Saint John, Canada
Port · CASJB · 45.27°, -66.04° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 5
- vessel calls / yr
- 644
About the port
The World Port Index lists Saint John as a large open roadstead harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 23 m in the channel and 23 m at the oil terminal.
Pilotage is compulsory.
PortWatch estimates 743 port calls at Saint John from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 62 a month, 6% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 59%, container ships 29% and dry bulk carriers 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.2 million t imported and 14 million t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (70 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (44).
What is reported near this port
5 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Saint John, the earliest issued in 1989; the most common types are spills (4) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Saint John 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: 69 calls, 139 thousand t in, 1.3 million t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Disruption events listing this port · IMF PortWatch
- FIONA-22 · tropical cyclone · red alert · 2022-09-14 to 2022-09-24 — Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 213 km/h)
PortWatch lists the ports inside each event's affected area; being listed does not mean the port was damaged or closed.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- large open roadstead
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Bay of Fundy; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- depths
- channel 23 m · oil terminal 23 m
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- not medical
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 145 (Enroute) - Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence
- chart
- 14016
World Port Index entry Canaport (St. John) (No. 6545), matched by name 4.9 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 Canada's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.9%, exports 6.7%.
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.