Fairport, United States
Port · USFPT · 41.76°, -81.27°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 72
About the port
The World Port Index lists Fairport as a small river natural harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 5 m at the anchorage and 5 m at the cargo pier.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 81 port calls at Fairport from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 7 a month, 20% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 342 thousand t imported and 322 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Aug 2026 (13 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Fairport, the earliest issued in 2015; the most common types are spills (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Fairport 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: 13 calls, 48 thousand t in, 41 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small river natural
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- Lake Erie; Great Lakes
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 5 m · cargo pier 5 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- not ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- sailing directions
- U.S. Coast Pilot 6 - Great Lakes and their connecting waterways
- chart
- 14837
World Port Index entry Fairport (No. 3480), 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 United States's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.0%.
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.