Praia da Vitoria, Portugal
Port · 38.71°, -27.05° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 8
- vessel calls / yr
- 305
About the port
The World Port Index lists Praia da Vitoria as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 17 m in the channel, 23 m at the anchorage and 13 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
PortWatch estimates 311 port calls at Praia da Vitoria from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 26 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 56%, container ships 31% and tankers 10% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 340 thousand t imported and 51 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Oct 2025 (32 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (19).
What is reported near this port
8 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Praia da Vitoria, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are cable ops (4), incidents (2) and derelicts (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Praia da Vitoria 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: 23 calls, 4 thousand t in, 579 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
- channel 17 m · anchorage 23 m · cargo pier 13 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage
- cranes
- fixed
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not electrical repair, garbage disposal, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, provisions, water; not deck stores, engine stores
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 143 (Enroute) - West Coast of Europe and Northwest Africa
- chart
- 51064
World Port Index entry Praia De Vitoria (No. 38095), matched by name 0.3 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 Portugal's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.7%, 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.