Kamsar, Guinea
Port · GNKMC · 10.65°, -14.61° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 437
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kamsar as a very small river natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 6 m in the channel, 9 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 13 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
PortWatch estimates 384 port calls at Kamsar from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 32 a month, 3% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 73%, general cargo ships 22% and tankers 5% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.1 million t imported and 13 million t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (41 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (26).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kamsar, the earliest issued in 2003; the most common types are incidents (3).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kamsar 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, 8 thousand t in, 1.2 million 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 river natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- depths
- channel 6 m · anchorage 9 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed
- services
- medical; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, water; not provisions
- repairs
- none
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 143 (Enroute) - West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa
- chart
- 51580
World Port Index entry Kamsar (No. 45850), 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 Guinea's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 3.2%, exports 85%.
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.