Gamba, Gabon
Port · GAGAX · -2.82°, 10.00°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 24
About the port
The World Port Index lists Gamba as a very small open roadstead harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 22 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
Gamba is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 25 port calls at Gamba from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 2 a month, 9% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 0 t imported and 1.9 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jan 2026 (3 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (2).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Gamba, the earliest issued in 2014; the most common types are surveys (2) and cable ops (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Gamba 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: 2 calls, 0 t in, 184 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- South Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- depths
- channel 23 m · anchorage 23 m · oil terminal 22 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring
- services
- not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, medical
- supplies
- not deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- none
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 123 (Enroute) - Southwest Coast of Africa
- chart
- 57220
World Port Index entry Gamba Oil Terminal (No. 46453), 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 Gabon's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.0%, exports 17%.
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.