Iloilo, Philippines
Port · PHILO · 10.71°, 122.59°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 426
About the port
The World Port Index lists Iloilo as a very small open roadstead harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 9 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated moderate, with a small drydock.
Iloilo is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 410 port calls at Iloilo from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 34 a month, 4% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 38%, tankers 26% and container ships 24% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.2 million t imported and 174 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (58 calls) and the quietest Nov 2025 (19).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Iloilo, the earliest issued in 2006; the most common types are quakes (5), incidents (2) and exercises (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Iloilo 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: 31 calls, 55 thousand t in, 10 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.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- KALMAEGI-25 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2025-11-01 to 2025-11-06 — Hurricane (maximum wind speed of 213 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Philippine inland seas; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 9 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- tide; not ice, swell
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, engine stores, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- moderate
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 162 (Enroute) - Philippine Islands
- chart
- 92356
World Port Index entry Iloilo (No. 59190), 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 Philippines's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.0%, exports 1.4%.
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.