Lingkas, Indonesia
Port · 3.29°, 117.59° · Mineral Products, Metals, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 191
About the port
The World Port Index lists Lingkas as a small open roadstead harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 6 m in the channel, 19 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 7 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated emergency only.
Lingkas is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 217 port calls at Lingkas from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 18 a month, 19% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 42%, container ships 34% and general cargo ships 24% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 223 thousand t imported and 114 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (23 calls) and the quietest Jun 2026 (13).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Lingkas, the earliest issued in 2015; the most common types are incidents (4) and quakes (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Lingkas 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: 20 calls, 15 thousand t in, 5 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Celebes Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 6 m · anchorage 19 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 7 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- emergency only
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 163 (Enroute) - Borneo Jawa Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara
- chart
- 72131
World Port Index entry Lingkas (No. 51780), matched by name 0.4 nm from PortWatch's position for this port. 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 Indonesia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, 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.