Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Port · PHCGY · 8.49°, 124.71° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 981
About the port
The World Port Index lists Cagayan de Oro as a medium coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 5 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Cagayan de Oro is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 618 port calls at Cagayan de Oro from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 52 a month, 24% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 48%, container ships 20% and tankers 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.9 million t imported and 350 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (83 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (40).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Cagayan de Oro, the earliest issued in 2017; the most common types are exercises (3), quakes (3) and incidents (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Cagayan de Oro 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: 61 calls, 239 thousand t in, 21 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
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Bohol Sea; Philippine inland seas; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 23 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water; not diesel
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 162 (Enroute) - Philippine Islands
- chart
- 92290
World Port Index entry Cagayan De Oro (No. 59710), 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 Philippines's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.1%, exports 1.0%.
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.