Susaki, Japan
Port · JPSUZ · 33.39°, 133.29° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 1,343
About the port
The World Port Index lists Susaki as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 11 m at the anchorage, 14 m at the cargo pier and 5 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated none.
Susaki is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 1,149 port calls at Susaki from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 96 a month, 9% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, dry bulk carriers 59%, general cargo ships 41% and tankers 0% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 323 thousand t imported and 4.7 million t exported.
The busiest month was Nov 2025 (110 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (74).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Susaki, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (2), incidents (1) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Susaki 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: 89 calls, 26 thousand t in, 403 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 breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 11 m · cargo pier 14 m · oil terminal 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- services
- longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- provisions, water; not fuel oil
- repairs
- none
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 158 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume I
- chart
- 97300
World Port Index entry Susaki Ko (No. 61980), 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 0.1%, exports 1.6%.
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.