Gaspe, Canada
Port · 48.83°, -64.44°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 33
About the port
The World Port Index lists Gaspe as a small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 22 m in the channel, 6 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by ice.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Gaspe is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 38 port calls at Gaspe from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 3 a month, 12% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 55% and tankers 45% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 40 thousand t imported and 7 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (9 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (1).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Gaspe, the earliest issued in 2023; the most common types are other (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Gaspe 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: 4 calls, 6 thousand t in, 729 t out
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
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 22 m · anchorage 6 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice; not other, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- not ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 145 (Enroute) - Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence
World Port Index entry Gaspe (No. 5510), matched by name 1.7 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 Canada'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.