Hobro, Denmark
Port · DKHBO · 56.64°, 9.80° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Machinery & Electrical Equipment
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 0
- vessel calls / yr
- 36
About the port
The World Port Index lists Hobro as a very small river natural harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage and 5 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 35 port calls at Hobro from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 3 a month, 21% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 91% and container ships 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 29 thousand t imported and 4 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (5 calls) and the quietest Jul 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
No warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Hobro.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 2 calls, 3 thousand t in, 0 t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small river natural
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- Kattegat; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed
- services
- medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- no
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 193 (Enroute) - Skagerrak and Kattegat
World Port Index entry Hobro (No. 30360), 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 Denmark's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.2%, 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.