Makassar, Indonesia
Port · IDMAK · -5.11°, 119.42° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 6
- vessel calls / yr
- 2,101
About the port
The World Port Index lists Makassar as a medium coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 22 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Makassar is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 2,591 port calls at Makassar from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 216 a month, 3% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 37%, tankers 31% and general cargo ships 21% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 4.9 million t imported and 1.5 million t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (240 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (185).
What is reported near this port
6 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Makassar, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are incidents (3), cable ops (2) and other (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Makassar 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: 213 calls, 339 thousand t in, 166 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 breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Makassar Strait; South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 22 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not electrical repair, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 163 (Enroute) - Borneo Jawa Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara
- chart
- 72161
World Port Index entry Ujung Pandang (No. 52320), matched by name 1.6 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 2.2%, exports 0.4%.
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.