Namibe, Angola
Port · AOMSZ · -15.16°, 12.14° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 146
About the port
The World Port Index lists Namibe as a small open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 17 m in the channel, 8 m at the anchorage, 17 m at the cargo pier and 11 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Namibe is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 175 port calls at Namibe from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 15 a month, 7% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 68%, general cargo ships 17% and container ships 11% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 389 thousand t imported and 539 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (18 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (11).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Namibe, the earliest issued in 2014; the most common types are cable ops (3) and incidents (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Namibe 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: 13 calls, 19 thousand t in, 61 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
- fair
- water body
- South Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII
- depths
- channel 17 m · anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 17 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water; not deck stores, engine stores
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 123 (Enroute) - Southwest Coast of Africa
- chart
- 57300
World Port Index entry Namibe (No. 46610), 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 Angola's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 3.3%, exports 2.3%.
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.