Iligan, Philippines
Port · 8.23°, 124.23° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 259
About the port
The World Port Index lists Iligan as a very small open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 9 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
PortWatch estimates 141 port calls at Iligan from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 12 a month, 25% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 62%, general cargo ships 25% and dry bulk carriers 13% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 655 thousand t imported and 111 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (17 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (8).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Iligan, the earliest issued in 1998; the most common types are quakes (8) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Iligan 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: 9 calls, 2 thousand t in, 5 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Bohol Sea; Philippine inland seas; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 23 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 9 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- no
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, water; not provisions
- repairs
- none
- first port of entry
- no
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 162 (Enroute) - Philippine Islands
- chart
- 92290
World Port Index entry Iligan (No. 59700), matched by name 0.4 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 Philippines's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 1.8%, exports 1.0%.
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.