Kure, Japan
Port · JPKRE · 34.23°, 132.57° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,833
About the port
The World Port Index lists Kure as a medium coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 17 m in the channel, 22 m at the anchorage, 17 m at the cargo pier and 14 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a large drydock.
Kure is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,435 port calls at Kure from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 120 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 81%, tankers 10% and dry bulk carriers 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.6 million t imported and 308 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (144 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (104).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Kure, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (4).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Kure 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: 120 calls, 118 thousand t in, 23 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
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 17 m · anchorage 22 m · cargo pier 17 m · oil terminal 14 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- overhead limits
- no
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- large
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97298
World Port Index entry Kure (No. 61640), 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 0.5%, exports 0.3%.
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.