Nagoya, Japan
Port · JPNGO · 35.04°, 136.85° · Mineral Products, Metals, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 16,252
About the port
The World Port Index lists Nagoya as a large coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 16 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage, 16 m at the cargo pier and 14 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a small drydock.
Nagoya is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 15,398 port calls at Nagoya from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 1,283 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 29%, tankers 26% and container ships 24% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 44 million t imported and 24 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (1,408 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (1,141).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Nagoya, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (4), incidents (2) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Nagoya 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: 1,235 calls, 4.0 million t in, 2.1 million 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
- large coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 16 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 16 m · oil terminal 14 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- fixed, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 158 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume I
- chart
- 97030
World Port Index entry Nagoya Ko (No. 61480), 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 6.5%, exports 8.2%.
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.