Takuma, Japan
Port · JPTKM · 34.23°, 133.68° · Mineral Products, Wood & Wood Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 340
About the port
The World Port Index lists Takuma as a small river basin harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 8 m at the anchorage and 5 m at the cargo pier, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
PortWatch estimates 429 port calls at Takuma from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 36 a month, close to the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 61%, tankers 38% and dry bulk carriers 2% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 200 thousand t imported and 33 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Jan 2026 (42 calls) and the quietest Feb 2026 (31).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Takuma, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (2).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Takuma 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: 32 calls, 18 thousand t in, 2 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
- small river basin
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 8 m · cargo pier 5 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- cranes
- floating, mobile
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97252
World Port Index entry Takuma (No. 62077), 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 0.0%, 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.