Monbetsu, Japan
Port · 44.35°, 143.38°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 0
- vessel calls / yr
- 24
About the port
The World Port Index lists Monbetsu as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell, ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Monbetsu is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 18 port calls at Monbetsu from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 2 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 67% and general cargo ships 33% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 45 thousand t imported and 590 t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (5 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
No warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Monbetsu.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 1 calls, 355 t in, 0 t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Okhotsk; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other, swell
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, water
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 158 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume I
World Port Index entry Mombetsu Ko (No. 61110), matched by name 1.1 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 Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.0%, exports 0.0%.
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.