Fukuyama, Japan
Port · JPFKY · 34.46°, 133.44° · Mineral Products, Metals, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 5,266
About the port
The World Port Index lists Fukuyama as a medium coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 16 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage, 17 m at the cargo pier and 5 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Fukuyama is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 4,680 port calls at Fukuyama from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 390 a month, 7% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 65%, dry bulk carriers 14% and tankers 10% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 19 million t imported and 7.0 million t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (429 calls) and the quietest Jun 2026 (356).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Fukuyama, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (3).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Fukuyama 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: 373 calls, 1.4 million t in, 478 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.
Issued in the last 12 months, now cancelled · 1
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 16 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 17 m · oil terminal 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97252
World Port Index entry Fukuyama (No. 61605), matched by name 1.8 nm from PortWatch's position for this port. 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 Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 3.5%, exports 2.7%.
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.