Phuket, Thailand
Port · THHKT · 7.82°, 98.40° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 77
About the port
The World Port Index lists Phuket as a small open roadstead harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 6 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
PortWatch estimates 117 port calls at Phuket from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 10 a month, 52% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 63%, dry bulk carriers 19% and general cargo ships 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 24 thousand t imported and 1.1 million t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (14 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (4).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Phuket, the earliest issued in 2014; the most common types are incidents (1), piracy (1) and missiles (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Phuket 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: 5 calls, 2 thousand t in, 55 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
- good
- water body
- Andaman Sea; Indian Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 6 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice
- overhead limits
- no
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 174 (Enroute) - Strait of Malacca and Sumatera
- chart
- 71043
World Port Index entry Phuket (No. 49770), matched by name 0.6 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 Thailand's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 1.0%.
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.