Majunga, Madagascar
Port · MGMJN · -15.73°, 46.31° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 77
About the port
The World Port Index lists Majunga as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 6 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 9 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Majunga is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 77 port calls at Majunga from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 6 a month, 5% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 52%, general cargo ships 23% and container ships 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 238 thousand t imported and 42 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (9 calls) and the quietest Mar 2026 (3).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Majunga, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are incidents (1) and surveys (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Majunga 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: 7 calls, 9 thousand t in, 6 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
- very small coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Mozambique Channel; Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 6 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 9 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, water; not fuel oil, provisions
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 171 (Enroute) - East Africa and the South Indian Ocean
- chart
- 61420, 61430
World Port Index entry Mahajanga (No. 47400), 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 Madagascar's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 3.7%, exports 4.3%.
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.