Presque Isle, United States
Port · USPQI · 46.56°, -87.39° · Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 1
- vessel calls / yr
- 168
About the port
The World Port Index lists Presque Isle as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 5 m at the anchorage and 8 m at the cargo pier.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Presque Isle is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 241 port calls at Presque Isle from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 20 a month, 17% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 100% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 0 t imported and 2.1 million t exported.
The busiest month was Aug 2026 (29 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (0).
What is reported near this port
1 warning in this archive has its reported position within 60 nm of Presque Isle, the earliest issued in 2008; the most common types are spills (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Presque Isle 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: 29 calls, 0 t in, 302 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 coastal breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Lake Superior; Great Lakes
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 5 m · cargo pier 8 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- no
- good holding ground
- no
- tugs
- not assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- not ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- medical; not dirty ballast reception, longshore labour
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, provisions, water; not fuel oil
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- U.S. Coast Pilot 6 - Great Lakes and their connecting waterways
- chart
- 14970
World Port Index entry Presque Isle (No. 5290), 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 United States's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.0%, exports 0.2%.
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.