Pomalaa, Indonesia
Port · -4.13°, 121.59° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 47
About the port
The World Port Index lists Pomalaa as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 5 m in the channel, 8 m at the anchorage and 6 m at the cargo pier.
The index lists no entrance restriction from tide, swell or ice.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Pomalaa is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 15 port calls at Pomalaa from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 1 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 73% and tankers 27% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 4 thousand t imported and 23 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (3 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (0).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Pomalaa, the earliest issued in 2011; the most common types are incidents (1), cable ops (1) and quakes (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Pomalaa 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: 3 calls, 768 t in, 10 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
- Teluk Bone; Banda Sea; South Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 5 m · anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 6 m
- entrance restricted by
- not ice, other, swell, tide
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- water; not diesel, fuel oil, provisions
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 163 (Enroute) - Borneo Jawa Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara
World Port Index entry Pomalaa (No. 52295), matched by name 2.3 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 Indonesia's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.3%, exports 0.1%.
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.