Maizuru, Japan
Port · JPMAI · 35.47°, 135.35° · Vegetable Products, Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 555
About the port
The World Port Index lists Maizuru as a small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 19 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the cargo pier.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated moderate, with a large drydock.
Maizuru is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 504 port calls at Maizuru from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 42 a month, 15% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 24%, general cargo ships 24% and container ships 21% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 3.8 million t imported and 141 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (57 calls) and the quietest Aug 2026 (26).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Maizuru, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are incidents (3) and quakes (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Maizuru 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: 26 calls, 106 thousand t in, 10 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 coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 19 m · cargo pier 11 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, 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
- moderate
- drydock
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 95288
World Port Index entry Maizuru Ko (No. 61800), 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 0.7%, exports 0.1%.
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.