Porto Grande, Cabo Verde
Port · CVGRA · 16.89°, -25.00° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 595
About the port
The World Port Index lists Porto Grande as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 22 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 11 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 major.
Porto Grande is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 656 port calls at Porto Grande from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 55 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 32%, general cargo ships 28% and dry bulk carriers 23% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.3 million t imported and 713 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (67 calls) and the quietest Nov 2025 (44).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Porto Grande, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are incidents (3) and missiles (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Porto Grande 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: 60 calls, 200 thousand t in, 21 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
- North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- depths
- anchorage 22 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, Mediterranean mooring, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 143 (Enroute) - West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa
- chart
- 51500
World Port Index entry Porto Grande (No. 45880), 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 Cabo Verde's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 56%, exports 91%.
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.