Moji, Japan
Port · JPMOJ · 33.96°, 130.99°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 2,119
About the port
The World Port Index lists Moji as a medium river natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 9 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 13 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
Moji is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 2,232 port calls at Moji from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 186 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 57%, general cargo ships 25% and tankers 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.2 million t imported and 715 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (204 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (162).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Moji, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (8) and cable ops (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Moji 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: 179 calls, 92 thousand t in, 103 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 river natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Korea Strait; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 9 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97319, 97321
World Port Index entry Moji Ko (No. 62140), 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 0.2%, 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.