El Grao, Spain
Port · ESGCS · 39.96°, 0.01° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,086
About the port
The World Port Index lists El Grao as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 22 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
El Grao is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,230 port calls at El Grao from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 103 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 30%, tankers 30% and container ships 25% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 8.2 million t imported and 4.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (117 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (80).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of El Grao, the earliest issued in 2002; the most common types are incidents (3), cable ops (2) and surveys (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near El Grao 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: 89 calls, 434 thousand t in, 294 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 breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Balearic Sea; Mediterranean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 22 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 131 (Enroute) - Western Mediterranean
- chart
- 52080
World Port Index entry El Grao (No. 38500), 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 Spain's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 3.0%, exports 2.1%.
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.