Kudamatsu, Japan
Port · JPKUD · 34.00°, 131.87° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Metals
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 6
- vessel calls / yr
- 696
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kudamatsu as a small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 9 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 19 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a large drydock.
PortWatch estimates 587 port calls at Kudamatsu from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 49 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 76%, tankers 13% and dry bulk carriers 11% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 452 thousand t imported and 82 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (61 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (32).
What is reported near this port
6 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kudamatsu, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (6).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kudamatsu 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: 58 calls, 19 thousand t in, 9 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)
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
- small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 9 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 19 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- large
- marine railway
- small
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97266, 97273
World Port Index entry Kudamatsu (No. 61675), 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 0.3%, exports 0.0%.
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.