Montreal, Canada
Port · CAMTR · 45.54°, -73.53° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,150
About the port
The World Port Index lists Montreal as a large river natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 9 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by ice.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a medium drydock.
Montreal is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,219 port calls at Montreal from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 102 a month, 4% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 37%, dry bulk carriers 27% and tankers 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 3.8 million t imported and 3.6 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (141 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (57).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Montreal, the earliest issued in 1985; the most common types are spills (3).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Montreal 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: 118 calls, 308 thousand t in, 179 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.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- US PORTS STRIKE · OT · red alert · 2024-10-01 to 2024-10-02
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- large river natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Lake Ontario; Great Lakes
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 9 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice; not swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 145 (Enroute) - Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence
- chart
- 14198
World Port Index entry Montreal (No. 2235), 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 Canada's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 4.4%, exports 2.0%.
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.