Port Dover, Canada
Port · CAPDV · 42.81°, -80.10° · Mineral Products, Metals, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 0
- vessel calls / yr
- 291
About the port
The World Port Index lists Port Dover as a very small river natural harbour with excellent shelter.
Listed depths: 2 m in the channel, 2 m at the anchorage and 2 m at the cargo pier.
Entry can be restricted by swell, ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Port Dover is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 238 port calls at Port Dover from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 20 a month, 10% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 71% and dry bulk carriers 29% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 431 thousand t imported and 784 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (27 calls) and the quietest Mar 2026 (10).
What is reported near this port
No warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Port Dover.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 26 calls, 62 thousand t in, 41 thousand t out
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- very small river natural
- shelter
- excellent
- water body
- Lake Erie; Great Lakes
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 2 m · anchorage 2 m · cargo pier 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other, swell; not tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- U.S. Coast Pilot 6 - Great Lakes and their connecting waterways
- chart
- 14838
World Port Index entry Port Dover (No. 3270), 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 Canada's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 1.1%, exports 0.6%.
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.