Incheon, Korea
Port · KRINC · 37.44°, 126.62° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 6,873
About the port
The World Port Index lists Incheon as a large river basin harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 23 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 9 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Incheon is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 6,812 port calls at Incheon from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 568 a month, 8% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 36%, tankers 27% and general cargo ships 25% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 46 million t imported and 9.1 million t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (635 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (310).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Incheon, the earliest issued in 1999; the most common types are exercises (2), spills (2) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Incheon 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: 580 calls, 4.2 million t in, 558 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
- HAISHEN-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-31 to 2020-09-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 250 km/h)
- LINGLING-19 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2019-09-02 to 2019-09-07 — Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 222 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
- large river basin
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Yellow Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 23 m
- mean rise of tide
- 9 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 157 (Enroute) - Coasts of Korea and China
- chart
- 95067
World Port Index entry Inchon (No. 60320), 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 Korea's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 11%, exports 4.2%.
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.