Mizushima, Japan
Port · JPMIZ · 34.50°, 133.72° · Mineral Products, Metals, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 13,746
About the port
The World Port Index lists Mizushima as a medium coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 14 m in the channel, 20 m at the anchorage, 17 m at the cargo pier and 17 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Mizushima is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 13,399 port calls at Mizushima from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 1,117 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 55%, general cargo ships 31% and dry bulk carriers 7% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 40 million t imported and 16 million t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (1,196 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (1,011).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Mizushima, the earliest issued in 2013; the most common types are quakes (3) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Mizushima 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: 1,102 calls, 3.6 million t in, 1.4 million t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Issued in the last 12 months, now cancelled · 1
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- medium coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 14 m · anchorage 20 m · cargo pier 17 m · oil terminal 17 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, tide; not ice, swell
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97252
World Port Index entry Mizushima Ko (No. 61595), 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 6.3%, exports 4.8%.
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.