Kochi, Japan
Port · JPKCZ · 33.53°, 133.57° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Machinery & Electrical Equipment
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 913
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kochi as a medium coastal natural harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 8 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 752 port calls at Kochi from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 63 a month, 10% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 38%, dry bulk carriers 33% and tankers 28% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 419 thousand t imported and 784 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (79 calls) and the quietest May 2026 (52).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Kochi, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kochi 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: 64 calls, 30 thousand t in, 71 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- electrical repair, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 158 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume I
- chart
- 97300
World Port Index entry Kochi Ko (No. 61970), 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 0.2%.
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.