Fredericia, Denmark
Port · DKFRC · 55.56°, 9.75° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 899
About the port
The World Port Index lists Fredericia as a small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 14 m in the channel, 14 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Fredericia is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 798 port calls at Fredericia from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 67 a month, 7% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 34%, general cargo ships 26% and container ships 25% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 2.4 million t imported and 3.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Aug 2026 (84 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (54).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Fredericia, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are wrecks (2) and other (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Fredericia 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: 84 calls, 282 thousand t in, 367 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
- small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Kattegat; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 14 m · anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 194 (Enroute) - Baltic Sea (Southern Part)
- chart
- 44062
World Port Index entry Fredericia (No. 30170), 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 Denmark's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 9.5%, exports 20%.
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.