Imabari, Japan
Port · JPIMB · 34.06°, 133.02° · Mineral Products, Metals, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 677
About the port
The World Port Index lists Imabari as a small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 17 m at the anchorage and 13 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Imabari is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 639 port calls at Imabari from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 53 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 57%, container ships 25% and tankers 16% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 297 thousand t imported and 112 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (61 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (45).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Imabari, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Imabari 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: 52 calls, 19 thousand t in, 8 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
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97294
World Port Index entry Imabari Ko (No. 62070), 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 0.1%, 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.