Songkhla, Thailand
Port · THSGK · 7.23°, 100.57° · Vegetable Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Mineral Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 532
About the port
The World Port Index lists Songkhla as a very small river natural harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 8 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 8 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none, with a small drydock.
Songkhla is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 533 port calls at Songkhla from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 44 a month, 36% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 83%, container ships 10% and dry bulk carriers 4% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 544 thousand t imported and 120 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (80 calls) and the quietest Oct 2025 (24).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Songkhla, the earliest issued in 2011; the most common types are cable ops (2), incidents (1) and other (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Songkhla 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: 65 calls, 65 thousand t in, 19 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 river natural
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Gulf of Thailand; South China Sea; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 8 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- none
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 161 (Enroute) - South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand
- chart
- 93180
World Port Index entry Songkhla Harbor (No. 57439), 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 Thailand's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.6%, exports 0.4%.
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.