Noshiro, Japan
Port · JPNSR · 40.21°, 140.00° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 184
About the port
The World Port Index lists Noshiro as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 6 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 160 port calls at Noshiro from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 13 a month, 8% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 55% and general cargo ships 45% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 2.7 million t imported and 53 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (19 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (8).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Noshiro, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (3) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Noshiro 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: 15 calls, 220 thousand t in, 3 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 coastal natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · cargo pier 6 m · oil terminal 6 m
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- provisions, water; not fuel oil
- repairs
- limited
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 95250
World Port Index entry Noshiro Ko (No. 61277), 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 0.5%, exports 0.0%.
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.