Mutsure, Japan
Port · JPMTR · 33.97°, 130.87°
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 9
- vessel calls / yr
- 219
About the port
The World Port Index lists Mutsure as a small open roadstead harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 16 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 17 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 7 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
PortWatch estimates 165 port calls at Mutsure from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 14 a month, 26% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 215 thousand t imported and 93 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (21 calls) and the quietest Dec 2025 (8).
What is reported near this port
9 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Mutsure, 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 Mutsure 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: 16 calls, 24 thousand t in, 9 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 open roadstead
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- Korea Strait; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 16 m · anchorage 23 m · oil terminal 17 m
- mean rise of tide
- 7 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- deck stores, engine stores, fuel oil, water; not provisions
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97321, 97322
World Port Index entry Muturezima Ko (No. 62065), 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 0.1%, exports 0.1%.
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.