Helsingborg, Sweden
Port · SEHEL · 55.99°, 12.74° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 879
About the port
The World Port Index lists Helsingborg as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Helsingborg is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 818 port calls at Helsingborg from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 68 a month, 13% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 55%, general cargo ships 26% and tankers 16% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 900 thousand t imported and 835 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jan 2026 (79 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (58).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Helsingborg, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are wrecks (4), nav aids (2) and exercises (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Helsingborg 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: 78 calls, 68 thousand t in, 65 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 coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Baltic Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 194 (Enroute) - Baltic Sea (Southern Part)
- chart
- 44048
World Port Index entry Helsingor (No. 29350), matched by name 5 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 Sweden's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.5%, exports 2.3%.
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.