Kitimat, Canada
Port · CAKTM · 53.99°, -128.67°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 54
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kitimat as a small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage and 9 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 5 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Kitimat is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 164 port calls at Kitimat from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 14 a month, 249% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 75%, dry bulk carriers 21% and general cargo ships 4% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 798 thousand t imported and 8.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (17 calls) and the quietest Nov 2025 (8).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Kitimat, the earliest issued in 2015; the most common types are surveys (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kitimat 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: 16 calls, 69 thousand t in, 882 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Alaska-Canada coastal waters; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 9 m
- mean rise of tide
- 5 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- turning area
- no
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 154 (Enroute) - British Columbia
World Port Index entry Kitimat (No. 18925), 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 Canada's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.7%, exports 0.2%.
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.