Mogadishu, Somalia
Port · SOMGQ · 2.02°, 45.33° · Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Mineral Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 220
About the port
The World Port Index lists Mogadishu as a large coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 11 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
Mogadishu is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 240 port calls at Mogadishu from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 20 a month, 3% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 47%, general cargo ships 21% and tankers 18% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.9 million t imported and 97 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (28 calls) and the quietest May 2026 (16).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Mogadishu, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are incidents (2), other (1) and piracy (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Mogadishu 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: 17 calls, 113 thousand t in, 40 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
- large coastal breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, provisions, water; not deck stores, diesel, engine stores
- repairs
- none
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 171 (Enroute) - East Africa and the South Indian Ocean
- chart
- 61242
World Port Index entry Muqdisho (No. 47160), 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 Somalia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 46%, exports 17%.
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.