Quequén, Argentina
Port · ARQQN · -38.58°, -58.71° · Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Mineral Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 305
About the port
The World Port Index lists Quequén as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with poor shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 17 m at the anchorage and 11 m at the cargo pier, 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 limited.
Quequén is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 331 port calls at Quequén from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 28 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 88%, tankers 10% and general cargo ships 2% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 81 thousand t imported and 7.3 million t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (41 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (15).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Quequén, the earliest issued in 2005; the most common types are derelicts (4), missiles (2) and exercises (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Quequén 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: 20 calls, 10 thousand t in, 349 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 breakwater
- shelter
- poor
- water body
- South Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, 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
- limited
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 124 (Enroute) - East Coast of South America
- chart
- 23141
World Port Index entry Quequen (No. 13790), 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 Argentina's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.7%, exports 6.0%.
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.