Hakodate, Japan
Port · JPHKD · 41.80°, 140.70° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Plastics, Rubber, Leather
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 8
- vessel calls / yr
- 2,029
About the port
The World Port Index lists Hakodate as a medium coastal breakwater harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 17 m at the anchorage, 14 m at the cargo pier and 14 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated moderate, with a medium drydock.
Hakodate is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,911 port calls at Hakodate from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 159 a month, 4% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 40%, dry bulk carriers 31% and general cargo ships 27% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.5 million t imported and 2.8 million t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (180 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (130).
What is reported near this port
8 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Hakodate, the earliest issued in 2002; the most common types are quakes (7) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Hakodate 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: 158 calls, 134 thousand t in, 285 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 breakwater
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 14 m · oil terminal 14 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- moderate
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 96927
World Port Index entry Hakodate Ko (No. 61190), 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 Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.3%, exports 1.1%.
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.