Funafuti, Tuvalu
Port · TVFUN · -8.50°, 179.20° · Animal & Animal Products, Mineral Products, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 0
- vessel calls / yr
- 23
About the port
The World Port Index lists Funafuti as a very small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Funafuti is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 42 port calls at Funafuti from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 4 a month, 20% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 45%, container ships 29% and tankers 24% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 21 thousand t imported and 29 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (5 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (2).
What is reported near this port
No warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Funafuti.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 4 calls, 3 thousand t in, 655 t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XIV
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- overhead limits
- no
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, water
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 126 (Enroute) - Pacific Islands
- chart
- 83094
World Port Index entry Funafuti Atoll (No. 55617), 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 Tuvalu's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 100%, exports 100%.
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.