Dandong, China
Port · CNDDZ · 39.81°, 124.15° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 548
About the port
The World Port Index lists Dandong as a very small open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 5 m at the anchorage, 6 m at the cargo pier and 3 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 5 m.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 391 port calls at Dandong from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 33 a month, 10% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 74%, general cargo ships 25% and tankers 1% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 9.6 million t imported and 4.8 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jan 2026 (49 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (21).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Dandong, the earliest issued in 2007; the most common types are exercises (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Dandong 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: 30 calls, 580 thousand t in, 241 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- BAVI-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-21 to 2020-08-27 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 185 km/h)
- LINGLING-19 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2019-09-02 to 2019-09-07 — Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 222 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
- Korea Bay; Yellow Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 5 m · cargo pier 6 m · oil terminal 3 m
- mean rise of tide
- 5 m
- entrance restricted by
- not ice
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- medical; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- medium
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 157 (Enroute) - Coasts of Korea and China
- chart
- 803417
World Port Index entry Dandong (No. 60233), 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 China's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.4%, exports 0.2%.
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.