Sekondi, Ghana
Port · GHSEK · 4.94°, -1.70° · Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Mineral Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 7
- vessel calls / yr
- 6
About the port
The World Port Index lists Sekondi as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 5 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.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Sekondi is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 6 port calls at Sekondi from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 1 a month.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 83% and tankers 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1 thousand t imported and 517 t exported.
The busiest month was Mar 2026 (2 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (0).
What is reported near this port
7 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Sekondi, the earliest issued in 2007; the most common types are cable ops (4), piracy (2) and incidents (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Sekondi 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: 1 calls, 0 t in, 0 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
- fair
- water body
- Gulf of Guinea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 5 m · cargo pier 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- services
- medical
- supplies
- provisions, water
- repairs
- limited
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 123 (Enroute) - Southwest Coast of Africa
- chart
- 57065
World Port Index entry Sekondi (No. 46045), 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 Ghana's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.1%, exports 0.1%.
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.