Baubau, Indonesia
Port · -5.49°, 122.58° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 377
About the port
The World Port Index lists Baubau as a very small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage, 3 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide.
Repair facilities are rated emergency only.
PortWatch estimates 660 port calls at Baubau from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 55 a month, 52% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 95%, container ships 3% and general cargo ships 2% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 2.8 million t imported and 734 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (91 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (26).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Baubau, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are incidents (4), quakes (3) and piracy (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Baubau 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: 81 calls, 263 thousand t in, 95 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
- very small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Banda Sea; South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 3 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- tide
- good holding ground
- yes
- berthing
- anchorage
- services
- garbage disposal, medical
- supplies
- provisions
- repairs
- emergency only
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 163 (Enroute) - Borneo Jawa Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara
- chart
- 73261
World Port Index entry Baubau (No. 52260), matched by name 2.3 nm from PortWatch's position for this port. 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 0.8%, exports 0.1%.
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.