Kanazawa, Japan
Port · JPKNZ · 36.62°, 136.61° · Mineral Products, Machinery & Electrical Equipment, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 8
- vessel calls / yr
- 888
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kanazawa as a small river basin harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage, 5 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 728 port calls at Kanazawa from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 61 a month, 16% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 53%, container ships 32% and dry bulk carriers 10% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 903 thousand t imported and 91 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (69 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (40).
What is reported near this port
8 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kanazawa, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are quakes (6) and incidents (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kanazawa 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: 62 calls, 84 thousand t in, 6 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 river basin
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 5 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- overhead limits
- no
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 95267
World Port Index entry Kanazawa (No. 61822), 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 0.1%.
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.