Hamada, Japan
Port · JPHMD · 34.88°, 132.05° · Vegetable Products, Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 190
About the port
The World Port Index lists Hamada as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage and 13 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Hamada is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 113 port calls at Hamada from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 9 a month, 10% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 57%, dry bulk carriers 30% and container ships 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 138 thousand t imported and 25 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (16 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (5).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Hamada, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (4).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Hamada 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: 7 calls, 5 thousand t in, 4 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
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- HAISHEN-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-31 to 2020-09-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 250 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 95320
World Port Index entry Hamada Ko (No. 61730), 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 0.0%, 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.