Masan, Korea
Port · KRMAS · 35.20°, 128.65° · Mineral Products, Metals, Vehicles & Equipment
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 547
About the port
The World Port Index lists Masan as a medium coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 5 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Largest vessel listed: draft 12 m.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
Masan is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,328 port calls at Masan from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 111 a month, 69% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 43%, ro-ro vessels 35% and tankers 13% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.2 million t imported and 1.6 million t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (188 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (69).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Masan, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are ordnance (4), incidents (2) and surveys (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Masan 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: 162 calls, 142 thousand t in, 167 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.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- HAISHEN-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-31 to 2020-09-07 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 250 km/h)
- MAYSAK-20 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2020-08-28 to 2020-09-02 — Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 231 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Korea Strait; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- largest vessel
- draft 12 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 157 (Enroute) - Coasts of Korea and China
- chart
- 95147
World Port Index entry Masan (No. 60380), 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 Korea's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, 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.