugué 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: 2 calls, 0 t in, 52 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.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- NIRAN-21 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2021-03-01 to 2021-03-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 259 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small open roadstead
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Coral Sea; South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- depths
- anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- overhead limits
- yes
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 126 (Enroute) - Pacific Islands
World Port Index entry Baie Ugue (No. 57325), 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 New Caledonia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.0%, exports 9.9%.
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.