Sakaide, Japan
Port · JPSKD · 34.34°, 133.85° · Mineral Products, Chemical & Allied Industries, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 3,099
About the port
The World Port Index lists Sakaide as a very small coastal natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 13 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage, 13 m at the cargo pier and 19 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a large drydock.
Sakaide is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 3,022 port calls at Sakaide from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 252 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 57%, general cargo ships 34% and dry bulk carriers 6% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 5.1 million t imported and 1.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Apr 2026 (274 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (216).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Sakaide, the earliest issued in 2013; the most common types are incidents (1) and quakes (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Sakaide 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: 266 calls, 544 thousand t in, 96 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 natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 13 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 13 m · oil terminal 19 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- large
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97256
World Port Index entry Sakaide Ko (No. 62110), 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 0.9%, exports 0.6%.
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.