Bangkok, Thailand
Port · THBKK · 13.68°, 100.57° · Mineral Products, Machinery & Electrical Equipment, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 6,579
About the port
The World Port Index lists Bangkok as a large river natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Bangkok is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 6,724 port calls at Bangkok from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 560 a month, 4% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 50%, container ships 32% and general cargo ships 16% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 13 million t imported and 7.0 million t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (605 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (502).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Bangkok, the earliest issued in 2015; the most common types are incidents (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Bangkok 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: 530 calls, 925 thousand t in, 484 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
- large river natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Gulf of Thailand; South China Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water; not deck stores
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 161 (Enroute) - South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand
- chart
- 93246
World Port Index entry Bangkok (No. 57450), 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 Thailand's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 14%, exports 10%.
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.