Stockholm, Sweden
Port · SESTO · 59.33°, 18.11° · Wood & Wood Products, Mineral Products, Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 350
About the port
The World Port Index lists Stockholm as a large coastal breakwater harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 16 m at the anchorage, 6 m at the cargo pier and 5 m at the oil terminal.
Entry can be restricted by ice and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated major, with a large drydock.
Stockholm is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 291 port calls at Stockholm from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 24 a month, 8% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 48%, general cargo ships 40% and dry bulk carriers 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 970 thousand t imported and 75 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Feb 2026 (43 calls) and the quietest Sep 2025 (13).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Stockholm, the earliest issued in 2000; the most common types are wrecks (1) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Stockholm 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: 19 calls, 70 thousand t in, 4 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
- large coastal breakwater
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Baltic Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 16 m · cargo pier 6 m · oil terminal 5 m
- entrance restricted by
- ice, other; not swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance, salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, electrical repair, garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- deck stores, diesel, engine stores, fuel oil, provisions, water
- repairs
- major
- drydock
- large
- marine railway
- medium
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 194 (Enroute) - Baltic Sea (Southern Part)
- chart
- 44182
World Port Index entry Stockholm (No. 25380), 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 Sweden's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.9%, exports 0.3%.
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.