Monrovia, Liberia
Port · LRMLW · 6.34°, -10.79° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Machinery & Electrical Equipment
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 6
- vessel calls / yr
- 250
About the port
The World Port Index lists Monrovia as a small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 13 m at the anchorage, 8 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Monrovia is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 287 port calls at Monrovia from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 24 a month, 6% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 39%, dry bulk carriers 28% and tankers 22% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 2.7 million t imported and 1.1 million t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (29 calls) and the quietest Nov 2025 (20).
What is reported near this port
6 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Monrovia, the earliest issued in 2003; the most common types are incidents (3), wrecks (2) and surveys (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Monrovia 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: 22 calls, 165 thousand t in, 62 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
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 13 m · cargo pier 8 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, tide; not ice, swell
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 143 (Enroute) - West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa
- chart
- 51641
World Port Index entry Monrovia (No. 45940), 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 Liberia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 99%, exports 8.1%.
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.