Rumoi, Japan
Port · JPRMI · 43.96°, 141.64° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Plastics, Rubber, Leather
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 212
About the port
The World Port Index lists Rumoi as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 19 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by tide and swell.
Largest vessel listed: beam 27 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Rumoi is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 174 port calls at Rumoi from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 15 a month, 7% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 65%, general cargo ships 22% and dry bulk carriers 13% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 257 thousand t imported and 13 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Dec 2025 (21 calls) and the quietest Aug 2026 (8).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Rumoi, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (3) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Rumoi 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: 8 calls, 15 thousand t in, 521 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
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 19 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 6 m
- largest vessel
- beam 27 m
- entrance restricted by
- swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- no
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- not floating
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 96939
World Port Index entry Rumoi Ko (No. 61250), 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 Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.0%.
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.