Takamatsu, Japan
Port · JPTAK · 34.36°, 134.07° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 635
About the port
The World Port Index lists Takamatsu as a very small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 9 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 6 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 2 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a small drydock.
PortWatch estimates 696 port calls at Takamatsu from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 58 a month, 7% more than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 38%, container ships 34% and tankers 27% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 310 thousand t imported and 114 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jul 2026 (69 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (48).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Takamatsu, 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 Takamatsu 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: 57 calls, 25 thousand t in, 7 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 9 m · anchorage 9 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 6 m
- mean rise of tide
- 2 m
- entrance restricted by
- other
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance; not salvage
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- mobile
- services
- garbage disposal, longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- small
- marine railway
- small
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97253
World Port Index entry Takamatsu (No. 61940), 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 0.0%.
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.