Nauru, Nauru
Port · -0.53°, 166.91° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 26
About the port
The World Port Index lists Nauru as a very small open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel, 23 m at the cargo pier and 23 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Nauru is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 52 port calls at Nauru from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 4 a month, 148% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 81%, dry bulk carriers 12% and tankers 8% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 41 thousand t imported and 105 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (7 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (2).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Nauru, the earliest issued in 2002; the most common types are incidents (4).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Nauru 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: 6 calls, 9 thousand t in, 1 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
- very small open roadstead
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- depths
- channel 23 m · cargo pier 23 m · oil terminal 23 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring
- services
- electrical repair, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair; not dirty ballast reception, garbage disposal
- supplies
- fuel oil; not deck stores, engine stores
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 126 (Enroute) - Pacific Islands
- chart
- 81012
World Port Index entry Nauru (No. 56500), matched by name 0.4 nm from PortWatch's position for this port. 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 Nauru's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 100%, exports 100%.
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.